Eye in the Sky
A model helicopter
is gently hovering in the sky above a field at the UC Berkeley Richmond
Field Station. Slowly, it begins its decent onto a landing platform
secured to a trailer. The landing is precarious – like the
pilot is new to the hobby – but ultimately successful. Onlookers
cheer but the pilot is nowhere to be found. That’s because
the pilot is a computer.  Multimedia
Smart Dust Sniffers
In 1991, Richard White sadly watched as homes in the Berkeley Hills
burned in a massive fire. Now, the professor in the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences is developing technology
to help protect the firefighters that risked their lives to protect
White and his neighbors.
Considering
Corrosion
The full impact
of Thomas M. Devine Jr.'s research into the nanoscale properties
of certain metals may not be fully realized for millennia. At
the same time, his laboratory results could have a positive impact
on the computer industry immediately.
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Body Battery
While fuel cells
make front page news with the promise of non-polluting automobiles
and energy efficient homes, Berkeley Mechanical Engineering professor
Liwei Lin is thinking smaller. Much smaller. Lin's microbial fuel
cell is just .07 centimeters in size. Even more amazing though is
that this fuel cell is built to operate inside your body. Multimedia
Great moments of innovation from the annals of
Berkeley Engineering history.
1946: Tung-Yen
Lin (CE '33) returns to UC Berkeley where he pioneers the use of
prestressed concrete and proposes a bridge across Gibraltar
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