California Engineer
Fall 2007 Issue
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Featured Article
Gamescrafters
Max Zheng
What began as a desire to bring student-teacher interaction to the Berkeley environment and a dream to create the perfect opponent has evolved into the largest research and development team on the Berkeley campus. Today, the students of the Gamescrafters group apply both knowledge and enthusiasm in search of a genuine challeng: creating an artifically intelligent player worthy of defeating them in the games they love.
Articles
Pearl River Tower
Michelle Wong
Electrochromic window technology can potentially save much of the cost of energy consumption for conditioining in large windows. Becuase they can be tuned across their range of optical states in mere minutes, interior lighting levels can provide dynamic control of solar heat gain and radiative energy losses from conditioned space.
Cochlear Implants
Sanda Cea
Cochlear implants have been used to treat sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), which accounts for about 90% of all hearing loss. A major problem with these products is that they extend no more than 1.5 turns into the cochlea, making it impossible to detect low-frequency sounds. Cea proposes a novel way of precisely shaping the implant to penetrate deeper into the cochlea for higher sensitivity.
Microfluidics
Andrew Brown, Sanda Cea, Henry Herman, Cody Walton
Microfluidics, the study of microminiaturized devices used for the precise control and flow of liquids, is becoming an important part of R&D efforts worldwide. This emerging technology will have significant impacts on many fields such as biological and chemical analysis, medicine, and biotechnology.