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.
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.
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
A. Richard Newton Series | A Berkeley Changemaker® Course
ENGIN 183A/283A | 1 units
Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
ENGIN 183B | 2 units
Technology Entrepreneurship
ENGIN 183E | 3 units
Exploring Sustainable Food Production
ENGIN 198-002 | 2 units
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.
Connected Life: How Mobile/AI/Internet of Things Will Improve Our Lives
Disaster Technology: Creating Innovative Solutions to Environmental Change
Special Topics
Special Topics courses delve deep into specialized subjects within the realm of entrepreneurship and technology.
Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs
ENGIN 183/283-002 | 2 units
Startup Catalyst: Let’s Speed Up Your Startup / A Berkeley Frontier Fund Class
ENGIN 183/283-003 | 3 units
Future of Technology: How Innovators Critically Examine Game Changing and Time Wasting Technologies
ENGIN 183/283-004 | 3 units
Growth Marketing for Aspiring Entrepreneurs
ENGIN 183/283-005 | 2 units
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.
Decal: DECODE Silicon Valley Startup Fundraising
ENGIN 198-11 | 2 units
Decal: Innovators in Residence
ENGIN 198-001 | 2 units
Decal: Introduction to Generative AI
ENGIN 198-007 | 2 units
Decal: Product Launch: How to Quickly Launch Your First Startup
ENGIN 198-004 | 2 units
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 here. To 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
The campus-friendly thrifting marketplace
DTP: Grove Collaborative
Pollution to solution
PodTrack
Transforming the podcast experience