This minor aims to introduce engineering students to the fundamentals of technology-based engineering entrepreneurship. It will provide both the knowledge and skills to identify entrepreneurial opportunities from technological innovation and patents by staff or projects by students. The minor helps students to nurture an entrepreneurial mindset, innovative and systems thinking. It also helps students broaden their multi-disciplinary perspectives, integrating management, marketing, finance, and engineering. Students taking this minor will be encouraged to investigate social problems from the engineering perspective and provide technical solutions. Such a minor will present an alternative career path to engineering graduates from engineers to entrepreneurs, patent lawyers, or technology commercialization agents.
Curriculum (15 credit units)
Core Courses (6 credit units)
| Course Code | Course Title |
| FS2003 | Introduction to Intellectual Property |
| GE2304 | Foundations of Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
Electives (9 credit units)
Students are required to take at least one course from each of the following categories:
Business, Intellectual Property and Law
| Course Code | Course Title |
| IS2505 | e-Business |
| LW2903 | Business and Law |
| LW4642 | Intellectual Property Law: Theory, Patents and Trademarks |
| MGT4305 | Developing and Presenting a Business Plan |
| MGT4314 | Negotiation |
| PIA3900 | Innovation and Governance |
Engineering Management for Entrepreneurship
| Course Code | Course Title |
| ADSE4024 | Project Management |
| ADSE4103 | Decision Analysis and Risk Management |
| ADSE4108 | Product Development and Innovation |
Innovation and Entrepreneurship related Practice Courses
| Course Code | Course Title |
| FS4001 | Co-operative Education Scheme |
| FS4002 | Industrial Attachment Scheme |
| FS4005 | Overseas Internship Scheme |
| FS4006 | Summer Research Internship |
All College of Engineering students are eligible to take this minor.