IEEE held its first annual EECS basketball tournament on March 13. In the first round, 11 teams competed through three round-robin games at the RSF before advancing into the playoffs. Team P-Spice Boys (not pictured) Eugene Lin, Hsin Young, Brady McCollum, Albert Wang and Tim Lee won the three-hour tournament and trophy. Team Mu (pictured from left) Eric Roller, Fin Luo, Cedric Han, Raman Gulati, and Wonsop Sim came in second.

Alum and entrepreneur Floyd Kvamme speaks at graduation

This year's commencement speaker, electrical engineering alum Floyd Kvamme (BS ’59), was appointed by President Bush to co-chair the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) as a cap to an illustrious career as a semiconductor magnate and successful venture capitalist. On May 22, he will share his wisdom and vision of success to guide engineering graduates who hope to make their own fortunes and marks on the world.

A recent study of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, conducted by the Kvamme-led PCAST, found that 55 percent of CEOs have engineering backgrounds...[FULL STORY]

EECS senior works on research project to give elderly care without sacrificing independence

Soon there could be much better help for people who have fallen and can’t get up. EECS senior Jerry Luk is working on the IVY research project, the first wireless sensor network with human applications.

Typically sensor networks measure the physical environment, gauging factors such as light, humidity or temperature. Luk is working with Ruzena Bajcsy, director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and two graduate students to adapt these networks to measure human motion and pinpoint human location. There are many technical issues to tackle...[FULL STORY]

IEOR grad student wins German equivalent of prestigious Rhodes Scholarship

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Chancellor Kohl, then head of a unified Germany, wanted to engage American leaders in the same way England’s Rhodes Scholarship did. Thirteen years ago, he initiated the German Chancellor Scholarship to bring bright American scholars to study in Germany, thus creating grassroot links between the two nations.

IEOR Ph.D. candidate Justin Tumlinson, selected as one of the 10 scholars from hundreds of applicants, will receive the competitive award worth over $50,000 this year. He is only the second engineer and the first Berkeley engineer ever to do so....[FULL STORY]

Engineers teach in nonprofit program to help underrepresented kids choose engineering

IEOR sophomore and EECS minor Kathy Phan knew she wanted to be an engineer since she was a little girl. Growing up in Silicon Valley with two parents in the technology biz, her destiny seemed assured. Still, as a woman, she felt she needed a competitive edge in a tough, male-dominated profession. In her junior year of high school, she applied to the Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in Information Technology (BFOIT) program, a nonprofit summer intensive program that encourages underrepresented high school students to go to college and pursue careers in computer science and engineering.

“BFOIT helped me get into Berkeley and I really enjoyed the program,” Phan says. She had such a good experience she came back the summer after her freshman year, this time as a volunteer programming instructor... [FULL STORY]

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