The following are additional details concerning the courses and activities comprising the Innovation Leadership Honors Program, including anticipated texts for new courses.

Technical Writing – The College of Arts and Letters is preparing to offer this course next year as an alternative for College Writing II and is in the final stages of recruiting a faculty member in this area. Anticipated course outcomes include familiarization with the content, organization, format, and style of specific types of engineering documents. Students will be expected to learn to compose within various genres such as instructions, reports, manuals, frequently-asked-questions, and object and process descriptions. General communication as well as oral and graphical presentation skills will be included.

Fundamentals of Engineering – This is an existing, well-established engineering-majors course numbered EGN 1002. This course will emphasize a "systems approach" to show the integrated and interconnected nature of the seemingly disparate parts of an engineering problem. The course demonstrates that fundamentals are common to all disciplines and exposes students to the value of modeling and systems analysis in the design process. The intent is to provide students with an even-handed exposure to all engineering disciplines to help them determine which discipline best matches their needs and interests. The anticipated text is Engineering Fundamentals and Problem Solving, Fifth Edition, by Eide, A.R., Jenison, R.D., Northup, L.L., Mikelson, S.K. (2008). New York:McGraw-Hill, ISBN:0-07-319158-4.

Biology for Engineers – This new course is being developed in collaboration with the College of Science. Demand for engineers with knowledge of biology is growing rapidly, fueled by environmental concerns and by growth in the biomedical and health care industries. Engineering skills ranging from design of micro robots to pattern recognition and large-scale data analysis are of crucial importance in these areas. This course introduces cells as robust complex networks of genes and proteins and adopts a systems view to discuss communication of cells with other cells and with the external environment. The proposed text is New Biology for Engineers and Computer Scientists, by Tozeren, A., Byers, S.W. (2004). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Pearson Education Inc. ISBN:0-13-066463-4.

Engineering Economics – This existing course, EGN 4600, was developed recently for our new program in Geomatics Engineering. It is a practice oriented course presenting a wide variety of engineering economic analyses. Topics presented include the time value of money; measurement of the worth of capital investments; break-even, sensitivity, and risk analyses; the comparison of investment alternatives; taxes and depreciation; and basic cost accounting concepts. The text is Engineering Economic Analysis, Ninth Edition by Newman, D.G., Eschenbach, T.G., Lavelle, J.P. (2004). New York, New York, Oxford University Press. ISBN:0-19-516807-0.

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Green Engineering – This new course, which builds upon key strategic initiatives of the College, currently is being developed. The course introduces the concept of sustainable design as a necessary tool for producing places, products and services in a way that reduces the use of non-renewable resources, minimizes environmental impact, and relates people with the natural environment. Tools such as life cycle assessment and life cycle energy analysis will be introduced as appropriate means to judge the environmental impact or sustainability of various design choices. The proposed text is Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science, Third Edition by, Masters, G.M., Ela, W.P. (2008). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN:0-13-601837-8, with additional material included from Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by McDonough, W., Braungart, M. (2002), New York, New York, North Point Press. ISBN:0-86547-587-3.

Leadership Development Workshops – This sequence of workshops is based on the well tested Professional Development Workshops we developed and have delivered for eight years as part of the Students to Engineering Practice (STEP) program. These will be refinements of the existing courses, EGN 3937 and EGN 4937, with continued heavy reliance on outside speakers and facilitators, team exercises and projects, and special assignments. Our plan is to hold these sessions in an FAU TV studio and record them for future reference.

Enrichment Experience – This is intended to be a distinctly collaborative effort between an individual student, the University through the Center for Innovation Leadership, and a University partner providing the enrichment experience. The effort starts with an appropriate proposal agreed to by all parties that defines the scope of work to be accomplished and a schedule for completion of the effort. Proposed deviations from the original proposal will have to be negotiated by the collaborating parties. The first of these experiences would be offered in Summer, 2011. This course is available to all Engineering and Computer Science students but will be a requirement of only the Honors students, S/U grading.

Innovation & Entrepreneurship – This new course replaces the existing Senior Design I course, EGN 4410C. It presents the core issues involved in the decision to pursue an entrepreneurial vision. The first part of the class addresses the creativity, critical thinking and innovation necessary to generate new places, products, or services as well as how to evaluate the true opportunities. Next, the need to handle issues including risk versus return, business structure, and intellectual property is explored. Thirdly, operational and organizational issues such as marketing and sales will be presented. Fourthly, the financial plan, exit strategy, and funding opportunities are covered. Finally, student teams develop and present to potential sponsors a proposal for a venture funded team project. The proposed text is Dorf, R.C. and Byers, T.H., (2008), Technology Ventures From Idea to Enterprise, Second Edition, New York, New York, McGraw-Hill, Chapters 1 – 10.

Venture-Funded Team Project – This new course replaces the existing Senior Design II course. It provides the opportunity for student teams to implement their proposals developed in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship course. Results are presented in written reports and through oral presentations to project sponsors and a broad audience of other interested individuals. The course covers Chapters 11 – 20 of the text for the preceding Innovation and Entrepreneurship course.

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