New E-Team course, Spring 2005

ME790: Biomedical Product Development
Instructor: Dr. Lisa Friis, Mechanical Engineering
Enrollment requires permission of instructor

• Students from Engineering, Business, Law, and other science areas.
• Cover technical basics of medical product design with inclusion of basic business concepts -- little tradition homework -- mostly projects
• Students from different disciplines form teams of mock start-up companies
  • Products for development in the mock start-up companies are faculty inventions
  • Close connection with KU Tech Transfer Office and faculty inventors
• Mock start-up company team deliverables: Mock SBIR Fast Track (Phase I + Phase II) proposal including:
  • Technical analysis of invention
  • Business/marketing analysis of invention including a startup company business plan
  • Intellectual property concerns
  • Budge for developing the product
• Benefits to the students:
  • Engineers/Scientists learn about the business/legal side
  • Business majors and law students learn about each other and the technical side
  • All students earn an appreciation of each others skills and approaches to problems