Technology Entrepreneurship and Design
Sponsored by: and Divisions
Faculty Contact: Candida Brush and Sebastian Fixson
*Faculty contacts serve as "advisors" to those students who have an interest in the given concentration.
You should feel free to contact these faculty with questions.
The Technology Entrepreneurship and Design concentration offers students a cross-disciplinary, experiential opportunity to explore innovation in products and organizations from a number of different vantage points. The concentration also offers the opportunity to work closely with students from the Olin College of Engineering and the Rhode Island School of Design.
The concentration has three suggested interest tracks, Technology Entrepreneurship, Product Design, and Sustainability which encourage students to study innovation in different contexts, i.e. organizational design, product design and environmental sustainability. These tracks are recommended but not required.
Four Courses are Required to Complete this Concentration. Although not required, students may choose to follow one of three recommended tracks.
| Track | Track | Track |
| Technology and EPS | Product
Design | Sustainability |
Required Course:
| EPS3503 New Tech Ventures | Required | Required | Required |
List A: Must take at least one
| [Olin]User Oriented Collaborative Design (UOCD) | ▲ | ▲ | ▲ |
| [Olin] Sustainable Design | Δ | | ▲ |
List B: Must take at least one course from the list below and a second course from either list A or B.
| ECN3675 Environmental Economic Policy & Analysis | | | Δ |
| LAW36xx Intellectual Property | Δ | ▲ | |
| MKT3560 Marketing New Products | Δ | | |
| MOB3578 Product Design & Development | | ▲ | Δ |
| EPS3527 Social Entrepreneurship by Design | | | Δ |
| [Olin] SCOPE | Δ | Δ | Δ |
List C: Suggested But NOT Required:
| EPS3550 Corporate Entrepreneurship | • | | |
| SCN3625 Ethical Issues in Research & Technology | | • | • |
| SCN3697 Global Warming: Business & Society 2 cr | | | • |
The two groups of triangles represent courses recommended for each particular track:
▲ = strongly recommended
Δ = recommended
