This 15-credit, interdisciplinary minor, which combines SEAS and Business School courses, is offered to SEAS students interested in creating and developing new technologies and associated business ventures.

The business courses allow students to gain a fundamental understanding of financial management and market strategies. The engineering and technology classes provide students with a focused look at the development and diffusion of new technologies from both a commercial and social perspective.

Several courses allow students to work on either their own new technology ideas or those of local entrepreneurs. The minor is structured so that students with viable ideas can work on project or venture development during each academic year, culminating with their senior capstone project.
 

ENTREPRENEURSHIP MINOR REQUIREMENTS

Minimum: 15 points

1-3. Required Courses:


• ENGI E2261: Introduction to accounting and finance (3.0 points)
• 
BUSI W3021: Marketing and marketing management (3.0 points)

• IEOR E4998: Managing technological innovation and entrepreneurship (3.0 points)

4-5. Electives (either two courses from list A or one course from list A and one from list B):

A. Engineering electives (at least one)


• CHEN E4020: "Protection of Industrial and Business Property" (3.0 points)
• 
CIEN E4136: "Entrepreneurship in Civil Engineering and Construction" (3.0 points)

• COMS W4444: "Programming and Problem Solving" (3.0 points)

• BMEN E3998: "Projects in Biomedical Engineering" (3.0 points)

• IEOR E4550: "Entrepreneurial Business Creation for Engineers" (3.0 points)

• ISME E4310: "The manufacturing enterprise" (3.0 points)
• SCNC W3010: "Science, Technology, and Society" (3.0 points)
 or
 URBS V3310: "Science and Technology in Urban Environments" (3.0 points)
 (but not both)

B. Other electives (no more than one)


• ECIE E4280: "Corporate Finance" (3.0 points)

• IEOR W4308: "Industrial Budgeting and Finance Control" (3.0 points)