Engineering Ethics workshop

Co-sponsored by the College of Engineering and Enable Tech student group

Thank you to our industry partners

Details & registration

Free lunches for attendees

Prizes for winners of poster contest

Prizes for breakout session winners

Its-Its Ice cream sandwiches for all participants

Date: April 16, 2026

Time: 10:00 – 3:00

Location: Grimes Engineering Center

Open to: All Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Alumni interested in discussing Engineering Ethics & Social Responsibility across UCB

Deadline to register for the workshop: April 9, 2026

Poster contest

Present a poster about how your student organization engages with engineering ethics, or choose one of the provided poster prompts.

Register to submit a poster by: April 2, 2026

Posters must be submitted by: April 13, 2026

Poster guidelines Register to submit a poster

Breakout sessions with industry partners

Work in groups of 5-6 students and design solutions to case studies provided by our industry panelists.

Prizes to be given to groups with the most compelling ideas/solutions.

Students, please come with resume ready to share electronically with industry partners who are interested in connecting regarding jobs and internships.

Agenda

Time: 9:15 – 10:00
Location: Raw Thrills Lounge
Event: Check in, Pastries, Coffee

Time: 10:00 – 10:45
Location: Jarvis Auditorium
Event: Industry Panel with Nvidia & Lam Research

Short presentations by representatives.
How do we enable rapid innovation while thinking about impact to society? (which could include sustainability, confidentiality, individual protections). Possible questions:

How are potential societal impacts identified and communicated within the company, and within the industry?
Are there examples from your field of differing global norms, and does the company take initiatives to seek global uniformity, or does the variability create unique opportunities?
What are the roles of regulations? What do you wish the roles of relations were? Which are the regulatory agencies of relevance to your industry, and how do you envision the regulatory space changing? In your field, does regulation help, or hinder?
What engineering ethics and social responsibility training does your company provide, or expect of engineers to have before they are hired?

Q&A with Students

Time: 11:00- 12:30
Location: Brayton, Greene & Rosenblum
Event: Nvidia – case study TBD
Lam Research – case study TBD
Students break into teams (5-6 students) and create a solution to the Case Study.

Time: 12:30 – 1:30
Location: Raw Thrills & Giancarlo Gallery
Event: Lunch & Poster Sessions

Time: 1:30 – 2:00
Location: Jarvis Auditorium
Event: Presentation of winners in breakout room Sessions
Poster Session Winners

Time: 2:00 – 3:00
Location: Greene & Rosenblum, Brayton
Event: Industry Engagement
Meet with companies to learn about opportunities & employment with Nvidia and Lam Research

Time	Location	Event
9:15 – 10:00	Raw Thrills Lounge	Check in, Pastries, Coffee
10:00 – 10:45	Jarvis Auditorium	Industry Panel with Nvidia and Lam Research Short presentations by representatives. How do we enable rapid innovation while thinking about impact to society? (which could include sustainability, confidentiality, individual protections). Possible questions: How are potential societal impacts identified and communicated within the company, and within the industry? Are there examples from your field of differing global norms, and does the company take initiatives to seek global uniformity, or does the variability create unique opportunities? What are the roles of regulations? What do you wish the roles of relations were? Which are the regulatory agencies of relevance to your industry, and how do you envision the regulatory space changing? In your field, does regulation help, or hinder? What engineering ethics and social responsibility training does your company provide, or expect of engineers to have before they are hired? Q&A with Students
11:00- 12:30	Brayton Greene & Rosenblum	Breakout Sessions: Nvidia – case study TBD Lam Research – case study TBD Students break into teams (5-6 students) and create a solution to the Case Study.
12:30 – 1:30	Raw Thrills & Giancarlo Gallery	Lunch & Poster Sessions
1:30 – 2:00	Jarvis Auditorium	Presentation of winners in breakout room sessions Poster Session Winners
2:00 – 3:00	Jarvis Auditorium Brayton Greene & Rosenblum	Industry Engagement: Meet with companies to learn about opportunities & employment Nvidia Lam Research

Speakers

Dr. Wojciech Osowiecki

Dr. Wojciech (“Wojtek” – pronounced “Voytek”) Osowiecki is a Product Marketing Engineer in the Global Product Group at Lam Research. He is responsible for the environmental sustainability roadmaps of all etch, deposition, and clean products, and the Equipment Intelligence® feature of etch tools. Wojtek founded the Lam Employee Sustainability Community (LESC), an employee resource group focused on environmental sustainability with over 1,100 members, and co-chairs SEMI’s Climate Equity and Social Impact (CESI) working group. A Siebel Scholar and winner of UC Berkeley’s Cleantech to Market program, Wojtek holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from UC Berkeley and a joint B.S./M.S. degree in chemistry from Yale.

Barnaby Simkin

Barnaby is Director of Trustworthy AI at NVIDIA. He designs the internal governance structures that guide responsible AI development and deployment. He leads a team that creates processes and evaluation tools to quantify and mitigate risk across models, datasets, and complex integrated systems such as autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots. His work ensures AI is not only technically capable, but safe, compliant, and aligned with legal and ethical expectations.