Jacobs Design Innovation Institute (JDII)

JDII Background

CoE Advisory Board Document (April 2013):

“this is an ideal time to extend and grow the role of design in our educational model at all levels: undergraduate, graduate and continuing education”

JDII Genesis

$20 million pledged by Paul and Stacy Jacobs in May 2013. • Berkeley Alums, long-time supporters of CoE and the campus.• Goal is a 24,000 sq ft, 3.5-story building North of Soda Hall.

“In our interconnected innovation economy, it is not enough to provide our future engineering leaders with technical skills,… They must also learn how to work in interdisciplinary teams, how to iterate designs rapidly, how to manufacture sustainably, how to combine art and engineering, and how to address global markets.”

- Paul Jacobs, Clinton Global Initiative 2013.

JDII Background

Themes:• Real-world problems and needs• Innovation through building• Rapid prototyping• Interdisciplinarity• Design for sustainable manufacturing• Global markets

JDII BackgroundSynergies:• CITRIS Invention Lab• Mech. Eng. Workshop

(under JDII)• Cal Design Lab• BID Lab• Capstone design courses in CoE• BCNM, VCL, I-School, Architecture,…• Maker Movement• MOOCs, Flipped Classrooms,

Studio Model, Modular Curriculum

JDII PrioritiesUndergraduate Instruction:• Concentration in Design for Engineering Majors– Requirements TBD, a curriculum committee is working on

this (3 elective courses w/ core course)?

• Minor in Design for non-Engineering Majors– 5 courses, only one sharable with the Major

Goal of around 2000 student-courses per semester.

Hands-on, studio courses. Small groups around a workbench.The Studio/Classroom: Projectors + Critique space + Lots of vertical work surfaces

JDII PrioritiesMasters Degrees ?Courses for Professionals ? Research Space ?

TBD: Focus on undergrad education for now.

JDII Structure• Director position announced, 1FTE allocated. Search

includes both campus and external candidates.

• Staff:– Lab/safety officer– Academic program administrator– Finance, Special Projects ?? - still TBD

JACOBS HALL: Project Milestones(from Scott Shackleton)

• Design Task Force (Building & Program) Commenced – May 2013• Schematic Design – Completed Sept 10, 2013• Design Task Force Building Committee Complete – Sept 30, 2013• Design Development – Completed Nov 2013• Construction Design – Completed Feb 2014 • Construction starts – Mar/Apr 2014• Construction completed – July 2015

• First Classes held in Fall 2015

JDII from SE (LeRoy Ave.)

JDII from SE (LeRoy Ave.)

JDII from NW (Ridge Road)

JDII from NW (Ridge Road)

JDII from W (Etcheverry Plaza)

JDII from W (Etcheverry Plaza)

JDII cross section from W

Soda Hall F3

Woz F4

Etcheverry F2

Etcheverry F1

JDII South Elevation

South Façade – (Work in Progress)

JDII Level 5 Floor Plan

JDII Level 4 Floor Plan

Wozniak Terrace

Invention LabStudio Model

JDII Level 3 Floor Plan

Soda Hall

JDII Level 2 Floor Plan

Etcheverry Hall

JDII Level 2 Floor Plan (alt.)

Etcheverry Hall