Cesar Bandera, Ph.D
Leir Chair in Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and
Management
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
Martin Tuchman School of ManagementNew Jersey Institute of
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About Me
I am an electrical engineer thrust into entrepreneurship in the mid-80’s. At the New Jersey Institute of Technology, I hold the Leir Endowed Chair for Entrepreneurship and the title of NJIT Master Teacher. My research interests lie in entrepreneurship pedagogy, technology-driven business incubation, and mobile healthcare. At least once I have taught every NJIT course in entrepreneurship, and I mentor many of our student- and faculty-led ventures. I also practice what I preach, being a serial entrepreneur and currently the founding partner of an m-health company that serves CDC, NIH, EPA, and foreign ministries of health.
I received a Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University at Buffalo, NY, with a concentration in biomimetic machine vision and AI. My work has yielded journal and conference publications and book chapters, four patents, the NASA Space Act award, New Jersey’s first Small Business Success Story designation by the National Institutes of Health, and two Small Business of the Year Nominations from the US Department of Defense. I work with an awesome team of Ph.D students in Business Data Science at the Martin Tuchman School of Management, I am National NSF I-Corps Instructor, Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation, member of the AACSB Entrepreneurship and Innovation Steering Committee, Senior Member IEEE, and served on the board of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and as Director of the Academy of the International Council for Small Business.
When I am not in publish-or-perish mode, I rebuild antique single-ended vacuum tube amps, jam on vintage Moog synthesizers, and try to keep roadworthy a 5.0 Mustang ragtop, all which are older than most NJIT students and faculty.
My Frequent Courses
· ENTR210 (previously ENTR410) “Introduction to Entrepreneurship” is a face-to-face introduction to entrepreneurship. Many students with innovative ideas or newfound opportunities take this class to validate the commercial potential. Each student forms her/his own company and is responsible for all aspects of the startup (i.e., no groups). This course teaches you to learn how to critique from the point of view of investors so that you can then improve your own work.
· ENTR330 (previously ENTR430) “Entrepreneurial Strategy” is a course on bootstrapping your startup. Going into this course, we assume you already have a clear concept. We will prototype the idea, get market feedback, and hopefully some real start-up money!
· MGMT640 is the graduate and Executive MBA face-to-face and distance-learning version of ENTR410.
· MGMT680 “Entrepreneurial Strategy,” also known as the Tech Venture Support Program, is a face-to-face course that teaches strategies for the formation, growth, and harvesting of technology-based start-up companies. It helps student evaluate a career as an entrepreneur, or as an intrapreneur within a larger organization. Students work with actual startups for which they develop actionable strategies for immediate execution. This course is often taught in parallel with Dr. Ellen Thomas’ MRKT631 Marketing Research.
· ENTR490 “Independent Study” is a one-on-one 3 credit-hour course in which the student conduct a research project associated with entrepreneurship, or advance a startup initiated in another NJIT course (a business plan is required). Enrollment in an Independent Study requires prior approval of the instructor, and a proposal delineating the project and the deliverables (in other words, see me before the registration deadline).
· ENTR725 “Independent Study” is the graduate version of ENTR490.
Other Courses
· ECE416/417 “Senior Design Project” is a two-semester program of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. See me if you need signal processing help in your senior project.
· NSF I-Corps is a program that commercializes university innovation. It couples university inventors with entrepreneurship mentorship. See me if you need the latter.
· ENTR320 (previously ENTR420) “Financing New Ventures” focuses on the financial aspects of entrepreneurship. From where can you get startup capital, and how much will it cost you? How much is your company worth at different stages of maturity? How do you plan an exit strategy? These are some of the issues covered, and it helps to have already validated your value proposition in ENTR410.
· MGMT390-IDS “Principles of Management” is a strategic management course for Honors students who have already developed a technology and business plan for an innovation and are part of the Interdisciplinary Design Studio.
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