CEE Professor Alex Bayen was recently featured in a transportation segment piece from The Mercury News discussing freeway congestion on the Bay Bridge and potential solutions. The once bustling downtown offices in the Bay Area filled with techies and lawyers are now empty. BART's ridership has dropped by 60% after many passengers abandoned the system three years ago and never returned.
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Eduardo Montalto for winning first place in the student paper competition on Structural Stability at the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) 2023 Conference! The conference was held in Atlanta, GA, from June 6-9. Eduardo's winning paper, "Buckling of short beams considering warping with application to fiber-reinforced elastomeric isolators," was recognized by EMI's Stability Committee. The competition allows students to showcase their research and innovation in engineering mechanics.
CEE Professor Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi was recently featured in a Mongabay article discussing the challenges faced by tree restoration projects. The article is part of a four-part series that examines the latest technological solutions for making these projects more efficient and scalable.
On June 8 and 9, a team of researchers from UC Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure CSI, which includes Wonjun Cha, Maksymilian Jasiak, Dayu Apoji, and Professor Kenichi Soga, used Boston Dynamics' SPOT robot to inspect the Upper San Leandro water tunnel for East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). SPOT is a quadruped robot that is known for its usefulness in various applications, including infrastructure assessment. The UC Berkeley team equipped SPOT with advanced sensors and a customized camera system to optimize it for inspecting water tunnels.
We are delighted to announce that Daniel Arnold has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor in the CEE faculty cohort, effective July 1, 2023! Arnold will be making valuable contributions to CEE's ECIC and Systems programs. He completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in 2015 and then held a postdoctoral researcher position at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before securing a research scientist role in 2017.
We are thrilled to announce that Utsav Shashvatt, CEE postdoctoral fellow, has received the 2022 Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research OCP Disruptive Fertilizer Technology Fellowship! This two-year program has a total fund of $500,000, sponsored by FFAR and OCP North America.
