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ENGD3001: Technological Innovation Through New Ventures
2025 unit information
This course is designed to provide students with the challenging experience of transforming a good idea, of their own choosing, into a commercial reality. It provides the opportunity for students to assess and develop their entrepreneurial skills. It develops the key competencies of opportunity identification, creativity, vision, ideas assessment, self-awareness, motivation, mobilising resources, financial and economic literacy, planning and management, coping with uncertainty and the pursuit of learning through experience.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Engineering
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Engineering |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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must be in the Dalyell stream |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. identify and analyse complex, non-linear problems and develop possible solutions where data are limited and the principal variable is people.
- LO2. develop a systems / holistic perspective of problems to understand root causes of problems and possible solutions to address root causes.
- LO3. demonstrate enhanced communication skills, including presentation, engagement and microphone techniques, particularly to a large public audience
- LO4. demonstrate a well-developed understanding of the process of business planning
- LO5. demonstrate enhanceded leadership, project management, and teamwork skills.
- LO6. understand the process of innovation, entrepreneurship and startups and how to apply it.
- LO7. become increasingly more comfortable with failure and uncertainty, and identifying and developing an "entrepreneurial mindset".
- LO8. work in a team and overcome the various interpersonal challenges involved in working with others.
- LO9. lead self around the various mental challenges faced in an entrepreneurial journey : uncertainty, interpersonal challenges with team and failure.
- LO10. creatively solve problems and think outside the box to generate innovative ideas for complex challenges.
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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