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Laboratories Swanson Center for Product InnovationThe development of the New Product Incubator is one of the new and exciting initiatives within the University of Pittsburgh Industrial Engineering department. This innovative collection of laboratories will provide students with in-depth new product design and development experience. Our research goals are to establish new paradigms in the new product development process using these laboratories that are unique and unmatched. Our educational goal is to instill in students an entrepreneurial spirit by providing 'real-time' design experiences using the modern technology and methodologies. With the Incubator, students will be able to participate in a comprehensive learning experience, in which they will go from product conception to design, prototype development, and finally production. Further, the complexity of the product development exercises will necessitate students working in teams that cross disciplinary boundaries, bringing together engineering students from the nine Engineering departments and programs with students from the College of Business. The New Product Incubator closely ties together three otherwise distinct laboratories that parallel the new product's developmental lifecycle of design, prototyping, and manufacturing:
Two of its component laboratories have been developed with generous support from the Whitaker and W. M. Keck Foundations, and the third laboratory will be established in the next few weeks with funding from the Kresge Foundation. Applicable courses to the New Product Incubator:
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