US News & World Report's 2020 rankings for Best Global Universities for Civil Engineering places Berkeley CEE in 5^th place. The rankings are based on reputation and research in the field.

Berkeley CEE is the highest ranking US university on the list. 

We follow Tsinghua University, Tongji University, National University of Singapore and Beijing Jiaotong University.

Juan Argote (CEE MS '10; PhD '14) gave the CEE Fall Distinguished Lecture on Monday, Oct. 21. As the Transportation Research Lead at Uber Advanced Technologies Group, Dr.. Argote leads a team of data scientists with backgrounds in Transportation Engineering and Econometrics to inform Uber's self-driving vehicle strategies.

His lecture provided an overview of the current state of Self-Driving Vehicle technology, delving into the role that Transportation Engineering and Operations Research will play in the path towards commercialization.
 

Jonathan Bray, Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering Excellence, gave Northwestern University's Osterberg Lecture in Chicago on Oct. 23.

He spoke on "Estimating Liquefaction-Induced Building Settlement."  

The Osterberg Lecture is presented by Northwestern's Civil & Environmental Engineering Department.

See abstract.

We encourage applications from graduates of California State Universities, especially first-generation and low-income students, women, and underrepresented minorities.  

Our MS program application fee will be waived for CSU applicants.*

We welcome two new faculty members: Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos and Dimitrios Zekkos.

Their state date is January 1, 2020. Both have established CEE web pages so that CEE faculty and students can contact them.

Professor Jack Moehle is quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle article "Towers in earthquake county--designers say new ones are safe to their core. (10.15.19).

Jack Moehle helped craft the guidelines for what is known as performance-based seismic design.