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11/10/14 —
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11/01/14 — Follow the fall 2014 Berkeley Engineer magazine, now online.
Dean’s word: Engineering global solutions
11/01/14 — Globalized markets and leapfrog technologies, including mobile telecommunications, now offer opportunities to eradicate the root causes of global poverty.
STEM pipeline: Girls in Engineering
11/01/14 — This summer, the college launched an outreach program for middle school girls designed to bring engineering to life and inspire the girls to pursue an education in the STEM fields.
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11/01/14 — Friends, followers and readers: Thanks for your comments. Here is a recent sampling. Re: “Engineering social justice,” Berkeley Engineer, spring 2014 I was extremely happy to learn that an “engineering in society” course was still being taught at Cal. Looking back on my career and personal evolution, it’s that course I took back in 1978 […]
Launching ‘dev eng’
11/01/14 — A new Ph.D. specialty in development engineering teaches students how to build, scale and evaluate technologies designed to combat extreme poverty and other complex international issues.
White House announces executive actions to boost U.S. manufacturing
10/28/14 — Dean Shankar Sastry represented Berkeley at a White House meeting Monday announcing steps to strengthen U.S. advanced manufacturing, spur innovation and continue to make the nation a magnet for new jobs and investment.
GM Foundation funding connects students with community needs
10/27/14 — General Motors representatives joined members of Engineering Scholars as Engaged Scholars (ES)2 to celebrate the collaboration between the GM Foundation and Berkeley Engineering.
UC Berkeley and Tsinghua University launch research and graduate education partnership
09/06/14 — UC Berkeley and Tsinghua University have signed an agreement to establish a joint institute in the city of Shenzhen in South China to promote research collaboration and graduate student education. First areas of focus for the institute will be nanotechnology and nanomedicine, low-carbon and new energy technologies, and data science and next-generation Internet.
Welcome new students
09/03/14 — The excitement mixed with trepidation at the RSF gym and on Memorial Glade can mean only one thing: A new academic year is underway.
Young Berkeley engineers recognized as innovators, humanitarians
08/20/14 MIT Technology Review — An EECS post-doc and two Berkeley Engineering alumni are named to the 2014 MIT Technology Review “35 Innovators Under 35” list. All three are part of the humanitarian category. Post-doc Kurtis Heimerl, 30, developed the Village Base Station, which brings cellular telecommunications to remote places of the world. Heimerl is CEO of Endaga, a company founded […]
New look for college news
08/14/14 — After a year in development, Berkeley Engineering launched its reconceived website at the opening of the 2014–15 academic year
Scholars on scooters
08/14/14 — Students zip around campus on electric scooters while learning about energy, transportation and vehicle-to-grid systems in a new civil engineering class.
Design innovation at Berkeley Engineering
08/11/14 — This slide show tells the story of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation's first year.
Berkeley Engineering launches Girls in Engineering summer camp
08/08/14 — STEM fields come to life for East Bay middle schoolers at summer camp.
The 10 best universities for robotics in the U.S.
07/18/14 Business Insider — In a roundup of university robotics options from around the country, UC Berkeley lands at the top of the list, described as "an incredibly robust college for robotics that will likely meet your interests no matter what they are."
Colleges work to engage women, minorities in STEM fields
07/10/14 U.S. News & World Report — Sheila Humphreys, director of diversity for Berkeley Engineering's electrical engineering and computer science department, talks about efforts in her department to encourage minorities and women breaking into the field.
UC now able to invest in homegrown technology
06/27/14 Daily Californian — Thanks to a change in policy, the University of California is now able to invest directly in companies that use and market technology developed at UC facilities, or to accept equity from such companies or from campus-run “incubators” - such as UC Berkeley's SkyDeck, which supports fledgling companies with resources and expertise.
Rejuvenating innovation
06/17/14 — Conventional wisdom has it that entrepreneurs are born that way. At Berkeley, however, we thrive on proving conventional wisdom wrong. Our talented industry faculty and our hard-working staff have demonstrated that indeed, entrepreneurship can be learned, and that Berkeley can teach it.
Berkeley Engineering commencement recap
05/20/14 — Relive the baccalaureate and graduate commencement ceremonies for the College of Engineering in words, pictures and videos via Storify and YouTube.