UC Berkeley College of Engineering
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
. The College of Engineering is ranked second in the nation, after MIT, according to the 2010 U.S. News & World Report rankings; It houses one of the most highly regarded and prestigious engineering programs in the world. The college was established in 1931 from a merger of the Colleges of Mechanics and the College of Civil Engineering. The College of Mining was integrated into the college in 1942. The college is currently situated in 11 buildings on the northeast side of the central campus, and also operates at the 150 acre (607,000 m²) Richmond Field Station. There are 54,000 living graduates of the College of Engineering, living in all 50 states and nearly 100 countries, with the majority living in California.
Departments
- Bioengineering (BioE)
- CivilCivil engineeringCivil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...
and Environmental EngineeringEnvironmental engineeringEnvironmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the natural environment , to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites...
(CEE) - Electrical EngineeringElectrical engineeringElectrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
and Computer SciencesComputer scienceComputer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
(EECSEECSEECS may refer to:* Electrical Engineering & Computer Science* European Energy Certificate System...
) - Industrial EngineeringIndustrial engineeringIndustrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis...
and Operations ResearchOperations researchOperations research is an interdisciplinary mathematical science that focuses on the effective use of technology by organizations...
(IEOR) - Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
- Mechanical EngineeringMechanical engineeringMechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
(ME) - Nuclear EngineeringNuclear engineeringNuclear engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the application of the breakdown as well as the fusion of atomic nuclei and/or the application of other sub-atomic physics, based on the principles of nuclear physics...
(NE) - An inter-departmental program in Engineering Science (EngSci)
The College of Letters and Science
UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science
The College of Letters and Science is the largest of the 14 colleges at the University of California, Berkeley and encompasses the liberal arts. The college was established in its present state in 1915 with the merger of the College of Letters, the College of Social Science, and the College of...
also offers a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, which requires many of the same courses as the College of Engineering's Bachelor of Science
Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years .-Australia:In Australia, the BSc is a 3 year degree, offered from 1st year on...
in EECS
EECS
EECS may refer to:* Electrical Engineering & Computer Science* European Energy Certificate System...
, but has different admissions and graduation criteria. Berkeley's chemical engineering
Chemical engineering
Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
department is under the College of Chemistry
UC Berkeley College of Chemistry
The UC Berkeley College of Chemistry is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. It houses the departments of chemistry and chemical and biomolecular engineering and occupies six buildings flanking central plaza. US News and World Report has ranked its chemistry and...
.
Research units
All research facilities are managed by one of five Organized Research Units (ORUs):- Earthquake Engineering Research Center - research and public safety programs against the destructive effects of earthquakes
- Electronics Research Laboratory - the largest ORU; advanced research in novel areas within seven different university departments, organized into five main divisions:
- Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center
- Berkeley Wireless Research Center
- Gigascale Research Center - performs long-range research addressing the growing design productivity gap
- Berkeley Northside Research Group
- Micro Systems Group
- Engineering Systems Research Center - focuses on manufacturingManufacturingManufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...
, mechatronicsMechatronicsMechatronics is the combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, computer engineering, software engineering, control engineering, and systems design engineering in order to design, and manufacture useful products. Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary field of engineering, that is...
, and microelectro mechanical systems (MEMSMicroelectromechanical systemsMicroelectromechanical systems is the technology of very small mechanical devices driven by electricity; it merges at the nano-scale into nanoelectromechanical systems and nanotechnology...
) - Institute for Environmental Science and Engineering - focuses on applying basic researchBasic ResearchBasic Research is an herbal supplement and cosmetics manufacturer based in Salt Lake City, Utah that distributes products through a large number of subsidiaries. In addition, their products are sold domestically and internationally through a number of high-end retailers. Dennis Gay is the...
to current and future environmental problems - Institute of Transportation Studies - sponsors research in transportation planning, policy analysis, environmental concerns and transportation system performance
Major research centers and programs
- Berkeley Multimedia Research Center
- Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of SocietyCenter for Information Technology Research in the Interest of SocietyThe Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society is an institute operated by the State of California to facilitate the real-world application of technological research...
(CITRIS) - Center for Intelligent Systems - developing a unified theoretical foundation for intelligent systems.
- Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing
- Digital Library ProjectDigital libraryA digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats and accessible by computers. The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks...
- UCSF/Berkeley Ergonomics Program
- International Computer Science Institute - basic research institute focusing on Internet architecture, speech and language processingSpeech recognitionSpeech recognition converts spoken words to text. The term "voice recognition" is sometimes used to refer to recognition systems that must be trained to a particular speaker—as is the case for most desktop recognition software...
, artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
, and cognitiveCognitive scienceCognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...
and theoretical computer scienceComputer scienceComputer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems... - Intel Research Laboratory @ Berkeley
- Integrated Materials Laboratory - facilities for research in nano-structureNanotechnologyNanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres...
growth, processing, and characterization - Microfabrication Laboratory
- The Millennium Project - developing a hierarchical campus-wide "cluster of clusters" to support advanced computational applications
- Nokia Research Center @ Berkeley
- Pacific Earthquake EngineeringEarthquake engineeringEarthquake engineering is the scientific field concerned with protecting society, the natural and the man-made environment from earthquakes by limiting the seismic risk to socio-economically acceptable levels...
Research Center - Partners for Advanced Transit & Highways - researching ways to improve the operation of California's state highway system
- Power Systems Engineering Research Center
Notable projects
- Berkeley Lower Extremity ExoskeletonBerkeley Lower Extremity ExoskeletonThe Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton is a robotic device that attaches to the lower body. Its purpose is to complement the pilot's strength by adding extra force to one's lower extremity bodily movements...
- SPICESPICESPICE is a general-purpose, open source analog electronic circuit simulator.It is a powerful program that is used in integrated circuit and board-level design to check the integrity of circuit designs and to predict circuit behavior.- Introduction :Unlike board-level designs composed of discrete...
(Simulation Program with Integrated Circuits Emphasis)
See also
- University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
- Engineering colleges in California
- List of engineering programs in the California State University
- List of University of California, Berkeley faculty