Project Management and Leadership Skills

The product realization process

During your first year, you'll learn about the product realization process for a skill-base that will benefit you throughout your educational experience.  

• Entrepreneurial thinking
• Business acumen
• Customer awareness

Capstone design course

During your senior year "capstone design course," you'll apply your cumulative knowledge to solve a real-world issue for a client.

• Develop designs and prototypes
• Answer today's complex questions 

The first-year experience

EGR 103, Introduction to Innovation and Design — emphasizes social responsibility, environmental issues and product-realization.

Upper-level design

MEE 431L/ECE 431L, Multidisciplinary Design Lab — required for electrical, computer and mechanical engineering majors. One-credit hour that emphasizes conceptual design and requires extensive research, brainstorming, ideation, decision analysis, and a final embodiment design. By developing conceptual design, student teams are better prepared for MEE 432L/ECE 432L, which involves design, build, test and a business plan.

MEE/ECE 432 — three-credit hours that is the focal point of the Innovation Center.

IET 323, Project Management — required for all disciplines within Engineering Technology. Defines critical characteristics of effective project management: meeting effectiveness, project proposal development, project planning, work breakdown structure, decision-making techniques, styles of management, communications, teaming skills, strategies and valuable oral and written presentation skills.

ET 490, Capstone Design Project — involves all engineering technology programs as well as departments outside of the School of Engineering, including management, marketing and entrepreneurship.

Minor in Technical Entrepreneurship (TEN)

Dayton is the nucleus of innovation and entrepreneurial thinking. This minor will provide students an opportunity to cultivate and develop their entrepreneurial mindset through transfer of knowledge, experiential learning and practice. The minor leads the students through all the stages of new venture creation, intellectual property, patent, researching funding solutions and more.