Education & outreach

A proven way to get women excited about engineering

01/07/16 Fortune — Biomedical engineer Lina Nilsson, former innovation director for the Blum Center, talks with Fortune's Most Powerful Women about educational programs that have successfully attracted large number of female engineers, and why we shouldn't fear “pink engineering.”

Lavanya Jawaharlal on females of color in STEM

12/16/15 Blum Center — Mechanical engineering senior Lavanya Jawaharlal talks about her hopes that STEM Center USA, the nonprofit startup she founded with her sister, can help shatter the glass ceiling for women in STEM fields.

QuakeCAFE: A mobile wake-up call for Californians

12/16/15 CITRIS — No one likes to be reminded that there's a 99.7% chance that California will experience a major earthquake in the next 30 years. But a little preparedness can go a long way, and a new mobile-friendly website called QuakeCAFE can help.

Roundtable tackles issues facing women in tech

12/07/15 — The lack of women in technology-related positions might seem like an overwhelming challenge. But that didn't stop a group of motivated women engineers, data scientists and senior tech managers from taking steps to tackle the problem in a summit held at Berkeley earlier this fall.

Engineering student Akol Kuan high-fives sixth-graders at Beacon Day School

Of war, water and working to fix South Sudan

11/18/15 — Civil engineering undergrad Akol Kuan brought tales of his native South Sudan to Oakland's Beacon Day School, where sixth graders had just finished reading A Long Walk to Water, a novel that follows the hardships and heartbreaks of two Sudanese 11-year-olds.

President Obama at White House astronomy night

Will STEM education be the child left behind?

11/02/15 NPR — Berkeley Engineers And Mentors (BEAM), a student volunteer group that teaches an after-school STEM program at a Berkeley elementary school, was featured in a Morning Edition report on the budget a policy hurdles facing STEM education.

Ribbon-cutting for the Graduate Professional Services Center

Campus opens career center for grad students, post-docs

10/28/15 — With the opening of the Graduate Professional Services Center in Sproul Hall, UC Berkeley graduate students and postdocs now have a place to go for help exploring how their studies can prepare them for career paths, both within and beyond academia.

Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute inaugurated in China

10/26/15 — Some 200 guests turned out Oct. 20 for a ceremony to inaugurate the new Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI) in Shenzhen, China. The joint research institute provides a platform for innovative research and graduate student education to fuel economic growth, solve global problems and train industry leaders.

New executive education programs focus on promoting tech innovation

10/14/15 — Two new executive education programs coming this year from Berkeley Engineering aim to help technology-dependent companies create a work culture that encourages continued innovation.

Reports on handwashing studies for a development engineering class

A new kind of development professional: The development engineer

09/23/15 devex — At UC Berkeley, engineers and computer scientists are in the same rooms as economists and political scientists, working together to test, implement and scale technologies in a way that can reframe global development as we know it.

Vanessa Salas and Giovanni Pacheco discuss their project on particulate matter in West Oakland

GM Foundation funding connects engineers with underserved communities

09/18/15 — A poster session focused on community engagement and improvement brings together students in the Engineering Scholars as Engaged Scholars program and their supporters from the GM Foundation.

Girls in Engineering 2015

09/01/15 — Girls learn to make, connect and discover in a Berkeley Engineering summer camp.

Campers experimenting with a robit they built

Camp gives middle school girls hands-on experience in engineering

07/16/15 — At UC Berkeley's Girls in Engineering summer camps, middle schoolers go from robots to cow legs to edible juice caviar, all in one whirlwind week.

Alice Agogino: ME trailblazer

07/15/15 Blum Center — When historians get around to investigating the trials and triumphs of women scientists in the late 20th century, they would do well to spend some time looking at the career of Alice Merner Agogino, a pioneer in mechanical engineering, development engineering and STEM gender equity.