GE 498 TEE — The Entrepreneurial Engineer

COURSE REFERENCE NUMBER (CRN): 48511

Book aims to train entrepreneurial engineers
According to David Goldberg, the purpose of his new book, The Entrepreneurial Engineer (Wiley, 2006) is to challenge universities to stop turning out Dilbert-like technocrats and start turning out engineers with the combination of technical, business, and people skills necessary in an age of opportunity. Read More >>

Course Description: Engineers increasingly live in a radically interconnected world of changing projects, novel work arrangements, and interdisciplinary teams that must be balanced by an increasingly sophisticated set of personal, interpersonal, and organizational skills. This course surveys the skill set necessary for those entrepreneurial engineers who wish to be better attuned to opportunity and more capable of exploiting it in either startups or extant organizations.

Course Topics:

• The joy of engineering
• Money and you: Engagement
• Time management
• Write for your life
• Present, don't speak
• The human side of engineering
• Ethics in matters small, large, and engineering
• Master the pervasive team
• Organizations and leadership
• Technology opportunity assessment

Home Page: http://online.engr.uiuc.edu/webcourses/ge498tee/

Prerequisites: Junior standing in engineering/applied science or consent of instructor.

Credit: 1 hour (counts toward the certificate in Strategic Technology Management)

Instructor: David Goldberg