COURSE NUMBER: MBA292T.2

COURSE TITLE: Design, Evaluate and Scale Development Technologies

UNITS OF CREDIT: 3 units

INSTRUCTORs: Alice M. Agogino (Mechanical Engineering), Matthew D. Potts (Environmental Science, Policy & Management) and David I. Levine (Berkeley-Haas School of Business)

E-MAIL ADDRESS: agogino@berkeley.edu, mdpotts@berkeley.edu, and levine@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 work in cross-disciplinary teams, with MBA students, Masters’ of Engineering students, and Ph.D. students. The instructors have deep knowledge of engineering, innovation, and the context of developing countries. The class gives hands-on experience working on the deployment of technically-based solutions for developing economies. Thus, the course is a great fit for students who want to work in any of:

· product development

· product management

· developing economies

· startups

· social innovation and 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% Design & 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. 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. 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) product design and development technologies, (2) business issues and business model development and scaling, and (3) evaluation techniques and social impact assessment.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:
Dr. Alice M. Agogino is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering and serves as the Chair of the Graduate Group in Development Engineering and Education Director of the Blum Center for Developing Regions. Agogino has served in a number of other administrative positions including Chair of the UC Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate, Associate Dean of Engineering and Director of the Instructional Technology Program. She also served as Director for the Synthesis Engineering Education Coalition and continues as PI for theDesignExchange educational portal. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and has served on a number of committees of the National Academies, including the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine. With over 300 peer-reviewed publications, Agogino has supervised 194 MS projects/theses, 55 doctoral dissertations and numerous undergraduate researchers. She has won numerous teaching, best paper and research awards, including 2017 ASME Design Theory and Methodology Award, 2015 ASME Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award “, Presidential Mentoring Award, 2018; AAAS Lifetime Mentoring Award, 2013; Pi Tau Sigma Professor of the Year, 2011; Chancellor’s Community Service Award, 2010; Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring, 2007.

Dr. Matthew D. Potts is an Associate Professor in Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and holds the S.J Hall Chair in Forest Economics. He has a broad interdisciplinary background with formal training in mathematics, ecology and economics and more than two decades of on the ground experience in developing tropical countries. His interdisciplinary lab is focused on understanding the drivers of biodiversity and responses to disturbance, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services production in working landscapes, and the impact of human actions, values, and technology on ecosystem service production. He has published more than 60 peer reviewed publications in ecology, environmental economics and engineering, awarded the 2013 UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources’ Young Faculty/Cooperative Specialist Award, and most recently served a coordinating lead author on the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Land Degradation and Restoration Assessment.

Dr. David I. Levine is the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business.  He is past chair of the University’s Center for Health Research, of the Advisory Board for Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), and of the Haas School’s Economic Analysis and Policy Group. Levine’s research focuses on understanding and overcoming barriers to improving health in poor nations.  This research has examined both how to increase demand for health-promoting goods such as safer cookstoves and water filters, and how to change health-related behaviors such as handwashing with soap.  Levine has won the Cheit Teaching award at the Haas School twice.