The TEAM [Master of Science in Technical Entrepreneurship and Management] program has developed five entrepreneurship courses in conjunction with the Simon Business School specifically tailored for students in this engineering management degree program. Required core and elective courses are listed below.
Academic Courses
TEM 401: Economics, Marketing and Strategy Primer for Entrepreneurs (4 credits)
This course is designed to present fundamental concepts of microeconomics, marketing and strategy, which will form the foundation for understanding the economic marketplace and to provide the basis for assessing entrepreneurial opportunities. The course will begin with a study of consumer and firm behavior and the resulting demand and supply conditions in individual markets. Factors which affect market structure, prices, output levels, firm profitability and consumer welfare will be addressed in this context. A critical question facing entrepreneurs and others developing new products or services is determining whether the market potential for a product justifies the investment. Building on the economic model, the course will explore marketing issues, in particular the value proposition for new products. The course concludes with an examination of strategies for both the development and marketing of new products and services. Topics include strategies for market entry (stand alone, joint venture, licensing), distribution policies, pricing policies and product positioning.
TEM 402: Accounting and Finance Primer for Entrepreneurs (4 credits)
This course is designed to present the fundamentals of financial accounting and financial analysis that will serve as a foundation for concepts developed throughout subsequent courses in the entrepreneurship program. The objectives of this course are to enable participants to understand and productively use the principles of finance and accounting information to better structure business decisions. The accounting module will present skills required to interpret and analyze common financial statements, and evaluate a company’s past performance and potential future performance. Specific topics of discussion will include transaction analysis, cash vs. accrual accounting, financial statements, financial statement analysis, development of budgets and pro-forma financial statements, depreciation methodologies, and inventory methodologies. The financial module will present skills required to understand how companies make investment and financing decisions. Specific topics of discussion will include calculation of net present values, an introduction to financial instruments, the tradeoff between risk and return in financial markets, capital budgeting and investment decision-making, choosing an optimal capital structure, and using the weighted average cost of capital.
TEM 411: General Management of New Ventures (4 credits)
This course provides an opportunity to examine the management practices associated with technical innovation and new business development. The analysis of entrepreneurship is evaluated primarily from the perspective of a start-up venture that requires equity capital investment. Management issues discussed include organizational development, analysis of market opportunities, market engagement, financial planning and control, capitalization, sources of funds, the due-diligence process, and valuing the venture. Teams of three to four students will collaborate in the preparation of a business plan. The course will include time for students to share business ideas and identify possible team members. Each team will have a coach who is an experienced businessperson. The coach will be available to provide feedback to the team.
TEM 440: Screening Technical Opportunities (1 credit)
This course provides a process used to quickly assess the commercial merits of raw technologies. This course focuses on the very earliest stage of concepts where information is greatly lacking and the time and money to research such answers is also limited. Students, in group format, will parse through approximately 150 technologies that are available for licensing. These are provisional, pending, and issued patents based upon research conducted at the University of Rochester and held by the Office of Technology Transfer. Teams will select and “thicken” two technologies of interest. Thickening will involve a cursory evaluation based upon technical merit, early market indicators, human resource availability, and business challenges. Teams will use a template to present the results of their investigation to a panel. Teams must state whether or not each technology is worthy to bring forward into TEM 441: Product Development and Technical Management.
TEM 441: Product Development and Technical Management (4 credits)
In this class, students will explore system engineering via the ISO9000 product development process and will illustrate how to use this process to develop both products and research systems that meet necessary specifications. The first eight weeks emphasize system integration including the development of the product development plans, partitioning of a system into subsystems, quantitative analysis of system performance and the role of prototypes. The second half of the semester emphasizes the planning needed to take systems to manufacture. During the course students will prepare a product development plan on a project that was selected during TEM 440: Screening Technical Opportunities. The course is intended to be interactive. A portion of the classes will be dedicated to “brain-storming” solutions to technical problems and formal design reviews where the students will review the project plans of other students.
Entrepreneurship Electives
Entrepreneurship Courses
Students who wish to bolster their business background can choose an entrepreneurship elective. Students choosing to pursue this option will take a graduate level business course offered by the Simon Business School. This is a unique opportunity for students to further immerse themselves in business curriculum all while taking courses with Simon School graduate students. Professor Ronald Goettler will advise TEAM students on course selection and students will register for a course tailored to their business interests. Class schedules and course descriptions for possible entrepreneurship electives can be found on the Simon Business School’s website.
Technical Courses
Technical electives enable students to customize their technical coursework to satisfy their academic preferences. Elective offerings are designed to provide variety, flexibility, and breadth of knowledge. Though not required by the TEAM program, students are encouraged to choose a technical concentration outside of their undergraduate major.
For course descriptions and scheduling please visit the Office of the University Registrar or the department website.
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Required for a Biomedical Engineering Concentration
(Students will choose at least one course from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TEB 411 | Cellular and Molecular Biological Foundations (recommended for non-biology and TEB students) |
BIO 426 | Developmental Biology |
IND 408 | Advanced Biochemistry |
IND 409 | Cell Biology |
IND 410 | Molecular Biology and Genetics |
IND 447 | Signal Transduction |
Electives for a Biomedical Engineering Concentration
(Students will choose at least two courses from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TEB 418 | Introduction to Neuroengineering |
TEB 420 | Biomedical Nanotech |
TEB 428 | Physiological Control Systems |
TEB 442 | Microbiomechanics |
TEB 451 | Biomedical Ultrasound |
TEB 452 | Medical Imaging-Theory & Implementation |
TEB 453 | Ultrasound Imaging |
TEB 454 | Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
TEB 460 | Quantitative Physiology |
TEB 462 | Cell & Tissue Engineering |
TEB 466 | Bioprocess Engineering |
TEB 483 | Biosolid Mechanics |
TEB 485 | Cell & Membrane Mechanics |
TEB 515 | Advanced Topics in Neural Control of Movement |
TEC 469 | Biotechnology and Bioengineering |
TEO 476 | Biomedical Optics |
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Required for a Chemical Engineering Concentration
(Students will choose at least three courses from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TEC 413 | Molecular Self Assembly |
TEC 430 | Organic Electronics |
TEC 441 | Advance Transport Phenomena |
TEC 454 | Interfacial Engineering |
TEC 458 | Electrochemical Engineering & Fuel Cells |
TEC 460 | Solar Cells |
TEC 461 | Advanced Chemical Kinetics |
TEC 464 | Biofuels |
TEC 465 | Sustainable Chemical Processes |
TEC 469 | Biotechnology and Bioengineering |
TEC 476 | Polymer Synthesis |
TEC 480 | Chemistry of Advanced Materials |
TEC 482 | Processing Microelectric Device |
TEC 485 | Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics |
TEC 486 | Polymer Physics |
TEC 487 | Surface Analysis |
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Electives for a Computer Science Concentration
(students will choose at least two courses from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TCS 442 | Artificial Intelligence |
TCS 444 | Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence |
TCS 446 | Machine Learning |
TCS 452 | Computer Organization |
TCS 453 | Dynamic Languages and Software Development |
TCS 454 | Programming Language Design and Implementation |
TCS 455 | Software Analysis and Improvement |
TCS 456 | Operating Systems |
TCS 480 | Computer Models and Limitations |
TCS 482 | Design and Analysis of Efficient Algorithms |
TCS 484 | Advanced Algorithms |
TCS 486 | Computational Complexity |
Electives for a Computer Science Concentration
(students will choose at least one course from the following)
Number | Course Title |
TCS 412 | Human Computer Interaction |
TCS 447 | Natural Language Processing |
TCS 448 | Statistical Speech and Language Processing |
TCS 449 | Machine Vision |
TCS 457 | Computer Networks |
TCS 458 | Parallel & Distributed Systems |
TCS 461 | Database Systems |
TCS 462 | Computational Introduction to Statistics |
TCS 465 | Intermediate Statistics and Computational Methods |
TCS 481 | Cryptography |
TCS 485 | Algorithms and Elections |
TCS 487 | Advanced Modes in Computation |
TCS 572 | Computer Security Foundation |
TCS 576 | Advanced Machine Learning & Optimization |
TCS 577 | Advanced Topics in Computer Vision |
TEE 401 | Advanced Computer Architecture |
TEE 406 | Introduction to Parallel Computing Using GPUs |
TEE 477 | Computer Audition |
TCS 578 | Advanced Topics in Data Management |
DATA SCIENCE
Electives for a Data Science Concentration
(students will choose at least one course from the following)
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Number | Course Title |
TCS 440 | Introduction to Data Mining |
TCS 442 | Artificial Intelligence |
TCS 446 | Machine Learning |
Required for students without undergraduate statistics, and recommended for students who are not proficient in statistics
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Number | Course Title |
STT 213 | Elements of Probability and Math Statistics |
Electives for a Data Science Concentration
(students will choose at least two courses from the following)
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Number | Course Title |
TEE 407 | Advanced GPU Programming and Cloud Computing |
TEE 477 | Computer Audition |
TCS 446 | Machine Learning |
TCS 449 | Machine Vision |
TCS 453 | Dynamic Languages and Software Development |
TCS 458 | Parallel and Distributed Computing |
TCS 461 | Database Systems |
TCS 462 | Computational Introduction to Statistics |
TCS 480 | Computer Models and Limitations |
TCS 482 | Design and Analysis of Efficient Algorithms |
TCS 485 | Algorithms and Elections |
TCS 576 | Advanced Machine Learning and Optimization |
TCS 577 | Advanced Topics in Computer Vision |
CSC 443 | Topics in Computational Neuroscience |
CSC 450 | Data Science for Linguistics |
DSC 475 | Time Series Analysis & Forecasting in Data Science |
DSC 481 | Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning in Healthcare |
DSC 401 | Tools of Data Science |
DSC 578 | Advanced Topics in Data Management |
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Electives for an Electrical and Computer Engineering Concentration in Biomedical Ultrasound
(students will choose three courses from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TEE 452 | Medical Imaging – Theory and Implementation |
TEE 446 | Digital Signal Processing |
TEE 432 | Acoustic Waves |
TEE 447 | Digital Image Processing |
TEB 451 | Biomedical Ultrasound |
TEB 453 | Advanced Biomedical Ultrasound |
Electives for an Electrical and Computer Engineering Concentration in Solid State Electronics (students will choose one course from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TEE 420 | Introduction to Solid State |
TEE 423 | Semiconductor Devices |
Electives for an Electrical and Computer Engineering Concentration in Solid State Electronics
(students will choose two courses from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TEE 425 | Superconductivity and the Josephson Effect |
TEE 434 | Microelectromechanical Systems |
TEE 435 | Intro to Optoelectronics |
TEO 421 | Optical Properties of Materials |
TEE 466 | RF and Microwave Integrated Circuits |
Electives for an Electrical and Computer Engineering Concentration in VLSI/IC Microelectronic Design
(students will choose three courses from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TEE 461 | Introduction to VLSI |
TEE 462 | Advanced CMOS VLSI Design |
TEE 463 | VLSI Error Control Systems |
TEE 464 | Fundamentals of VLSI Testing |
TEE 466 | RF and Microwave Integrated Circuits |
TEE 467 | Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits Design |
TEE 468 | Advanced Analog CMOS |
TEE 520 | Spin Based Electronics |
TEE 565 | Performance Issues in VLSI/IC Design & Analysis |
Required for an Electrical and Computer Engineering Concentration in Communications
Number | Course Title |
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TEE 444 | Digital Communications |
Electives for an Electrical and Computer Engineering Concentration in Communications
(students will choose two courses from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TEE 445 | Wireless Communications |
TEE 440 | Introduction to Random Processes |
TEE 441 | Detection & Estimation Theory |
TEE 446 | Digital Signal Processing |
TEE 450 | Information Theory |
TCS 457 | Computer Networks |
Electives for an Electrical and Computer Engineering Concentration in Fields and Waves
(students will choose three courses from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TEE 432 | Acoustic Waves |
TEE 434 | Microelectromechanical Systems |
TEE 435 | Intro to Optoelectronics |
TEE 445 | Wireless Communications |
TEE 466 | RF and Microwave Integrated Circuits |
Required for an Electrical and Computer Engineering Concentration in Opto-Electronics
Number | Course Title |
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TEE 435 | Intro to Optoelectronics |
Electives for an Electrical and Computer Engineering Concentration in Opto-Electronics
(students will choose two courses from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TEE 420 | Introduction to Solid State |
TEE 423 | Semiconductor Devices |
TEO 421 | Optical Properties of Semiconductors |
TEO 425 | Radiation and Detectors |
TEE 436 | Nanophotonic and Nanomechanical Devices |
Required for an Electrical and Computer Engineering Concentration in Computer Design
Number | Course Title |
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TEE 401 | Advanced Computer Architecture |
Electives for an Electrical and Computer Engineering Concentration in Computer Design
(students will choose two courses from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TEE 404 | Multiprocessor Architecture |
TEE 405 | Advanced Digital Design Using FPGA |
TEE 406 | GPU Parallel Programming Using C/C++ |
TEE 407 | Advanced GPU Programming and Cloud Computing |
TCS 455 | Software Performance and Correctness |
TCS 456 | Operating Systems |
TCS 458 | Parallel & Distributed Systems |
Electives for an Electrical and Computer Engineering Concentration in Musical Acoustics and Signal Processing
(students will choose three courses from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TEE 433 | Musical Acoustics |
TEE 446 | Digital Signal Processing |
TEE 471 | Computational Music Representation |
TEE 472 | Audio Signal Processing for Analysis and Synthesis of Music |
TEE 479 | Audio Recording Technology |
TCS 473 | Computational Models of Music |
ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Recommended for an Energy and the Environment Concentration
Electives for an Energy and the Environment Concentration
(students will choose at least two courses from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TEC 458 | Electrochemical Engineering & Fuel Cells |
TEC 460 | Solar Cells |
TEC 464 | Biofuels |
TEC 465 | Sustainable Chemical Processes |
TEC 469 | Biotechnology and Bioengineering |
TEC 472 | Energy Systems’ Economics and Modeling |
TEC 482 | Processing Microelectronic Devices |
TEE 427 | Electric Power: Conversion, Transmission, and Consumption |
TME 433 | Nanoscale Energy Transport and Conversion |
TME 434 | Introduction to Plasma Physics I |
TME 435 | Introduction to Plasma Physics II |
TME 453 | Introduction to Nuclear Engineering |
TME 460 | Thermodynamics of Solids |
TME 466 | Electrochemistry and Corrosion |
CHM 466 | Nuclear Science and Technology |
CHM 486 | Energy: Science, Technology and Society |
EES 412 | Climate Change Perspectives from Chemical Oceanography |
EES 414 | Geospatial Data Analysis |
EES 416 | Environmental Geochemistry |
EES 418 | Atmospheric Geochemistry |
EES 421 | Quantitative Environmental Problem Solving |
EES 422 | Energy Resources |
EES 433 | Marine Ecosystems and Carbon Cycle Modeling |
EES 434 | Fundamental Atmospheric Modeling |
SUS 446 | Environmental Law and Policy |
MATERIALS SCIENCE
Students must choose one course from Area 1, and one course from two different areas selected from Areas 2, 3, and 4, as listed below. If a student chooses to take a four-course cluster, the fourth course may be any course listed below.
Area 1
(students will choose one course from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TME 424 | Introduction to Robust Design and Quality Engineering |
TME 445 | Precision Instrument Design |
TME 462 | Experimental Materials Science |
Area 2
(students may choose one from this list)
Number | Course Title |
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TME 408 | Phase Transformation in Metals and Alloys |
TME 461 | Fracture and Adhesion |
TME 463 | Microstructures |
TME 481 | Mechanical Properties of Materials |
TME 411 | Mechanical Properties of Polymers |
TMS 492 | Fuel Cell Materials |
Area 3 (students may choose one from this list)
Number | Course Title |
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TME 408 | Phase Transformation in Metals and Alloys |
TEC 480 | Chemistry of Advanced Materials |
TEC 486 | Poly Science & Engineering |
TEC 487 | Polymer Rheology and Processing |
TEC 458 | Electrochemical Engineering and Fuel Cells |
TMS 492 | Fuel Cell Materials |
Area 4 (students may choose one from this list)
Number | Course Title |
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TEE 420 | Introduction to Solid State |
TEE 423 | Semiconductor Devices |
TEC 480 | Chemistry of Advanced Materials |
TEC 487 | Polymer Rheology and Processing |
TEO 421 | Optical Properties of Semiconductors |
TEE 435 | Intro to Optoelectronics |
TEC 482 | Processing Microelectronic Devices |
TMS 492 | Fuel Cell Materials |
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Students must choose one course from Area 1, and one course from two different areas selected from Areas 2, 3, and 4, as listed below. If a student chooses to take a four-course cluster, the fourth course may be any course listed below.
Area 1: Design or Experiment
(students will choose one course from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TME 424 | Introduction to Robust Design and Quality Engineering |
TME 445 | Precision Instrument Design |
TME 462 | Solids and Materials Lab |
Area 2: Mechanics
(students may choose one from this list)
Number | Course Title |
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TME 407 | Advanced Dynamics |
TME 432 | Opto-Mechanical |
TME 433 | Nanoscale Energy Transport and Conversion |
TME 436 | Compressible Flow |
TME 437 | Incompressible Flow |
TME 440 | Mechanics of Structures |
TME 443 | Applied Vibrations |
TME 444 | Continuum Mechanics |
TME 449 | Elasticity |
TME 461 | Fracture and Adhesion |
TEB 483 | Biosolid Mechanics |
TME 536 | Inertial Confinement Fusion |
Area 3: Computation
(students may choose one from this list)
Number | Course Title |
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TME 403 | Numerical Methods |
TME 432 | Opto-Mechanical |
TME 441 | Finite Elements |
TME 458 | Nonlinear Finite Elements Analysis |
Area 4: Materials
(students may choose one from this list)
Number | Course Title |
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TME 408 | Phase Transformation in Metals and Alloys |
TME 434 | Introduction to Plasma Physics I |
TME 460 | Thermodynamics of Solids |
TME 461 | Fracture and Adhesion |
TME 463 | Microstructures |
TME 466 | Corrosion |
TME 481 | Mechanical Properties of Materials |
OPTICS
Required for an Optics Concentration
(students will choose at least one course from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TEO 441 | Geometrical Optics |
TEO 443 | Fundamentals of Modern Optical Systems |
TEO 463 | Wave Optics and Imaging |
Electives for an Optics Concentration
(students will choose at least two courses from the following)
Number | Course Title |
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TEO 412 | Quantum Mechanics for Optics |
TEO 421 | Optical Properties of Materials |
TEO 423 | Detection of Optical Radiation |
TEO 424 | Fundamentals of Lasers |
TEO 425 | Radiation and Detectors |
TEO 427 | Optics and Liquid Crystals for Chemical Engineers |
TEO 428 | Optical Communication Systems |
TEO 432 | Opto-Mechanics |
TEO 433 | Optical Fabrication and Testing Technology |
TEO 442 | Instrumental Optics |
TEO 444 | Lens Design |
TEO 446 | Optical Thin Film Coatings |
TEO 447 | Liquid Crystal Optics |
TEO 448 | Vision and the Eye |
TEO 450 | Polarization |
TEO 452 | Medical Imaging Theory and Implementation |
TEO 462 | Physical Optics II |
TEO 465 | Principles of Lasers |
TEO 467 | Nonlinear Optics |
TEO 468 | Integrated Photonics |