1. TEC Technology Entrepreneur Center

2. TEC Created in 2000 Located in College of Engineering
Campus-wide entrepreneurship Courses and programs
New! Grainger Engineering Library Informatics, Design, Data Visualization Space (GLID2)
providing students and faculty with the skills, resources and experiences necessary to become successful innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders who tackle grand challenges and change the world
TEC OFFERS:
Courses
Programs
Experiences

3. TEC Staff

4. TEC Offers
COURSES
PROGRAMS
EXPERIENCES

5. Courses 19 Different Courses offered through TEC
14 Undergraduate & 5 Graduate
3 specific for LLC students
Focus of courses:
Overview of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Guest Lectures
Projects
Legal, Marketing, Finance, Venture-Funded Startups
~1,000 students take courses annually

6. Why Take TEC Courses?
Build skill sets necessary to be entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial
Network opportunities
Receive a certificate
Resume builder to show narrow focus and commitment to learning/honing skills

7. Certificates 3 undergraduate 2 graduate
ILEE (Innovation, Leadership, and Engineering Entrepreneurship)
Experiential
Innovation (Freshman & Sophomore)
Sequence of courses
Technology Commercialization
2 graduate
Business Management
Strategic Technology Management

8. New TEC Course Initiatives
BS Innovation Leadership Engineering Entrepreneurship (ILEE)
BS degree for engineering students in COE
4-15 hours experiential
Under review at EdPol
Faculty Entrepreneurial Fellows Program
Faculty Proof of Concept activity
Buyout of teaching and committee work for 12 months
$50k for Proof-of-Concept development
Working with students in course on Breakthrough Innovations
Started in June 2015
2 Faculty in Fall 2015
4 Faculty in Spring 2016
FEF information
Mani Golparvar Fard – Flying superintendent/Actionable Data Analytics for Construction Projects
John Rogers – Ultra-miniaturized, Wireless Optoelectronic Devices
JJ Cheng – 3D Printing based on hindered polyuria malleable thermoset
Xiuling Li – 3D Passive Electronic Devices and Circuits: Extremely Small, Light, Fast, and Wearable

9. TEC Offers
COURSES
PROGRAMS
EXPERIENCES

10. PROGRAMS ~5,000 student participants annually SocialFuse (March TBD)
a pitching and networking event that brings students, faculty and community together and fuses them through skills, ideas, and entrepreneurial ambition
Illinois Innovation Prize (Nominations due Feb 14th)
awarded on an annual basis to the most innovative student on campus
Cozad New Venture Competition (Intent to Compete Due Feb 7th)
designed to encourage students to create new businesses and offers teams assistance in the form of mentors to help guide them through the phases of venture creation, workshops to help with idea validation, pitching skills

11. COZAD NEW VENTURE COMPETITION 2015-2016
16th year; Campus-wide
Historically
~$160K in FUNDING and prizes
Spans 4 months
2015 winners: PSYONIC & FlipWord
TEC’s flagship Program: I list our sponsors from last year because it really is a community effort.
Proud to note that most of the student companies and alumni panel companies participated and won awards in the Cozad New Venture Competition. And they are still here in Illinois.
OrangeQC, StudyCloud, PrintECO, Oso Technologies, Cellular Diagnostics, Microlution, and Servabo are all here today.
Again thanks for those groups here today that have participated in the past that have made it possible – like Joe Jablonski and WeGather, Origin Ventures, IllinoisVentures, HydePark Venture Partners, Lightbank, ITA, and TechNexus.
If you are here today and not on this list, we’d love to have you involved this year.

12. TEC Offers
COURSES
PROGRAMS
EXPERIENCES

13. EXPERIENCES Silicon Valley Student Workshop
Early January, with students
Visit alumni tech companies in Silicon Valley
ThinkChicago Workshops
Students take a tour of Chicago’s fast-growing tech scene
Partnership with the City of Chicago, World Business Chicago and 1871
iVenture Accelerator (applications due Feb 10)
An educational accelerator for the top student startups
Provides startups with co-working space, funding, expertise, and access to resources and alumni.
Innovation Living Learning Community
Located in Illinois Street Residence Hall
Partnership between TEC and Housing
200 students
Should we include Elevator Pitch – St. Louis event?

14. TEC Brooke Newell bsnewell@Illinois.edu Stephanie Larson
Ashley Hipsher
TEC