ENI 8010 - Innovation Studio 1: Innovation and Design Thinking

3 Credit Hours
Description
This experiential studio class teaches design thinking, the entrepreneurial mindset and exposes the student to advanced technologies and trends as applicable to business. Design thinking is taught as a systematic approach to innovation and creative problem-solving that can be used in many industries. Using a combination of lean startup and design thinking, students will conduct experiments, interviews and test prototypes to verify the viability of both problems and solutions. The student will be introduced to resourceful problem discovery by methods of noticing, observing, and data analysis. Ideation models will be applied to conceptualize new-to-the-world technologies, business models, products and services as potential business ventures.