Engineering Innovation

Engineering Innovation introduces students to innovative thinking and practices. Using lectures, case studies, team exercises, and guest speakers, the course teaches practical and life skills applicable to careers ranging from starting companies to executing research and development projects in large companies. In a real-world, hands-on way, students learn how to be innovative and understand why innovation is integral to commercial success in the 21st-century digital revolution. Strategies and tactics are evaluated from the perspective of ideation, that is, transforming innovative problem-solving ideas into viable solutions produced, sold, consumed, and/or implemented in society. A best-practices approach is used to demonstrate how innovators conceive and implement impactful solutions f...