CEE246 -
Entrepreneurship in Civil & Environmental Engineering
Online
Overview
Developing entrepreneurial businesses in civil and environmental engineering with the support of instructors who are experienced venture capitalists (VCs), company founders and operators provides you real-world perspective and a network to help realize a business idea.
This course teaches you a rigorous process of assessing opportunities, developing products, building a go-to market strategy, and analyzing funding requirements, all culminating with presentations to industry experts and VC's to mimic typical investor pitches.
This is a team project course that requires significant time outside of the weekly lecture material. Some projects will require Public Private Partnerships for funding. Technology will also play a strong role in the projects.
Projects typically address a wide range of businesses with some tie-in to civil and environmental engineering.
Project topics may include:
- Sustainable and innovative building construction
- Energy arbitrage
- Services companies
- Environmental remediation
- Advanced waste treatment
- IT applications in construction
- Advanced materials
This course has limited enrollment! Due to the limited space in this course, interested students should join the wait list and immediately submit their NDO application, transcripts, and resume or CV. All students on the wait list will be evaluated by the teaching team. Anyone without the required application and supportive documentation will not be reviewed by the application committee. Priority given to teams of 3-4 students and those with a product/project idea (either company or individual). Decisions will be communicated to students no later than March 21, 2016.
Instructors
- Jack Fuchs Lecturer, Management Science and Engineering
- Raymond Levitt Professor, Stanford University
- Michael Lyons Consulting Associate Professor
- Pedram Mokrian Lecturer, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Units
3.0 - 4.0
Grading
- Assignments and Class Participation- 25%
- Final Write-Up/Business Model Outline- 25%
- Final Presentation- 50%
Prerequisites
This course is open to matriculated on-campus graduate students and qualified business professionals for online participation. No other prerequisites are required.
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Tuition & Fees
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Mr. Lyons currently serves as Chairman of Zanttz, Inc. a cyber security company based upon technology developed through a tech transfer partnership with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Executive Chairman of CypherPath, a cyber security training company. He is also a Managing Director of NewLine Ventures, LLC, a management consulting firm. From 2008 to 2011, he also served as a Venture Partner with the Paladin Capital Group in Washington, D.C. and as a Venture Partner for ePlanet Ventures I and II. He was a co-founder and General Partner of Zilkha Venture Partners (Fund closed out in 2003), an early stage venture capital partnership focused on seed and first round investments in IT and bio-technology companies, principally located in Silicon Valley. He founded SafeView, Inc. in 2002, a Government Laboratory (PNNL) spinout, to address aspects of the anti-terrorist physical security market; the Company closed A and B rounds totaling more than $23M led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, ePlanet Ventures, GE/Invision, Paladin Capital Group, and Novak Biddle. He served as Chairman until its sale to L3 Communications in March, 2006. He currently serves as a Director of Real-Time Innovations, a privately held software company focused on advanced real-time integration of complex systems. He is a key advisor to three other stealth technology companies.