Technological entrepreneurship and management courses

Exposes students to careers in entrepreneurship by inviting diverse entrepreneurs to discuss their businesses, backgrounds, and share their stories on starting and growing their ventures.

Introduces essential functions required in technology-based and innovative enterprises, and views their relationship together, as well as examines the enterprise’s role in society.

Introduces the concept of entrepreneurship through venture practice and self-reflection to help students understand their potential roles in a technology-driven marketplace.

Exposes processes related to developing creative skills and habits with an emphasis on problem solving and design, while also introducing techniques of innovation.

Outlines product design method and provides opportunity to apply it to a design project including identifying needs, setting target specifications, prototyping and testing, and more.

Building and maintaining customers with an emphasis on developing a market identity, as well as sales for technology-based enterprises.

Focuses on financial resource management techniques utilized by U.S. domestic companies, and covers the unique aspects of revenue accounting and its application to company operations.

Essential practices for managers, including planning, organizing, leading and controlling the enterprise. Studies current issues, such as sustainability, environmental protection, and more.

Investigates how innovators can incorporate the knowledge of complex systems into the processes of technology development, product/service innovation, and venture development.

Advances fundamental principles and concepts of technology entrepreneurship, such as transferring knowledge into processes and products that benefit society, and more.

Emphasizes basic principles of enterprise operations management, as well as uses common decision-making issues and related qualitative and quantitative techniques.

Course focuses on enterprising strategic plan development and implementation, concepts of open innovation, environmental opportunities and threats, organizational and management considerations, and more.

Students will engage in future technology forecasting techniques, and emerging trends on responsible innovation, such as technology ethics, sustainability of innovation, and more.

The capstone project refines skills in communication, research and information retrieval, critical analysis and criticism, and demonstrates technical competence in each student’s area of study. This course satisfies a general studies literacy (L) requirement.

Students launch their own technology-based ventures with collaboration and mentorship from colleagues/faculty. Explores the fundamentals and principles of entrepreneurship suitable for undergraduate technology entrepreneurship. 

Graduate level course dives deeper into disruptive innovation management and practice. Students will engage in future technology forecasting techniques, and emerging trends on responsible innovation.

Graduate level course examining global entrepreneurship topics, including international enterprise development, cultural considerations, current politics, modern supply chain considerations, and more.