CBI Challenge-Based Innovation (2225.YR.000990.1)

Datos generales

Tipo:	OPT	Curso:	2	Periodo:	S semestre
Créditos ECTS:	12 ECTS

Profesorado:

Grupo	Profesor	Departamento	Idioma
Year 2	Ian Collingwood	Operaciones, Innovación y Data Sciences	ENG

Previous background in engineering, or other technical experience is preferred. Strong team working skills. Openness to work in a multidisciplinary environment

Rationale:

Challenge Based Innovation @Barcelona (CBI@BCN) brings together multidisciplinary teams to work on societal challenges by matching specific human needs with technologies developed at CERN. The aim of the course is to learn how to generate conceptual, futuristic ideas and how to move them into testable, tangible prototypes. This course will help students to develop skills in multidisciplinary teamwork, managing projects in uncertainty and in working with an international research organization. To enable this learning experience, CBI@BCN brings together: a multidisciplinary network of leading educational institutions, CERN knowledge experts, scientists and technologies and IdeaSquare, a singular environment for creativity and design at CERN.

The teams will combine business, design and engineering in order to bring the latest scientific development to our everyday life. The students are introduced to the methodology of human-centered design, which drives the teams to interact early with key stakeholders to learn about their specific needs, and to iteratively test proposed solutions with the users. At the end of the course, teams present a proof of concept prototype supported by a business model proposal.

During the course, we will follow the Design Thinking approach to tackle an innovation challenge. The course is like a studio, where teams work on their challenge on a weekly basis, receiving lectures and introducing practical methods that can soon be put into practice.

1. Development of personal, interpersonal and professional transversal skills. Communication and presentation skills. Entrepreneurship. Awareness of societal needs.
2. Application of the specific knowledge in the context of a complex multidisciplinary work. Learn from the interaction of professionals of Business, Engineering and Design.
3. Identification of needs and development of solutions to pressing challenges for humanity at large
a. Contact with stakeholders at different levels
b. Human-centered design
c. Use of state-of-the-art technologies for the solution proposals

1. Introductory sessions to design thinking and teamwork Session topics: - Managing teamwork in explorative projects - Virtual collaboration and team dynamics in practice - Design Thinking approach Goals/tasks: - Team building - Learning the design thinking approach basics - Introduce the research in the proposed challenges

2. Problem space exploration Session topics: - How to search for ideas - Observation, conversations with problem owners - Needfinding & User approach - Benchmarking Goals/tasks: - Identifying several relevant needs in the context of the defined challenge. - Problem convergence & data synthetisation. Hypothesis setting. Testing

3. Solution space exploration Session topics: - Idea generation and selection - Low resolution prototyping. Feedback and iteration. - Business Models - Estimation of cost and complexity in technological solutions Goals/tasks: - Ideation. Generation of several alternative solutions - Prototyping ant testing - Solution convergence

4. Integration Session topics: - High resolution prototyping. Rapid hardware and software prototyping. - Communication design. Project Communication - Business Models for Startups. - Intellectual and industrial property concepts Goals/tasks: - Integration: Design and implementation of a high-resolution prototype able to give a proof of concept. - Testing with stakeholders. - Generation of communication materials

5. Final gala at CERN Presentation of results.

Team performance: The result of the project (relevance, originality, impact)

50

Individual performance. The process and quality of work done, the application and adaptation of specific prior knowledge in a multidisciplinary project, the adaptation to a multidisciplinary environment

30

Peer evaluation

Actividades de evaluación

Grupo	Profesor	Departamento
Year 2	Ian Collingwood	Operaciones, Innovación y Data Sciences