Programs and Experiences
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Credit bearing, experiential and applied learning opportunities that can easily be integrated into undergraduate Future Makers’ plan of study across multiple disciplines.
- ENGR 089: Introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation
- ENTP 101: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
- ENTP 201: Entrepreneurship & Enterprise
- ENTP 302: Corporate Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- ENTP 311: The Garage: Launching Entrepreneurial Ventures I
- ENTP 312: The Garage: Launching Entrepreneurial Ventures II
Courses, programs and certificates for graduate-level Future Makers’ that dive deeply into the methods and strategies behind creating solutions that bring value to others.
Short-form skill building experiences designed to supplement Future Makers’ academic explorations. While opportunities vary in length of engagement, their impact can be life-changing.
Immersive, intensive and relationship based, these learning opportunities are designed for students to gain and apply new knowledge in a high stakes environment in real time.
- Campus Sustainable Impact Fellowship2
- Entrepreneurship & Innovation Themed Housing Community
- Global Social Impact Fellowship2
- Global Village
- Hatchery Summer Intensive
- Lehigh Valley Social Impact Fellowship2
- Lehigh Ventures Lab: Boost
- LehighSiliconValley1
- Mountaintop Summer Experience
- Silicon Valley Innovation Internship1
- Silicon Valley Social Impact Fellowship2
- Startup Academy1
1 These are credit-bearing programs delivered outside of the traditional classroom setting.
2 These are two-semester (6 credit) programs with experiences inside and beyond the classroom.
An Environment for Innovation
We strive to build in each student an innovative mindset, skill set and capacity for creative thinking. Lehigh graduates approach real-world problems with creativity, generate bold new ideas and make a direct impact on communities, organizations and institutions.
Dulra Amolegbe ’26 Recognized for His Startup Fintech Company
Amolegbe was recognized by Lehigh’s Baker Institute, earning both the Joan F. & John M. Thalheimer ’55 EUREKA! Award for student achievement in venture creation and the Thalheimer Grand Prize of $5,000 for his startup, Dot, a fin-tech startup company offering a platform for cashless transactions to immigrant students in Africa.
Chris Zadra ‘16 ’17G Flies Drones for Whale Research
Zadra turned his engineering acumen, entrepreneurial spirit and interest in drones into a life-changing career with the Drones for Whale Research program. He flies data-collecting drones on whales as part of a critical mission to protect the giants of the ocean from environmental and human threats.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation News
You Have a Great Idea. Now What?
Entrepreneur Craig Ploetner ’94 mentors Lehigh students through the Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation.
Outside the Box: Lehigh Ventures Lab Helping Ideas Take Flight
Meet the entrepreneurs whose ideas could change the way people date, bank, protect their dogs from ticks, and more.
Cultivating a Thriving Environment for Creative Entrepreneurship in the Lehigh Valley
Antigoni Papadimitriou, a teaching assistant professor in the College of Business, and the Lehigh Valley Social Impact Fellowship propel creative entrepreneurship forward.