MID Curriculum at a Glance
To complete the Masters of Innovation Design degree, you must complete a total of
30 credit hours.
Up to 6 hrs can come from Innovation in Practice and an additional 6 hrs can come
from Project.
You can also choose other graduate courses from disciplines across campus, not listed
below.
From learning the process to being able to facilate a Design Thinking Sprint - you will learn it all.
- ID 500 Design Thinking Process - impact of human centered design on products & services, build understanding of empathy, develop problem statements, cover tools needed to utilize design thinking, build vocabulary for design thinking practices.
- ID 501 Design Thinking Faciliation - build understanding of facilitation & its role in leadership, identify stakeholders and why they’re important, grow an understanding of different personalities & their impact, develop a tool kit of skills to implement design thinking within teams and organizations.
- ID 502 Design Thinking Implementation - utilize design thinking process, work within teams to tackle one or more design challenges provided by Fortune 100 company to innovate new ideas & solutions.
- ID 505 Design Thinking Challenges - utilizing design thinking process tackle one or more design challenges provided by Fortune 100 company and/or local start-ups to innovate new ideas & solutions.
Learn how to apply emprical processes in a distributed team environment - Agility is more than a process, it's a mindset.
- ID 511 Agile Product Management - prepare for integration into a professional Agile product development environment. You will learn how to collaborate within a product team, establish an Agile product development workflow, estimate solutions effort and cost, and learn to fail gracefully.
- ID 705D Agile Software Development - don’t just learn to code, learn to develop products. Develop the technical skills necessary to excel in a cross-functional, distributed team environment using Agile software development techniques.
Start applying traditional concepts in sustainability to complex problems in innovation for a holistic approach.
- ID 509 Applied Sustainability in Innovation - participate in thoughtful discussion on sustainability, adoption of sustainable practices and policies, and employ hands-on analysis of the long-term sustainability of innovation solutions.
- ID 720 Sustainable Teams & Organizations - assess and discuss the long-term sustainability of different management approaches in individual, team, and organizational settings.
Starting from cardboard to creating a fully developed prototype - you will be able to SHOW your idea, not just talk about it.
- ID 705a Practical Prototyping - learn the basics of prototyping utilizing machines and tools in GoCreate.
- ID 752 Product, Service & Process Prototyping - this is a more in-depth prototyping course. You will learn how to utilize the machines at GoCreate, Groover Labs, and other industry partner labs to demonstrate and present your idea, product, or process.
- ID 840 Innovation in Practice - Built around experiential enrichment related to the broad topic of innovation. Topics such as intellectual property, branding, pitching, wire-framing, prototyping and funding are discussed in a group setting and may include guest speakers and/or visits to local companies.
- ID 841 Project - An independent study course for students undertaking the project development/creativity option for completion of the Master of Innovation Design.
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