College of Innovation and Design

Our program focuses on intentionally developing workforce talent by teaching high demand technical and soft skills through hands-on experiences and project-based learning.

Master of Innovation Design

The Master of Innovation Design (MID) degree program merges arts, science and technology courses, creating opportunities for interdisciplinary student/faculty collaboration. The program is tailored for each student, helping them develop their innovator mindset including their ability to:

Communicate ideas effectively
Facilitate design thinking and design sprints
Utilize an agile product development workflow
Develop transformative physical, digital and service products
Validate ideas for market fit
Build sustainable teams
Launch a startup enterprise

Master for interdisciplinary creativity students collaborating together on a project.

Interdisciplinary Leadership Certificate

The undergraduate certificate in interdisciplinary leadership comprises 12 credit hours of courses chosen from across many disciplines.

Upon completion of the leadership certificate, students are able to:

Identify leadership theories and concepts;
Differentiate leadership practices across settings, organizations, disciplines and systems;
Identify cultural strengths and differences through a leadership framework;
Develop leadership skills based on personal strengths and professional interests; and
Lead individuals in teamwork exercises.

Minor in Sustainability

The minor in Sustainability through the College of Innovation and Design approaches sustainability through a holistic lens. Courses investigate the management of our social, environmental, economic, and cultural resources so they may last for generations.

Areas of focus include: 

Innovation life cycle
Change management
Sustainable business development
Social mobility
Challenges in sustainability and innovation

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Our unique approach

Institute of Interdisciplinary Innovation team

Building a Team

The College of Innovation and Design is a unique development and design environment. It starts with a carefully selected group of students from different areas of expertise who have have great ideas and the tenacity to make them real.

The Collaborative Process

Our teams seek to harness the power of diverse perspectives, passion, and conflict — supported by access to incredible facilities and resources — to refine students' ideas and work toward beautiful and lasting solutions.

Elevated Understanding

By the end of their two years in the program, those who complete the journey will have an elevated understanding of leadership, collaboration, and the intricacies of ideation, gaining a highly marketable creative confidence, and lifelong friends in the process.

Innovation

Institute alumni compete in $1 million mask challenge

Three Wichita State University alumni are in the running to win $1 million as part of the Next-Gen Mask Challenge sponsored by XPrize. They were chosen one of only 25 finalists from a field of 1,000 teams from 30 countries.

Spencer Steinert, Jared Goering and Maggie Koops — all recent graduates of Wichita State’s Master of Innovation Design program — teamed up to for the Cyfive apparel company to address a challenge created by XPrize: to craft a face mask addressing the obstacles that deter people from wearing them and promote positive mask-wearing behavior.

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