Technology Management and Entrepreneurship Courses

TME6013Entrepreneurial Finance for Technological Ventures3 ch

An Introduction to fundamentals of finance in new ventures and high growth technology-driven businesses, students will learn how to interpret and analyse financial statements and develop pro-forma financial statements. Students will be exposed to and practice “Lean Startup” concepts as a means of maximizing the capital efficiency of a startup and increasing the probability of creating a financially sustainable business. The course will enable students to enhance their knowledge of sound principles of finance and alternative sources of finance. They will learn about best practices in angel and institutional venture capital investing, and the role they play in financing high growth, high tech businesses. Students will also develop skills in dealing with financial issues when pitching their ventures to investors.

TME6014Data Analytics3 ch

The purpose of this course topic is to familiarize broad audiences of students from science and engineering into Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and encourage them to design their own data science workflow for a given real-life application. Students will learn how different data structures and data types are generated and handled from different acquisition modalities for the purpose of AI/ML development. Formats of Continues versus discrete data will be discussed in multi-dimensional structure. Different applications in real-world examples will be introduced such as in engineering, medicine, and science. Techniques of pre-processing for cleansing the data and their preparation will be introduced. Data management systems will be discussed and explained how to handle big data storage and communication. Post-processing techniques such as QA measures, enhancements methods, augmentation, dimensionality reduction, visualization of data for locally vs globally distributed data will be discussed.

Prerequisites:

  • Multivariable Calculus
  • Preliminaries in Linear Algebra
  • Preliminaries in Statistics
  • Preliminaries in Signal Processing and Analysis
TME6015AI/ML Workflow Design3 ch

The purpose of this course is to engage broad audiences in Engineering and Science for efficient design of AI/ML workflows in different application scenarios. Students will learn how different ML models can be designed and fitted into efficient data structures for representational learning. The course starts with data-centric approach all the way to the model-centric approach designs. In data-centric we will cover topics in supervised labeling, active learning, transferring expert domain knowledge into supervised labels and annotations, statistical analysis of supervised data and their class representation. In model-centric approach we will cover broad topics of supervised and unsupervised machine learning models in details. The general overview of deep learning will be introduced and how we can use different ML models as plug-play tool to fit the labeled data for training purposes. Techniques of optimization and hyper-parameter settings will be studied. Popular applications in deep learning will be introduced in the context of audio classification, image classification, tabulated data classification, and time-sequence data classification.

Prerequisites:

  • Multivariable Calculus
  • Preliminaries in Linear Algebra
  • Preliminaries in Statistics
  • Preliminaries in Signal Processing and Analysis
TME6016Foundations of Deep Learning in Computer Vision3 ch

The purpose of this special topic course is to provide foundations and recent advances in designing, training, and testing of deep learning pipelines in computer vision applications using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). The problem of image representation for general computer vision applications will be the core interest of this course. Students will learn how to design a deep CNN model from scratch for a particular computer vision problem, train the network with fast and high precision accuracy optimization algorithms, and optimize its hyper-parameters for fine tuning. The course syllabi will include Multi-Array (Tensor) Analysis, Convolution Layer Design, Feature Pooling, Activation Layers, Feature Normalization, Feature Classifiers, Loss-Functions, Gradient Back-Propagation, Stochastic Optimization, Generalization Problem, Data Augmentation techniques, Hyper-Parameter tuning, Data Augmentation, Transfer Learning, as well as three major applications in computer vision will be discussed in natural imaging, satellite imaging, and medical imaging.

Prerequisites:

  • Python Programming (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras): you need to have basic knowledge/ preliminary experience with Python programming. This course, including assignments and projects, involve with Python coding and you should be feeling comfortable to further learn how to code in Python language and gain experience.
  • Introduction to Calculus and Linear Algebra
  • Preliminaries in Machine Learning
TME6017Industrial Applications of Computer Vision in Deep Learning 3 ch

The purpose of this special topic course is to provide recent advances of machine learning/deep learning in the context of computer vision and how they are designed and applied in industrial imaging applications including natural camera imaging in industrial routines (such as autonomous driving systems, line of product quality control, surveillance, recommender systems, etc), satellite imaging, and medical imaging. The pipeline for building sophisticated User-Interface (UI) systems is discussed in several imaging problems including object (region-of-interest) detection, image classification, image segmentation, image enhancement, and image calibration.

Prerequisites:

  • Python Programming (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras): you need to have basic knowledge/ preliminary experience with Python programming. This course, including assignments and projects, involve with Python coding and you should be feeling comfortable to further learn how to code in Python language and gain experience.
  • Preliminaries in Machine Learning
TME6025Product Design and Development 4 ch

This course is a full-year Product Design and Development course (fall and winter of same academic year) which forms the core of the Master of Engineering in Technology Management & Entrepreneurship Program.  The cornerstone is a project in which students, individually or in teams of up to four, conceive, design and prototype a product, and develop a business plan (using the business model canvas).  The proposed solution must use modern tools and methods for product design and development and should meet a broad range of constraints including health and safety, sustainable development and environmental stewardship. The course will follow a phase – gate process for which progress will be evaluated at each milestone representing the deliverable for each gate.

 

Prerequisites:  Have recieved approval from both their program coordinator and the TME Program Chair.
TME6026Product Design and Development 4 ch

This course is a full-year Product Design and Development course (fall and winter of same academic year) which forms the core of the Master of Engineering in Technology Management & Entrepreneurship Program.  The cornerstone is a project in which students, individually or in teams of up to four, conceive, design and prototype a product, and develop a business plan (using the business model canvas).  The proposed solution must use modern tools and methods for product design and development and should meet a broad range of constraints including health and safety, sustainable development and environmental stewardship. The course will follow a phase – gate process for which progress will be evaluated at each milestone representing the deliverable for each gate.

 

Prerequisites:  Must be a MTME student. Must have passed TME 6025 with a -B.
TME6213Quality Management3 ch
The course is designed to prepare participants for the management practices which they might expect to encounter in a progressive organization. Many of these practices involve the standardization and continuous improvement of business processes. The course explores implementation and maintenance techniques for ISO 9000, the international standard on quality management. It also focuses on the use of continuous improvement and statistical process control (SPC) concepts, which lead to fundamentally new ways of thinking about innovation and problem solving.
TME6313Managing Engineering and IT Projects3 ch
The future of most organizations depends on successful projects. Participants in this one-week intensive project management course will gain an understanding of the principles of project management including organizing, planning, scheduling and controlling projects to achieve a set of objectives. The course will enhance knowledge and skills of project managers in such topics as people management skills, managing project risks, controlling project changes and systems thinking. Emphasis is placed on technology-intensive projects that tend to have a high degree of specialized human resources skills/knowledge requirements.
TME6319Experiential Learning - Technology Management and Entrepreneurship3 ch

An opportunity for experiential learning related to the management of technology and/or technological entrepreneurship. Students co-design, develop and implement a project in collaboration with an external organization or a designated mentor. The project must be jointly supervised by a representative of the external organization or mentor, and a designated faculty member.

TME6386Special Topics 1 in Technology Management and Entreprensurship3 ch
This course is intended to provide students an opportunity to study a topic not currently covered by other graduate courses. The course of study will be under the direction of a faculty member with appropriate expertise. An outline of the work to be completed and the means for assessment should be submitted for approval by the Director of Graduate Studies prior to registration in the course.
TME6396TME Seminar0ch Pass/Fail
This year-long course provides an opportunity for MTME students to explore current and special topics in Technology Management & Entrepreneurship in more detail, discuss their projects and any challenges they may be facing, practice their presentation skills, and receive feedback from academic and industry experts.

Prerequisites: Restricted to MTME students.

TME6996Integrative Project - Technology Management and Entrepreneurship6 ch

A practical entrepreneurial project which provides an opportunity to explore, implement and recommendations. Students co-design, develop and implement a project in collaboration with an external organization or a designated mentor. The project must be jointly supervised by a representative of the external organization or mentor, and a designated faculty member. Note: Restricted to MTME students.