Design Fest schedule announced
04/20/15 Jacobs Institute — Design Fest, an open house where UC Berkeley students show and tell their current design projects, kicks off with a seminar by Don Norman, pioneer of human-centered design.
Events
Society of Women Engineers hosts new admits
04/01/15 — The campus chapter of the Society of Women Engineers invites newly admitted students to experience life at Berkeley for a weekend. (See video.)
Bakar Fellows show off their discoveries to tech entrepreneurship world
03/25/15 — Sixteen UC Berkeley faculty, including many Berkeley Engineers, who are conducting commercially promising research supported by the Bakar Fellows Program traveled to San Francisco to deepen their connections with prominent venture capital firms, industry partners and entrepreneurs.
Jacobs Hall takes shape
02/25/15 — The mood was festive when the college community gathered to celebrate the placement of the final steel beam atop the new Jacobs Hall.
Engineers Week 2015
02/23/15 — Engineers Week (EWeek), a national celebration of science and technology, is underway February 23-27 on campus.
Breakthrough Technologies to Shape Our Future
02/10/15 — Arati Prabhakar, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), will deliver a View From the Top lecture, “Breakthrough Technologies to Shape Our Future,” on campus this Friday, Feb. 13, 2015.
Maker hero: Alumnus Jack McCauley on Guitar Hero, Oculus and the future of making
12/19/14 Berkeley Innovators — Jack McCauley (EECS ’86), the inaugural speaker in the Berkeley Innovators Lecture Series, told a packed auditorium how his lifelong passion for tinkering brought him a path-breaking career in hardware engineering and design.
Welcome new students
09/03/14 — The excitement mixed with trepidation at the RSF gym and on Memorial Glade can mean only one thing: A new academic year is underway.
Berkeley Engineering launches Girls in Engineering summer camp
08/08/14 — STEM fields come to life for East Bay middle schoolers at summer camp.
The graduate
06/17/14 — Saddiq Nuru, a recent graduate from the Fung Institute's Master of Engineering program, reflects on his education, experience and ambitions. Nuru was chosen to deliver the graduate student address at this year's College of Engineering commencement ceremony.
Berkeley Engineering commencement recap
05/20/14 — Relive the baccalaureate and graduate commencement ceremonies for the College of Engineering in words, pictures and videos via Storify and YouTube.
Campaign site tells 40-plus stories of philanthropy and its impact
05/12/14 University Relations — The recently concluded Campaign for Berkeley looks back at its $3.13 billion success by telling the stories of donors and the fruits of their generosity, including the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, Bakar Fellow (and mechanical engineering associate professor) Lydia Sohn, the entrepreneurial Coleman Fung, and energy research chairs endowed by Katherine and James Lau.
Jacobs gift launches design institute
11/01/13 — A $20 million gift launches the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, a hands-on design center primarily for undergraduates.
Berkeley crowdfunding symposium produces international research agreement
10/23/13 — The first international agreement to share research data on crowdfunding - an increasingly popular financing model that allows entrepreneurs to raise capital using social media - was framed during an Oct. 17–18 symposium organized by the College of Engineering's Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership.
Now and forever Berkeley Engineers
06/18/13 — Berkeley Engineering held its 144th Commencement on Sunday, May 19, at the Hearst Greek Theatre. Berkeley Engineer Dan Mote, president-elect of the National Academy of Engineering, urged undergrads to seek greatness "at the edges." DARPA director Arati Prabhakar delivered the commencement address to Ph.D. and master's candidates. Another Berkeley Engineer, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, gave the university-wide commencement address. Of all his accomplishments, Wozniak said his proudest moment, still, was the day he graduated from Berkeley.
$20 million gift from Paul and Stacy Jacobs Foundation will launch design innovation institute at UC Berkeley
06/13/13 — Campus will begin planning educational activities, studio and workshop facility to expand the role of design in engineering education, emphasizing rapid design and prototyping for manufacturability.
Apple (and EECS) alum Steve Wozniak to keynote Berkeley commencement
02/28/13 Daily Californian — Berkeley's Class of 2013 has chosen Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, EECS '86, to be keynote speaker at its May 18 Commencement Convocation at Memorial Stadium.
Engineering Innovation by Design: Solutions for the real world
11/12/12 Fung Institute/CET — Hundreds of researchers, designers and industry leaders gathered at Berkeley on Tuesday, Nov. 13, for the 2012 Global Technology Leaders conference, Engineering Innovation by Design. Sessions explored emerging technologies that meet real-world needs in health care, energy efficiency, sustainability and other fields. (The conference webcast is now online.)
Engineering innovation by design
11/05/12 — "Technology with soul." That's how Bernard Amadei, founder of Engineers Without Borders, describes engineering solutions that are designed and built with human needs in mind. Amadei, one of our own Ph.D.s (CE '82) and the Mortenson Professor at the University of Colorado, will be one of our featured speakers at our November 13th conference, "Engineering Innovation by Design," held here in the College of Engineering and open to all.
Dean’s word: Innovation by design
11/02/12 — Step into room 122 of Hesse Hall on a weekday afternoon, and you're likely to see more than 100 freshmen building-and then bending, melting and even breaking-their own product prototypes.