Executive and professional education

Guest speakers are amazing! These guys have been there, done that. They have pitched their ideas successfully, they’ve sold companies. I think this is a real-life lesson; this is not coming from a book.

Your organization needs leaders who excel at strategy and innovation as well as technology. Berkeley Engineering’s executive and professional education programs cultivate this integrated perspective through its range of offerings and by working with you to develop customized education programs tailored to your engineers’ needs.

As one of the world’s top three engineering schools, we understand engineers and what they face as they move into leadership roles. We draw on the talents of our world-renowned faculty — innovators with real-world experience as entrepreneurs, heads of R&D and industry consultants. Many of our offerings also include leading industry practitioners to bring out the best from your organization’s highly skilled engineers and scientists.

We create and deliver educational programs that suit the demands of your business — in content, length and location. Our graduates include professionals from various levels of the organization: from mid-career engineers to CEOs, CTOs and CIOs. For more information about how we can support your firm’s professional development needs, please contact us.

Engineering Leadership and Professional Program

Our Engineering Leadership and Professional Program (ELPP) turns top-performing engineers and scientists into enterprise leaders. Participants hone their managerial and entrepreneurial skills to complement their technical expertise. This six‐month program is offered twice a year, delivered once a week on Monday evenings in Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit the ELPP website.

Custom programs

Your engineers must keep their scientific knowledge current so that they can generate innovative products and services for your company. They must also be able to respond to marketplace competition and anticipate customer needs. We design customized programs in partnership with you, to respond specifically to your requirements. Offerings range from short workshops offered on the Berkeley campus to multi‐session programs offered at times and sites convenient to you. 

Sample topics include:

  • Disruptive technologies: the future of wireless sensor networks, data analytics and more
  • Leadership for women engineers
  • Global teams and communication
  • Design innovation and product development
  • Large-scale project management
  • Social impact of technology
  • Portfolio management and risk analytics
  • Green manufacturing
  • Flexible-enough, customer-segmented, data-driven, risk-optimized supply chains
  • Crowdfunding

International programs

For our international partners in industry, academia and government, we design and deliver on‐ and off‐campus executive education programs that cover such technology‐based topics as entrepreneurship, innovation, strategy and sustainability.

Sharpen your strategy

“You’ve got very valid frameworks. This is the way to look at your markets, competition, value chain. Knowing that strategy helps to shape my judgment, increase my confidence and influence my decisions.”