Partnerships
Research by Shen and collaborators suggest new ways cities can deal with ride-sharing issues and help taxi drivers survive
Smart Villages: Students Pitch to Chief Minister of Meghalaya
Students taking the Smart Villages Challenge Lab have been tasked with developing digital technologies and platforms to help impoverished Indian villages to utilize their natural resources and access global markets.…
Read MoreBerkeley Students Take on the National Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Conference
By Kelly Han and Nicholas Foo | September 16, 2019 A crucial component of academic and professional development is the exploration of knowledge and possibility. It can be learned in…
Read MoreHow heat waves can shut down power systems — Prof. Lavaei quoted in Bloomberg
Master of Engineering alum helps Syrian refugees create makerspaces to grow their skills
When Patrick Thelen (MEng IEOR ’17) was a kid, he loved building LEGO
Read MoreAlum Coleman Fung on the connection between mindfulness and engineering
On Saturday, June 29 and Sunday, June 30, 2019, the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership is hosting the What’s After Mindfulness? retreat at UC Berkeley. The bi-annual retreat will come to…
Read MoreNew machine learning technique may help prevent blindness for millions of people with diabetes
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common cause of vision loss among people with diabetes and a leading cause of blindness. Right now, there are an estimated 415 million people…
Read MoreUC researchers show how better placement of defibrillators can save lives
Sudden cardiac arrest, which occurs when the heart unexpectedly stops beating, kills more than 400,000 people in the U.S. and Canada every year. Death happens within minutes if not treated,…
Read MoreStudent Perspective: From Graduate Student to Data Scientist
Thinking about becoming a data scientist? Read the perspective from alum Joel Prince Varghese (MEng ’16) about his experience with our master of engineering program and how he learned the skills necessary to become a…
Read MoreBerkeley Engineers Selected to Modernize the Grid
The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has just selected eighteen teams, including two with UC Berkeley Engineering researchers, to participate in the new Grid Optimization (GO) Competition. The UC Berkeley team…
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