E140A - Session 1

Summary

Required Readings (Policy on Required Readings.)

• Top 10 Enduring Elements of High-Technology Entrepreneurship
• Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise (Dorf & Byers), Preface
• Summit on the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges
• Grand Challenges For Engineering (skim only)
• Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs (skim only)
• Watch the following short video clips:

  Study Questions (Policy on Study Questions.)

  1. Read all content posted on E140A and MFP web sites. Be prepared to ask any outstanding questions about E140A and MFP in general.
  2. Review the resumes and backgrounds of your 11 classmates. In class, please be prepared to ask your classmates more about a specific item regarding their experience and background.  For example, you may wish to know more about a particular student's participation on a large research project.
  3. Browse the line-up of speakers for MS&E472. We expect you to take advantage of this opportunity.
  4. Some of you took E145.  For those of you who did, please come prepared to share your most helpful "takeaway" from the course with the entire class.  For those of you who did not take E145, please skim the E145 web site.

  Email Assignment (Policy on Email Assignments.)

  1. The one paragraph from my MFP application essay that I am willing to share with the group is ...
  2. My primary outstanding question, concern, or confusion regarding the upcoming nine months of MFP is ...