Weill Medical College of Cornell University · Courses
TECHIE
17 courses with the subject TECHIE, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
TECHIE 1101Engineering Operations: Data Science & Decision Making1
Ever wonder how Google Maps finds the fastest route? Or how Uber matches users with the perfect driver in seconds? What about how soccer teams decide who takes the penalty kick — or how governments draw up voting districts? Spoiler alert: It’s all powered by data science. This course is a backstage pass to the algorithms and math behind the world’s smartest decisions. Students will dive into real-world problems, crunch massive datasets, and learn how engineers use math and code to solve everything from traffic jams to political puzzles. This course is a launchpad for careers that shape the future. Whether a student is into tech, business, healthcare, or sports analytics, they will gain skills that open doors. If a student loves puzzles, patterns, or making smart decisions, this course is for them.
TECHIE 1111Interacting with AI: Understanding the Relationship Between AI and Humans1
Have you ever wondered how AI tools like ChatGPT can affect not only those who choose to use them, but also those who refuse? In this three-week course, students dive into the world of AI to discover not just how it works, but also how it impacts people’s psychology, communication dynamics, and the content that spreads in online communities. Through presentations, discussions, and hands-on demos, students will be encouraged to share their own perspectives on how humans should respond to the growing use of AI in society. Students will consider how to balance AI’s benefits with humans’ agency and oversight. By the end of this course, students will have a greater understanding of AI’s impacts at multiple levels, from the individual to the societal.
These days, people can build apps with AI tools with the push of a button… but should they? In this three-week course, students will learn to “vibe code” real applications ethically. Students will explore bias in AI systems, test the limits and vulnerabilities of these tools, and perform hands-on design while centering human values. No programming experience is required: Students just need to bring their laptop, their questions about what “AI for good” really means, and their appetite for creative problem-solving. Join us to learn not only how to build applications quickly, but also how to build them right.
This is a crash course in how software works and what it can do. It covers the basics of programming, databases, and web applications. There is a strong emphasis on learning by doing and the course includes weekly programming assignments in Python.Students who complete the course will be able to write simple programs to automate routine tasks. They will have enough familiarity with the modern software stack to quickly absorb new technical information. Even more importantly, they will be able to talk to technologists intelligently and understand the kinds of constraints that shape technical decisions.The course is intended for students with no prior training in programming. It covers the essentials of program implementation and debugging. Students who have significant programming experience may not take this course. Talk to the instructor ASAP if you are uncertain whether this applies to you.
This course is an introduction to fundamental concepts in business management - strategy, finance and financial accounting, marketing, organizational design, operations management, and negotiations - that are crucial knowledge for any entrepreneur and/or product manager. The course will help you learn the 'language of business,' and prepare you to take business electives in the near term and to run your own firm or product unit in the not-too-distant future, after you graduate from Cornell Tech. Business Fundamentals is not just economics, psychology, sociology, or mathematics, but draws from all of these disciplines. As a result, some of the concepts may sound familiar to some of you, but we will focus on understanding how they are applied to real-world business problems. In order to do so, we will use business cases and exercises in addition to lectures. Analyzing a case study and the resulting deductive learning will help you think in a different way, and will teach you to be comfortable with ambiguity, uncertainty, and contingencies, which are inevitable realities of business life. The general structure of the course is to introduce core concepts in each business area - strategy, finance/accounting, marketing, organizational design, operations management, and negotiations - through a lecture and a reading and then to apply those concepts in analyzing a custom-written case that draws from current business news.
TECHIE 5311Introduction to Entrepreneurial Finance: Firm Valuation and Term Sheets0.5-1
This course is designed to introduce students to the challenges and pitfalls of financing new enterprises. The class sessions will combine lectures and cases. The course covers three broad topics: identifying and valuing opportunities, contract design and financing alternatives, and exit/harvesting strategies.
Highly current information about new and upcoming technology-powered trends and markets to offer the most up-to-date industry knowledge. These emerging technologies may lead to status quo disruption, and we will explore the latest technological advances affecting traditional business models. Industry pioneers will be guest speakers. Experts will provide an insider's view on the rapidly developing capabilities. The insight will enable students to enter into/continue in the workforce with current marketplace knowledge providing strategic advantage to their organizations, careers, and entrepreneurial efforts. Review of new technologies plus converging to create synergistic growth and ways exploiting these symbiotic effects. Approximately ten new technology areas/industries will be covered in this four-consecutive-night intensive pre-semester seminar course.
This class introduces the principal legal issues involved in starting, managing and operating a technology-oriented business by entrepreneurs. It is intended to provide non-law students with an understanding of many of the laws and regulations to which developing businesses in the United States tech sector are typically subject-from the time an entrepreneur conceives and begins to build a business, implements a business plan, and obtains financing, to when she begins operations in anticipation of managing a mature company and considering possible exit strategies.The instructor, a former corporate partner in a large New York City law firm, will adopt the role of a general counsel to a start-up company advising his client/students about how laws and regulations affect their businesses at various stages of development, as well as about typical key contractual terms and negotiating strategies. Practicing lawyers specializing in areas of the law-tax, intellectual property, employment law and others particularly relevant to start-up technology companies-will serve as guest lecturers.The course is designed to impart an understanding not only about substantive areas of the law that intersect with tech businesses but also about the role that lawyers should-and should not -play in burgeoning business enterprises. Students will gain insights into how lawyers approach business problems and the benefits and limitations of such a perspective.
TECHIE 5330Startup Nation: Innovation in Israel1.5
iTrek is a 10-day academic and cultural trip offering students of varying backgrounds an opportunity to be exposed to and learn about the growing economy of innovation in Israel with a focus on the established startup ecosystem. Pre-iTrek coursework in New York will introduce topic areas and team requirements for the intensive ideation competition involving two major Israeli hospital systems, while coursework in Israel will focus on the later stages of entrepreneurship and development for real-time application in a design-led workshop.
In this course we will engage in the art and science of orchestrating modern software systems, positioning students as producers rather than just coders. Participants will learn to define product scope, translate high-level vision into rapid, iterative deliverables, and manage the full lifecycle of a technology “production” by leveraging contemporary developer ecosystems, cloud services, and data pipelines. Through a blend of lectures and working sessions, students will explore the architectural, operational, and collaborative parts of building technology systems that meet real-world application needs. By the end of the term, each student will have produced several tangible software artifacts demonstrating familiarity with both the technical and managerial aspects of modern and emerging technology production. This course is geared for Jacobs students and Cornell Tech students without a technical background.
TECHIE 5771Coupled Policy and Technology Development for Intelligent Urban Systems1
Efforts to decarbonize economies and the rapid rise in IoT devices, connectivity, and analytics has led to the development of intelligent infrastructure technologies at the regional, city, and building scales that can manage and allocate resources more efficiently and equitably. However, the adoption of intelligent infrastructure technologies has lagged expectations. This course examines policy barriers to adoption of intelligent infrastructure systems and adopts a didactic model that jointly explores policy and technology innovations (e.g. public-private partnerships) that speed the adoption in support of advancing the joint goals of decarbonization, sustainability, equity of resource access, and quality of life. The course will first focus on broad urban-scale policy issues, then sharpen focus to the implementation of building-scale technology solutions for human-centric design and operations management.
This course you will review and apply for available Track 1 project topics that are supervised by Cornell researchers; or select Track 2 for which you will choose an anchor course from a set of approved-electives. This class is required for 1st year students in Connective Media, Health Tech, and Urban Tech; and is a prerequisite for INFO 5920.
