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How do we build our students 21st century skills through maker-based courses?

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At the Sherman Center for Engineering Entrepreneurship Education at Northeastern, we offer a program of courses in areas identified by our students and external stakeholders to give our students product-centered and maker-based skills. These courses are taught by practitioners from the field rather than standing faculty and are entirely project (not exam) based. Course topics include: creative product design, customer-driven innovation, iterative product prototyping, and product development.

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The Sherman Center for Engineering Entrepreneurship Education at Northeastern offers a program of courses designed to give students the ability to innovate via rigorous need identification, creative design, and prototyping techniques. 

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We offer semester long courses in customer-driven innovation, creative product design, iterative product prototyping, and product development.  This set of courses is intended to cover the continuum between identification of a need/problem, definition of a solution, design of a product based on user needs/preferences, prototyping and testing of the solutions, and finally turning the solution into a product with well-characterized life cycle, supply chain, and cost characteristics.  The four courses are designed to be taken by students from all disciplines who have ideally completed one of the three 6-month co-ops that are included in a typical undergraduate curriculum at Northeastern University.

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Syllabi for these courses are available upon request.

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