engineering innovation - electronic
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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
More at tinyurl.com/graybell
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 john@bresl.in
Phone 0 to pay bobby
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