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ESS Podcast season 6

ESS podcast is back

The new season brings advice on advising, ways to get a head start this summer, and more tips for the newest Berkeley engineers.

Artist's concept of new Engineering Student Center at dusk

Meet our new Engineering Student Center

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Number of Berkeley Engineering undergraduate and graduate programs ranked in the Top 5 nationally by U.S. News & World Report.

See how we rank

Stellar faculty

Our current and emeritus faculty includes 76 members of the National Academy of Engineering.

Get all the facts
Speakers for commencement 2022

Engineering Commencement | Classes of 2020 & 2021: May 7 ceremony

Artist's concept of new Engineering Student Center at dusk

Meet our new Engineering Student Center

Fill in the blanks during Cal's Big Give 2022 #CalBigGive

  

Commencement update

Berkeley Engineering celebrates its baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral graduates from the classes of 2022, 2021 and 2020 this spring with a flurry of in-person ceremonies. Registration is open now.

Find your ceremony
stock image of padlock with binary digits in repeating pattern

For your eyes only

A faster, more secure approach to machine learning helps safeguard private information
Nuclear engineering grad student Michael Bondin testing and refurbishing radiation detectors to send to scientists at Chernobyl.

Nuclear engineers send equipment, expertise to ransacked Chernobyl

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine left scientists at site of 1986 nuclear disaster without tools to contain the lingering radiation
Paul Debevec on the Light Stage

Lighting up Hollywood

UC Berkeley alum wins Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award
Hand holding iPhone with social media application icons on screen.

Just for you

Research reveals manipulative tendencies of content recommender systems and possible ways to prevent them

Commencement update

Berkeley Engineering celebrates its baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral graduates from the classes of 2022, 2021 and 2020 this spring with a flurry of in-person ceremonies at the Hearst Greek Theatre. Registration is now open for all ceremonies; get all the details and links on our Engineering Commencement page.

Find your ceremony
UC Engineers 2022

Reimagine the possible: E-Week at UC

Commencement update

Berkeley Engineering celebrates its baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral graduates from the classes of 2022, 2021 and 2020 this spring with a flurry of in-person ceremonies at the Hearst Greek Theatre. Registration is now open for all ceremonies; get all the details and links on our Engineering Commencement page.

Find your ceremony
Artist's concept of new Engineering Student Center at dusk

Meet our new Engineering Student Center

Commencement update

Berkeley Engineering celebrates its baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral graduates from the classes of 2022, 2021 and 2020 this spring with a flurry of in-person ceremonies at the Hearst Greek Theatre. Registration is now open for all ceremonies; get all the details and links on our Engineering Commencement page.

Find your ceremony

Design showcase spotlights student innovation

Students with project at Jacobs Winter Design Showcase
2021 Winter Design Showcase at UC Berkeley’s Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation in Berkeley, Calif. on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering)
Student explaining food-centered project at Jacobs Winter Design Showcase
2021 Winter MDes Showcase at UC Berkeley’s Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation in Berkeley, Calif. on Friday, Dec. 10, 2021. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering)
Mechanical student project at Jacobs Winter Design Showcase
2021 Winter Design Showcase at UC Berkeley’s Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation in Berkeley, Calif. on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering)
Student adjusting project at Jacobs Winter Design Showcase
2021 Winter Design Showcase at UC Berkeley’s Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation in Berkeley, Calif. on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering)

Commencement update

Berkeley Engineering celebrates its graduates from the classes of 2022, 2021 and 2020 with a flurry of in-person ceremonies this spring. Registration opens soon; get all the details from our Engineering Commencement page.

Find your ceremony
Keynote speech at SWE workshop

In the beginning …

A look back into the history of UC Berkeley’s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, chartered in 1974.

Pathways to college

Berkeley Engineering’s K-12 outreach program connects California students — especially those from underserved communities — to engineering and, more broadly, to STEM and scientific thinking.

Explore our programs
What is IEOR?
What is IEOR?

Berkeley IEOR students won first place in an industry contest for this video introducing people to industrial and systems engineering.

What is IEOR?

IISE 2021 video contest
IISE 2021 video contest

Berkeley IEOR students won first place at the annual IISE Industry Advisory Board YouTube Video Contest for this video meant to introduce people to industrial and systems engineering.

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Cal Performances Artist-in-Residence Angélique Kidjo in conversation with UC Berkeley experts in computer science and machine learning about AI and art. Register for the Oct. 28 event.
Imagine the Gateway
Imagine the Gateway

Imagine the Gateway

New campus home for data science
New campus home for data science

The Gateway complex will bring together ingenious minds from Berkeley’s disparate disciplines to utilize the latest in data science and AI for the sake of the public good. Help inspire discovery

Geirge Leitmann

A life filled with history

A video oral history examines the eventful life and times of George Leitmann, from his birth in Vienna through his wartime service with the U.S. Army, followed by a six-decade career at UC Berkeley as a professor of mechanical engineering. Watch Part One

Pathways to college

Berkeley Engineering’s K-12 outreach program connects California students — especially those from underserved communities — to engineering and, more broadly, to STEM and scientific thinking.

Explore programs & resources
The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing has launched a series of short documentaries to foster public understanding of algorithmic science.

Video series: Theory Shorts

Master of Analytics

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research launches new degree program to help address shortage of workers with data and analytics skills

Get the details
Collected headshots of 7 new faculty members

New faculty for fall

Cars ROAR through campus in academy race

AI-controlled cars in race
Remote-controlled cars employing autonomous driving algorithms, programmed by ROAR Academy’s high school students, race across Trefethen Terrace
ROAR Academy student with race car
Remote-controlled cars employing autonomous driving algorithms, programmed by ROAR Academy’s high school students, race across Trefethen Terrace
FHL Vive Center director Allen Yang with ROAR Academy cars at starting line on Trefethen Terrace
Remote-controlled cars employing autonomous driving algorithms, programmed by ROAR Academy’s high school students, race across Trefethen Terrace

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Number of Berkeley Engineering undergraduate and graduate programs ranked in the Top 5 nationally by U.S. News & World Report

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  • Return to campus for Fall 2021
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