Entrepreneurship Curriculum
Earn academic credit toward the Certificate in Entrepreneurship while building real startups.
Featured Courses
Available to all undergraduate majors at UC Davis.
ENG 008: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
The gateway course. Open to every major, no prerequisites. Students form teams in week one and work an idea through jobs-to-be-done, customer discovery, beachhead markets, MVP design, pricing models, and pitch presentations.
ENG 108: Hands-on AI & Emerging Tech Ventures
Upper-division and project-driven for students with something to build. Find a problem worth solving, then engineer a solution with modern AI workflows, customer interviews, and lean execution.
ENG 009: Startup Speaker Series
Meets weekly in Bainer Hall 1503. Founders, investors, and technology leaders discuss technical architecture, fundraising, and team building with live student Q&A and networking.
Innovation for Impact (“Hacking 4”)
Multidisciplinary tracks testing business solutions for pre-sourced industry and government challenges. Teams conduct 40–50 stakeholder interviews with weekly sponsor feedback.
FYAS: Startup School
Designed for first-year Aggies. Students are actively discouraged from arriving with a pre-set idea; the seminar teaches how to discover worthwhile problems based on Y Combinator's curriculum.
Curriculum & Credentials Under Development
Future academic offerings currently being designed and proposed across the College of Engineering.
Minor in Technology Entrepreneurship
Structured sequence: Intro → ENG 108/H4 → Product I → Electives → Disciplined Entrepreneurship capstone.
Product I & II (AI Tooling)
Hands-on product development courses utilizing cutting-edge AI and department-owned domain specializations.
Product-Building M.S. & Joint MBA
One-year product-building master's degrees and designated emphasis for graduate researchers.
Certificate in Entrepreneurship Calculator
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