Professor	Teaching Assistant	Teaching Assistant
Rakesh Kumar rakeshk@eng.ucsd.edu (858) 945-3758 Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM at EBU3B(CSE) 4208 By appointment only (contact through piazza or email)	Dharmil Chandarana dharmil@eng.ucsd.edu Office Hours: Tuesdays: 5:10 PM - 6:00 PM at EBU3B(CSE) Basement B260A	Carolyn Thio cthio@ucsd.edu Office Hours: Fridays 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM at CSE 3rd Floor Email her for the exact location

Note: Please include 'CSE 190E' in the subject line when sending us an email.

Course Objectives

• Encourage innovation.... the opportunities are HUGE!
• Encourage entrepreneurship.
• Familiarize students with the "How-To’s" for setting up, and implementing a Start-up company related to the many facets of Microsystems.

Many of these themes will be applicable to "Intrapreneurship" - setting up and implementation of Projects within large Corporations.

Homework Submission:

This course has been setup on TritonEd (formerly called Ted), and all students are required to submit all their Homeworks and Bonus Homeworks on TritonEd only.

• Always upload PDFs unless you have animations in your presentations that need .pptx
• Give the file title as HWNumber-FirstNameLastName.pdf. For example: HW1-SteveJobs.pdf (Similarly HW1Bonus-SteveJobs.pdf). If its a team assignment, give the title as HWNumber-TeamName.pdf.
• All the homework assignments will be due at 6.30 PM on the due date.
• No late submissions are allowed
• In case there are issues, please email the TAs

Reference Texts

• Ash Maurya, “Running Lean”, O’Reilly Media
• Giff Constable,“Talking to Humans”
• Kathleen Allen, “Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers”
• Bill Aulet, “Disciplined Entrepreneurship”
• Sean Wise & Brad Feld, “Startup Opportunities – Know when to quit your day job”
• Lucas Carlson, “Finding Success in Failure”
• Steve Blank &Bob Dorf, “The Startup Owner’s Manual”
• Eric Ries, “The Lean Startup”, Crown Business
• Harvard Business Review articles online
• Rakesh Kumar, “Fabless Semiconductor Implementation”, McGraw Hill

Grade Distribution:

To be decided

Logistics

• CSE 190E on Piazza - We will be using Piazza for Q&A in this course. Preferably, all online communication between students and instructors should be directed through Piazza. Piazza will be the center stage for all important announcements.
• CSE 190E on TritonEd - We will be using UCSD TritonEd (formerly called Ted) for Homework submissions.