Minor in Innovation & Design – Cohort AY2024/2025 – Engineering Design and Innovation Centre

Minor in Innovation & Design: Cohort AY2024/2025

The Minor in Innovation & Design offers students in the Innovation & Design Programme a teaser on basic concepts, methods, and skills that are useful for developing new products, services, and experiences that are of value to stakeholders in real-world problems. It comprises two preparatory courses about user-centred design and value creation in innovation, and culminates in a year-long design project course where students are expected to apply their design knowledge and skills and work together their peers from different disciplines to develop solutions to real problems.

The requirements of the Minor in Innovation & Design are as follows:

Courses	Remarks
Group A – complete ONE of the following: CDE2300 Product Design and Innovation (4 units) CDE2310 Fundamentals of Systems Design (4 units)	Default is CDE2300. Students from College of Design and Engineering and College of Humanities & Sciences should pass the introductory course DTK1234 Design Thinking prior to taking CDE2300. CDE2310 is targeted at students who intend to work on projects in complex engineering systems. These courses can be double-counted toward the cross-disciplinary course requirement for students from School of Computing in Cohort AY2022/2023 onward. For students from other Faculties/Schools and cohorts, these courses are counted as unrestricted electives. These courses should be completed during Year 1 or Year 2.
Group B – complete ONE of the following: CDE2301 Value Creation in Innovation (4 units) CDE2311 Introduction to Space Systems (4 units) CDE2605R Undergraduate Research Experience (4 units) CDE2606B Independent Work (4 units)	Default is CDE2301. CDE2311 is targeted at students who intend to work on satellite-related projects. CDE2605R/CDE2606B can be counted as Group B course for students from College of Design and Engineering who are special competition projects only (e.g. FSAE, Bumblebee, RoboMaster). Counted as unrestricted elective except CDE2605R which can be used to partially fulfil the internship requirement for Engineering majors. These courses should be completed during Year 1 or Year 2.
CDE3301 Ideas to Proof-of-Concept (12 units)	Generally counted as unrestricted elective. This course replaces the design project course in Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Science. Students should clear at least one Group A or Group B course prior to CDE3301. This two-semester course must be completed during one of the following windows: Year 2 Semester 2 to Year 3 Semester 1 Year 3 Semester 2 to Year 4 Semester 1 CDE3301 cannot be read concurrently with credit-bearing internship.

Courses

Remarks

Group A – complete ONE of the following:

- CDE2300 Product Design and Innovation (4 units)
- CDE2310 Fundamentals of Systems Design (4 units)

Default is CDE2300. Students from College of Design and Engineering and College of Humanities & Sciences should pass the introductory course DTK1234 Design Thinking prior to taking CDE2300.

CDE2310 is targeted at students who intend to work on projects in complex engineering systems.

These courses can be double-counted toward the cross-disciplinary course requirement for students from School of Computing in Cohort AY2022/2023 onward. For students from other Faculties/Schools and cohorts, these courses are counted as unrestricted electives.

These courses should be completed during Year 1 or Year 2.

Group B – complete ONE of the following:

- CDE2301 Value Creation in Innovation (4 units)
- CDE2311 Introduction to Space Systems (4 units)
- CDE2605R Undergraduate Research Experience (4 units)
- CDE2606B Independent Work (4 units)

Default is CDE2301.

CDE2311 is targeted at students who intend to work on satellite-related projects.

CDE2605R/CDE2606B can be counted as Group B course for students from College of Design and Engineering who are special competition projects only (e.g. FSAE, Bumblebee, RoboMaster).

Counted as unrestricted elective except CDE2605R which can be used to partially fulfil the internship requirement for Engineering majors.

These courses should be completed during Year 1 or Year 2.

CDE3301 Ideas to Proof-of-Concept (12 units)

Generally counted as unrestricted elective.

This course replaces the design project course in Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Science.

Students should clear at least one Group A or Group B course prior to CDE3301.

This two-semester course must be completed during one of the following windows:

Year 2 Semester 2 to Year 3 Semester 1
Year 3 Semester 2 to Year 4 Semester 1

CDE3301 cannot be read concurrently with credit-bearing internship.

Students are encouraged to complete the Minor by end of Year 3 Semester 1 so that those who desire to upgrade to the Second Major in Innovation & Design may do so by the end of the same semester and have sufficient runway to complete the Second Major in their subsequent semesters.

Click on the links below for more details about the requirements and recommended semester schedules for various primary majors with the Minor in Innovation & Design.

NOTE: Watch this space for updates as the recommended schedules may be revised from time to time.