Berkeley breaks ground on new Engineering Center
The College of Engineering celebrated the groundbreaking for the Grimes Engineering Center in 2023, amid cheers from hundreds of benefactors, staff, faculty, and students.
The Grimes Engineering Center
A new space for a new generation of leaders
Opening in spring 2025, the Grimes Engineering Center will provide a space like no other on campus, one that puts innovation, entrepreneurship, collaboration, and inclusion at its core for future leaders. Overlooking Memorial Glade, the building — the “heart” of Berkeley Engineering — will serve as a central hub for the north side of campus, hosting academic and social events in addition to advising, tutoring, and career services. Its open, light-filled design invites connections and teamwork, fostering the type of transformative educational experiences that will empower students to become future leaders who will make a better world for all.
Leadership philanthropy funds new Engineering Center
Powered by a $30 million challenge match grant from an anonymous alum, UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering has raised significant gifts to transform the engineering center into a vibrant hub of learning and discovery, cross-disciplinary collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship.
“I have no doubt that the next planet-changing, economy-boosting, era-defining technology leader will emerge from this building, armed with a Berkeley Engineering degree and fueled by ideas seeded here in collaboration with fellow students and faculty across the campus.” — Charles Giancarlo M.S. ’80, Chair, Berkeley Engineering Advisory Board