UE Innovation project - 4GUC1901

Goal(s)

This project consists in conducting an innovation approach.

Students will work on an industrial issue in a multidisciplinary group to come up with an idea (product or service) by following the Design Thinking method.

Content(s)

The project follows the Design Thinking's 3I process (Inspire, Ideate, Implement):

• Day 1: Exploration
• Day 2: Creativity
• Day 3: Selection & Prototyping
• Day 4: Prototyping
• Day 5: Testing

Daily activities are conducted in groups of 10 to 12 students, which are sometimes divided into subgroups for parallel tasks.

Deliverables include :

• Deliverable 1: Problem statement
• Deliverable 2: Summary of existing knowledge
• Deliverable 3: 6 ideas
• Deliverable 4: 3 business models Canvas (1 per selected idea)
• Deliverable 5 (evaluated): report on the first iteration
• Deliverable 6 (evaluated): final presentation and complementary materials (e.g., slides, videos, etc.)

Engineering design including:

• needs and functional analysis
• rapid prototyping
• sketching