1. Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education - Program Highlights - Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering Engineering Entrepreneurship Prof. Bill White – Industrial Engineering Department w-white3@northwestern.edu Barbara Mueller – Office of Industry Relations bjmueller@northwestern.edu Cooper Marcus (student Pres., InNUvation) cmarcus2005@kellogg.northwestern.edu

2. Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education - Program Highlights - Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering Program Mission Statement “The primary objective of our activities within the engineering school is to train students to be able to critically evaluate a new venture idea. This is done by creating an appreciation and awareness of what entrepreneurship means and involves and introducing the basic tools. Then, through serious, student-run campus organizations the student can, if desired, become actively involved with all facets of an actual start-up.”

3. Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education - Program Highlights - Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering Program Audience: Engineering Undergraduate & Graduate Students Number of Faculty: 2 Full Time; 1 Adjunct Number of Courses Offered: Engineering Entrepreneurship (Undergrad) – 2 sections Technical Entrepreneurship (grad)

4. Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education - Program Highlights - Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering What is your most exciting activity? Organizing the tremendous amount of student enthusiasm found on campus and linking our engineering, business, law, journalism, and arts & science schools in entrepreneurial activity.

5. Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education - Program Highlights - Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering What are the biggest challenges you face? Overcoming engineering & business student differences in understanding and perspective of what constitutes disclosure, and what being a shareholder entails and entitles. Coordinating teams across schools effectively Determining what kinds of entrepreneurial courses to add & finding faculty to teach them. Determining correct balance between teaching strictly entrepreneurship versus how to use entrepreneurial evaluation within the corporate world.

6. Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education - Program Highlights - Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering What new initiatives are you planning? Sponsoring student-run business on campus InNUvation – a university-wide, student-run organization acting as an umbrella for seed-stage entrepreneurship on campus IDEA - Institute for Design Engineering & Applications – to train students to understand the process of value creation and provide a strong foundation in creativity, modern design process, cross-disciplinary teamwork, effective communication, and adaptive learning.