MIM 504 - Innovative Problem Solving

Min Units: 3
Max Units: 3
By better understanding the way humans interact with their environment, organizations can come up with better solutions to problems. A design thinking approach can help with the challenge of preparing students to solve complex problems. The main theme for the class, design thinking, is a hypothesis-based process for generating and discovering possibilities for creating value, finding the productive combinations of means to achieve that value, and testing validity. Design thinking rests on principles such as human-centeredeness, problem framing, experimentation, visualization, and diversity. Students involved will work on a semester-long project focused on problem identification, ideation, prototyping, and testing and will come up with an implementation plan. (G) Summer
Prerequisite(s): MiM degree-seeking status