For more than a half-century Stanford University's ME310 | Global Engineering Design Innovation course has focused on building solutions that anticipate the future. The course teaches Stanford's approach to technology development and user experience design for products and systems that break new ground and uncover new market opportunities. 

ME310 immerses students in a real-world, engineering design experience in the spirit of a Silicon Valley start-up, managing the uncertainty inherent in entrepreneurial design. Teams of 3-4 Stanford graduate students partner with similar teams at international universities for a global perspective. Design challenges are frequently at the human interface – to robots, transportation devices, manufacturing, or medical technologies – and frequently have an Internet of Things (IoT) technical component. In ME310A teams integrate corporate and market context, user definitions and need-finding, research on competing technologies, and focused early prototyping to deliver a proposal for detailed designs in ME310BC.