Education & outreach

Students in the first M.E.T. class on the steps of Sutardja Dai Hall

Inaugural M.E.T. class prepares to study business and engineering

08/23/17 Haas News — The founding class of 40 students in the Management, Engineering, & Technology program arrived at Berkeley this week ready to learn from each other and from top faculty at both Berkeley Engineering and the Haas School of Business.

Introducing the Hallac Scholars

08/21/17 — Berkeley Engineering sophomores Alex Montanez and Miriam Almaraz are part of the inaugural class of Hallac Scholars - a program sponsored by the global asset management firm BlackRock that's a combined scholarship, mentorship and internship all rolled into one. The goal of the new program is to teach engineers how to develop innovative tech for delivering financial services.

Working on projects on laptops at Jacobs Hall

Inside the studio: Teaching design innovation

07/12/17 Jacobs Institute — Two years on from the opening of Jacobs Hall, faculty share a look at how they're bringing design innovation into the classroom, fostering creativity and collaboration.

Dubón named vice chancellor of equity and inclusion

06/22/17 — Associate dean Oscar Dubón, professor of materials science and engineering, has been selected as UC Berkeley's next vice chancellor of equity and inclusion.

Berkeley implements new 2-degree program between engineering and business

04/28/17 Daily Californian — UC Berkeley's College of Engineering and Haas School of Business are offering a highly selective two-degree program - the Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology (MET) program - that will begin in fall 2017.

Fast-track M.E.T. program for tech leaders is more competitive than Stanford

04/24/17 Business Insider — UC Berkeley's new Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology program aims to launch future tech leaders by teaching the wide variety of skills required of them in the real world, allowing them to earn dual degrees in business and engineering in four years.

Working on AR that will help us talk to robots

04/05/17 Wareable — Allen Yang, head of the Center for Augmented Cognition, discusses the burgeoning augmented and virtual reality programs at UC Berkeley, including efforts to build a multidisciplinary VR classroom - a sort of 21st century computer lab.

Students performing an exercise in Dan Garcia

Learning to think like a computer

04/04/17 New York Times — Computer science professor Daniel Garcia explains an all-important concept in computer science - abstraction - in terms of milkshakes. It's part of a hot trend in education: Demystifying the "magic" of computers and computational thinking.

Eicke Weber assumes leadership of Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore

02/06/17 — Eicke Weber, a global leader in solar energy research, has been appointed director and chief executive officer of BEARS, the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore. Weber returns to UC Berkeley after 10 years as director of the University of Freiburg's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems.

UC Berkeley awarded $2.2 million to strengthen campus entrepreneurship and innovation

01/19/17 — UC Berkeley has been awarded a $2.2 million grant from the State of California to help leading centers and programs accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship on campus.

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.