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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
January 12-16, 2003 - Monterey, Ca, USA
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Eleanor Baum, Cooper Union, USA
Carl McHargue, University of Tennessee, USA |
The articles for these proceedings are not peer-reviewed.
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The Engineering Entrepreneurial Program at Lawrence Technological University
Steven K. Howell, Lawrence Technological University
ABSTRACT:
This paper describes a new Engineering Entrepreneurial Program at Lawrence
Technological University. LTU’s Engineering Entrepreneurial Program is
integrated into its undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree. This
program is designed to prepare students to be business leaders and entrepreneurs as
well as engineers. The program includes a total of 17 entrepreneurial semester
credits integrated throughout the civil, computer, mechanical, and electrical
engineering curriculum. These one unit modules include topics such as: technical
communication, writing a business plan, marketing technical products, financing
the emerging enterprise, strategic planning, project management, business law,
intellectual property, and starting new ventures. Industry experts and
entrepreneurs in the Detroit area teach these non-traditional modules providing
undergraduate engineering students direct exposure to practitioners. The
culmination of the program is a multi-disciplinary practical experience in which
they participate in a student run company including writing a business plan, design,
production and marketing a technical product. The student run companies include
participation by business majors with oversight provided by a multi-disciplinary
advisory council comprised of both faculty and business leaders.
Steven K. Howell, "The Engineering Entrepreneurial Program at Lawrence Technological University" in "Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students", Eleanor Baum and Carl McHargue
Eds, ECI
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