ENGR 171Hands-on Design Thinking: Solving Real World Business Challenges
Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills through design thinking framework that emphasizes ideation, divergence, convergence, prototyping, validation, and refinement. Students work in teams of seven, each supported by an industry coach who provides guidance on tackling a real-world business challenge. May be repeated for credit.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.