Strategies for Smartly Infusing Design, Innovations, and Analysis for Enhancing Research and Student Projects: A Case Study

This innovative practice full paper presents an innovative faculty development program to train the faculty in the design, innovation, and analysis process. Design, Innovation, and Analysis form the most important aspects of Engineering study to enable the students to attain the set graduate attributes. Teaching complex topics like design and innovation to the students continues to be a very challenging task for inexperienced faculty members. One needs to undergo the process of design, innovation, and analysis to really learn them. This paper presents a case study of a specially designed highly interactive Faculty Development Program (FDP) that trains the faculty members in design, innovation, and analysis in enhancing engineering research and to teach design and innovation to their students.