Spring 2025

Leaders in diverse disciplines, industries and the arts present and discuss problems facing society and critique real-world projects that challenge the concept of innovation.

Techniques, methods, concepts, tools, and materials that are used to quickly visualize and communicate ideas and develop problem-solving skills.

Basics of industry-standard creative, analytical and presentation software. Applications include design, illustration, presentation and publishing.

Basics of industry standard software for motion graphics, visual effects, animation design, generative art and interactive visual experiences.

Critical approaches to social and cultural changes stemming from disruptive innovations in the arts, science, technology, communications, new media, politics and business. Open only to Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation students.

Employing a case-study methodology, students analyze the artistic, technological, and entrepreneurial factors and address the conceptual, ethical, and logistical issues that lead to disruptive innovation.

Investigation of a range of tools and techniques specific to intermediate CAD design and design improvements, focused on the ideation and development of new products.

Analysis of forces acting on particles and rigid bodies in static equilibrium; equivalent systems of forces; friction; centroids and moments of inertia; introduction to energy methods.

Stress, strain and deflection of mechanical elements due to tension, shear, bending, or torsion; combined loads; plates, shells, statically indeterminate structures; strength-based design, trusses.

Examines cultural institutions, ideologies, artifacts, and productions; role of culture in everyday life; cultural studies as methodology; culture and power.

Students design and develop live immersive experiences in a variety of mediums including AR, VR and small- to large-scale interactive environments.

Introduction to artificial intelligence and machine learning through programming models, training models with several methodologies, support vector machines, decision trees, ensemble learning and random forests.

Introductory course in learning how to design physical products, including the processes for determining consumer need, market opportunity and competitive product analysis.

Introductions to various health innovations, including pathways, technology, techniques and outcomes. A framework for innovation in healthcare and overview of tools for health innovators.

The design of interactive interfaces for data systems and simulations; introduction to business intelligence, data engineering, web development and user experience design.

Web page design and creation, web objects, scripting and interactivity. Includes developing skills to design and build interactive websites.

Designing elegant and powerful graphic user interfaces for interacting with visual displays of quantitative information.

Experience-based solutions for the design of digital and physical environments, and the development of entertaining, informational and inspirational interactions based on human behavior.

Exploring issues in innovation, design and invention from the perspective of the hacker imagination.

Concepts of computer-aided design in 2-dimensions and 3-dimensions. Creating advanced parts using extrusions, surfaces, and equation driven sketches. Forming assemblies, and sub-assemblies, for motion analysis

An in-depth look at the art, politics, and cultural impact of several Japanese filmmakers including Isao Takahata, Hayao Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon, Mamoru Hosoda and Makoto Shinkai.

Fundamental concepts, techniques, practices, workflows, and tools associated with the practice of user experience and interaction design in web and mobile applications.

Mechanical behavior of metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites. Structure-process-property relationships. Mechanical testing, stress-strain relationships, microstructural characteristics and analysis. Material failure (fracture, fatigue, creep) and degradation.

Introduction to tools and methods for the design, production, and delivery of goods and services. Techniques for planning, monitoring, and controlling complex projects. Not available for degree or major credit for business and accounting majors. Duplicates credit in BUAD 311 and BUAD 313.

Introduction to the Swift programming language, various frameworks, and design patterns needed to develop applications for iOS mobile devices such as iPhones and iPads.

A professional, collaborative and multidisciplinary consulting approach to diagnosing problems and applying design-based solutions on behalf of organizations.

Data structures in C++ including vectors, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, hash tables, graphs, and parallelism.

Students explore the theoretical and practical issues involved in designing effective media and communication projects for social change.

Oral and written communication skills demanded in the workplace including informative and persuasive speeches; interviewing; team communication; and training material preparation. Recommended preparation: COMM 204

Learn the playbook for how to architect authentic communities and why it is fundamental to building a loyal following and scaling a business.

Topics include Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, RESTful APIs, Object Relational Mapping (ORM), testing, and Node.js, an asynchronous server-side alternative using JavaScript.

An accelerated approach to object-oriented programming, including foundations of applications for devices, with a focus on user interface design.

An experiential/academic opportunity in an arts, technology and business related facility. Written analysis, evaluation, and working internship.

Examine web applications from an offensive security standpoint. Topics include information gathering, vulnerability discovery and validation, exploitation and privilege escalation techniques.

Insights from health devices and enabling software; applying concepts from big data, machine learning and Al to Lifecare data.

Health innovation collaborative capstone project; ideating, prototyping and evaluating a health innovation prototype driven by an industry-based or community-based prompt/project.

Understanding of bringing a product to market via licensing through the process of determining consumer pain points, competitive analysis, marketability, feasibility and supporting business model.

Hands-on approach to the fundamental modeling techniques and machine learning algorithms that enable students to build robust predictive models of real-world data and test their validity.

How firms in different industries manage strategic innovation for competitive advantage. Analysis of industry dynamics. Crafting and implementing innovation strategy.

Continuation of ACAD 475a. Students refine and perfect outcomes, leading to a pitch/presentation to faculty and industry experts for funding or validation, and critical networking.

Technologies, concepts and strategies in the emerging online advertising ecosystem. Strategies and tactics to drive traffic to a website and measure efficacy. Students will work with a real client and budget to craft and execute an online marketing plan.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Comprehensive exploration of particular aspects of art, technology and the business of innovation.

Introduction to branding; brand design and development of a brand identity; brand attributes; visual aspects; social and ethical implications; curation of brand identity.

The intersection of fashion and extended reality in digital fashion design, retail and showcasing experiences and production of sharable and co-creative art.

Overview of modern XR programming practices; 3D UX, physics forces, animations, behaviors, visual effects and spatial audio; advancements in XR hardware and software APIs.

Data sources, statistical techniques for mining useful information across industries and the design of innovative data applications.

Human intelligence; machine learning; augmentation of human intelligence through machine learning; and the development of augmented intelligence systems.

Develop the capacity to found, run and scale a fashion business. Work with industry partners to engage problems and needs in their market segment.