Three core courses in the ENTI Minor form foundational knowledge, skills and insights into entrepreneurship, innovation and new career path options.

  1. MGMT 215 - Entrepreneurial Mindset 
  2. ENGR 310 - Entrepreneurial Leadership 
  3. MGMT 425 (ENGR 425/IST 425) - New Venture Creation 

Students who complete these core courses develop skills in seven areas:

  • Self-efficacy - the belief in yourself that you can define a target and are able to attain your personal goals.
  • Leadership - the ability to bring others along to share in the opportunity and motivate effective teams with compelling communication.
  • Recognition of new opportunities - the ability to perceive needs where others have not.
  • Resourcefulness - the ability to build value using resources not fully under one's own control.
  • Creativity - the ability to look at problems from many angles and to synthesize new solutions from existing parts.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and failure - the ability to reach decisions based on complex, often conflicting sets of data.
  • Business acumen - working understanding of finance, marketing, intellectual property.

New Ventures Cluster

Total number of credits in this cluster: 9 or 10

  1. BA 243 - Social, Legal, and Ethical Environment of Business
  2. BA 250 - Small Business Management
  3. MGMT 427 - Managing an Entrepreneurial Startup Company

The New Ventures Cluster is designed to help student develop the skills and ways of thinking required to create, develop, innovate and manage entrepreneurial companies. A successful start-up venture requires a wide range of managerial skills not usually demanded in one person within a larger organization, such as:

  • Acquiring and balancing limited resources
  • Changing direction quickly
  • Building a coherent team
  • Managing intellectual property
  • Creating new markets

The number of credits in this cluster depend on the selection of courses in the area of business law; see list of courses below. Students who complete this cluster develop skills and knowledge in 14 areas:

  • Opportunity recognition
  • New product development
  • Innovative thinking
  • Tolerance for ambiguity
  • Resource acquisition
  • Effective negotiation
  • Entrepreneurial management
  • Entrepreneurial finance
  • Effective teamwork
  • Entrepreneurial marketing
  • Entrepreneurial and innovation strategy
  • Technology commercialization
  • Intellectual property management
  • Business law