NUvention Courses
NUvention: Analytics
NUvention: Analytics (ENTREP 475) is a unique interdisciplinary course designed to create opportunities for students to create new analytics technologies and then build businesses around their innovations. This one-quarter class is conceived by students within the Engineering, Business, Law, Communications and other schools across campus along with the assistance of an Advisory board and the Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The course is built around projects, so an advisory board will keep track of the projects, giving its expert advice in order to ensure a proper product-market alignment.
Quarter | Time | Location |
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Spring 2020 | Wednesdays, 6-9 PM | Ford Design Studio, Room 1.230 |
Course Goals
- Gain an in-depth understanding of Lean Start-Up, Customer Development, Contextual Design, Agile Development and Business Model methodologies.
- Develop the best student’s entrepreneurship ideas; or involve students in ongoing faculty research in the field, in order to put these inventions in the market. Research, define, prototype and implement an initial product offering
- Develop a business model for a product/service or new analytics application
- Launch and measure initial market reaction to the analytics product/service.
- Provide the starting point for a company student can choose to launch post-class
- Provide opportunities for students to consult in analytics
- Gather analytics initiatives in many NU departments.
Past Projects
Fairpass
Fairpass delivers real-time communication and IoT-driven analytical data to hospitals to improve patient treatment.
Shiftology
Shiftology is an IoT system that shifts UPS backup
batteries charging times to save energy costs for the data center.
Advisory Board
Willem Bakker, Innovation Coach
Tom Burns, Director of Business Development, IoT Analytics at Intel
Thomas Chiang, Catapult Chicago, Executive-In-Residence, MATTER Chicago, mentor
Tim Collins, Chief Technology Officer, Business Development, Electrical Engineer
David Jakopac, Vice President and Co-Founder at Lisle Technology Partners, LLC
Anne Marie Johlie, Regional Vice President at Mobilitie
Valinda Scarbro Kennedy, IBM Academic Initiative Skills Leader and Architect
James Kouris, Board Member at The Incubator - Science Innovation Labs
Dean Malmgren, Co-founder at Datascope Analytics
John Nelson, President of The Applied Research Company
Plamen Petrov, Director, Cognitive Technology, KPMG
David Rosen, Founder and CEO of TechXFoundry, Partner of Acrelic Group