Define the problem
Before analyzing a solution, we identify the user, the need, the constraints, and the decision that must be made.
Texas Engineers in Business
About EiB
EiB helps engineering students understand how useful ideas become products, services, organizations, and decisions that reach people.
Student-led · Curious · Austin
Why we exist
Why engineering and business belong together
A solution has little value if it cannot reach the people who need it. Business provides the strategy, resources, communication, and delivery needed to make a strong engineering idea useful in practice.
Through workshops, team problem-solving, practitioner conversations, and peer leadership, EiB members learn how technical decisions connect to users, organizations, markets, and implementation.
Principles
How we work
These principles guide meetings, shared work, and how members work with one another.
Produce useful work
A recommendation should be clear enough for someone to evaluate and act on.
Support the team
We share context, give direct feedback, and make space for different strengths.
Check the evidence
Research, conversation, and testing should be able to change our initial assumptions.
Member experience
What members do
Members learn in workshops, apply ideas with a team, meet practitioners, and contribute to the community.
Workshops
Practical sessions on strategy, markets, finance, products, operations, and communication.
Team problem-solving
Small groups working through open-ended questions with clear responsibilities and deadlines.
Practitioner conversations
Candid access to people building, operating, investing, and leading across industries.
Community
Social rituals, peer mentorship, and room to be more than a résumé around one another.
Next steps