Professor	Teaching Assistant	Teaching Assistant
Rakesh Kumar rakeshk@eng.ucsd.edu (858) 945-3758 Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM at EBU3B(CSE) 4208 By prior appointment only (contact through piazza or email)	Carolyn Thio cthio@ucsd.edu Office Hours: Email me and we can decide on a time and place to meet up!	Gannon Gesiriech ggesirie@ucsd.edu Office Hours: Email me and we can decide on a time and place to meet up!

Note: Please include 'CSE 190D' 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 11:59 PM on the due date.
• Late submissions are allowed but with a penalty of 2 points per late day. TritonEd won't accept late submissions, they need to be emailed to the TAs with your full name and PID.
• In case there are issues, please put up a post on Piazza

Reference Texts

• Ash Maurya, “Running Lean”, O’Reilly Media
• Giff Constable,“Talking to Humans”
• Guy Kawasaki, "The Art of the Start"
• Milton Chang "Toward Entrepreneurship"
• 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:

NOTE: The grade distribution given here is a tentative/approximate distribution. It shouldn't be used to calculate your overall score for this course. The final weightage will be determined by the instructor. These are points, not percentages!

• Class Participation/Peer Evaluation – 10 points
• Homeworks – 50 points
• Homework "Extras" – 5 points
• In-class Quizzes – 5 points
• Special Quizzes (2 MidTerms)– 15 points
• Final Presentation:
  • Team – 20 points
  • Individual – 10 points
• Final Report (Business Plan) – 10 points
• Entrepreneurship Potential – 10 points
• Demonstrated interest in following through with a Startup
• Professor/TA assessment of entrepreneur potential, the "X-factor"

Logistics

• CSE 190: C and D 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 190D on TritonEd - We will be using UCSD TritonEd (formerly called Ted) for Homework submissions.