The Master Plan for the College of Engineering at Berkeley focuses on re-configuring the nearly 100-year old campus to meet the needs of evolving technology and the redefinition of traditional engineering disciplines for a new multi-disciplinary future in the sciences. The master plan looks globally at the College of Engineering, focused on the following issues: supporting social interaction; strengthening and creating community; supporting interdisciplinary research and teaching; responding to change; reconfiguring with flexibility; adapting to changes in information infrastructure and the mobility of students and faculty; and strengthening the College's sense of place.

Within its 20-year horizon, the master plan anticipates the scope and character of future facilities needs and guides the urban design goals for those facilities including: (1) an urban design framework to improve opportunities for social interaction within the College; (2) appropriate use of the off-site Richmond Field Station for public-private ventures; and (3) concept design for the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), an interdisciplinary research facility with connections to all Colleges in the University as well as to private research and engineering entities.