Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor
An Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor equips engineers with a balanced skill set that bridges foundational principles of engineering with business insight—perfect for those who want to create innovative solutions, lead teams, and potentially launch successful ventures of their own.
Program Overview
The Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor at UT 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 and management skills, and involvement in basic elements of starting a company. Sixteen hours of coursework are required.
Why Get a Minor in Engineering Entrepreneurship?
This minor is a valuable addition for engineering students, offering unique skills through the development of business acumen, enhancing leadership and problem-solving skills, improving job market competitiveness, and creating a more robust academic experience that goes beyond traditional engineering principles.
Featured Courses
EF 130 Survey of Engineering Entrepreneurship
Examination of entrepreneurship from an applied context as presented by successful regional engineering entrepreneurs. Living case studies are presented by engineers of all disciplines that have established viable organizations that serve marketplace needs.
IE 405 Engineering Economic Analysis
Role of engineering economy in engineering practice; principles of economic equivalence; time value of money and discounted cash-flow techniques; analysis of single and multiple investments; comparison of alternatives; capital recovery and tax implications; inflation; public sector analysis; cost estimation; depreciation schedules; break-even point concepts; decision making under uncertainty; risk analysis; introduction to investing in the financial market; basic accounting principles and financial statements including balance sheets, income statements, cost of goods sold statements, and business ratios.
DSGN 430 Design Thinking and Innovation
This course will assist students in how to work in multi-disciplinary teams to solve complex whole-to-part real-world problems. Students engage collaborative design thinking methods that emphasize producing unique, feasible, and implementable outcomes that can be applied in future classes and within career opportunities. Students will complete projects by generating a variety of ideas, applying and synthesizing knowledge from their discipline, building prototypes, and evaluating with critical thinking.
ENT 462 Innovation and Creativity
The goal of this course is to create a working prototype of a marketable product or service within the semester. Starting with a seed of a new product idea, students will conduct a market opportunity analysis, select a target market, and then define the product concept, features, benefits, and unique selling proposition. They will partner with technology experts, hardware and software developers, and others to physically create the product.
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