Education & outreach

Launching the Fung Fellowship

11/08/16 University of California — With the launch this fall of the Fung Fellowship program, tech visionary Coleman Fung, public health and engineering leaders and curious UC Berkeley students joined forces to create a new educational paradigm.

Christine Ho and Brooks Kincaid at Imprint Energy

Dynamic duo

11/01/16 — The College of Engineering and Haas School of Business launch the Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology double-degree undergraduate program.

THIMBY team members in the tiny house they constructed for a statewide competition.

A grand tiny house

10/24/16 — A team of Berkeley students recently designed and built a tiny house for a statewide competition encouraging alternative and environmentally sustainable housing.

Photo illustration of woman in technology

Women in Tech conference Oct. 5

09/29/16 — "Women in Technology: Recognizing Leaders, Inspiring the Next Generation," a daylong symposium on diversity in the tech sector, on Wednesday, Oct. 5 in Banatao Auditorium.

MET students brainstorming in Jacobs Hall

Grooming the entrepreneurial engineer

09/20/16 — The goal of the new M.E.T. program is to prepare future tech leaders by combining business savvy and engineering.

Welcome to The House

08/23/16 — Cameron Baradar (B.S'15 EECS) is launching the startup of startups in hopes of bolstering Berkeley's entrepreneurship community.

Best of engineering and business, in one

08/23/16 — The M.E.T. Program, our exciting new partnership with the Haas School of Business, will guide students to earn two full B.S. degrees - one in engineering, one in business.

Berkeley hosts high school students for cyber training

08/04/16 Campus Technology — A cyber security program sponsored by the National Security Agency has wooed 23 students to attend a six-week course at the Berkeley. The CYBEAR initiative is part of a nationwide effort to introduce K-12 students to safe online behavior and spark their interest in pursuing careers in the field.

New Berkeley undergraduate program to develop innovative tech leaders, entrepreneurs

08/01/16 — The Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology Program, a new undergraduate offering that integrates the study of engineering and business, is designed to give students a seamless understanding of technology innovation, preparing future leaders who will create real-world impact.

Women in Technology Round Table participants

Women in tech: Taking matters into their own hands

07/22/16 Medium — Facing the dearth of women in senior positions in the field, the Women in Technology Leadership Round Table encourages participants to measure what they want to change, and to be bold.

Better marching through algorithms

07/15/16 — Using computer code and a little ingenuity, an introductory engineering course helped solve a confounding problem for the Cal Marching Band.

Girls in Engineering camper works on a 3D-printed prosthetic hand

Young makers build prosthetic hands for children in need

07/15/16 — During the college's weeklong Girls in Engineering program, young makers build kid-size prosthetic hands from 3-D-printed parts to donate to children in need.

BIE student Matt Chen examining a spring winding machine

Blogging the Biodesign Immersion Experience

07/13/16 — An eight-week summer program for Berkeley juniors and seniors, the BIE prepares bioengineers to bridge engineering innovation and unmet clinical needs.

Nuclear engineering postdocs explain DoseNet to high school science students in Moraga, CA

Radiation 101: DoseNet delivers environmental data as an educational tool

05/25/16 Berkeley Lab — Stretching from East Bay high school science clubs to a Japanese city hall, DoseNet measures natural background radiation levels as an international education and outreach project, run by UC Berkeley nuclear engineering faculty and postdocs working with Berkeley Lab researchers.

MOOC pioneer Armando Fox cited for leadership in education

05/05/16 Association for Computing Machinery — EECS professor Armando Fox, a trailblazer in technology-enhanced education and the Massive Online Open Courses field, has been selected to receive the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.

Broadening participation in STEM

05/01/16 — Georgia Institute of Technology engineering dean Gary S. May returned to campus in March to deliver the 2016 Kuh Lecture on broadening participation in STEM.

$1M Hopper-Dean Foundation gift for diversity in CS

04/29/16 — The Hopper-Dean Foundation has donated $1 million to the EECS Department to support diversity initiatives in computer science. This expanded outreach effort, led by CS professor Dan Garcia, will touch thousands of students at Cal and high schools nationwide over the next two years.

Participants in the annual Bioengineering Honor Society High School Competition

Early research

04/27/16 — Berkeley's Bioengineering Honor Society recently hosted 22 high school teams for an annual competition designed to make engineering and STEM more accessible.

Getting more women into tech careers (and why it matters)

02/16/16 — In an EECS colloquium, Harvey Mudd College President Maria Klawe talks about how to increase the number of women in technology.

Adding ‘Beauty and Joy’ to Obama’s push for computer science teaching

01/15/16 NPR — President Obama wants hands-on computer science classes for every student. Computer science professor Dan Garcia, creator of "CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing," spends part of each day trying to figure out what that would look like.