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种可持续和可扩展的模式，将工程顶峰/高级设计课程转变为体验式多学科技术创业顶峰课程-产品实现2.0，该课程与联合课程或课外学生创业计划(校园范围内)紧密结合，并由地区行业合作伙伴提供支持。产品实现课程最初旨在为学生提供真实的、基于项目的体验，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。这个项目将探索利益相关者(包括学生和赞助商)是否会在一个培训学生并让行业赞助商接触到更广泛的创业思维技能的结构中找到价值。该项目正在向一门将包含以下关键课程要素的课程迈进：(A)客户发现和精益发布，(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：赞助商-导师的专业发展。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。产品实现课程可以极大地促进工程学和多学科教育的创新，将促进新的课程和教学法，并将提供一个平台，以不同的方式吸引学生和赞助商。该产品对地区行业具有潜在吸引力，并可与UWM的创新和创业体验课程相联系。通过五所大学的i-Corps站点区域网络、国家创新网络、创新之路网络和大学创新研究员网络等各种创新网络，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.