Development Engineering

Advising

The DE in Dev Eng provides both faculty and staff advising support. The Development Engineering Faculty Advisors are Dan Fletcher (Bioengineering) and Clair Brown (Economics).

Shelley Okimoto
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
750 Davis Hall
okimoto@ce.berkeley.edu
(510)643-8944

Have questions about the Designated Emphasis in Development Engineering and about the field in general? For more information over email, phone, or an in person meeting, please contact Maryanne McCormick (Executive Director) or Yael Perez (InFEWS Program Coordinator).

Faculty

Charisma Acey​ Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning
Alice Agogino Chair of DevEng, Executive Committee Member,
Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Sara Beckman​ Senior Lecturer and Earl F. Cheit Faculty Fellow, Haas School of Business
Joshua Blumenstock​ Professor, School of Information
Clair Brown Executive Committee Member,
Professor Emeritus, Economics
Jenna Burrell​ Associate Professor, School of Information
John Canny Paul and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Jack Colford​ Professor, School of Public Health
Hany Farid Professor, School of Information & EECS
Daniel Fletcher Co-Graduate Advisor,
Purnendu Chatterjee Chair in Engineering Biological Systems, Bioengineering
Ashok Gadgil, civil and environmental engineering professor, poses for a portrait at San Pablo Reservoir in El Sobrante, Calif. on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering)
Ashok Gadgil Executive Committee Member,
Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Paul Gertler​ Li Ka Shing Foundation Chair in Health Management, Haas School of Business
Paz Maria Gutierrez​ Co-Graduate Advisor,
Associate Professor of Architecture
Elizabeth Hoover Associate Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Daniel Kammen​ Professor in the Energy and Resources Group and Public Policy,
Director of Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)
G. Mathias Kondolf Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
Laura (Layla) Kwong​ Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health
David Levine​ Executive Committee Member,
Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Chair in Business Administration, Haas School of Business
Baoxia Mi Associate Professor Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate, Environmental Engineering
Kara Nelson​ Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering
Grace O’Connel Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Amy Pickering​ Assistant Professor of Development Engineering, Blum Center & College of Engineering
Kameshwar Poolla​ Professor Mechanical Engineering
Matthew Potts​ Vice Chair, Graduate Group in Development Engineering
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
S. J. Hall Chair in Forest Economics
Michael Ranney​ Professor Graduate School of Education
Ben Recht​ Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Elisabeth Sadoulet Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, College of Natural Resources
S. Shankar Sastry Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Director, Blum Center for Developing Economies
Zuo-Jun (Max) Shen Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
S. Leonard Syme Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology and Community Health
Sarah E. Vaughn Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology
Catherine Wolfram​ Faculty Director, Energy Institute at Haas Haas School of Business
David Zilberman​ Agriculture and Natural Resources

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