Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Course Materials
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| Audience/Grade: | College Junior-Graduate |
| Discipline(s): |
Design Engineering Management Entrepreneurship and Innovation Teamwork |
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| Learning Resource Type: |
Teaching - Course |
| Author(s): |
Jack Matson Joe Heim Jorge Velez-Arocho |
| Description: | Course website with syllabus, presentation slides and reference readings. The course is organized around the following topics: overview, creativity, teamwork, product creation, writing proposals, strategic planning, manufacturing and business planning. The Entrepreneurship course is designed for business and non-business students. It is intend to provide a broad practice-based experience in the process of creating new products. It starts with the idea generation process and ends with plans for the commercialization of new products. Students completing this course should be aware of the importance of entrepreneurship for the economy. The pedagogical objectives are to shape student abilities to think about creating their own business, evaluate situations from a strategic perspective, and reach strategic decisions. Accomplishing these objectives entails introducing students to how an enterprise must deal with all complexities and constraints of the environment in which it operates, why none of these can be assumed away or ignored, and how situation factors impact strategic decisions. This course focuses on the process of starting, financing, and managing a business. It also focuses on the management of existing enterprises. The course includes topics such Market Analysis, Product Design Specification (PDS), Proposal preparations, Strategic Management, Manufacturing Facilities Design, and Business Plan. |
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| Is Component of: |
Product Realization Course Material from the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership - MEEP Engineering Entrepreneurship Program at Penn State |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(c) Design a system, component, or process (d) Work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams (g) Communicate effectively (h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context Professional Skills |
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Publications: * Jorge Ivan Velez-Arocho, Miguel Torres-Febus, and Jaime Pabon, "A New Paradigm in Engineering Education: Technology Based Entrepreneurship",submitted to the Annual Meeting of the Panamerican Congress of Mechanical Engineers and Related Fields in Santiago, Chile, September, 1997. Presented at the Congress of Engineering and Related Fields, April, 18, 1997, San Juan, Puerto Rico. * Jorge Ivan Velez-Arocho, Miguel Torres-Febus, and Jaime Pabon, "Creativity and Innovation to Acquire, Keep and Improve the Competitive Advantage in a Global Market", accepted for presentation at the XI Entrepreneurship Latin American Congress, Cali, Colombia, September 17-19, 1997. |
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Medium |
| Interactivity Level: |
Very low |
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| Publication Date: | September 1997 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.mne.psu.edu/lamancusa/html/Entrep.htm |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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