COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY of note Diabetes management, < > simplified engineeringNews ndividuals with diabetes live Study break! I by the numbers. Glucose levels. Insulin dosages. Carbo- OCTOBER 2, 2008 VOL. 79, NO. 4F “Engineer It” is now on hydrate consumption. Dates. exhibit at the Lawrence Times. Amounts. By writing Hall of Science, the each number in a logbook, public science center just they help their doctors man- up the hill from campus. Window into MSFT age the disease so they can stay In hands-on, stress-busting healthy. The recordkeeping is RACHEL SHAFER PHOTO Craig Mundie, research chief, to

activities, the exhibit PHOTO SHAFER RACHEL introduces visitors to the onerous, yet, without complete speak on October 9

data sets, doctors miss trends MICROSOFT OF COURTESY PHOTO engineering process. Build a hat would you ask boat and test its performance in a and may recommend ineffec- Microsoft? water tank. Construct a six-foot-tall structure and see tive treatments. W On Thursday, October how it does in the earthquake simulator. Put on foam As a side project to his ME 9, Craig Mundie, the plastic wings and experience lift and drag in the walk-in research last year, Chris INTEGRATED HEALTH: Chris Hannemann with glu- cometer (at left), mobile phone and insulin pump. company’s chief research wind tunnel. No grading here! Grab a few friends and Hannemann (M.S.’08 ME) and strategy officer, will take your inner child on a field trip. began developing a system answer your most burn- to help automate the process. Hours: Open daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. from her insulin pump, and the ing questions and demo His proposal, “Integrated Diabetes device wirelessly transmits that several advanced tech- Management,” harnesses web- Cost: Free with your student ID datum to her smartphone and data- nologies highlighting based applications and popular base. She no longer must remember how computing can Get there: Park in the lots just off Centennial Drive mobile devices to make living with to write everything down. impact the world. The (bring quarters/small bills for the fee machines). Or the disease easier. CRAIG MUNDIE: Don’t miss Using either her smartphone or event is part of the take the campus shuttle Hill Line or AC Transit “Diabetes treatment involves a this opportunity to laptop, she then accesses her pass- College’s “View from the Bus #65. lot of guessing because you esti- interact with Microsoft’s word-protected patient record data- Top” lecture series and mate nutrition information or leadership. base, and a customized application will begin at noon in Online: www.lawrencehallofscience.org forget to write some- crunches her numbers and presents Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center. thing down, or “This her with glucose level trends. When HANDHELD EXERCISE Mundie, one of two senior executives who you don’t she visits the doctor, they log onto GO BOULDER: ME graduate student Kyle Lawrence took over from in June, is responsible remember takes some of the database, review her record for directing the company’s long-term technical the exact searches for a handhold on a wall outside Davis Hall the guesswork together and adjust her treatment strategy and investments. He also oversees details of earlier in the summer. The rock, with its rough surface, engineeringNews accordingly. . what hap- out of managing has drawn recreational climbers like Lawrence who Judges saw the project’s poten- To get you thinking about your questions, pened on a inch their way to the top without using any gear. The diabetes.” tial when they awarded Hanne- Engineering News asked a few EECS Ph.D. students particular day,” technique, called bouldering, is designed for short University of California mann and his teammate Sarah Beth to submit theirs. Mundie replies. Here’s a says Hannemann, routes. “This is a way to get some of my energy out,” Engineering News Eisinger (B.S.’07 EECS) second place sampling: 312 McLaughlin Hall who’s had Type I diabetes since the and $7,000 in the CITRIS-sponsored Lawrence says. Berkeley, California 94720-1704 age of eight. “This takes some of Phone: 510 642.5857 IT for Society White Paper Competi- the guesswork out of it.” Continued on page 2 Fax: 510 643.8882 tion, part of the Bears Breaking Here’s how his system works: The Boundaries Contest in May. [email protected] patient checks her blood sugar level With the award money, using a glucometer, which auto- Hannemann, who now works at matically and securely transmits Esolar.com, is taking his system the reading to a smartphone and, POP from idea to prototype, using the www.coe.berkeley.edu/news-center/ simultaneously, to a web-based publications/engineering-news award money to buy hardware, patient record database, where it’s develop software applications (with Published biweekly on Thursdays during the academic year by stored. On her smartphone, a spe- QUIZ Eisinger’s help) and test his the Engineering Marketing and Communications Office, College cial application has popped up of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. Copy deadline concept further. is 4:00 p.m. on the Monday preceding publication. prompting her to record meal and Is a startup in the future? Maybe, exercise information. She does, Rachel Shafer he says; but for now he’s simply managing editor and writer aided by the application’s ability to interested in ensuring the project is Timofey Titou, Eric Lin, Chardee Galan, DJ Gaker, search the web for nutrition infor- CEE grad student Megan Mansell Williams done right so that others with dia- What EECS junior EECS sophomore CEE/architecture mation on her meal. “Everything has its ups reporter betes benefit. Q do you “I think it’s in big trouble, “It’s pretty bad. What’s freshman Based on all the input, the appli- but I’m not worried about going on right now will “It’s interesting how it and downs. Maybe we’re S. Shankar Sastry cation instantly provides her with a dean Read Hannemann’s think of the getting a job. Computer change the way we do affects everything. I’ve worried for the next five recommended insulin dosage. She full proposal at economy? science is in demand. And investment business in noticed that people don’t years or so, but it’ll swing Karen Rhodes receives an automatic injection back around.” executive director, marketing and communications http://bigideas2.berkeley.edu having a quality education the future.” want to renovate homes gives a sense of security.” or build new ones as much now.” 4 engineeringNews OCTOBER 2, 2008 Window into MSFT Get the complete College calendar at Continued from page 1 announcements www.coe.berkeley.edu/events. Russell Sears: What are the big research < > opportunities? E 190 placement test Mentoring entrepreneurs lecture Mundie: My personal view is that there’s Take this test on MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., in On TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, Ram Shriram, founder of Sherpalo never been a more exciting time to be in the Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center. EECS, ME, IEOR Ventures LLC, will speak in Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel computer science field. We are on the cusp and ChemE majors must pass Engineering 190 in order to gradu- Engineering Center, at 5 p.m. as part of CET’s A. Richard of major advances — such as the shift to ate. If you plan to enroll in E 190, you’re required to take the place- Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series. manycore chips and parallel programming ment test, offered three times a year. No sign up is necessary, but and the coming together of local computers you will need to check in with your student I.D. Contact Girls rule and the Internet cloud — that will spark a [email protected] for more information. Calling all female engineers! On WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, revolution in what we can do with technolo- train to mentor young girls in engineering and science from 5:15 gy. Computing will take on more humanistic Engineering major infosessions to 7:15 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. You will be qualities, predicting our needs and providing On MONDAYS, there will be a faculty talk at 4 p.m., followed by a matched with one Berkeley Engineering alumna to become a proactive assistance. Our interactions with student panel and presentation at 5 p.m., in Sibley Auditorium, Berkeley Engineering Mentoring Team. To register or for more computers will become far more natural and Bechtel Engineering Center. http://engle.berkeley.edu details, please call Dawn Kramer at 510.643.7828 or e-mail personalized and encompass our entire envi- October 6 Chemical Engineering [email protected]. ronment rather than being limited to desk- October 13 Nuclear Engineering tops and devices. And computers will start October 20 Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Youth outreach transforming the lives of the five billion peo- October 27 Mechanical Engineering Berkeley Engineers and Mentors (BEAM) is recruiting volunteers ple on Earth who don’t yet have access to November 3 Civil Engineering to mentor and teach engineering and science in low-income information, particularly in the fields of November 10 Bioengineering schools and after school programs. Visit http://beam.berkeley.edu health, education and agriculture. In every Random beauty November 17 Environmental Engineering or e-mail [email protected]. one of these areas there is a vast amount of exciting research to be done — and a lot of that research is taking place at Microsoft.

Ben Rubinstein: In its heyday, Bell Labs was an industrial research lab that contributed significantly to research. Now MSR and Yahoo! Research seem to be taking Bell’s PHOTO COURTESY ELIM YEOH OF career corner place. Has the game changed? What must MSR do differently to ensure its survival in < > the long run? And do you see a place for WITH CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ALUMNA ELIM YEOH basic research in the industrial research lab? After graduating from Cal, Elim Yeoh (B.S.’03 ChemE) worked as a technology marketing engineer for Chevron, marketing its licensed technologies to global competitors and man- Mundie: Bell Labs has proved to be one of the greatest innovation engines of all time, aging several international accounts. In 2006, she took a job as a process engineer at a and in many ways the mission of today’s Chevron refinery in Oahu, Hawaii. “It was not a difficult decision to move to paradise,” she leading research labs — to consistently says. “Since the refinery is relatively small, engineers take on different roles, which include advance the state of scientific art — remains managing capital projects to rebuild the facility and attending to daily operations to ensure unchanged. At MSR, we attribute much of that the refinery runs efficiently and reliably.” our success to our approach of bringing together many of the world’s top minds in a highly open and collaborative environment. for engineers in your discipline. Attend all stone because I was able to learn different MSR researchers aren’t bound by the con- career fairs and prepare ahead of time. company cultures and values and build a fines of product cycles, freeing them up to Always polish your resume. Be cautious what bigger network. take a longer-term view — and enabling you put in the resume’s “objective” line; for them to focus on everything from basic What do you like about your job? example, don’t hand Chevron a resume that What are some things to think about research to technology transfer across the I’m always eager to try new things, so being says, “I’m looking for a challenging position in when considering a potential job? entire company. in a role where I get to work with people biotech.” If you’re inexperienced with inter- Think about professional development Equally important are the partnerships we from all over the world, take on an array of views, find a friend or professor to practice opportunities, company locations, whether it FOLIAGE FOR FALL: ME junior Michelle Pang created this leaf by writing have with academic institutions worldwide, responsibilities and overcome new challenges with. Interviewers often seek organized has a 401(k) matching program, the flexibility a program in MATLAB, the numerical computations and graphics pro- which enable researchers to make the great- keeps me enthused about my job. answers demonstrating a specific task, your to take on different assignments, and most importantly, the company culture. The cul- est impact. Q gram, and executing on the code for 2,000 iterations. She and other stu- actions and end results. Be confident in your- dents created leaves for an E 77 assignment that asked students to devel- How did you go about finding your self and in your abilities because companies ture speaks for the people the company hires and the values the company is grounded on. op a program to select points at random and plot them based on their interest/passion? are looking for dependable engineers who Read the full Q&A online at By testing new waters. You don’t know what can represent the company well. ability to satisfy a set of algorithms and characteristics. Have you created www.coe.berkeley.edu/ you’re capable of until you do it. news-center/publications/ an image or graphic for class that we can feature in Engineering News? What helped you make the transition engineering-news. E-mail [email protected]. What’s the secret to landing a job? from student to employee? Have additional questions? E-mail You should know the different jobs available My internships provided an excellent stepping [email protected].

2 engineeringNews OCTOBER 2, 2008 OCTOBER 2, 2008 engineeringNews 3 Window into MSFT Get the complete College calendar at Continued from page 1 announcements www.coe.berkeley.edu/events. Russell Sears: What are the big research < > opportunities? E 190 placement test Mentoring entrepreneurs lecture Mundie: My personal view is that there’s Take this test on MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., in On TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, Ram Shriram, founder of Sherpalo never been a more exciting time to be in the Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center. EECS, ME, IEOR Ventures LLC, will speak in Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel computer science field. We are on the cusp and ChemE majors must pass Engineering 190 in order to gradu- Engineering Center, at 5 p.m. as part of CET’s A. Richard of major advances — such as the shift to ate. If you plan to enroll in E 190, you’re required to take the place- Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series. manycore chips and parallel programming ment test, offered three times a year. No sign up is necessary, but and the coming together of local computers you will need to check in with your student I.D. Contact Girls rule and the Internet cloud — that will spark a [email protected] for more information. Calling all female engineers! On WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, revolution in what we can do with technolo- train to mentor young girls in engineering and science from 5:15 gy. Computing will take on more humanistic Engineering major infosessions to 7:15 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. You will be qualities, predicting our needs and providing On MONDAYS, there will be a faculty talk at 4 p.m., followed by a matched with one Berkeley Engineering alumna to become a proactive assistance. Our interactions with student panel and presentation at 5 p.m., in Sibley Auditorium, Berkeley Engineering Mentoring Team. To register or for more computers will become far more natural and Bechtel Engineering Center. http://engle.berkeley.edu details, please call Dawn Kramer at 510.643.7828 or e-mail personalized and encompass our entire envi- October 6 Chemical Engineering [email protected]. ronment rather than being limited to desk- October 13 Nuclear Engineering tops and devices. And computers will start October 20 Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Youth outreach transforming the lives of the five billion peo- October 27 Mechanical Engineering Berkeley Engineers and Mentors (BEAM) is recruiting volunteers ple on Earth who don’t yet have access to November 3 Civil Engineering to mentor and teach engineering and science in low-income information, particularly in the fields of November 10 Bioengineering schools and after school programs. Visit http://beam.berkeley.edu health, education and agriculture. In every Random beauty November 17 Environmental Engineering or e-mail [email protected]. one of these areas there is a vast amount of exciting research to be done — and a lot of that research is taking place at Microsoft.

Ben Rubinstein: In its heyday, Bell Labs was an industrial research lab that contributed significantly to basic research. Now MSR and Yahoo! Research seem to be taking Bell’s PHOTO COURTESY ELIM YEOH OF career corner place. Has the game changed? What must MSR do differently to ensure its survival in < > the long run? And do you see a place for WITH CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ALUMNA ELIM YEOH basic research in the industrial research lab? After graduating from Cal, Elim Yeoh (B.S.’03 ChemE) worked as a technology marketing engineer for Chevron, marketing its licensed technologies to global competitors and man- Mundie: Bell Labs has proved to be one of the greatest innovation engines of all time, aging several international accounts. In 2006, she took a job as a process engineer at a and in many ways the mission of today’s Chevron refinery in Oahu, Hawaii. “It was not a difficult decision to move to paradise,” she leading research labs — to consistently says. “Since the refinery is relatively small, engineers take on different roles, which include advance the state of scientific art — remains managing capital projects to rebuild the facility and attending to daily operations to ensure unchanged. At MSR, we attribute much of that the refinery runs efficiently and reliably.” our success to our approach of bringing together many of the world’s top minds in a highly open and collaborative environment. for engineers in your discipline. Attend all stone because I was able to learn different MSR researchers aren’t bound by the con- career fairs and prepare ahead of time. company cultures and values and build a fines of product cycles, freeing them up to Always polish your resume. Be cautious what bigger network. take a longer-term view — and enabling you put in the resume’s “objective” line; for them to focus on everything from basic What do you like about your job? example, don’t hand Chevron a resume that What are some things to think about research to technology transfer across the I’m always eager to try new things, so being says, “I’m looking for a challenging position in when considering a potential job? entire company. in a role where I get to work with people biotech.” If you’re inexperienced with inter- Think about professional development Equally important are the partnerships we from all over the world, take on an array of views, find a friend or professor to practice opportunities, company locations, whether it FOLIAGE FOR FALL: ME junior Michelle Pang created this leaf by writing have with academic institutions worldwide, responsibilities and overcome new challenges with. Interviewers often seek organized has a 401(k) matching program, the flexibility a program in MATLAB, the numerical computations and graphics pro- which enable researchers to make the great- keeps me enthused about my job. answers demonstrating a specific task, your to take on different assignments, and most importantly, the company culture. The cul- est impact. Q gram, and executing on the code for 2,000 iterations. She and other stu- actions and end results. Be confident in your- dents created leaves for an E 77 assignment that asked students to devel- How did you go about finding your self and in your abilities because companies ture speaks for the people the company hires and the values the company is grounded on. op a program to select points at random and plot them based on their interest/passion? are looking for dependable engineers who Read the full Q&A online at By testing new waters. You don’t know what can represent the company well. ability to satisfy a set of algorithms and characteristics. Have you created www.coe.berkeley.edu/ you’re capable of until you do it. news-center/publications/ an image or graphic for class that we can feature in Engineering News? What helped you make the transition engineering-news. E-mail [email protected]. What’s the secret to landing a job? from student to employee? Have additional questions? E-mail You should know the different jobs available My internships provided an excellent stepping [email protected].

2 engineeringNews OCTOBER 2, 2008 OCTOBER 2, 2008 engineeringNews 3 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY of note Diabetes management, < > simplified engineeringNews ndividuals with diabetes live Study break! I by the numbers. Glucose levels. Insulin dosages. Carbo- OCTOBER 2, 2008 VOL. 79, NO. 4F “Engineer It” is now on hydrate consumption. Dates. exhibit at the Lawrence Times. Amounts. By writing Hall of Science, the each number in a logbook, public science center just they help their doctors man- up the hill from campus. Window into MSFT age the disease so they can stay In hands-on, stress-busting healthy. The recordkeeping is RACHEL SHAFER PHOTO Craig Mundie, Microsoft research chief, to

activities, the exhibit PHOTO SHAFER RACHEL introduces visitors to the onerous, yet, without complete speak on October 9

data sets, doctors miss trends MICROSOFT OF COURTESY PHOTO engineering process. Build a hat would you ask boat and test its performance in a and may recommend ineffec- Microsoft? water tank. Construct a six-foot-tall structure and see tive treatments. W On Thursday, October how it does in the earthquake simulator. Put on foam As a side project to his ME 9, Craig Mundie, the plastic wings and experience lift and drag in the walk-in research last year, Chris INTEGRATED HEALTH: Chris Hannemann with glu- cometer (at left), mobile phone and insulin pump. company’s chief research wind tunnel. No grading here! Grab a few friends and Hannemann (M.S.’08 ME) and strategy officer, will take your inner child on a field trip. began developing a system answer your most burn- to help automate the process. Hours: Open daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. from her insulin pump, and the ing questions and demo His proposal, “Integrated Diabetes device wirelessly transmits that several advanced tech- Management,” harnesses web- Cost: Free with your student ID datum to her smartphone and data- nologies highlighting based applications and popular base. She no longer must remember how computing can Get there: Park in the lots just off Centennial Drive mobile devices to make living with to write everything down. impact the world. The (bring quarters/small bills for the fee machines). Or the disease easier. CRAIG MUNDIE: Don’t miss Using either her smartphone or event is part of the take the campus shuttle Hill Line or AC Transit “Diabetes treatment involves a this rare opportunity to laptop, she then accesses her pass- College’s “View from the Bus #65. lot of guessing because you esti- interact with Microsoft’s word-protected patient record data- Top” lecture series and mate nutrition information or leadership. base, and a customized application will begin at noon in Online: www.lawrencehallofscience.org forget to write some- crunches her numbers and presents Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center. thing down, or “This her with glucose level trends. When HANDHELD EXERCISE Mundie, one of two senior executives who you don’t she visits the doctor, they log onto GO BOULDER: ME graduate student Kyle Lawrence took over from Bill Gates in June, is responsible remember takes some of the database, review her record for directing the company’s long-term technical the exact searches for a handhold on a wall outside Davis Hall the guesswork together and adjust her treatment strategy and investments. He also oversees details of earlier in the summer. The rock, with its rough surface, engineeringNews accordingly. Microsoft Research. what hap- out of managing has drawn recreational climbers like Lawrence who Judges saw the project’s poten- To get you thinking about your questions, pened on a inch their way to the top without using any gear. The diabetes.” tial when they awarded Hanne- Engineering News asked a few EECS Ph.D. students particular day,” technique, called bouldering, is designed for short University of California mann and his teammate Sarah Beth to submit theirs. Mundie replies. Here’s a says Hannemann, routes. “This is a way to get some of my energy out,” Engineering News Eisinger (B.S.’07 EECS) second place sampling: 312 McLaughlin Hall who’s had Type I diabetes since the and $7,000 in the CITRIS-sponsored Lawrence says. Berkeley, California 94720-1704 age of eight. “This takes some of Phone: 510 642.5857 IT for Society White Paper Competi- the guesswork out of it.” Continued on page 2 Fax: 510 643.8882 tion, part of the Bears Breaking Here’s how his system works: The Boundaries Contest in May. [email protected] patient checks her blood sugar level With the award money, using a glucometer, which auto- Hannemann, who now works at matically and securely transmits Esolar.com, is taking his system the reading to a smartphone and, POP from idea to prototype, using the www.coe.berkeley.edu/news-center/ simultaneously, to a web-based publications/engineering-news award money to buy hardware, patient record database, where it’s develop software applications (with Published biweekly on Thursdays during the academic year by stored. On her smartphone, a spe- QUIZ Eisinger’s help) and test his the Engineering Marketing and Communications Office, College cial application has popped up of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. Copy deadline concept further. is 4:00 p.m. on the Monday preceding publication. prompting her to record meal and Is a startup in the future? Maybe, exercise information. She does, Rachel Shafer he says; but for now he’s simply managing editor and writer aided by the application’s ability to interested in ensuring the project is Timofey Titou, Eric Lin, Chardee Galan, DJ Gaker, search the web for nutrition infor- CEE grad student Megan Mansell Williams done right so that others with dia- What EECS junior EECS sophomore CEE/architecture mation on her meal. “Everything has its ups reporter betes benefit. Q do you “I think it’s in big trouble, “It’s pretty bad. What’s freshman Based on all the input, the appli- but I’m not worried about going on right now will “It’s interesting how it and downs. Maybe we’re S. Shankar Sastry cation instantly provides her with a dean Read Hannemann’s think of the getting a job. Computer change the way we do affects everything. I’ve worried for the next five recommended insulin dosage. She full proposal at economy? science is in demand. And investment business in noticed that people don’t years or so, but it’ll swing Karen Rhodes receives an automatic injection back around.” executive director, marketing and communications http://bigideas2.berkeley.edu having a quality education the future.” want to renovate homes gives a sense of security.” or build new ones as much now.” 4 engineeringNews OCTOBER 2, 2008