Leadership for Engineers / Berkeley Engineering’s Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership serves engineers and scientists seeking professional or executive careers, with an emphasis on industry applications for emerging technologies. Eligible individuals may choose among a range of undergraduate, graduate and executive programs that combine leadership coursework with intensive study in an engineering specialization.
Programs
Learn essential leadership skills while deepening your technical foundation with this one-year program, offering all the rigor you expect from a top-three engineering graduate school in an intensive applied course of study.
A program designed for top-performing engineers, scientists and engineering managers seeking to develop professional and leadership skills to contribute to their companies at a higher level.
Through teaching, programs, and research, the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology equips engineers, scientists and students with the skills to lead, innovate, and commercialize technology in the global economy.
Berkeley's Engineering Leadership Professional Program has been a big success, drawing 45 participants last year and 48 this year. "This is a hidden gem of a program," says Ikhlaq Sidhu, the curriculum designer and academic director of the program.
Ikhlaq Sidhu, the founder and director of UC Berkeley's Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, has been working to address the need to develop business skills within the school's engineering students. The 3Com Corp. engineer-turned-professor last month joined early-stage VC firm Onset Ventures as a venture adviser.
The recent launch of the Skydeck startup incubator heralds a dynamic campus effort to foster a new generation of young entrepreneurs and forge a hotbed of collaborative innovation and enterprise in the East Bay.
Features
Fung Institute researchers investigate Solyndra's pathway from solar energy innovation to its August 2011 bankruptcy declaration. The Solyndra case is particularly compelling, says Fung Institute chief scientist Ikhlaq Sidhu, because "it captures the confluence of technology, business models, energy policy and the changing landscape in global competition."