Fostering Automatic Control Students to Become Innovators
(2014) 19th IFAC World Congress, 2014 p.12255-12260- Abstract
- Today, innovation is a key word for many universities, as it constitutes an important part of most universities’ public and scientific outreach task. Many universities are striving to increase the number of innovations generated at the university. A common method is to provide various support for research projects e.g.; providing researchers with information about international patent rights (IPR), offering administrative or financial help concerning patent applications, giving entrepreneurship and start-up support, etc. However, fostering innovators and entrepreneurs can start already in undergraduate/graduate courses, i.e. long before a student potentially reaches the research level. We believe that key factors for success in this matter... (More)
- Today, innovation is a key word for many universities, as it constitutes an important part of most universities’ public and scientific outreach task. Many universities are striving to increase the number of innovations generated at the university. A common method is to provide various support for research projects e.g.; providing researchers with information about international patent rights (IPR), offering administrative or financial help concerning patent applications, giving entrepreneurship and start-up support, etc. However, fostering innovators and entrepreneurs can start already in undergraduate/graduate courses, i.e. long before a student potentially reaches the research level. We believe that key factors for success in this matter are diversity and freedom. A course that strives to promote innovation capability must allow for students with different backgrounds and different curricula to meet and work together, and must allow for students to freely use their current knowledge within new contexts. This is generally not a setting provided in traditional undergraduate/graduate courses. This article describes the execution and outcome of an graduate course “international Market-Driven Engineering (iMDE)” in which diversity and freedom are key factors. The course is international and multi-disciplinary in terms of students, teachers and subjects. Graduate students with prior knowledge in automatic control constitute one important part of the course population. We believe that the diversity amongst the students, and their freedom when it comes to both innovation process and product, provides a promising platform in which seeds of ideas can grow into conceptual prototypes that build a solid foundation for full-scale innovations. On of the iMDE- projects, the Elderly Accessible Chair, or EA Chair, with its automated scanning and automatic seat- provider functionality, is one concrete example of this. (Less)
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- author
- Johnsson, Charlotta LU ; Yang, Qinmin ; Nilsson, Carl-Henric LU ; Jin, Jun ; Larsson, Andreas LU and Warell, Anders LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2014
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Technology Management, Pedagogics, Innovation, Entrepreneurship
- categories
- Higher Education
- host publication
- Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress, 2014
- pages
- 6 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
- conference name
- 19th IFAC World Congress, 2014
- conference location
- Cape Town, South Africa
- conference dates
- 2014-08-24 - 2014-08-29
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84929773688
- ISSN
- 1474-6670
- ISBN
- 978-3-902823-62-5
- DOI
- 10.3182/20140824-6-ZA-1003.00229
- project
- Technology Management and Leadership
- language
- English
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abstract = {{Today, innovation is a key word for many universities, as it constitutes an important part of most universities’ public and scientific outreach task. Many universities are striving to increase the number of innovations generated at the university. A common method is to provide various support for research projects e.g.; providing researchers with information about international patent rights (IPR), offering administrative or financial help concerning patent applications, giving entrepreneurship and start-up support, etc. However, fostering innovators and entrepreneurs can start already in undergraduate/graduate courses, i.e. long before a student potentially reaches the research level. We believe that key factors for success in this matter are diversity and freedom. A course that strives to promote innovation capability must allow for students with different backgrounds and different curricula to meet and work together, and must allow for students to freely use their current knowledge within new contexts. This is generally not a setting provided in traditional undergraduate/graduate courses. This article describes the execution and outcome of an graduate course “international Market-Driven Engineering (iMDE)” in which diversity and freedom are key factors. The course is international and multi-disciplinary in terms of students, teachers and subjects. Graduate students with prior knowledge in automatic control constitute one important part of the course population. We believe that the diversity amongst the students, and their freedom when it comes to both innovation process and product, provides a promising platform in which seeds of ideas can grow into conceptual prototypes that build a solid foundation for full-scale innovations. On of the iMDE- projects, the Elderly Accessible Chair, or EA Chair, with its automated scanning and automatic seat- provider functionality, is one concrete example of this.}},
author = {{Johnsson, Charlotta and Yang, Qinmin and Nilsson, Carl-Henric and Jin, Jun and Larsson, Andreas and Warell, Anders}},
booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress, 2014}},
isbn = {{978-3-902823-62-5}},
issn = {{1474-6670}},
keywords = {{Technology Management; Pedagogics; Innovation; Entrepreneurship}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{12255--12260}},
publisher = {{Elsevier}},
title = {{Fostering Automatic Control Students to Become Innovators}},
url = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/3583366/4698834.pdf}},
doi = {{10.3182/20140824-6-ZA-1003.00229}},
year = {{2014}},
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