{"id":262295,"date":"2026-04-11T06:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/262295\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T06:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:01:18","slug":"engineering-ethics-workshop-berkeley-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/262295\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Ethics workshop – Berkeley Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nCo-sponsored by the College of Engineering and Enable Tech student\u00a0group\n<\/p>\n

\"College<\/p>\n

\"Enabletech<\/p>\n

\nThank you to our industry partners\n<\/p>\n

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Details & registration<\/p>\n

Free lunches for attendees<\/p>\n

Prizes for winners of poster contest<\/p>\n

Prizes for breakout session winners<\/p>\n

Its-Its Ice cream sandwiches for all participants<\/p>\n

Date: April 16, 2026<\/p>\n

Time: 10:00 \u2013 3:00<\/p>\n

Location: Grimes Engineering Center<\/p>\n

Open to: All Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Alumni interested in discussing Engineering Ethics & Social Responsibility across UCB<\/p>\n

Deadline to register for the workshop: April 9, 2026<\/p>\n

Poster contest<\/p>\n

Present a poster about how your student organization engages with engineering ethics, or choose one of the provided poster prompts.<\/p>\n

Register to submit a poster by: April 2, 2026<\/p>\n

Posters must be submitted by: April 13, 2026<\/p>\n

Breakout sessions with industry partners<\/p>\n

Work in groups of 5-6 students and design solutions to case studies provided by our industry panelists.<\/p>\n

Prizes to be given to groups with the most compelling ideas\/solutions.<\/p>\n

Students, please come with resume ready to share electronically with industry partners who are interested in connecting regarding jobs and internships.<\/p>\n

Agenda<\/p>\n

Time: 9:15 \u2013 10:00
Location: Raw Thrills Lounge
Event: Check in, Pastries, Coffee<\/p>\n

Time: 10:00 \u2013 10:45
Location: Jarvis Auditorium
Event: Industry Panel with Nvidia & Lam Research<\/p>\n

Short presentations by representatives.
How do we enable rapid innovation while thinking about impact to society? (which could include sustainability, confidentiality, individual protections). Possible questions:<\/p>\n

How are potential societal impacts identified and communicated within the company, and within the industry?
Are there examples from your field of differing global norms, and does the company take initiatives to seek global uniformity, or does the variability create unique opportunities?<\/p>\n

What are the roles of regulations? What do you wish the roles of relations were? Which are the regulatory agencies of relevance to your industry, and how do you envision the regulatory space changing? In your field, does regulation help, or hinder?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

What engineering ethics and social responsibility training does your company provide, or expect of engineers to have before they are hired?<\/p>\n

Q&A with Students<\/p>\n

Time: 11:00- 12:30
Location: Brayton, Greene & Rosenblum
Event: Students break into teams (5-6 students) and create a solution to the Case Study.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nvidia Case Study<\/p>\n

Communicating AI Risks: From Identification to Employee Action<\/p>\n

AI systems have the potential to impact millions of people, often in ways that aren\u2019t immediately apparent during development. Unlike traditional software that follows explicit rules, AI systems learn patterns from data and make decisions that can be difficult to predict or explain. This creates unique responsibilities for organizations deploying these technologies. Risk assessments are essential because they protect people from harm, and enable responsible innovation with clear boundaries and safeguards.<\/p>\n

The Challenge: Effectively communicating risks to 100\u2019s employees across engineering, product, and customer service teams can be very challenging. Teams have varying technical expertise and limited time for training.<\/p>\n

Your Task: Design a technical solution that automatically explains what the risks are, how they\u2019re prioritized, what mitigation is in place, and what each employee\u2019s role is in managing them.<\/p>\n

LAM Case Study<\/p>\n

Designing for Performance, Profit, and Planet<\/p>\n

You are early-career engineers at Lam Research, a global leader in plasma etch, deposition, and clean equipment used by TSMC, Samsung, Intel, and other leading fabs. Advanced semiconductor fabrication is extraordinarily resource-intensive: a single fab consumes as much electricity as a small city, uses millions of gallons of ultrapure water daily, and relies on fluorinated gases (CF\u2084, SF\u2086, NF\u2083) with global warming potentials 10,000\u201325,000\u00d7 that of CO\u2082.<\/p>\n

Historically, customers bought equipment based on safety\/compliance, on-wafer performance (etch rate, uniformity, selectivity, defectivity), and cost of ownership\u2014CoO (throughput, uptime, consumables). Sustainability was not a purchase factor.<\/p>\n

That is changing.\u00a0Customers have made net-zero pledges (2030\u20132050). Regulations in the EU, Korea, and Taiwan are tightening. Downstream brands demand Scope\u00a03 transparency. Customers now ask suppliers for per-wafer energy reductions, lower gas usage, reduced water\/chemical consumption, and lifecycle carbon data. Sustainability is becoming a selection criterion.<\/p>\n

Case study full details linked here<\/a><\/p>\n

Case study supplementals linked here<\/a><\/p>\n

Time: 12:30 \u2013 1:30
Location: Raw Thrills & Giancarlo Gallery
Event: Lunch & Poster Sessions<\/p>\n

Time: 1:30 \u2013 2:00
Location: Jarvis Auditorium
Event: Presentation of winners in breakout room Sessions
Poster Session Winners<\/p>\n

Time: 2:00 \u2013 3:00
Location: Greene & Rosenblum, Brayton
Event: Industry Engagement
Meet with companies to learn about opportunities & employment with Nvidia and Lam Research<\/p>\n

Time<\/p>\n

Location<\/p>\n

Event<\/p>\n

9:15 \u2013 10:00<\/p>\n

Raw Thrills Lounge<\/p>\n

Check in, Pastries, Coffee<\/p>\n

10:00 \u2013 10:45<\/p>\n

Jarvis Auditorium<\/p>\n

Industry Panel with Nvidia and Lam Research <\/p>\n

Short presentations by representatives.
How do we enable rapid innovation while thinking about impact to society? (which could include sustainability, confidentiality, individual protections). Possible questions:<\/p>\n

How are potential societal impacts identified and communicated within the company, and within the industry?<\/p>\n

Are there examples from your field of differing global norms, and does the company take initiatives to seek global uniformity, or does the variability create unique opportunities?<\/p>\n

What are the roles of regulations? What do you wish the roles of relations were? Which are the regulatory agencies of relevance to your industry, and how do you envision the regulatory space changing? In your field, does regulation help, or hinder?<\/p>\n

What engineering ethics and social responsibility training does your company provide, or expect of engineers to have before they are hired?<\/p>\n

Q&A with Students<\/p>\n

11:00- 12:30<\/p>\n

Brayton<\/p>\n

Greene & Rosenblum<\/p>\n

Students break into teams (5-6 students) and create a solution to the Case Study.\u00a0Breakout Sessions:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nvidia Case Study<\/p>\n

Communicating AI Risks: From Identification to Employee Action<\/p>\n

AI systems have the potential to impact millions of people, often in ways that aren\u2019t immediately apparent during development. Unlike traditional software that follows explicit rules, AI systems learn patterns from data and make decisions that can be difficult to predict or explain. This creates unique responsibilities for organizations deploying these technologies. Risk assessments are essential because they protect people from harm, and enable responsible innovation with clear boundaries and safeguards.<\/p>\n

The Challenge: Effectively communicating risks to 100\u2019s employees across engineering, product, and customer service teams can be very challenging. Teams have varying technical expertise and limited time for training.<\/p>\n

Your Task: Design a technical solution that automatically explains what the risks are, how they\u2019re prioritized, what mitigation is in place, and what each employee\u2019s role is in managing them.<\/p>\n

LAM Case Study<\/p>\n

Designing for Performance, Profit, and Planet<\/p>\n

You are early-career engineers at Lam Research, a global leader in plasma etch, deposition, and clean equipment used by TSMC, Samsung, Intel, and other leading fabs. Advanced semiconductor fabrication is extraordinarily resource-intensive: a single fab consumes as much electricity as a small city, uses millions of gallons of ultrapure water daily, and relies on fluorinated gases (CF\u2084, SF\u2086, NF\u2083) with global warming potentials 10,000\u201325,000\u00d7 that of CO\u2082.<\/p>\n

Historically, customers bought equipment based on safety\/compliance, on-wafer performance (etch rate, uniformity, selectivity, defectivity), and cost of ownership\u2014CoO (throughput, uptime, consumables). Sustainability was not a purchase factor.<\/p>\n

That is changing.\u00a0Customers have made net-zero pledges (2030\u20132050). Regulations in the EU, Korea, and Taiwan are tightening. Downstream brands demand Scope\u00a03 transparency. Customers now ask suppliers for per-wafer energy reductions, lower gas usage, reduced water\/chemical consumption, and lifecycle carbon data. Sustainability is becoming a selection criterion.<\/p>\n

Case study full details linked here<\/a><\/p>\n

Case study supplementals linked here<\/a><\/p>\n

12:30 \u2013 1:30<\/p>\n

Raw Thrills & Giancarlo Gallery<\/p>\n

Lunch & Poster Sessions<\/p>\n

1:30 \u2013 2:00<\/p>\n

Jarvis Auditorium<\/p>\n

Presentation of winners in breakout room sessions<\/p>\n

Poster Session Winners<\/p>\n

2:00 \u2013 3:00<\/p>\n

Jarvis Auditorium<\/p>\n

Brayton<\/p>\n

Greene & Rosenblum<\/p>\n

Industry Engagement: Meet with companies to learn about opportunities & employment<\/p>\n

Nvidia<\/p>\n

Lam Research<\/p>\n

Speakers<\/p>\n

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Dr. Wojciech Osowiecki<\/p>\n

Dr. Wojciech (\u201cWojtek\u201d \u2013 pronounced \u201cVoytek\u201d) Osowiecki is a Product Marketing Engineer in the Global Product Group at Lam Research. He is responsible for the environmental sustainability roadmaps of all etch, deposition, and clean products, and the Equipment Intelligence\u00ae feature of etch tools. Wojtek founded the Lam Employee Sustainability Community (LESC), an employee resource group focused on environmental sustainability with over 1,100 members, and co-chairs SEMI\u2019s Climate Equity and Social Impact (CESI) working group. A Siebel Scholar and winner of UC Berkeley\u2019s Cleantech to Market program, Wojtek holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from UC Berkeley and a joint B.S.\/M.S. degree in chemistry from Yale.<\/p>\n

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Barnaby Simkin<\/p>\n

Barnaby is Director of Trustworthy AI at NVIDIA. He designs the internal governance structures that guide responsible AI development and deployment. He leads a team that creates processes and evaluation tools to quantify and mitigate risk across models, datasets, and complex integrated systems such as autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots. His work ensures AI is not only technically capable, but safe, compliant, and aligned with legal and ethical expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Co-sponsored by the College of Engineering and Enable Tech student\u00a0group Thank you to our industry partners Details &…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-262295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}