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Entrepreneurship

Old-style drawings of fish, cow and chicken above stylized petri dishes

The future of meat

04/15/22 — The Alt: Meat Lab pairs scientific innovation with entrepreneurship to bring plant-based proteins from the classroom to the market.
The Bakar BioEnginuity Hub

Bakar BioEnginuity Hub opens

04/15/22 — The new facility, located in the former Berkeley Art Museum, equips STEM entrepreneurs with labs, offices and equipment.
Prana team examing their ventilator device

The power of yes

04/15/22 — Master of Design students launch new medical device startup to address ventilator shortages around the world.
Head shot of Ikhlaq Sidhu, SCET faculty director

Ikhlaq Sidhu named dean of Spain’s IE School of Technology

12/13/21 — The founding faculty director and chief scientist of Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology to remain in current position until June 2022.
Ricardo San Martin in the Alt: Meat Lab

At Berkeley’s Alt: Meat Lab, some students learn to be CEOs

10/22/21 — LA Times: A program at Berkeley Engineering connects students interested in creating plant-based alternatives to animal products with potential investors
Eternal Return sculpture at Burning Man

The art of engineering

07/20/21 — Berkeley Engineering alum blurs the line between art and science
Databricks

Accidental billionaires

06/02/21 Forbes — How seven Berkeley artificial intelligence engineers who didn't want to make a cent are now worth billions
Rendering of the planned Bakar BioEnginuity Hub

Berkeley’s bold new home for innovation, entrepreneurship

05/11/21 — Bakar BioEnginuity Hub will rent space to science-based startups, and provide campus programs for scholars and researchers
Michael Grimes with M.E.T. students

M.E.T. program celebrates first graduating class

04/26/21 — Thirty-two students will be among the group completing dual bachelor’s degrees in engineering and business in just four years.
Ali Ghodsi

How Databricks bet big on the cloud

04/09/21 Forbes — A conversation with co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi, whose Berkeley-born data analytics company is now valued at $28 billion.
JPS project supplies awaiting pick-up.

At Berkeley Engineering, creativity still shines through remote learning

11/02/20 — Remote learning has inspired creative thinking for Berkeley Engineering courses that emphasize team collaboration and maker projects
The Fung Institute offers an MEng degree.

UC Berkeley and College of Engineering take top spots in latest rankings

09/30/20 — UC Berkeley and its College of Engineering ranked first and second in two new rankings by Pitchbook and Grad School Hub.
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Cal Students Launch Resource 19 to Connect Creators with Hospitals in Need

04/16/20 SCET — New initiative helps designers, engineers and makers explore open-source plans for medical supplies needed by those on the frontlines of the COVID19 pandemic
Paige Balcom and Peter Okwoko wearing face shields.

Engineering Ph.D. student turns recycled plastic into face shields for Ugandan medics

04/10/20 Berkeley News — Paige Balcom is co-founder of Takataka Plastics, which has its roots in Berkeley's Big Ideas Contest.
Eko stethoscope and co-founder Tyler Crouch

Artificial intelligence gives stethoscopes a much-needed upgrade

03/03/20 — Alumni develop algorithms that will help predict possible heart failure
Peter Chen and Pieter Abbeel

Technology developed by Berkeley robotics researchers put to real world use

01/29/20 New York Times — Covariant, an AI robotics company built on research that began at Berkeley, is garnering attention in the world of industrial automation.
Globe Ambassadors

Berkeley students get a global perspective of technology innovation

07/09/19 — Twenty UC Berkeley students - most with limited travel experience, including some who have never left the United States - went on a whirlwind educational tour of Singapore and the Philippines earlier this summer to learn firsthand how technology innovation and application is approached in countries outside of the United States.
Bar chart ranking graduating startup founders from US public universities

Berkeley grads dominate funded founders ranking

05/30/19 TechCrunch — Berkeley is far ahead of its peers in a new survey that ranks which U.S. universities have graduated the most founders of startups that raised $1 million or more in roughly the past year.
Heat-powered hat

Heat-powered hat

05/01/19 — Berkeley students have created WeLumen8, a baseball cap with built-in LED lights powered by human heat.
Oki Karaoke founders Aayush Tyagi, Luofei Chen and Noah Adriany

Can’t sing? These undergrads have a karaoke booth just for you

04/16/19 — A trio of undergraduates, including M.E.T. freshman Luofei Chen and EECS junior Aayush Tyagi, have launched Oki Karaoke, a startup that hopes to bring soundproof karaoke pods, already popular across Asia, to the United States.
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