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General Overview:
Where is the MIT Entrepreneurship Center Located?
Is there parking around the E-Center?
How and when was the E-Center founded?
Is the Entrepreneurship Center a seperate entity within your school?
Is your Center affiliated with another department with your school?
What is your best estimate of the amount of annual funding specifically designated for the Entrepreneurship Center?
Courses and Faculty:
Do faculty from other departments teach entrepreneurship classes?
How many faculty teach your entrepreneurship courses?
How many entrepreneurship courses do you have?
How many students take entrepreneurship courses at MIT?
Where is the MIT Entrepreneurship Center located?
The MIT Entrepreneurship Center is located in Kendall Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We are at One Amherst Street, E40-196 (1st floor), which is between Hayward Street and Wadsworth Street. See map.
The campus is accessible by bus and by the Red Line on the subway (Kendall Square "T" station). Call the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority at 800-392-6100 for more information, or visit the MBTA web site.
For directions to campus, please refer to MIT's online campus map or call the MIT Information Center at 617-253-4795.
For international visitors:
MIT is seven miles from Logan International Airport; please allow 30 minutes by taxi or subway during off hours and one hour during rush hour for travel time.
Is there parking around the E-Center?
Because there are few parking spaces available to visitors, we recommend taking public transportation to MIT whenever possible.
Otherwise, there are parking meters on Ames Street, Amherst Street, Wadsworth, as well as free parking along Memorial Drive.
If you have been invited to the E-Center or to attend one of our events on campus, please contact us for a Visitor's Parking Pass. x3-8653.
You may get more information about visitor parking here: http://web.mit.edu/parking/visitorparking.html
How and when was the E-Center founded?
The Center was founded in 1990 with support of faculty leaders from
across the entire MIT Sloan School. It immediately took on an
Institute-wide charter with the appointment of an Advisory Board
consisting of distinguished MIT alumni entrepreneurs from all
departments, including Amar Bose '51 of Bose Corp., Ken Germeshausen
'31 of EG&G, Bernard Goldhirsh '61 of Inc. Magazine, George
Hatsopoulos '49 of ThermoElectron, Patrick McGovern '59 of
International Data Group, and Ken Olsen '50 of Digital Equipment
Corp. In its very first year the E-Center helped to organize and fund
the beginnings of the MIT $10K Business Plan Competition, which
became the $50K and then the $100K, and which has over the years
greatly contributed to launching hundreds of student entrepreneurs
from MIT.
Is the Entrepreneurship Center a separate entity within your school?
Yes. The MIT Entrepreneurship Center is a separate entity within the MIT Sloan School of Management.
What is your best estimate of the amount of annual funding specifically designated for the Entrepreneurship Center?
$600,000.
COURSES & FACULTY
Do faculty from other departments teach entrepreneurship classes?
Yes. Some teach from the Engineering Schools and other parts of Sloan.
How many faculty teach your entrepreneurship courses?
As of Fall 2002, we have 33 instructors total - 11 tenured faculty, 5 tenure-track faculty, as well as 17 practitioners (Senior Lecturers and Entrepreneurs in Residence).
How many entrepreneurship courses do you have?
Our 23 entrepreneurship courses are divided into 30 sections throughout the Fall, IAP, and Spring semesters.
How many students take entrepreneurship courses at MIT?
In 1996, 288 students had enrolled in entrepreneurship courses. By the end of the 2001-02 academic year, 1362 graduate and undergraduate students from management, engineering, science, and other departments were enrolled in entrepreneurship courses.
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