Graduate Admissions
Special Programs
To supplement a degree in Mechanical Engineering, students also have the option of also participate in any of the following programs:
- The Management of Technology Program
This program supports a multi-disciplinary approach to innovation, management and technology. The MOT Program is open not only to business and engineering students, but to UCB graduate level students from all disciplines. MOT provides Berkeley students with a unique set of opportunities to develop their skills at working in multi-disciplinary teams on complex and interesting problems, and thus build their portfolios as they enter the job market.
- Designated Emphasis in Energy Science and Technology - DEEST
The Graduate Group in the in Energy Science and Technology has to date eleven affiliated Ph.D. programs: Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Nuclear Engineering, the Energy Resources Group, Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, Plant and Microbial Biology, Mechanical Engineering, EECS, the ME- Fluid Mechanics and Ocean Engineering Group, and Applied Science and Technology. The main goal of the DEEST is to enrich student's technical education in an important field and to enhance and facilitate interactions between faculty and students in different programs by creating a flexible and integrated interdisciplinary research and teaching environment.
- Computational Science and Engineering
A great many fields of science, engineering, finance and social science are embracing modeling, simulation, and data analysis as necessary tools to advance their fields. Sometimes this is driven by the march of Moore's Law providing computational power that makes simulations possible that were not possible before; it is also driven by the availability of large data sets not available before that require extensive computation to understand. The excitement of these opportunities has led 108 faculty from 20 departments and graduate programs to join together to create a new Designated Emphasis (DE) in CSE, essentially a "graduate minor" for PhD students enrolled in these 20 programs to become fluent in modeling, simulation, and data analysis tools. The participating departments are extraordinarily diverse and include Computer Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Astronomy, Neuroscience and Political Science, among many others.
- Course Work Only (CWO)
Applicants to our department also have the option to apply to a non-degree option called "Course Work Only" (CWO) on their graduate school application. You will need to meet all of the normal criteria for admission to be considered. There is a limit of two semesters of study and admission to this status precludes future admission or change of major into a degree program at Berkeley.
Generally, students who apply to CWO are Education Abroad Students (EAP) or international students just needing to take a years worth of courses here but are planning to finish their degrees at their home institution.