CYSE 494

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 entrepreneurship provides 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 the 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

The first assignment I completed in this course was an Entrepreneur Paper, where we had to write a paper on a certain entrepreneur who was either meaningful or relevant to us individually. I chose Josef Průša, founder of Prusa3D, a rapid prototyping, manufacturing, and consumer/enterprise 3D printing company. I chose him to do a paper on because 3D printing is one of my largest (and most expensive) hobbies, and some of his machines are in use for rapid prototyping at my company.

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The second assignment I completed in this course explores a business failure that we find interesting enough to write about. I chose the fall of BlackBerry Limited, inspired by the film that detailed the same rise and fall of that company.

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The last paper for this course was an Individual Ideas Assessment. In this paper, we formulated and evaluated two original business ideas. We were to incorporate major components of Design Thinking in our evaluations.

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