COB & CET Students Unite

During Spring 2018 semester, ECU’s College of Business entrepreneurship students partnered with two classes in the College of Engineering and Technology to conduct research, create prototypes, develop solutions and build business models around those solutions.

One COB class worked with the CET Biomedical Innovation class, where CET students observed clinics at the Brody School of Medicine to better understand some of the underlying issues faced by hospital staff and patients.  CET reported back to the COB entrepreneurship students who then analyzed the issues and helped formulate ideas for solutions to the problems found during clinical observations. Business students built business models around those solutions.

The other COB class worked with  the CET Rapid Prototyping students to create new product ideas. The joint teams developed business and commercialization plans for those ideas. Student teams presented working prototypes of their products to investors and other stakeholders at the end of the semester. The COB/CET collaboration was made possible through a grant from Venture Well to fund prototype development.

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