The Cal Construction team, composed of Berkeley CEE and Architecture students, along with faculty advisor Professor Iris Tommelein, drove to Spark, NV to compete in the 2019 Construction Competition of the Associated Schools of Construction. 

The CEE team expanded this year and added a new Project Management (PM) team and competed with two Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) teams

Berkeley competed in 7 main competitions and in the "Alternates" competition.

The Cal Transportation team earns first place at Mid-Pac! The Transportation team designs methods of intersection design, pavement design, and traffic engineering in order to solve a practical transportation engineering problem.  

The problem this year was to install a shared bus-bike lane along Santa Clara Street in downtown San Jose. The project's underlying theme is to implement Vision Zero principles along the corridor, in which the team aims to implement design features along Santa Clara Street to eliminate all traffic-related injuries and deaths. 

CEE's 2019 Environmental Team, OskiClean, earned second place at the Mid-Pacific Regional Competition's (Mid-Pac)) Environmental Team Competition. Competitors race against the clock to build their systems and treat 9 gallons of wastewater for use after a tropical storm in only 20 minutes.

Professor Matthew De Jong whose Ph.D. work focused on the seismic assessment of historic buildings — spent nearly a decade as a professor at Cambridge University, during which time he assessed numerous heritage structures across Europe.

He recently spoke with the College of Engineering about Notre Dame and the proposed reconstruction of the cathedral. They discussed some of the challenges to rebuilding Notre Dame as well as the ambitious timeline set forth by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Samer Madanat, Xenel Distinguished Professor of Engineering Emeritus, is one of MIT's C.C. Mei Distinguished Speakers for 2018-19.  On April 22, he spoke on "Flood Protection Infrastructure, Transportation, and Government Networks (Resilient Infrastructures as Seas Rise (RISeR)."

CEE took 3rd in MidPac's Sustainable Solutions (Dog House) Challenge. The Dog House challenge was a brand new competition at MidPac so Dog House team members were especially proud to place 3rd in these challenging conditions.

The challenge was to design and construct a sustainable dog house to shelter a dog during the aftermath of a natural disaster.   

The technology supporting traffic reduction efforts like congestion pricing mirrors toll road technologies, and is poised to venture further into video and GPS-based systems in the future.

US cities will likely look to places like Singapore, London and Stockholm, which have adopted congestion pricing traffic control programs. Singapore was one of the earliest to adopt congestion pricing, using overhead gantries and short-range radio technology similar to California's FasTrak.

CEE senior Tamika Bassman was awarded a $10K Thornton Tomasetti Foundation National 2019-2020 Scholarship. 

The Tomasetti Scholarship is given to the individual who demonstrates exceptional academic success and interest in the integration of engineering and architecture.

Tamika will pursue a MS degree in Structural Engineering at Stanford in Fall 2019. She will also be interning again this summer with Arup Advanced Technology and Research in SF.

SEMM Graduate student Jake Duncan traveled to Sacramento with the Chancellor and Vice Provost to advocate for graduate education for the 10th annual Graduate Research and Education Advocacy Day.

Professor Kara Nelson's career was recently featured by the Blum Center for Developing Economies. She has spent her career investigating how to make water, sanitation, and hygiene services affordable and environmentally sustainable.

Read the full article at Kara Nelson on Aspirational Technologies and the Sustainable Development Goals

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