Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017 10 Week Session
Elements of procedural and object-oriented programming. Induction, iteration, and recursion. Real functions and floating-point computations for engineering analysis. Introduction to data structures. Representative examples are drawn from mathematics, science, and engineering. The course uses the MATLAB programming language. Sponsoring departments: Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
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Terms offered: Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2014 10 Week Session
Elements of procedural and object-oriented programming. Induction, iteration, and recursion. Real functions and floating-point computations for engineering analysis. Introduction to data structures. Representative examples are drawn from mathematics, science, and engineering. The course uses the MATLAB programming language.
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Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Introduction to design methodology, problem definition, and the search for creative solutions. Social, political, legal, and ethical aspects of design solutions. Topics and discussions include the structure of engineering organizations, the product development cycle, mechanical dissection, reverse engineering, patents, failure case studies, product liability, and engineering ethics.
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Terms offered: Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2008
The Berkeley Seminar Program is designed to provide students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all college departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
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Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Development of 3-dimensional visualization skills for engineering design. Sketching as a tool for design communication. Presentation of 3-dimensional geometry with 2-dimensional engineering drawings. This course will introduce the use of 2-dimensional CAD on computer workstations as a major graphical analysis and design tool. A group design project is required. Teamwork and effective communication are emphasized.
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Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Three-dimensional modeling for engineering design. This course will emphasize the use of CAD on computer workstations as a major graphical analysis and design tool. Students develop design skills, and practice applying these skills. A group design project is required. Hands-on creativity, teamwork, and effective communication are emphasized.
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Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), tolerance analysis for fabrication, fundamentals of manufacturing processes (metal cutting, welding, joining, casting, molding, and layered manufacturing).
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Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by the faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.
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Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by the faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.
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Terms offered: Fall 2010
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by the faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.
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Terms offered: Fall 2017
Fundamental laws of thermodynamics for simple substances; application to flow processes and to nonreacting mixtures; statistical thermodynamics of ideal gases and crystalline solids; chemical and materials thermodynamics; multiphase and multicomponent equilibria in reacting systems; electrochemistry. Sponsoring Departments: Materials Science and Engineering and Nuclear Engineering.
Engineering Thermodynamics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016
Application of basic principles of physics and chemistry to the engineering properties of materials. Special emphasis devoted to relation between microstructure and the mechanical properties of metals, concrete, polymers, and ceramics, and the electrical properties of semiconducting materials. Sponsoring Department: Materials Science and Engineering
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Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2016
This course presents laboratory applications of the basic principles introduced in the lecture-based course E45 – Properties of Materials.
Properties of Materials Laboratory: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2012
May be taken only with permission of the Dean of the College of Engineering. Students with partial credit in a lower division engineering course may complete the work under this heading.
Supplementary Work in Lower Division Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
This series of lectures provides students, especially undeclared Engineering students, with information on the various engineering disciplines to guide them toward choice of major. Lecturers describe research activities, how they made their own career choices, and indicate future opportunities. Recommended for all Engineering Science students and required for Engineering undeclared students.
Perspectives in Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
Weekly seminar with different speakers on energy-related topics. The goal is to expose students to a broad range of energy issues.
Energy Engineering Seminar: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Seminars for group study of selected topics, which will vary from year to year. Intended for students in the lower division.
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Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Fundamental laws of thermodynamics for simple substances; application to flow processes and to nonreacting mixtures; statistical thermodynamics of ideal gases and crystalline solids; chemical and materials thermodynamics; multiphase and multicomponent equilibria in reacting systems; electrochemistry. Sponsoring Departments: Materials Science and Engineering and Nuclear Engineering.
Engineering Thermodynamics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014
Methods of theoretical engineering analysis; techniques for analyzing partial differential equations and the use of special functions related to engineering systems. Sponsoring Department: Mechanical Engineering.
Methods of Engineering Analysis: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Economic analysis for engineering decision making: Capital flows, effect of time and interest rate. Different methods of evaluation of alternatives. Minimum-cost life and replacement analysis. Depreciation and taxes. Uncertainty; preference under risk; decision analysis. Capital sources and their effects. Economic studies.
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Terms offered: Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013
How should engineers analyze and resolve the ethical issues inherent in engineering? This seminar-style course provides an introduction to how theories, concepts, and methods from the humanities and social science can be applied to ethical problems in engineering. Assignments incorporate group and independent research designed to provide students an opportunity to contribute novel findings to the emerging field of engineering ethics while building their analytical and communication skills. This course cannot be used to fulfill any engineering technical requirements (units or courses).
Ethics, Engineering, and Society: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
Advanced graphics tools for engineering design. Parametric solid modeling. Assembly modeling. Presentation using computer animation and multimedia techniques.
Advanced Engineering Design Graphics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
May be taken only with permission of the Dean of the College of Engineering. Students with partial credit in an upper division engineering course may complete the work under this heading.
Supplementary Work in Upper Division Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
This course engages students at the intersection of environmental justice, social justice, and engineering to explore how problems that are commonly defined in technical terms are at their roots deeply socially embedded. Through partnerships with community-based organizations, students are trained to recognize the socio-political nature of technical problems so that they may approach solutions in ways that prioritize social justice. Topics covered include environmental engineering as it relates to air, water, and soil contamination; race, class, and privilege; expertise; ethics; and engaged citizenship. This course cannot be used to complete any engineering technical or unit requirements.
Engineering, The Environment, and Society: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
The course builds an understanding, demonstrates engineering uses, and provides hand-on experience for object-oriented programming as well as exposes a practical knowledge of advanced features available in MATLAB. The course will begin with a brief review of basic MATLAB features and quickly move to class organization and functionality. The introduced concepts are reinforced by examining the advanced graphical features of MATLAB. The material will also include the effective use of programs written in C and FORTRAN, and will cover SIMULINK, a MATLAB toolbox providing for an effective ways of model simulations. Throughout the course, the emphasis will be placed on examples and homework assignments from engineering disciplines.
Advanced Programming with MATLAB: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018
The course is concerned with giving students the tools to prepare for the fields and jobs of the future.

Across all university departments and majors, the numbers of students who do not work in the fields in which they’ve received their degrees is not only significant, but growing. For example, anywhere from 20-40% of STEM graduates do not work in the fields in which they received their degrees.

This does not mean that students shouldn’t major in STEM, but that one of the primary purposes of higher education is learning how to learn. Accordingly, this course presents a number of frameworks that are critical for thinking about that which has not yet been invented.

Preparing for the Fields and Jobs of the Future: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Students who have completed a satisfactory number of advanced courses may pursue original research under the direction of one of the members of the staff. Final report and presentation required.
Undergraduate Research: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Group study of selected topics.
Directed Group Studies for Advanced Undergraduates: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
Lectures on new developments in ocean, arctic engineering. The optional third unit covers the analysis and design of arctic structures for ice structure interaction. The additional unit will require that students meet with the instructor one extra hour per week to work on an individual project. Topics covered: ice mechanics, determination of global and local forces, and other ice actions on structures. Term paper required. Sponsoring department: Engineering Interdisciplinary Studies.
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Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
Topics include complex variable methods, contour integration, solution of Laplace's equation via analytic function theory; asymptotic methods for evaluating integrals and solving differential equations; introduction to calculus of variations with applications; introductory integral equations. The course is intended to expose students in engineering and physical sciences to a range of methods for solving equations associated with mathematical models of physical processes.
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Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
This course offers an integrated treatment of three topics essential to modern engineering: linear algebra, random processes, and optimization. These topics will be covered more rapidly than in separate undergraduate courses covering the same material, and will draw on engineering examples for motivation. The stress will be on proofs and computational aspects will also be highlighted. It is intended for engineering students whose research focus has a significant mathematical component, but who have not previously had a thorough exposure to these topics.
Mathematical Methods in Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
Models for parallel programming. Fundamental algorithms for linear algebra, sorting, FFT, etc. Survey of parallel machines and machine structures. Exiting parallel programming languages, vectorizing compilers, environments, libraries and toolboxes. Data partitioning techniques. Techniques for synchronization and load balancing. Detailed study and algorithm/program development of medium sized applications.
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Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2010, Spring 2007
Application of finite difference methods to current problems of fluid dynamics, including compressible and incompressible flow. Sponsoring department: Mechanical Engineering.
Finite Difference Methods for Fluid Dynamics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2015, Spring 2014
Application of spectral methods to current problems of fluid dynamics, including compressible and incompressible flow. Sponsoring department: Mechanical Engineering.
Spectral Methods for Fluid Dynamics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016
Designed for professionally-oriented engineering graduate students, this course explores key topics in organizational behavior, including negotiations, power and conflict.
Organizational Behavior for Engineers: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016
Designed for professionally-oriented engineering graduate students, this course explores key topics in R&D technology management and ethics through faculty-led case analysis and discussion.
R&D Technology Management & Ethics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2016
Designed for professionally-oriented engineering graduate students, this course applies key topics in project management and team dynamics to students concurrent capstone projects.
Project Management & Teaming: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017
Designed for professionally-oriented engineering graduate students, this course explores key topics in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance.
Entrepreneurship for Engineers: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017
Designed for professionally-oriented engineering graduate students, this course explores key topics in technology strategy and industry analysis.
Technology Strategy & Industry Analysis: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017
Designed for professionally-oriented engineering graduate students, this course explores key topics in data analytics.
Data Analytics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017
Designed for professionally-oriented engineering graduate students, this course explores key topics in marketing and product management.
Marketing & Product Management: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Designed for professionally-oriented engineering graduate students, this course explores key topics in accounting and finance.
Accounting & Finance for Engineers: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018
Designed for professionally-oriented engineering graduate students, this course explores key topics in technology strategy using the case discussion method.
Technology Strategy for Engineering Leaders: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018
Designed for professionally-oriented engineering graduate students, this course explores key topics in industry analysis.
Industry Analysis for Engineering Leaders: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
Designed for professionally-oriented engineering graduate students, this course explores key management and leadership concepts relevant to technology-dependent enterprises. Topics include opportunity recognition, strategies for effective R and D, marketing innovation, disruption, cognitive inertia, product management, market selection, standards wars, two-sided markets, attracting stakeholders, business models, pricing strategies.
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Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
Designed for professionally-oriented engineering graduate level students, this course explores key operational, leadership, and financial concepts relevant to technology-dependent enterprises. Topics include methods to go to market, direct and indirect sales, logistics, talent management, managing creativity, project management, leadership styles, CFO-style interpretation of financial statements, funding sources, budgeting, and valuation methods.
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Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2011
Topics in this course will include the latest technology of various types of ion and electron sources, extraction and formation of charge particle beams, computer simulation of beam propagation, diagnostics of ion sources and beams, and the applications of beams in fusion, synchrotron light source, neutron generation, microelectronics, lithography, and medical therapy. This is a general accelerator technology and engineering course that will be of interest to graduate students in physics, electrical engineering, and nuclear engineering.
Charged Particle Sources and Beam Technology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011
Specific topics, hours and units of credit will vary from section to section, year to year. Courses are related classes in the Management of Technology certificate program.
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Terms offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010
This course is designed to give students a broad overview of the main topics encompassed by management of technology. It includes the full chain of innovative activities beginning with research and development and extending through production and marketing. Why do many existing firms fail to incorporate new technology in a timely manner? At each stage of innovation, we examine key factors determining successful management of technology. What constitutes a successful technology strategy? The integrating course focus will be on the emergence of the knowledge economy and technology as a key knowledge asset and will involve both general readings and cases. The course also introduces students to Haas and COE faculty working in the relevant areas.
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Terms offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009
This course is designed to examine the strategic issues that confront the management of the development stage biotech company, i.e., after its start-up via an initial capital infusion, but before it might be deemed successful (e.g., by virtue of a product launch), or otherwise has achieved "first-tier" status. Thus, the intention is to study the biotech organization during the process of it growth and maturation from an early stage existence through "adolescence" into an "adult" company. The focus of the class will be on business development, i.e., the deal making that must occur to accomplish the corporate objectives of bringing in new technologies and getting the initial products to market. We will explore the critical deal issues from both the perspective of the development stage company and the viewpoint of the larger, more mature biotech or big pharma company with which it seeks to partner.
Biotechnology: Industry Perspectives and Business Development: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010
The primary goal of this course is to develop in the student the marketing skills needed to compete aggressively as an entrepreneur in technology fields. Upon completion of the course, the student should have developed the following skills: the ability to assess and predict customer needs in markets that may not yet exist; the ability to create and execute marketing plans that necessarily integrate sophisticated technological development with rapidly evolving customer requirements; the ability to create and grow a focused marketing organization rapidly and efficiently; and the ability to create and use marketing communications to reach prospects, customers, OEMs, and sales channels efficiently and inexpensively.
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Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course seeks to make sense of, inter alia, the decline and prospective recovery of U.S. high-technology industries, the evolution of innovation and technology strategies and policies in Western Europe and Asia, the historic and current roles of governments in shaping markets for high-technology goods, and the impact on business strategies of recent developments in early-stage capital markets. Our general approach views technological innovation and competition as dynamic processes that reflect previous choices made by firms and governments. Modern technologies develop in markets that are international scope, often imperfectly competitive, and subject to influence by a variety of economic and political stakeholders. We will use an eclectic mix of theoretical, historical, and practical perspectives throughout the course in examining these issues, although no special familarity with any of these is assumed. From time to time, we will be joined by venture capitalists, corporate executives, and technologists engaged in global high-technology markets for discussion of these issues.
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Terms offered: Fall 2009
This course prepares students to found a startup business in China or to work with an MNC in China, develops their critical analysis and strategic decision tools and skills needed to compete in the world's most dynamic emerging market, and provides access and useful introductions/Guanxi to aid future business development in China.
Management of Technology - Doing Business in China: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010
This course will provide students an introduction to the complexities and unique problems of starting a life sciences company. It is designed for both entrepreneurs and students who may someday work in a biotechnology or medical device startup. Students will be exposed to the topics most critical for successfully founding, financing, and operating a life science company, and will be expected to perform many of the same tasks that founders would normally undertake. Discussions with life-science entrepreneurs, case studies of recent companies, and hands-on work developing entrepreneurial endeavors will all be utilized.
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Terms offered: Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011
This course is intended to provide the core skills needed for the identification of opportunities that can lead to successful, entrepreneurial high technology ventures, regardless of the individual's "home" skill set, whether technical or managerial. We examine in depth the approaches most likely to succeed for entrepreneurial companies as a function of markets and technologies. Emphasis is placed on the special requirements for creating and executing strategy in a setting of rapid technological change and limited resources. This course is open to both MBA and Engineering students (who enroll through the College of Engineering), and is particularly suited for those who anticipate founding or operating technology companies.
Opportunity Recognition: Technology and Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010
This course will provide you with a comprehensive view of the elements of modern project management, guidelines for success, and related tools. In organizations today, successful operations keep the organization alive and successful projects move it towards strategic objectives. A project is a one-time or infrequently occurring operation with a unique goal, limited lifespan, and limited resources. The fundamental concepts come from the field of operations management, but projects present special types of operations because of their intended focus, limited lives, constraints, and uncertainties. In organizations today, projects are many, diverse, and frequently overlapping.
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Terms offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009
This course involves the flows of materials and information among all of the firms that contribute value to a product, from the source of raw materials to end customers. Elements of supply chain management have been studied and practiced for some time in marketing, logtistics, and operations management. We will attempt to integrate these different perspectives to develop a broad understanding of how to manage a supply change. This course will focus on effective supply chain strategies for companies that operate globally with emphasis on how to plan and integrate supply chain components into a coordinated system. You will be exposed to concepts and models important in supply chain planning with emphasis on key trade offs and phenomena. The course will introduce and utilize key tactics such as risk pooling and inventory placement, integrated planning and collaboration, and information sharing. Lectures, Internet simulations, computer exercises, and case discussions introduce various models and methods for supply chain analysis and optimization.
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Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Engineering leadership principles integrated with concurrent technical capstone projects for Master of Engineering students. Students enroll in this supplementary course while they are enrolled in Engineering 296M, Capstone project, with their technical department capstone advisor. This project-based course will apply communication skills to the capstone project with a focus on presentations and writing in a professional context.
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Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
This course is the first of a sequence of two capstone project courses for candidates of the Masters of Engineering degree. Students engage in professionally oriented independent or group research or study under the supervision of a research advisor. The research and study synthesizes the technical, environmental, economic, and social issues involved in the design and operation of complex engineering devices, systems, and organization.
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Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
This course is the second of a sequence of two capstone project courses for candidates of the Masters of Engineering degree. Students engage in professionally oriented independent or group research or study under the supervision of a research advisor. The research and study synthesizes the technical, environmental, economic, and social issues involved in the design and operation of complex engineering devices, systems, and organizations.
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Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
Advanced group studies or seminars in subjects which are interdisciplinary in the various fields of engineering or other sciences associated with engineering problems. Topics which form the basis of seminars will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
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Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Advanced group studies or seminars in subjects which are interdisciplinary in the various fields or engineering or other sciences associated with engineering problems. Topics which form the basis of seminars will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
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