Successful Entrepreneurship for Engineers

4 credits

A foundation course teaching the basics of starting and running a successful new business. Students learn how to think like entrepreneurs, pivot their ideas to match customer needs, with financial, market, timeline feasibility inputs. The end goal is an investor pitch and a business plan. Provides experiential education, encouragement, and coaching (E3CE) that prepares students for successful careers at start-up as well as large companies. Prerequisites: instructor approval required to ensure sufficient project experience to be successful in the course. No credit offered for CSE 175 if ECE 150 taken previously or concurrently.