Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate

Certificate Requirements:

A total of nine credits is needed to satisfy three categories of requirements. The certificate is open to ALL undergraduate students.

Basics of Entrepreneurship:

One of the following:

ENTR 350 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship
CPEG 398 - ECE Design & Entrepreneurship
ELEG 398 - ECE Design & Entrepreneurship
- A sequence of three, one-credit ENTR-desginated courses at the 100 or 200-level. This sequence must include ENTR 156 - From Ideas to Action and ENTR 158 - Inventions, Innovations & New Technologies . It may also include ENTR 155 - Start Up of the Professional You , ENTR 157 - Venturing for Good or ENTR 256 - Mindfulness for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship .

Special Challenges

Designed to highlight the difficulties in bringing novel technologies into the marketplace. One of the following:

CHEG 410 - Acceptance and Resistance to Innovation Credit(s): 3
or

ENTR 410 - Acceptance and Resistance to Innovation
ENTR 458 - Developing New Technology-Based Products Credit(s): 3
ENTR 460 - High Technology Entrepreneurship Credit(s): 3

Technology Innovation Practicum:

One of the following:

MEEG 409 - Prototype to Product Credit(s): 3
or

ENTR 409 - Prototype to Product
ENTR 455 - Startup Experience I Credit(s): 3

Notes:

College of Engineering senior design and other design-oriented courses may be considered as substitutes for the technology innovation practicum if and only if a student’s specific project had/has a significant and meaningful entrepreneurship component. This is defined as including the development of a novel business model and the conduct of extensive customer discovery research that directly engages prospective customers to yield evidence-based insights. Students seeking approval for a course substitute will be required to submit a request in writing to the certificate’s faculty director. The request should indicate the course being proposed as a substitute and address how course activities/project(s) can be expected to satisfy the “significant and meaningful entrepreneurship component” criterion noted above.

College of Engineering students can typically complete the certificate without adding time to their degree by choosing ENTR 350 as their “social & behavior sciences” breadth elective and selecting ENTR-designated course options for requirement #2 and #3, as these courses can be used as “Career and Professional Preparation courses” under CoE’s additional breadth requirements.