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Ph.D. Innovation Program
engineering.dartmouth.edu/graduate/phd/innovation.html
Students in the Ph.D. Innovation Program fulfill all the requirements listed
previously for first-year Ph.D. students and Ph.D. candidates. Once admitted to
candidacy, the student works with a special advisory committee to make sure that
all the requirements for the Innovation Program are met. These include:
Skills
development
Applied
mathematics
(choose 2)
Engineering
depth
Innovation
coursework
Innovation
elective
(choose 1)
Internship
ENGS 195 Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society
ENGG 196 Seminar on Applied Science and Technology
ENGG 197 Ph.D. Professional Workshops
(recommended but not required; can be used to write
a Small Business Innovation Research [SBIR] proposal)
ENGG 198 Research in Progress Workshop
(annual participation)
ENGS 91 Numerical Methods in Computation
ENGS 92 Fourier Transforms and Complex Variables
ENGS 93 (formerly 103) Statistical Methods in Engineering
ENGS 100 Methods in Applied Mathematics I
ENGS 104 Optimization Methods for Engineering
Applications
ENGS 105 Computational Methods for Partial Differential
Equations I
ENGS 106 Numerical Linear Algebra
Courses in the area of the student’s research, chosen to
increase the student’s depth of expertise and knowledge.
These courses should be selected in concert with the
thesis advisor.
ENGG 321 Introduction to Innovation
ENGM 180 Corporate Finance
ENGM 188 Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship
(or equivalent course)
ENGM 179 Financial and Managerial Accounting
Any graduate-level technical course in area outside the
student’s area of core expertise
Students take six-month leaves-of-absence to work in startups
in their general fields of interest (e.g., bioengineering,
energy, complex systems, IT).
1 term
5 terms
recommended
annual
2 courses
4 courses
3 courses
1 course
The Innovation track includes all the original research requirements of the Ph.D.
See page 54.