On Tuesday, May 19, 2020, the UC Berkeley College of Engineering hosted a virtual Celebration of Graduates in lieu of the traditional in-person ceremony due to the shelter-in-place restrictions.Scroll through the list of graduates or search for specifi…
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Five tips for effective remote teaming
MEng faculty share their best tips on how leaders can facilitate an effective transition to remote teamwork.On the left, image by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash. On the right, the five panelists during the webinar.Shortly after the shelter-i…
Q&A with the Capstone winners of 2020 Most Innovative Project
https://medium.com/media/f781996162ceec1c3596761d74aec210/hrefThe Fung Institute’s Most Innovative Project Award is awarded to the Capstone team that most effectively demonstrates the relevance of the problem they are trying to solve, the originality o…
Fellipe Marcellino awarded 2020 Intellectual Technical Contribution Award
Each year, Master of Engineering students nominate their peers and vote for the candidate who has contributed the most to the program in technical depth. This year, Fellipe Marcellino, MEng ’20 (IEOR), was recognized for that honor for his demonstrated…
Francesco Piccoli wins 2020 Intellectual Leadership Contribution Award
Each year, Master of Engineering students nominate their peers and vote for the candidate who has contributed the most to the program in leadership. This year, Francesco Piccoli, MEng ’20 (IEOR), was recognized for that honor for his demonstrated leade…
Pierre-Habté Nouvellon, MEng ’18 (IEOR), shares his entrepreneurial journey
On how he went from the classroom to founding the new content creator platform Snipfeed in three years.Pierre-Habté Nouvellon joined the MEng program in Fall 2017, studying Industrial Engineering & Operations Research. He arrived at UC Berkeley wit…
Fung Institute responds to COVID-19
How various members of the Fung Institute community take initiative to support COVID-19 responseImage created by Vanessa Santos. Submitted for United Nations Global Call Out To Creatives — help stop the spread of COVID-19As the COVID-19 has grown to be…
Berkeley MEng Class of 2020 Capstone Award Winners
May 2020Each year, the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership and the UC Berkeley Master of Engineering program awards capstone teams for their year-long achievements and research innovations.This year, the awards include the Fung Institute Mission …
Tarek Zohdi receives prestigious Humboldt Research Prize in the area of Mechanics
May 2020Professor Tarek Zohdi has received the prestigious Humboldt-Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Prize). The prize, given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of the German Government, recognizes renowned researchers whose “fundamental discov…
Letter to the MEng Class of 2021 from a Berkeley alumnus and engineering leadership faculty
Hello 2020–21 MEng Class,First of all, congratulations on your admission to the MEng program and welcome to the College of Engineering and the University of California, Berkeley. Being a graduate of the #1 public university in the world myself and a fa…
