CleanTech and Entrepreneurship education

 
 

Courses Taught at UM

Environmental Microbiology (1992-2004; CEE 582)


Bioremediation Processes (1992-2004; CEE 592)


Principles of Contaminant Degradation (1992-2000; CEE 692)


Civil and Environmental Engineering Capstone Design Course (2004-2006; CEE 402)


Entrepreneurial Business Fundamentals for Scientists and Engineers (ENG 520; 2007-2009)


CleanTech Entrepreneurship (ENG 521; 2007-2009)


CleanTech Venture Assessment (ES 520; 2008)




short courses - abroad

Applied Environmental Geoscience Program, University of Tuebingen, Germany:  Microbiology I and II (2001-2006)


Nato courses (Czech Republic, Bratislava): Remediation (2003-2004)


NSF educational workshops (Brasil, Colombia): Environmental Sensing (2002 and 2005)


Externally-sponsored: Bologna, Italy (2003, 2004); Tainan, Taiwan (2007); Dalian Institute of Technology, China (2006)


Weekend MBA Business Management Program, Suzhou Institute of Sichuan University (since 2008).  Short course on “Managing Innovations in the Green Economy”



 
 

I joined the EWRE program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the height of the Superfund Initiative, when external needs influenced programs to emphasize process understanding and technology designs for site remediation.  Considering my research background, it was natural to develop and teach microbiology and remediation courses. 


In the changing political and social climate, faculty and students alike became increasingly involved in the policy-economic-technology paradigm, resulting in interests and courses in sustainability, i.e. focus on low environmental impact designs with business and policy value.  As the rotating faculty member with responsibility for the design course, I decided to galvanize the CEE disciplines around green building designs.


More recently, another paradigm shift is starting to take hold at universities globally, whereby value creation and entrepreneurship are becoming emphasized and the engineering and business disciplines more integrated.  Following a sabbatical in the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies in the Ross School of Business, I became involved in the Williamson Initiative. 


Funded by Bud Williamson, this new educational program seeks to integrate business fundamentals in engineering education, and technological depth in business education.  This portion of the website will only elaborate on the entrepreneurship courses.


Currently, I teach three courses in entrepreneurship in collaboration with Tim Faley, Ph.D., Managing Director of the Institute.  These courses are also part of the undergraduate engineering entrepreneurship certificate program of the COE-Center for Entrepreneurship:


  1. 1.Entrepreneurial Business Fundamentals for Scientists and Engineers

  2. 2.CleanTech Entrepreneurship

  3. 3.CleanTech Venture Assessment


Publications:

  1. 1. Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Value Creation (P. Adriaens, with Bill Clayton), Michigan Engineer - Entrepreneurship (Spring 08)

  2. 2. Integrating Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Research and Education: A Strategic Call to Action for CEE (P. Adriaens),  CEE Newsletter (Fall 07)

  3. 3.Adriaens, P., and T. Faley.  2008.  Entrepreneurial Business Fundamentals for Scientists and Engineers,  ASEE Proceed., National Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.

  4. 4.Faley, T., and P. Adriaens.  2008.  An Approach to Building a Graduate-level Engineering and Business collaborative entrepreneurial curriculum.  ASEE Proceed., National Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.

  5. 5.Adriaens, P., and T. Faley.  2009.  Teaching Entrepreneurial Business Strategies in Global Markets.pdf: A Comparison of CleanTech Venture Assessment in the US and China.  Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education (REE), Hong Kong, China.

 

Process, Technology and Value Creation