David Sedlak, CEE Professor and co-director of the Berkeley Water Center, will be leading efforts to create a technology roadmap for desalination that will allow the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) team to identify the greatest needs and most important opportunities for meeting the goal of reducing the cost of desalination.

NAWI, a consortium led by Berkeley Lab and that includes researchers from Berkeley Engineering, has been awarded a 5-year, $100 million Energy-Water Desalination Hub by the US Department of Energy (pending appropriations).

The CEE Academy of Distinguished Alumni announces its Class of 2019.

CEE sophomore Jacqueline Hurtado received a BlackRock Hallac Scholarship. The scholarship covers all undergraduate expenses and offers an internship opportunity at BlackRock in Summer 2020.

Jacqueline's internship will be in the BlackRock office in San Francisco, where she will be working in the Risk and Quantitative Analysis branch.

Interested in either structural or transportation engineering, Jacqueline would like to earn a PhD and make an improvement or an advancement in her chosen field.

Congratulations to Professor Kenichi Soga on his appointment to the Donald H. McLaughlin Chair of Mineral Engineering.

Juan Argote (CEE MS '10; PhD '14) will give the fall CEE Distinguished Lecture on Monday, Oct. 21. Dr. Argote is the Transportation Research Lead within the Uber Advanced Technologies Group.

He will speak on "The Pathway Towards the Deployment of Self-Driving Vehicle Technology."

Prof. Marta Gonzalez describes tool that uses passively collected cellphone data to improve urban scale building occupancy and mobility estimates.