Engineering Innovation - Electronic

Engineering innovation - electronic

An overview

In a nutshell,creating engineers with...

• The ability to design and innovate

• The Skills to discern what end users want

• better business knowledge

• A strong, underlying knowledge of electronic engineering

Three strands: tied together

1. Electronic engineering

2. Business + finance

3. Innovation + design

• Run in parallel

• Benefit each other

electronics

are exploding!

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Many, many ubiquitous devices

...But what makes one electronic productsucceed and another product fail?

...ipod vs. zune, vhs vs. betamax

That spark of inspiration

• Balancing ultimate functionality against necessity, user acceptance

• Being a good businessperson as well as a good engineer

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Elisha gray vs. alexander bell

• Gray and graham bell invented the

telephone around the same time

• Bell entered the history books due to

his patenting knowledge and business savvy

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From engineers to managers

• Mike conroy, general manager, ciscogalway

• Brian o'donovan, director of ibm centre for advanced studies

• Charlie cahill, ceo of blue tree systems

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Teaching business to engineers

engineers as future leaders

Its easier to teach business skills to engineering students than it is to teach science, engineering and technology skills to business students

Barry o'leary,ceo, ida ireland

This new degree programme [...] is most welcome from [a foreign direct

investment] perspective as it combines the three vital competencies [that] will be most attractive to global investors,

especially in the rapidly emerging spaces of convergence, innovation and

commercialisation

Kathryn D'arcy,Director, ICT Ireland, IBEC

This course will help students to develop skills and capabilities to either start-up their own company or to help stimulate and support innovation and growth in

many of the existing technology companies based in Ireland

Feargal o morain,dir. innovation, enterprise ireland

This course will instil confidence

in young engineers and provide

them with the skills they need to

become tomorrow's entrepreneurs

Sharon Higgins,Director, Irish med. Devices Assoc.

This programme [...] is a very appropriate response as Ireland starts the process of innovating itself out of recession through the smart economy

James j. browne, nui galway

Whether as entrepreneurs or in medium and large engineering companies, the

graduates of this programme will become key drivers of the digital economy

neb innovation room proposal

Design, innovate Hot stuff

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Ipad

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Augmented reality

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Mobile technology

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the sky's the limit

For more info or to arrange a f2f

Email [email protected]

Phone 0 to pay bobby

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