Outline:

This workshop aims to introduce broad areas of design innovation and creative problem solving. The emphasis will be on methodologies like TRIZ, systematic Innovation and Technology Forecasting.

Course content:

Brief introduction to Systematic Innovation:

a. Objectives and context

b. Main obstacles to innovation

c. Why traditional approaches to innovation are not suitable anymore

Inventive Design and Problem Solving

a. Essential concepts of TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving)

i. Patterns of Engineering Systems Evolution

ii. Overcoming Contradictions as the mechanism behind technical evolution

iii. Applications for product and process innovation, patent circumvention, failure prevention development

Q&A, summary and conclusions .

Design Department at IIT Hyderabad is organising a TEQIP 3-day workshop on "Design Innovation and Creative Problem Solving" exclusively for colleges registered as TEQIP colleges.

Date and Time

Dates: Jan 15-17, 2015

Last Date for Registration

Dates: Jan 5, 2015

Venue:

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Ordinance factory Estate, Yeddumailaram - 502205