Design Thinking and Device Development: 3 semester hours

Catalog description

This course, designed for non-business majors, teaches students to identify customer needs and manage critical resources while incorporating constraints governing how products must be designed, developed, approved, and brought to market. This course is intended to introduce students to some of the complexities of designing robust devices that meet customer needs and engineering requirements. Students will work in teams on projects that reinforce these concepts. Students will be equipped with the analytical skills necessary to understand linkages between research and development, product design, intellectual property protection, and entrepreneurship.