Challenge Labs are 4 unit classes for students of all academic backgrounds who seek a rigorous, interactive, team-based, and hands-on learning experience in entrepreneurship and technology. This course uses a unique pedagogy, The Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship that involves the use of games, industry guest speakers, team exercises, videos and labs to cover the early part of the startup lifecycle. Each Challenge Lab has a different theme so it may be repeated but students should not take more than one in a single semester. In this highly experiential course, students form start-up teams to create technology solutions or services to address a broadly-defined problem posed by an industry partner or social challenge. See below for the current and previous Challenge Lab topics. See a sample syllabus here for one of our previous topics.

Fall 2024

ENGIN 183C 002  |  Disaster Technology: Creating Innovative Solutions to Environmental Change (Thomas Azwell)

ENGIN 183C-003  |  Connected Life: How Mobile/AI/Internet of Things Will Improve Our Lives (Gert Christen)

Spring 2024

ENGIN 183C-001  |  Design of plant-based foods | A Berkeley Changemaker® Course (Ricardo San Martin, Sarah Klass)

ENGIN 183C-002  |  Transforming Brain Health with Neurotech | A Berkeley Changemaker® Course (Gail Gannon)

ENGIN 183C-003  |  SportsTech, Entrepreneurship & the Future of Sports | A Berkeley Changemaker® Course (Christyna Serrano)

ENGIN 183C 004  |  Designing Startups to Transform Society | A Berkeley Changemaker® Course (Anita Balaraman)

Fall 2023

ENGIN 183C-001  |  Connected Life: How Mobile/AI/Internet of Things Will Improve Our Lives (Gert Christen)

ENGIN 183C-002  |  Disaster Technology: Creating Innovative Solutions to Environmental Change (Thomas Azwell)

ENGIN 183C-004  |  Product Design & Customer Needfinding: Alternative Meat (Anne Fletcher)

Spring 2023

ENGIN 183C-001  |  AltMeat: Product Design of Plant-Based Foods (Ricardo San Martin, Sarah Klass)

ENGIN 183C-002  |  Redefining Success: The Unspoken Rules of an Entrepreneurial Career | A Berkeley Changemaker® Course (Shuonan Chen, Gorick Ng)

ENGIN 183C-003  |  SportsTech, Entrepreneurship & the Future of Sports, A Berkeley Changemaker Course (Christyna Serrano)

ENGIN 183C-005  |  Designing Startups to Transform Society, A Berkeley Changemaker Course ( Anita Balaraman, Jill Finlayson)

Fall 2022

ENGIN 183C-001  |  Connected Life: How Mobile/AI/Internet of Things Will Improve Our Lives (Gert Christen)

ENGIN 183C-002  |  How to Think Like an Entrepreneur: The Unspoken Rules for Thriving in the Workplace of the Future (Shuonan Chen, Gorick Ng)

ENGIN 183C-003  |  Disaster Technology: Creating Innovative Solutions to Environmental Change (Thomas Azwell)

Spring 2022

INDENG 185-001  |  Alternative Meat: Product Design of Plant-Based Foods (Celia Homyak and Ricardo San Martin)

INDENG 185-002  |  OpportunityTech and the Future of Work Lab (Anita Balaraman and Jill Finlayson)

INDENG 185-003  |  Unleashing Innovation to Solve Global Health Challenges (Phillip Alvelda and Gail Gannon)

INDENG 185-004  |  Metaverses, NFTs, and Creator Economies with Blockchain (Luke Kowalski and Michael Morris)

INDENG 185-005  |  Facebooked: Clickbait and Customer Manipulation in the era of Social Internet (Takaaki Hirakawa andMehdi Maghsoodnia)

Fall 2021

INDENG 185-001  |  Alternative Meat: Product Design & Customer Needfinding (Anne Fletcher)

INDENG 185-002  |  Amazoogle: Creating Data-Driven Startup Ventures (Gert Christen and Shomit Ghose)

INDENG 185-004  |  Education, Technology & Entrepreneurship (Shuo Chen and Christyna Serrano)

Spring 2021

INDENG 185-002  |  Innovating Through Crisis (Ken Singer)

INDENG 185-003  |  AltMeat: Product Design of Plant-Based Foods (Ricardo San Martin)

Fall 2020

INDENG 185-002  |  Emerging Technologies and Social Impact Challenge Lab (Luke Kowalski)

INDENG 185-003  |  Alternative Meat: Product Design & Customer Needfinding (Anne Fletcher)

Spring 2020

INDENG 185-001  |  Emerging Technologies and Social Impact Challenge Lab (Luke Kowalski)

INDENG 185-002 | Amazoogle (Shomit Ghose)

INDENG 185-003 | Sports Tech (Stephen Torres, Ken Singer)

INDENG 185-004  |  AltMeat: Product Design of Plant-Based Foods (Ricardo San Martin)

Fall 2019

INDENG 185-001 | Amazoogle (Shomit Ghose)

INDENG 185-002 | Emerging Technologies and Social Impact Challenge Lab (Luke Kowalski)

INDENG 185-003 | Blockchain, Privacy and Healthcare (Mehdi Maghsoodnia)

INDENG 185-004 | Smart Villages (Gert Christen)

INDENG 185-005 | Disrupt Berkeley (Rick Rasmussen)

INDENG 185-007 | Product Design & Customer Needfinding: Alternative Meat (Anne Fletcher)

Refer to our Courses page for a full list of SCET courses and our

Certificate page for more information on our Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology.

Contact

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scet-academics@berkeley.edu for additional questions.