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Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor

Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor

The Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor provides students with exposure to the broad range of skills required to succeed in a technologically-based entrepreneurial endeavor including introduction to engineering entrepreneurs for mentoring, analysis of technology trends, fundamentals of intellectual property protection, ethics in business, practice in key communications skills, understanding of the due diligence process, exposure to proposal writing, management challenges and involvement in basic elements of starting a company.

Courses

Seventeen hours of coursework are required for the minor as listed below. Students should consult with their advisor to select elective courses that also satisfy requirements for their major. Careful selection of courses can enable the qualified student to simultaneously obtain a University Entrepreneurship Minor in conjunction with the Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor.

Required Courses

CourseCredit Hour(s)
EF 130 Survey of Engineering Entrepreneurship(1 hr)
EF 400 Technology Commercialization(1 hr)
IE 405 Engineering Economics(3 hr)
ME 457 Engineering Entrepreneurship(3 hr)

Electives (Choose two of three)

CourseCredit Hour(s)
Philosophy 241 Engineering Ethics OR 243 Business Ethics(3 hr)
Communication Studies 220 Interpersonal Communications OR 440 –
Organizational Communications
(3 hr)
English 360 Technical and Professional Writing(3 hr)

Senior Discipline Design Capstone (Meets Departmental Requirement – choose 1)

CourseCredit Hour(s)
Aerospace Engineering 429(3 hr)
Biosystems 402(3 hr)
BioMedical Engineering 469(3 hr)
Chemical Engineering 480, 488 or 490(3 hr)
Civil Engineering 400(3 hr)
Computer Science 400(3 hr)
Electrical and Computer Engineering 400(3 hr)
Industrial Engineering 422(3 hr)
Materials Science and Engineering 489(3 hr)
Mechanical Engineering 460(3 hr)
Nuclear Engineering 472(3 hr)

Total: 17 Hours

NOTES:
Capstone of the “E-Ship” Minor is the creation of a fundable proposal based on student generated technologies from senior design studies or technologies available from area sources (UT, ORNL, others).

Some of the coursework could also be used to satisfy general education and technical electives for undergraduate degree programs subject to the approval of the student’s department.