This course is meant for students in engineering and other disciplines who seek a challenging, interactive, team-based, and hands-on learning experience in entrepreneurship and technology. In this highly experiential course, students work in simulated start-up teams to create products or start-up ideas to address a broadly-defined need of an industry partner or social challenge.

"**This course counts towards the Sutardja Certificate in Technology and Entrepreneurship. Additional information: https://scet.berkeley.edu/courses/ ** Have you ever run into a bureaucratic roadblock at UC Berkeley? Even the world's top public university has its frustrating moments. Here's your chance to fix something and make a real impact. Run in Challenge Lab format, IEOR 185x, Disrupt Berkeley will have students form teams, provide with you unprecedented access to some of the University administrative systems and identify a problem that you believe worth solving. Once done, you and your team will be able to validate the problem, gain buy-in from various stakeholders, work with mentors to come up with a potential solution, validate that and then go through the process of proposing how to build it out. Work in progress and final results all will be presented to the administrators that will review and potentially implement real change. This course is based upon the experiential learning principles of the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship (BMoE) which focus on the mindset and tools used to implement real-world startups. This is e-governance and open government applied at a local level with real potential impact. This Challenge Lab is intended for upper division students in nearly any major. Teams will be diverse consisting of engineering, business, social sciences and more. If you want to know what it's like to work in government or university administration and affect real change, this class could be ideal for you.

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