SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
ENI5013	Starting Up an Innovative Business	Fall	3	0	3	8

This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:
Course Coordinator :	HANDE SAĞLAM
Course Lecturer(s):	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ÖZAY ÖZAYDIN Dr. Öğr. Üyesi MUHTEREM ŞEBNEM ENSARİ
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course aims at explore the various ways you can organize your business and meet governmental requirements.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
To develop critical insights into the process of creating and launching successful new ventures.
To learn how to research, identify and assess potential business opportunities.

Course Content

Discover how to complete a market study and identify potential customers. Then develop an initial marketing plan.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	What Makes a Good Entrepreneur?	Reading
2)	Organizational Structure	Reading
3)	Picking Your Target Market and How You Will Reach Them	Reading
4)	Product and Price Strategy	Reading
5)	Funding Sources, Choosing a Location, and Hiring Staff	Reading
6)	Learn strategies to attract customers and keep them coming back.	Reading
7)	Midterm Exam	Reading
8)	Legal Considerations for Startups	Reading
9)	Strategic Planning	Reading
10)	Emerging distribution channels for the entrepreneur	Reading
11)	Assessing Business Performance	Reading
12)	Social Media and the Digital World in innovative business plan	Reading
13)	Presentation Skills Workshop	Reading
14)	Business Plan Presentations	Reading

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Entrepreneur’s Toolkit (ET): Tools and Techniques to Launch and Grow Your Business, various authors, Harvard Business Press Books.
References:	Marketer’s Toolkit: The 10 Strategies You Need to Succeed, various authors, Harvard Business Press Books

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Presentation	1	% 30
Midterms	1	% 25
Final	1	% 45
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 55
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 45
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Application	13	7	91
Study Hours Out of Class	11	3	33
Presentations / Seminar	1	3	3
Midterms	1	3	3
Final	1	3	3
Total Workload			175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products.
2)	Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems.
3)	Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging.
4)	Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem.
5)	Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation.
6)	Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically.
7)	Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams.
8)	Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems.
9)	Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system.
10)	Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities.
11)	Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life.
12)	Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions.
13)	Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions.