Fuel your entrepreneurial mindset with courses built for engineers ready to innovate. Spark your passion—and when you're ready, explore our engineering entrepreneurship minor.
Intro to Engineering Entrepreneurship
Start your entrepreneurial journey here learning about what makes businesses succeed and how to apply your growing engineering skills in a business context. Individually and in teams, learn about how to find a problem worth solving and the elements of great solutions.
Engineering Entrepreneurship Hour
Engage directly with successful technology entrepreneurs from various engineering sectors across the nation. Students will explore the challenges and characteristics of thriving entrepreneurs and learn strategies for launching and sustaining technology-driven businesses. The course emphasizes networking with accomplished entrepreneurs to build professional relationships, along with the development of essential speaking and presentation skills, enhancing students' ability to connect with industry professionals in support of their entrepreneurial careers.
Enterprise Basics for Technical Entrepreneurs
Explore key aspects of entrepreneurship for a technical enterprise such as idea generation, startup financing, staffing, product design, production, marketing, and sales. With a strong focus on the front end of launching a venture, students will delve into product design and development, securing funding, identifying & attracting key personnel and the initial phases of company formation.
Sales, Operations and Manufacturing for Tech Companies
Discover challenges faced in a start-up entity with respect to product manufacturing, operations and supply chain management, product pricing strategies, and sales and marketing; focus on small start-up to young mid-size enterprises.
Engineer to CEO
Gain the fundamental skills, experience, and training essential for a future role as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This course delves into the responsibilities, personal and professional commitments, and key competencies required of a CEO. Students will study effective communication strategies for engaging with stakeholders, including shareholders, board members, the executive team, employees, customers, the media and the communities where the company operates.
Skills for Technology Leaders
This course equips future leaders in engineering with essential skills for navigating a rapidly evolving technological landscape. Students will explore how digital transformation is reshaping industries and learn to identify emerging technologies that address real-world business challenges. Through engaging assignments, discussions of current events, case studies, and presentations, students will gain hands-on experience in evaluating the potential success of new technologies and develop crucial visual communication skills to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
Startup Fundamentals 101
Gear up for an exhilarating entrepreneurial journey! This course provides essential skills and training for startup success across three phases. The "Launch" phase covers ideation, customer discovery, legal structures, and funding. The "Growth" phase dives into branding, sales, scaling production, HR, and operations. Finally, the "Exit" phase examines financials, company valuation, negotiation skills, and exit strategies like buyouts, IPOs, and liquidation.
Management, Leadership and Corporate Culture
Understand strategic challenges associated with enterprise management and leadership, establishing and maintaining a sustainable brand, developing an effective corporate culture and dealing with global competition. Strategic thinkers will enjoy the case studies used, and students should be prepared for a challenging, immersive experience.
Product Lean Launch
This course offers hands-on exercises in building a focused, engineering-centered business using Lean Startup principles. Students will engage in the customer development process, market validation, and crafting a unique value proposition, alongside communication skills training. It will guide students through the development of a Lean Canvas and the design of a minimal viable product for their own business idea.
Advanced Entrepreneurship in Energy and Climate
This course simulates the advanced stages of an early start-up business with the goal of understanding and establishing plans right before the company formally launches, including the customer development process, market validation, unique value proposition, communication skill training, Lean Startup principles, minimal viable product design, raising early-stage capital, staffing, product sales and business plan development.
Petroleum Entrepreneurship
Explore key aspects of entrepreneurship with a focus on petroleum asset valuation and prospect analysis in the energy sector. This course covers the entire entrepreneurial journey, from generating business ideas and raising early-stage capital to staffing, business plan development and pitching concepts to investors.
Take your interest in entrepreneurship to the next level with our minor for engineering students.
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