PREP & T-PREP Jacobs Design Showcase

The Maker Design Studio (MDS) is an intensive short-course for incoming Berkeley Engineering freshman and transfer students created by UC Berkeley Professor Scott Moura. This design and innovation-focused module is part of a the summer programs at UC Berkeley called PREP (Pre-Engineering Program) and T-PREP (Transfer Pre-Engineering Program). MDS teaches students to rapidly ideate, design and prototype innovative engineering systems. To this end, we use the "Sprint" design process recently popularized within the start-up community.

Groups present their product pitches to a panel of judges, Shark Tank-style.

This Year's Themes

Session A: Health & COVID | Host: Tiffany Reardon, DA: Thomas Estrada

Session B: Energy & Sustainability | Host: Scott Moura, DA: Lizzette Corrales

Session C: Water and Climate Resilience | Host: Brian Salazar, DA: Gissell Jimenez

Session D: Mobility & Security/Safety | Host: Eldon Schoop, DA: Uriel Lopez