Engineering Student Services

230 Bechtel Engineering Center

(510) 642-7594

http://coe.berkeley.edu/ESS

Hours: Monday-Thursday: 8am-5pm

Fridays: 10am-5pm

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 • 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…

Working in space

Developing better mobility devices

What is Engineering?

Designing bridges

Building dams

Designing freeways

Improving business processes

Developing new medical technologies

Making nuclear power safer

Making structures safer in earthquakes

Create cutting-edge computerhardware and software

Inventing machines to explore other planets

What is Engineering? (con’t)

Developing plastics

Developing renewable energy sources Designing technologies

to make life easier

Building amazing structures

Improving national security Creating electric vehicles Creating tourist

attractions

Developing pharmaceuticals

Developing mind-controlled objects

Improving transportation

Creating video games & components

Developing new methods of delivering

medications

See themselves as designers, builders, researchers, and managers of

technical enterprises

Like to be challenged while also

having fun!

Are analytical thinkers who want to solve

problems

Have a solid foundation in math and science!

Enjoy figuring out how things work work!

Enjoy utilizing technology while

developing efficient ways to improve quality

of life with it

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 higher-than-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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Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences 75,833Chemical Engineering 67,300Mechanical Engineering 65,119Civil Engineering 60,502Industrial Engineering & Operations Research 59,885Business Administration 56,793Economics 56,784Bioengineering 54,143Applied Mathematics 53,925Interdisciplinary Studies 53,722Integrative Biology 53,500Political Economy of Industrial Societies 51,667Political Science 49,202Environmental Economics & Policy 48,563Spanish & Portuguese 48,000Anthropology 47,740Mass Communications & Media Studies 46,929Cognitive Science 46,333Legal Studies 42,357Pyschology 41,667Molecular and Cell Biology 40,123History 39,100English 38,718Environmental Sciences 29,330Engineering Science n/aMaterial Science and Engineering n/aNuclear Engineering n/a

Average Starting Salaries of UCB Graduates

Source: UCB Career Center annual survey 2009

• Enrollment: 4,705 (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

• Faculty: 216

• Departments: 7

• Undergraduate majors: 17

• Minors: 10

Berkeley Engineering Overview

Why Berkeley Engineering? One of the best engineering schools

(national and international reputation) An outstanding education (courses taught

by faculty) and excellent prep for grad school/work

Cutting edge research (brought to classroom, research money = opportunities for students)

• Excellent job placement in all majors with great salaries

• #3 in the nation!• 10 programs nationally ranked:

– #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

Why Berkeley Engineering? Our Rankings

Source: US News & World Report 2011

Why Berkeley Engineering? Our Faculty

208 Faculty58 Endowed chairs/distinguished

professorships80 Members of the National

Academy of Engineering33 Recipients of UCB’s Distinguished

Teaching Award3 Recipients of the Turing Award in

Computer Science

Attend Graduate School at: 28 UC Berkeley 18 Stanford 11 UCSD 10 UCLA 7 MIT 4 Columbia 3 Michigan 2 Harvard 2 Cornell

Work at: Microsoft Google Yahoo Cisco Cal Trans Hewlett-Packard IBM Intel Jet Propulsion Lab/NASA Oracle Boeing Facebook

Why Berkeley Engineering? Our Graduates…

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

Why Berkeley Engineering? Our Co-Curricular Learning & Professional

Development Opportunities

Why Berkeley Engineering? Our Majors

• Bioengineering• Civil Engineering• Electrical Engineering & Computer

Sciences• Engineering Science majors:

– Energy Engineering – Engineering Mathematics & Statistics – Engineering Physics– Environmental Engineering Science

• Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

• Materials Science & Engineering

• Mechanical Engineering • 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 offered through College of Chemistry, Computer Science offered through College of Letters & Sciences

New!

• 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

Why Berkeley Engineering? Our Community

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)

Why Berkeley Engineering? Our Research

Development of CellScope

Using compressive sensing technology to improve MRI machines

Exoskeleton lets UC Berkeley grad take a huge step

Why Berkeley Engineering? Our Research (con’t)

Airport Design Class Team Wins FAA Competition

Berkeley Lab Takes Fuel Efficient Cook stoves to Ethiopia

Magnetic memory & logic could achieve ultimate computer energy

efficiency

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

• 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

Why Berkeley Engineering? Our Research (con’t)

• 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

Why Berkeley Engineering? Our Research (con’t)

• 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)

Admissions “Secrets”

• 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

We’re Interested in Students Who…

1456

•Applications received

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•Applications reviewed for required courses:

•2011: 3.3 GPA & higher; 2010: 3.4 GPA & higher

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•Applications read:

•those with 100% completion of required courses

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•Applicants admitted : 2011: 16% of apps (ave. GPA 3.82) ; 2010: 18% of apps (ave. GPA 3.79)

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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

• 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

100% Course Completion Required for Berkeley Engineering!

• 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)

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?

Major, Course & Degree InfoFollow 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

Contacts for Transfer Applicants

• Admissions Questions, Decisions & Appeals:

Edwina TaylorOffice of Undergraduate Admissionsetaylor@berkeley.edu

• Transfer Course Equivalencies:Genie FoonEngineering Student Serviceseugenia@berkeley.edu

Cal Day Saturday, April 21, 2012

Annual campus-wide Open House with presentations,

workshops, demonstrations, and

entertainment!

For more info sign up @ pictureyourself.berkeley.edu

Questions?