T 9:30-11, 26-210 and R 9:30-11, 26-210 and 36-372
Profs. Charles Leiserson, NE43-202, x5833 and David Mindell, E51-191, x0221
Prereq.: 6.033, 6.011, 6.012, 6.013, 6.014, or permission of instructor
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What makes the difference between normal new ideas and radical technological change? What determines the success or failure of a project, laboratory, or company? How do research projects turn into new products? Using a case-history approach, this subject analyzes engineers in action and how they make innovations into major new technologies.
Students research the life cycle of a major engineering project or startup company from a variety of different perspectives: technical, economic, political, and cultural. Research involves interviewing inventors, reading laboratory notebooks, evaluating patents, visiting development labs, and looking over the shoulders of engineers as they developed today's technologies.
The class is oriented toward students who are interested in entrepreneurship and product development and who realize that technical proficiency alone is only part of the formula for technological success.
Credit toward a Course VI Engineering Concentration requirement will be awarded if the student has taken the corresponding EC header course and does a relevant term project.
Enrollment is restricted to 30 students.
Same subject as STS185.
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Created: Aug 6, 1997
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Modified: Oct 13, 1997|
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