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.

Healthcare is indisputably one of the world’s largest, and yet, most impacted business segments, ripe for opportunities to reimagine and redesign how we care for the health and wellbeing of all people. Despite marvelous advances in science and technology, administrative overhead and costs have grown to the point where care remains inaccessible to millions of Americans and billions internationally as economic disparity reaches historic levels. Access to family planning, diagnostics, specialist or premium care, elective surgeries, brand name pharmaceuticals and even nutritional foods are accessible only to the wealthy. Mental health care remains stigmatized and unaffordable to a majority of Americans. Bio-security has, for the first time, reached national awareness in a pandemic. The latest diagnostic tools and treatments are available only to wealthy urbanites, and even then, care remains, for the most part, reactive to crises instead of preventive. This class will challenge you to build multi-disciplinary teams of co-founders and unleash your business, technical, marketing and entrepreneurial creativity to develop a new business from the ground-up that addresses one of these key problems in modern healthcare. All majors are welcome. The goal is to build a course full of passionate students willing to push their boundaries and learn to create an amazing startup. Newly emerging tools in informatics, genomics, diagnostics, and even entire engineering and communication disciplines offer new paradigms to address what used to be intractable problems. Experienced business leaders, entrepreneurs and technologists will mentor by introducing you to several methodologies, processes and tools that will guide you through company ideation and creation process; help you refine and test your business ideas, plans, and models; help you design and build first prototypes and collateral; and help you to analyze markets and competitive landscapes --essentially run through the health-tech startup process. Maybe your new company really will change the world. More Information: https://scet.berkeley.edu/students/courses/challenge-labs/health-tech/

This course counts towards the SCET Certificate in Technology and Entrepreneurship. Additional information: https://scet.berkeley.edu/certificate-in-entrepreneurship-and-technology/. Questions about SCET course enrollment or certificate can be directed to lee.2293@berkeley.edu.

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