ENES460

Fundamentals of Technology Start-Up Ventures

Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute. Credit only granted for: ENES460, BMGT461, SMLP470 or HLMN470. Additional information: Course may not be used to fulfill any BMGT major or minor program requirement. Fundamental aspects of creating, organizing, funding, managing, and growing a technology startup venture. This multidisciplinary course will draw on management, business, legal, financial, as well as technical, concepts. Students form teams and develop a business plan for a technology company, based on each team's own business idea and then present the plan to a panel of outside experts. For winter term, permission restrictions will not apply. The course is open to all students.

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During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.68 between 460 students*

ENES460 Grade Distribution+-0510152025303540455055606570758085% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 18.7%
A: 35.65%
A+: 26.96%
B-: 1.3%
B: 5.43%
B+: 8.48%
C: 0.43%
F: 0.22%
W: 2.83%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.