Engineering Research Support Organization

Welcome to ERSO
The Engineering Research Support Organization functions as a central hub, providing research administration support to all research centers, departments, and affiliated ORUs in the UC Berkeley College of Engineering. ERSO focuses on providing effective and efficient research administration, which allows the faculty to focus on developing and growing the research enterprise rather than managing business services. ERSO will maintain a customer-oriented operation, with appropriate levels of faculty and staff oversight to support a culture of continuous improvement.

Associate Dean for Research
Tsu Jae King Liu ; adr@coe

Executive Director, Research Support
Cathy Jen; ckj@erso

Deputy Director, Business Services;
Jennifer Stone; jstone@erso

ERSO’s Rollout of BearBuy

ERSO has begun the rollout of BearBuy to its customers. BearBuy is the campus's new purchasing system, a project of the OE Procurement initiative.

The ERSO Intranet will run in tandem with BearBuy for some weeks, and BearBuy will eventually be utilized for all purchase requests. ERSO customers will continue to use the ERSO Intranet for Travel & Entertainment requests and supply reimbursements.

Check the ERSO Bearbuy page for more information and training resources. Background on BearBuy is available on the Central Campus BearBuy site and BearBuy Training site.

ERSO Welcomes New Employees

Welcome Gladys Khoury and Glenn Chen who joined ERSO in early March. [learn more]

ersowebmaster@erso