Mechanical Engineering Flipbook Fall 2021

C2_Color: PMS 541 & PMS 131 & BLACK FALL 2021 Chris Dames Named general public ME’s much broader Mechanical Engineering Chair impact in diverse areas like human health, manufacturing, energy and C3_Color:PCMSh54r1i&sPMDS1a2m4 es, the Howard Penn Brown Professor of Mechanical sustainability, and self-driving vehicles. Engineering, has been named Chair of the Department of Mechanical “In both research and teaching, two Engineering in the UC Berkeley College of Engineering. Dames replaces important directions for our department Roberto Horowitz, who served as Chair from 2015–2021. will be continuing to incorporate the new tools of data science and growing our Roberto Horowitz hands over the activities in aerospace,” explains Dames. ME Chair’s gavel to Chris Dames. UC Berkeley’s ME major is unique EMILY HIGGINS Fellowship and heat transfer in that it requires that students spend lectureship at Purdue over 250 hours in teaching labs by the Dames joined the ME faculty in University and was selected time they graduate. Unlike curricula 2011. He earned his B.S. (1998) for the UC Berkeley Faculty that rely solely on theory, this hands- and M.S. (2001) degrees at Leadership Academy. He on approach allows students to create, UC Berkeley and completed his Ph.D. has also been awarded build, and test devices along with at MIT in 2006. He also served as an departmental teaching creating the accompanying software assistant professor at UC Riverside awards for both graduate and programs. “Teaching and research in ME before returning to UC Berkeley. undergraduate level courses. Since 2013, he has also held a joint “In both research and teaching, appointment at the Lawrence Berkeley Dames began as Chair two important directions of National Laboratory (LBNL) in the on July 1, 2021. “My growth for our department will Materials Science Division. Dames predecessor, Roberto be continuing to incorporate received an NSF Career Award, DARPA Horowitz, cared deeply the new tools of data science Young Faculty Award, a Viskanta about this department,” says and growing our activities in Dames. “He and his team aerospace.”— CHRIS DAMES successfully shepherded the department through difficult is incredibly diverse, yet our common campus budgets and the thread is using creativity to translate tremendous challenges of the fundamental scientific knowledge pandemic. I hope to continue into applications, nearly always with a this tradition of department-mindedness tangible end product you can touch with and responsible stewardship even as your hands,” says Dames. we continue to grow in exciting new directions.” Dames adds, “Berkeley Mechanical Dames’ objective is to guide Berkeley Engineering is truly a special place for Mechanical Engineering into an era of me. This is where I earned my B.S. and reinvention by introducing fresh ideas M.S., and even my first real job as an while honoring the department’s proud engineer was for a startup company traditions of rigorous fundamentals, spun out of this department. It is a caring for students, and social impact. wonderful honor to now be able to serve He feels the curriculum is about much this department as chair.” more than just gears and engines and the department should show the TO LEARN MORE, VISIT: https://me.berkeley.edu/

[IN MEMORIAM] 2010, Professor Mansour received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alaa E. Mansour Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering (OOAE) Division of the American Society Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), in UC Berkeley, 1937-2021 recognition of his important contributions to ship and offshore structure design. Alaa E. Mansour, professor of mechanical engineering, emeritus, an international leader in probabilistic modeling of marine structures, Professor Mansour’s courses in passed away peacefully on New Year's Day of 2021 in his Tiburon home Advanced Marine Structures were the at the age of 83, after having held the upper hand in the battle over mainstay of the Ocean Engineering metastatic pancreatic cancer for 28 months. graduate curriculum at UC Berkeley and were very well received by graduate Alaa Mansour was born in Egypt on PEG SKORPINSKI students. He was also well liked by his February 5, 1937, and completed advisees, who especially appreciated his his B.S. degree in mechanical Alaa E. Mansour career guidance. engineering magna cum laude at the University of Cairo in 1958. He received and Yukio Ueda of Japan), Mansour With Dr. Donald Liu of ABS, Mansour a M.S. (1962) and Ph.D. (1966) in founded the International Journal of co-authored the Society of Naval Naval Architecture from the University of Marine Structures in 1988 and served as Architects & Marine Engineers reference California at Berkeley. From 1965-1967, editor-in-chief from its inception until book “Strength of Ships and Ocean he worked at J. J. McMullen Associates, April 2009. Structures” (ISBN: 9780939773664). Inc. in San Francisco as Head of the Hull In the 90s, he conducted research and Section, and later joined M. Rosenblatt & Mansour served as a consultant to the lectured at the Technical University of Son, Inc. The early maritime experience US Navy, the Italian classification society Denmark in Copenhagen. His influential provided balance in the classroom when (The RINA Group), the US Coast Guard, contributions were recognized in 2001 he became an esteemed and popular and ABS. He actively contributed to the when he was awarded an honorary teacher of probabilistic methods in International Ship and Offshore Structures doctorate degree (“doctor technices maritime engineering. Congress (ISSC), serving on several honoris causa”), the highest honor of that committees and also on the Standing university, in recognition of “significant In 1968, Mansour was recruited as an Committee. During 2000-2003, he was contributions to development of design Assistant Professor in the Department of elected the ISSC chair. In this capacity, he criteria for ships and offshore structures.” Ocean Engineering at the Massachusetts organized the 2003 Congress in San Diego In 2012, to his and his colleague Ronald Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and co-edited a 3-volume proceeding, Yeung’s credit, the University of California and was promoted to Associate Profes- which was regarded as the best source received a multi-million dollar gift from sor in 1972. Returning to the west coast, of information on ocean structures in that ABS to support the Ocean Engineering he was appointed as a Visiting Profes- era. His prominent professional standing academic program and its associated sor at UC Berkeley in 1975, followed was distinctively marked by being an faculty, a significant and first gift of its by an appointment as Professor in the elected Life Fellow of the Society of kind for the Mechanical Engineering Department of Naval Architecture and Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Department. Offshore Engineering in 1980. He served (SNAME) and by being awarded the as Department Chair during 1985-89. prestigious Kenneth Davidson Medal of In more recent times, Professor With planned administrative changes SNAME in 1998 for “outstanding scientific Mansour devoted his research to the in the ocean-related programs in the accomplishments in ship research.” In extraction of sustainable energy from College of Engineering in Berkeley, he ocean wind and waves. The prediction was appointed professor in Mechanical of the extreme values of response and Engineering in 1999. loading from the combination of wind and waves was a challenge for the Professor Mansour was an designers. He made notable contributions internationally recognized expert in in this emerging area. Mansour retired as his areas of specialization: structural Professor Emeritus in July 2013. Peers reliability and safety, probabilistic and friends remember him fondly as a dynamics of marine structures, and dedicated researcher and a gentleman. strength of ship and offshore structures. He was instrumental in the “Development Despite a busy academic and of Reliability Based Classification Rules professional schedule, Alaa Mansour for Ships” for the classification society maintained a balanced life with his family American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) to the end. He was an active tennis and the international marine industry. player, skier, scuba diver and adventure Together with two overseas colleagues traveler. He is survived by his wife of (Douglas Faulkner of United Kingdom almost 30 years, Dr. Elizabeth Zettersten, sons Frederick, Tamir, Tarik, and grandchild Thaddeus. WRITTEN BY: Ronald W. Yeung (Committee Chair, UC Berkeley); Donald Liu (Seattle, formerly American Bureau of Shipping); Elizabeth Zettersten (Tiburon, California) 2 Mechanical Engineering

[ME FACULTY] Introducing Professor Alexis Kaminski Ultra-quiet High-performance Bio-inspired Drone Propellers Assistant Professor Alexis Kaminski joined the ME faculty in January 2021. She received her B.Sc (2010) and M.Sc ME Assistant Professor Grace Gu and a team of ME students (2012) in Mechanical are looking into nature to design the next-generation of drone technologies capable of flying with silence. Engineering from the University of Alberta, and her Ph.D. (2016) in Drones are becoming increasingly Applied Mathematics and useful for commercial, private, and military activities. However, ABS materials utilizing polyjet printing Theoretical Physics from the adoption of drones in urban technology, and are currently testing the applications is significantly held back prototypes using a platform consisting the University of because of the high propeller-associated of a thrust stand, microphone, and noise in populated areas. Gu and her tachometer. The features of their design Cambridge. Prior to student team, including Kahraman consist of serrations at the trailing edge Demir, Maya Horii, Naga Chennuri, of the propeller as well as leading- joining Berkeley ME, she Ningping Wang, Sean Farris, StanleyGRACE GU AND TEAMedge sinusoidal serrations inspired by Wang, Stara Shinsato, and Zixiao Wei, ALEXIS KAMINSKIowl feathers. Gu’s team is not limitingworked as a postdoc in are working towards designing and themselves to only learning from owls manufacturing drone propellers that in their pursuit of next-generation the College of Earth, are not only efficient in flight but also drone propellers. They are also drawing ultra-quiet. Currently, they are learning inspiration from the morphology of insect Ocean, and Atmospheric from a bird in nature — owls — that wings, such as modifying the propeller’s can fly just inches above their prey planform geometry to mimic Cicada Sciences at Oregon State Alexis Kaminski without being detected. Owls owe wings — which have been shown to their silent flight superpower to their benefit aerodynamic efficiency. This University and at the unique feather designs that alter airflow is an ongoing project, and for the next patterns and reduce noise. Gu and steps, the team will be developing University of Washington her team have modeled and simulated machine learning algorithms to optimize propeller designs inspired by owls the owl-inspired designs to maximize Applied Physics Laboratory. Her research using computer-aided design (CAD) aerodynamic performance and and computational fluid dynamics minimize noise. focuses on problems involving waves, (CFD), 3D-printed them with digital TO LEARN MORE, VISIT: instabilities, and turbulence in stratified flows, https://me.berkeley.edu/people/grace-x-gu/ from highly-idealized simulations of turbulent mixing events to real-world ocean observations. These types of fluid flows play an important role in the overall ocean circulation and interactions between the ocean and atmosphere, but cannot be resolved directly in climate models; understanding how they behave is a key question for developing model parameterizations. Computer-aid Bridging the Gap between Simulations design (CAD) and the Real World models and 3D Kaminski’s vision for her research group printed prototypes involves bridging the gap between these two of bio-inspired extremes. Often, studies of the fluid dynamics propellers underlying turbulent mixing in geophysical flows focus on analyzing theory and simulations of idealized model problems, where all parameters and variables are clearly known. Field measurements, on the other hand, are typically limited in space and time, noisy, and reflect significantly more complex flow behaviors, complicating their interpretation – how well do existing models describe these real-world flows? To bridge this gap, Kaminski’s research focuses both on applying theoretical and numerical analyses to flows directly inspired by observations, and by using numerical approaches to aid in the interpretation of measured data. For example, by sampling numerical simulations to directly mimic actual oceanographic instruments, she is working to interpret high-resolution measurements from the subsurface ocean— a region which is difficult to measure but plays a key role in upper ocean dynamics. TO LEARN MORE, VISIT: https://me.berkeley.edu/people/alexis-kaminski/ Mechanical Engineering 3

[ ME AEROSPACE ENGINEERING ] and space exploration,” said Panos Papadopoulos, professor of mechanical Berkeley Engineering engineering and faculty lead of the Launches Aerospace Major aerospace engineering baccalaureate program. “Our students will benefit from In response to a growing demand for researchers and developers a cutting-edge UC Berkeley education in the fields of aviation, defense and space exploration, Berkeley at a time when interest in aerospace Engineering has added a new aerospace engineering major to its engineering rivals that of the Apollo era.” portfolio of academic disciplines. The full undergraduate program will include a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering According to Business Wire, — with requirements that will allow students to pursue a double aerospace and defense aviation is a major combined with another engineering major — as well as a $1.6 trillion sector of the U.S. economy. minor in aerospace engineering. As these fields grow in the years ahead, well-trained aerospace engineers will be BY KIRSTEN MICKELWAIT increasingly in demand. Several reports by investment banks have predicted L aunching in fall 2022, the program The new major is designed for that the global space economy, will have an inaugural cohort of students who aspire to become leaders currently valued at about $350 billion, 40 students and could expand to in an emerging era of aerospace could double to $800 billion within ten 200 students within four years. Student technologies that include sustainable years and grow to at least $1 trillion interest in the subject is already high, aviation, autonomous flight and space within two decades. with at least 300 actively involved in exploration. The program will be aerospace-related clubs on the Berkeley built around a dual focus of space “Private companies are already campus. Even without a formal program exploration and low-altitude air mobility. investing heavily in the technology in the field to date, Berkeley Engineering of space flight aeronautics and are currently ranks at #14 in U.S. News & “We’ll be educating the next grappling with technical challenges World Report’s ratings of aerospace and generation of aerospace engineering that require discovery and innovation aeronautical programs nationwide. leaders who will be addressing major that university research can uniquely challenges in air transportation facilitate,” said Tsu-Jae King Liu, dean of the College of Engineering. “With our existing strength in this field, we Members of STAR, UC Berkeley’s Space Technologies and Rocketry Team, recruit new members during Golden Bear Orientation in 2018. 4 Mechanical Engineering ADAM LAU/BERKELEY ENGINEERING

NOAH BERGERA member of UAVs@Berkeley, a student organization dedicated to unmanned aerial vehicle [ME CURRICULUM] SHUTTERSTOCKdevelopment and flight, shows off a drone in Memorial Glade. Kitchen Engineering are customizing a set of new courses important avenues of engagement in Professor Lydia Sohn’s new that will give students a wide range federal and private research. course, “The Science and Engineering of Cooking” will of specialty curricula and technical UC Berkeley recently signed a debut in Spring 2022. The knowledge.” land-lease agreement with NASA on a objective of the course is to explain the science behind a range of cooking The college’s faculty 36-acre plot at Moffett techniques, and how that science contributes to a successful recipe in is already engaged in According to Field in Mountain View, terms of the physical and chemical cutting-edge aerospace Business Wire, California, which could transformations of food. aerospace and engineering research, become a major asset in Sohn points out that many of current including low-Mach number supporting an aerospace haute cuisine cooking techniques like aerodynamics, controls of program, especially one the sous vide method use engineering- based methods and less-traditional aerodynamic systems, low- defense aviation connected to NASA’s ingredients like nitrogen. Her course altitude flight control and is a $1.6 trillion renewed interest in will show the connection between management, astrophysics space exploration. There everyday kitchen tasks and science and engineering concepts. “In today’s and space biology. In sector of the is also the potential for educational discussions, STEM-based addition, its Institute of U.S. economy. immediate collaboration classes are of the greatest importance. Transportation Studies has and infrastructure When we cook, everything we do in a broad expertise in low- leveraging with Berkeley’s the kitchen is STEM based. Preparing a meal involves energy, heat transfer, altitude flight aerospace Space Sciences fluid mechanics, viscosity, enzymatic reactions, emulsions, and a host of other fields such as aviation Laboratory, which has engineering topics.” Invited chefs, including Harold McGee, author of On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, will provide lectures based on techniques they employ in food preparation. The course will give concrete examples of the principles discussed throughout engineering curricula allowing students to make intuitive connections between coursework and their everyday lives. Along with three hours of lecture, students will complete two-hour laboratory experiments each week. Sohn adds, “If you’re good in the kitchen, you’ll be amazing in the lab.” infrastructure and economics and flight an excellent record of supporting space operations. missions, he said. The campus has a strong interest in TO LEARN MORE, VISIT: a long-term collaboration with NASA, https://aero.berkeley.edu/ Papadopoulos said, which could offer ME & AEROSPACE “The Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Sohn's new course will examine the connection between engineering and cooking. is administering the new Aerospace Engineering major, and has contributed faculty time and staff support toward its development. Mechanical Engineering 5 The department has also designated space on the second floor in Hesse Hall for the creation of a sophomore aerospace design laboratory.” — PROFESSOR PANOS PAPADOPOULOS

Combining GLITCH Forces [ME STUDENTS] Ricky Vides, Mechanical Engineering’s CRB’s Glitch Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Advisor; As their website states, “Combat Robotics at Berkeley started with a singular Grace O’Connell, Associate Dean of Inclusive Excellence; and alumna Fatima obsession: make a BattleBot.” The team’s objective is to enter and win Alleyne (M.S., 2006; Ph.D., Department on BattleBots, Discovery Channel’s competition-based program where robots compete with the goal of destroying or disabling opponents. Along of Materials Science & Engineering) with the initial competition, the series provides discussions of entrants’ Director of Community Engagement and designs and strategies as well as highlighting competitors’ backgrounds. Inclusion Practices in the Inclusive Excellence unit of the College of Combat Robotics at Berkeley, or and former competitors of BattleBots. Engineering implemented the Combining CRB, was created late summer Members also shared knowledge and Forces program during the fall 2021 of 2020 and, despite springing built skills with each other, such as semester. The program, created after out of socially distanced conditions, has through instructional workshops and eight months of planning, uses a brought together over 40 UC Berkeley collaborative work sessions. collaborative approach whereby ME students, including 15 mechanical faculty members and graduate students engineering majors, with great success. Now that the team has competed worked directly with high school teachers In 2021, the team was accepted into once, they are currently improving their to train youth scientists. Hands-on lesson BattleBots and joined the Season 6 rookie robot in hopes of returning to the plans were created with the goal of competition in Las Vegas. They brought arena. By participating in the BattleBots making mechanical engineering a more their bot Glitch, “a four-wheel vertical competition, the students were given the accessible and relatable subject for high spinner… with a holonomic multi- opportunity to connect with and learn school students living in under-resourced directional drive system, shaped like a from professional engineers, their fellow communities throughout California. B-2 bomber… and a very large vertical competitors. They are now putting their spinner beater bar in the front,” as new knowledge from the competition to Projects for the inaugural semester described by team captain Kyle Miller. making Glitch even better: reviewing and included prototyping a catapult that evaluating its design, manufacturing, and involved testing, redesigning, and How did they do it? An entirely strategies in the arena with old and new improving reachable distances; solar student-run team, they collaborated members alike. They also hope to have energy in relation to usage and need; and flexibly to account for their schedules their improved bot ready and operating testing different insulators to determine as students and interests as individuals. with enough time to engage with other which would be most efficient for With members working in their areas of builders before the competition. In COVID-19 vaccine delivery. interest, whether that was an opponent- addition, the team has recently begun destroying weapon, team uniforms, or a more hands-on approach to training ME professors and graduate students gathering sponsors to fund the robot, members in robotics engineering with meet with high school instructors to they brought the drive to make Glitch new members designing, manufacturing, understand the classroom makeup, possible. The team reached out for and operating 15-lb robots for smaller brainstorm and share ideas, and provide feedback and advice they would not combat robotics competitions. feedback. With the valuable real-world have gotten from anyone else: producers engineering experience that the program provides, students will be better equipped TO FIND OUT MORE, VISIT: https://www.crberkeley.org/, tune into CRB team captain to discuss goals and aspirations specific Kyle Miller’s interview on the Behind the Bots podcast (https://behindthebots.podbean. to mechanical engineering when starting com/e/our-interview-with-rookie-battlebots-captain-kyle-miller-with-glitch/), or watch for the college admissions process. the airing of BattleBots, Season 6. “The Combining Forces program gives students throughout the State an opportunity to engage with our subdomains in relatable ways, and directly ties them to the great work done at Berkeley” says Vides, a recent recipient of the 2020-2021 Equity Champion Award, an Excellence in Advising and Student Services award. “Serving our department in direct community outreach substantially benefits the future generation of mechanical engineers and is an empowering commitment for everyone involved” TO LEARN MORE, VISIT: https://me.berkeley.edu/about/equity-and-inclusion/ 6 Mechanical Engineering

[ME STUDENT PROFILE] ME Faculty Awards 2021 Meet Paige Balcom Professor Alice Agogino In May 2022, Paige Balcom will receive her Ph.D. in Mechanical 2021 Berkeley Faculty Service Award Engineering and “hitting the ground running” applies to her future in Professor Carlos Fernandez-Pello every sense. While studying at Cal, she co-founded Takataka Plastics, a 2022 American Institute of social enterprise in Gulu, Uganda, that recycles plastic waste into saleable Aeronautics and Astronautics Microgravity products such as wall tiles and COVID PPE and creates local jobs. and Space Processes Award Assistant Professor Grace Gu After graduation, Balcom plans OJOK EDDIE OF EDDIE POWER PHOTOGRAPHY UGANDA 2021 Office of Naval Research Science to return to Gulu to scale up & Technology Young Investigator Award operations at Takataka Plastics. OJARA CHARLES Page Balcom collecting plastic waste during a Professor Peter Hosemann Takataka, which means “waste” in Takataka Plastics’ community cleanup. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society 2022 Swahili, provides jobs, helps educate the Brimacombe Medalist community about waste management, Design. She’s conducted an extended Professor Oliver O’Reilly and offers a future for street-connected exergy analysis to identify the most 2021 Berkeley Faculty Service Award youth through steady employment and resource-efficient method for disposal of Professor Robert Ritchie trauma counseling. Using innovative plastic waste in Uganda and is developing Elected Fellow of the American Association engineering and a circular-economy a mathematical model to improve the for the Advancement of Science approach, Balcom’s enterprise creates a production process at Takataka Plastics. Professor Shankar Sastry recycling solution that currently does not “I love applying the physics of heat 2021 ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal exist—water and soda bottles made from transfer and engineering systems to Assistant Professor-In-Residence polyethylene terephthalate (PET) are the create solutions that improve people’s Somayeh Sojoudi most common type of plastic waste in lives,” stated Balcom. Besides her work at 2021 Office of Naval Research Science Uganda, and most are burned because Takataka Plastics, Balcom hopes to teach & Technology Young Investigator Award no PET recycling plants exist in East and mentor at Ugandan and U.S. colleges Assistant Professor Hannah Stuart Africa. Balcom explained, “The chemical and universities. 2021 Johnson & Johnson Women in properties of PET make it difficult to STEM2D Scholar Award recycle, so traditional PET recycling is Balcom enjoys the stimulating Professor Emeritus Ronald Yeung very industrialized and requires massive intellectual environment at Berkeley and 2020 Offshore Technology Conference scale—which is not feasible in Uganda. attends talks in different departments Distinguished Achievement Award for Individuals At Takataka Plastics, we figured out across campus. “It’s great meeting how to locally recycle PET waste at the interesting and smart people and being Mechanical Engineering 7 community-level.” Takataka Plastics exposed to so many diverse ideas. It currently employs 30 full-time local staff. challenges me and shapes my thinking.” Balcom also enjoys the outdoor activities Balcom completed her undergraduate the area provides, including hiking and work at the University of New Hampshire biking around the Bay. where she studied mechanical engineering and was honored as Woman of the Year TO LEARN MORE, VISIT: in 2016. While attending UNH, she visited https://www.takatakaplastics.com/ Uganda for the first time with Engineers Without Borders, later returning for a 10-month stay as a Fulbright scholar. At Cal, Balcom focuses on heat transfer, working in Dr. Van Carey’s lab, while minoring in Development Engineering and Sample of Takata Plastics’ recycled PET wall tiles.

Nonprofit Organization U.S. Postage PAID University of California C2_Color: PMS 541 & PMS 131 & BLACK University of California Department of Mechanical Engineering 6141 Etcheverry Hall, MC #1740 Berkeley, CA 94720-1740 C3_Color: PMS 541 & PMS 124 MMEETTOoSSUuPpPpOorRtT VISIT me.berkeley.edu CHOOSE “GIVE NOW” EMILY HIGGINS [ FROM THE CHAIR ] education, since kitchen-based tasks involve many of Contributors the same core principles. And Assistant Professor Grace WELCOME TO the fall 2021 issue of Gu and her team of ME students are researching drone Department Chair: the Berkeley Mechanical Engineering design modifications to make the devices quieter and Chris Dames newsletter. As the newly appointed more useful. Owls and other examples of silent flyers in department chair, it is my pleasure to nature are models for the team’s next-generation drones. Creative Director/Editor: introduce you to the articles in this issue. Marcel Kristel We introduce Ph.D. student Paige Balcom, whose ([email protected]) This year we welcomed our newest study of heat transfer fundamentals has helped her Assistant Professor, Alexis Kaminski, create a system for recycling PET plastic waste in Editor-in-Chief: who joined our faculty in January Uganda. There, she helped create Takataka Plastics, Emily Higgins 2021. Alexis earned her Ph.D. from the a company that manufactures saleable products from ([email protected]) University of Cambridge and held postdoc the recycled plastic. And meet Glitch from the Combat positions in the College of Earth, Ocean, Robotics at Berkeley team, which they are readying for Proofreader: and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon the 2022 Battlebot competition. Carolyn Clark State University and in the University of Washington Applied Physics Lab. Her research involves And finally, we share the news of ME Emeritus Design: ocean circulation and its atmospheric interactions. Professor Alaa E. Mansour’s passing on New Year’s Cuttriss & Hambleton, Berkeley We are excited to report the launch of the new Day, 2021, at the age of 83. Professor Mansour was aerospace major introduced by Berkeley Engineering. internationally recognized in the area of marine structure Printing: The new major focuses on space exploration and low- reliability and safety. He was appointed Professor in UCSF Documents, altitude air mobility. The ME department is delighted to the Department of Naval Architecture and Offshore Media & Mail, San Francisco play a strong role in the teaching and research missions Engineering at UC Berkeley in 1980, which he served of this new program. as chair from 1985 to 1989, and was appointed Images: Combining Forces is a new ME Equity, Diversity, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 1999. Noah Berger, Ojara Charles, Inclusion program introduced during the fall semester. Ojok Eddie, Grace Gu and team, ME faculty and grad students collaborate with high Please keep in touch with Berkeley Mechanical Emily Higgins, Alexis Kaminiski, school teachers to create lesson plans that make Engineering on Facebook (facebook.com/Berkeley. Adam Lau, Peg Skorpinski mechanical engineering a more accessible subject for Mechanical.Engineering). students in under-resourced communities throughout California. Chris Dames Professor Lydia Sohn discusses her new class “The Science and Engineering of Cooking,” which will debut Chair, Mechanical Engineering and Howard Penn Brown during the spring 2022 semester. Lydia uses everyday Professor of Mechanical Engineering cooking as an inspiring example of the value of STEM