Imagine a world in which everyone is able to easily access information that enables them to make decisions that increase their well-being and that of their social groups while positively impacting both local and global social, environmental and economic sustainability. Imagine that these capabilities are provided through cooperative intelligence provided by co-learning between human and machine, enabling groups of people to perform at levels never before believed possible. Imagine that this can be accomplished by means which protect the privacy and security of each individual through the judicious integration of cyber-physical social systems. This presentation will describe the Convergent Systems Engineering program at UCSD whose mission is to provide ethical, innovative and sustainable solutions to important, complex societal problems using transdisciplinary, collaborative, team-based approaches to foster collective learning through iterative rapid integration and testing in real world scenarios.