Unit 1: Engineering Foundations - Next Generation Workforce
Students will understand technical drawing as the language of industry and identify how it is used in society.
Essential Questions: by the end of this unit, students will think about:
Unit 2: Innovative vs Innovate
Students will understand how to convey information through sketching and understand the need for different types of sketching.
Essential Questions: by the end of this unit, students will think about:
1. Competitive advantage: Your innovation should provide a unique competitive position for the enterprise in the marketplace;
2. Business alignment: The differentiating factors of your innovation should be conceptualized around the key strategic focus of the enterprise and its goals;
3. Customers: Knowing the customers who will benefit from your innovation is paramount;
4. Execution: Identifying resources, processes, risks, partners and suppliers and the ecosystem in the market for succeeding in the innovation is equally important;
5. Business value: Assessing the value (monetary, market size, etc.) of the innovation and how the idea will bring that value into the organization is a critical underlying factor in selecting which idea to pursue.