Discover Design & Innovation at Penn

Get your IPD Certificate!

The Integrated Product Design (IPD) certificate is designed to complement Penn students’ graduate experience. It opens the door to roles and opportunities within their primary fields that are related to innovation and the design of new products and experiences.

Students enrolled in the certificate will be exposed to design thinking, have the opportunity to design at different scales and scopes, prototype and iterate distinct executions of their ideas, address manufacturing concerns, design enabling technologies, consider the implications of financial models on their product design, and develop business strategies.

 

Mack institute for innovation management

The Mack Institute for Innovation Management joins rigorous research with practical applications to help established firms navigate the risks and rewards of innovation.

We are the hub of a global learning network for scholars, business leaders, and students. Each year, we host several major conferences and workshops; fund MBA, PhD, and faculty research; and sponsor student initiatives relating to innovation and emerging technologies.

 
 

Penn Center for Innovation

Every day, research activities at Penn result in exciting scientific breakthroughs and technological advances that have commercial potential. PCI’s goal is to work in partnership with Penn faculty, staff and students to advance these discoveries and ideas towards new products, services and/or businesses that provide benefits back to Penn, its inventors and society.

 
 

Center for healthcare innovation

The Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation facilitates the rapid, disciplined development, testing and implementation of new strategies to reimagine health care delivery for dramatically better value and patient outcomes. We currently focus our work in five areas: Making people healthier, Bringing care into people's lives , Reducing the cost of health care , Enabling and accelerating innovation , Encouraging and catalyzing others 

 
 

PENNOVATION

The Pennovation Works is a unique blend of offices, labs, and production space being developed by The University of Pennsylvania to bridge the intellectual and entrepreneurial initiatives for advancing knowledge and generating economic development.

The Pennovation Center is a business incubator and laboratory that aligns and integrates researchers, innovators, and entrepreneurs for the commercialization of research discoveries. Intended to marry entrepreneurs with an expert workforce and scientifically advanced facilities, key features of the Pennovation Center are the common creative spaces, including coworking areas, a cafe, and a venue for events and programs.

 
 

WEISS TECH HOUSE INNOVATION FUND

The Weiss Tech House Innovation Fund is a student-run, mini-venture capital fund that offers non-dilutive funding to student-founded Penn startups. We provide current Penn founders — across all of the university’s undergraduate and graduate schools — with funding amounts ranging from $500 – $2,000, depending on their specific needs, to develop their innovative ideas. Take the first step and apply here!

 
 

TEDXPENN

TEDxPenn was founded in 2010 by students to spark powerful ideas within the vibrant University of Pennsylvania community. Live speakers and TEDTalks videos will combine to inspire deep discussion and connection in a small group. We aim to foster an environment for spreading ideas. In turn, we hope that the Penn community will be challenged by the TEDxPenn experience to create a positive impact for the world. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.

 
 

SINGH CENTER FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY

The Singh Center is a next-generation nanotechnology center that merges traditional approaches to nanoscale development with unique state-of-the-art equipment, materials and ideas. With a focus on innovation, the Singh Center is a hub for scientists and researchers that integrates state-of-the-art nanofabrication and nanocharacterization equipment to define new frontiers in nanotechnology. The Center boasts expert and experienced faculty and staff who are committed to the success of its users and interested in new approaches to realizing and implementing nanotechnology applications

 
 

franklin sp2 social innovation prize

The Center for High Impact Philanthropy and Penn’s School of Social Policy and Practice are proud to present the inaugural Franklin SP2 Social Innovation Prize. The Franklin Prize is a cash prize awarded to the team of students that best develops the most promising and innovative project addressing an issue area in the SP2 Penn Top 10. On May 12, the six teams presented their projects in a live pitch competition held at the Pennovation Center, and the winner was decided by our panel of esteemed experts in the social innovation, impact and justice worlds.

 

Learn more about our unique course offering across schools

...spanning across business, engineering, computer science, product development, and design and more.

Business (OIDD, MKTG, MGMT)

  • OIDD 614 Innovation

  • OIDD 652 Design & Dev. of Web-Based Products and Services (SF Only)

  • OIDD 654 Product Design and Development

  • MKTG 753 New Product Management

  • MKTG 755 Advertising Management

  • MKTG 728 Contagious: How Products, Ideas and Behaviors Catch On

  • MKTG 775 Managing Customer Value

  • MKTG 793 Retailing

  • MKTG 892 Creativity

  • MKTG 896 Retail Merchandising

  • MGMT 801 Entrepreneurship

  • MGMT 806 Formation & Implement

  • MGMT 810 Social Entrepreneurship

  • MGMT 811 Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition

  • MGMT 937 Entrep Research Seminar

  • FNCE 750 Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation

  • LGST 213 The Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship

Engineering (EAS, MEAM, ESE)

  • EAS 545 Eng Entrepreneurship I

  • EAS 102 Product Engineering Basics

  • EAS 449 Prod Dev/Entrep Ventures

  • EAS 546 Eng Entrepreneurship II

  • EAS 590 Commercializing Tech

  • MEAM 101 Introduction To Mechanical Design

  • MEAM 201 Machine Design and Manufacturing

  • MEAM 415 Product Design

  • MEAM 510 Design of Mechatronic Systems

  • MEAM-520 Intro To Robotics

  • MEAM-091 Shop Tr: Manual Milling

  • MEAM-092 Shop Tr: Manual Turning

  • MEAM-093 Shop Tr: Hybrid Milling

  • MEAM-094 Tr: Cnc Milling/Solidcam

  • MEAM-095 Shop Tr: Cnc Turning

  • ESE 505 Control Of Systems

Computer Science (CIS)

  • CIS 110 Intro To Comp Prog

  • CIS 195 Iphone App Development

  • CIS 196 Ruby On Rails

  • CIS 520 Machine Learning

  • CIS 580 Machine Perception

  • CIS 581 Comp Vision&Cmptnl Photo

  • CIS 560 Computer Graphics

  • CIS 562 Computer Animation

  • CIS 568 Game Design Practicum

Integrated Product Design

  • IPD 501 Integrated Computer-Aided Design, Manufacturing and Analysis

  • IPD 509 Needfinding

  • IPD 514 Design for Manufacturability

  • IPD 515 Product Design

  • IPD 527 Industrial Design I

  • IPD 528 Design of Contemporary Products

  • IPD 544 Digital Fabrication

  • IPD 545 Engineering Entrepreneurship I

  • IPD 552 Problem Framing

  • IPD 562 IPD Theories/Methods II

Fine Arts

  • FNAR 523 Drawing I

  • FNAR 550 Intro to Printmaking

  • FNAR 566 Graphic Design with Creative Technologies

  • FNAR 571 Intro To Photography

  • FNAR 580 Figure Drawing I

  • FNAR 589 Mixed Media Animation

  • FNAR 633 Digital Illustration

  • FNAR 634 Art of the Web

  • FNAR 635 3-D Computer Modeling

  • FNAR 637 Information Design and Visualization

  • FNAR 640 Digital Photography

  • FNAR 646 Advanced 3D Modeling

  • FNAR 661 Video I

  • FNAR 662 Video II

Architecture

  • ARCH 502 Design Studio II

  • ARCH 522 Visual Studies II

  • ARCH 536 Structures II

  • ARCH 724 Technology in Design: Data and Adaptation

  • ARCH 728 Design of Contemporary Products

  • ARCH 744 Digital Fabrications

Other

  • ANTH SM 586 Desire and Demand

  • COMM SM 216. Big Data and Social Research.

  • COMM SM 332. (PSCI332) Survey Research and Design.

  • DYNM SM 551. Devil's Advocate: Power of Divergent Thinking.

  • DYNM SM 602. Leader-Manager as Coach.

  • DYNM SM 610. Knowing Yourself: The Coach as an Instrument of Change.

  • DYNM SM 618. Strategic Crowdsourcing and Business Models 2.0.

  • DYNM SM 615. Pennovation.

  • DYNM SM 621. Managing Project Portfolios

  • DYNM SM 637. Creating High-Performing Groups and Teams: A Course in Real-Time Experiential Learning.

  • DYNM SM 651. Group and Team Dynamics.

  • DYNM SM 662. Entrepreneurship and Leadership: Creating Winners.

  • DYNM SM 666. Systems and Design Thinking.

  • DYNM SM 673. Stories in Organizations: Tools for Executive Development.

  • DYNM SM 677. Human Capital and Human Nature: Sources of Creativity and Innovation.

  • DYNM SM 692. Innovation in Organizations.

  • ENVS SM 617. Innovative Environmental Management Strategies.

  • ENVS SM 664. Sustainable Design.

  • SOCI SM 553. (URBS553) Field Methods in Qualitative Research