The Undergraduate Minor
Innovation Engineering is a new program at The University of Maine open to any student interested in learning a systematic approach to creativity. These classes are designed to help you develop, refine, communicate and successfully implement new ideas. Whether you plan on working for an established organization or want strike out on your own, the skills learned in Innovation Engineering will be invaluable to your career.
Click here to download the requirements for getting a minor in Innovation Engineering. Classes available Spring 2013 at UMaine INV 180: Create Section 1: Tuesday & Thursday 11 AM to 12:15 PM, CRN # 3397 Section 2: Tuesday & Thursday 9:30 to 10:45 AM, CRN # 3155 INV 282: Communicate Section 1: Tuesday & Thursday 12:30 to 1:45 PM, CRN # 2329 INV 392: Commercialize Section 1: Tuesday & Thursday 11 AM to 12:15 PM, CRN # 3400 INV 401: Experience Section 1: Monday 3:10 to 5:30 PM, CRN 2884 |
The Graduate Certificate
There are 3 classes in the program to get your certificate from The University of Maine
INV 510 Innovation Engineering Accelerated Credit hours: 3 Provides students tools and confidence to lead the creation, communication, and commercialization/realization of meaningfully unique ideas in any field. Students will learn a systematic approach to creativity, practices and principles of precise, persuasive concept writing, and key components of commercialization/realization. Methods include group and individual problem solving, business simulation and case studies, and work with real-world inventors and businesses. The course is a graduate level course and is open to community members, seniors and graduate students. This course will count towards a graduate certificate in Innovation Engineering®. INV 511 Innovation Engineering Case Study Credit hours: 3 Through weekly case studies and in rapidly changing peer teams, students generate ideas, articulate innovations through writing, and research potential technologies and markets in the context of real-world businesses or nonprofit organizations. Through this process, students will learn to identify the best opportunities and to set up systems for generating and implementing new ideas in a wide range of organizations. Students will learn to identify the best opportunities and to set up systems for generating and implementing new ideas in a wide range of organizations. INV 511 Innovation Engineering Proposal & Project Credit hours: 3 Emphasizes the intensive application of concepts explored in earlier Innovation Engineering courses to a graduate student's field of specialization, with the purpose of creating the student's own proposal and project. Students will be expected to identify a problem or opportunity and to research existing solutions to the problem before developing their own ideas. Students will have the opportunity to take their own idea from proposal stage to prototype and beyond. Projects may be individual or team-based. |
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