February 22, 2017 | In partnership with Autodesk.

This flagship partnership between Autodesk and Real Industry gave students the opportunity to showcase their innovative ideas, amplify their portfolio and future career skills, and present their designs to audio industry leaders. Real Industry facilitated judging and collaboration between engineering leaders and designers from Bose, Sonos, Sennheiser, and Turtle Beach.

The challenge was a unique blend of kick-off events (UC Berkeley Design Challenge: Audio & Education and Create3D: UC Berkeley Designathon) and an online challenge. The online challenge reached over 10,000 students, across 70 countries. Students submitting over 1,025 headphone, speaker, and earbud designs!

“Real Industry’s cutting edge content and deep industry connections inspired students to participate in our Design for Industry program. We utilized Real Industry’s full potential to inspire students across the globe to design and create new Audio Technology devices.”

— Rob Roberts, Strategic Programs & New Partnerships Manager, Autodesk

“The Audodesk Audio Challenge was an eye opener into a world of design, it gave me a feel for what it is to be a designer, from brainstorming the ideas to having a hard and set deadline. I was filled with excitement, this truly was a valuable real world exposure.”

— Sugan, Student

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October 22, 2016 | In partnership with Bose, Autodesk, and UC Berkeley’s Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership.

In our one day challenge, over 90 UC Berkeley students applied design thinking and real industry techniques to design, build, and market an interactive sound and science educational kit using headphones, earbuds, and custom software. Student teams pitched their ideas to experienced Bose and Autodesk leaders for prizes.

“Bose has an active college intern program aimed at attracting engineering talent. Working with Real Industry allows us to show up on campus in unique and targeted ways that are more effective at finding the best students. And, most importantly, Bose is philosophically aligned with Real Industry’s goal of educating students about the challenges and opportunities of working in the audio industry.”

— Neal Lackritz, Director of Technical Education, Bose

“Engaging with students on campus is critical for any company wishing to enable a healthy pipeline of new talent. But to build a connection that is mutually beneficial to the students, faculty and the company is a challenge. Working with Real Industry helped give our interactions a great structure and enabled us to have a great engagement with students at Berkeley and Stanford.”

— Lee Zamir, Director, BOSEbuild