May 19 2013

Courses

Interested in engineering entrepreneurship, commercializing technology or starting a company?

Register for TEC's courses. These courses are intended for students who want to understand the business issues in engineering, as well as how new technology-based businesses are created and managed. 

Also check out our professional development and undergraduate certificate programs which you can earn by taking our classes.


Undergraduate Courses (100 - 400 level course list)

​NEW COURSE FOR FALL 2013: 
TE/ENG 298 - High Tech Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise Professor Andrew Singer
This class examines the fundamentals of technology entrepreneurship and addresses critical areas of the entrepreneurship process such as:  Creating a successful startup and transforming it into a sustainable business; Validating an idea and taking it to market; Evaluation of new ideas; Forming high performance teams; Financing a technology-based startup. This class combines field trips to local startups and businesses as well as the University Research park and EnterpriseWorks incubator, in-depth case studies, and a hands-on class project.  The class is intended for undergraduates of all majors interested in technology entrepreneurship and is intended to be the first class in a three course track towards a technology entrepreneurship certificate. TR 3:00-3:50pm

TE/ENG 360 - Lectures in Engineering Entrepreneurship Professor Paul Magelli
Fundamental concepts of entrepreneurship and commercialization of new technology in new and existing businesses. Guest speaker topics vary, but typically include: evaluation of technologies and business ideas in general; commercializing new technologies; financing through private and public sources; legal issues; product development; marketing; international business issues.

GE 400 - Engineering Law Professor Joseph Barich
Nature and development of the legal system; legal rights and duties important to engineers in their professions; contracts, uniform commercial code and sales of goods, torts, agency, worker's compensation, labor law, property, environmental law, intellectual property.

​NEW COURSE: 
ECE 445 - Senior Design Project Lab  Professors Brian Lilly and Andrew Singer
Students will have the opportunity to work on individual design projects in various areas of electrical and computer engineering. Projects are chosen by students with instructor approval. 

TE/ENG 461 - Technology Entrepreneurship Professor Brian Lilly
Critical factors affecting technology-based ventures: opportunity assessment; the entrepreneurial process; founders and team building; preparation of a business plan including market research, marketing and sales, finance, and manufacturing considerations.

TE/ENG 466  - High-Tech Venture Marketing  Rhiannon Clifton
Cornerstone marketing concepts for innovators and engineers to enable analysis of products and technologies from a marketing perspective: engineering product development and adoption life cycle; objectives and strategies; marketing management; communication skills; sales process and tactics; special considerations for new high-tech engineering products and innovations.

Graduate Courses (400 - 500 level​ course list)

TE/ENG 460 - Lectures in Engineering Entrepreneurship Professor Paul Magelli
Fundamental concepts of entrepreneurship and commercialization of new technology in new and existing engineering and high-tech businesses. Guest speaker topics vary, but typically include: evaluation of technologies and business ideas in general; commercializing new technologies; financing through private and public sources; legal issues; product development; marketing; international business issues.

TE/ENG 461 - Technology Entrepreneurship Professor Brian Lilly
Critical factors affecting technology-based ventures: opportunity assessment; the entrepreneurial process; founders and team building; preparation of a business plan including market research, marketing and sales, finance, and manufacturing considerations.

TE/ENG 466  - High-Tech Venture Marketing  Rhiannon Clifton
Cornerstone marketing concepts for innovators and engineers to enable analysis of products and technologies from a marketing perspective: engineering product development and adoption life cycle; objectives and strategies; marketing management; communication skills; sales process and tactics; special considerations for new high-tech engineering products and innovations.

TE/ENG 560 - Managing Advanced Technology I (Fall Semester Only) Professor Bruce Vojak
​Business perspective of managing advanced technology in industry: strategic context of advanced technology; analytical financial tools used to estimate its potential value; legal concepts important in its management; interpersonal issues related to leading and advocating on behalf of advanced technology groups.

TE/ENG 565 - Technology Innovation & Strategy  Sanjiv Chopra
Concepts and frameworks for analyzing how firms can create, commercialize and capture value from technology-based products and services. Business, commercialization, and management aspects of technology. Emphasis on reasons that existing firms or startups which have successfully commercialized products or services fail to sustain their success as technology changes and evolves.

TE/ENG 566 - Finance for Engineering Management Professor Brian Lilly
Cornerstone financial concepts for engineering management to enable analysis of engineering projects from a financial perspective: income statements; the balance sheet; cash flow statements; corporate organization; the time value of money; net present value; discounted cash flow analysis; portfolio theory.

TE/ENG 567 - Venture-Funded Startups  Sanjiv Chopra
Concepts, tools, and language used by venture capitalists (VCs). Venture-scale opportunity assessment and articulation; venture capital financing and valuation; deal structure; term sheets; financial plans for startups; customer development and marketing; product iterations; sales execution.

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