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John Hennessy and David Patterson, circa 1991

A.M. Turing Award lecture to be livestreamed

05/29/18 HPC Wire — EECS professor emeritus David A. Patterson and former Stanford president John L. Hennessy, who received the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures, will jointly present the Turing Award Lecture on June 4 at the International Symposium of Computer Architecture in Los Angeles. The Turing Award lecture is open to the public and will be livestreamed.
Women in Industry panelists

Women in blockchain

05/21/18 — Blockchain at Berkeley hosted she(256), the university's first women in blockchain conference, last month at Memorial Stadium.
Teresa Meng

An engineer’s guide to sexism

02/23/18 EE Times — It's not often a female engineer steps before hundreds of male colleagues at a major conference and gives a tutorial on the institutional sexism in their profession. But that's what happened at this month's International Solid State Circuits Conference, where Berkeley alum Teresa Meng (M.S.'84, Ph.D.'88 EECS), Stanford professor and Atheros Communications co-founder, addressed “Winning the game in a male-dominated industry.”
Gary May speaking with students

Celebrating diversity in engineering and science

02/13/18 — The Black Engineering and Science Students Association and the Black Graduate Engineering and Science Students celebrated milestone anniversaries with a daylong event at Alumni House on Feb. 10, including a keynote address by alumnus and UC Davis Chancellor Gary May.
Nikita Bier (right) being interviewed by Jeremy Fiance of the House Fund

How to build a viral app

02/06/18 Sutardja Center — Telling a Newton Lecture Series audience that he got "really good at failing," Berkeley alumnus Nikita Bier recounted his difficult journey to creating TBH, a viral app that allows teenagers to anonymously compliment each other through a series of polls.
Boot camp participants at California Memorial Stadium.

Fresh ideas for nuclear power

08/24/17 — Two dozen students from all over the world gathered at Berkeley for two weeks over the summer to discuss, plan and help start building a new nuclear energy sector. The students, along with professional mentors and speakers, were part of the 2017 Nuclear Innovation Boot Camp.
Students at Sather Gate with #BerkeleyBound sign

Get started at Berkeley

06/01/17 — New engineering students, get your life at Cal started with Golden Bear Orientation this summer and fall.
Students at the starting line of the Bluetooth-controlled vehicle race

A look at the Jacobs Spring Design Showcase

05/09/17 — The 2017 Jacobs Spring Design Showcase capped a semester that saw students develop sustainable products, prototype innovations, apply technology to combating extremism and race Bluetooth-controlled vehicles through an obstacle course.
Engineers Week, February 13-18

Fall in love with engineering

01/25/17 — Engineers Week at Berkeley Engineering, from Feb. 13-18, is filled with everything from an escape room and a romantic movie marathon to the Engineers Ball and E-Week Carnival. Plus puppies!
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.
Commencement

Spring 2017 Commencement

10/11/16 Berkeley Engineering Commencement — Congratulations on your upcoming graduation! Celebrate a job well done at commencement on Tuesday, May 16, at the Hearst Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley.
Elizabeth Gerber

Jacobs Design Conversations: Elizabeth Gerber

10/10/16 Jacobs Institute — Elizabeth Gerber from Northwestern University discusses "Understanding and Designing for Collective Innovation." October 13, Noon-1 p.m., 310 Jacobs Hall
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.
Homecoming road trip

Join us for Homecoming

09/01/16 — On homecoming weekend (Sept. 30-Oct. 2), the Berkeley campus and Berkeley Engineering host a fun-packed schedule of activities, ranging from classroom lectures and a design showcase to the homecoming BBQ and football game.

Nuclear innovators on campus

08/12/16 — Answering the call for clean energy solutions, the nuclear engineering department hosted a two-week intensive Nuclear Innovation Boot Camp.
frugal cast prototype, made from soda bottle and shoelace

An ecosystem of impact

05/17/16 Medium — After a semester in which nearly 30 courses took place in Jacobs Hall, the Jacobs Spring Design Showcase offered a look at how an interdisciplinary ecosystem at Berkeley is fostering a focus on design for real impact.

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.