Entrepreneurship in Cybersecurity
This course is designed to help students enhance their personal and professional development through innovation guided by faculty members and professionals. It offers students an opportunity to integrate disciplinary theory and knowledge through developing a nonprofit program, product, business, or other initiative. The real-world experiences that entrepreneurships provide will help students understand how academic knowledge leads to transformations, innovations, and solutions to different types of problems.
After completing an entrepreneurship, a student/entrepreneur will be able to:
- Identify how to use knowledge they have accumulated from their general education and major coursework to create non-profit programs, products, businesses, or other innovations.
- Apply disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge to the process of innovation.
- Demonstrate the ability to integrate professional and interdisciplinary knowledge to produce new programs, products, businesses, or other innovations.
- Describe how products/businesses/programs related to their career interests are created and influenced by different disciplines.
- Assess the effectiveness of innovations
- Communicate effective solutions to societal problems to stakeholders.
Course Material
Assignment 1
- Include the entrepreneurs era.
- Include the relevance of his/her business, ideas, and innovation in their era. Do we still see their influence today?
- Analyze any impact your entrepreneur had or continues to have on our current worldview.
- How was your entrepreneur successful? Has that success lasted?
- Include any of your own observations and opinions about your entrepreneur.
Assignment 2
- Provide a background of the company (where, when, who, why).
- An overview of the companies rise.
- Factors in the fall of the company (be specific and evaluate them).
- Lessons that can be learned from the failure.
- Your own assessments of the company.
Assignment 3