Innovation & entrepreneurship in engineering

Summary

This course is a joint initiative between the School of Engineering and the College of Management to encourage and promote entrepreneurship and management skills, engineering design, hands-on experience, teamwork, and awareness of social and ethical implications in engineering and management.

Content

Keywords

Business economics, product design, systems engineering, technology commercialization, hands-on practice

Learning Prerequisites

Required courses

To be able to register for this course, instructor permission is required. For this, students are asked to prepare a 1-page motivation statement, to be sent per email by September 21 at the very latest to the course coordinator (philipp.schneider@epfl.ch).

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student must be able to:

• Translate specifications into product design
• Assess / Evaluate the economic viability of product at different development phases
• Manage the production of a prototype
• Develop a plan for the commercialisation of the product
• Translate specifications into product design
• Assess / Evaluate the economic viability of product at different development phases
• Manage the production of a prototype
• Develop a plan for the commercialisation of the product

Transversal skills

• Communicate effectively, being understood, including across different languages and cultures.
• Evaluate one's own performance in the team, receive and respond appropriately to feedback.
• Set objectives and design an action plan to reach those objectives.

Assessment methods

• 40% Presentation
• 50% Report/prototype
• 10% Collaboration

Supervision

Resources

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

No

Moodle Link

• https://go.epfl.ch/MGT-555