Engineering Student Services
230 Bechtel Engineering Center
(510) 642-7594 http://coe.berkeley.edu/ESS
Hours:
Monday-Thursday: 8am-5pm
Fridays: 10am-5pm

• Academic Advising
(including Peer Advising Program)
• Academic Learning Center
(Tutoring)
• Drop-In Career Counseling
• Counseling & Psychological Services Satellite Office
• Leadership and Professional Development Programming
• Student Recruitment & Retention
• Broadening Participation to Leadership and Academic
Excellence
• Student Organization Advising

An exciting field with opportunities to make the world a better place by solving real-life problems such as…
Making structures safer in earthquakes
Building dams
Inventing machines to
Developing better mobility devices
Designing bridges
Designing freeways
Developing new medical technologies
Create cutting-edge computer hardware and software
Improving business processes
Working in space

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Developing renewable energy sources
Building amazing structures Designing technologies to make life easier
Developing mind-controlled objects
Developing pharmaceuticals
Developing plastics
Creating video games
& components
Developing new methods of delivering medications
Improving transportation
Creating tourist attractions
Creating electric vehicles Improving national security

Have a solid foundation in math and science !
Are analytical thinkers who want to solve problems Enjoy figuring out how things work work!
Enjoy utilizing technology while developing efficient ways to improve quality of life with it
Like to be challenged while also having fun!
See themselves as designers, builders, researchers, and managers of technical enterprises

• STEM jobs grew at 3x rate of non-STEM jobs over past decade and are expected to continue to grow at higherthan-average rate over the next decade.
(Business Journals as reported in ASEE
“First Bell”, July 26, 2011)
• STEM workers earned 26% more than non-STEM workers.
(Business Journals as reported in ASEE “First Bell”, July 26, 2011)
• “Over 1 million jobs in science & technology will open up in America this year, but only 200,000 new graduates will have the skills to fill them”.
(CEO of Dow Chemical in The Economist,
July 2011)
• 50% of Boeing engineers will be at retirement age in next 5 years
(reported Boeing Senior VP during visit to Cal September 2011)
• President Obama’s Council on Jobs & Competitiveness will partner with academia & corps to yield 10,000 more engineering graduates per year in US
(Announced early 2012)

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Source: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (May 2011)

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Source: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (May 2011)

Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
Chemical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Industrial Engineering & Operations
Research
Business Administration
Economics
Bioengineering
Applied Mathematics
Interdisciplinary Studies
Integrative Biology
Political Economy of Industrial Societies
Political Science
Environmental Economics & Policy
Spanish & Portuguese
Anthropology
Mass Communications & Media Studies
Cognitive Science
Legal Studies
Pyschology
Molecular and Cell Biology
History
English
Environmental Sciences
Engineering Science
Material Science and Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
75,833
67,300
65,119
60,502
59,885
56,793
56,784
54,143
53,925
53,722
53,500
51,667
49,202
48,563
48,000
47,740
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46,333
42,357
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40,123
39,100
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Source: UCB Career Center annual survey 2009

(3052 undergrads & 1653 graduate students)
– Fall ‘11/Spring ‘12 freshmen class 35 states & 25 other countries: Bahrain,
Canada, Chile, China, France, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea,
Malaysia, Morocco, Myanmar (Burma), Oman, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan,
Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

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One of the best engineering schools (national and international reputation)
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An outstanding education (courses taught by faculty) and excellent prep for grad school/work
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Cutting edge research (brought to classroom, research money = opportunities for students)
• Excellent job placement in all majors with great salaries

– #1 Environmental Engineering
– #2 Civil Engineering
– #2 Chemical Engineering
– #2 Mechanical Engineering
– #3 Materials Engineering
– #4 Electrical Engineering
– #4 Industrial Engineering
– #4 Nuclear Engineering
– #5 Computer Engineering
– #13 Bioengineering
Source: US News & World Report 2011

208 Faculty
58 Endowed chairs/distinguished professorships
80 Members of the National
Academy of Engineering
33 Recipients of UCB’s Distinguished
Teaching Award
3 Recipients of the Turing Award in
Computer Science

Attend Graduate School at:
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28 UC Berkeley
18 Stanford
11 UCSD
10 UCLA
7 MIT
4 Columbia
3 Michigan
2 Harvard
2 Cornell
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Work at:
Microsoft
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Google
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Yahoo
Cisco
Cal Trans
Hewlett-Packard
IBM
Intel
Jet Propulsion Lab/NASA
Oracle
Boeing
Facebook

• 40+ Engineering Student Organizations
• Engineering Competition Teams
• Leadership and Professional Development
• Summer Internships
• Research Opportunities

• Bioengineering
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical Engineering & Computer
Sciences
• Engineering Science majors:
• Mechanical Engineering
• Nuclear Engineering
• Joint Majors:
– Bioengineering/Materials Science &
Engineering
– Electrical & Computer Engineering/
– Energy Engineering
Materials Science & Engineering
– Engineering Mathematics & Statistics
– Electrical & Computer Engineering/
– Engineering Physics
Nuclear Engineering
– Environmental Engineering Science
• Industrial Engineering & Operations
Research
• Materials Science & Engineering
– Materials Science & Engineering/
Mechanical Engineering
– Materials Science & Engineering/
Nuclear Engineering
– Mechanical Engineering/Nuclear
Engineering
Note: Chemical Engineering offered through College of Chemistry, Computer Science offered through College of Letters & Sciences

• 56,696 alumni
• 100 countries, 50 states
• Accomplished alumni including:
– Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple
– Diane Green, the co-founder of vmware
– Andy Grove, the co-founder of Intel
– Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google
– Teresa Meng, co-founder of Atheros
Communications
– Bill Lester, former NASCAR driver

• In addition to the 5-year BS/MS degree, we now have a 1 year professional graduate degree: Master’s in
Engineering (M.Eng) through Coleman Fung Institute for
Engineering Leadership (16 concentrations)
• Students make application for both the M.Eng. and
BS/MS during their senior year
• The M.Eng. prepares graduates for career paths that lead to management and executive positions
• For the first M.Eng cohort we received ~350 applications,
155 were admitted, and 88 accepted (goal 60)

Exoskeleton lets UC Berkeley grad take a huge step
Development of CellScope
Using compressive sensing technology to improve MRI machines

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Magnetic memory & logic could achieve ultimate computer energy efficiency
Airport Design Class Team
Wins FAA Competition
Berkeley Lab Takes Fuel Efficient
Cook stoves to Ethiopia

• Almost 40 multidisciplinary research centers
• Advance understanding, student education, and create technological innovations to improve society
• Range from earthquake science to synthetic biology

• The Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS) is a $12 million research center funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Research: After major disasters, collapsed buildings are dangerous for rescue teams making it difficult to locate people safely. COINS is working on a remote mobile device for search and rescue services (i.e. sending robot made of recycled cell phone parts into collapsed buildings to search for survivors rather than sending rescuers)
• Research Opportunities:
• Nanoexperience for Students . Aimed at second year Berkeley students to give them hands on paid research experience in a lab to expose them to nanotechnology
• Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). Aimed at community college and other undergraduates to spend the summer in a nanotechnology research lab.
Stipend, housing and travel included
• Research Experience for Teachers (RET). Open to high school and middle school teachers who wish to work in a hands on lab and develop a curriculum based on their research experience. Stipend included

• The Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S) is a new NSF-funded Center
• Goals of education and outreach:
– To train an engaged, skilled and diverse technical workforce by providing a pipeline from secondary school to college
– To increase the number of students from historically underrepresented groups in engineering who attends university and graduate programs in electrical engineering
• E&O for HS Students: Summer High-School Apprenticeship Research Program (SHARP)
– Joint program with The Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NSE) Graduate Group
– 4-week non-residential program, gain first-hand experience in how science and engineering research is conducted, $1,000 education stipend, applications due in early spring
• E&O for Community College Students: The Transfer-to-Excellence Program (TTE)
– Research Experience for Undergraduates: 8-week residential program, hands-on scientific investigations in a dynamic research environment at UCB, one-on-one advising about transfer to 4-year institution, $3200 stipend and transportation stipend, applications due in early spring
– Summer Course Offering: take one engineering prerequisite course, summer BART pass,
$250 educational stipend, applications due in early spring

• There’s no secret of how to get into engineering
• We utilize the same screening process for all applicants regardless of major
• Students should apply for the major they’re interested in
• We’re looking equally for competitive candidates for engineering and the likelihood of admission depends upon the quality of the applicant pool and the number of spaces available in the program
• For additional information please visit our web site or attend an Admit Info Session (offered weekly in April)

• Have a solid foundation in math and the sciences
• Are analytic thinkers who want to solve problems/ develop efficient ways to improve quality of life
• Like to figure out how things work
• Enjoy utilizing technology
• See themselves as designers, builders, researchers, and managers of technical enterprises
• Are able to attend full-time

Fall
2011
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Fall
2010
• Applications received
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• Applications reviewed for required courses:
• 2011: 3.3 GPA & higher; 2010: 3.4 GPA & higher
509
• Applications read:
• those with 100% completion of required courses
264
• Applicants admitted :
2011: 16% of apps (ave. GPA 3.82) ; 2010: 18% of apps (ave. GPA 3.79)
240 200
• Applicants accepting admission

• 60 transferable semester units
• Minimum 3.0 GPA
• 100% completion of “required” courses prior to transferring:
– Reading & Composition included in 100% completion (we require both the 1 st and 2 nd half of R&C)
– Fall 2010: primary reason applicants denied admission was lack of R&C completion (due to following
IGETC instead of www.assist.org)
– Fall 2011: 78% of reviewed applicants who did not have 100% completion were missing R&C requirement (due to following IGETC instead of www.assist.org)
– Fall 2011: Many of the applicants did not complete one or both of the Prerequisite and Work In
Progress forms in January as instructed on the applicant checklist despite email reminders
MyBerkeleyApplication web site and on the transfer
• Students encouraged to take as many "strongly recommended" articulated courses as possible so they are stronger candidates for admission and better prepared for success in engineering

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• It is critical that students check www.assist.org
for requirements specific to their intended major
All courses listed as “Required Courses” must be completed
As many courses as possible listed as
“Recommended Courses” should be completed
Courses must be completed by the end of the spring semester of the year in which you will transfer
(summer courses are not counted)

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How did you become interested in engineering?
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Why are you interested in the major to which you’re applying? What excites you about studying this major?
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What experiences influenced your decision (i.e. job experience, discussions with faculty, professional engineers or engineering students, related projects, courses, etc.)?
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What other experiences, such as co-curricular activities, have you had that relate to engineering? What non-engineering related activities have you participated in? What skills did you learn from these experiences that will help you in engineering (i.e. leadership, time management, teamwork etc)?
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What are your goals, aspirations, and plans for after graduation?

Follow the curriculum for the year admitted using:
• COE Guide Book: http://coe.berkeley.edu/students/college-of-engineering-announcement
• Degree Worksheets: http://coe.berkeley.edu/dars
• Department Websites: http://coe.berkeley.edu/departments
• Admissions Info:
Sign up at pictureyourself.berkeley.edu

Edwina Taylor
Office of Undergraduate Admissions etaylor@berkeley.edu
Genie Foon
Engineering Student Services eugenia@berkeley.edu

Saturday, April 21, 2012
Annual campus-wide Open
House with presentations, workshops, demonstrations, and entertainment!
For more info sign up @ pictureyourself.berkeley.edu