Entrepreneurial thinking at UM

Faculty of Science

The Faculty of Science is home to the Science Innovation Hub, a gateway for advancing research innovation and nurturing entrepreneurship within the Faculty of Science.

The faculty is also home to Maker Space which provides a space where students create high-end, research-grade equipment. Maker Space offers 21 3D printers and other state-of-the-art equipment, including an all-metal laser-based 3D printer, CNC machines and injection moulder. 

Asper School of Business

The Asper School of Business is the first place we often think of when we think of entrepreneurship at UM as it is home to:

• The Entrepreneurship Bachelor of Commerce
• The Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship
• The New Venture Championships
• Startup Coach program
• Entrepreneurship webinar series

Faculty of Architecture

Centre for Architectural Structures and Technology, Faculty of Architecture
A one-of-a-kind interdisciplinary research laboratory in Canada, the Centre for Architectural Structures and Technology (C.A.S.T.) provides students with access to technologies for the design, construction and performance of a built environment.

FABlab, Faculty of Architecture
FABlab is an interdisciplinary facility that supports design research where students can explore digitally driven design, prototyping and manufacturing.

The Workshop, Faculty of Architecture
A longstanding presence at UM, The Workshop supports the production of refined models and environmental product and furniture prototypes. 

College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Smart Suite

Equipped with user-friendly assistive technology and flexible equipment, the suite will help educate and train students to enhance autonomy and well-being for older adults and individuals with disabilities.

More about Smart Suite 

College of Nursing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

The college opened two VR learning rooms with a total of 11 workstations at the Helen Glass Centre for Nursing in September 2022.

In the platform, students work together in pairs, with one student as an “active player” and another as a “driver.” The active player wears a VR headset and hand controls and acts as a bedside nurse, caring for a patient in one of several pre-programmed scenarios, while the driver lets the nurse know what the patient needs and acts as the patient by selecting the appropriate pre-recorded responses.

More about VR in the College of Nursing

Faculty of Law

L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic

Named for its benefactor, alumnus L. Kerry Vickar [LLB/80], the Clinic has offered numerous Manitoba law students the chance to get hands-on, practical experience in business law since 2014. Information and services are provided by third-year law students free of charge to small businesses, start-ups, entrepreneurs, innovators including family businesses, non-profits, charities, the arts, cultural and community organizations who do not have a lawyer and cannot afford legal assistance in Manitoba.

Visit the L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic website