Technopreneurship Module
Technopreneurship Module
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“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”
– Brene Brown
COURSE GUIDE
COURSE OVERVIEW
In this course, you will be able to explore the entrepreneurial mindset and culture,
utilizing technology from an engineering context. The course will provide you with the
background, tools and life skills to participate in the entrepreneurial process as future
engineers.
As a result of your educational experiences in the course CE 520, you should be able
to:
1. Demonstrate Concepts of the Entrepreneurial Way
2. Demonstrate the steps in idea creation and feasibility analysis
3. Demonstrate the steps in business planning and execution
Your academic experience an Engineering student will be utilized in this course. To
ensure that you will demonstrate the above cited course learning outcomes at the end of
the semester, this module is divided into the following:
MODULE 1: THE INNOVATION MINDSET
The journey to Technopreneurship starts with learning, acquiring, and practicing empathy
as it is an essential competency. To become an effective, and more so a successful
technopreneur, working with others in a team is very important. Also, as your team
embarks on the process of finding and developing an innovative solution, you will have to
work on developing a bond with the people who will eventually benefit from your
innovation. Your solution should be able to address their needs, experiences, and
motivations.
This topic is preparatory to your first activity working as a team and later on to developing
your team project. As a team, you should be able to discover the strengths and interests of
each member and work on these characteristics in order to achieve a common team
goal. The success of your team and your future project rests on this.
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DESIGN THINKING is methodology or framework popularized by the Stanford school which
helps teams develop solutions to the most complex problems. Design thinking combines
the problem-solving roots of design with deep empathy for the user.
The value proposition takes off from your Design Thinking output. It is expected that during
your Design Thinking session, you have arrived to a solution that was derived from a strong
empathy with the people to whom you will offer the solution to.
It is time to have an in-depth understanding of your market. Knowing your market as well
as your competitors are crucial when starting up. They will become the pivotal characters
that will define the success of your venture.
Since they will be buying from your business, getting to know who they are, what they like,
what are their pain points, how much are they willing to spend, what they need, how many
they are, and where they are will give you a good understanding of WHAT THEY WANT
FROM YOU. You will have to be able to translate your product to something that will sell to
your target market.
Knowing your customer starts by asking them what they need. You should be able to find
out what it is that they will buy NOT what you think they will buy.
Now that you have a good understanding of your market, it is time to go back to your
prototype and refine it so that it will fit in with your findings from the interviews. This is called
the PRODUCT-MARKET FIT. Your product should be the one that the market wants and
needs and will pay for it.
You will have to decide as a team if you will stick to the original prototype, tweak some
parts to fit in to the market expectations, or totally change it.
A word of caution. At this stage, you should have a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
Watch the video "Making Sense of MVP" to guide your team decisions.
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MODULE 6: PROTECTING YOUR IDEAS
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b. Express your opinions politely and do not dominate the
conversation.
c. Avoid lengthy as well as offensive posts by sticking to the topic of
the discussion.
d. Take time to understand the salient points of the discussion, and
provide a meaningful and well-thought response to the posts of
other participants.
e. For a live meeting or video/voice conferencing set-up, mute your
microphone when you are not speaking to keep the focus on the
main speaker.
3. MASTER THE MEDIUM. The distance learning courses will be delivered making
use of the institutional Google Suite account of Saint Louis University. It would
be worthwhile on your part to devote some time and effort to learn the
applications you will need to access your course materials, interact with me
and your classmates, and submit course requirements. Applications of note
are Google Classroom, Google Drive, and Google Meet. There are also
available alternatives to Microsoft Office tools you might want to explore.
Certain requirements will require you to take a video on your smart phone,
save it, and submit it electronically. Work on this skill as well. If you are offline,
identify the most convenient means for express mail correspondence and
inform me as early as possible so we can make the necessary arrangements
ahead of time.
4. MAKE MASTERPIECES. Go beyond minimum requirements. The course learning
outcomes will serve as a guide to the minimum expected competencies you
are to acquire at the end of this course. It does not limit you from performing
beyond it. Keep in mind that the quality of your work reflects the amount of
thought and care you put into the process of completing it. It provides a very
tangible measure of how much of the competencies you have developed
and fully obtained throughout this course.
5. CONNECT CONSTANTLY. There are more than sufficient online and offline
modes to ensure that you are well informed and provided on time with the
needed learning materials, instructions, requirements, and feedback either
from me or from your classmates. Exhaust all means possible to keep in touch
and updated. My contact details can be found at the latter part of this
document and will be made available and widely disseminated to enrolees of
this course.
6. OBSERVE ORIGINALITY. Your course outputs will largely be submitted in
electronic form. It is going to have a highly traceable and comparable digital
footprint that can be easily checked for originality. Cite your sources properly
for referenced statements you decide to use in your own work. Attribute
statements by persons other than you by using terms like according to, he
said/she said, and the like.
7. INSTIGATE INDEPENDENCE. You are the focus of this course. Nobody else. All
assessment and evaluation tools in this course are designed to measure your
competence and not anybody else’s. You may use all resources at your
disposal, and ask other people for advice. In the end however, it is going to
be your independent work that will be judged against the standards set for this
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course. The only way for you to maximize this course to your advantage is to
learn as much from it as an individual. Make it count.
8. RESPECT THE ROUTINE. There are traditionally respected routines we follow in
the conduct of our everyday lives. Please be mindful of universally accepted
norms of courtesy attached to regular schedules of personal and family time.
Unless of utmost importance, please refrain from any form of communication
between 8:30 PM and 7:30 AM everyday and the whole day on Sundays and
official holidays. You shall expect me to adhere to this guideline myself. This
will allow us all to dedicate personal time and space to other aspects of our
life and maintain a healthy work-life/study-life balance.
9. FINISH THE FIVE. To be able to help you build your own understanding from
experience and new ideas, the modules in this course are designed based on
the 5E Instructional Model (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate).
The following icons will help you find some of the most critical areas in the units
of the learning modules:
Part of module unit that is designed to pique
your interest in the topics to be discussed by
accessing your prior knowledge and build
up your curiosity to learn more.
Part of the module unit that gives us the
opportunity to gauge your attainment of the
learning outcomes using formative and
evaluative assessment tools.
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● If you are a student opting for the correspondence-based learning (CBL)
mode, you will be tasked to send back the accomplished requirements at
given stages of the course through express mail correspondence to me, on
or before the scheduled date. I will provide you with the feedback on your
submissions at the soonest possible time through any of the available means
of communication.
● While waiting for my feedback of your accomplished requirements, continue
doing the tasks in the succeeding units of the module.
● If needed, do not hesitate to keep in touch with me through any available
means.
Study Schedule
WEEK TOPIC LEARNING UNIT LECTURE ACTIVITIES
OUTCOME
MODULE 1
1 Demonstrate Unit 1 LECTURE:
Aug innovation and Engage: Empathy Video
28-29,2020 technopreneurial Explore: Essay on Empathy
mindset and Explain:
explain its ● Empathy and Engineers and
importance in ● What is a technopreneur?
business and ● Vuca
social ● Sirib ket Siglat Framework
development ● Social Entrepreneurship
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1. Team formation: THE DESIGN CHALLENGE
2. Team Presentation
October 23, 2020 : Summative Assessment/DUE DATE OF VIDEO BLOG
October 22-23, 2020 : Summative Assessment: MIDTERM EXAMINATION
SUBMIT YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO YOUR COURSE LEARNING FACILITATOR ON OR
BEFORE October 23, 2020
MODULE 4
4 Create a Unit 1 LECTURE:
October 8- business plan for Engage: Making Sense of MVP Video
9 , 2020 a new start-up or Explore: Business Model Canvass Video
social enterprise Explain:
● Business Model Canvass
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intellectual Evaluate: Video Blog
property LABORATORY:
protection in the 3. TEAM PITCH DECK
local and 4. PRESENT PITCH
national setting
MODULE 6
5 Describe the Unit 1 LECTURE:
November steps in Engage: Intellectual Property Code Video
28-29, obtaining Explore: Readings on RA8293, RA11337 and
2020 intellectual RA11293
property Explain:
protection in the ● What is Intellectual Property
local and
national setting Elaborate and Explain:
Video Blog
LABORATORY:
QUALIFIERS FOR TBI
December 4, 2020 : Summative Assessment: FINAL QUIZ 2
December 14-16, 2020 : Summative Assessment: FINAL EXAMINATION
SUBMIT YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO YOUR COURSE LEARNING FACILITATOR ON OR
BEFORE December 16, 2020
Saint Louis University Calendar for First Semester AY 2020-2021
EVALUATION
TO PASS THE COURSE, YOU MUST:
1. Read all course readings and accomplish all output required in this course
2. Submit two graded quizzes for midterms and finals.
3. Submit the final project (portfolio) for the laboratory class
4. Take the Midterm and Final Examination.
ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES:
Formative Assessment
Formative assessments such as pre-assessment forms, self-assessment activities and
problem sets aim to enhance and deepen your understanding of the course. The
requirements are written after each module and you are expected to submit your
output by the scheduled due dates.
The honor pledge shall always be a part of all requirements submitted online.
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Summative Assessment
Quizzes and Examination
The two graded quizzes are included in your modules. You will be required to finish
the quiz and you are expected to submit your output by the scheduled due dates.
Midterm and Final Individual assessments will be conducted as scheduled. Students
will be assigned a problem/question to be answered within the given timeframe. The
problem/question will be given through courier/sms on the scheduled date of
examination. Answer should be sent together with all other requirements for the term
as scheduled.
The honor pledge shall always be a part of all requirements submitted.
TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS
To be able to accomplish all the tasks in this course, you will be needing the
following software applications: Word Processing, Presentation, Publication, and
Spreadsheet. These are applications that are available in your desktop or laptops that will
not require internet connection for you to use them.
Feedback system will be facilitated through text messaging; hence, you need to
have with you a cellphone. If you need to call, or you want to talk to me, send me a
message first and wait for me to respond.
CONTACT INFORMATION OF THE FACILITATOR
Engr.
FB account/messenger:
E-mails:
Cellphone/Viber Nos.:
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