This course at UC Berkeley provides conceptual and hands-on experience in the design and implementation of innovative products or processes for improving the sustainability of resource-constrained communities. Teams of approximately four students each take on practical projects, with guidance from subject experts. The goal of the projects is to help mature innovations into useful products or processes and to assess social and business opportunities for real-world dissemination of these products. Because these problems are interdisciplinary in nature, students come from a variety of backgrounds, including engineering, physics, environmental science, ERG, architecture, economics, business, public policy, and public health, among others.

For details and reports of previous teams, including those who worked in French Polynesia, see http://eetd.lbl.gov/staff/gadgil/teaching.html