course and program

Designing Sustainable eHealth Enterprises to Improve Quality of Care in Resource-poor Settings

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011 - $32,000

This grant supports the creation of a new course, the Sana eHealth Lab, in which cross-disciplinary teams of students from MIT and cross-registered students from Harvard engage international teams of students in partner universities with the goal of developing new businesses in health information and mobile technology to improve the quality of care in resource-poor settings. Using an open-source platform, students design solutions to problems brought to them by partner organizations in developing countries. The course includes weekly case studies and class discussion with leading experts in the field and practical workshops on how to partner with key stakeholders, how to craft and deliver project pitches, and how to write successful grant applications. Students are encouraged to apply to funding sources at MIT through the Public Service Center, Deshpande Center, Legatum Center, and the MIT $100k and IDEAS competitions.

Course and Program: December 2011

NCIIA-funded course at JHU generates new biomedical start-ups

Submitted by dave on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 10:24

A 2010 course and program grant awarded to Center of Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID, itself supported by an NCIIA Course and Program grant) at Johns Hopkins University has swiftly returned on its investment. Two biomedical device start-ups have spun out of the Master's Level Education in Bioengineering Innovation course:

Grant PI Bob Allen reports that so far 15 students have graduated from the program with MS degrees. JHPIEGO, JHU’s global health partner, is further developing two other projects from the grant: an electronic partogram and the antenatal screening kit (a 2010 E-Team grantee and Popular Science invention of the year).

 

Grants Funded by NCIIA: Course and Program

Below are Course and Program grants funded by NCIIA in recent years. Click any link for more information about the grantees, their project and their institution.
View all grants funded in most recent cycle.
December 2010

Building a Productive Ecosystem
for Tech-based Social Entrepreneurship at MIT Certificate Program in
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Commercializing Student Designed
Technologies for the Disabled Developing a Marketing High-Technology
Products and Innovations Course Development of Social Entrepreneurship
Capstone Project Course at Lehigh University Energy Innovation for
Campus Carbon Neutrality Development of a Center for Student Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the
CTech Incubator @ University of Bridgeport (Planning Grant) Identifying Needs and Exploring
Solutions in Developing Regions Interdisciplinary
Environmental Entrepreneurship The InVenture Prize: An Undergraduate
Invention Competition at Georgia Tech Wake Forest Innovation Fellows Program Wearable Multimodal Wayfinding Techniques
for Blind and Visually Impaired People mystartupXX: Empowering the Next Generation
of Female Technology Entrepreneurs

 
May 2010

Accelerating Student E-Team New Venture Creation
through the Application of Industrial Design and Structured Seed Funding Technology Innovation for
People with Disabilities Drexel Smart House
Student Seed Fund Bridge Mentorship Program for
Advanced Student Companies at UMass Amherst Creative Design for Affordability Cross-disciplinary development teams
to make students' ideas real Developing a Cross-Disciplinary E-Team to Enhance
Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Louisiana State University (Planning Grant) Entrepreneurship Initiative for Rural
Southeastern North Carolina (Planning Grant) Master's Level Education
in Bioengineering Innovation Sustainable Medical Device Innovation
for Developing Countries Practicing Entrepreneurship: Creating
value for a technology-based invention or idea Spark: A University-Level Initiative for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship Florida Atlantic University (Planning Grant)

 
2009

Bio-architectural Design E-Teams
for Biomedical Challenges Building a Design and Innovation Professional
Masters Degree Program at the University of Cincinnati UW Environmental
Innovation Challenge Creating Social Value and
Pattern-Breaking Change Through Design Developing a Cross Discipline
E-Team Service Learning Course Integrating Innovation and Invention
into Computer Science Project Courses Developing a Professional Certificate Program in Innovation
and Sustainability at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Development of an Undergraduate Minor
Specialization in Sustainable Global Health Design E-ship Engineering Entrepreneurship Innovation Development
Directive at the University of Colorado at Boulder Enhancing Entrepreneurship Education and
Training via the Rutgers Entrepreneurship Lab Entrepreneurial Ventures
for Journalists Facilitating Entrepreneurship
in Lighting Funding a "Dormcubator" at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In Pursuit of Innovation Information, Innovation and
International Development (I3D) Internationalizing Entrepreneurship
Education Program (IEEP) Renewable Energy Entrepreneurship
Partnerships (REEP) Social Entrepreneurship
Course Development Social Entrepreneurship Program
for Technology Innovation Technology Commercialization
in Developing Countries Technology Entrepreneurship Initiative The Global Innovation for Village
Entrepreneurship (GIVE) Capstone The KINDLE Student Mentoring Program The University of Minnesota Acara
Summer Institute for High Impact Businesses

 
2008

A Multi-disciplinary, Multi-level
Innovation-team Course A Proposal to Develop a Curriculum-Based Module Integrating Innovation and
Commercialization Disciplines into a New Robotics Technology Product Design Platform Biomedical Engineering
E-Teams Without Borders Bringing Healthcare Home The Four Directions Program Developing Design Thinking
in Multi-Disciplinary Teams Development of a Multi-Disciplinary
New Product Development Course Development of a Personal Water
Purification Solution in the Philippines E-Team Workshop Series and
Phase 0 Seed Fund Program Enabling Student Innovation in Biomedical Engineering:
Development of a Graduate Level Innovative Design Class Enhancing Entrepreneurship Engineering
Education Program Activities at Mercer University Global Healthcare Technologies Program Lion Launch Pad - Center for
Penn State Student Entrepreneurship Villlage Empowerment Mercer University School of Engineering
Entrepreneurship Engineering Education Program SVSU Social Entrepreneurship Social and
Sustainable Entrepreneurship Technical Entrepreneurship Program:
Continued Support Technological and Agricultural Entrepreneurship
for a Globally Sustainable Future UR-PUCP: Collaborations for
Healthcare in Developing Countries University of California, Davis Program
for International Energy Technologies (PIET) Moving Clean Energy Innovations to the Market and Creating Entrepreneurial
Learning Opportunities Through Cross-Disciplinary Student Teams at Montana State University

 
2007

An Entrepreneurial Approach
to Green Engineering Beyond Design for the Environment:
Improving Products, Processes, and Actions Capstone Course in Innovation and
Entrepreneurship at UMass Amherst Center for Bioengineering
Innovation and Design Creation of a Product
Development and Innovation Course Design for Sustainability:
Technology Innovation for Competitive Advantage Designing and Sustaining Technology
Innovation for Global Health Practice Development of a Capstone Course
for an Emerging Entrepreneurship Program Eco-Innovating a Better World Engineering - Liberal Arts
Entrepreneurship Seminar Engineering Entrepreneurship
Minor with Course Clustering Entrepreneurship: Where
Art Meets Engineering Green Coast Labs Development Innovating from Life: Exploring Biomimicry-based
Solutions to Human Healthcare Problem Interdisciplinary Service
Learning Entrepreneurship Visualization in Design
and Entrepreneurial Endeavors Invention & Innovation Via Interdisciplinary
Undergraduate Content Application Product & Market Development
for Subsistence Marketplaces Project Innovation Software Innovation and
Social Entrepreneurship Sustainable Innovations for
Tomorrow's Social Entrepreneurs Team MEDS Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Students,
Projects for Persons with Disabilities The Four Directions:
Native American Sustainable Entrepreneurship UCF Inventing Entrepreneurs Program Wheelchair Design
in Developing Countries Infusing a Culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the
CSUN College of Engineering and Computer Science to Address Community Needs

 

Course and Program: May 2011

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NCIIA awards over half a million dollars to build ventures at US universities

Submitted by dave on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 15:27

 

NCIIA has awarded $582,950 to support 27 projects from 22 universities across the US. Thirteen E-Team grants were awarded, and fourteen Course and Program grants.

NCIIA awards $2 million annually to support university-led technology entrepreneurship, funding that has resulted in the launch of more than 100 ventures.

Among the new E-Team grants awarded:

  • A team from Georgia Tech developing a cell encapsulation system for treating diabetes more effectively.
  • A University of Virginia team developing PuzzleCast, a modular cast that treats broken arms by allowing an increasing range of motion to the damaged limb over the healing period.
  • A team from North Carolina State University developing 'Light Detection and Radiation' (LiDAR), a laser-based system that can be used by remotely operated vehicles to map underwater terrain in real-time.

Among the new Course and Program grants awarded:

  • A new program at UC San Diego, mystartupXX, (named for the female chromosome) aims to increase the number of women entrepreneurs by targeting female students for invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship education.
  • A new interdisciplinary entrepreneurial “green building” program at Norwich University that will engage E-Teams comprising seniors in business, architecture, engineering, and construction management.

 

Wearable Multimodal Wayfinding Techniques for Blind and Visually Impaired People

City College of New York, 2010 - $8,000

This grant will support planning and development of a cross-department joint undergraduate senior design course in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering at City College of New York. In the course, students will develop multimodal and unobtrusive techniques for helping the blind and visually impaired.

The course will be a two-semester sequence for seniors. In the first semester, students will learn the basics of sensors, actuators, visual navigation algorithms, and assistive technologies, as well as business and social issues. In the second semester, students will form into teams and study the needs of blind users, create designs of new assistive technologies, prototype them, and perform usability studies in collaboration with NYS Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped and the Computer Center for Visually Impaired people at CUNY Baruch College.

Developing a Marketing High-Technology Products and Innovations Course

University of Maryland, 2010 - $44,100

With the Hinman CEOs program and Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech), the University of Maryland has a substantial technology entrepreneurship community with a number of resources for early stage ventures and startups. However, there are currently no undergraduate courses at UM that address the marketing of technology products and innovations. At the same time, while Mtech currently serves over 700 students annually through technology entrepreneurship and innovation courses, the overall rate of venture creation is less than desired.

This grant supports development of a new course, “Marketing High-Technology Products and Innovations,” proposed as a part of the required Hinman CEOs curriculum and to be offered to all students throughout campus. This course will merge the academic side of learning marketing concepts with their applications in real life.

Interdisciplinary Environmental Entrepreneurship

Norwich University, 2010 - $26,500

The Norwich University campus, situated in northern New England, comprises a wide variety of structures from LEED-certified to “antique,” and is in many ways indicative of the building stock of its community. In order to create a sustainable campus, faculty and students from the Center for the Integrated Study of the Built Environment will team with the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and an environmental entrepreneur to evaluate campus buildings and develop entrepreneurial solutions to issues identified in the process.

Specifically, this grant will help create and pilot an interdisciplinary, two-semester, entrepreneurial “green building” program involving E-Teams comprising seniors in business, architecture, engineering, and construction management. The teams will employ Building Information Modeling to create a virtual model of structure on campus, perform energy modeling on it, and develop green solutions to problems they encounter and devise commercialization strategies for them.   

Course and Program: December 2010

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