INNOVATION PROGRAMS

Clean Energy Institute (CEI) at the University of Washington

• Undergraduate opportunities at CEI: CEI supports the next generation of clean energy leaders and innovators through their unique education, outreach, and research training programs.

College of Engineering

• Industry Capstone Program: The program brings together UW students and companies to tackle real-world, multidisciplinary engineering problems.
• Computer Science Engineering Entrepreneurship: Company-Building from Formation to Successful Exit: This entrepreneurship course is about starting, growing, managing, leading, and ultimately exiting a new venture.
• Chemical Engineering entrepreneurial design: As entrepreneurs and startup founders, ChemE students, faculty, and graduates are using their knowledge and lab work to create innovative solutions and products.
• Electrical & Computer Engineering, Innovation and Entrepreneurial (ENGINE) capstone program (ENGINE): Develops students’ skills in collaborative systems engineering and project management, while supporting a thriving culture of innovation at the UW and within the local community through industry partnerships and student mentorship.
• Engineering Innovation in Health: EIH is a program that promotes interdisciplinary collaboration between engineering and the health sciences with the goal of developing technical solutions to pressing challenges in health care.

College of the Environment

• EarthLab: Accelerates and focuses UW expertise to address large-scale environmental challenges, making a positive impact on people’s lives and livelihoods.

Foster School of Business

• Entrepreneurship Minor: Open to all non-business undergraduate students, the Foster School’s competitive Entrepreneurship Minor offers students the opportunity to leverage their unique talents, as well as their new-found business knowledge, to achieve their startup goals.
• Entrepreneurship Option (for business majors): Prepares students for an entrepreneurial career by offering a combination of coursework and practical experience.

Information School

• iSchool Capstone Program: The culmination of students’ learning experience, iSchool capstone projects distill the knowledge and skills acquired in academic courses and apply them to a real-world project.
• iStartup Lab: Founded in 2023 and housed in the Information School at the University of Washington, the iStartup Lab helps iSchool students develop entrepreneurial skills and launch data-driven social impact startups, as well as other innovation-driven social impact organizations.

Clean Energy Institute (CEI) at the University of Washington

• Graduate opportunities at CEI: CEI supports a variety of fellowship and training opportunities that enhance career flexibility for graduate students.

College of Engineering

• Professional Engineering Degree Programs: In addition to traditional graduate degree programs, these professional degree programs and certificates are offered in several areas of engineering and are developed in partnership with/provide access to regional industry leaders.

• Bioengineering Program and Technology Commercialization: The Master of Applied Bioengineering trains students to apply engineering design to address today’s clinical challenges and fulfill the market-based demands of industry and medicine for biotechnology.

College of the Environment

• EarthLab: Accelerates and focuses UW expertise to address large-scale environmental challenges, making a positive impact on people’s lives and livelihoods.

eScience Institute

• As the hub of data-intensive research and discovery on campus, this program leads a community of innovators in the techniques, technologies, and best practices of data science and the fields that depend on them.

Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

• Accelerating Social Transformation: A unique, immersive experience for mid-career professionals that will reinvigorate and prepare participants to innovate and create social impact in support of the most vulnerable people in our society.

Foster School of Business

• Master of Science in Entrepreneurship: This program follows the same path as a startup—with a curriculum designed to guide students through a real-world entrepreneurial process used to develop new companies.
• Entrepreneurship Certificate: The Buerk Center’s certificate in entrepreneurship prepares University of Washington graduate and PhD students for the world of startups and new technology enterprises.

Global Innovation Exchange (GIX)

• UW MS in Technology Innovation: In this intensive 15-month program, students learn how to take an innovative idea from concept to development, and on to launch. The project-based curriculum, developed and delivered by leading UW faculty, immerses students in design thinking, technology development, and entrepreneurship.
• Professional Learning Programs: These courses for executives, teams, or individuals help participants respond to rapid technological change, solve complex problems, and innovate from within. Learn through problem-based, hands-on experiences while working with other leading industry experts.

Information School

• iSchool Capstone Program: The culmination of students’ learning experience, iSchool capstone projects distill the knowledge and skills acquired in academic courses and apply them to a real-world project.
• iStartup Lab: Founded in 2023 and housed in the Information School at the University of Washington, the iStartup Lab helps iSchool students develop entrepreneurial skills and launch data-driven social impact startups, as well as other innovation-driven social impact organizations.

Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems (NanoES)

• NanoES: Researchers at NanoES are developing solutions to grand challenges in nano science and engineering: the scalable, high-yield manufacture of nano-engineered systems in information processing, energy, health, and interconnected life.

Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute

• MolE Ph.D. Program: MolES launched one of the first graduate programs in molecular engineering in 2014, drawing on expertise from across the University of Washington to create a unique education and research opportunity for trainees interested in addressing urgent societal needs in sustainable energy and human health.

Population Health

• Cultivating social innovation and social entrepreneurship: This initiative is helping to develop a more robust ecosystem for social innovation and entrepreneurship at the UW that supports faculty and students to take on big population health challenges.