Students will collaborate with each other using creative approaches to address complex real-world challenges. You will develop skills for interdisciplinary teamwork, problem-solving, and idea testing through hands-on experiences and guided discussions and reflections. By the end, you will form a multidisciplinary team of co-innovators ready to design a solution to a well-defined, real-world problem.

Student teams will refine their grand challenge solutions with feedback from mentors, design testing frameworks, and analyze results to guide decision-making. They will explore advanced marketing strategies, craft compelling messages and apply insights from successful campaigns to enhance project visibility. Additionally, the course emphasizes the necessary communication skills for conveying goals and outcomes alongside insights into revenue models for sustainable financial viability. By the end of this course, students will have designed a Minimum Viable Product

Tackling the increasingly complex Grand Challenges of our time requires innovative solutions, leveraging the creativity of innovators from diverse disciplines.Throughout the semester, you will develop the skills and mindsets needed for collaborating on multidisciplinary teams, understanding and defining complex problems, and rapidly testing ideas for desirability and feasibility. You'll engage in active learning - participating in hands-on experiences, followed by guided discussions and reflections that will help you learn from and with your peers. By the end of the course, you will assemble a multidisciplinary team of co-innovators ready to design a solution to a well-defined, real-world problem. This course is for graduate students accepted into xFoundry's Xperience: xfoundry.umd.edu/programs/programs