[ENCI-l] New Course ENGG 503/504 Available for Fall 2018/Winter 2019

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Dear Students,

This is to inform you that this upcoming academic year, F18/W19, you will have the option to register in a newly created capstone team design that is geared towards entrepreneurship projects.
 The new course,  ENGG 503/504<http://www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/calendar/current/engineering.html#43071>, is available to civil engineering students  and those who opt this one, in lieu of the departmental capstone course, will get the same course credits.
These courses are dedicated to entrepreneurial design projects. The teams could be multidisciplinary or single disciplinary. For projects in these courses, there is no industry sponsor. Rather, one or more member of the team has a design idea with some business potential. The objective is to test the idea towards creating new products, start up companies, new technologies, new services, etc. The course will act as a vehicle to create a prototype and go thought the process of due diligence and decide at the end of the term if the idea is viable to go to market.
If you always thought you wanted to take that idea of yours to the next level, this is the chance to test it within the context of this course. Note that this does not mean you have to start a company or take a product to the shelves at the end of the course. Rather, this course is a platform through which students with some ideas and a lot of passion for entrepreneurship can sharpen their entrepreneurial skills in addition to doing a technical project.

Electrical, software, mechanical, civil and geomatics have opted to participate in this course. This means that students in these departments can get together and form a multidisciplinary team.

Dr. Hamid Zareipour (h.zareipour at ucalgary.ca<mailto:h.zareipour at ucalgary.ca>) will be the course coordinator for ENGG 503/504.

Dr. Zareipour has partnered with the Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking  to deliver an exciting course structure to expose students in the course to fundamentals of entrepreneurship and connect them to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Calgary. There will be mentorship opportunities provided by those who have experience with entrepreneurship and creating new companies and technologies.

Also, there will be opportunities for scholarships and grants to support the teams. In this context, there will at least 10 grants of $1000 each to support the projects, provided by the UofC's Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking.

For more information, please contact Dr. Hamid Zareipour (h.zareipour at ucalgary.ca<mailto:h.zareipour at ucalgary.ca>).



Zena Blais
Undergraduate Administrator
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Calgary
Phone: 403-220-2453
Fax: 403-282-7026

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