Practitioners in organizations suggest there is a need for university graduates who can recognize and solve problems and subsequently implement solutions.  Problems occur when newly hired graduates cannot identify problems and are weak in implementation skills.In addition practitioners suggest that new graduates can develop solutions  to problems individually, but they have little experience in teamwork within these situations.

Students from any major who is sincerely interested working on a project to bring a product or service to market are potential students.  Each major in the University has technical knowledge to add to the general knowledge base of the class, whether this knowledge be in education, electronics, science, nursing, agriculture or any other discipline.  The current curriculum consists of: 

    1)    a concentration in entrepreneurship within the management major 
    2)    a certificate of entrepreneurship, primarily for technical majors such as engineering or 
    3)    a minor in entrepreneurship, offered for arts and science majors 
 

The courses in this curriculum utilize team based class assignments to encourage students to develop their innovative and creative capabilities.  These teams work on projects of their own choosing.  Faculty from various schools are involved in teaching and advising students. Each project would be developed by a team including non-business and business students. These teams would be developed around a team concept referred to as and E Team.  The "E" is for "Excellence and Entrepreneurship."

 

This concept was championed by the the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance which is based at Hampshire College in Amhearst, MA. Considerable advice and knowledge is drawn from this Hampshire College and the Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Southern California.  This program would be a two-year study beginning in the students' junior year. There would be no course prerequisites, but junior standing is strongly suggested. The program would ideally have equal numbers of non-business and business students.  The overall objectives of the program would be for student teams to:  educate university students from business and non-business in innovation and invention within existing businesses and in startup business situations, develop entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial (entrepreneurial efforts within existing organizations) skills and techniques necessary to recognize problems, and develop and carry out realistic solutions to those problems, and discover and understand what does and does not work in today's global competitive marketplace. Please use this section to make comments about this page:  Your Name  Your Email Address (necessary if you want a response!)  Comment:    *** You are the [Error Creating Counter File -- Click for more info] visitor to this page since April 23, 1999. ***   [Management 305]   [Management 306]   [Marketing 302]  [Internships]  [Technical Elective I]  [Technical Elective II]

 

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