期刊名称：Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
出版年度：2015
语种：English
出版社：The Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
摘要：UBC has held two NSERC Chairs in Design Engineering through which we have established connections with the Sauder School of Business (through our New Venture Design program) and other engineering departments (through our multidisciplinary capstone design course). We are now planning a renewal application for our Design Chair that aims to extend the scope of designrelated work at UBC by establishing a graduate program in Technical Product Innovation (TPI) that will connect Applied Science, the Business School, Computer Science and Industrial Design at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. The TPI program will offer both thesis and non-thesis degree options at the master's level, along with a concentration certificate that will be available to non- TPI students. The curriculum will have five key components: (1) a technical base in the area of the student's undergraduate specialization, (2) courses in innovation theory and entrepreneurship in collaboration with the Sauder School, (3) courses in human factors engineering in collaboration with computer science, (4) special 'passport-style' skills-based courses in prototyping, visual communication and user evaluation in collaboration with industrial design, and (5) project and thesis options that will allow for work on industry- or entrepreneurship-based design projects. The goal of the proposed program will be to train students to take on leadership roles in product development programs in both startups and established companies. The TPI program will initially focus on three key areas: medical technologies, consumer products and business-to-business products. It will build on two significant cross-university initiatives - the multi-faculty Human-Computer Interaction interest group (hci@ubc) and the universitywide Entrepreneurship@UBC program - and will tie into related emerging initiatives such as the Innovation Hub at Vancouver General Hospital and Wearables@UBC.
