Get Involved on Campus as an MSIE Student
Gain hands-on experience practicing your classroom skills, make network connections, find lasting friendships, build your résumé and learn how to develop that entrepreneurial mindset by plugging in to the community on campus for MSIE students. Join a student organization that aligns with your professional and personal interests or explore the opportunities below.
Competitions
- Big Idea Competition
Annual pitch competition that brings the best undergraduate and graduate students together from all disciplines, alongside top research faculty and alumni to pitch the most innovative startups in front of their peers and a panel of esteemed judges for cash scholarship awards.
- UTDesign Startup Challenge
Leveraging the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science’s UTDesign senior capstone course, selected ventures can receive $15,000 of engineering services over one of two semesters, a technical mentor, business coaches, and $5,000 cash to grow their business.
Programs & Partnerships
- Blackstone LaunchPad
Developed as part of the Blackstone Charitable Foundation’s Entrepreneurship Initiative, this global network enables participants to access mentoring, grow their networks and access resources to accelerate the success of their businesses.
- CometX Accelerator
8-week program helps early-stage student led companies on everything from feasibility, product development, customer engagement, team development, and more.
- Venture Coaching
Receive direct, hands-on mentoring from leading Dallas entrepreneurs and investors. Our mentors consist of CEOs, venture capitalists, angel investors, and attorneys who have both foundational expertise and startup experience.
Spaces
- Blackstone LaunchPad
The front-door to entrepreneurship on campus. A co-working and event space that was established with a $1M grant from the charitable foundation of the world’s largest private equity firm. 5,000-square foot multi-purpose collaborative space to inspire, accelerate, and support student entrepreneurship.
- Venture Development Center
Exclusive university incubator designed to help students, faculty, and alumni commercialize their ideas and inventions.
- Richardson IQHQ
New, innovative space that will foster corporate innovator and university collaborations, support Richardson and the region’s startup and entrepreneur community, and advance UT Dallas research.
Student Testimonials
Chris Bagwell, MS 19
Senior Business Analyst, Pizza Hut
The Master’s in Innovation and Entrepreneurship is more than an education in how to start a business. The program’s excellent professors bring a wealth of experience and a vast network to give you real-world insight that you can’t find in a textbook. Not only has the MSIE program given me the necessary technical skills to start a business, but it has also introduced me to experienced professionals who have shared decades’ worth of lessons learned.
James Ramsey, MS 19
I enrolled in the Master of Science degree program in Innovation & Entrepreneurship right after leaving Xerox Corporation in late 2017. I found the UT Dallas courses extremely interesting, and JSOM has assembled a great team of instructors that bring both academic and real-world credentials and experiences.
Mark Kukiz, MS 19
Product Manager, Peloton
The Professional MBA at UT Dallas provided the flexibility for a tailor-made education with subjects I am most passionate about. The MS in Innovation and Entrepreneurship curriculum enhanced my MBA through practical undertakings in both startup and corporate intrapreneurship settings. The cohort program was a differentiator, enabling the collaborative, in-person experience I was looking for.
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