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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


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


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)

• 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 Jobs & Competitiveness ,speaking at Stay With It! 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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Major 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

Highest Starting Salaries of UCB Graduates

Source: UCB Career Center graduating senior Destination Survey 2011

* = Includes BioE, BioE/MSE, Engineering Sciences, MSE/ME


• Enrollment: 4,596 (2946 undergraduates/1650 graduate) • 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

Berkeley Engineering Overview


Why Berkeley Engineering? Our Rankings

• #3 undergraduate engineering• #3 graduate engineering• 10 programs in the top 10:

• #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


Why Berkeley Engineering? Our Faculty

216

Faculty

58 Endowed chairs/distinguished professorships

77 Members of the National Academy of Engineering

33 Recipients of Cal’s Distinguished Teaching Award

3 Recipients of the Turing Award in Computer Science


Why Berkeley Engineering? Our Graduates…

28 UC Berkeley 18 Stanford 11 UCSD 10 UCLA 7 MIT 4 Columbia 3 Michigan 2 Harvard 2 Cornell

• Cal Trans• Hewlett-Packard• IBM• Intel• Jet Propulsion

Lab/NASA• Deloitte Consulting• McKinsey Consulting• Pacific Gas &

Electric Company

• Oracle• Boeing• Microsoft• Google • Yahoo• Genentech• Cisco • Abbott• Chevron• Ford

Attend Grad School at: Intern and Work at:

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 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

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• 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


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.



That’s when graduate student Kevin Peterson and Ron Fearing, EECS professor , decided to attach wings.

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.



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.



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



• 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 Co-Curricular Learning Opportunities

• 60+ Engineering Student Organizations and Competition Teams

• Leadership and Professional Development programs

• Undergraduate Research• Summer Industry Internships


• 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

864 •Applications reviewed for 100% completion of required courses: 2012: 3.3 GPA & higher; 2011: 3.3 GPA & higher; 2010: 3.4 GPA & higher

509 •Applications read:•those with 100% completion of required courses

264 •Applicants admitted: 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)

200 •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


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

http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/students/college-of-engineering-announcement


Contacts for Transfer Applicants• Admissions Questions, Decisions &

Appeals:Edwina TaylorOffice of Undergraduate [email protected]

• Transfer Course Equivalencies:Genie FoonEngineering Student [email protected]


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)


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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