An entrepreneurship minor/cognate for engineering graduate degrees

Engineering professors at the University of North Dakota, in consultation with business school faculty and engineering students interested in entrepreneurship, have converged on a four-course, 12-credit sequence that incorporates essential entrepreneurship topics into a graduate minor/cognate. These courses (with basic content) include: (1) Acct 275 Accounting for Pre-MBA (introductory accounting-this sophomore-level prerequisite does not count toward the graduate minor/cognate requirements); (2) Entr 385 Venture Initiation (business plans); (3) Entr 387 Venture Growth (small business management); and (4) Entr 302 Marketing and Management Concepts for Entrepreneurship or Entr 410 Entrepreneurial Finance or Acct 509 Accounting Information for Decision and Control (students must select one of these three entrepreneurship electives). A primary goal that was achieved in the development of this program was to utilize only existing course offerings in entrepreneurship and business at the University of North Dakota. The perspectives of several UND master´s-level electrical engineering majors with entrepreneurship cognates are provided.