COURSES Undergraduate MSE 24: Freshman Seminars Expand Course Number:  MSE 24 Course Units:  1 The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting.  The Department offers the following selections: The Bicycle: Introduction to Engineering Materials UNITS: 1…

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GRADUATE ADMISSIONS Graduate Program Deadlines General Admissions RequirementsApplication RequirementsLetters of RecommendationGRE/TOEFL/IELTSFinancial AssistanceFrequently Asked QuestionsContact Degree/Program Online Application Deadline (Application available early September) All materials must be submitted by the deadline. Doctor of Philosophy (MS/Ph.D., Ph.D.) December 4, 2023 8:59 pm, Pacific Standard Time Masters of Engineering Program (M.Eng) January 8, 2024 8:59 pm, Pacific Standard…

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Exotic Phase Competition in Ferroic Materials by Daisy Hernandez August 17, 2017 A team of students and postdocs lead by Prof. Lane Martin and Prof. R. Ramesh in Materials Science and Engineering and in collaboration with researchers from Pennsylvania State University, Argonne National Laboratory, the National Center for Electron Microscopy and the Advanced Light Source…

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Eicke Weber Appointed Director and CEO of BEARS by Daisy Hernandez February 7, 2017 Professor Eicke R. Weber was recently appointed as the Director and CEO of the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS).  Professor Weber returns to UC Berkeley after 10 years as director of the Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE,…

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MSE Alumna Nicole Michenfelder-Schauser Wins Hertz Fellowship by Daisy Hernandez April 22, 2016 MSE Alumna and 2015 recipient of the MSE Department Citation has been named a winner of the prestigious Hertz Foundation Fellowship. A link to the award announcement can be found here.  The Hertz Foundation Fellowship is known as the most competitive PhD fellowship…

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Professor Peidong Yang wins MacArthur Fellow “Genius” Award by Daisy Hernandez September 30, 2015 The John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation has named Professor Peidong Yang, the S.K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Professor of Energy, as a 2015 recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellows award.  This recognition, commonly referred to as the MacArthur “genius”…

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Professor Xu Recognized for Research on Quickly Self-Assembling Thin Films by Materials Science and Engineering June 20, 2014 Professor Xu recently reported in Nature Communications a new technique for the accelerated generation of nanoparticle assemblies.  The technique enables self assembly processes that normally require hours to order up, to be formed in just one minute. …

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