Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley

OVERVIEW

The Mechanical Engineering Department is located in Etcheverry Hall, on the Berkeley campus. The campus is centered in the San Francisco Bay Area, and next door to Silicon Valley. This geographical location places our faculty, staff, and students in one of the most exciting areas in the world for mechanical engineering at the beginning of the 21st century. The Department’s research projects are primarily funded by the National Science Foundation, governmental agencies, and the many industries located around Berkeley and the Silicon Valley. In this dynamic environment our students find themselves inundated with job offers and exciting career opportunities throughout the United States, as well as worldwide.

With the turn of the century, the field of mechanical engineering enters a particularly vital era. The "information age," born in the last century, has already affected every aspect of our discipline and, without a doubt, revolutionized the field of mechanical engineeering.

At the beginning of the 20th century, mechanical engineers designed and worked with large rotating machines. Today, our work spans all areas of energy production and transfer, as well as the vast area of system design and control. A survey of our faculty's current research projects is a voyage through a world complex enough to include robotics, miniaturization, automated manufacturing, automated highway systems, biomaterials, computer mechanics, improved efficiency internal combustion engines, and the dynamics and control of both ground vehicles and aircraft.

FACULTY HONORS

National Academy of Engineering

Alice M. Agogino
David B. Bogy
Chieh-Su Hsu, Professor Emeritus
George Leitmann, Professor Emeritus
C. D. Mote Jr., Professor Emeritus
Albert P. Pisano, ME/EECS
Robert F. Sawyer, Class of 1935 Professor of Energy Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School
Paul K. Wright
Xiang Zhang

Deceased
Iain Finnie
Werner Goldsmith
Paul M. Naghdi
Antoni K. Oppenheim
Chang-Lin Tien

NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
(formerly the NSF and Presidential Young Investigator Awards)

Alice M. Agogino
Van P. Carey
Roberto Horowitz
Tony Keaveny
Kyriakos Komvopoulos
Dennis K. Lieu
Liwei Lin
Fai Ma
Sara McMains
Andrew Packard
Albert P. Pisano
Lisa Pruitt
Lydia Sohn
Benson H. Tongue

Endowed Chairs and Professorships
(note: some chair and professorship names are abbreviated here)

Agogino, Alice		Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair in Mechanical Engineering
Berger, Stanley A.		Montford G. Cook Chair in College of Engineering
Bogy, David B.		Williams S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Professorship in Engineering
Carey, Van P		A. Richard Newton Chair in Engineering
Dornfeld, David A.		The Will C. Hall Family Chair in Engineering
Fernandez-Pello, Carlos		Almy C. Maynard and Agnes Offield Maynard Endowed Chair
Hedrick, J. Karl		James Marshall Wells Academic Chair in Mechanical Engineering
Horowitz, Roberto		James Fife Endowed Chair
Pisano, Albert P.		FANUC Chair in Mechanical Systems
Poolla, Kameshwar		Cadence Design Systems Distinguished Professor
Pruitt, Lisa A.		Lawrence Talbot Chair in Engineering
Rubinsky, Boris		Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professorship in Bioengineering
Tomizuka, Masayoshi		Cheryl and John Neerhout Distinguished Professorship
Wright, Paul		A. Martin Berlin Chair in Mechanical Engineering
Zhang, Xiang		Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chair

Distinguished Teaching Awards

Stanley A. Berger
Dennis K. Lieu
C. D. Mote Jr.
Oliver O'Reilly
Andrew K. Packard
Kameshwar Poolla
Frederick S. Sherman
Chang Lin Tien
Robert F. Steidel

 

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS

Controls
D. M. Auslander, F. Borrelli, J. K. Hedrick, R. Horowitz, H. Kazerooni, A. Packard, K. Poolla and M. Tomizuka.

Dynamics
F. Ma, A. E. Mansour, O. M. O'Reilly, B. H. Tongue, and A. J. Szeri;
closely related to dynamics: D. B. Bogy, J. Casey, J. K. Hedrick, R. Horowitz, H. Kazerooni, and M. Tomizuka.

Design
A. M. Agogino, C. K. H. Dharan, D. A. Dornfeld, H. Kazerooni, K. Komvopoulos, D. K. Lieu, L. Lin, S. McMains, A. P. Pisano, L. Pruitt, P. K. Wright and Xiang Zhang.

Energy Science and Technology
J.-Y. Chen, R. Dibble, C. Fernandez-Pello and M. Frenklach.

Fluid Mechanics
S. A. Berger, P. S. Marcus, S. J. Morris, O. Savas, A. J. Szeri, and R. W. Yeung.

Materials
V. P. Carey, C. K. H. Dharan, D. Dornfeld, G. C. Johnson, K. Komvopoulos, L. Pruitt, P. Wright and Xiang Zhang.

Mechanics
D. B. Bogy, J. Casey, G. C. Johnson, P. Papadopoulos, D. J. Steigmann and T. Zohdi.

MEMS/NANO
C. Fernandez-Pello, Ralph Greif, Costas Grigoropoulos, R. Horowitz, G. C. Johnson, K. Komvopolous, D. Liepmann, L. Lin, A. P. Pisano, Lydia Sohn and Xiang Zhang.

Ocean Engineering
H. Dharan, J. K. Hedrick, H. Kazerooni, O. Savas, A. Mansour, O. Savas, and R. W. Yeung.

Thermal Sciences
V. P. Carey, J. Y. Chen, R. Dibble, C. Fernandez-Pello, M. Frenklach, R. Greif, C. Grigoropoulos, B. Rubinsky and Xiang Zhang