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.

Have you been curious what it means to address global challenges through socially-minded entrepreneurship and innovation using technology? How can you bring Silicon Valley innovation and entrepreneurship to address challenges that can transform society? This course is about the process of observing, designing, inventing, and implementing novel solutions aimed at transforming society. You will explore how for-profit ventures can be designed to do well (valuations and ROI), and also do good - helping communities to become self-reliant, prosperous while confronting inequality, global climate change, food insecurity, climate change, social justice and other problems. Through this course you will learn strategic skills, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, creative problem solving, design thinking skills and methods, and mindsets to transform yourself, your team, your business, by adopting society-first principles and scalable innovation. This course will teach you a design-thinking approach to move beyond today’s conventional problem solving and innovation. This class is open to anyone who is interested in a rigorous, hands-on experience in technology innovation and entrepreneurship. Students will form diverse start-up teams to create digital technology solutions to address problems that have the potential to create wealth and sustainable social impact. Students from all majors, both undergraduate and graduate are welcome to apply. Preference will be given to students with cross disciplinary interests and curiosity (Changemakers, Data Science, Engineering, Design, Business, and other subject matter interests are encouraged to apply). This class has an application to enroll. As we near the start of the semester, the instructor will review applications and notify you via email for a short interview after which your admission will be confirmed. Application: https://forms.gle/5cK9NdAhJ9aRJdgo6 Learn more here: https://scet.berkeley.edu/students/courses/challenge-labs/transform-society/

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