Archive for April 11, 2016

Susan Giesecke recently joined the team at SCET as the Director of Global Engagement.  Susan is responsible for building partnerships with international universities and organizations interested in engaging with the Center.  Susan came to SCET from Berkeley’s campus wide Global Engagement Office (GEO) where she was the Director of international Protocol.  At GEO, she was…

This week, the Newton Lecture Series featured two of Cal’s alumni and founders of Building Robotics, Andrew Krioukov and Stephen Dawson-Haggerty. Building Robotics is a startup based in the Bay Area that creates intelligent software systems for office buildings. The focus of the company is to use its products, such as Comfy, to ‘bring dynamic indoor…

A three-day bootcamp to train Filipino engineering faculty in entrepreneurship pedagogy was held from March 28 to March 30 at the Asian Institute of Management, Makati City, Philippines. The event, which was sponsored by the Philippine S&T Development Foundation (PhilDev), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and…

This article was originally published at UC Berkeley IEOR. Today, students came together for the first annual IEOR Graduate Student Symposium. PhD students presented on a broad array of topics representative of the many areas where IEOR tools are applicable including supply chains, energy systems, robotics, health care, neuroimaging, and others.  This first symposium was initiated and…