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Technology and Team Driven Innovation

Overview

Innovative organizations foster an imaginative, efficient, and measured risk-taking environment yielding high-value products that resonate with customers. Those leading these efforts harness creativity and translate ideas into reality. This new certificate program provides technical and professional skills development along with a roadmap for technology-oriented organizations and professionals to drive innovation through teams and enabling technologies in a global marketplace experiencing unprecedented change in a post-COVID world. Designed with guidance from a group of advisors from a broad set of industries, the program focuses on: driving innovation through technology and meaning, efficient and globally shared design processes, product knowledge capture and re-use, individual innovation, leading technical teams and building and maintaining an innovative organization.

Students will also investigate a wide range of breakthrough technologies and innovations, along with solutions to people, process and tools challenges facing today’s technology-oriented organizations. These skills acquired in this program provide individual contributors, management and leadership with the ability to effectively drive market-driven, technical and team-based innovation throughout their organizations.

Who Should Enroll

This program is designed for both technical and non-technical managers, leaders and individual contributors who work in an organization whose products or services have a technical component. This includes products and services in almost every industry including aerospace and defense, automotive, medical equipment, software, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, utilities, technology hardware, communications, energy, transportation, financial technology, and IT departments at any organization. The program is also ideal for technical professionals who are considering management positions as a part of their career aspirations.

Career Insight

Occupational summary for managers. Source: Economic Modeling Specialists Intl.

488,775
Annual Job Openings
(2020)
7.2%
Projected Growth
(2020-2029)
$107k
Median Salary
(Highly experienced workers can earn up to $183k)

Program Benefits

  • Learn effective leadership techniques to managing a diverse spectrum of technical professionals
  • Effectively motivate and manage technical staff for heightened performance and productivity
  • Develop and justify organizational structure and strategies that foster innovation and harness the imagination of every employee
  • Review design-driven product development tools and processes such as Model Based Engineering (MBE) and Digital Twins, Product Lifecycle Development (PLM) and Product Data Management (PDM)
  • Examine a wide variety of innovation-enabling technologies
  • Use both Systems Engineering and Project Management tools and processes
  • Analyze ways to shorten product development cycles using Agile, Hybrid, Kanban, Iterative and spiral methods
  • Strengthen relationships with technical staff
  • Navigate technical and non-technical issues that can cause innovation to fail
  • Use design thinking and create user “stories” to promote new ideas across all levels of the organization

Course Schedule

Required Courses

TitleWinterSpringSummerFall
EECS X410.10
Driving Innovation through Technology and Meaning (2.50 Units)
EECS X410.10
        
EECS X410.11
Systems Engineering and Technical Project Management (2.50 Units)
EECS X410.11
        
EECS X410.12
Innovation and the Technical Professional
EECS X410.12
        
EECS X410.13
Leading Technical Teams
EECS X410.13
        
EECS X410.14
The Innovative Technical Organization
EECS X410.14
        

Course schedules are subject to change. Individual courses may be taken without enrolling in the full program.

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Academic Calendar

Event Fall 2021 Winter 2022 Spring 2022 Summer 2022
Registration Begins (after 2pm PT) Jul 15 Oct 21 Jan 20 Apr 21
Courses Begin* (week of) Sep 20 Jan 3 Mar 28 Jun 20
Courses End* (week of) Dec 13 Mar 14 Jun 6 Sep 6
Parking Permits Expire Dec 31 Mar 31 Jun 30 Sep 30
Administrative Holidays Nov 11, Nov 25-26, Dec 23-24, Dec 30-31 Jan 17, Feb 21 Mar 25, May 30 Jun 20, Jul 4, Sep 5

*Actual dates may vary by program.

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Learn How To Earn Your CertificateCertificate Eligibility and Requirements

A certificate is awarded upon completion of 5 required courses totaling 12 units, with a grade of “C” or better in each course. To become an official candidate in the program, students pursuing the certificate must submit a Declaration of Candidacy with a non-refundable $125 application fee. Students are encouraged to declare candidacy as soon as possible, but no later than after the third course in the program. To receive the digital certificate after completing all program requirements, students must submit a Request for Certificate. All requirements must be completed within five (5) years after the student enrolls in his/her first course. Students not pursuing a certificate are welcome to take as many individual courses as they wish.

Advisory Committee

  • Carlson Choi, Global Chief Digital Officer, Jollibee Foods
  • Gerald Deren, Executive Director, Siemens USA
  • Dave Dimas, Faculty, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Institute for Design and Manufacturing Innovation (IDMI), University of California, Irvine
  • Adam Halbardier, Google
  • Leo Kilfoy, Vice President of New Product Development, MSC Software
  • Darren LaCour, Senior Clinical Research Manager, Medtronic
  • Amit Manghani, Principal Product Management, Microsoft
  • Armin Pajand, Industry Professor, Texas A&M University
  • Saeed Paydarfar, CEO, Saratech
  • Victoria Tucker, Founder and Chief, ZB Global
  • Marty Wartenberg, Consultant

On-site Training Available

Our Corporate Training specialists can deliver this program or customize one that fits your organization’s specific needs. Visit Corporate Training or call (949) 824-1847 for information.

English Proficiency Requirement
All certificate programs at UCI Division of Continuing Education (classroom and online formats) require professional-level English language proficiency in listening and note-taking, reading comprehension and vocabulary, written expression, and oral presentation.

Ultimate Team Innovation During the Age of COVID-19
Recorded 3/10/21
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