The Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership welcomes its class of 448 full-time Master of Engineering students.Photo: Keegan Houser/UC Berkeley Public AffairsEach year, the UC Berkeley Master of Engineering (MEng) program admits students from…
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Engineering Leadership Instructor Jim Morris on helping Berkeley MEng students “embrace the chaos”
How one instructor is teaching students to pull something from nothing, make the right product, and solve the unsolvableJim Morris was a product manager well before there was such a thing as product management because he saw something that others didn’…
Bill Zhou, MEng ’23 (CEE), gives “commuter student” a whole new meaning
On the ins and outs of transportation engineering and catching a plane to schoolBill Zhou graduated from UC Berkeley’s Master of Engineering program with a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering this past May. The catch? He lived in Los Angeles …
The Fung Institute welcomes John Robichaux as Executive Director
Fresh out of a position directing education at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, John Robichaux is ready to help shape the engineering leaders of the future as Executive Director of the Fung Institute. Throughout his more…
Berkeley MEng celebrates 433 graduating students
Photo credit: Berkeley Engineering“Why did the UC Berkeley student major in engineering?”“Because they wanted to build a time machine and enroll in a less stressful major.”This is the joke with which Coby Santos Lim, MEng ’23 (CEE), began his speech as…
Zhen Jiang, MEng ’23 (EECS): “By consistently growing and learning, I can make a meaningful impact.”
On enabling user autonomy, expanding beyond the coursework, and striving for continual improvementWith two degrees in hand, Zhen Jiang — also known as Victor — is ready to enter the working world. Originally from Shanghai, China, Zhen earned a bachelor…
Combining superlative AI research with Berkeley’s next unicorn
How UC Berkeley graduate Harrison Shaw is helping cultivate the next generation of engineering leadersShelton AI has created the world’s first complete private markets operating system that utilizes artificial intelligence to reshape the approach to pr…
Four-person ventilator wins 2022 FastTracking Founders Competition
Winning team files provisional patent for medical deviceIn 2021, a group of campus stakeholders launched a competition for the most patentable capstone idea (recently renamed to FastTracking Founders Program). Now put on by the Berkeley Office of Innov…
Callie Rhoades awarded 2022–23 Outstanding GSI Award in Engineering
The Graduate Division and Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) Teaching and Resource Center recently presented Callie Rhoades with the Outstanding GSI Award in Engineering. The Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award honors over 200 UC Berkeley GSIs…
A student’s perspective: The Power of Diversity and Inclusion for Engineering Leaders
April Yang on Berkeley MEng’s Spring Boot CampBy April Yang, MEng ’23 (IEOR/FinTech)The Power of Diversity and Inclusion for Engineering Leaders is one of the elective courses that UC Berkeley Master of Engineering students can take as part of their Sp…
