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Advance Your Career in a Changing Engineering Landscape

Engineering is evolving rapidly. Across industries, advances in AI, automation, advanced manufacturing, resilient infrastructure, energy systems, robotics, and intelligent technologies are reshaping the future of technical work.

Today’s engineers are increasingly expected to combine deep technical expertise with interdisciplinary thinking, adaptability, and systems-level problem solving.

The UC Berkeley Master of Advanced Study in Engineering (MAS-E) is designed to help working professionals build the advanced technical knowledge and cross-disciplinary perspective needed to grow alongside these changes — without stepping away from their careers.

Built for Emerging Engineering Industries

MAS-E students build expertise aligned with some of today’s fastest-evolving engineering and technology sectors, including:

  • AI and intelligent systems
  • Robotics and automation
  • Semiconductor and advanced manufacturing technologies
  • Energy systems and infrastructure modernization
  • Data science and optimization
  • Sustainable and resilient engineering systems
  • Software and computational engineering
  • Human-centered engineering design

The program’s interdisciplinary structure allows students to combine concentration coursework with electives across the broader engineering curriculum, helping them develop both specialized expertise and broader technical fluency.

A Berkeley Engineering Degree for Long-Term Career Growth

The engineering landscape will continue evolving rapidly over the coming decades. MAS-E is designed to help professionals remain technically current, adaptable, and prepared for emerging opportunities across engineering and technology industries.

By combining advanced technical coursework, interdisciplinary learning, and flexible online delivery, MAS-E helps engineers build expertise that supports long-term career mobility, technical leadership, and continued professional growth.

Career Resources to Help You Move Forward

MAS-E is fully online and designed for self-paced learning within an academic semester, allowing students to continue advancing professionally while pursuing a Berkeley Engineering master’s degree.

Berkeley Engineering Career Resources

MAS-E students gain access to career development resources designed to support long-term professional growth, including:

  • Career workshops and professional development programming
  • Resume and cover letter support
  • Networking opportunities
  • Career planning resources
  • Access to the broader Berkeley Engineering and alumni network

Berkeley Engineering graduates work across leading engineering and technology organizations spanning advanced manufacturing, energy, robotics, infrastructure, AI, computing, and emerging technology sectors.

Powerful Global Alumni Network

MAS-E students also gain access to the broader Berkeley Engineering ecosystem, including a global alumni network of more than 73,000 Berkeley Engineering graduates working across leading engineering, technology, research, manufacturing, infrastructure, and innovation organizations worldwide. This powerful professional network creates opportunities for long-term connection, industry insight, mentorship, and career mobility across evolving technical fields.

Berkeley Engineering Faculty Panel

How Will MAS-E Help You to Advance Your Career?

UC Berkeley’s MAS-E Program Staff partnered with Coursera recently hosted a webinar for prospective students to learn about the professional engineering landscape from the expert faculty members who teach the courses in the MAS-E program. Watch the webinar’s recording to learn more about how the MAS-E’s unique courses and pedagogy directly connect to solving current and future engineering challenges as well as other expert insights about the program and the future of the engineering career landscape from our distinguished faculty.

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