Engineering Your Life: Skills for Leadership, Discovery and Service
This course provides the framework for engineering an empowered life through leadership, discovery and service. The class focuses on development of self, emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, problem solving, teamwork, diversity, and service learning. Skills include developing of self-awareness; understanding our unique strengths; debunking the imposter syndrome; creating plans of action and setting goals; giving and receiving assessments; interpreting body language; managing time and life-balance; and creating mission statements. Teamwork skills include methods for inspiring others; variations in leadership styles and team dynamics; rhythm of action for projects and teams; difficult conversations and conflict resolution; mechanisms.
Topics
- This course offers the requisite framework for engineering an empowered life. The course provides students with requisite skills for authentic leadership, self-discovery and societal service. These attributes are in alignment with the mission of the College of Engineering and the Berkeley campus.
- Students will learn how to assess personal strengths, implement plans of action and develop mission statements. Students will learn how to optimize their knowledge with assessment of learning styles along with key communication tools necessary for conflict resolution and inspiration of others (teamwork). Through a series of active exercises and self-reflection activities the students will learn requisite skills for self-discovery and the creation of a personal leadership plan.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027