Join Us to Contribute to Earth 2.0

Earth2.0 is a vision of our world with all of us working together. We believe many hands can make even the biggest problems solvable. We see this happening now and a mission is to foster and innovate to help every citizen. The approach is through design of citizen centric mechanisms to address global challenges.

Joining Earth 2.0 offers an opportunity for students and beyond to engage in the design of such mechanisms. Join moonshots and loonshots and build a better world!

Create new
software and
interactive technology

Engineer and Build novel systems

Explore and prototype new ideas

Engage with large health systems and help communities

Understand human behavior and create new opportunities

Harness the power of data and artificial intelligence

Help people to overcome their health problems

Our projects are offered every quarter and during summer, and are conducted through studies involving reading, design, development, evaluation and discussion by a small group of (1-4) under supervision of a faculty member.

Project Objectives:

Develop increased experience and proficiency in research, presentation, documentation, and curation in a group setting
Direct written, spoken, or digital compositions to multiple audiences
An integral part is detailed problem formulation, analysis, synthesis and presentation of results using a problem based approach

I am a UCSD Student

I am not at UCSD

I have an idea for a collaboration

UC San Diego student opportunities

UC San Diego Students can currently engage with Earth 2.0 through a number of multi-disciplinary project/courses co-taught across the Jacobs School of Engineering, the School of Medicine, the School of Public Health, the Division of Social Sciences, and by engaging with the Design Lab, and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute.

Requisites:

An Enrollment Authorization System (EASy) request is typically required for enrollment. It is the student’s responsibility to find a faculty sponsor to approve this request. A section ID will be added to Tritonlink for enrollment. Students may use up to 8 units for Upper Division Elective credit

Please use this general description to add to your EASy request

Prerequisites: Interest in Earth 2.0 and experience in the selected domain.

Proposed Plan: Engage with the Earth 2.0 initiative to develop increased experience and proficiency in research, presentation, documentation, and curation in a group setting, including direct written, spoken, or digital compositions to multiple audiences. An integral part of the project is detailed problem formulation, analysis, synthesis and presentation of results using a problem based approach.

Interested students can also receive credits by participating in Co-Curricular Record (CCR) activities, which highlights student involvement and achievements in opportunities beyond the classroom. For more information see here or contact us.

Please see the details below that include the course number and a link to the registration or more information. If you are interested in engaging in one of our courses, please contact the responsible faculty/instructor.

Undergraduate Students: Each of these courses can be taken by undergraduate students for 2-4 units.
Graduate students: Please reach out to to the instructors to arrange graduate students credits

course title	instructors
CSE198 – Directed Course Study / Special Projects	Nadir Weibel, Henrik Christensen
ECE 198A – Directed Group Study	Ramesh Rao
DSGN 198 – Directed Group Study DSGN 199 – Independent Project	Nadir Weibel, Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, Camille Nebeker
FMPH 199 – Family Medicine & Public Health 199	Camille Nebeker
COGS 199 – Undergraduate Research	Nadir Weibel
HDSI 199 – Independent Study	Ramesh Rao, Henrik Christensen, Ben Smarr
MED Student ISP – Independent Study Project (Also see here)	Eliah Aronoff-Spencer

Opportunities if you are not at UC San Diego

If you are not a student at UCSD, we still want you to join us and work on our collaborative projects. We can discuss a variety of ways to get credits for your work on Earth 2.0 projects, including the following:

Letters of Recommendation

LinkedIn Endorsements

Community Service Hours

Please reach out to the faculty below depending on the domain you are most interested in.

Project domain	Faculty
Computer Science and Engineering	Nadir Weibel, Henrik Christensen
Electrical Engineering	Ramesh Rao
Human Centered Design	Nadir Weibel, Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, Camille Nebeker
Family Medicine and Public Health	Camille Nebeker
Cognitive Science	Nadir Weibel
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence	Ramesh Rao, Henrik Christensen, Ben Smarr
Medicine	Eliah Aronoff-Spencer

Collaboration opportunities

If you are interested in collaborations beyond joining one of the Earth 2.0 projects, please fill out the form here and we will be in touch with you