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'Making For Innovation' Will Be First Class At Nic [Nebraska Innovation Campus], Troy Fedderson
'Making For Innovation' Will Be First Class At Nic [Nebraska Innovation Campus], Troy Fedderson
Nebraska Innovation Studio
'Making for Innovation' will be first class at Nebraska Innovation Campus.
A new course will allow up to thirty students to get hands-on experience and help launch the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Maker Space in the spring semester.
The course, "Making for Innovation," will be the first to meet at Nebraska Innovation Studio — formerly the UNL Maker Space — on Nebraska Innovation Campus (http://innovate.unl.edu). Shane Farritor, Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and Liana Owad, Maker Space Coordinator, will guide the class.
A New Course Offered At Nebraska Innovation Studio On Nebraska Innovation Campus, Nebraska Innovation Campus
A New Course Offered At Nebraska Innovation Studio On Nebraska Innovation Campus, Nebraska Innovation Campus
Nebraska Innovation Studio
A new course offered at Nebraska Innovation Studio on Nebraska Innovation Campus.
In spring semester 2014, Shane Farritor, PhD, and Liana Owad, MFA, taught “Making for Innovation” which covered techniques used to bring ideas to reality. This was the first class to meet at Nebraska Innovation Studio – the UNL makerspace – located on Nebraska Innovation Campus.
The course was built on two basic ideas. The first, that building and hands-on problem solving are important paths to innovation. The act of building prototypes and physical models leads to improved creative thinking and is in important path to the conception of …
[Shane] Farritor, Student Group Help Propel Maker Space Concept, Troy Fedderson
[Shane] Farritor, Student Group Help Propel Maker Space Concept, Troy Fedderson
Nebraska Innovation Studio
Shane Farritor, student group help propel Maker Space concept.
A quiet staging area for ongoing NIC construction, the space is reservedfor a proposed Maker Space and the private/public research campus’ new business accelerator. NIC planners and UNL administrators hope the mix bubbles forth into a cauldron of hands-on creativity and innovation.
“That is an area of Nebraska Innovation Campus that is generating a lot of excitement,” said Dan Duncan, NIC’s executive director. “The general idea is to create the Maker Space where individuals can come to work on projects and interact with others, including people who are in a business …