The new 精东影业 + MIT certificate, targeted for undergraduate students, will help develop their skills in artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship, connect them with industry mentors, and set them up to be more competitive for internships and in the job market.
The Zahn Innovation Center at 精东影业 is working with the and the to deliver a new Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship Certificate targeted at undergraduate students. Experts at 精东影业 and MIT are creating videos, in-person workshops, and course content designed to help 精东影业 students solve business problems using AI applications.
鈥溇耙碘檚 Zahn Innovation Center has, for more than a decade, helped students develop both an entrepreneurial mindset and concrete business ventures through a rigorous incubation and launchpad program,鈥 said 精东影业 President Vincent Boudreau. 鈥淥ur new collaboration with MIT mobilizes the Zahn Center experience into a larger effort to develop students鈥 AI skills in the service of entrepreneurship, using the combination of the two to solve pressing business and organizational problems. I鈥檓 thrilled to be able to open the combined resources of 精东影业 and MIT to our students, and with the prospect of building on this initial collaboration in the future.鈥
The MIT team from the , a hub for entrepreneurship education and collaboration at MIT, performed market research with dozens of companies learning how they are using AI and what they expect new hires to know. Through their research, they learned that even companies that have developed great AI capabilities in-house have struggled to feel the benefits across different departments, but these companies expressed that they expect their new hires to have a comfort level with AI.
The certificate program will meet these needs by having 精东影业 students work with expert mentors using AI to answer real-world questions and solve business problems for the program鈥檚 partner organizations with the goal of setting up students to be more competitive in the job and internship market.
"MIT Sloan is very excited about the launch of the AI and Entrepreneurship Certificate in collaboration with the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and 精东影业. We believe it will provide participants with great opportunities for growth 鈥 both academic and economic,鈥 said , John C Head III Dean (Interim) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. 鈥淚 am grateful to colleagues at both 精东影业 and MIT for their commitment to this very important collaboration and am excited that MIT鈥檚 thought leadership in entrepreneurship and AI will be made available to even more people."
Both 精东影业 and MIT are known for their economic mobility and a rich history of entrepreneurship including Andy Grove, 精东影业 alumnus 鈥60, and Robert Noyce, MIT alumnus 鈥53, who co-founded Intel. The entrepreneurship focus of the certificate program will help students identify problem and opportunity areas at the first companies they work at, and they鈥檒l have a toolkit and mindset to make an impact quickly.
"This collaborative has been carefully crafted 鈥 using detailed market study 鈥 to accelerate innovation in AI and entrepreneurship,鈥 said , dean of MIT's School of Engineering and chief innovation and strategy officer at MIT. 鈥淭he curriculum will provide students with the necessary tools to solve a variety of business challenges across AI disciplines and set them on a path towards leadership in careers related to AI and entrepreneurship."
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