{"id":3251,"date":"2020-04-27T15:58:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T07:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/idp\/?page_id=3251"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:36:17","slug":"eg4301a","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/idp\/modules\/eg4301a\/","title":{"rendered":"CDE4301A Ideas to Start-up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\t\tCDE4301A Ideas to Start-up\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

Pre-accelerator Final Year Project:\u00a0Supporting student start-ups, empowering innovations<\/h3>\n

Formerly coded as EG4301A, CDE4301A Ideas to Start-up is offered to final year undergraduate students in the Innovation & Design Programme who are interested to pursue commercialisation of their project ideas. This two-semester course builds upon the principles of the Lean LaunchPad and the Disciplined Entrepreneurship framework to accelerate students’ understanding of the entrepreneurial process and enables further development of their ideas\/projects into viable and sustainable ventures. In the process, students will learn to identify the customer and market, develop a minimum viable product (MVP) using design and engineering skills that they have garnered throughout their undergraduate study and design a viable business model. Students will also learn the mechanics of company building, for example company formation, fund raising and intellectual property strategy.<\/p>\n

External investors, start-up founders, mentors and lawyers are invited to the classes to enable students to learn from their experience and feedback first-hand. At the end of the two semesters, the students deliver an investment pitch on demo day to potential investors.<\/p>\n

Workload: 12 units across two consecutive semesters from August to May<\/p>\n

\"Module<\/figure>\n

\n\t\tWhat people are saying about the course\n\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t

EG4301A is a fantastic course that helped to expose myself to market validation techniques for deep tech and engineering related ventures. Prior knowledge from the class allowed me to hit the ground running and commercialise a Medtech spin-off with a team of clinicians, scientists and engineers immediately after graduation and continues to form the backbone of how I view and solve problems.<\/em>Amos Heng, 2019 Alumnus, Cofounder of FathomX<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t

It is my actual privilege to work with VRObs to develop virtual birth delivery training solution that will benefit medical students and nurses who don’t have practice on real life people anymore.<\/em>Prof Mary Rauff, O&G senior consultant of NUH, VRObs industry partner<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t

I really like to congratulate the education from NUS to able to train students in this particular programme to not only do what they are doing but at least know what they do not know. This is extremely useful when you really spin off that you know where to get help.<\/em>SC Cheong, startup mentor, Managing Director of Mdesign Solutions<\/p>\t\t\n\t

Demo Day 2021<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Four student start-up teams delivered their investment pitch and showcased their MVP during the Demo Day at Engineering Auditorium.<\/p>\n

\"Eg4301a<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\n\t

Introduction to EG4301A<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\n\t

MediVR Pitch<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\n\t

Granted Pitch<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\n\t

LookUp Pitch<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\n\t

ConcreteAI Pitch<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\n\t

Closing Remarks<\/p>\n\t

Demo Day 2020<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Six student start-up teams delivered their investment pitch and showcased their MVP during the Demo Day via Zoom.<\/p>\n

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\"Virtual
Virtual class photo taken during Demo Day<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\n\t

Introduction<\/h3>\nDr. Khoo Eng Tat
\nDr. Jason Lin\n\t\t\t\t\t\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\n\t

VRObs<\/h3>\n

VR Childbirth Simulator for Medical Students<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\n\t

The Sensible Company<\/h3>\n

Inventory Analytics and Automated Stocktaking for Hospital<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\n\t

Andalus<\/h3>\n

Mechanical and Sustainable Battery for e-Mobility Industry<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\n\t

Odyssea<\/h3>\n

Roomba for Ship Hull Cleaning<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\n\t

Kinito<\/h3>\n

Autonomous Harvesting Vehicle for Farms<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\n\t

Terran Space Technologies<\/h3>\n

3D Printed Microthruster for CubeSat<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\n\t

Closing Remarks<\/h3>\n

\n\t\tStart-up projects from inaugural cohort in 2019\n\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"Verdana\"\n

\n\t\tVerdana\n\t<\/h3>\n\t

Smart cooling<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Fallrisk\"\n

\n\t\tProject 21\n\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\tSmartFund\n\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\"Smartfund\"\n\t

Fall risk assessment for elderly<\/p>\n\t

CRM for insurance sales team<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Meditrain\"\n

\n\t\tMediTrain\n\t<\/h3>\n\t

VR medical training<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Subtilesafety\"\n

\n\t\tSubtle Safety\n\t<\/h3>\n\t

Workplace safety solution<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CDE4301A Ideas to Start-up Pre-accelerator Final Year Project:\u00a0Supporting student start-ups, empowering innovations Formerly coded as EG4301A, CDE4301A Ideas to Start-up is offered to final year undergraduate students in the Innovation & Design Programme who are interested to pursue commercialisation of their project ideas. This two-semester course builds upon the principles of the Lean LaunchPad and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":3233,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3251","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19525,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3251\/revisions\/19525"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}