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Winter 2025 Design Showcase

Winter 2025 Design Showcase

You’re invited to join the Jacobs Institute over Monday and Tuesday, December 8 and 9, for the Winter Design Showcase. This is our end-semester tradition where students in Design Innovation courses at the University of California, Berkeley demonstrate and share their projects, prototypes, and research.

We also have projects and demos from Cal clubs; our Jacobs Innovation Catalyst grant recipients; other staff, faculty and student independent work; and tours of the Jacobs Makerspace.

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 8th

12-1:30 PM

DEVENG 200: Design, Evaluate, and Scale Development Technologies

DES INV 21: Visual Communication & Sketching Yoon Bahk

MECENG 179/279: Designing for the Human Body Grace O’Connell, PhD

Independent Projects:

  • Cal Seismic Design Team
  • Combat Robotics at Berkeley:  High Roller
  • Cal Concrete Canoe

 

2-3:30 PM

Innovation Catalyst Fall 2025 Grantees

COMPSCI 160/260A: User Interface Design & Development Bjoern Hartmann

Independent Projects:

  • Combat Robotics at Berkeley: ChatGPT
  • UAVS@Berkeley
  • MediCompass

 

3:30-4 PM

Makerspace Tour (Meet in the West Entrance to the Makerspace, 1st Floor)

 

4-5:30 PM

MECENG C292: Design with Morphing Materials and Mechanisms Lining Yao

MECENG 102B: Mechatronics Design Hannah S. Stuart

Independent Projects:

  • Space Technologies at California (STAC)
  • Combat Robotics at Berkeley: Malware
  • Combat Robotics at Berkeley: Mother Flipper

 

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9th

12-1:30 PM

DES INV 15: Design Methodology Emily Au

DES INV 202: MDes Technology Design Foundations Critiques Jeff Lubow, TJ McLeish, Sudhu Tewari

Independent Projects:

  • Rocket Drone
  • The Cost of Relief
  • Combat Robotics at Berkeley: T2
  • GeoWall at Berkeley

 

1:30-2 PM

Makerspace Tour (Meet in the West Entrance to the Makerspace, 1st Floor)

 

2-3:30 PM

ENGIN 29: Manufacturing and Design Communication Sara McMains

DES INV 202: MDes Technology Design Foundations Critiques Jeff Lubow, Sudhu Tewari, Chris Myers

Independent Projects:

  • 若隐若现: Fluid Illegibility in Chinese Queer Media (Nile Tan)
  • RECURSIVE SELF PORTRAIT #0 (Shm Garanganao Almeda)

 

3:30-4 PM

Makerspace Tour (Meet in the West Entrance to the Makerspace, 1st Floor)

 

4-5:30 PM

ENGIN 29: Manufacturing and Design Communication Sara McMains

DES INV 200 & 210: MDes Studio Foundations Science Fair + Design Frameworks Gallery Hugh Dubberly, Thomas (TJ) McLeish, Ling-xiu Zhang

Independent Projects:

  • 若隐若现: Fluid Illegibility in Chinese Queer Media (Nile Tan)
  • RECURSIVE SELF PORTRAIT #0 (Shm Garanganao Almeda)