Innovation to Impact

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Innovation is essential for all organizations to address the most pressing challenges our world is facing. In Innovation & Design Thinking (I&D), students applied design thinking frameworks to a pressing challenge where they empathized with stakeholders, defined unmet needs and areas of opportunities, and ultimately identified innovations to prototype and test. In Innovation for Impact, students evaluate and build on the portfolio of recommendations from I&D, prioritizing those to move forward to implementation. Working directly with the client, as well as faculty and industry advisors, students move into the role of consultant and implementer, setting and tracking weekly deliverables, scoping budgets and costs, tracking and managing key performance indicators, and ensuring implementation for sustainable impact.