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On Friday, April 15th, our 8 social venture teams will give mid-term presentations to the UM community and Ross School of Business Social Venture Fund. Come join us. Our judges include several national leaders and supporters in the social entrepreneurship space, including a design consultant from IDEO.
Date: Friday, 4/15
Time: 10-12:30pm
Location: Ross (R0220)
Acumen Fund @ UM: Leading Innovation through Social Entrepreneurship
Course Details:
Course Number: ENGR 390.002
Class Time: Mon 3:00-4:30pm
Credits: 1.5
Location: 1200 EECS
In this course, students will learn a theoretical framework for social entrepreneurship and design thinking, as well as explore the individual skills and will necessary to respond to complex social needs both locally and globally. We will take an in depth look at Acumen Fund’s work in bringing innovations for limited resource settings to market, drawing upon the organization’s 10 years of experience investing capital and training high-impact leaders.
Students will be placed on interdisciplinary teams throughout the course to engage in hands-on activities, case studies, competitions, and a leadership project. Open to all disciplines at the undergraduate level.
Acumen Fund, a leading global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty, has officially partnered with the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship to develop this introductory course on leadership and social enterprise.
Change by Design
Course Details:
Course Number: ARTDES 314.001
Class Time: Mon 3-4:30pm (meets with ENGR 390.002) & Wed 1:30-4:30pm
Credits: 3
Location: Mon: 1200 EECS; Wed: 1258 A&D
In this project-based class, students will respond to pressing social needs through design thinking processes, including visioning, concept generation, sketching ideas, everyday ethnography, creative experimentation, and extensive prototyping and validation. Students will form interdisciplinary teams to work on actual entrepreneurial design projects focused on food, education, health care and income issues facing our community partners.
As part of the course, students will meet together with ENGR 390.002 Innovation through Social Entrepreneurship in order to acquire the theoretical frameworks and skills necessary for undertaking a social enterprise. They will then use those tools to design and develop their own ideas for a social venture that creates possibilities, products and systems in response to real world problems.
Note: Students enrolled in ARTDES 314.001 will meet concurrently with ENGR 390.002 on Mondays so there is no need to register for both.
Social Venture Creation Practicum
Course Details:
Course Number: ENGR 411.002
Class Time: Fri 10am-12pm
Credits: 3
Location: 1123 LBME
Are you working on an innovative social project/idea? Or are you interested in partnering with other UM social entrepreneurs on implementing a social innovation in either a domestic and international market? If so, you should apply for the Social Venture Creation Practicum.
In this course, you will take steps to launch and implement a social innovation. By the end of this course, student teams submit an implementation plan and make a presentation to a panel of industry experts and potential funders. The course heavily applies a customer discovery framework and process.
The hope is that the students will be able to implement innovations that can make real, long-lasting social impact. Open to all disciplines at both the undergraduate and graduate level. It is highly recommended to take ENGR 390.002 concurrently or another CFE core course prior to enrollment.
By application only: http://cfe.engin.umich.edu/forms/biz_idea
Overview:
There is a need for innovation in the traditional design process to successfully address the challenges of developing health technologies for resource-limited settings. Co-identification and co-development of design ideas with stakeholders guarantee sustainability of final products. Motivated multidisciplinary teams that are educated in non-traditional topics such as cultural competence are required to tackle the challenges associated with global health.
Covidien, a global medical device company, is sponsoring a co-creative, use-centric, low-cost medical device design projects scoping experience comprising students from the University of Michigan and the UM-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute. The student team will conduct clinical observations for the purpose of identifying minimally invasive surgery challenges and brainstorm solutions. The engineering students will complete their senior design project based on a challenge identified during the summer internship in China.
Opportunity:
We are looking to a MBA1 to join this design team for 8 weeks in China this summer (July-Aug) to help with the design process and provide a market-based lens to the team. The MBA1 will be expected to stay on as a consultant during the Fall 2011 term.
This is a highly selective application process as we will be accepting only one MBA1.
ALL SUMMER EXPENSES WILL BE PAID for admitted students. These expenses include:
The 8-week internships will take place in China during the months of July and August, 2011.
Applications will be rolling until March 25th. To apply, please email your resume, a 500 word statement of interest, and contact information for one person of reference (i.e. professor, former employer) to Moses Lee (moseslee@umich.edu).
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