INV 282 - Advanced Innovation Skills

This course will provide students with advanced skills in innovation and a systematic approach to creativity, communication, bringing their idea to reality (commercialization) and systems thinking. In the first set of advanced skills (create), students are provided with theories behind and practice using tools to generate meaningfully unique ideas. These tools engage creative stimulus, diversity, and mining for technology and economic, social and cultural trends. The second set of skills (communicate), combines elements of several disciplines: the clarity of professional writing, the precision of technical writing, and the expressiveness of creative writing. The third set (commercialize), how do you quantify its risks and benefits? How can you reduce the unknown quantities in your process of creating and realizing? Students learn to apply principles of the scientific method and design of experiments for evaluating ideas and making them real. The fourth set of skills (Systems), students will learn how visually map the system, measure variation, and analyze system.

General Education Requirements: Writing Intensive and Quantitative Literacy

Prerequisites: INV 121

Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring and Summer

Credits: 4