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ENGR 407/SI509 (Seminar:pass/fail)
4:00-5:00 F Stamps Auditorium Instructors: Doug Neal and Thomas Zurbuchen |
This seminar is designed to expose students to entrepreneurship in engineering through
interaction with business leaders, venture capitalists, and attorneys, as well as
individuals involved in emerging business models, new venture creation, and
technology commercialization.
While covering a broad set of engineering disciplines, guest speakers will share their knowledge on the latest, most diverse practices on legal, financial, and other management issues. The lectures include leading entrepreneurs and executives, technology innovators, experts from the financial markets, and others who support the entrepreneurial infrastructure. During the receptions following these seminars, students will be able to meet the guest speakers along with other members of the entrepreneurial community. |
ENGR 490.094 SOCIAL VENTURE CREATION (3cr)
3:30pm - 5:00PM Tu/Th (TENTATIVE) Instructors: Moses Lee |
Announcing a New Social Venture Creation Course at the University of Michigan. The new Social Venture Creation Course, in partnership with the Center for Entrepreneurship at the College of Engineering and the William Davidson Institute, seeks to be an innovative, action-based learning laboratory that brings students across disciplines at the University of Michigan to work on solving society’s challenges – together. In this course, students will form multidisciplinary teams and take steps to launch a social venture. By the end of this course, student teams will submit an implementation plan and make a presentation on a social venture idea to a panel of industry experts and potential funders. The hope is that some of these multidisciplinary student teams will be able to launch a social venture upon completing the course – and make real, long-lasting impact. After taking this course, student teams will be able to assess the opportunity for a particular device, product or service in a community and the feasibility of starting a social venture around it. The course will use cases, readings, videos, lectures, group projects, and group discussions to help students understand the social entrepreneurship movement, the building blocks for starting a social venture, assessing and enhancing a social venture’s impact, raising capital, and scaling-up a social venture.
Open to junior , senior level undergraduates and graduate students.
[ Course website ] |
ENGR 520 (1 cr) Entrepreneurial Business
Fundamentals for Scientists and Engineers 3:30-5:00PM Tu/Th Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing Instructors: TIM FALEY/PETER ADRIAENS |
Inventors and entrepreneurs have four concerns related to patent law: protecting inventions during product development, determining invention patentability, avoiding infringement, and leveraging a patent as a business asset. This course addresses these concerns through the application of case law and business cases to an intervention of the student's choice. |
IOE 422.001 Entrepreneurship (3 cr) 2:30-4:00 T/Th Instructor: KEN LUDWIG |
Prerequisite: Senior Standing. Not for graduate credit. I, II Engineering students will explore the dynamics of turning an innovative idea into a commercial venture in an increasingly global economy. Creating a business plan originating in an international setting will: challenge students to innovate; manage risk, stress and failure; confront ethical problems; question cultural assumptions; and closely simulate the realities of life as an entrepreneur. |
ES 715 (3 cr) INNOVATIVE NEW BUSINESS DESIGN 6:30-9:30PM TU E1550 BUS Instructors: TIM FALEY |
Innovative New Business Design (formerly Driving the Innovation Process) is a graduatelevel, semester-long, 3-credit hour course that will be offered in the Winter 2010 term on Tuesday evenings from 6:30-9:30pm at the Ross School of Business. This elective course for graduate engineering and business students is crafted to provide you with the understanding, skills, tools, and a process for completing the first phase of creating value from a new technology-based innovation: designing an innovative business from a new technological discovery. In short, this class will show you how to determine an answer to the question: ―interesting technology, but where's the business? From real emerging technologies, teams of b-school and engineering students will determine the business (if any) that can be formed around the technology. Before you launch your business you need to have a plan. Before you develop your detailed business plan, you need to assess the feasibility of your potential new business concept. But how do you formulate a sound, detailed, value-capturing, market-driven business concept from your new technology? Particularly before you have either a product or any identifiable market? This class will show you how. You'll apply the methodology taught in class to a semester-long project in mixed teams of engineering and MBA students. This semester course is open to a limited number of graduate students from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and College of Engineering. |
ENGR 405 (1cr) PROBLEM SOLVING, TROUBLESHOOTING,
ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND MAKING THE TRANSITION TO
THE WORK PLACE 12:00-1:30PM TU/TH 1690 CSE Instructor: Scott Fogler |
The goals of this course are to help students hone and enhance their problem solving, critical thinking, creative thinking, and troubleshooting skills and to ease the transition from college to the workplace. The course will also have outside speakers to discuss "Do's" and "Don'ts" on your first permanent job, cross cultural communication skills, and financial planning. Students will work in teams to carry out the home problems, interactive computer problems and the term project. The term project will be to work with a local business or a university department to find and solve problem in their operations. The businesses that participated in previous years were Ace Hardware, Panera Bread, Starbucks, Zoup!, the Chemical Engineering Department staff, and the University of Michigan Dorms.
Download the course flyer here and the syllabus here. [TBD] |
ENGR 409 (1cr) VENTURE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Prerequisite: By application only. 6:00-7:30PM M/TU/W/TH F, MARCH 15-26, 2010 Instructors: MARC WEISER |
This course prepares students to identify and evaluate commercial opportunities for emerging technologies. Emphasis is on design and evaluation of business models and methods necessary for rapid, rigorous analysis of these models. Students will develop preliminary business models and evaluate possible commercial opportunities. Applications for this course can be found here and is due by (tbd). |
ENGR 490 (3cr) ENTREPRENEURIAL PRACTICUM
/INDEPENDENT STUDY Prerequisite: By application only. 9:00-10:00AM (TENTATIVE) Instructor: AILEEN HUANG-SAAD |
This practicum focuses on entrepreneurial and hence product oriented work. The practicum is designed to gain first-hand experience in entrepreneurship by advancing an invention towards an entrepreneurial goal, or by getting involved in an entrepreneurial environment. The expected work volume of the practicum is estimated to be equivalent to 12-16 hours per week for a 14-week time-period. Students must apply to enroll in this course. The application document is due by (TBD). |
ES 569 (TBD cr) MANAGING THE GROWTH OF NEW
VENTURES 6:30‐9:30PM, TU Instructors: TOM PORTER |
TBD |
ENGR 270 (3 cr) MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING 10:15-11:30AM, TU/TH (Lecture) 1:30-3:30PM,F (Project) Instructor: TBD |
This Course will fill 3 credit "DBT" requirement for students wishing to complete MD Minor (click here for information on the minor). Course will also fill 4 credit "Cornerstone" requirement for students wishing to complete MD Minor with specialization in Socially Relevant Computing. Course will not fill both DBT and Cornerstone requirement. Multidisciplinary Engineering will cover topics related to the engineering process that cross the boundaries of specific engineering disciplines, as well as business aspects (business planning, basic intellectual property law) of engineering. For complete information click [here] to download the flyer. |
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ENG 407/ ENG 490-001 (Seminar) 3:00-4:00 F Stamps Auditorium Instructor: Doug Neal and Thomas Zurbuchen |
This seminar is designed to expose students to entrepreneurship in engineering through interaction with business leaders, venture capitalists, and attorneys, as well as individuals involved in emerging business models, new venture creation, and technology commercialization. |
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SSW 799-004 (Elective) Fall 2009, Tu/Thurs from 6-9 p.m.
Instructor: Ashley Zwick
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This course explores current trends which are creating space for innovation and opportunities for individuals with management skills and a commitment to social justice to drive positive and large scale social change. We will explore the major opportunities and challenges presented by social enterprise through examining a variety of models ranging from social purpose business to nonprofits launching and running revenue generating enterprises. We will look at both domestic and international examples. |
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ENG 408 (Elective)
TIME: 6:30-8PM MTWTHF 09/08/2009-09/18/2009 Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing Instructor: Jeff Schox 1014 DOW |
Inventors and entrepreneurs have four concerns related to patent law: protecting inventions during product development, determining invention patentability, avoiding infringement, and leveraging a patent as a business asset. This course addresses these concerns through the application of case law and business cases to an intervention of the student's choice. | ||||||||||||
SI 519/PubPol 688 (Elective)
Time 1-4PM Weill Hall 311 WH Instructor:Bryce Pilz |
Intellectual property and information law issues are front and center in today's society like never before. This class will explore the following areas of the law: free speech, copyright law, patent law, trademark law, open source and creative commons licensing, defamation, privacy law, Internet governance, and cybercrime. This class will apply the foundational concepts from these areas of the law in order to explore: (1) the related and sometimes competing legal and policy frameworks for developing and disseminating ideas and expression in the Information Age; (2) how new technologies challenge existing law and policy; and (3) the effects of other legal considerations and values on the development and dissemination of ideas and information (such as security, privacy, government regulations, international considerations, competition, and the protection of minors). Due to the fluid nature of intellectual property and information law and policy, we will endeavor to integrate relevant current events into the classroom discussion. | ||||||||||||
IOE 422.001 Time 2:30-4:00 T/Th G906 COOL Instructor: Ken Ludwig |
Prerequisite: Senior Standing. Not for graduate credit. I, II Engineering students will explore the dynamics of turning an innovative idea into a commercial venture in an increasingly global economy. Creating a business plan originating in an international setting will: challenge students to innovate; manage risk, stress and failure; confront ethical problems; question cultural assumptions; and closely simulate the realities of life as an entrepreneur. | ||||||||||||
SI 663 (Core)
Time 8:30AM - 11:30AM Monday 311 WH> Instructor: Victor Rosenberg |
The course helps to prepare students to start businesses in the information industry or to work effectively in new start-up businesses. It discusses all the aspects of creating a business and expects students to develop an idea into a business plan that could be used to either guide the creation of the business or secure funding for a new business. | ||||||||||||
ES 395 (Elective)
TIME: 2:30-4PM M/W R2230 BUS Instructor: Leonard Middleton |
This course is a pragmatic, "real-world" orientation to the entrepreneurial process of conceiving and implementing an idea for a new venture. It is intended for students who have strong aspirations to eventually develop their careers in the context of entrepreneurial firms. | ||||||||||||
MO 324 (Elective) TIME: 1-2:30PM T/TH E1550 BUS Instructor: Wayne Baker |
Thriving in business depends on more than technical skills and knowledge. You also need to manage relationships effectively. To be successful, you need to develop and manage a growing network of high-quality professional relationships with your multiple bosses, peers in your work group, a host of people throughout the organization, customers and clients, and others. | ||||||||||||
ES 329/FIN 629 (Core)
Cross-listed with: FIN 329, FIN 629 TIME: 7-10PM W Instructor: David Brophy |
This course is a practicum, offering an opportunity to apply collective team work of a student/mentor alliance to building a launch pad for a technology-based venture. This course is open to Ross School MBA and BBA students as well as all UM graduate students. Student teams will work with mentors and principal investigators (PI) from UM faculty in the Medical School, College of Engineering and other divisions to build a business and marketing plan for a new technology or invention. Projects are based upon disclosures made to UM Office of Technology Transfer, other universities and industrial companies. | ||||||||||||
EECS 498 (Elective) TIME: 2:00-3:30 M & W 1123 LBME Instructor: Elliot Solloway |
This seminar will be a project-oriented, software construction-focused course. We will design and build applications for the iPhone and/or the Android phone. Students will form project teams for the design and development effort. To better inform the design and development efforts, we will review key resources such as websites, blogs, articles, and books. In particular, to help contextualize the construction effort, we will use The Art of the Start” by Guy Kawasaki as the core textbook in the course. The intent of the course is to produce commercially viable applications for either the iPhone or the Android phone. | ||||||||||||
ENG 490.094 (Practicum) Prerequisite: By application only. TIME: 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. F Location: 1008 EECS Instructor: Aileen Huang-Saad |
This practicum focuses on entrepreneurial and hence product oriented work. The practicum is designed to gain first-hand experience in entrepreneurship by advancing an invention towards an entrepreneurial goal, or by getting involved in an entrepreneurial environment. The expected work volume of the practicum is estimated to be equivalent to 12-16 hours per week for a 14-week time-period. Students must apply to enroll in this course.
The application process ( can be found here ) and is due by August 15, 2009. |
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BME 599-001 (Elective) Prerequisite: Graduate Standing, Non-BME’s need permission of instructor TIME: 1-3PM T/TH 1121 LBME Instructor: Aileen Huang-Saad |
A two semester course that encourages innovative design in biomedical engineering. It is an interactive course that stimulates students to explore their own solutions to biomedical challenges. Students experience the entire spectrum of innovative design, from concept inception to prototype design. The course challenges students to learn about the current state of the art, explore technical need for current challenges, and brainstorm new solutions with members of the medical community. | ||||||||||||
ENG 521 (Core) TIME: 3:30-5:00 Tu/Th 1121 LBME Instructors: Peter Adriaens & Timothy Faley
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In CleanTech Entrepreneurship, you will learn the strategy and financial tools that allow you to assess clean technology-based business opportunities, and to apply these tools to products and startup companies. Mixed science-MBA teams (MBA students join after Fall break) will work with real companies, take apart their business model and product positioning, rigorously assess the company’s strategy, and reposition their products for sustainable differentiation. Top companies are considered for investment through the Frankel Commercialization Fund and the Wolverine Venture Fund. To date, two companies have received investment (Accio Energy, Environmental Operating Solutions). This course has recently drawn attention from news outlets such as Private Equity Magazine, The Detroit Free Press, and the Wall Street Journal. |
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ES 521 (Core) TIME: 4:30-6PM T/TH R1230 BUS Instructors: Peter Adriaens & Timothy Faley |
CleanTech Venture Opportunities --- In 2006, CleanTech became the third-largest sector for venture investment ($2.9 Bn), indicating the potential for economic growth in this technology innovation space. The growth in this area is primarily driven by investments in Energy, with lesser investment in Water, Transportation, Advanced Materials, Manufacturing and Agriculture. Clean technologies have the opportunity to deliver dramatic improvements in resource efficiency and productivity, creating more economic value with less energy and materials, or less waste and toxicity. CleanTech Entrepreneurship will focus on value creation in this space, with emphasis on how strategic business drivers (e.g. regulation, subsidy, and market valuation) influence innovation and investment, and how this may impact research hypotheses and needs. The perspective provides in this course will be valuable for students that are both looking to form or join startup companies as well as for those that are looking to create corporate value via industrial research. | ||||||||||||
ES 581 (Elective)
TIME: 6:30-9:30 M 11/02/2009-12/15/2009 R0240 BUS Instructor: William Pickard |
This course addresses the specific challenges and opportunities to be found in urban areas, with special focus on entrepreneurship among ethinic-racial minorities and, particularly African Americans. The lectures, discussions, and presentations by urban and minority entrepreneurs will address issues of product design, marketing, access to capital and strategic targeting of business initiatives. Impacts of public and private policies, such as tax incentives and franchising methods will be considered. | ||||||||||||
ES 615 (Core) TIME: 10:20-11:50AM M/W 12:40-2:10PM M/W E0530 BUS Instructor: Price, James D |
In this capstone course, students learn and apply powerful frameworks and methodologies that are useful not only for planning and launching entrepreneurial ventures, but for corporate new-business-development and new-market-entry as well. Real-world lessons from entrepreneurs and investors are supplemented by a semester-long team project that entails each 4- to 5-student team researching and developing a business plan and investor presentation for a different startup business concept, with the professor's coaching. | ||||||||||||
ES 623 (Elective) TIME 12:40-2:10PM TU/TH 09/08/2009 - 10/23/2009 R2210 BUS TIME 7-10PM TU 09/08/2009 - 10/23/2009 R2220 BUS Instructor: David Brophy |
This course covers venture capital market structure and institutional arrangements and the application of financial theory and methods in a venture capital finance setting. It presents and applies the fundamentals of venture capital finance, employing "live" case studies to focus on financing startup and early stage, technology-based firms. | ||||||||||||
ES 624 (Elective) TIME: 12:40-2:10PM TU/TH 11/02/2009-12/15/2009 R2210 BUS Instructor: David Brophy |
This course presents the fundamentals of private equity finance, focusing on financing mezzanine deals and buyout transactions. The course covers the private equity and buyout market structure, institutional arrangements and application of financial theory and methods in a private equity and buyout setting. The course covers four main aspects of private equity mezzanine investment and buyout transactions: valuation, deal structuring, governance, and harvesting. "Live" case studies are used to demonstrate the practical, hands-on application of techniques following their development in class. | ||||||||||||
ENG 490-096 (Elective) TIME: 10:30AM-12 F Location: 1012 EECS Aileen Huang-Saad, Brian Love, Nick Tobier |
As the global economy rapidly evolves and the importance of co-creation, multicultural and interdisciplinary efforts becomes more evident, it is not surprising that the needs and interest of our students are changing. This course is meant as an on-ramp course for students interested in becoming involved in social enterprise while at the university or after. Students will have an opportunity to interact with university members across the university active in social enterprise, establishing an interdisciplinary community focused on social enterprise. Students will be exposed to real-life examples of successful social entrepreneurship projects and will also participate in a group project that could impact social change within the university. | ||||||||||||
SW 799-004 (Elective) TIME: 6-9PM T/TH Oct. 27, 29 Nov. 3, 5, & 10 Instructor: Ashley Zwick |
Social Enterprise is a rapidly growing field/discipline which employs entrepreneurial skills to craft innovative responses to social needs. This course explores current trends which are creating space for innovation and opportunities for individuals with management skills and a commitment to social justice to drive positive and large scale social change. We will explore the major opportunities and challenges presented by social enterprise through examining a variety of models ranging from social purpose business to nonprofits launching and running revenue generating enterprises. We will look at both domestic and international examples. | ||||||||||||
STRATEGY 445 (Elective) TuTh 1:00PM to 2:30PM R0320 BUS 09/08/2009 to 12/14/2009 Fr 9:00AM to 12:00PM R0320 BUS 09/18/2009 to 09/19/2009 Fr 9:00AM to 12:00PM E1405 BUS 10/09/2009 to 10/10/2009 Fr 9:00AM to 12:00PM R0320 BUS 10/23/2009 to 10/24/2009 Instructor: Michael Gordon
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Base of the Pyramid: Business Innovation for Solving Society's Problems --- In every country there are people who are very poor by either absolute or relative standards. These individuals at the economic "bottom of the pyramid" lack adequate income, health care, educational opportunities, etc. This course focuses on how business can serve the poor by remedying these conditions and make handsome profits while doing so. | ||||||||||||
BA 612 (Elective) TIME: Fall B T/Th 12:40-2:10p.m., 3 F Sessions: (11/13,12/4,12/11) TIME: Fall B Evening - Sections 002,451 T 6:30-9:30, 3 Th Sessions: (11/12, 12/3, 12/10) Location: R1220 Instructor: Ted London Download PDF Info Sheet Download Evening Section PDF Info Sheet |
In this course, we will focus on the growing interest in exploring new poverty alleviation perspectives and the increasing appreciation of a larger role for market-based ventures in serving the needs of the poor. My goal is to provide you with practical tools and frameworks for developing and evaluating business approaches that can productively address unmet societal needs for those at the base of the economic pyramid (BoP). Using carefully developed case studies, we will apply these tools/frameworks to companies, non-profits, and development agencies operating in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. To help students gain a first-hand understanding of on-going work in the field, I incorporate two three-hour lab sessions as a core element of the course. For each of these meetings, I invite experts involved with BoP ventures from around the world to serve as guest speakers who discuss real-time challenges their organizations are currently facing. Past participants in these interactive sessions have included Sebastian Fries from Pfizer, Vijay Sharma from Unilever in India, Hector Ureta from CEMEX in Mexico, and Late Lawson from CARE. |
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