The UF Engineering Leadership Institute and Engineering Innovation Institute of the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering (HWCOE) continue to grow the programs’ joint curricular offerings for undergraduate and graduate engineering students in areas of engineering leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity.
The Institutes are now expanding their programs to serve faculty and students from all departments of the HWCOE by jointly offering a set of turnkey “teaching modules” in select innovation and leadership topics. The modules are available to faculty for integration into their core courses as they feel the topics can add value. Eleven teaching modules are currently available for classroom integration. (Additional modules are in the development stage.) The current module topics are:
Professional Credibility
Persuasive Communications
Business Assessment of Innovations
Entrepreneurial Financials
Intellectual Property
Risks in Projects and Technology Development
Teams, Team Dynamics and Team Development
Creativity
Engineering Entrepreneurship
Engineering Innovation
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