Burt Swersey has been teaching design and problem solving courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for the past for the past 16 years. His courses include Inventor's Studio (a capstone design course), Introduction To Engineering Design and Studio One of Product Design and Innovation, which combines the study of engineering and the humanities.
Prior to his role at RPI, Swersey spent 25 years starting and running 4 medical equipment companies. He holds over 15 US patents.
Burt Swersey is a graduate of Cornell University.
I guess that creativity is not enough. I thought originally that if you ... you can teach some techniques for creativity that that would lead to you know... to innovations and to products and so on and I think that's just not enough. That's only really a small part of it. You certainly need to be...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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