• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Departments
    • Bioengineering
    • Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
    • Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
    • Materials Science and Engineering
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Nuclear Engineering
    • Aerospace program
    • Engineering Science program
  • News
    • Berkeley Engineer magazine
    • Social media
    • News videos
    • News digest (email)
    • Brand & Press kit
  • Events
    • Cal Day
    • Commencement
    • Events calendar
    • Engineering Ethics workshop
    • Homecoming
    • Kuh Lecture Series
    • Minner Lecture
    • Space reservations
    • View from the Top
  • College directory
  • For staff & faculty
Berkeley Engineering

Educating leaders. Creating knowledge. Serving society.

  • About
    • Facts & figures
    • Rankings
    • Mission & values
    • Equity & inclusion
    • Voices of Berkeley Engineering
    • Leadership team
    • Milestones
    • Buildings & facilities
    • Maps
  • Admissions
    • Undergraduate admissions
    • Graduate admissions
    • New students
    • Visit
    • Maps
    • Admissions events
    • K-12 outreach
  • Academics
    • Undergraduate programs
    • Majors & minors
    • Undergraduate Guide
    • Graduate programs
    • Graduate Guide
    • Innovation & entrepreneurship
    • Kresge Engineering Library
    • International programs
    • Executive education
  • Students
    • New students
    • Advising & counseling
    • ESS programs
    • CAEE academic support
    • Grad student services
    • Student life
    • Wellness & inclusion
    • Undergraduate Guide
    • > Degree requirements
    • > Policies & procedures
    • Forms & petitions
    • Resources
  • Research & faculty
    • Centers & institutes
    • Undergrad research
    • Faculty
    • Sustainability and resiliency
  • Connect
    • Alumni
    • Industry
    • Give
    • Stay in touch
Home > News > Support Berkeley Engineering

Support Berkeley Engineering

berkeley engineer magazine cover with ken goldberg holding robotics
May 11, 2026
This article appeared in Berkeley Engineer magazine, Summer 2026
  • In this issue
    Ken Goldberg in a brown coat, holding a 3D printed object. The object is also being held by a robot

    The art of grasping

    Pallets on fire

    From forest to front door

    Purple led lights from the ceiling lights the room up in purple as a crowd looks from above

    Let there be light

    Mark Asta, UC Berkeley College of Engineering interim dean, wearing a black suit smiling and looking at the distance

    Where ideas come to life

    Upfront

    • New rules
    • Microbes with a mission
    • Robots that reconfigure
    • Back to the elements
    • Straight to the heart
    • When the shaking stops
    • The making of a Nobel Prize

    New & noteworthy

    • William Tarpeh named 2025 MacArthur Fellow
    • Reimagining rehabilitation
    • Three professors, nine alums named to NAE
    • Farewell
    • Support Berkeley Engineering
    • Built by Bears. Powered by ingenuity.
  • Past issues

Support Berkeley Engineering with a beneficiary designation gift that transfers tax-free

Mechanical engineering professor Grace Gu leads a PrintSprint 3D Printing Bootcamp, with PREP students at UC Berkeley’s Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation in Berkeley, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025. (Photo by Adam Lau/UC Berkeley Engineering)
Image by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering

When you designate Berkeley Engineering as a beneficiary of your retirement plan, 100% of the gift supports your favorite department or program. After naming us as the beneficiary, you are still eligible to take distributions. That means you remain in control of the asset during your lifetime while creating your legacy at Berkeley today.

To learn more about beneficiary designation gifts and their potential tax benefits, visit: planyourlegacy.berkeley.edu

Topics: College news
  • Contact
  • Give
  • Privacy
  • UC Berkeley
  • Accessibility
  • Nondiscrimination
  • instagram
  • X logo
  • linkedin
  • facebook
  • youtube
  • bluesky
© 2026 UC Regents