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Courses
Dear students interested in entrepreneurship, business, and commercializing technology:
Register for the Technology Entrepreneur Center courses listed within the links below. 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. If you think your future and career could profit from this understanding, these courses are for you!
Please continue to visit tec.illinois.edu for continuously updated information on courses, as well as TEC graduate and undergraduate certificate programs, and co-curricular activities and programs.
NEW CLASSES for SPRING 2012!
ART D 445 Developing Design Thinking
Topic: Developing Design Thinking in Multi-Disciplinary Teams. This workshop orientated course involves working in teams of Industrial designers and engineers on human centered design opportunities. There will be some lecture content on design thinking, ideation strategies, empathic design research, prototyping, entrepreneurship and business planning, team working and communication. The course is supported by the TEC and also has funding from the National Conference for Innovators and Inventors Alliance (NCIIA) to cover project and prototyping expenses. Student teams will become NCIIA E-teams with encouragement to apply for additional funding in the future.
Instructors: Professor Andrew Singer, Professor David Weightman, Professor Deana McDonagh
Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required.
Location: 216 Art and Design Building
Time: 9:00-11:40am F
Undergrad CRN’s: #57627
Graduate CRN’s: #57643
ENG/TE 360 and ENG/TE 460: Lectures in Engineering Entrepreneurship AMD section
Students enrolling in this unique AMD section will be introduced to cutting edge AMD Fusion platform technology and given access to high performance AMD machines provided by AMD. In this special section, AMD will provide technical expert guest speakers to introduce the technology, uses of the technology, and how to innovate using the technology. In addition to the technical content, fundamental concepts of entrepreneurship and commercialization of new technology in new and existing businesses will be explored. 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; and speakers designed to understand new hardware and how to best use it. At the completion of the course, a project will be due that will be evaluated for possible funding opportunities with AMD and IllinoisVENTURES. AMD is a semiconductor design innovator leading the next era of vivid digital experiences with its ground-breaking AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). IllinoisVENTURES is a premier seed and early-stage technology investment firm focused on research-derived companies in information technologies, physical sciences, life sciences and clean technology. 1 credit hour
Instructor: Professor Andrew Singer
Location: 1109 Siebel Center
Location: 1109 Siebel Center
Time: 5:00-6:15pm Wed
Undergrad CRN’s: ENG 360 - #57493; TE 360 - #57495
Graduate Student CRN’s: ENG 460 - #57496; TE 460 - #57497
Undergraduate Courses (100 - 400 level course list)
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 genera; 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.
ABE 430 - Project Management (Fall Semester Only) Stephen Zahos
Engineering team effectiveness; project definition; assessing related technologies; marketing and business planning related to engineering; budgeting and financial analyses of engineering projects; safety, ethics and environmental considerations; intellectual property; engineering proposal presentation.
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 465 - Business Technical Consulting Jeffrey Kurtz
Consulting process, problem definition, project management, technology commercialization, interpersonal skills, human resources management leadership, and followership. Consulting teams formed work directly with a real business client for twelve weeks on a project jointly defined by the client and team.
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.
ENG 491: Interdisciplinary Senior Design Professor Brian Lilly (APPLICATION)
Disciplined, multi-department, team-structured project design experience with an overall (or major phase) end-of-term completion date. Projects involve design specification through a proposal, analyses of cost and other tradeoffs among alternative designs, design review, fabrication and assembly, functional and environmental testing, and demonstrations (as applicable). Reports and presentations at the end of each term. Individual engineering activities as well as team responsibilities.
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 465 - Business Technical Consulting Jeffrey Kurtz
Consulting process, problem definition, project management, technology commercialization, interpersonal skills, human resources management leadership, and followership. Consulting teams formed work directly with a real business client for twelve weeks on a project jointly defined by the client and team.
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.
