A professor in our College of Engineering is looking for OER for three courses. Below are the learning outcomes. I would appreciate any suggestions for appropriate resources.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. apply a rigorous systematic approach to design and launch a new venture.
2. understand the process and what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
3. develop a business viable product concept with input from both business and technology.
4. enhance team working skills and find a team or community to start the venture.
5. apply and reinforce fundamental knowledge and skills from other courses through practice and reflection in an action-oriented setting.
6. present their work professionally and effectively to a variety of audiences (co-founders, employees, investors, board members, and customers).
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. be aware of historical technological innovation and current topics in strategic innovation management, such as innovation networks, idea brokering, open
innovation.
2. be familiar with how technology innovation occurs, such as the source of innovation, idea generation processes, and R&D team and incentive design.
3. understand how technology innovation can be managed, for example through R&D portfolio management, organizational structures, and meeting the challenges
of innovation in large and small firms. 4. understand the strategies most effective for exploiting innovations.
5. evaluate the potential impact of a new technology on social, cultural, and environmental aspects of the society based on the United Nation’s Sustainability
Development Goals (UN SDGs).
6. apply these concepts to real-world situations for managing technology innovation.
7. identify, evaluate, and resolve a variety of issues leading to poor innovative performance in large firms as well as entrepreneurial firms; and
8. be able to articulate their own informed perspectives on tech innovation.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. define an open-ended design problem based on customer needs from primary market research.
2. develop solutions that meet or exceed customer needs, following a systematic design process.
3. enhance team working skills (3-5 members, preferably in a multidisciplinary setting).
4. manage multiple aspects of a design project, including but not limited to project tasks, budget, schedule, as well as communication within
the team and with clients.
5. apply and reinforce fundamental knowledge and skills from students’ engineering disciplinary education through practice and reflection in
an action-oriented setting.
6. evaluate the social and environmental benefits and risks of the design solution according to the 17 United Nation Sustainability Development
Goals (SDG) and mitigate any potential risks in their final report and final presentations.
7. present their work professionally and effectively to a variety of audiences, including but not limited to project lead, investor, customers,
and general public.
8. demonstrate technology and patent research as well as documentation in design process.
Heather M. Ross, BA BEd MEd
Educational Development Specialist
University of Saskatchewan
Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning
Ph: 306-966-5327
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