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ME Open Positions

The Department of Mechanical Engineering and the College of Engineering – Aerospace Engineering generating an applicant pool of qualified temporary instructors to teach regular and Summer Session courses, should an opening arise. The pool will remain open until June 25, 2023.

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Meet the New ME Staff Members

Meet the New ME Staff Members

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Mechanical Engineering Seminars

The Department of Mechanical Engineering regularly hosts seminars from academic and industry professionals. For more events that may be of interest, check out the campus-wide UC Berkeley Events calendar.

Stay tuned for future ME seminar announcements!

Coronavirus Resources

Coronavirus Resources

To help prepare for disruptions, please refer to our Coronavirus Resources page.

MicroKits Continue ME's Hands-On Learning Tradition

MicroKits Continue ME’s Hands-On Learning Tradition

When instruction suddenly switched from in-person to distance learning, ME faculty and staff worked together to plan, create, assemble, and distribute lab kits to students for their laboratory instruction.

Explore Our Research Areas

Biomechanical Engineering | Controls | Design | Dynamics | Energy Science & Tech | Fluids | Manufacturing | Materials | Mechanics | MEMS/Nano | Ocean

Fired Up for the Future

Fired Up for the Future

David Schaffer: Research that takes risks must be supported

David Schaffer: Research that takes risks must be supported

Lisa Anne Torres receives 2022 Outstanding GSI Award in Engineering

Lisa Anne Torres receives 2022 Outstanding GSI Award in Engineering

Innovative Early-Career Engineers Selected to Participate in The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2022 Symposium of the National Academy of Engineering

Innovative Early-Career Engineers Selected to Participate in The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2022 Symposium of the National Academy of Engineering

Oliver O’Reilly, Victoria Plaut selected as 2022-23 vice provosts

Oliver O’Reilly, Victoria Plaut selected as 2022-23 vice provosts

UC Berkeley advances cyber-physical systems research as part of $6 million NSF project

UC Berkeley advances cyber-physical systems research as part of $6 million NSF project

Parallel Journeys, Lasting Legacies

Parallel Journeys, Lasting Legacies

Patrick Lai, MEng ’19 (ME): “Product design is at the intersection of art and engineering.”

Patrick Lai, MEng ’19 (ME): “Product design is at the intersection of art and engineering.”

Oliver O’Reilly is Berkeley’s new vice provost for undergraduate education

Oliver O’Reilly is Berkeley’s new vice provost for undergraduate education

Berkeley Mechanical Engineering is one of the top ranked public mechanical engineering programs in the nation and is consistently ranked as one of the top mechanical engineering departments in the world. Our teaching and research laboratories are among the most active, innovative and productive worldwide. Our faculty and students come from highly diverse backgrounds and represent the best and brightest from all over the world.

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What is monkeypox and how worried should we be?

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Berkeley researchers have devised a practical way to keep data secure while training neural networks to have a faster, more secure approach to safeguarding private information, https://bit.ly/3PpcQ7E.

#EECS #AI #ComputerScience

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Awesome to see what the PREP and T-PREP students have done in three short weeks.

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ME Graduate Spotlight: Paige Balcom

ME Graduate Spotlight: Paige Balcom

Meet Paige Balcom, a graduate student in the Berkeley Energy and Multiphase Transport Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley.

Click to learn to more about Paige’s passion for engineering and her recent Lemelson-MIT Student Prize.


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New Faculty Spotlight: Alexis Kaminski

New Faculty Spotlight: Alexis Kaminski

The Department of Mechanical Engineering would like to introduce you to one of our newest faculty members: Assistant Professor Alexis Kaminski.

Professor Kaminski joined the department in the Spring of 2021. Click to learn more about Professor Kaminski and her research into geophysical and environmental fluid dynamics, focusing on waves, instabilities and turbulence in stratified flows – in many cases inspired by ocean observations.


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Graduate Admissions Update

Graduate Admissions Update
Pertaining to all Mechanical Engineering graduate degree programs, the GRE (General Test) is not required in the coming fall 2021 application period.

Mechanical Engineering Student Access Machine Shop

ME Student Machine Shop (Photo by Adam Lau / © UC Berkeley College of Engineering)

The Mechanical Engineering Student Access Machine Shop is available for students who will be working on projects and research related to our academic mission. First scheduling priority will be given to our supported undergraduate courses. In order to use the ME Student Shop, students must complete our training course. For more information, click to see our Shop Training page.

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