Engineering & Technology for the 21^st Century: Innovation

Importance

Keeping pace and staying ahead of the rapid development and implementation of new science and technology in the 21^st century requires engineers that are creative, can generate new ideas, and have skills in innovation and development of ideas into products and processes.

Definitions

Personal Creativity is an individual's ability to generate novel ideas.

Innovation is the implementation of creative outcomes in an environment where the innovation will be useful. (This environment is often associated with a marketplace.) The innovations can include new products, new processes, new services, or new ways of delivering products or services.

Outcome

A culture of innovation will exist within the college.

Characteristics

Creativity
Wisdom	Choose appropriate real-life problems and design solutions to them using understanding of creative outcomes
Understanding	Apply knowledge of creative outcomes to design solutions to open-ended problems.
Knowledge	Know how and when to use the tools and processes to obtain creative outcomes.
Information	Understand the tools and processes that connect personal creativity (ideas) and creative outcomes (models or demonstrations).

Innovation
Wisdom	Evaluate the global impact of innovations and guide innovative change for optimum human benefit.
Understanding	Apply knowledge of innovation methods to implement plans for bringing creative outcomes into a useful environment.
Knowledge	Know how and when to use particular innovation methods.
Information	Define methods for implementation of creative outcomes.

Program

• General
  • Outcomes
  • Overview
• Initiatives In-Depth
  • Character
  • Global Awareness
  • Innovation
  • Leadership
  • Technical Excellence