I-Corps L: Product Realization 2.0 - Multidisciplinary Technology Entrepreneurship Capstone Course

威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校（UWM）的这个项目旨在开发一个可持续和可扩展的模式，将工程顶点/高级设计课程转变为体验式多学科技术创业顶点课程，产品实现2.0，与课外或课外学生创业项目（校园范围内）紧密结合，并由区域行业合作伙伴提供动力。产品实现课程最初旨在为学生提供真实世界的、基于项目的经验，同时为行业赞助商提供接触工程人才和创新解决方案的机会。该项目将探索利益相关者（包括学生和赞助商）是否会在培养学生和向行业赞助商提供更广泛的创业思维技能的结构中发现价值。该项目正在向课程方向发展，该课程将具有以下关键课程元素：(a)客户发现和精益启动，(b)设计思维，以及(c)强调低分辨率原型和多次迭代的产品设计。这门课程必须有另一个维度：为赞助人兼导师提供专业发展。我们将探索不同层次的导师参与和培训，从简单的项目管理流程到将导师纳入教学团队。产品实现课程可以为工程和多学科教育的创新做出重大贡献，将促进新的课程和教学法，并将提供一个以不同方式吸引学生和赞助商的平台。该产品对地区行业具有潜在吸引力，并可与威斯康星大学的创新和创业体验课程相结合。通过不同的创新网络，如由五所大学组成的I-Corps Site区域网络、国家创新网络、创新路径网络和大学创新研究员网络，所提出的模式可以在全国范围内推广。

This project at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) aims to develop a sustainable and scalable model for transforming engineering capstone/senior design courses into an experiential multidisciplinary technology entrepreneurship capstone course, Product Realization 2.0 that is strongly coupled with co-curricular or extra-curricular student entrepreneurial programs (campus wide) and powered by regional industry partners. The Product Realization course was initially designed to give students real world, project-based experience while offering industry sponsors access to engineering talent and innovative solutions. This project will explore whether or not stakeholders (including students and sponsors) will find value in a structure that trains students and exposes industry sponsors to a broader set of entrepreneurial thinking skills. The project is moving towards a course that will have the following key curricular elements: (a) customer discovery and lean launch, (b) design thinking, and (c) product design with an emphasis on low-resolution prototyping and multiple iterations. The course would have to have another dimension: professional development for sponsor-mentors. We will explore various levels of mentor engagement and training, ranging from straightforward project management processes to incorporating mentors into a teaching team. The Product Realization course can contribute significantly to innovation in engineering and multidisciplinary education, will promote new curricula and pedagogy, and will provide a platform for engaging students and sponsors in a different way. The product has potential appeal to regional industry and can connect with an innovation and entrepreneurship experiential curriculum at UWM. Through various innovation networks, such as the I-Corps Site regional network of five universities, the National Innovation Network, Pathways to Innovation Network and University Innovation Fellows Network, the proposed model can be scaled up nationally.