Department of Mechanical Engineering

Monday, October 29, 2012

Tracking UC Berkeley’s former chancellor Chang-Lin Tien

FBI documents, interviews show nation's first Asian American chancellor fell victim to United States' fear of China

Chang-Lin Tien, UC Berkeley chancellor from 1990-1997, sits in his office.

FBI documents and interviews show that the nation’s first Asian American chancellor, Chang-Lin Tien fell victim to United States’ fear of China. Read More…

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Campus professor named dean of UC San Diego engineering school

Albert Pisano, a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering for 30 years at the Berkeley campus, will become dean of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering September 1. Read More…

Research & Ideas

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Researchers develop energy-efficient window coating

UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers developed a coating material for windows that can control the amount of heat from the sun that enters a room, setting the groundwork to save energy in large commercial buildings and homes. The material — made of semiconductor nanocrystals — has the Read More…