南卫理公会大学莱尔工程学院

The Master of Science in Engineering Entrepreneurship is a two-semester (31 semester credit hours) cohort based program in the EMIS Department of the Lyle School of Engineering offered in concert with Lyle (19 SCH) and the Cox School of Business (12 SCH). Incoming students should have an engineering undergraduate degree (or equivalent).

A graduate of the SMU M.S. in engineering entrepreneurship will be an engineer who looks at the role of new technology in society with a business perspective. That graduate will have the ability to apply that knowledge to bring new technology to the marketplace. The program thus fills the growing regional and national need for exceptionally trained engineering managers and entrepreneurs to start and to lead new technology ventures.

Rigorous, formal, successful courses with proven impact will be offered by the Cox School in entrepreneurship knowledge and practice. Management in an engineering context will be taught in well-established courses in Lyle’s EMIS department. A third anchor for the M.S. in engineering entrepreneurship will be a new course offering that will be unique to SMU. The two-semester Technology Commercialization Studio will:

• Focus on the management of products with high technology content;
• Encourage the incubation of novel technology from students, and from SMU’s research laboratories;
• Include C-level mentors from successful small and medium sized engineering firms and venture capital firms; and,
• Feature lectures from experts in intellectual property, legal aspects of businesses, ethics, financing, fundraising, sales and other subject matter vital to the practice of engineering entrepreneurship.

Students in the program will also have the ability to add to their engineering expertise, particularly in topics relevant to their entrepreneurial aspirations.

Core Courses

CISB 6222 - Starting a Business
CISB 6226 - Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunity
EMIS 7501 - Technology Commercialization Studio I
EMIS 7503 - Technology Commercialization Studio II
STRA 6224 - Entrepreneurial Strategy
Satisfactory completion of one three hour course from any Lyle graduate program, approved by the adviser

Three from the following:

BAEX 6237 - Global Explorations in Entrepreneurship
CISB 6210 - Essential Law for the Entrepreneur
CISB 6211 - Enhancing Operational Performance for Entrepreneurial Companies
CISB 6212 - International Entrepreneurship
CISB 6214 - Law of Financial Transactions for Entrepreneurs
CISB 6218 - Managing the Family-Owned and Closely Held Business
CISB 6220 - Social Media for Entrepreneurs
CISB 6224 - Venture Financing
CISB 6225 - Entrepreneurial Exit Strategies: LPO, Sale, IPO, Recapitalization, and Liquidation
CISB 6228 - Corporate Entrepreneurship: Intrapreneuring

Two from the following:

CEE 7306 - Sustainable Urban Development and Design
EMIS 7351 - Enterprise Fundamentals
EMIS 7365 - Program and Project Management
EMIS 7366 - Marketing Engineering
EMIS 8358 - Technical Entrepreneurship
EMIS 8361 - Engineering Economics and Decision Analysis
EMIS 8364 - Engineering Management