An Online Academic Course
About the Course
An online, asynchronous course designed for an interdisciplinary academic environment.
Previous knowledge and/or experience in design is not required in this course.
An online, asynchronous course designed for an interdisciplinary academic environment.
Previous knowledge and/or experience in design is not required in this course.
Bachelor students from the Hebrew University, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and Azrieli College of Engineering will co-learn core design methodologies that can be implemented in product and venture creation processes.
The learning process in the course is built in a structure that brings together theory and real world practice.
The course emphasizes engineering tools and knowledge relevant to innovation, entrepreneurship, the future of work and to the future career paths of the students in general. The course does not require prior engineering knowledge.
This is the third and final course in the series of JLM impact online courses- we invite you to learn all of them, however, it is not a prerequisite.
Course details
Attendance
The course is digital and asynchronous, with content being updated on a weekly basis. Therefore, there will be no roll call and there is no attendance requirement.
Language
The course will be taught in English with subtitles in Hebrew and Arabic, in order to empower participants to understand and use the language most frequently used in the world of innovation. The course is admissible as an elective course taught in English, subject to the approval of your academic institution and faculty.
Assignments
All course assignments will be completed online: asynchronous digital tasks, forums, exams and the final assignment presentation.
Participation
While there is no attendance requirement, course participants must complete all teaching units, hand in all assignments on time and participate in conversation groups to complete the course.
Grading
Exams and ongoing activities - 20%
Participation in conversation groups (including forums and collaboration boards) - 20%
Course assignments - 35%
Final assignment - 25%
Course Objectives
Expose the students to the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship via the scope of the engineering perspective.
Highlight the relevance and importance of these fields to the students’ everyday life and future careers.
Introduce the students to the skill set needed for innovation and entrepreneurship processes from the engineering perspective, including experimentation in its uses.
Providing the perspective of entrepreneurs and investors in planning, design, implementing and managing a venture from idea to an established entity.
Course Content
- Introduction
Inventive thinking
Project assessment and diagnosis
- Disruptive innovation
- Proof of concept
Creation of prototype
Makers lab
- The founders’ dilemmas
- Building the team
- Risk management, Debrief
- Project management
- The investors perspective
- The entrepreneurship process for a personal perspective
- The future world
- Summary
- The final assignment
Team
Lecturer
Dr. Kobi Inbar
Head, Uzi Wexler Graduate Program in Technological Entrepreneurship. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Azrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem
Sharon Levite-Vaknin
Academic director ASPER - HUJI Innovate,
the Hebrew University Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Course Content Committee
Dr. Alex Kelerman, Hillel Stuler, Dr. Kobi Inbar, Michael Mizrahi, Reuven ulmansky, Dr. Roni Horowitz, Sharon Levite-Vaknin, Shmulik Ravid
Teaching Assistant
Gal Faians
Academic management
Sharon Levite-Vaknin, Academic manager of JLM IMPACT
Production and Pedagogical Design
Boaz Mermelstein
Art Director
Sonja Olitzky
About us
The Consortium was founded to encourage researchers and students to walk the paths of innovation and entrepreneurship and to foster an innovative-entrepreneurial ecosystem in Jerusalem. Together, the Consortium harnesses the power of science, design and engineering to impact a positive change on Jerusalem, Israel and the world.
Contact
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2 Academic Credits
13 Online Lessons
Be innovative
in your own time
on your own terms
