Education & outreach

Child flying paper airplane at Engineering for Kids event

Meet the future engineers

03/12/19 — About 350 students from across the East Bay descended on the Berkeley campus last weekend for Engineering for Kids (E4K), a one-day science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) event for low-income fourth- to sixth-grade students. The annual event is organized and hosted entirely by Berkeley students.

Disrupting the male-dominated field of blockchain

03/01/19 Newsweek — UC Berkeley student Sara Reynolds (B.S. EECS '21) and fellow female coders started She(256), a nonprofit dedicated to diversity in the burgeoning blockchain industry. (The name is a play on SHA-256, a secure hash algorithm in the cryptological community.)

UC Berkeley students Ben Truong, Surabhi Yadav, Erik Phillip, Zachary Chao and Andre Balthazard talk about solutions during "Hacking4 Local: Oakland"

Solve the housing crisis, fight climate change and more — all for credit

02/07/19 Mercury News — The 25 students enrolled in UC Berkeley's new “Hacking4Local” class are shooting for more than a good grade. They also intend to help solve the Bay Area's housing shortage, prevent wildfires in the East Bay hills and slow climate change. Those lofty goals, and more, are all part of the syllabus.

Dean Liu and Angela Zheng outside the dean

Dean Liu chats with EngineerGirl

01/30/19 EngineerGirl — In an interview with Angela Zheng from EngineerGirl, Dean Tsu-Jae King Liu talks about her path to electrical engineering, her priorities as dean, and her advice to students from all backgrounds considering a career in engineering.

Ph.D. graduates taking a selfie at commencement

Minority STEM PhDs fare better with clear expectations, acceptance

01/09/19 — Women and underrepresented minorities in STEM fields are more likely to advance professionally, publish more research and secure postdoctoral and faculty positions if their institutional culture is welcoming and sets clear expectations, according to a new study.

NextProf Nexus participants outside Blum Hall.

Expanding the pipeline

11/14/18 — The NextProf Nexus workshop prepares diverse graduate students for careers in higher education.

Q+A with Dean Tsu-Jae King Liu

11/14/18 — New Berkeley Engineering Dean Tsu-Jae King Liu elaborates on her priorities and long-term vision for the college.

New STEM podcast

11/14/18 — Bioengineering grad students launched the Double Shelix podcast to discuss the challenges women face in pursuing STEM careers.

Wide shot of students at European Innovation Academy

Berkeley Method gets students thinking like entrepreneurs

10/26/18 — A Berkeley-only leadership boot camp, led by the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, uses an innovative approach to teach students skills that are vital to entrepreneurial success.

The latest course catalog trend? Blockchain 101

09/19/18 Wired — From a course teaching students to think like blockchain entrepreneurs to "collider sprints" at the Sutardja Center's Blockchain Lab, Berkeley is at the forefront of universities incorporating this multidisciplinary technology into the curriculum.

Berkeley Engineering Dean Tsu-Jae King Liu talks with NextProf Nexus participants

NextProf career workshop provides pipeline for diverse faculty

09/11/18 — Nearly 70 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from around the country gathered at UC Berkeley for a three-day workshop designed to strengthen and diversify the next generation of academic leaders in engineering. The event, called NextProf Nexus, is hosted by Berkeley Engineering and Michigan Engineering.

Steel Bridge Team members and their product on the McLaughlin terrace

Bears building bridges

08/21/18 — Cal's Steel Bridge Competition Team was one of many student groups tabling for new members as Golden Bear Orientation continued into a second week. See more on Instagram

Evan Rambo, Danielle Vivo, Stephen Torres and Cassidy Keelen participated in the Sports Tech Collider Sprint.

Working in sync

08/02/18 Cal Sports Quarterly — The Sutardja Center's unique Sports Tech Collider Sprint brings together a cross-section of student athletes and STEM majors to explore ways that entrepreneurship and technology innovation can create competitive advantages for athletes and sports teams.

Alice Agogino with BEST Lab students on staircase

Alice Agogino wins top U.S. award for mentoring

06/27/18 — Mechanical engineering professor Alice Agogino has been named winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, the government's highest honor for mentors in STEM fields.

Blockchain Fundamentals instructors Gloria Wang and Rustie Lin.

Course will make blockchain so clear ‘you can explain it to your grandma’

06/15/18 — A popular Berkeley DeCal course on blockchain - the complex, bewildering bookkeeping technology that underpins things like bitcoin - will soon be available free online to the public via edX.

Eric Schmidt calls for greater investment in public universities

06/04/18 — In an op-ed published in the Sacramento Bee, Berkeley Engineering alum and former Google exec Eric Schmidt (M.S. '79/Ph.D. '82 EECS) advocates for more government support of public universities, including the University of California. Schmidt, who is a member of the UC Berkeley Board of Visitors, points out that the investment in public universities has paid Californians back many times over.