Reinventing Disruptive Innovation for Civil Engineering

Reinventing Disruptive Innovation explores how we should approach early stage disruptive technologies for civil engineering. It takes into consideration fundamental market shifts in where technology is being developed and shift in funding. Today, $300B is invested annually in venture backed technology development versus $200B in corporate R&D dedicated to new innovation out of a total spend of $2 Trillion. This fundamental shift has altered the landscape on how innovation is done and how we need to develop new strategies to be effective in integrating appropriate technology for civil engineering. The course will train students in new methods on innovation, and also present real world case examples of new startup technologies crossing every category from advanced material sciences to behavioral technologies.