Berkeley Engineering ranked #2 for undergrad programs
09/14/20 — Latest U.S. News & World Report national rankings lift Berkeley into a tie with Stanford
College news
Berkeley Center for New Media to join the College of Engineering
04/29/20 — BCNM will officially move to the college on July 1
COVID-19 first target of new AI research consortium
03/26/20 — UC Berkeley and UIUC are the headquarters for the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, which announced a call for research proposals for AI technology to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
New rankings show Berkeley still has top public engineering graduate program
03/17/20 — In the latest U.S. News & World Report survey, the college ranked third out of more than 200 graduate engineering schools
Berkeley launches landmark $6 billion fundraising campaign
03/02/20 — Berkeley’s fourth comprehensive capital campaign, Light the Way: The Campaign for Berkeley, is one of the largest launched by any U.S. university, public or private.
Fundraising campaign to extend impact of top-ranked college
03/02/20 — Berkeley Engineering has raised $476 million to date for faculty, students, facilities and programs
New master’s degree programs
10/25/19 — Berkeley Engineering is joining with other units on campus to offer a master of design degree and a joint MEng/MBA degree program.
ESS turns 10, Bechtel becomes a welcome center
10/07/19 — New center will help visitors and students learn what the college has to offer
Kresge Engineering Library unveils a new diversity and inclusion collection
09/24/19 — Today, Berkeley Engineering unveiled a new diversity, equity and inclusion resource collection at the Kresge Engineering Library. The collection consists of physical books as well as electronic books and other electronic resources.
Berkeley Engineering is #3 in U.S. News rankings
09/09/19 U.S. News & World Report — Berkeley Engineering's undergraduate program was again ranked third overall and the top public engineering school by U.S. News & World Report. Eight individual engineering programs were ranked among the top 5 in their respective fields, and all were in the top 10.
New Bakar Fellows are already having an impact
09/05/19 — Three Berkeley Engineering professors have been named 2019–20 Bakar Fellows: Niren Murthy (BioE), Raluca Ada Popa (EECS) and Kenichi Soga (CEE).
Meet Berkeley’s new data science leader
08/14/19 — Microsoft's Jennifer Tour Chayes will become the university's new associate provost for the Division of Data Science and Information and dean of the School of Information.
Jerome R. Singer, MRI pioneer, dies at 97
08/06/19 — Jerome R. Singer, professor emeritus and a pioneer in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), passed away in July. Singer taught and conducted research in the electrical engineering and computer sciences and the biophysics departments at Berkeley for 25 years.
Bancroft Library oral history, podcast highlight Berkeley Engineering achievements
08/01/19 — Berkeley Engineering's contributions to the rise of the semiconductor industry were featured in a recent library podcast, while mechanical engineering professor emeritus George Leitmann was interviewed for an oral history project.
UC Berkeley launches joint master’s degree in business and engineering
07/23/19 — Haas School of Business and UC Berkeley have joined forces to launch a concurrent MBA/MEng degree program to equip innovative leaders with the skills to take on complex and technical challenges. Enrolling for fall 2020, the program will allow students to earn both a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Engineering degree in just two years.
Berkeley Engineers off to change the world
05/22/19 — At two rainy commencement ceremonies, speakers called on graduates to draw on their Berkeley Engineering education to promote equity as well as innovation.
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority partnership advances ‘future energy’ educational program
05/04/19 — UC Berkeley and the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) are teaming up to establish a new educational program to accelerate infrastructure systems for sustainable energy.
Engineering’s 2019 commencement speakers
05/03/19 — This year's commencement speakers are Elizabeth Hausler, Ikennah Browne, Jack McCauley and Gracielita Mendoza-Beginez.
Spring Berkeley Engineer magazine is here
05/01/19 — The Spring 2019 edition of Berkeley Engineer magazine includes features on self-driving vehicles, machines that heal, the science of war games and more.
UC Berkeley expands responsible data and computer sciences curriculum
04/30/19 — The Responsible Computer Science Challenge, an ambitious $3.5 million initiative, has chosen UC Berkeley as one of its inaugural awardees. The award will support UC Berkeley faculty and students in computer science, social science, and humanities to develop and scale Berkeley's groundbreaking ethics curriculum for data science and computer science.