While most engineers typically like to stay backstage, last semester two engineers took to the spotlight in a modern dance performance work in progress. The subject was “home” and its physical and emotional resonance. The piece, entitled “Consequences/Home,” was a collaboration between the Theater, Dance and Performance Studies department, the College of Engineering, and the College of Environmental Design. ME grad student Catherine Newman and CS grad student Ka-ping Yee not only performed in the piece but designed part of the set.

EECS grad launches Web site to help students meet that special someone

For Chris Ling, mixing business and dating is no problem, as long, of course, as other people are doing the dating. The spring ’03 EECS graduate spent the last several months of his Cal engineering career putting up Yachachi, an Internet-based forum, where Cal students can meet each other.

“It’s not a dating site,” emphasizes Ling. “Dating sites have the connotation of desperation. This is not for desperate people.”... [FULL STORY]

EECS students create online form to help campus process visas for visiting scholars

Engineers race to build robots during fifteen minutes of fame

Building a robot, even a simple one, is no small task. Some Berkeley engineering classes spend an entire semester doing just that.

Now imagine that you are in an eight-hour competition to build one that can, say, quickly collect toys and put them in a box — using only parts on hand in a warehouse. Sound hard? Not for Berkeley engineering students Eric Park, Bharathwaj “Bart” Muthuswamy, and Daniel Lehrbaum, who beat a University of Tennessee team on the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Network show “Robot Rivals.” ... [FULL STORY]

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