Engineering Entrepreneurship Fellows II

Catalog description

This 1 CU course is the third of a three-part sequence exclusively for the Engineering Entrepreneurship (EENT) Fellows Program. Enrollment is limited to 12 previously selected 12 EENT Fellows. Prior to taking this course, EENT Fellows will have completed EAS5410 Engineering Entrepreneurship Fellows I in the spring semester and will have been immersed in a hands-on internship at a high-growth technology startup company in the summer semester. During this summer internship, Fellows will have: (i) supported significant strategic initiatives at their startup; (ii) had one-on-one contact with top-level company leaders; (iii) kept and shared structured journals of their experiences; and (iv) hosted visits, in-person or remotely, of other Fellows to their startup companies to share experiences. Throughout the 12-month Program, the Fellows will benefit from personal one-on-one mentoring by distinguished alumni, venture executives and investors. The summer journal will be a pre-requisite assignment for EAS5430. It will include the Fellows’ observations and analysis of specific assignment topics within their respective companies which will, in turn, be shared and commented on by the other Fellows. Assigned topics will include origins of the startup’s innovative technology, intellectual property considerations, product-market fit, marketing strategy, business model, venture financing, management, handling adversity, scaling, culture, values, and principled leadership. Journals will be maintained online allowing Fellows the opportunity to share and reflect on their own and their classmates’ summer experiences with the objectives of: (a) comparing and discussing internship experiences; (b) exploring the elements of entrepreneurship; (c) compiling information useful for debriefing and case studies in EAS5430 in the fall; and (d) connecting the theory of EAS5410 with the realities…