Tarek Zohdi

The U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, awarded $3,702,880 to Siemens Energy, Inc. and its partners UC Berkeley, Constellation Energy and Battelle to accelerate the development of negative emissions technology in the form of direct air capture, or DAC.

A team of UC Berkeley researchers is working in the AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems, a new $20 million center led by UC Davis.

UC Berkeley will begin offering courses to Dubai Electricity and Water Authority employees as part of a $40 million educational partnership beginning June 1, according to a College of Engineering press release.

The FRG is composed of researchers from UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, the Space Sciences Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. The FRG aims to coordinate engineering, environmental and policy experts to support research into preventing and fighting uncontrolled wildfires.

Electrical engineering, computer science and bioengineering Professor Shankar Sastry will be stepping down from his position as Dean of the College of Engineering, as announced in an email addressed to campus by executive vice chancellor and provost Paul Alivisatos on October 13th.

Research conducted by a team of mechanical engineers at UC Berkeley has unveiled why shoelaces become untied.

Remembered as a humble and effective leader who spent the later years of his life developing sustainable manufacturing processes, UC Berkeley mechanical engineering professor David Dornfeld died last month. He was 66 years old.

Albert Pisano, a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering for 30 years at the Berkeley campus, will become dean of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering September 1.