ENGIN 183C
Challenge Lab
This course is meant for students in engineering and other disciplines who seek a challenging, interactive, team-based, and hands-on learning experience in entrepreneurship and technology. In this highly experiential course, students work in simulated start-up teams to create products or start-up ideas to address a broadly-defined need of an industry partner or social challenge.
Topics
- 1) To catalyze learning through experiential entrepreneurship 2) To help students understand the entrepreneurial context, and how it can create better outcomes. 3) To help students identify the best role for themselves within an entrepreneurial organization.
- 1) Gain experience with effectively refining ideas and pivoting based on feedback and external factors. 2) Gain experience building effective teams to develop and execute an idea 3) Become comfortable with failure and how to learn from failure. 4) Become adept at succinctly communicating ideas in terms of value proposition and business viability.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027