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UC Berkeley College of Engineering

January 28, 2023

Coordinates: 37°52′25.78″N 122°15′32.57″W / 37.8738278°N 122.2590472°W / 37.8738278; -122.2590472

The University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering, branded as Berkeley Engineering, is the engineering wing of the University of California, Berkeley, a public research university in Berkeley, California.

University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering
McLaughlin Hall, administration building of the College of Engineering
TypePublic professional school
Established1931; 92 years ago (1931)
Parent institution
University of California, Berkeley
DeanTsu-Jae King Liu
Academic staff
249 (Spring 2022)[1]
Undergraduates4041 (Spring 2022)[1]
Postgraduates2,790 (Spring 2022)[1]
Location
Berkeley
,
California
,
U.S.
Websiteengineering.berkeley.edu

Established in 1931, the college is considered one of the most prestigious and selective engineering schools in the world, ranked third by U.S. News & World Report and with an undergraduate acceptance rate of 7.6%.[1][2] Berkeley Engineering is particularly well known for producing many successful entrepreneurs; among its alumni are co-founders and CEOs of some of the largest companies in the world, including Apple, Boeing, Google, Intel, and Tesla.

The college is currently situated in fourteen buildings on the northeast side of the main campus and also operates the 150-acre (61 ha) Richmond Field Station. Together with the Haas School of Business, the college confers joint degrees and advises the university's resident startup incubator, Berkeley SkyDeck.

Departments

The College of Letters and Science also offers a Bachelor of Arts in computer science, which requires many of the same courses as the College of Engineering's Bachelor of Science in EECS, but has different admissions and graduation criteria. Berkeley's chemical engineering department is under the College of Chemistry.

Students

There are approximately 3,200 undergraduates in the College of Engineering, representing all departments. Undergraduate admissions to the College of Engineering is the most selective in the university as a whole. For the 2016-2017 application cycle, the acceptance rate has continued to stay at a low 6.4%, largely a result of increased nonresident interest.[1] The campus as a whole had a 17.5% acceptance rate that year.[3] Applicants apply directly to one of the departments and enter as declared majors within their department. It is also possible to apply as Engineering Undeclared and enter the college; major declaration is required at the end of sophomore year.[4] Once within the college, it is possible to change majors with the approval of Engineering Student Services. It is extremely difficult for undergraduates in other colleges at UC Berkeley to change college into Engineering, as they can only be admitted if a current engineering undergraduate drops.[5] The College of Engineering accepts junior transfer applications for those who have completed at least 60 semester units at another college or university. Preference is given to students at California Community Colleges. Only 9.2% of the over 2,300 junior transfer applicants were admitted for the 2015–16 academic year.[6] Dean Shankar Sastry has stated that the disparity between the college's and the university's acceptance rates is due to the university's failure to respond to the rise in demand for engineering degrees.[7]

85% of undergraduates admitted to the college graduate from the college, and 91% graduate from some college at UC Berkeley.[8] The college has a 4-year graduation policy, with extra semesters approved only in certain cases. Engineering Student Services provides academic advising, peer tutoring, and career services to engineering students. Various student organizations are run in conjunction with the college, including Pioneers in Engineering, Hackers @ Berkeley, Berkeley Engineers and Mentors, and the Open Computing Facility. Many students belong to the student chapters of their corresponding professional organizations (e.g. the American Nuclear Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, or Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).[9]

Graduate admissions in the College of Engineering is administered by department. In Fall 2015, there were 492.5 master's and 1,337 doctorate students in the college.[10]

The college's enrollment is approximately 26% women.[1] Although the proportion of women has increased over time, issues of gender disparity in the college remain. According to a 2011 survey, female engineers reported a high number of instances of passive harassment, discrimination, and judgment.[11] The college's administration has taken steps to prevent this sexism.[12] The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is one of the student groups representing women in the college.

Research units

All research facilities are managed by one of five Organized Research Units (ORUs):

  • Earthquake Engineering Research Center - research and public safety programs against the destructive effects of earthquakes
  • Electronics Research Laboratory - the largest ORU; advanced research in novel areas within seven different university departments, organized into five main divisions:
    1. Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center
    2. Berkeley Wireless Research Center
    3. Berkeley Northside Research Group
    4. Micro Systems Group
  • Engineering Systems Research Center - focuses on manufacturing, mechatronics, and microelectro mechanical systems (MEMS)
  • Institute for Environmental Science and Engineering - focuses on applying basic research to current and future environmental problems
  • Institute of Transportation Studies - sponsors research in transportation planning, policy analysis, environmental concerns and transportation system performance

Major research centers and programs

Notable projects

Notable faculty

Further information: Category:UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty

Notable alumni

Further information: Category:UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni

Student organizations

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f UC Berkeley College of Engineering (2022-01-28). "Facts and figures". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Berkeley Engineering Undergraduate Admissions - Prospective freshman FAQs: How many students are admitted into engineering?". Berkeley Engineering. from the original on 2022-06-13.
  3. ^ "UC Berkeley freshman admission profile". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  4. ^ "UC Berkeley Undeclared Information". University of California, Berkeley. 2014-06-12. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  5. ^ UC Berkeley College of Engineering. "Change of College (into COE)". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  6. ^ UC Berkeley College of Engineering (2014-06-16). "Prospective Transfer FAQ". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  7. ^ Shahani, Aarti (19 July 2013). "University of California Not Producing Enough Engineers, Cal Dean Charges". KQED. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  8. ^ UC Berkeley College of Engineering. "Prospective Freshmen FAQ". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  9. ^ UC Berkeley College of Engineering. "Engineering Student Organizations & Competition Teams". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  10. ^ UC Berkeley Graduate Division. "Berkeley Graduate Profile". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  11. ^ Afzal, Afsana (13 November 2012). "Female students still struggle to find foothold in engineering, computer science". The Daily Californian. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  12. ^ Vincent, Betsy (7 November 2011). "Campus works to improve atmosphere for women in College of Engineering". The Daily Californian. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  13. ^ "Jacobs Institute Homepage". Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
  14. ^ "Index | Berkeley Institute of Design". bid.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  15. ^ "Who's the Michael Jordan of computer science? New tool ranks researchers' influence |". bid.berkeley.edu. 2016-04-19. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
  16. ^ "Teams and organizations". 2014-06-20.
  17. ^ "oSTEM @ UC Berkeley". berkeley.ostem.org. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  18. ^ "UC Berkeley @ Design for America". designforamerica.com. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  19. ^ "Black Engineering and Science Student Association". ucberkeleybessa.com. Retrieved 2021-10-01.
  20. ^ rab.berkeley.edu
  21. ^ ml.berkeley.edu
  22. ^ . mobiledevsberkeley.org. Archived from the original on 2015-09-18.

External links

  • Official website

January 28, 2023
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Coordinates 37 52 25 78 N 122 15 32 57 W 37 8738278 N 122 2590472 W 37 8738278 122 2590472 The University of California Berkeley College of Engineering branded as Berkeley Engineering is the engineering wing of the University of California Berkeley a public research university in Berkeley California University of California Berkeley College of EngineeringMcLaughlin Hall administration building of the College of EngineeringTypePublic professional schoolEstablished1931 92 years ago 1931 Parent institutionUniversity of California BerkeleyDeanTsu Jae King LiuAcademic staff249 Spring 2022 1 Undergraduates4041 Spring 2022 1 Postgraduates2 790 Spring 2022 1 LocationBerkeley California U S Websiteengineering wbr berkeley wbr eduEstablished in 1931 the college is considered one of the most prestigious and selective engineering schools in the world ranked third by U S News amp World Report and with an undergraduate acceptance rate of 7 6 1 2 Berkeley Engineering is particularly well known for producing many successful entrepreneurs among its alumni are co founders and CEOs of some of the largest companies in the world including Apple Boeing Google Intel and Tesla The college is currently situated in fourteen buildings on the northeast side of the main campus and also operates the 150 acre 61 ha Richmond Field Station Together with the Haas School of Business the college confers joint degrees and advises the university s resident startup incubator Berkeley SkyDeck Contents 1 Departments 2 Students 3 Research units 3 1 Major research centers and programs 4 Notable projects 5 Notable faculty 6 Notable alumni 7 Student organizations 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksDepartments EditAerospace Engineering Bioengineering BioE Civil and Environmental Engineering CEE Development Engineering DevEng Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences EECS Engineering Science Energy Engineering Engineering Mathematics and Statistics EMS Engineering Physics Environmental Engineering Science EES Industrial Engineering and Operations Research IEOR Materials Science and Engineering MSE Mechanical Engineering ME Nuclear Engineering NE The College of Letters and Science also offers a Bachelor of Arts in computer science which requires many of the same courses as the College of Engineering s Bachelor of Science in EECS but has different admissions and graduation criteria Berkeley s chemical engineering department is under the College of Chemistry Students EditThere are approximately 3 200 undergraduates in the College of Engineering representing all departments Undergraduate admissions to the College of Engineering is the most selective in the university as a whole For the 2016 2017 application cycle the acceptance rate has continued to stay at a low 6 4 largely a result of increased nonresident interest 1 The campus as a whole had a 17 5 acceptance rate that year 3 Applicants apply directly to one of the departments and enter as declared majors within their department It is also possible to apply as Engineering Undeclared and enter the college major declaration is required at the end of sophomore year 4 Once within the college it is possible to change majors with the approval of Engineering Student Services It is extremely difficult for undergraduates in other colleges at UC Berkeley to change college into Engineering as they can only be admitted if a current engineering undergraduate drops 5 The College of Engineering accepts junior transfer applications for those who have completed at least 60 semester units at another college or university Preference is given to students at California Community Colleges Only 9 2 of the over 2 300 junior transfer applicants were admitted for the 2015 16 academic year 6 Dean Shankar Sastry has stated that the disparity between the college s and the university s acceptance rates is due to the university s failure to respond to the rise in demand for engineering degrees 7 85 of undergraduates admitted to the college graduate from the college and 91 graduate from some college at UC Berkeley 8 The college has a 4 year graduation policy with extra semesters approved only in certain cases Engineering Student Services provides academic advising peer tutoring and career services to engineering students Various student organizations are run in conjunction with the college including Pioneers in Engineering Hackers Berkeley Berkeley Engineers and Mentors and the Open Computing Facility Many students belong to the student chapters of their corresponding professional organizations e g the American Nuclear Society American Society of Civil Engineers or Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 9 Graduate admissions in the College of Engineering is administered by department In Fall 2015 there were 492 5 master s and 1 337 doctorate students in the college 10 The college s enrollment is approximately 26 women 1 Although the proportion of women has increased over time issues of gender disparity in the college remain According to a 2011 survey female engineers reported a high number of instances of passive harassment discrimination and judgment 11 The college s administration has taken steps to prevent this sexism 12 The Society of Women Engineers SWE is one of the student groups representing women in the college Research units EditAll research facilities are managed by one of five Organized Research Units ORUs Earthquake Engineering Research Center research and public safety programs against the destructive effects of earthquakes Electronics Research Laboratory the largest ORU advanced research in novel areas within seven different university departments organized into five main divisions Berkeley Sensor amp Actuator Center Berkeley Wireless Research Center Berkeley Northside Research Group Micro Systems Group Engineering Systems Research Center focuses on manufacturing mechatronics and microelectro mechanical systems MEMS Institute for Environmental Science and Engineering focuses on applying basic research to current and future environmental problems Institute of Transportation Studies sponsors research in transportation planning policy analysis environmental concerns and transportation system performanceMajor research centers and programs Edit Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation 13 Berkeley Institute of Design 14 Berkeley Multimedia Research Center Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society CITRIS Center for Intelligent Systems developing a unified theoretical foundation for intelligent systems Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing Digital Library Project Hearst Memorial Mining Building UCSF Berkeley Ergonomics Program International Computer Science Institute basic research institute focusing on Internet architecture speech and language processing artificial intelligence and cognitive and theoretical computer science Intel Research Laboratory Berkeley Integrated Materials Laboratory facilities for research in nano structure growth processing and characterization Microfabrication Laboratory The Millennium Project developing a hierarchical campus wide cluster of clusters to support advanced computational applications Nokia Research Center Berkeley Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center Partners for Advanced Transit amp Highways researching ways to improve the operation of California s state highway system Power Systems Engineering Research CenterNotable projects EditBSD Berkeley Software Distribution Berkeley Astrophysical CFD Results Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton Multigate device FinFET RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks SPICE Simulation Program with Integrated Circuits Emphasis RISC V An open Reduced Instruction Set Computing Instruction set architecture Notable faculty EditFurther information Category UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty Richard Karp Turing Laureate for contributions to the field of algorithms William Kahan Turing Laureate for fundamental contributions to numerical analysis Stuart Russell author of Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach Ruzena Bajcsy leader in computer vision and robotics Michael I Jordan most influential computer scientist in the world in 2016 according to Semantic Scholar 15 Lotfi Zadeh founder of fuzzy mathematics Jitendra Malik leader in computer vision and graphics David Patterson Turing Laureate for contributions to computer architecture founder of reduced instruction set computing RISC Ken Goldberg leader in robotics Christos Papadimitriou leader in complexity theory Eli Yablonovitch founder of the field of photonic crystals Scott Shenker leader in networking research Carlo H Sequin pioneer in processor design Claire J Tomlin leader in hybrid systems and control theory S Shankar Sastry Dean and leader in robotics and control theory Homayoon Kazerooni leader in robotics Alice Agogino leader in engineering diversity Paul K Wright leader in rapid prototyping Ashok Gadgil environmental policy leader Luke Pyungse Lee pioneer in bionanophotonics and integrated molecular diagnostics systems Jay Keasling pioneer in synthetic biology Peidong Yang leader in nanomaterials Ramamoorthy Ramesh leader in ferroelectric materials Paul Alivisatos authority on the synthesis of nanocrystalsNotable alumni EditFurther information Category UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni Steve Wozniak co founder of Apple Inc B S 1986 Eric Schmidt Executive Chairman and former CEO of Google M S 1975 PhD 1982 Marc Tarpenning co founder of Tesla Inc B S 1985 Douglas Engelbart founder of the field of human computer interaction inventor of the computer mouse M S 1953 PhD 1955 Rube Goldberg known for Rube Goldberg machine B S 1904 Paul E Jacobs Executive Chairman of Qualcomm B S 1984 M S 1986 PhD 1989 Peter Norvig Director of Research at Google co author of Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach PhD 1985 Andrew Ng co founder and Executive Chairman at Coursera chief scientist at Baidu PhD 2002 Craig Federighi Senior vice president of Software Engineering at Apple Inc B S 1991 M S CS 1993 Eleven Turing Laureate Alumni most of any school Barbara Liskov Butler Lampson Charles P Thacker Dana Scott Douglas Engelbart Jim Gray Ken Thompson Leonard Adleman Niklaus Wirth Shafi Goldwasser Silvio MicaliStudent organizations EditEta Kappa Nu HKN Pioneers in Engineering 16 Out in Science Technology Engineering Mathematics 17 Design for America 18 Society of Women Engineers BESSA 19 Robotics Berkeley 20 Machine Learning Berkeley 21 Mobile Developers of Berkeley 22 See also EditEngineering colleges in California List of engineering programs in the California State University List of University of California Berkeley facultyReferences Edit a b c d e f UC Berkeley College of Engineering 2022 01 28 Facts and figures University of California Berkeley Retrieved 28 January 2022 Berkeley Engineering Undergraduate Admissions Prospective freshman FAQs How many students are admitted into engineering Berkeley Engineering Archived from the original on 2022 06 13 UC Berkeley freshman admission profile University of California Berkeley Retrieved 3 March 2017 UC Berkeley Undeclared Information University of California Berkeley 2014 06 12 Retrieved 17 October 2016 UC Berkeley College of Engineering Change of College into COE University of California Berkeley Retrieved 26 December 2013 UC Berkeley College of Engineering 2014 06 16 Prospective Transfer FAQ University of California Berkeley Retrieved 20 March 2016 Shahani Aarti 19 July 2013 University of California Not Producing Enough Engineers Cal Dean Charges KQED Retrieved 26 December 2013 UC Berkeley College of Engineering Prospective Freshmen FAQ University of California Berkeley Retrieved 26 December 2013 UC Berkeley College of Engineering Engineering Student Organizations amp Competition Teams University of California Berkeley Retrieved 26 December 2013 UC Berkeley Graduate Division Berkeley Graduate Profile University of California Berkeley Retrieved 20 March 2016 Afzal Afsana 13 November 2012 Female students still struggle to find foothold in engineering computer science The Daily Californian Retrieved 26 December 2013 Vincent Betsy 7 November 2011 Campus works to improve atmosphere for women in College of Engineering The Daily Californian Retrieved 26 December 2013 Jacobs Institute Homepage Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Retrieved 2019 06 28 Index Berkeley Institute of Design bid berkeley edu Retrieved 2015 11 25 Who s the Michael Jordan of computer science New tool ranks researchers influence bid berkeley edu 2016 04 19 Retrieved 2017 03 06 Teams and organizations 2014 06 20 oSTEM UC Berkeley berkeley ostem org Retrieved 2015 11 25 UC Berkeley Design for America designforamerica com Retrieved 2015 11 25 Black Engineering and Science Student Association ucberkeleybessa com Retrieved 2021 10 01 rab berkeley edu ml berkeley edu Mobile Developers of Berkeley Home mobiledevsberkeley org Archived from the original on 2015 09 18 External links EditOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title UC Berkeley College of Engineering amp oldid 1126626895, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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