Course Collaborations

AI + Entrepreneurship Certificate

Through conversations with many NYC employers, we are seeing a consistent demand for student interns and recent graduates who can quickly work on AI solutions to help solve business needs. 

We want to help prepare you for those jobs and internships! They don’t necessarily need people with coding experience - so you don’t need that experience either. But they are looking for people that can use AI well.

Over the last 2 years, we've developed, refined and updated a program in conjunction with colleagues from the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. The skills and ways of thinking that you'll learn while practicing an entrepreneurial mindset will help you be competitive in a small business, a startup, a medium size company or a large multinational organization.

How It Works

The CCNY AI + Entrepreneurship Certificate Program runs during the academic year. The next group will start in Fall of 2026 and run through Spring 2027.

Apply here! 

  • In Fall, students participate in a number of online or in-person prerequisite activities. These activities are free!
  • Completing these activities will make students eligible for a class in Spring, ECO 31123 AI and Entrepreneurship. Enrollment will be by permission of instructor, based on completing the Fall activities.
  • There is no extra charge for the certificate besides regular tuition for the class.
  • The AI and Entrepreneurship class will be highly experiential with real-world examples, mentors from NYC companies, and a capstone project working with company partners

Student Projects from 2026

  • An interactive market segmentation tool to help businesses explore insights and plan marketing campaigns based on customer purchase history.
  • A tool to help the philanthropic arm of a large company benchmark its programs against competitors in its industry and in its region.
  • An interactive tool to help an international skin-care startup with a unique natural product analyze options to enter the US market.
  • A mapping tool to help a NYC museum predict trends in attendance and suggest new areas to target for increasing its audience. 

Student Projects from 2025

  • An interactive dashboard to help understand the impact of philanthropic grants from a large utility company.
  • Tools to analyze quantitative and qualitative customer survey data for startup companies.
  • Ideas to provide customized experiences for customers of a subscription product to create delight and improve retention.
  • An AI agent to automatically create article summaries for local news media

Other Collaborations

CSc 59866/7 - Capstone I/II: BEAT+: Adding Branding and Entrepreneurship for Real-World Applications Using Emerging Technologies: AI, AR, AT, and Apps - Fall 2026 – Spring 2027, with Dr. Zhigang Zhu.

This class emphasizes four components: Branding, Entrepreneurship, Applications, and Technologies. Undergraduate Seniors in CS and CpE will work in teams to design emerging technical solutions in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Assistive Technology (AT), data analytics and app development skills to solve real-world application problems for social good and national priorities. Teams will learn basic branding principles (how to design user interfaces and communicate with end users and community partners about their technical solutions) and basics of entrepreneurship (customer discovery, business models, etc.). Teams will be encouraged to participate in academic research projects, the CCNY Zahn Innovation competitions and NYSID’s CREATE competition. We will invite collaborators from both academia and industry as the BEAT+ mentors and evaluators. 

LAAR 64150 - Design Research - Fall 2026 with Dr. Laura Wainer.

This seminar complements the landscape architecture studio, developing essential methodologies of design research and advanced representational techniques. Students learn to conceptualize and communicate landscape analysis, design, and research techniques through the development of data-based infographics and maps; time-based videos and animations; and three-dimensional digital and physical terrain modeling. The Design Research seminar supports the development of students' design studio theses and spatial propositions.

Last Updated: 08/26/2026 14:38