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Affiliated Research Organizations

LBL logo Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
LBL is a national laboratory operated by the University of California for the U. S. Department of Energy. The National Center for Electron Microscopy, a major facility which operates as part of LBL, provides scientific researchers with essential resources for electron beam microcharacterization of materials.

LLNL logo Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LLNL is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory operated by the University of California. The lab focuses on science and engineering in the interest of national security.

NISEE logo National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering
NISEE provides timely access to technical research and development information in earthquake engineering and related fields of structural dynamics, geotechnical engineering, engineering seismology, and earthquake hazard mitigation policy. The NISEE project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Berkeley.


Research Centers


Major Engineering Research Centers & Programs



BSAC logo Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center
Devoted to research on sensors and miniature moving mechanical elements or MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) that take advantage of integrated-circuit technology.

BWRC logo Berkeley Wireless Research Center
An environment for research into the design issues necessary to support next generation wireless communication systems and expand the graduate research program in the wireless segment.

California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research
A cooperative effort among three campuses of the University of California and private industry, QB3 harnesses the quantitative sciences to integrate our understanding of biological systems at all levels of complexity - from atoms and protein molecules to cells, tissues, organs and the entire organism.

Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology
CET is an academic center designed to promote entrepreneurial education and to foster new venture creation.


The Center for Functional Imaging
CFI Laboratory develops new technologies for photon emission tomography, single photon tomography, and magnetic resonance human studies.


CITRIS logo Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
A collaborative effort at four UC campuses, CITRIS focuses on energy efficiency, transportation, earthquake preparedness, environmental monitoring, health care, education, homeland defense, and cultural research.

CIS logo Center for Intelligent Systems
CIS focuses on developing a unified theoretical foundation for intelligent systems.

CSB logo Center for Synthetic Biology
The Center seeks to understand and design biological systems and their components to address a host of problems that cannot be solved using naturally-occurring systems.

CTBE logo Center for Tissue BioEngineering
Dedicated to the discovery of engineering design principles for damaged tissue replacements (tissue engineering) and also for tools or environments which may negatively impact human tissues through poor design (ergonomics).

CGDM logo Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing
CGDM was formed to encourage multi- disciplinary research and education on environmental management, design for environment, and pollution prevention issues in critical industries.

Digital Library logo Digital Library Project
The Digital Library Project aims to reinvent scholarly information dissemination by new developing tools and technologies.

COEH logo UCSF/Berkeley Ergonomics Program
The Ergonomics Program conducts research to measure risk factors for chronic musculoskeletal disorders of the upper extremities and to evaluate hand tools and other engineering solutions designed to prevent these disorders.

Gigascale logo Gigascale Systems Research Center
GSRC performs long-range, collaborative research to address the challenges of chip design and meet the challenges presented by the growing design productivity gap.

International Computer Science Institute
ICSI is an independent, nonprofit basic research institute focusing on Internet architecture, speech and language processing, artificial intelligence, and cognitive and theoretical computer science.

Intel logo Intel Research Laboratory @ Berkeley
The focus of the Intel Research laboratory at Berkeley is to invent, develop, explore, and analyze highly interconnected systems at the extremes of the computing and networking spectrum — the very large, the very small, and the very numerous.

IML logo Integrated Materials Laboratory
IML provides state-of-the-art facilities for innovative research in nano-structure growth, processing, and characterization.

Microfab logo Microfabrication Laboratory
The Microfab Lab is an interdisciplinary research facility supported by the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences.

Millennium Project logo The Millennium Project
The Millennium Project aims to develop and deploy a hierarchical campus-wide "cluster of clusters" to support advanced applications in scientific computing, simulation, and modelling.

PEER logo Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
PEER develops performance-based earthquake engineering technologies for the economic and safety needs of society.

PATH logo Partners for Advanced Transit & Highways
PATH's mission is to develop advanced technologies to help improve the operation of California's highways.

Pserc logo Power Stystems Engineering Research Center
Universities working with industry to find innovative solutions to challenges facing a restructured electric power industry and to educate the next generation of power industry engineers.




Engineering Research Support Office (ERSO)

Our research facilities are managed by ERSO. The following institutes serve as nuclei around which faculty and students can gather to pursue common interests.

Organized research center (ORC)

  • Institute of Transportation Studies
    ITS sponsors a variety of research in areas ranging from transportation planning, policy analysis, and economics to environmental concerns and improving the performance of transportation systems.





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