Technological Entrepreneurship and Management (TEM)
Steve Cho
About this opportunity
https://poly.engineering.asu.edu/tem/
We cultivate students into tomorrow's innovators. Technology has no value unless you can turn it into a good or service people can use; we can show you how. The TEM department is a diverse group of professors (a start-up investor, a biomedical engineer, an electrical-mechanical-chemical engineer, a manager of factories and many entrepreneurs) who transform technology ideas into enterprises.
Any Barrett student who is considering majoring or minoring in TEM should contact the lead FHA.
Thesis
Thesis work typically involves developing an idea. It is quantitative and qualitative research (e.g., go out in the field and talk to stakeholders). Students typically work closely with faculty to receive guidance. Our unit conforms to the Barrett standard requirements of two thesis committee members: the thesis director must be a continuing faculty member at ASU with a terminal degree; the second committee member can be anyone with sufficient expertise in the thesis topic. Second readers have been professors, industry consultants, and industry professionals.
Academic Preparation
Students in our unit have taken the core classes of their discipline. Thesis students have come from a variety of different majors: engineering, business as well as TEM. Readings and topics of study are assigned to make up any gaps in expertise.
Recommended Timeline
Ideation typically begins Fall term junior year and groundwork begins Spring term junior year. Research takes place during the Fall term senior year and wrap up takes place Spring senior year.
Other Honors Opportunities
- TEM230: Creativity and Business Innovation, Instructor: Kennedy
- TEM250: Design Methodology, Instructor: Kennedy
- TMC310: Promoting the Enterprise, Instructor: Cho
- TMC320: Funding the Enterprise. Instructor: Chavez
- TEM400: Technology Entrepreneurship, Instructor: Chavez, Cho
- TMC430: Enterprise Strategy and Innovation, Instructor: Waissi
- TEM482: Start-Up Workshop, Instructor: Cho
Contracts are awarded on a case by case basis. Examples of previous contracts include "Good to Great: lessons for Students", "The New New Thing: The Process of Innovation"