Education & outreach

Honorees cut the ribbon during the Grimes Engineering Center opening celebration

Transforming engineering

06/11/25 — Raising awareness and appreciation for engineering is more important than ever.

Dean Tsu Jae King Liu holding a molecule structure smiling at the camera

Leadership and legacy

06/11/25 — Dean Tsu-Jae King Liu reflects on her tenure at Berkeley Engineering as she prepares to step down.

crowd of students in the lower level of a building

Designed to inspire

06/09/25 — The Grimes Engineering Center showcases innovative approaches to architecture and seismic engineering.

Graduate students in UC Berkeley’s Indigenous Research Methods seminar.

Native FEWS Alliance trains students to strengthen tribal food, energy, water systems

05/22/25 — This multi-university consortium now faces an uncertain future due to NSF funding cuts

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.

An expert from El Camino College speaks at the National Workshop on Data Science Education in Berkeley, Calif., in June 2024.

UC Berkeley to launch compute hub with California Education Learning Lab

09/23/24 — CDSS: $1.5M grant will fund first-of-its-kind computing technology hub for the state’s public colleges and universities

Nobel-prize winning professor Jennifer Doudna meets with Society of Women Engineers students before the Kuh Distinguished Lecture

Building on strength

05/31/24 — The Light the Way campaign raised $900 million for Berkeley Engineering in support of research programs, faculty and students.

Tsu-Jae King Liu, dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, and Carol Christ, UC Berkeley chancellor, center from left, join a group photo with attendees at the WHIAANHPI (White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders) Leadership Development Summit at UC Berkeley’s Pauley Ballroom in Berkeley, Calif. on Tuesday, April 2, 2024.

Summit advances Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in higher education

04/04/24 — UC Berkeley hosted the nation’s first AA & NHPI Higher Education Leadership Development Summit, sponsored by the White House

Dan Garcia lectures in front of a classroom with seated students in front of him. Several students have their hands raised.

Making the grade

12/01/23 — EECS professors develop ‘A’s for All’ pilot

Photo of inaugural cohort of Yardi Scholars.

Yardi Scholarship Program seeks to leverage technology to advance democratic principles

11/17/23 — Inaugural cohort of scholars aspires “to create insightful, publicly minded solutions to the many challenges to democracy”

Sculptor Dana King poses with her bust of electrical engineering professor Joseph Gier.

Unearthing a legacy

11/06/23 — A new sculpture outside Blum Hall honors engineering professor Joseph Gier, the first tenured Black professor in the UC system.

New online master’s degree

11/06/23 — The MAS-E degree is designed for professionals seeking “knowledge upgrades” in STEM fields.

Dean Liu greets aerospace engineering student Nihal Gulati and his family in a classroom at Homecoming

Pioneering a flexible online degree

11/06/23 — Our newest professional master’s degree program meets an important educational need in the tech sector.

Photo of female engineer wearing hard hat and holding a tablet.

Berkeley Engineering to offer new online master’s degree for career growth

08/29/23 — Flexible, streamlined curriculum to help professionals keep pace with rapid advances in technology fields

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What is ChatGPT’s future in higher education?

03/21/23 — Berkeley experts in artificial intelligence are studying how ChatGPT and similar tools will transform everything from admissions screening and research to writing college essays

Montage of T-PREP students working on projects

Transfer student success

11/07/22 — The Transfer Pre-Engineering Program (T-PREP) has won the 2022 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.

NextProf Nexus: Cultivating a new generation of engineering faculty

09/27/22 — Berkeley Engineering hosts 3-day workshop to address diversity in STEM academia

$Two students with math formulas in background. One child is looking at a book while sitting on an elevated area, while the second child, who appears Black, is standing below with hands on hips.$

Jelani Nelson weighs in on state efforts to reform math education

09/08/22 — New Yorker: The EECS professor says proposed California Math Framework could worsen disparities in STEM

Lab technician in clean room holding a silicon wafer

CHIPS Act includes new support for workforce training, providing opportunities for higher ed

08/09/22 — Dean Liu weighs in on consequential new bill to re-shore semiconductor manufacturing in the United States

FIRE Foundry crew take a break from training at a Wildland Academy event

Fired up for the future

07/19/22 — FIRE Foundry aims to increase diversity among fire crews and accelerate the adoption of advanced firefighting technologies