| Innovation | download this page as pdf | Lesson Plan | ||||
| Session | Input | Output | Reading Material | Assignment/Exercise | ||
| 1 | My Intro | Student Intro | TED Talk by PattieMaes (6th Sense) | |||
| Couse Intro Slides | Group Photo | Natural Ideas | Search for more ideas from nature and submit | |||
| Fortune Slides | Hindu Mythology | Search for more tech info in mythology and submit | ||||
| "Did you know" series of videos | ||||||
| Kurzweil = Futurist | "A vision of student today" video | |||||
| Why this degree | Internet and Education | Submit one page writeup on why this degree | ||||
| 2 | Q's | 21 Century Innovation | Microsoft Technologies videos | |||
| List out ideas | 7 Innovations | Submit one idea based on this template | ||||
| Google Idea Contest | Idea template | |||||
| Team formation | Grouping | Teamwork | TED Talk by JohnnyLee_2008 (Wiimote) | |||
| Technology update | More updates from students | TED Talk by Keith Schacht and Zach Kaplan | ||||
| 3 | Thinking out of the Box | Journeytotwouniverses.pps | Explore Burj Khalifa details | |||
| Thinking Exercise | Lateral thinking | Scale_of_universe.swf | Watch "Stars.mp4" | |||
| Speed | Thoughts on speed/size | Grand Challenge for Engineering | Watch Apple videos | |||
| Idea discussion | Presentation Tips | Prepare group presentation on Technology (15 min) | ||||
| 4 | Bowling Machine case study | Manual vs. Automatic | Bowling Introduction | Submit a manual vs. automatic comparison | ||
| Behind Bowling Machine | TED Talk by JohnLaGrou (Intelligent Electrical Outlet) | |||||
| Notice!! | TED Talk by David Merrill (Siftables) | |||||
| Invention Facts | TED Talk by Eric Giler (Wireless electricity) | |||||
| Technology Presentation | Individual idea refinement and detailing | |||||
| 5 | Effective Communication | Mystery Comic.pdf | Could this mystery comic be a true story? Why? | |||
| The other kind of solar power | Group presentation: Assigned Technical Reading (20 min) | |||||
| Sensors and Sensitivity | Watch Hexacopter.mp4 (limited text or voice) | |||||
| Idea presentation | The Connected Car | Watch IPWarrior.wmv (complex phenomenon) | ||||
| 6 | Virtual Carpet Success Story | Entrepreneurship report | Group presentation: low margin wide market vs. high margin limited market | |||
| Entrepreneur Resources | ||||||
| TED Talk by David Blaine (Holding Breath) | ||||||
| Present Technical Reading | e4nepal-top10tips.pdf | TED Talk by Arthur Benjamin (Mathemagic) | ||||
| 7 | Patent | Categorization into patent, trademark, copyright | np.pdf | Is your submitted idea patentable? How can you make it patentable? Is it feasible? | ||
| university.pdf | Read WIPO Books/website | |||||
| TED Talk by John Underkoffler (Future Interface) | ||||||
| Profit Margin Presentation | TED Talk by Nathan Myhrvold (Could this laser zap malaria) | |||||
| 8 | Mid Term Review | Patent and Feasibility | Download required docs | Prepare one patent application from each group and do a prototype or concept visualization | ||
| Feedback on submissions | ||||||
| TED Talk by Theo Jansen (Kinetic Sculptures) | ||||||
| Prepare your individual thesis/project proposal | ||||||
| 9 | Braille Tutor | bplan basic.pdf | Prepare business plan for the product | |||
| writing a bplan.pdf | How will you arrange money for your business? | |||||
| Submit thesis proposal | Search internet for template | TED Talk by Dean Kamen (Prosthetic arm) | ||||
| 10 | Information Warfare | Submit patent application | Could there be a brighter side of information warfare? | |||
| Demonstrate concept | TED Talk by David Hanson (Robots showing emotion) | |||||
| Improve prototype for submitting at the end of course | ||||||
| 11 | Mentoring session | Refinement work | TED Talk by KevinKelly (next 5,000 days of the web ) | |||
| Tone Matrix exercise | Refine your thesis/project proposal | |||||
| 12 | Feedback on proposal | Submit business plan | 2019+ | Write your synopsis on Year 2019 | ||
| TED Talk by Juan Enriquez (genomics and our future) | ||||||
| 13 | Open session | Interdisciplinary discussion | ||||
| Glimpse of Future (2019) | TED Talk by SethGodin (Standing out) | |||||
| 14 | Feedback on business plan | Submit refined proposal | ||||
| Demonstrate prototype | ||||||
| Feedback on the course | Course Feedback Form | TED Talk by Michael Pollan (Plant's eye view) | ||||
| Italic text | electronic submission only (individual) | |||||
| Colored text | individual submission plus discussion and/or presentation in class | |||||
| Bold text | team work requiring submission and presentation in class | |||||
| Orange background | my original work: non commercial use with proper credit permitted | |||||
| Blue background | internet resources, mostly creative commons: selectively reuse | |||||
| Yellow background | resources, used here strictly for academic purpose only: don't reuse | |||||
| The rest | my compilations, some sources unknown: selectively reuse | |||||