Program: Innovation and Transformational Change Minor - Purdue University

Apr 01, 2025

2020-2021 University Catalog

Choose your own path to obtain the Minor in Innovation and Transformational Change. Achieving the Minor requires 18 credits drawn from three categories of classes: Core Courses, Selectives, and Electives, with the latter two categories offering numerous opportunities to ensure you are linking your new knowledge and skills to problems you care about.

Requirements for the Minor (18 credits)

Required Courses (6 credits)

The CORE COURSES are required, and bookend the Minor experience providing an introduction to problem framing, solution space development, innovation, and design fundamentals at the onset of the program, and an in-depth experiential learning opportunity to apply your skills to a real grand challenge problem as you prepare to graduate.

ENGR 30500 - Fundamentals Of Innovation Theory And Practice
ENGR 49001 - Breakthrough Thinking For Complex Challenges or
CE 59601 - Entrepreneurship And Business Strategy In Engineering (may fulfill required Required Core course or Develop Strategies for Financial Sustainability Selective. This course can only fulfill one requirement) or
CE 59801 - Breakthrough Thinking For Complex Challenges or
IDE 48500 - Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Project

Selective Courses (9 credits)

SELECTIVES provide an opportunity for you to develop mindsets and capabilities that are critical to driving the innovative change necessary to address complex socio-technical challenges. You choose one course in each of three key areas to build your background:

Design Holistic Solutions (3 credits)

Employ systems thinking and rigorous innovation processes to DESIGN HOLISTIC SOLUTIONS.

AAE 56000 - System-Of-Systems Modeling And Analysis
ANTH 38400 - Designing For People: Anthropological Approaches
EEE 25000 - Environmental, Ecological, and Engineering Systems
IE 49000 - Special Topics In Industrial Engineering (Imagine, Model, and Make)
ME 55300 - Product And Process Design
TECH 53300 - Design Theory And Technology
TLI 52000 - Foundations Of Innovation Studies
CE 39800 - Introduction To Civil Engineering Systems Design
EPCS (Any Level) - Engineering Projects in Community Service - Credit Hours: 3.00

Motivate Change (3 credits)

Help realize a shift in paradigm by MOTIVATING CHANGE.

Develop Strategies for Financial Sustainability (3 credits)

Ensure your ideas are viable by DEVELOPING STRATEGIES FOR FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY.

Electives Courses: (3 credits)

ELECTIVES enable you to further contextualize your minor by gaining depth in an area that will enhance your potential to drive innovation and transformational change in industry, academia, or the non-profit sector. Accumulate 3 credits from any of the following areas:

Research Methods

Learn versatile RESEARCH METHODS to gain insight into human behavior

AGEC 45100 - Applied Econometrics
ANTH 38000 - Using Anthropology In The World
ANTH 38500 - Community Engagement In Anthropology
ANTH 41800 - Field Methods In Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 59200 - Selected Topics In Anthropology  (Evidence, Power, Politics: Working in Expert & Technical Cultures)
COM 32500 - Interviewing: Principles And Practice
ECON 36000 - Econometrics
MGMT 42110 - Marketing Analytics
SOC 38300 - Introduction To Research Methods In Sociology

Grand Challenges

Gain a deeper understanding of the cultural and social aspects of GRAND CHALLENGES such as: Education, Energy, the Environment, Food, and Health

General

Education

Environment

Energy

Food

Health

Notes:

Achieve a GPA of at least 2.0 across the courses pursued for the minor

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