Faculty of Arts & Science
2015-2016 Calendar

Impact Centre

Faculty


Professor and Director
M. Cynthia Goh, BS, Ph D (U)

The Impact Centre's goal is for proactive knowledge translation, in which university-based expertise is brought to create value to society. Innovation and entpreneurship are important aspects in this process, and the Impact Centre is home to a number of training activities for students to gain entrepreneurial skills, which are essential for their own company, or when joining an existing company. At the undergraduate level, this program includes a course, as well as for-credit internship possibilities.

The program is aimed at students from all disciplines. Inventions usually come from the science or engineering labs, but getting them out of the lab and available to meeting society's needs requires a very diverse set of skills. This is usually done by multi-disciplinary teams with representatives from the sciences, the social sciences and the humanities. Therefore, the program will emphasise such collaborations between students of diverse backgrounds.

Impact Centre Courses


IMC200H1    Innovation and Entrepreneurship [24L]

How do innovations become useful in society? What is needed for a company to use such innovations successfuly? Why and how do individuals and companies commercialize a technology? This course gives an introduction to the skills needed by entrepreneurs in order to start a new venture based on an innovative idea. This course is Pass/Fail.  Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 4.0 FCEs in any subject
Recommended Preparation: No particular preparation needed. Although the topics relate to science innovations, the course is targeted at students from all disciplines, who are interested in using innovations. This includes science, social sciences and humanities students, mirroring the roles of these individuals in enterprises. Because this is an introductory course, students who have previously taken business or entrepreneurial courses are strongly discouraged from registering in this course.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Social Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

IMC299Y1    Research Opportunity Program[TBA]

Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/course/rop. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Social Science or Science course
Breadth Requirement: None

IMC390Y1    Internship in New Ventures [TBA]

This course allows students to earn one course credit by participating in an internship in a technology start-up company from the University of Toronto, with oversight from the Impact Centre. Students will contribute to the work needed in making an invention available to the public. This course is Pass/Fail. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: IMC200H1 or RSM100Y1 and 8.0 FCEs in any subject
Recommended Preparation: Although the internships relate to science innovations, they are targeted at students from all disciplines. This includes science and engineering, social sciences and humanities students, mirroring the roles of these individuals in enterprises.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Social Science or Science course
Breadth Requirement: None

IVP210H1    Holography for 3D Visualization (formerly JOP210H1)[24L/54P]

An introduction to the theory and practice of holography. Human perception & 3D visualization; fundamentals of 3D modeling; ray and wave optics; interference, diffraction, coherence; transmission and reflection holograms; color perception; stereograms. Applications of holography in art, medicine, and technology. Computer simulation, design, and construction of holograms.

Exclusion: JOP210H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Science course
Breadth Requirement: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)