Entrepreneurship at Mason

The Volgenau School - Entrepreneurship in Information Technology and Engineering

The Volgenau School of IT and Engineering is a non-conventional engineering school in which Information Technology permeates most degree programs and research activities. Many of our degree programs are attended by employees of the surrounding companies and government agencies.

The school has significant expertise in many areas including:

• Autonomic Computing
• Air Transportation
• Biometrics
• Control Systems
• Computer Networks
• Computer Vision
• Command and Control
• Computer Graphics
• Databases and Data Mining
• Data Visualization
• Design of Complex Infrastructures
• Digital Signal Processing
• E-commerce
• Evolutionary Computing
• Highway Transportation Systems
• Machine Learning & Knowledge Engineering
• Micro Electronics
• Operations Research
• Optimal Clinical Trials
• Robotics
• Security
• Simulation
• Software Engineering.

Turning Ideas into Successful Companies (IT 495 & MBA 799)

"Turning Ideas into Successful Companies" is a unique course offered in the Department of Applied IT. Students are placed into teams around a technology or business idea with the goal of developing that into a business. At the end of the semester, students are judged by a panel of Venture Capitalists and the winning team gets 5k. This video was produced in 2005 during the first semester this course was ever offered at Mason!