The graduate education program at the Engineered
Biomaterials ERC at the University of Washington (EEC-9521961)
has expanded in the past year with the launching of courses
for credit in its Future Faculty Training Certificate
Program and completion of development of the Technology
Entrepreneurship Certificate Program. With a goal of
training graduate students interested in faculty careers
how to design courses and teach effectively, the Future
Faculty Training Certificate Program is collaborative
effort that melds course content from the Center, principles
and techniques for course development and effective teaching
from the University’s Center for Educational Learning
and Technology, and modules on using technology to achieve
pedagogical goals from the University’s CATALYST
Program. Similarly, the Center’s Technology Entrepreneurship
Certificate (TEC) Program, is a collaborative effort
that includes the School of Business and its Program
in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the College of Engineering,
and the School of Medicine. The program arises from the
belief that students in both business and science/engineering
graduate programs who are headed for private sector employment
would benefit from the learning together in a project-oriented
technology commercialization setting. The model for this
certificate program is an earlier project funded by the
ERC Program at NC State that led to the development of
jointly offered courses and degree minors for engineering,
science, and management graduate students focusing on
either entrepreneurship or corporate intrapreneurship
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