Info for students

Engine Lab at a glance

  • Term

    Spring

  • Units

    9

  • Eligible students

    All MIT Sloan students can take the class. We do accept some cross-registering students from Harvard / Wellesley, depending on space.

  • Prerequisites

    No

  • Bid/Application

    Bid

  • Host organization profile

    Deep tech startups and ventures seeking to scale their existing business.

  • Sample sectors

    This course spans many different sectors (all where deep tech is relevant). Examples include climate / energy, life sciences / healthcare, and defense / security resilience.

  • Sample host organizations

    Atlantic Quantum, Bexorg, Oso Semiconductors, Overview Energy

The class

Engine Lab is a 9-unit, letter-graded course specifically designed for students who are considering launching, joining, leading or investing in deep tech ventures. A key feature of the class is our Engine Lab Projects, where students will have an opportunity to work closely with founders, teams, and investors on a tangible problem facing a deep tech venture:

 

  • Work with deep tech ventures that have already raised formal venture funding.
  • Ventures are committed to meeting with students to maximize the value of the engagement.
  • Projects focused on how to design partnerships for capital projects, production and supply chain.
  • Project teams of 6 people from interdisciplinary backgrounds.
  • Voting for project selection (ahead of course) – we will do our best to give you a top choice!