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== Classes that Utilize the Start-up Mentality ==
<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7388dd03-380b-706d-96e5-d7fc82e48e7b"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-familyweight: Verdana, Helvetical, Arial, sansbold; vertical-serifalign: baseline; fontwhite-weightspace: boldpre-wrap; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Technology Entrepreneurship & the Lean Launchpad</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7388dd03-380b-706d-96e5-d7fc82e48e7b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- The course is a collaboration with a local NFP Vetransfer.org. The course focuses on evidence-based fact finding tactics that get you closer to establishing a viable business model. Veterans directly engage with customers to test the validity of their business model, while interacting with mentors that can help interpret what the startup is hearing from potential customers. Victory Spark (the full Vetransfer Program) was founded by grant funding from the Federal the Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Innovation and continues today from financial support from the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs and our awesome sponsors!</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7388dd03-380b-706d-96e5-d7fc82e48e7b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Steve Blank’s Customer Development process is an essential component of Victory Spark. During the time in the program, each startup learns the methods and process to discovering and developing a profitable and repeatable business model.</span></span></span>
<span class="subhead" style="font-weightsize: boldsmall; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-7388dd03-380b-706d-96e5-d7fc82e48e7b"><span style="font-sizefamily: 13pxVerdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-familyweight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: Verdana, Helvetical, Arial, sanspre-serifwrap;">Product Realization</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7388dd03-380b-706d-96e5-d7fc82e48e7b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Companies need time and talent to develop new product prototypes. Students need real world experience. The ANSYS Institute’s “Product Realization Course” brings these groups together. Students design, test and produce a prototype for companies that offer funding and mentorship. Aurora Healthcare, Eaton Corporation, Rexnord, BizStarts and the Medical College of Wisconsin are just some of the organizations that have used the class to take their ideas to the next step.</span></span></span>
=== <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7388dd03-380b-706d-96e5-d7fc82e48e7b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How It Works</span></span></span> ===
<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7388dd03-380b-706d-96e5-d7fc82e48e7b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Product Realization course is a regular course offering. Industry sponsors pay a fee to cover expenses and provide engineering personnel to mentor their student project team. The multidisciplinary approach has real benefit. The course is co-taught by an engineering professor and an art professor. Students form interdisciplinary teams of engineers, artists and designers. They review the company’s product brief, determine a budget and timeline, then design and build the prototype.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7388dd03-380b-706d-96e5-d7fc82e48e7b">[http://uwm.edu/engineering/people/avdeev-ph-d-ilya/ <span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ilya Avdeev, Ph.D</span>]<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and </span>[http://www4.uwm.edu/psoa/artdesign/facultystaff/nathanielstern/ <span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nathaniel Stern, Ph.D.</span>]<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, associate professor of art and design and head of digital studio practice in the Peck School of the Arts, collaborate and oversee the 15-week process. Some of the projects have included eye-tracking software, wheelchair design, wave energy collectors and personal lighting devices for roadside emergencies.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7388dd03-380b-706d-96e5-d7fc82e48e7b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The ANSYS Institute gives students hands-on access to computer-aided-engineering capabilities; a versatile A/V presentation system; studio space with workbench areas for physical prototype development and assembly; and equipment for rapid-prototyping, reverse engineering and rapid product development. Teams operate in an open lab environment that encourages a free exchange of ideas across groups.</span></span></span>
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= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts =