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Sandbox with toys and a microscope

Engineering sandbox

04/26/24 — Practice site for training and experimentation
Tsu-Jae King Liu, dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, and Carol Christ, UC Berkeley chancellor, center from left, join a group photo with attendees at the WHIAANHPI (White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders) Leadership Development Summit at UC Berkeley’s Pauley Ballroom in Berkeley, Calif. on Tuesday, April 2, 2024.

Summit advances Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in higher education

04/04/24 — UC Berkeley hosted the nation’s first AA & NHPI Higher Education Leadership Development Summit, sponsored by the White House
Photo of the Campanile, with its lights on during sunset.

Berkeley Engineering supporters contribute $900M to historic Light the Way campaign

03/11/24 — Generosity will provide lasting, transformative impact
Photo of Niklaus Wirth in 1984, when he won the prestigious Turing Award. On the left is “Lilith,” one of the world’s first computer workstations with a high-resolution graphic display and a mouse, and a forerunner of today’s personal computers.

Niklaus Wirth, visionary software architect, has died

02/28/24 — New York Times: Berkeley Engineering alum (Ph.D.’63 EECS) and creator of the Pascal programming language saw power in simplicity
Headshots of EECS assistant professors (from left) Nika Haghtalab, Preeya Khanna, Yakun Sophia Shao.

Three EECS professors win prized Sloan Research Fellowships

02/20/24 — Nika Haghtalab, Preeya Khanna, Yakun Sophia Shao among nine young faculty at UC Berkeley named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows
Photo of Robert Brodersen, co-founder of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center and EECS professor emeritus.

Robert Brodersen, co-founder of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, has died

02/06/24 — EECS professor emeritus and leader in RF and digital wireless communication design, Brodersen passed away Feb. 1
Polaroid-style photos from some of Berkeley Engineering

Berkeley Engineering’s 2023 in review

01/03/24 — Nine of our most impactful stories
Photo of Alexandre M. Bayen, Liao-Cho Innovation Endowed Chair and professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and of civil and environmental engineering, associate provost for the Berkeley Space Center, and director of CITRIS.

Alexandre Bayen named CITRIS director

12/19/23 — CITRIS: Bayen will provide strategic direction to advance a research, entrepreneurship and outreach agenda that aligns with CITRIS’s mission
Black and white photo showing Cal men

‘Boys in the Boat’ movie — and unique campus class — spark pride in Cal’s rowing history

12/05/23 — Mechanical engineering professor Oliver O’Reilly’s seminar is a "Tour de Cal Rowing"
Stack of Berkeley Engineer Fall 2023 magazines

Fall magazine is here

11/06/23 — Latest Berkeley Engineer features a renaissance in nuclear power, innovating the next generation of batteries, and unearthing a legacy
Sculptor Dana King poses with her bust of electrical engineering professor Joseph Gier.

Unearthing a legacy

11/06/23 — A new sculpture outside Blum Hall honors engineering professor Joseph Gier, the first tenured Black professor in the UC system.
People in hard hats shoveling dirt for the ceremonial groundbreaking

Engineering Center groundbreaking

11/06/23 — Berkeley Engineering celebrated a key milestone for its new Engineering Center in April.

New online master’s degree

11/06/23 — The MAS-E degree is designed for professionals seeking “knowledge upgrades” in STEM fields.
Dean Liu greets aerospace engineering student Nihal Gulati and his family in a classroom at Homecoming

Pioneering a flexible online degree

11/06/23 — Our newest professional master’s degree program meets an important educational need in the tech sector.

With flexibility comes possibility

11/06/23 — Funding for faculty fellowships will ignite the most important discoveries of the future.
Photo of Ashok Gadgil, wearing the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, shaking hands with President Biden.

Ashok Gadgil awarded National Medal of Technology and Innovation

10/24/23 — Distinguished CEE professor's technological innovations have profoundly benefited low-resource communities worldwide
Photo of Linsey Marr (M.S.

Berkeley Engineering alums among winners of MacArthur Foundation’s ‘genius award’

10/18/23 — UC Newsroom: Linsey Marr (M.S.'97, Ph.D.'02 CEE) and Lester Mackey (Ph.D.'12 CS) recognized for bringing outstanding originality, dedication and drive to their fields
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Berkeley Space Center at NASA Ames to become innovation hub for new aviation, space technology

10/16/23 — UC Berkeley will develop a 36-acre site to house companies, labs and students in heart of Silicon Valley; learn more about the Berkeley Space Center
Illustration of AI microchip on a motherboard circuit with shades of purple and pink.

$15.3M awarded to CA-Pacific-Northwest AI Hardware Hub

10/13/23 — UC Berkeley to co-lead Microelectronics Commons regional innovation hub funded by the U.S. Department of Defense
A view of McLaughlin flanked by red and orange leaves.

U.S. News ranks Berkeley Engineering undergrad programs No. 3

09/18/23 — Berkeley ties with Georgia Tech as nation’s top public program in engineering
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