Spring 2024

ELENG 198 018 - GRP 018

Directed Group Study for Advanced Undergraduates

Innovators in Residence: Designing and decoding for success in Entrepreneurship

Danica Tang, Georgina Fakoukaki

Jan 16, 2024 - May 03, 2024

05:00 pm - 06:59 pm

Soda 606

Class #:33934

Units: 2

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction
Time Conflict Enrollment Allowed

Offered through Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 17

Enrolled: 7

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 24

Waitlist Max: 0

No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

1 to 4 hours of directed group study per week, and 2 to 8 hours of outside work hours per week.

Course Catalog Description

Group study of selected topics in electrical engineering, usually relating to new developments.

This advanced course is a collaborative learning environment designed to develop your entrepreneurial leadership, coaching, team building skills, and decode success patterns to further your entrepreneurship journey. ombine learning with hands-on teaching, and mentoring. Being an Innovators in Residence [IIRs] is being an EIR-in-training: a forum to deeply understand patterns of “successful” and “not-so-successful” entrepreneurship ventures in various domains, and develop an evidence-based understanding of success in entrepreneurship. You will also develop a nuanced understanding of elements that lead to success (or not) by leading and coaching student-teams that have little experience developing revolutionary and disruptive ventures in both the for-profit and social enterprise sectors. As IIRs, with some experience in entrepreneurship, you will be challenged to leverage your startup entrepreneurial experience, and learnings in this Decal course to enable teams in ENGIN 183 to design their entrepreneurial project for success. You are encouraged to incorporate best-practices that help student-teams be successful in their design to build startups and participate successfully in entrepreneurship. You will deepen your understanding of patterns of failure (and success), and innovate on best practices in technical knowledge, design knowledge, launching products, strategizing MVP development, story-telling, defining value proposition, building effective teams, or connecting teams with the right resources. At the end of the semester, as IIRs, you would have built a reservoir of evidence-based strategies for successful entrepreneurship that you can take to design your startups for success and a close network of the IIR alumni community to support you in your future endeavors.