[bioundgrd] Fwd: New Subject: Venture Engineering
Janice Chang
jdchang at mit.edu
Tue Dec 1 13:54:11 EST 2015
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From: Liz Friedman <lizf at mit.edu<mailto:lizf at mit.edu>>
Subject: New Subject: Venture Engineering
Date: December 1, 2015 at 11:46:35 AM EST
We’re offering a new course, “Venture Engineering” in the spring, which is open to all undergraduates regardless of major. This will be the first of two core subjects in a proposed Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and would be of interest to any student interested in entrepreneurship and/or innovation.
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New Subject:
15.373J / 2.912J “Venture Engineering”
12 Units
Wednesdays 7-10PM in 3-370
Instructors: Scott Stern, Eugene Fitzgerald, Bill Aulet and Andreas Wankerl
This course is the first of two core subjects of a proposed Undergraduate Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Open to all MIT undergraduates seeking to leverage their skills to found or join a start-up company at some point in their career.
Description<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m15b.html#15.373>
This course provides an integrated approach to the development and growth of new innovative ventures. It is intended for MIT undergraduates who seek to leverage their engineering and science background through innovation-driven entrepreneurship. A central theme of the course is that entrepreneurial founders must make interdependent choices under conditions of high uncertainty, and thus venture engineering requires a strategy for reducing uncertainty through a structured process of experimental learning and staged commitments. The course provides a deep understanding of the core technical and strategic choices and challenges facing start-up innovators, a synthetic framework for the development and implementation of entrepreneurial strategy in dynamic environments, and the ability to scale ventures over time.
Students will learn to:
> Understand central challenges and choices facing start-up innovators
> Utilize best practices for primary market research to identify and understand potential customers
> Design and implement ventures positioned for impact and scale
The course combines interactive as well as online lectures, structured case analyses, and team projects. The assignments and team project offer an opportunity to integrate and apply the venture engineering framework in a practical way, and draws from a diverse range of engineering disciplines and settings. The course is highly complementary to and serves as a strong foundation for a range of innovation and entrepreneurship courses around MIT.
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