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Teaching
Grad Course Teaches Students How to Help Bring Products to Market
The New Product Design & Business Development (NPDBD) program is a graduate course jointly offered by ME, the Carlson School of Management, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering with the goal of acquiring hands-on experience in new product development, technology management, and business creation, all at once.
In this course, teams of six students — half engineering, half business — work with a faculty coach and a company representative to develop a working prototype product and accompanying business. The course benefits both students and companies: it gives students the opportunity to learn the knowledge and skills it takes to develop a product and bring it to market, and it helps companies move their product from idea to successful launch.
Stryker ENT Project Team, 2022-2023
Students worked with local medical device company Styker on a new way to manage severe nose bleeds.
Photo credit: UMN OVPR.
A Capstone Impact
When asked about his time at the U, Lectric eBikes co-founder Robby Deziel (ME ’18) noted the mechanical engineering senior design capstone. “That experience was super beneficial to me, and the closest thing to how it actually is out there in the real world.” Deziel was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2021, and he continues to help lead the company to even greater success.
Find his story in the fall 2023 CSE magazine, Inventing Tomorrow, out soon.
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