Entrepreneurship Online and Entrepreneurship

Imperial College Business School provides two undergraduate entrepreneurship courses for undergraduate engineers and scientists. The courses are Entrepreneurship Online and Entrepreneurship (face-to-face). Students taking part in these modules participated in a pitch competition and were also selected through excellence in achievement based on their validation report coursework assignment, where students embarked on experiments to test hypotheses underlying their business idea. The winners came from five major undergraduate programmes at Imperial College: Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Mathematics & Computer Science.

Entrepreneurship Online Runner Up - WalkToGather

Project:

The WalkToGather team comprised a team of six engineers: Bianca Catea, Computing (MEng); Caitlin Ferrie, Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Management; Ioana-Adelina Filip, Computing (MEng); Ka Ng, Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Management (MEng), Katarzyna Zukowska, Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Management (MEng), Nur Mohd Zafer, Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Management (MEng) and Qi Yuan, Physics (BSc).  The team won a £500 Engineers in Business Prize. 

WalkToGather is an app that allows university students to have a safer commute back to their accommodation by finding other students travelling at the same time to a similar destination.

Photo: WalkToGather Team captain Qi Yuan

The first prize of £1,000 was awarded to a group of six engineers who developed Amphere (not pictured), an app-based live music management platform that connects artists, listeners and venues.  A second runner-up prize of £500 was awarded to a multi-disciplinary engineering team for its innovation, TravelList.  This is a platform that facilitates planning international trips from A to B by combining different modes of transport to generate the best budget-friendly route.

Entrepreneurship First Prize Winner - MyLife

Project:

A team of four Mechanical Engineering students won first prize in the Entrepreneurship competition: Anna Parker, Pallavi Ojha; Thomas Allen and Vinzenz Freigassner, Mechanical Engineering.  The team was awarded a £500 Engineers in Business Prize. 

MyLife is an app focused on making it easier for friends to meet up and create authentic memories away from social media.

Two further teams of engineers (not pictured) were awarded runner-up prizes for their innovations: £300 was awarded to the team that developed Clover, a rewards-based card that allows people to be more incentivised to go for ‘greener’ products without being hindered by the cost, and £200 was awarded to the creators of EduCater, a platform that would provide expertise regarding university applications and connect students with tutors to aid them with their academic requirements.

Positive feedback

We are delighted to announce the success of the winners of the Engineers in Business Fellowship prize, which was open to students from BPES (Business for Professional Engineering Students) Entrepreneurship modules.  The prize fund helps to increase the level of participation in business idea competitions by engineering undergraduates and graduates enabling them to gain more commercial education and business skills.

Tim Weiss
Assistant Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Imperial College Business School