Understanding Innovation in Student Design Projects
Over the past few years, academic institutions have become aware of the importance of innovation in education, as well as its broader role in strengthening the economy. Creativity and innovative thinking are not easily taught in the classroom, but they can be developed through practice and experienc...
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2011
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| author | Elizondo, Luis A. Kisselburgh, Lorraine G. Hirleman, E. Daniel Cipra, Raymond J. Ramani, Karthik Yang, Maria Carleton, Tamara |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Elizondo, Luis A. Kisselburgh, Lorraine G. Hirleman, E. Daniel Cipra, Raymond J. Ramani, Karthik Yang, Maria Carleton, Tamara |
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| description | Over the past few years, academic institutions have become aware of the importance of innovation in education, as well as its broader role in strengthening the economy. Creativity and innovative thinking are not easily taught in the classroom, but they can be developed through practice and experience. Evaluating innovation as part of product design courses has thus become very important to increase the probability of students becoming innovators in the real world.
Innovation tournaments provide universities with an opportunity to develop innovative design thinking in students while they gain practical experience. Understanding design innovation at a deeper level in the context of student design projects is critical to develop realistic perspectives among students. Determining the appropriate dimensions for understanding and measuring innovation is the main objective of this paper. Toward that objective, we conducted initial experiments in conjunction with an innovation award to develop and assess innovation metrics. The results reveal several dimensions of innovation: differentiability, creativity, need satisfaction, and probability of commercial success emerged as key dimensions. This research also assesses the perception of innovation, contrasting the perceptions of judges from industry with the views of academically oriented judges. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/638032022-09-30T10:47:55Z Understanding Innovation in Student Design Projects Elizondo, Luis A. Kisselburgh, Lorraine G. Hirleman, E. Daniel Cipra, Raymond J. Ramani, Karthik Yang, Maria Carleton, Tamara Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Yang, Maria Yang, Maria Over the past few years, academic institutions have become aware of the importance of innovation in education, as well as its broader role in strengthening the economy. Creativity and innovative thinking are not easily taught in the classroom, but they can be developed through practice and experience. Evaluating innovation as part of product design courses has thus become very important to increase the probability of students becoming innovators in the real world. Innovation tournaments provide universities with an opportunity to develop innovative design thinking in students while they gain practical experience. Understanding design innovation at a deeper level in the context of student design projects is critical to develop realistic perspectives among students. Determining the appropriate dimensions for understanding and measuring innovation is the main objective of this paper. Toward that objective, we conducted initial experiments in conjunction with an innovation award to develop and assess innovation metrics. The results reveal several dimensions of innovation: differentiability, creativity, need satisfaction, and probability of commercial success emerged as key dimensions. This research also assesses the perception of innovation, contrasting the perceptions of judges from industry with the views of academically oriented judges. 2011-06-09T17:11:44Z 2011-06-09T17:11:44Z 2010-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper Paper no. DETC2010-28985 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63803 Elizondo, Luis A. et al. "Understanding innovation in student design projects." Proceedings of ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2010 August 15-18, 2010, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7776-3423 en_US http://www.asmeconferences.org/IDETC2010/SearchPaperSchedule.cfm ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2010. Proceedings Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf American Society of Mechanical Engineers MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Elizondo, Luis A. Kisselburgh, Lorraine G. Hirleman, E. Daniel Cipra, Raymond J. Ramani, Karthik Yang, Maria Carleton, Tamara Understanding Innovation in Student Design Projects |
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