The Innovation Space program provides senior-level students with a unique opportunity to complete a real-world product development project. Our goal: to teach students how to design products that create market value while serving real societal needs and minimizing impacts on the environment. Using the Integrated Innovation Model, teams of top undergraduate students from industrial design, business, engineering, and visual communication design spend two semesters researching, developing and refining product concepts.
This past year I helped guide 9 four-person transdisciplinary teams of senior design, business, and engineering students through the product innovation process. These efforts resulted in 9 viable product concepts, several of which are in funded development.
Check out the Innovation Space website
or watch our submission for the Living Climate Change Video Challenge.