What It Takes to Grow Crystals in Space

ME Alum Debbie G. Senesky builds materials that can work on Venus.

Entrepreneurship at Berkeley

Started at UC Berkeley, Squishy Robotics provides lifesaving and cost-saving information in real time through rapidly deployable mobile sensor robots. As a…

Ese Asoro awarded the 2023–24 Murray Slater Foundation fellowship

Ese Asoro, MEng ’24 (ME) is the latest recipient of funding from the Murray Slater Foundation, an award he says…

ME Assistant Professor Grace Gu Selected as Inaugural Recipient of the LLNL Early Career UC Faculty Initiative

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced that Grace Gu, a faculty member in mechanical engineering at the University of California…

‘Shoulders to stand on’: Statue of campus’ first Black professor unveiled

In 1952, Joseph Thomas Gier became the first tenured Black professor in the University of California system and the second…

‘Reaching new heights’: STAR launches rockets, future careers

The first custom flight computer developed by Berkeley Space, Technologies and Rocketry, or STAR, will be tested this week.  Conor…

UC Berkeley’s Big Ideas Contest Builds Student-Led Social Innovations

Paige Balcom, the co-founder, co-CEO and CTO of Takataka Plastics, is changing Uganda — one plastic bottle at a time.  In…

UC Berkeley MEng Class of 2024 Full-Time Profile

Each year, the UC Berkeley Master of Engineering (MEng) program admits students from around the world who go on to…

U.S. News ranks Berkeley Mechanical Engineering undergrad program No. 3 in the nation

Berkeley Engineering continues to rank No. 3 in the top undergraduate engineering schools nationwide, according to U.S. News & World Report’s…

Berkeley engineers partner with Siemens Energy on $3.7M DOE project to explore direct air capture for carbon sequestration

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Siemens Energy, Inc., and partners Constellation Energy, UC Berkeley and Battelle a $3.7…