Dear student,
Design Thinking is the Stanford Design Innovation Process that was pioneered by IDEO and that has fueled much of the entrepreneurial culture in the Silicon Valley. At the heart of the process is the notion that in order to innovate, one must understand the needs of the user and the context surrounding the design.
In this course, by experiencing real world innovation challenges and by working side by side with very innovative companies, you will learn Design Thinking methods and tools and you will acquire the skills necessary to be global innovation leaders.
This year we will be running 2 exciting programs, ME310 SUGAR (partnering with Stanford University) and Challenge-Based Innovation (partnering withCERN).
ME310/SUGAR is an academic year long project-based design engineering course that began at Stanford University and has been operating continuously for over forty years.
In ME310, you will work on innovation challenges in multicultural and interdisciplinary teams, going through an intense and iterative process of needfinding, ideation, and rapid prototyping to create and develop new product concepts. (see video)
Challenge Based Innovation – CBI – is a course of Human-Centric Product Design developed and conducted in collaboration with CERN. The mission of the program is to “develop highly futuristic, technologically feasible ideas that have the potential to challenge the status quo in global issues”. You will face innovation challenges where the futuristic technologies developed in CERN are applied to human centric problems. (see video)
Both programs will give you the opportunity to experience true global collaboration, by working in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams. In fact, the selected candidates usually come from a large spectrum of disciplines (to name a few from the last year: Mechatronics Engineering, Management Engineering, Psychology, Communication, Art and Design).
This is why we encourage students from all Unimore departments to apply for the courses.
Each participant will be granted with a scholarship to fully cover travel expenses.
Important dates:
September 2th: applications submission deadline
September 3rd-5th: interviews
September 14th: Kick-off CBI (CERN - Geneva, Switzerland)
October 23rd: Kick-off ME310 (Stanford University - Palo Alto, California)
To apply, please send an e-mail to dt@unimore.it including:
1. Your CV (max 2 pages) - Include your picture, expertise, competences, experience, interests..
2. Letter of motivation (max 1 page). Tell us about you, why you would like to join the DT program, and which course you like most (ME310 or CBI).
3. link to a youtube video (max 2 min) where you introduce yourself and your passion
You will then be informed via email about an invitation to the interview round.
Any questions email us at dt@unimore.it or matteo.vignoli@unimore.it