[ENCI-l] 4th Year Undergrade students eligible for the capstone design course

[Students in Civil Engineering Undergraduate Program]

To all 4th Year students, please find some information below regarding a dedicated entrepreneurial capstone design project.

 For more information, please contact Dr. Colin Dalton (cdalton at ucalgary.ca<mailto:cdalton at ucalgary.ca>)



Dear Students,

This is to make you aware that this upcoming academic year, F23/W24, there is an option for a dedicated entrepreneurial capstone design project (ENGG 503/504).  For this course, the teams could be multidisciplinary or single disciplinary. For such projects, there is no industry sponsor. Rather, one or more member of the team has a design idea with some business potential, and the objective is to test the idea towards creating new products, start-up companies, new technologies, new services, etc. 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 up or take a product to the shelves at the end of the course. Rather, this course is a platform that students with some ideas and a lot of passion for entrepreneurship can sharpen their entrepreneurial skills in addition to doing a technical project.

The following programs:  electrical, software, mechanical, civil and geomatics, have opted to participate in this course. This means that students in these departments will automatically get credit for taking this course in lieu of their departmental capstone course. For other departments, approval from the department must be sought in order to secure credit.

In close partnership with the Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking, a unique course structure is designed to expose the students in the course to fundamentals of entrepreneurship and connect them to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Calgary. Last year, there were funds up to $1000 each to support the projects, provided by the Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking. There will likely be similar support in place for the upcoming academic year. There are also several awards for teams that do well, with an opportunity to pitch in the Hunter Hub Launchpad event at the end of the session.

Ideally, you should have an idea, form a team and register in the course. If you have an idea but not a team, or if you are interested in this stream, but do not have a clear idea to work on, you should also register in the course. The course instructor will help the students to form/join teams within the first three weeks of the classes.

 For more information, please contact Dr. Colin Dalton (cdalton at ucalgary.ca<mailto:cdalton at ucalgary.ca>)


Colin Dalton, Ph.D., P.Eng.
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Associate Professor | Electrical and Software Engineering Dept
Associate Head, Graduate Studies | Electrical and Software Engineering Dept
Associate Member | Hotchkiss Brain Institute
Scientific Director | Microsystems Hub
Senior Member | IEEE
Parex Innovation Fellow Alumnus
Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
Tel: 403.210.8464

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