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Early on we decided to create Innovation Engineering in partnership with the University of Maine. They lead the Innovation Engineering movement on college campuses around the world.

Today, Innovation Engineering is recognized as a new field of academic study. It’s offered as an undergraduate minor, a graduate certificate, and as an off-campus executive education program. A PhD program is also in development.

On college and university campuses we educate students on how Innovation Engineering will enable them to take advantage of the tremendous opportunities in the new economy. We explain how it will help them: 1) get a job, 2) get promoted, and/or 3) turn their ideas into reality faster and with less risk.

The Innovation Engineering courses enable the personal passion of students. A student graduating with a degree in history or English or business, with a minor in Innovation Engineering, or the graduate certificate, has the skills and confidence to apply, activate, and make a meaningful difference leveraging what they learned in their major field of study.

Studying Innovation Engineering on or off campus does not make you an “engineer,” as that is a title reserved for those who have passed the requirements set up by engineering trade associations for certification as a professional engineer. However, it does teach key elements of the engineering mindset: curiosity, discipline, experimentation, problem solving, and how to use writing and math to think deeper about challenges you face.