Dean’s word: Leading our students toward a new future of work
06/01/18 — Dean S. Shankar Sastry reflects on how to best prepare students for the jobs of the future.
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Dean’s word: Future bound: Partners wanted
11/01/17 — Dean Sastry ponders what's in store for the future here at the college, and how to connect that vision to reality.
Achievements & innovations, College of Engineering, 2007-2017
10/13/17 — As Dean Sastry prepare to step down at the end of this academic year and return full-time to his faculty position, he reviews highlights of the work achieved by the college over the past decade.
Dean’s word: Inventing a better future
05/01/17 — The college is preparing to launch a new initiative, one with an audacious goal: to invent a better, more promising future for generations to come.
Dean’s word: Ambidextrous entrepreneurs
11/01/16 — Dean Sastry announces a new partnership with Haas School of Business and the creation of the Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology program.
Best of engineering and business, in one
08/23/16 — The M.E.T. Program, our exciting new partnership with the Haas School of Business, will guide students to earn two full B.S. degrees - one in engineering, one in business.
Dean’s word: The future of intelligence
05/01/16 — Deep Learning technology has made a huge strides recently, advances built on pioneering research at Berkeley starting in the 1980s and carried on by a new generation of roboticists.
A time of celebration and sadness
04/12/16 — This spring we have come together as a community in celebration with engineering deans from across the country and in reflection as we mourn the passing of faculty colleague David Dornfeld.
Science and the public good
11/17/15 — To be equitable and sustainable, international development goals need to incorporate innovations in science and technology and harness the data revolution.
Dean’s word: Disrupting health care by design
11/01/15 — An expanding network, including a new partnership with UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, allows the joint efforts of alumni, faculty and students to engineer solutions and change the scope of improving health care.
More women in engineering – what’s working?
06/17/15 — From Dean Sastry: In order to increase the representation of women in engineering, we are moving beyond good intentions with proven strategies for sustaining their interest and fostering leadership.
Dean’s word: At the intersection of design and entrepreneurship
05/01/15 — The college is building an innovation ecosystem to design, build and launch high-impact ventures.
How to attract female engineers
04/27/15 New York Times — In a New York Times op-ed article, Lina Nilsson, innovation director for the Blum Center, writes that the key to increasing the number of female engineers may be to focus engineering projects and curriculums on achieving societal good.
The cyber-biophysical research frontier
04/16/15 — Cyber-biophysical systems, our newest research field, integrates sensing, computational and communications networks with human biology.
Dean’s word: Engineering global solutions
11/01/14 — Globalized markets and leapfrog technologies, including mobile telecommunications, now offer opportunities to eradicate the root causes of global poverty.
Engineering improvements for the world
10/06/14 Washington Post — A new generation of development engineers, “dedicated to using engineering and technology to improve the lot of the world's poorest people,” is emerging around the world, write Dean Shankar Sastry and Lina Nilsson, innovation director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies, in a Washington Post op-ed article.
Dean’s word: Made-to-order engineering education
05/01/14 — Paul Jacobs, whose lead gift helped launch the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, joined student speakers Eric Mica, Kate Rakelly and Lavanya Jawaharlal for the April 12 groundbreaking celebration for Jacobs Hall, to open Fall 2015. (Photo by Noah Berger)“I’m not an engineer because I like following procedures. I’m an engineer because of those moments […]
Dean’s word: A new design for education
11/01/13 — A $20 million gift from Qualcomm executive chairman Paul Jacobs launches a new center for design innovation.
A carbon map to development
10/15/13 Daily Californian — In a Daily Cal op-ed, Dean Shankar Sastry calls for an international roadmap for economic growth, job creation and poverty alleviation that also contributes to controlling greenhouse gas emissions.
A new design for engineering education
06/24/13 Daily Californian — In an op-ed article, Dean Shankar Sastry and Executive Associate Dean Fiona Doyle write about how a recent $20 million gift from the Jacobs Foundation will pave the way for a complete reinvention of engineering education at Berkeley, providing all students - especially undergraduates - with opportunities to design and build early and often.