Empowering entrepreneurs
Engineering and entrepreneurship create powerful solutions to complex problems. When engineers' ideas are combined with entrepreneurial skills, solutions to great challenges emerge faster and in more applicable ways.
Engineering and entrepreneurship create powerful solutions to complex problems. When engineers' ideas are combined with entrepreneurial skills, solutions to great challenges emerge faster and in more applicable ways.
Entrepreneurs need the tools and the inspiration to act boldly. We launched a new maker space, complete with 40 3D printers, soldering irons, electronics equipment, robotics materials and more. The space, which will expand to include places for prototype development and engineering musicians and artists, is designed to inspire creativity and ingenuity across campus.
We're bringing entrepreneurialism into the classroom through our Entrepreneurial Capstone initiative. The program helps students sharpen their skills in idea generation, business planning and product development. It also gives students who have an idea for a business to develop their concept during their studies.
Our Capstone Design Fair is the culmination of four years of study for our students. Some of our best projects have come from questions posed by industry. If you're seeking a new approach to resolving an issue, consider sponsoring a Capstone Design project. Our students benefit from the opportunity to tackle a real concern while you get a fresh and innovative approach to a problem that needs solving.
From a bike that can withstand ice and snow to a DNA sequencer, nearly 120 student-designed projects were on display at the 2018 Engineering Design Fair – a unique class-based opportunity for students to put design and entrepreneurial-thinking to the test.
Innovators at the Schulich School of Engineering are getting the chance to turn their ideas into profitable enterprises through the Creative Destruction Lab Rockies (CDL-Rockies), a competitive mentorship and financing program at the Haskayne School of Business.