NEWS & EVENTS News Professor Junqiao Wu shares thoughts on Big Give March 8, 2024 Kristin Persson, UC Berkeley MSE Professor, Inducted into Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences February 28, 2024 Prof. Ramesh Receives Honorary Fellowship from Indian Academy of Sciences February 28, 2024 Dr. James Gebhardt, alumnus of MSE, is named to the National…

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Berkeley MSE Undergraduate Program ranks #2 Best in 2021 U.S News Rankings! The 2021 US News and World Reports rankings have been released and UC Berkeley’s Materials Engineering program has been ranked number 2 in the nation! The complete rankings and link to more details can be found here. Contact Us Department offices are located…

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Record-breaking Energy Conversion of Waste Heat by Daisy Hernandez April 10, 2018 A team of students lead by Prof. Lane Martin in Materials Science and Engineering and Prof. Chris Dames in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley have made an important demonstration of novel waste heat to electrical energy conversion based on a process called pyroelectric…

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    Latest national engineering rankings place all Berkeley programs in top 4 April 24, 2023 by Caitlin Kelley Berkeley Engineering holds onto the No. 3 spot of the top graduate engineering schools nationwide, and remains the top public engineering program, according to U.S. News & World Report’s newly published graduate program rankings.   You can read…

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Metamaterials like sneaker midsoles and car bumpers are engineered to carry load or resist impact, but designing these products to perform as expected can be an error-prone process. Now, Berkeley MSE professor Rayne Zheng and their team have developed an innovative design method that leverages artificial intelligence and additive manufacturing to ensure that optimum functionality and target behaviors are…

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Prof. Junqiao Wu was interviewed on ABC7 News about “smart roof” coatings that can help regulate household temperatures without consuming natural gas or electricity. Prof. Wu’s work, highlighted here, is based on work published in the journal Science where they used the metal-insulator transition in tungsten-doped vanadium dioxide to create window glass and a rooftop coatings that respond by turning off their…

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Big Give is now LIVE!! by Daisy Hernandez November 17, 2016   Support the MSE Department here: give.berkeley.edu/mse Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, in the Northeast corner of campus. Address: Department of Materials Science and Engineering 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1760 Phone: (510)…

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