With a low-cost, accurate device that uses sound waves to diagnose pneumonia, a student team aims to meet critical needs in populations with limited access to medical infrastructure.
This design allows anyone to create a customized prosthetic system that they can adapt and use over long periods of time.
Visual Communication & Sketching students brought together storytelling skills to create visual pitches for products or services that could help address climate change.
Undergraduates in this human-centered design consultancy lead a course to share design skills and processes with their fellow students.
Student group EnableTech designs and builds technologies that address everyday challenges faced by people with disabilities.
Berkeley Formula Racing, a student team that designs and fabricates a racecar, has used Jacobs Hall’s advanced 3D printers to boost their productivity.
This graphic design group has used Jacobs Hall as a site of education and events, empowering fellow students to create beautiful and functional visual designs.
Students from 17 courses, as well as members of design clubs and the inaugural cohort of Innovation Catalysts grant recipients, will share their work.
Read moreThe Universal Socket Prosthetic, a student project developed in a course held at Jacobs Hall, has been named a student finalist in Fast Company’s 2018 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Read moreAt this open house event, you can meet the next generation of design innovators and explore their work on sustainability, health and more. Visitors of all ages can see tools like 3D printers and try out hands-on design processes.
Read moreHelp honor the latest cohort of students to receive the Berkeley Certificate in Design Innovation. Come by to celebrate this cohort, learn more about the certificate program, and chat with members of the certificate’s academic committee.
Read moreThis introductory course aims to expose you to the mindset, skillset and toolset associated with design. It does so through guided applications to framing and solving problems in design, business and engineering. Specifically, you will learn approaches to noticing and observing, framing and reframing, imagining and designing, and experimenting and testing as well as for critique and reflection. You will also have a chance to apply those approaches in various sectors.
Emily Au | 3 units
This course teaches concepts, skills and methods required to design, prototype, and fabricate physical objects. Each week relevant techniques in 2D and 3D modeling and fabrication are presented, along with basic electronics. Topics include a range of prototyping and fabrication techniques including laser-cutting, 3D modeling and 3D printing, soldering, and basic circuits.
Chris Myers | 3 units
A hands-on, studio design course where students work at the intersection of technological innovation and socially engaged art. Students will integrate a suite of digital fabrication tools with social design methods to create work that engages in cultural critique. Working with innovative technologies and radical, new art practices, this course will explore: hybrid art forms, critical design for community engagement, interventions in public spaces, tactical media and disobedient objects. These new making strategies will reframe our notions of people, places and participation.
Jill Miller | 4 units
This course involves the design and prototype of large-scale technology intensive systems. Possible design projects, incorporating infrastructure systems and areas such as transportation and hydrology, include watershed sensor networks, robot networks for environmental management, mobile Internet monitoring, open societal scale systems, crowdsourced applications, traffic management, and more.
Scott Moura | 3 units
