1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 12 hours credit. . 1 hours lecture and 2-12 hours lab per week.
Industry Student Fellows Projects
Creativity & Innovation
Course Description
This course places students into interdisciplinary teams to collaborate with faculty on real-world client projects serviced through the Industry Student Fellows Program. Students will conduct and provide research, build a product prototype, engage in early state development, be responsive in communication, and ultimately present the project to the client.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students: In addition to the undergraduate assignments and projects, graduate students are required to complete Strategy Module Creation. In consultation with the instructor, students will select a chapter from “Blue Ocean Strategy” and build content with artifacts to support an online learning module on that topic.
Athena Title
Industry Student Fellows Proj
Non-Traditional Format
Project Team Sessions will take place in Innovation District space or at another alternate space approved in advance by the instructor, and students will be expected to spend a minimum of 5 to 10 hours of student participation each week.
Prerequisite
IDEA 4000/6000
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall, spring and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will experiment and take appropriate risks to creatively solve problems and advance knowledge.
Students will synthesize and/or transform ideas in original ways.
Students will consider and incorporate alternative or contradictory perspectives in designing solutions.
Students will develop imaginative or original responses to a need or inspiration.
Students will develop, support, and effectively express ideas in oral form using language with clarity and precision.
Students will tailor communication strategy, style, and conversation appropriately for various audiences and/or contexts.
Topical Outline
- Project Teams: Project Teams are small, typically consisting of 3-5 students. Students are assigned to teams, and teams are assigned to client projects by the instructor. Each team works together with the instructor for at least one academic semester on the client projects, with a goal of producing a solution to the client’s problem.
- Project Work Overview: Project teams will conduct and provide research, build a product prototype, engage in early state development, be responsive in communication, and ultimately present the project to the client.
- Executive Briefings: Students will attend the Executive Briefings.
Week 1: Course Introduction and Project Overviews
- Team-Building Activity
- Training Session: Project and Goal Management Infrastructure
- Value Proposition Design Recap
- Skills Pre-Assessment
Week 2-5: Client Project 1
- Weekly Executive Briefings and Weekly Project Team Sessions
- Flawless Consulting, Chapter 1 – A Consultant By Any Other Name
- Flawless Consulting, Chapter 2 – Techniques are Not Enough
- Flawless Consulting, Chapter 3 – Flawless Consulting
- Flawless Consulting, Chapter 4 – Preparing for Feedback
- Canvas
- Design/Test
- Evolve
- Publication/Presentation
Week 6: Project AAR and Evolution
- 360 Evaluations
- Flawless Consulting, Chapter 10 – From Diagnosis to Discovery
- Flawless Consulting, Chapter 11 – Whole Systems Discovery
Week 7-11: Client Project 2
- Weekly Executive Briefings and Weekly Project Team Sessions
- Flawless Consulting, Chapter 12-13 – Discovering Gifts, Capacities, and Possibilities/Get the Picture
- Canvas
- Design/Test
- Evolve
- Publication/Presentation
Week 12: Project AAR and Evolution
- 360 Evaluations
Week 13-15: Client Project 3
- Weekly Executive Briefings and Weekly Project Team Sessions
- Flawless Consulting, Chapter 19 – The Heart of the Matter
- Canvas
- Design/Test
- Evolve
- Publication/Presentation
Week 16: Project AAR and Evolution
- INDUSTRY PROJECT REFLECTION
- Skills Post-Assessment
- 360 Evaluations
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Creativity & Innovation
The capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways and the experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative way characterized by innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.
