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EECS professor Ana Claidia Arias demonstrates her wearable MRI wrap to Barbara Bakar and Arnold Silverman.

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.
Poster for Arati Prabhakar

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.

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.
Saddiq Nuru speaking at commencement

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.
Go Bears! hat at graduation

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.
Jacobs Hall, the Laus, Coleman Fung and Lydia Sohn

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.

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.

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.

Hats off to 2012 graduates

05/17/12 — The world is now wealthier by well over 1,300 newly minted Berkeley Engineers–a proud moment we celebrated on Saturday, May 12 with the college's 143rd commencement exercises in the Greek Theatre. In the morning, we saluted our master's and doctoral candidates, including the first cohort to graduate from the college's new professional master of engineering program. Commencement speaker Thomas Siebel, chairman of First Virtual Group, reminded graduates that “luck, they say, is where preparation meets opportunity. Be ready. Luck happens.” In our baccalaureate ceremony that afternoon, Marvell co-founder Weili Dai (B.S'84 CS) encouraged the graduates with her own story. Watch a slideshow of the festive events.
Weili Dai at commencement

Hats off

05/01/12 — Marvell co-founder Weili Dai (B.S'84 CS) delivered the commencement speech to the college's baccalaureate graduates at the Greek Theater on May 12, 2012.