The Pre-Capstone Innovation Experience will foster multidisciplinary entrepreneurial work to both prepare students for their senior capstones, as well as generate more interdisciplinary thinking and collaborative design. Designed by Professor Jin Montclare of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Lecturer Chris Leslie from Technology, Culture and Society, the course is geared towards students in their junior year as they begin experimenting with senior capstone ideas. The Pre-Capstone will initially be structured around recitation, such as Lean Launchpad-style customer discovery, lectures on entrepreneurship or types of business models, and labs directed by professors from electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and biomolecular engineering. Later in the semester, students will break into teams, refine their project ideas, and develop their interdisciplinary prototypes with advice and guidance from the professors.