UC Berkeley Fung Institute For Engineering Leadership

Tell your friends, tell your family! Our 10th annual UC Berkeley Master of Engineering (MEng) Capstone Showcase will take place on Thursday, May 6, 2021 from 6-8pm PDT. RSVP at https://bit.ly/2QgFdMP... Please register to attend no later than Tuesday, May 4, 2021. The two-hour event, free and open to the public, will feature MEng teams sharing the results of their 9-month capstone projects. See where the future of engineering is headed by uncovering the research projects created over the course of the academic year. Enjoy the access to the latest in dynamic and collaborative engineering for a truly unique, one-of-a-kind experience. Berkeley Engineering Berkeley Mechanical Engineering Berkeley Industrial Engineering and Operations Research UC Berkeley; Materials Science & Engineering Department Department of Nuclear Engineering - UC Berkeley

NOW HIRING the Berkeley MEng program is looking for graduate students to join our teaching team of GSIs, starting Fall 2021 with the opportunity to continue into Spring 2022. Our GSIs come from a variety of disciplines; we are looking for motivated candidates to provide feedback and mentoring to future engineering leaders developing technology that will have a commercial and/or societal impact. The focus is on building strong communication skills (presentation and writing)... for future engineering leaders. HOW TO APPLY: Learn more about the program at: meng.berkeley.edu Please apply by completing this online application form, which includes uploading a PDF of your resume: https://bit.ly/BerkeleyMEng-GSI We will begin interviewing candidates on a rolling basis starting April 12th, and would like to find our team by mid-May. Questions? Please contact Beth Leven, [email protected]

I aspire to be a data scientist and plan to leverage my skills in data and project management to solve customer interfacing problems. Gathering and unveiling the story behind the data in order to spur data-driven decision-making can help companies make better and sometimes more ethical decisions. -- Ruila Puskas-Juhasz, MEng ‘21 (IEOR/IPES) Berkeley Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Tomorrow is the deadline for all admitted Berkeley MEng students to accept your offer of admission! Don't forget to secure your spot by submitting the "Reply to the Offer of Admission" form, located in your official offer of admission email from the Graduate Division. For more information on next steps, please visit https://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/accepting/ : Keegan Houser, Public Affairs

Presenting the final issue of FI News for 2020 In this month's issue: Alumni Fung Feature: Gina Myers, MEng '20 (BIOE) Training the innovators we need to solve today’s most pressing problems Lorraine Meriner Pereira, Fung Fellowship ‘20 Thank you to our MEng and Fung Fellowship alumni community

Putting those finishing touches on your MEng application? Don't forget Berkeley MEng applications are due in 2 weeks! The Berkeley MEng application for the 2021-22 academic year is due on Wednesday, January 6th. Visit https://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/apply/ to get your application started or visit https://funginstitute.berkeley.edu/ to learn more about the accelerated one-year MEng program.

For all our aspiring product marketers: how can you level-up your own product marketing? Fung Institute lecturer Martina Lauchengco breaks down the four essentials to taking your work from good to great!

Founded by Berkeley MEng alum Conner Landgraf, Eko announces their intent to expand with $65 million in venture financing. Eko utilizes its advanced stethoscopes, telehealth platform, and AI-powered analysis in empowering clinicians to confidently identify early signs of structural heart disease and AFib.

With 3 weeks left until the Berkeley MEng application deadline, two MEng alumni Salome Schwarz, MEng '20 (CEE) and Patrick Hylton, MEng '15 (ME) break down some of their best application tips for prospective MEng students. The Berkeley MEng application for the 2021-22 academic year is due on Wednesday, January 6th. Visit https://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/apply/ to get your application started or visit https://funginstitute.berkeley.edu/ to learn more about the accelerated one-year MEng program.

3 weeks until the MEng apps are due Have any last-minute questions before the application deadline? Join us for Berkeley MEng Drop-In Office Hours TOMORROW from 1-2:30pm PST to chat with our admissions staff and current students!... RSVP: https://bit.ly/3gxGiIW

#HumansofFung: I have been tutoring students for over three years. Working with both college-level and primary school students, I have been able to see a great change in attitude and approach towards learning from them after implementing inclusive teaching practices I learned from a pedagogy course during undergrad. My students are now more open to exploring different paths of learning that are suited towards their individual needs because they feel that their personal hist...ory is being considered in the classroom. They are now more willing to try and less worried about making mistakes because they understand that learning is a process and that I am a resource for them, not a policing force. Having seen this change first hand, it’s inspired me to try bringing inclusive pedagogy training to both instructors and GSIs in STEM, especially in the field of engineering." -- Natalia Matti, MEng '20 (BIOE)

Can you believe we're already at the end of October? Here's your monthly round-up of Fung Institute news including: Reviving an past project from UC Berkeley's Fung Fellowship The MEng Class of 2021 Profile... This week: Virtual MEng Alumni Happy Hour Refer a Prospective Student to Berkeley MEng See more

Come and connect with the extended Berkeley MEng community at Thursday's Virtual Alumni Happy Hour! RSVP: https://bit.ly/MEng-happyhour-20 Thursday, October 29th @ 6-7:30pm PDT... We will be live on gather.town on Thursday, October 29th from 6-7:30pm PST. We created a unique space for you to network with alumni, connect with the current class, and chat with the Fung Institute staff. You must register to receive the event link, which will be sent the week of the event. Please contact Julie McShane at [email protected] with any questions. We hope to see you all there!

Berkeley Impact: 1918 vs. 2020 - Berkeley students always coming together in a time of need. Berkeley Impacts is a new series collaboration between the UC Berkeley College of Engineering and the UC Berkeley Fung Institute For Engineering Leadership celebrating the evolution of UC Berkeley’s student and faculty engineering leaders and their impact over the past 150 years. ... Is there a topic of Berkeley innovation you'd like to see? Comment or DM us! #BerkeleyImpacts #berkeleyengineering

The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at UC Berkeley is recruiting prospective applicants from Sub Saharan African countries for master's degree programs. Learn more at this virtual workshop on Tues. 10/27 at 8am PST RSVP: http://bit.ly/mastercardfdnatberkeley

#HumansofFung: I have always been a strong advocate for women in technology in leading student organizations and being vocal about inequality issues. To me, the issues are not only about not having enough women in technology. It is about everything else - rooted beliefs of women's responsibility in family, ignorance of women's talent and interests in traditionally male-dominated areas, difficulty of establishing authority at work, "brotherhood" in tech. Therefore, to support... women in technology is to support all women in gaining equal access to resources and career success. Even though it might be hard to discuss these issues and the topic can come off as "too serious," if we do not openly discuss them, no progress will be made. -- Maggie Jiya Zhang, MEng ‘21 (EECS) The 2020 Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration took place from September 29 - October 3. The commemorate the past week's festivities, celebrating #WomeninTech, we wanted to highlight the perspectives of the Fung Institute's own #WomeninEngineering with this special edition of #HumansofFung throughout the month of October.

Come and connect with our extended community of MEng students, alumni, and staff at our first Virtual Berkeley MEng Alumni Happy Hour! RSVP: bit.ly/MEng-happyhour-20 Thursday, October 29th at 6-7:30pm PDT... We will be live on gather.town on Thursday, October 29th from 6-7:30pm PST. We created a unique space for you to network with alumni, connect with the current class, and chat with the Fung Institute staff. You must register to receive the event link, which will be sent the week of the event. Please contact Julie McShane at [email protected] with any questions. We hope to see you all there!

NOW HIRING: Lecturer Pool for Engineering Management Positions may be available as early as fall 2020. Applications will be accepted through July 12, 2021 to fill ongoing needs: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF02623

This Wednesday Join Berkeley MEng at Berkeley Graduate Diversity Admissions Fair 2020 to gain insight into applying for competitive graduate programs, conquering imposter syndrome, and experiencing the Berkeley MEng program. Register today at https://event.on24.com//2/2FB6BDA4F7DD8D56BF52722872C1B140

#HumansofFung: As a female engineer, I am a direct product of the community which empowers women in technology to succeed. Through mentorship from a vibrant network of women and allies, I was shown how to overcome self doubt and isolation in my educational career and envision engineering as a field in which I belong. Now is my chance to give back to this community. While I continue to learn from women about challenges I’ll face in the future, I’ve also started my own journe...y as a teacher and mentor for young girls with an interest in technology. It is my hope that someday seeing women in technology will be so normalized that we will no longer be known as female engineers. Instead, we’ll simply be known as engineers. -- Shubha Jagannatha, MEng ‘21 (EECS) The 2020 Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration took place from September 29 - October 3. The commemorate the past week's festivities, celebrating #WomeninTech, we wanted to highlight the perspectives of the Fung Institute's own #WomeninEngineering with this special edition of #HumansofFung throughout the month of October.

#HumansofFung: In the United States, I am privileged because I have white skin and was born in this country. I am also a college graduate and currently attending graduate school. These aspects allow me to live without constant fear for my safety. However, I have also experienced injustice personally because I am a non-heterosexual female. As a reaction to these hardships, I became increasingly conscious of racism, homophobia, and sexism. I am compelled to act to eliminate th...ese injustices. I wish to contribute and benefit from diversity at UC Berkeley by sharing my own background, pursuing curiosity for other worldviews, and respecting our inevitable differences. Having the support of the MEng program to be involved in dialogue inside and outside of the University’s programs would be very valuable in my efforts to include discussions of privilege and social change into such a male-dominated field as engineering. -- Vianna Quenon, MEng ‘21 (ME) The 2020 Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration took place from September 29 - October 3. The commemorate the past week's festivities, celebrating #WomeninTech, we wanted to highlight the perspectives of the Fung Institute's own #WomeninEngineering with this special edition of #HumansofFung throughout the month of October.