COURSE NUMBER: MBA292T.2

This course is cross-listed with the Evening-Weekend MBA, Dev.Eng. and Mechanical Engineering Programs

COURSE TITLE: Design and Evaluation of Development Technology

UNITS OF CREDIT: 3 units

INSTRUCTORs: Ashok Gadgil (Environmental Engineering) and Catherine Wolfram (Berkeley-Haas)

E-MAIL ADDRESS: gadgil@berkeley.edu; cwolfram@berkeley.edu

CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION: bCourses

PREREQUISITE(S): Core. This is an applied innovation course for Haas MBAs and is a requirement for those students seeking a development engineering designation.

CAREER FIELD:
• Students will be assigned to on cross-disciplinary teams, with a high percentage of students earning PhDs or Masters in engineering. The instructors have deep knowledge of engineering and the developing country context. The course is a great fit for students who want to work in technical firms, in a product marketing capacity, post-graduation.
• This is a hands-on class for those with an interest in working in developing economies, as the class focuses on the deployment of technically based solutions for developing economies.
• This class is appropriate for those interested in working in a startup environment, and for those students interested in social innovation/social entrepreneurship.

CLASS FORMAT: 33% Instructor Led Discussion, 33% Guest Speakers, 34% Group Work

REQUIRED READINGS: There will be weekly readings and case studies. The case studies will focus on social startups in a developing country context, including technologies currently being developed at UC Berkeley.

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE:
• 10% Class Participation (this will be tracked weekly).
• 20% Technical Feasibility Analysis (End of Module One).
• 15% Business Model Development (End of Module Two).
• 15% Social Impact Assessment (End of Module Three).
• 40% Final Paper summary and presentation

ABSTRACT OF COURSE’S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES: This class provides you with key skills to create innovative products, targeted for developing countries, using collaborative, team-based techniques. Unique to this course, you will be working in cross-disciplinary teams composed of the best and brightest across Cal, in top ranked business, engineering, policy, and science graduate degree programs. You will be working together to help advance ongoing programs targeted for the developing world, with highly ranked faculty. This course also incorporates design projects and case studies, many of which are related to projects that had their genesis, and still receive support from various labs at UC Berkeley, as a part of our ongoing class discussions. A roster of speakers steeped in the field of developing country product deployment have also been invited to support identified topics. This course is composed of three modules: (1) technical feasibility analysis, (2) business issues and business model development and (3) social impact assessment.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:
Dr. Ashok Gadgil, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineer at UC Berkeley, Faculty Senior Scientist and former Director of the Energy and Environmental Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Gadgil specializes in heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and design for development. He also has substantial experience in technical, economic, and policy research on energy efficiency and its implementation - particularly in developing countries. He is best known for his work with two developing-world technologies: "UV Waterworks" (a simple and effective and inexpensive water disinfection system), and the Berkeley-Darfur Stove (a low-cost stove to that saves fuelwood in internally displaced person's camps in Darfur). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashok_Gadgil

Dr. Catherine Wolfram is the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. During academic year 2018-19, Wolfram will serve as the Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Berkeley Haas. She is also the Program Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Environment and Energy Economics Program, Faculty Director of The E2e Project, a research organization focused on energy efficiency, and an affiliated faculty member in the Agriculture and Resource Economics department and the Energy and Resources Group at Berkeley. Wolfram has published extensively on the economics of energy markets. Her work has analyzed rural electrification programs in the developing world, energy efficiency programs in the US, the effects of environmental regulation on energy markets and the impact of privatization and restructuring in the US and UK. She is currently implementing several randomized controlled trials to evaluate energy programs in the U.S., Ghana, and Kenya.