Entrepreneurship for Engineers (250964) – Course 2025/26 PDF
Syllabus
Learning Objectives
What is an entrepreneur and what is his or her importance within the company? * Identify the mechanisms of organisation and growth in a company and learn to manage its growth. * Identify the mechanisms of failure in a company or project and establish measures to avoid it. * Aspects of business initiative. * The structure and presentation of opportunities * The resources and structures of finances * People and teams * How to manage companies in an international level * Short and long term management of growth * Generation and purchase * To keep the flow of ideas within a company, case studies * Identification of opportunities and business plans * Financial sources and their structuring Learing Resources:
Total hours of student work
| Hours | Percentage | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supervised Learning | Large group | 45h | 100.00 % | |
| Self Study | 80h | |||
Teaching Methodology
The course consists of 1.5 hours per week of classroom activity (large size group). The 1.5 hours in the large size groups are devoted to theoretical lectures, in which the teacher presents the basic concepts and topics of the subject, shows examples and solves exercises. The rest of weekly hours devoted to laboratory practice. Support material in the form of a detailed teaching plan is provided using the virtual campus ATENEA: content, program of learning and assessment activities conducted and literature. Although most of the sessions will be given in the language indicated, sessions supported by other occasional guest experts may be held in other languages.
Grading Rules
The evaluation calendar and grading rules will be approved before the start of the course.
The mark of the course is obtained from the ratings of continuous assessment and their corresponding laboratories and/or classroom computers. Continuous assessment consist in several activities, both individually and in group, of additive and training characteristics, carried out during the year (both in and out of the classroom). The teachings of the laboratory grade is the average in such activities. The evaluation tests consist of a part with questions about concepts associated with the learning objectives of the course with regard to knowledge or understanding, and a part with a set of application exercises.
Test Rules
Failure to perform a laboratory or continuous assessment activity in the scheduled period will result in a mark of zero in that activity.
Bibliography
Basic
- Birley, S.; Muzycka, D. Mastering enterprise : your single-source guide to becoming an entrepreneur. Harlow: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 1997. ISBN 9780273631279.
Complementary
- Bridge, S.; O'Neill, K. Understanding enterprise : entrepreneurship and small business. 4th ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN 9780230308091.