By Alex BeliaevOne of the distinguishing characteristics of MEng Capstone projects is the possible number of project stakeholders:Individual students who may want to leverage their Capstone experience to pivot professionallyAcademics who may rely on ME…
Author: Berkeley Master of Engineering
Nkiruka Menankiti: ‘I have the motivation to be the best that I can be’
Edited by Caroline OstermanThe Berkeley Master of Engineering is a rewarding and challenging one-year program that pushes engineers to innovate and grow both in leadership and technical depth. In May 2019, the program saw 330 students graduate, among t…
Advisor Feature: Douglas Hutchings, Squishy Robotics
Edited Ashley VillanuevaDouglas Hutchings, Lead Mechatronics Engineer at Squishy Robotics, received an honorable mention for the 2019 MEng Capstone Industry Mentorship Award at the 2019 Berkeley MEng Capstone Showcase. The award recognizes the Capstone…
Government-funded research increasingly fuels innovation
A quantitative analysis shows that almost a third of patents in the U.S. rely on federal research funding6/20/2019, by Linda VuTotal granted U.S. patents by U.S. inventors (blue bars), and subtotal that rely on federal research (orange bars) and patent…
Advisor Feature: Damien Thioulouse, Asurion
Edited Ashley VillanuevaDamien Thioulouse, Senior Data Scientist at Asurion, received an honorable mention for the 2019 MEng Capstone Industry Mentorship Award at the 2019 Berkeley MEng Capstone Showcase. The award recognizes the Capstone advisor who f…
MEng Faculty Capstone Mentorship Award: Matthew Sherburne
Edited by Ashley VillanuevaCapstone advisors play an integral role in the success of the Berkeley Master of Engineering (MEng) Capstone experience program. Dr. Matthew Sherburne from the Materials Science and Engineering department won the MEng Faculty…
Advisor Feature: Seth Hoedl, Post Road Foundation
Edited Ashley VillanuevaSeth Hoedl, Chief Operating & Science Officer at Post Road Foundation, received an honorable mention for the 2019 MEng Capstone Industry Mentorship Award at the 2019 Berkeley MEng Capstone Showcase. The award recognizes the …
Advisor Feature: Koushil Sreenath, Mechanical Engineering
Edited by Ashley Villanuevahttps://medium.com/media/f21ff549700098b3610f4ec061007fd8/hrefKoushil Sreenath, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley, received an honorable mention for the 2019 MEng Capstone Faculty Mentorship Award a…
Patrick Thelen: Building hope for Syrian refugees
By Caroline OstermanSyrian refugees learning how to safely operate woodworking tools, as part of the doin’ good pilot project in Lebanon.B efore he was an engineer, Patrick Thelen grew up building LEGO Technics with his dad in Germany. “I was always cu…
Advisor Feature: Kevin Feng, Beam Solutions
Edited by Ashley VillanuevaKevin Feng, Head of Data Science and Predictive Analytics at Beam Solutions, received an honorable mention for the 2019 MEng Capstone Industry Mentorship Award at the 2019 Berkeley MEng Capstone Showcase. The award recognizes…
