What is Innovation Engineering?
What is Innovation Engineering (IE)?
Innovation Engineering is a groundbreaking
program that provides a systematic approach
to innovation.
The fundamental concepts of the program
include tools and methods for
• Creating
• Communicating
• Commercializing meaningfully unique ideas
For students, IE
• is a minor that complements any major or field of study
including the sciences, arts, humanities, business,
engineering, and education
• enables them to learn how to employ the tools and
methods of innovation in their field of interest
• helps them to acquire skills that are essential to
participation in the global economy
• facilitates them to gain knowledge to lead the
commercialization of new products, services and
technologies
For businesses, IE
• accelerates a continuous flow of innovations - big and small
- to address your departmentʼs, divisionʼs, and companyʼs
very important problems & opportunities
• can be used on major innovation projects that have a
dramatic impact on sales and profits or minor projects that
help transform the culture
• is a four-stage process of Define, Discover, Develop and Deliver
• integrates painlessly with classic project management
systems such as Compression Planning, Stage-Gate, Design
for 6 Sigma or Hoshin Planning
The Body of Knowledge
The 48 Innovation Engineering Skills
Meaningful
Uniqueness
Problem
Solving
Sessions
Stimulus &
Diversity
Drive Out
Fear 1.0
Triz
Lateral
Thinking
Techniques
CREATE
Insight &
Market
Mining
Create
Sessions Leadership
Patent 1.0 Tech Mining
Check Lists,
Matrices & I
Engineering
Future
Mining
Create
Sessions –
Spark Decks
Customer & Problem
Benefit Promise
true Proof
Complete Ideas - Synergy
Ideas to Paper Free Writing
Clarity - Name and Headline
Advanced Benefit Promise
Secondary Proof
Patent 2.0 - Tech Translation & ®
Communication Translations
Proactive Selling
Meaningful vs. Mindless Marketing
COMMUNICATE
COMMERCIALIZE
SYSTEMS
Requirements for a IE Minor
4 classes
•Create
•Communicate
•Commercialize
•Systems
2 Internships
Please contact Dr. Santanu Borah at
sborah@una.edu or 256-765-4605
for more information about the IE Minor
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