Your Future in Tech Entrepreneurship Starts Here

Our courses, taught using the award-winning Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship, provide a unique opportunity to learn about tech innovation and entrepreneurship through direct contact with experts in the field and hands-on projects.

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Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology

All SCET courses can be applied towards the SCET Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology. See the Certificate page for more information on the Certificate requirements.

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Fall 2024 Drop-In Advising Hours

Current and prospective students are welcome to drop-in during any advising session below. Please contact Joo Ae Chu at jooae@berkeley.edu for questions if you cannot join the advising sessions.

Fall 2024 Courses

Berkeley Challenge Labs™

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.

Special Topics

Special Topics courses delve deep into specialized subjects within the realm of entrepreneurship and technology.

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Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs

ENGIN 183/283-002 | 2 units
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Startup Catalyst: Let’s Speed Up Your Startup / A Berkeley Frontier Fund Class

ENGIN 183/283-003 | 3 units
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Future of Technology: How Innovators Critically Examine Game Changing and Time Wasting Technologies

ENGIN 183/283-004 | 3 units
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Growth Marketing for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

ENGIN 183/283-005 | 2 units
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Applied Resilience | Your Innovation Springboard

ENGIN 183/283-006 | 3 units

SCET DeCal Courses

DeCals are student-run courses where students create and facilitate their own classes on a variety of subjects, many of which are not addressed in the traditional curriculum.

Enrollment FAQ's

Please see below for FAQs to common enrollment questions. If you still have a question, you can email scet-academics@berkeley.edu from your Berkeley email and include your student ID and the full course number and section that you're referring to. Note that we have multiple sections of ENGIN 183, 183C, and 283. Contact the instructor(s) for questions regarding the class content/format.

Hosting a Decal

The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET) supports the value that Decal courses bring to SCET and the greater UC Berkeley community.  Students interested in having their DeCal course hosted through SCET must attend a mandatory SCET decal workshop and submit complete proposals by June 15th for the Fall semester and October 1st for the Spring semester.  The workshops are held in the Spring semester.  Please reach out to the scet-academics@berkeley.edu to ensure you will get the announcements. The SCET Academic Program Manager is available prior to the deadlines to answer questions and support students in submitting their proposals for consideration.  Submissions after the established deadlines will not be considered. Incomplete proposals will also not be considered. 

If you are interested in submitting a request for SCET to host your Decal please see the Decal webpage regarding the necessary paperwork.  Please submit your proposal hereTo host a Decal in Fall 2025, proposals must be submitted by June 15, 2024. 

Student facilitators may receive academic credit as long as they complete the required facilitator training, and their name is listed as a facilitator on the proposal packet.  Facilitators must do BOTH in order to enroll and receive academic credit as a student facilitator for the DeCal course.  Students listed on the proposal packet who did not complete the required facilitator training by the established deadline will not be listed as a facilitator on the proposal and will not be eligible to earn academic credit.

Featured Projects

In our project-based courses, students gain hands-on experience working in teams to prototype and pitch innovative solutions to address important, real-world challenges. Below, you can find a selection of student projects from SCET courses.

REU

REU

The campus-friendly thrifting marketplace

Team: Clemence Billiemaz, Varsha Vaidyanath, Kartiki Gaur, Minyue Xia, Qingyue (Cecilia) Zhan
DTP Grove Collaborative

DTP: Grove Collaborative

Pollution to solution

Team: Sudeshna Naik, Akash Mahajan, Mia Thomas, Allisia Sandoval, Thibaud Huriez
PodTrack

PodTrack

Transforming the podcast experience

Team: Tony Shi, Annie Lin, Dean Huynh, Maria Damian, Hannah Yan