The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley seeks candidates for tenure-track faculty positions at the Assistant Professor level, and temporary instructors to teach regular and Summer Session courses.
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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
To help prepare for disruptions, please refer to our Coronavirus Resources page.
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.
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.
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
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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“Mechanical Engineering is a career which follows a never-setting sun.” – The Journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1963)
Graduate Admissions Update
Mechanical Engineering Student Access Machine Shop
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.