Focus Areas

Engineering Design and Innovation (EDI) program students will establish technical depth through one of four focus areas. These will help distinguish students as experts in their areas of choice. Completing a focus area requires the completion of 6 credits of the courses prescribed in the areas that follow:

Engineering Design (EDSGN) 

Students in this focus area will build their theoretical knowledge and practical skills related to design methods. Students who wish to complete this focus area must complete 6 credits from the following courses:

• EDSGN 507: Systems Thinking
• EDSGN 547: Designing for Human Variability
• EDSGN 548: Interaction Design
• EDSGN 549: Design Decision Making
• EDSGN 558: Systems Design
• EDSGN 561: Data Mining Driven Design
• EDSGN 562: Design for Additive Manufacturing
• EDSGN 571: Compliant Mechanism Design

Engineering Leadership and Innovation Management (ELIM)

Students in this focus area will evaluate and apply leadership and innovation management strategies toward the growth of new products and businesses. Students who wish to complete this focus area must complete 6 credits from the following courses:

• ENGR 405: Project Management for Professionals
• ENGR 802: Engineering Across Cultures and Nations
• ENGR 804: Engineering Product Innovation

Engineering, Law, and Policy (ELP)

Students in this focus area will understand how policy-making and political processes can advance or constrain engineering solutions. Students who wish to complete this focus area must complete 6 credits from the following courses:

• LPE 851: Foundations in Public Law
• LPE 852: Foundations in Private Law
• LPE 854: Engineering, Law, and Technology Policy Practicum
• INTAF 502: Science, Technology, and International Policy
• STS 589: Ethics and Values in Science and Technology

Engineering Entrepreneurship (ESHIP)

Students in this focus area will develop an entrepreneurial mindset related to business finance, intellectual property, and marketing. Students who wish to complete this focus area must complete the 6 credits from the following courses:

• ENGR 407: Technology-Based Entrepreneurship
• ENGR 415: Launching Innovation: Ideas to Opportunities
• ENGR 451: Social Entrepreneurship
• EDSGN 452: Projects in Humanitarian Engineering
• EDSGN 453: Design for Developing Communities
• EDSGN 454: Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship Field Experience