Program Goals & Objectives

The Engineering Entrepreneurship major gives students a strong technical background in engineering design and computation while providing students with knowledge of key business practices from marketing to business model generation. Students obtain the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to identify opportunities and target customers, ideate, prototype and refine ideas as they work to move new technologies and services into the marketplace. Students graduate with problem solving skills and business savvy that makes them attractive to a broad range of companies, government agencies and not-for-profit organizations. Whether our graduates work in an existing company or create their own, the Engineering Entrepreneurship major give them the foundation necessary to succeed in today’s changing economy.