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…
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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…
Mia Cooper receives 2020 Outstanding GSI Award in Engineering
By Lauren LeungMia Cooper, recipient of the Outstanding GSI Award in Engineering.The Graduate Division and Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) Teaching and Resource Center recently presented Mia Cooper with the Outstanding GSI Award in Engineering. The O…
2020 Eaton-Hachigian Fellowship Recipients
By Lauren LeungThe College of Engineering and the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019–20 Eaton-Hachigian Fellowships, awarded this year to two students pursuing Master of Engineering degrees at U…
Op-ed: Blowing away idealizations about wind and solar energy
By Emilien Etchevers, MEng ’20 (IEOR)Left: Photo by Angie Warren on Unsplash // Right: Photo by Cameron Venti on UnsplashWildfires, heat waves, rising sea levels, decrease in crop yield… The potentially disastrous effects of climate change are now very…
Fung Institute Industry Partner: Asurion, LLC
Insights from Asurion’s Chief Data Scientist Sundar Kuppuswamy and the importance of continuous learning.Last fall, Asurion became a founding partner of the Fung Institute Industry Partnership Program (FIIPP),to foster meaningful industry collaboration…
Op-ed: The role of the FDA in the future of medtech innovation
By Kian Talaei, MEng ’20 (IEOR)Have you ever wondered how Theranos and its “revolutionary” technology slid past FDA regulations? New technology in general poses difficulties for regulators. With advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine lear…
Op-ed: Let’s dispel the myths about nuclear energy
By Tatiana Siaraferas, MEng ’20 (NE)The 2019 HBO mini-series, Chernobyl, managed to do two major things: first, to make the Chernobyl nuclear accident known to a vast majority of people and depict some of the technical mistakes of the event from a Holl…
