Innovative Green Product Development for Habitat

This was a full cross-disciplinary, university wide thematic course where the students get a chance to be more than interns. It was open to any discipline and major at TTU through the Honors Program in support of QEP Initiatives.

The overall objective of the course was to develop QEP skills in terms of critical thinking, creativity and teamwork. It was a project based course involving the topics in 4M (Marketing, Management, Math and Manufacturing) and STEM.

This course was patterned after the show “The Apprentice” but no one was “fired”. First, the students were matched up into teams which contain at least one major from each discipline. Second, the teams were given the task to invent/design a new product which would be environmentally friendly, construct a cost analysis of the product staying in line with the theme of environmentally friendly, and create a marketing plan for the product. Their client was Habitat for Humanity. The purpose was to link QEP objectives, the community, and green technology. The task of the faculty was to instruct the students in how to manage a team, where to find necessary resources for research and development, and to keep them on task.

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