Sophia's Hand
Engineers at Berkeley are making a difference in the world of prosthetic's. Utilizing 3-D printing ideas downloaded from a large community on the internet, the impact of this project is real and effects current people in need.
Read more about this fantastic story and about how UC Berkeley has helped Sophia
BRETT - A Deep Learning Robot
Born into the PR2 family of personal robots made by the Willow Garage robotics research lab, BRETT joined EECS professor Pieter Abbeel’s artificial intelligence program in 2010, arriving fully grown but with infantile cognition. We asked BRETT (whose formal name is Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks) about its educational progress as we watched it learn to assemble a toy airplane. While BRETT has no organs of speech, nearby computer screens displayed its thought processes. Abbeel acted as our translator.
Not your typical summer job
Summer jobs are as much a part of Berkeley’s undergraduate experience as dorm rooms and Tele-BEARS. For Harshil Goel, now a graduate student in mechanical engineering, the summer job he landed a few years ago changed his life — and maybe even the future of flight.
As an undergraduate math major at Berkeley, Goel got a summer job at a wind tunnel in Kanpur, India.
Read more about Harshil Goel and the Vires Aero project
Pediatric exoskeleton proposal wins top robotics prize
SuitX, a company driven to lower the cost on bionic technology to help people walk, won a prestigious robotics competition that will help it fund a pediatric exoskeleton for children with neurological disorders.
Last week started with SuitX debuting an exoskeleton for $40,000 and ended Saturday with a $1 million prize in the United Arab Emirates AI and Robotics Award for Good. Read More
Berkeley Engineering
The College of Engineering is recognized globally as a leader in engineering education. Our reputation for intellectual rigor, our talent for developing technologies that improve quality of life and our entrepreneurial spirit are reflected in our faculty and students, and by our physical environment.Quick Facts
Enrollment: 3,156 undergraduate enrollment and 1,845 graduate enrollment
Rankings:
- Computer Engineering - 4th in the nation
- Electrical Engineering - 3rd in the nation
- Mechanical Engineering - 3rd in the nation
Students:
- 4.5 average GPA of accepted applicants
- 26% of the student body are women
- 24% are international students
Faculty:
- 228 active faculty
- 76 faculty, active and emeriti, in the NAE
- 34 recipients, active and emeriti, of distinguished teaching awards