Technopreneurship

Think Like an Engineer

Introduction
Mushtak Al-Atabi
Lee Chia Ping

Outline

Course structure and assessment

MOOCs and education in 21st Century
The course philosophy
Mission Zero
Technopreneurship and CDIO
Brain Rewiring
Teams and Projects

Course Structure
The course runs for 14 weeks
Total expected learning hours is 120 hours
Assessment will be 50% for the coursework
and 50% for the final exam
A Project represents a central piece of the
coursework

Course Assessment
Coursework 50%
Quizzes
Technopreneurial Project Selection
Online Activities:
Talent Market, Online Progress, Technopreneurial Eco
System

Team Formation
Crowd Funding Campaign

Final Exam 50%

MOOCs
Massive Open Online Courses
Promise to transform the world educational
landscape
Currently we have 861 online students from
all over the world
We would like to create as much interaction
between students for maximum learning

Lets Get Started with MOOC

https://www.openlearning.com/courses/think
likeanengineer
Go to Videos & Activities
Pre-Course Questionnaire

Philosophy
Why technopreneurship?
Making money or making a difference?
Making the world a better place through
technopreneurship

Transforming our mindset to awaken the

entrepreneur within
Converting challenges into opportunities
Optimistic and romantic
Practical and hands on

Dream Big, Be Different and Have Fun.

Technopreneurs Story
http://brightspotsculture.wordpress.com/the-original-story/

In 1990, Jerry Sternin was sent by Save the

Children to fight severe malnutrition in rural
communities of Vietnam.
The Vietnamese foreign minister gave him just six
months to make a difference.
Malnutrition in Vietnam is caused by
poor sanitation
Poverty
lack of education

What would you do in such situation?

Search for the Technopreneur

Are there any very poor families whose children were
bigger and healthier than the typical child?
Mothers of the healthiest children were doing things
differently.
Feeding their children smaller portions of food, more often
during the day.
Taking brine shrimp from the rice paddies and greens from
sweet potatoes grown in their gardens and adding these to
their daily soups or rice dishes (even though most people
avoided these low class foods)
When serving their children, they were ladling from the
bottom of the pot, making sure the kids got the shrimp
and greens that had settled during cooking

Bright Spots
http://www.positivedeviance.org/about_pd/case_studies.html

65% Reduction in Malnutrition

Mission Zero
Why are we doing this module?
Mission ZER0
Education is done for free- Zero tuition fees
Have Zero impact on Job Market

Technopreneurship and CDIO

A System Approach to Technopreneurship

Conceive
Design
Implement
Operate

Technopreneurship and CDIO

https://www.ted.com/talks/ludwick_marishane_a_bath_without_water

Technopreneurial Project
You will need to think of a Project
Attract at least 1 Online student to join you
(maximum 4 on-campus students)
(Online students may join on-campus students
or come up with their own teams)
Raise Funds for the project using Crowd
Funding

Brain Rewiring
Rewiring your brain will enable you to create a
state of mind that will enable the change in the
world
Our brains are built to respond to negative
stimulus (danger, threats) and we need to train
them to behave otherwise to identify
opportunities
From now until the end of the module, we will
share five things that we are grateful for
This will build synapses in the brain

What are You Supposed to Do?

Register on
https://www.openlearning.com/courses/think
likeanengineer
Think of a project
Form a team
Interact with other participants
Submit homework on time

Before We End
Reflection
Brain Rewiring