Undergraduate Academics
Berkeley Invited by Australia and New Zealand to Advance Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Eugene Pang November 30, 2016 How do you become a top entrepreneur? This will steer you in the right direction.Posted by Breakfast on Thursday, November 17, 2016 Sutardja Center Chief Scientist Ikhlaq Sidhu was invited to keynote the national Growing Entrepreneurs Summit in New Zealand where he met with members of government and academia to…
Read MoreIkhlaq Sidhu To Offer New IEOR Course Titled Data-X
Starting in Spring 2017, Ikhlaq Sidhu will offer a new special topics course named Data-X. The course supports the IEOR department’s focus in data-driven systems and analytics; and it covers the tools and skills that are being used to reinvent today’s applications and enterprises. Data-X: A Course on Data, Systems and Signals is a technical course…
Read MoreIkhlaq Sidhu joins Dave McClure to speak on global innovation in Qatar
Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu has been invited by the Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP)to speak in their first ever QSTP technovate series. Professor Sidhu will be speaking with Dave McClure this Tuesday, October 11. Sidhu and McClure will kick off the QSTP technovate series to inspire future innovators in the global tech community at a session titled “Innovation Going Global.” This event…
Read MoreIkhlaq Sidhu to join Faculty Advisory Committee at Lawrence Hall of Science
Sutardja Center Founding Director and Chief Scientist Prof. Ikhlaq Sidhu has been invited to join the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Lawrence Hall of Science. Prof. Sidhu was nominated by the Advisory Council’s Chair, Don Proctor to join. The goal of the Faculty Advisory Committee will be to provide insight, expertise, and advice to the Hall’s Director and…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR To Help Educate The Next Generation Of Tech Leaders And Entrepreneurs
Berkeley Industrial Engineering & Operations Research will be a core major in a program launched by UC Berkeley to help educate future technology leaders and entrepreneurs. Undergraduates applying for admission for Fall 2017 can now apply to the Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology program, a dual-degree program in which graduates will earn B.S. degrees from both the top-ranked Berkeley College of…
Read MoreBerkeley Team Wins Geisinger Health Collider
The Sutardja Center is pleased to announce that Team Outliers (Rebecca Barter and Shamindra Shrotriya) have won the Geisinger Health Collider. Team Outliers competed against four other teams: three teams from Goethe University in Germany and one from Stanford. Rebecca is a PhD student in the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley (advised by Professor Bin Yu and Professor Jasjeet…
Read MoreThe Sutardja Center at CalDay: Discovering Entrepreneurship at Berkeley
CalDay is the perfect opportunity for potential new undergraduate students to get to know one of the most prestigious universities on the planet. This coming Saturday, April 16th, high school seniors, their families, and the already Cal-bound community will be participating in a series of events, exhibitions and lecture series that intend to depict what is…
Read MoreSpring 2016 Engineering Commencement Announcement
The UC Berkeley College of Engineering has announced that the spring 2016 commencement ceremony will take place on Monday, May 16. The undergraduate ceremony will start at 9 a.m. and the masters and Ph.D. ceremonies will begin at 2 p.m. Online registration for graduates begins today, Thursday, February 11: engineering.berkeley.edu/commencement. College of Engineering students completing degree requirements for the summer and fall 2015,…
Read MoreBen Horowitz Talks Honesty, Failure, and Secrets
Be honest with yourself and others (i.e. don’t just say what you think others want to hear). Work hard on a problem to reveal its secrets. Failure is an essential part of the innovation process — but make only new mistakes. This is the advice that businessman and investor Ben Horowitz shared with students last…
Read MoreProf. Ikhlaq Sidhu to Help Develop Chile’s New Engineering Economy
Prof. Ikhlaq Sidhu to Help Develop Chile’s New Engineering Economy Keith McAleer January 4, 2016 Prof. Ikhlaq Sidhu of IEOR and Chief Scientist/Founding Director of the Sutardja Center has been invited to serve on International Advisory Board (IAB) of the Clover Engineering 2030 Project to develop the New Engineering Economy of Chile. The board consists…
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