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Innovation Hub & Open R&D Department

The Innovation Hub & Open R&D Department builds the practical capability to turn interdisciplinary collaboration and rapid prototyping into breakthrough geoscience innovations. Students run design-thinking workshops, ideation sprints, and proof-of-concept development in dedicated makerspace and prototyping facilities as hands-on projects, graduating with a track record of working across disciplinary boundaries to translate ideas into testable prototypes.

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Field-based Curriculum · 16

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Design Thinking & Human-Centered Design
Design Thinking & Human-Centered Design
By running the empathy–ideation–prototyping–testing cycle themselves, students a…
Robert H. McKim
Brainstorming & Structured Ideation
Brainstorming & Structured Ideation
Teaching the procedural rules of brainstorming and their psychological rationale…
Alex Faickney Osborn
Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ)
Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ)
Teaching TRIZ's repeating patterns and contradiction-resolution principles deriv…
Creativity & Divergent Thinking Psychology
Creativity & Divergent Thinking Psychology
The course teaches the theory and instruments of creativity measurement centred …
J. P. Guilford
Lean Production & Lean Innovation Origins
Lean Production & Lean Innovation Origins
Teaching Toyota's waste-elimination philosophy and its two pillars of just-in-ti…
Taiichi Ohno
Skunk Works & Rapid Prototyping Culture
Skunk Works & Rapid Prototyping Culture
Through cases and practicum, the course teaches the design principles of Skunk W…
Kelly Johnson
Industrial Research Laboratory Model
Industrial Research Laboratory Model
The course teaches the history and organisational design principles of the indus…
Charles F. Kettering
Innovation Diffusion & Adoption Forecasting
Innovation Diffusion & Adoption Forecasting
Centred on the Bass diffusion model, the course teaches how to project and forec…
Frank Bass
Maker Culture, DIY Fabrication & Design Science
Maker Culture, DIY Fabrication & Design Science
Linking Fuller's comprehensive anticipatory design science to today's maker prac…
Buckminster Fuller
User-Centered Design & Human Factors Engineering
User-Centered Design & Human Factors Engineering
The course teaches human factors engineering, feeding measured physical and perc…
Henry Dreyfuss
Systems Engineering for Complex Innovation
Systems Engineering for Complex Innovation
The course teaches systems-engineering methodology for complex-system developmen…
Arthur David Hall III
Quality Function Deployment & Voice of Customer
Quality Function Deployment & Voice of Customer
By building the QFD chain of matrices themselves, students gain planning compete…
Yoji Akao
Total Quality Management & Kaizen/Continuous Improvement
Total Quality Management & Kaizen/Continuous Improvement
Under the principle that quality is produced by the whole organisation rather th…
Kaoru Ishikawa
Value Analysis / Value Engineering
Value Analysis / Value Engineering
Teaching value analysis/engineering, which defines value as function over cost, …
Lawrence D. Miles
Operations Research & the Systems Approach to Innovation
Operations Research & the Systems Approach to Innovation
Pairing operations research models with Churchman's systems approach, the course…
C. West Churchman
Organizational Learning & Reflective Practice
Organizational Learning & Reflective Practice
Teaching Schön's reflective practice and Argyris's organisational learning theor…
Donald Schön