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Engineering Student Services
230 Bechtel Engineering Center
(510) 642-7594
http://coe.berkeley.edu/ESS
Hours:
Monday-Thursday: 8am-5pm
Fridays: 10am-5pm
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Engineering Student Services (ESS)
• 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
• Student Organization Advising
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What is Engineering?
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
Designing bridges
Designing freeways
Developing better
mobility devices
Making nuclear power safer
Inventing machines to
explore other planets
Developing new
medical technologies
Improving business processes
Create cutting-edge computer
hardware and software
Working in space
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What is Engineering? (con’t)
Developing renewable
energy sources
Building amazing structures
Developing
pharmaceuticals
Improving transportation
Designing technologies
to make life easier
Developing mind-controlled objects
Developing plastics
Creating video games
& components
Creating tourist
attractions
Developing new
methods of delivering
medications
Improving
national security
Creating electric vehicles
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Have a solid foundation in
math and science!
Are analytical thinkers
who want to solve
Enjoy figuring out how things work
problems
work!
Enjoy utilizing
technology while
developing efficient
ways to improve quality
of life with it
See themselves as designers,
Like to be
builders, researchers, and managers of
challenged while also
technical enterprises
having fun!
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STEM Jobs Grow Faster, Pay Better
• 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)
• Of Boeing’s 100,000 employees world-wide, 50% of
their engineers will be at retirement age in next 5 years
(reported Boeing Senior VP during visit to Cal September 2011)
• Number of college graduates doubled in U.S. in last 20
years, but number of graduating engineers has
remained flat (Paul Otellini, President/CEO Intel, member President’s Council on JobsDale
& Competitiveness ,speaking at Stay With It!
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Campaign March 2012)
STEM Jobs Grow Faster, Pay Better con’t
• By 2020 123 million American jobs will be high skill/high
pay, but only 50 million Americans will be qualified to fill
them (Waiting for “Superman”, 2010)
• 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)
• President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology released its report entitled “Engage to
Excel: Producing One Million Additional College
Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics.” (Released February 2012)
• Company founders and CEOs today are 3x more likely
to hold advanced engineering degrees than MBAs (reported in
Wall Street Journal MarketWatch Jan 31, 2012)
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Median Earnings with Bachelor’s Degree
75
80
70
Dollars (Thousands)
70
60
60
60
59
55
50
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50
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50
40
30
50
47
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42
20
10
0
Source: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (May 2011)
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Median Earnings with Graduate Degree
99
100
90
Dollars (Thousands)
90
80
70
89
85
85
80
80
70
60
70
65
50
40
65
62
60
57
55
30
20
10
0
Source: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (May 2011)
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Highest Starting Salaries of UCB Graduates
Major
Source: UCB Career Center
graduating senior Destination Survey
2011
Ave Salaries
ELECTRICAL ENGINGEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCE
$80,774
COMPUTER SCIENCE
$80,458
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
$67,347
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
$66,875
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
$66,800
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
$62,448
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING & OPERATIONS RESEARCH
$62,292
OTHER ENGINEERING*
$61,000
ECONOMICS
$60,452
ENV ECON & POLICY
$59,813
CIVIL ENGINEERING
$59,778
SOCIOLOGY
$55,864
POLITICAL ECONOMY
$50,577
INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY
$49,000
PSYCHOLOGY
$47,826
HISTORY
$47,100
MASS COMM & MEDIA STUDIES
$45,409
LEGAL STUDIES
$43,000
POLITICAL SCIENCE
$42,060
SOCIAL WELFARE
$42,000
MOLECULAR & CELL BIOLOGY
$39,985
ENGLISH
$38,990
PUBLIC HEALTH
$38,222
CONSERV & RSRC STUDIES
$35,333
* = Includes BioE, BioE/MSE,
Engineering Sciences, MSE/ME
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Berkeley Engineering Overview
• Enrollment: 4,596 (2946 undergraduates/1650 graduate)
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2012-2013 freshmen class represents 35 states & 25 other countries: Albania, Bahrain,
Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Egypt, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy,
Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey,
United Arab Emirates, Vietnam
• Faculty: 216
• Departments: 7
• Undergraduate majors: 17
• Minors: 10
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Why Berkeley Engineering?
Our Rankings
• #3 undergraduate engineering
• #3 graduate engineering
• 10 programs in the top 10:
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#1 Civil Engineering
#2 Chemical Engineering
#2 Environmental Engineering
#2 Materials Engineering
#3 Electrical Engineering
#3 Industrial Engineering
#4 Computer Engineering
#4 Nuclear Engineering
#5 Mechanical Engineering
#10 Bioengineering
Source: US News & World Report 2012
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Why Berkeley Engineering?
Our Faculty
216 Faculty
58 Endowed chairs/distinguished
professorships
77
33
3
Members of the National Academy of
Engineering
Recipients of Cal’s Distinguished
Teaching Award
Recipients of the Turing Award in
Computer Science
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Why Berkeley Engineering?
Our Graduates…
Attend Grad School at:
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18 Stanford
11 UCSD
10 UCLA
7 MIT
4 Columbia
3 Michigan
2 Harvard
2 Cornell
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Boeing
Microsoft
Google
Yahoo
Genentech
Cisco
Abbott
Chevron
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Hewlett-Packard
IBM
Intel
Jet Propulsion
Lab/NASA
Deloitte Consulting
McKinsey Consulting
Pacific Gas & Electric
Company
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Why Berkeley Engineering?
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Bioengineering
Civil Engineering
Electrical Engineering & Computer
Sciences
Engineering Science majors:
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Engineering Mathematics & Statistics
Engineering Physics
Environmental Engineering Science
Industrial Engineering & Operations
Research
Materials Science & Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
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Nuclear Engineering
Joint Majors:
– Bioengineering/Materials Science &
Engineering
– Electrical & Computer Engineering/
Materials Science & Engineering
– Electrical & Computer Engineering/
Nuclear Engineering
– Materials Science & Engineering/
Mechanical Engineering
– Materials Science & Engineering/
Nuclear Engineering
– Mechanical Engineering/Nuclear
Engineering
Note: Chemical Engineering major and joint majors in Chemical Engineering/Materials Science & Engineering and Chemical
Engineering/Nuclear Engineering offered by the College of Chemistry. Majors in Computer Science and Operations Research & Management
offered by the College of Letters & Sciences
Why Berkeley Engineering?
Our Community
• 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
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Why Berkeley Engineering?
Our 5 Year Bachelors/Masters Degrees
• 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)
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Why Berkeley Engineering?
Our Research
Exoskeleton lets UC Berkeley
grad take a huge step
Development of CellScope
Using compressive sensing
technology to improve MRI machines
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Why Berkeley Engineering?
Our Research
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Why Berkeley Engineering?
Our Research
Amy Herr, assistant professor of bioengineering,
and graduate student Kelly Karns have developed
a microfluidic assay that tests human tears for eye
disease-specific proteins.
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Why Berkeley Engineering?
Our Research
Graduate student Paul Birkmeyer
designed the original DASH to search
collapsed buildings and tight spaces
and relay information via sensors.
But even with six legs, the
autonomous robot struggled over
uneven ground and was prone to
tipping over when dropped from
heights.
That’s when graduate student Kevin
Peterson and Ron Fearing, EECS
professor , decided to attach wings.
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Why Berkeley Engineering?
Our Research
Member’s of Engineers With Borders are
building a sample filter out of readily available
materials, to make water safe to drink in two
communities in southern Peru.
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Why Berkeley Engineering?
Our Research (con’t)
• Almost 40 multidisciplinary research centers
• Advance understanding, student education, and
create technological innovations to improve society
• Range from earthquake science to synthetic biology
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Why Berkeley Engineering?
Our Research (con’t)
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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
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Why Berkeley Engineering?
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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,
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Why Berkeley Engineering?
Our Co-Curricular Learning Opportunities
• 60+ Engineering Student Organizations and
Competition Teams
• Leadership and Professional Development
programs
• Undergraduate Research
• Summer Industry Internships
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Admissions “Secrets”
• 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)
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We’re Interested in Students Who…
• 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
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Fall
2012
1764
Transfer Admission Stats
Fall
2011
1611
Fall
2010
1456
• Applications received
• Applications reviewed for 100% completion of required courses:
1223
1020
864
2012: 3.3 GPA & higher; 2011: 3.3 GPA & higher; 2010: 3.4 GPA & higher
• Applications read:
527
445
509
• those with 100% completion of required courses
• Applicants admitted:
252
242
256
240
264
200
2012: 14.3% of apps (ave. GPA 3.88) 2011: 16% of apps (ave. GPA 3.82) ; 2010: 18% of apps (ave.
GPA 3.79)
• Applicants accepting admission
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Transfer Admissions Criteria
• 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 1st and 2nd 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 MyBerkeleyApplication web site and on the transfer
applicant checklist despite email reminders
– Fall 2012: 56% of reviewed applicants who did not have 100% completion were missing R&C
• 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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100% Course Completion Required
for Berkeley 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
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COE Personal Statement
 How did you become interested in engineering?
 Why are you interested in the major to which you’re applying? What
excites you about studying this major?
 What experiences influenced your decision (i.e. job experience,
discussions with faculty, professional engineers or engineering students,
related projects, courses, etc.)?
 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)?
 What are your goals, aspirations, and plans for after graduation?
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Major, Course & Degree Info
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
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Contacts for Transfer Applicants
• Admissions Questions, Decisions &
Appeals:
Edwina Taylor
Office of Undergraduate Admissions
etaylor@berkeley.edu
• Transfer Course Equivalencies:
Genie Foon
Engineering Student Services
eugenia@berkeley.edu
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Ways You Can Learn More about
Berkeley Engineering
• “Like” Berkeley Engineering on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/berkeleyengineering
• Join the Berkeley Engineering Alumni LinkedIn group at
https://www.linkedin.com
• Follow the college on Twitter at http://twitter.com/cal_engineer
• Learn more about the college on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/user/BerkeleyEngineering
• Sign up @ pictureyourself.berkeley.edu
• Participate in the 60+ engineering workshops, presentations,
demonstrations, lab tours, etc. at Cal Day (Saturday, April 20, 2013)
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Cal Day
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Annual campus-wide Open House
with presentations, workshops,
demonstrations, and
entertainment!
For more info sign up @
pictureyourself.berkeley.edu
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Questions?
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