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Welcome to this new and exciting module on Entrepreneurship. This course continues the study initiated in ENG1006 to propel you into the next level of your entrepreneurship skills development. This module aims to immerse you in new technologies including CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacturing) or VR/AR. You will learn from project launch lectures with inspirational entrepreneurs and design engineers andproject based collaboration.

 

You will be pitching yourself against competitors to promote your strengths and specialist areas to potential co-founders of the future spin-out companies at the University of Exeter. Mock company teams will be formed to answer discipline specific driving questions on  CAD/CAM and/or VR/AR.

 

The newly formed mock company teams will go through the Stage Gate Innovation Process to filter out the best products, services, components, materials or techniques from the initial brainstorming sessions. A partial Business Model Canvas (BMC) will be submitted as a midway checkpoint with a focus on:

 

-Value Proposition

-Infrastructure Aspects

-Market Aspects

-Financial Aspects

 

The mock company teams will develop their selected idea through computer modelling, simulation and/or physical prototyping to finally pitch their developed idea alongside their company website to lecturers in a ‘Dragons Den’ style session. Each mock company team will defend their ideas against some tricky questions to simulate the process of pitching for funding from potential investors. As well as pitching your own ideas, you will learn about many different types of current technological advances from your peers.

 

This module will help you to develop a range of transferable and practical skills essential to all engineers, as well as prepare you for securing valuable work experience should you wish to apply these skills in a real-world environment via the EMP3001 Commercial and Industrial Placement module, or Year in Industry programme.

 

Prerequisite module: ENG1006 or equivalent.