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Ribbon cutting for the Grimes Engineering Center

UC Berkeley celebrates opening of Grimes Engineering Center

04/22/25 — New campus hub fosters a dynamic culture of collaboration, inclusivity and innovation

UC Berkeley’s McLaughlin Hall in Berkeley, Calif. on Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering)

Berkeley Engineering ranked No. 3 grad program in the nation by U.S. News

04/07/25 — Berkeley remains top public engineering program

Mechanical engineering student Will Siemens competing on pole vault.

When student athletes are also engineers

03/05/25 — ASME: Berkeley mechanical engineering students are excelling on and off the field, court and track

Mark Liu, former executive chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), speaking at a podium. To ensure American technology competitiveness in the long term, Liu is establishing the Technology Competitiveness and Industrial Policy Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

New UC Berkeley center to address American competitiveness in advanced technology

02/24/25 — The academic center will engage experts in technology, economics and policy from across academia, industry and non-profit organizations

Photo of Michael and Janelle Grimes wearing hard hats and shoveling dirt at the Engineering Center groundbreaking ceremony.

New Engineering Center to be named after UC Berkeley alumni Michael and Janelle Grimes

02/19/25 — The honor recognizes benefactors who have made outstanding contributions to the campus and its students

New engineering faculty, clockwise from top-left, Franco Zunino (CEE), Manxi Wu (CEE), Emma Pierson (EECS), Mengjie Yu (EECS), Alex Dimakis (EECS), Jiyun Kang (MSE), Claudio Hail (ME) and Zaijun Chen (EECS).

Berkeley Engineering welcomes eight new faculty members

01/21/25 — Professors in four departments started their tenure on Jan. 1.

Berkeley Engineering’s 2024 in review

12/18/24 — Nine of our most impactful stories

Mark Asta is at the podium of Berkeley Engineering

Mark Asta to serve as interim dean of Berkeley Engineering

12/11/24 — Appointment, announced today, will be for the 2025-26 academic year

Multiple issues of the 2024 Winter Berkeley Engineer magazine laid out in a grid

Winter magazine is here

11/20/24 — Latest Berkeley Engineer features stories on air quality disparities and advancements in nuclear medicine

Dean Liu shakes hands with Chancellor Lyons

Innovation with impact

11/20/24 — Our faculty, students and alumni have made pioneering contributions that helped form the hardware backbone of AI.

Rising to new heights

11/20/24 — The Engineering Center continues to take shape on campus.

Students using a microscope as a professor and two other students look on

Where inspiration meets innovation

11/20/24 — With your gift to Berkeley Engineering, you can fuel innovation and change.

student wearing protecting eyewear and using machinery

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Close-up of a blue-gloved hand constructing a microchip.

UC helps bring first-of-its-kind semiconductor hub to California

11/12/24 — UC Newsroom: Berkeley Engineering will collaborate with Natcast to launch a Visiting Scholars program

Portrait shot of Dean Tsu-Jae King Liu, wearing a navy blue jacket over a white shirt with trees in the background.

Dean Tsu-Jae King Liu nominated for NAE presidency

09/25/24 — Voting to take place in March 2025 for the six-year term beginning July 1

Macchi Bears, McLaughlin Hall, and the Campanile at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif. on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015. (Photo by Steve McConnell/Berkeley Engineering)

Berkeley Engineering ranked No. 3 for undergrad programs by U.S. News

09/24/24 — Berkeley remains top public engineering program in the nation

Christopher Sutardja (B.S.’10, Ph.D.’17 EECS), Sehat Sutardja (M.S.’85, Ph.D.’88 EECS), Weili Dai (B.A.’84 CS), Nicholas Sutardja (B.A.’12 Applied Mathematics; B.S.’12, Ph.D.’19 EECS), from left, during CITRIS and Sutardja Dai Hall grand opening at UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Dai Hall in Berkeley, Calif. on Friday, Feb. 27, 2009.

Sehat Sutardja, semiconductor pioneer and Marvell co-founder, has died

09/19/24 — Alum was longtime supporter, board member of Berkeley Engineering

Berkeley Engineering welcomes new faculty to campus

08/27/24 — Six new tenure-track and teaching professors will join us in fall 2024

McLaughlin Hall, UC Berkeley College of Engineering.

U.S. News ranks Berkeley Engineering No. 3 grad program nationally

06/18/24 — Berkeley holds top spot for public engineering programs

on the left: Ashok Gadgil, professor of the graduate school at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in the middle: EECS professor Boubacar Kanté in his Cory Hall lab on the right: BB-8 from Star Wars

Summer magazine is here

06/05/24 — Latest Berkeley Engineer features laser technology, BB-8 and a new interdisciplinary class that explores the relationship between art, AI and robotics