On entrepreneurship, immigration, and spearheading the skills-first future of hiringShane Battier did nothing exceptional. As a basketball player, his stats were unremarkable; yet, every time he stepped foot on the court, his opponents were outplayed.S…
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Engineering Leadership Instructor Sarah Holliman on helping Berkeley MEng students find their voice
The daughter of a college administrator, Sarah Holliman grew up on a college campus. Though she was destined for teaching and thought she would one day earn a PhD, she ended up in banking right out of college, a career that — while valuable in building…
2023-24 Eaton-Hachigian Fellowship Recipients
The College of Engineering and the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023–2024 Eaton-Hachigian Fellowships, awarded this year to two students pursuing Master of Engineering degrees at UC Berkeley.Se…
Engineering Leadership Instructor Janel Wellborn: “I’m learning just as much as they are.”
Janel Wellborn has spent the past six years running her own consulting company. With each new client, Janel makes it her mission to embed herself within their organization, a tactic she says is the most effective way to transform a company’s culture. B…
Ese Asoro awarded the 2023–24 Murray Slater Foundation fellowship
“I am embarking on this journey with excitement.”Ese Asoro, MEng ’24 (ME) is the latest recipient of funding from the Murray Slater Foundation, an award he says means “the world” to him. Expressing his gratitude, Ese added while the award came as a sur…
UC Berkeley MEng Class of 2024 Full-Time Profile
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…
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…