Postgraduate Courses

This course will provide a common level of knowledge among students on topics in technology innovation management, leadership and entrepreneurship. Particularly, the course examines how the technology innovation process works; how to lead and manage innovation processes and how to create an environment that rewards innovation and entrepreneurship.

This is a project-based course that emphasizes the self-learning approach to engineering problem solving. The students will be given a design brief to rapidly produce a prototype. This is followed by a deeper analysis of the specification non-conformance, with students using self-learning guided by the instructor(s) to re-design and produce an engineering prototype.

This is a practical course designed to expose students to the practical issues in launching a startup together with case studies of several startups to gather some insight into root causes for success and failures. The case studies will be covered in open format lectures, while the practical topics will be covered via workshops. Topics covered in the workshop will be focused on the Hong Kong (HK) and Pearl River Delta (PRD) region with coverage of local laws, regulations, agencies and organizations. Graded P or F.

Selected topics in technology leadership and entrepreneurship reflecting recent developments and trends. May be repeated for credit if different topics are covered.

This 3-term project course is the hallmark of the MSc Program in Technology Leadership and Entrepreneurship. The students will be expected to brainstorm, prototype, and launch an alpha release of a product or a service over the duration of the course. In the first term, students will engage in early stage brainstorming, ideation, team-forming, product contest, pitches, including participation in case competition. In the second term, each team will go through a sustained and concentrated effort in prototype building and complete an alpha-release, or engineering prototype of their product which is launch-ready in the third term.