September 9, 2002, Vol. 73, No. 3F

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Taken a week after the tragedy, this photo of WTC wreckage is part of Astaneh’s research to build terror-resistant buildings. Ground Zero may provide clues for safer buildings, says CEE professor A glass case in Professor Abolhassan Astaneh’s office displays bits and pieces of the World Trade Center in an eerie, museum-like fashion. One can't help but feel a chill when looking at airplane shards, picked from one of the Twin Tower’s central columns. Curiosity has drawn 17 students to the CEE professor’s freshman seminar, The World Trade Center: Design, Construction and September 11 Events....[FULL STORY] EECS Student Likes to Drive from a Distance I can't drive over here!" announced EECS student Marga Chiri recently. This wasn't a typical case of road rage, just a note of frustration during the presentation of his joystick-controlled robot car at the Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research (SUPERB). The program, geared to underrepresented students, is a way to gain valuable research experience, at the side of engineering faculty and graduate students. Chiri worked with EECS professor Kris Pister and graduate student Sarah Bergbreiter.…[FULL STORY] Student Senators Want to Give You Money IEOR student Jengyee Liang enjoyed picketing last spring. She wasn't on strike, just currying favor in the senatorial race for campus government. While she never thought she was cool enough to run for office in high school, the Associated Students of the University of California, or ASUC, gave Liang and engineering physics student, Misha Leybovich, a taste of scholastic politics that had more to do with issues and hard work than popularity....[FULL STORY] Alum honored with Asian Equivalent of the Nobel Prize While his fellow doctoral students at the Berkeley College of Engineering spent their summers pursuing prestigious internships or remarkable research projects, mechanical engineer Sandeep Pandey did the unexpected. In the summer of 1991, a year before he received his Ph.D., Pandey and some friends founded the non-governmental organization Asha (Hope), which supports education and livelihood projects for poor children in his native India. ....[FULL STORY] Women’s Society Draws a Diverse Crowd To be a woman in a field dominated by men may be tough, but what’s it like to be a man in an organization run by women?  Francis Hsu is one of four male officers in the Society of Women Engineers, or SWE, made up of approximately 75 female members and 25 officers. Men have roughly the same percentage representation in SWE’s officer ranks as women do in the Berkeley College of Engineering, between 20 to 25 percent.....[FULL STORY]

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