Fundamentals of Technical Innovation

• Semester 5, position 4

Explain to the students that technical innovations are basis of economic development of society. The development of science, technology and social awareness suppresses the existing technical solutions and imposes the need for new developments. To introduce students to the concept of technical innovation, with the methodology of development of new technical systems that are essentially different from the existing ones, which represents a transformation of the achieved level of knowledge in technical solutions. The aim of this course is to introduce students into thinking and acting in this direction. In the second part of the course, students are introduced to one of the basic software tools for the design.

After successful completion of this course, students should: • understand the importance of technical innovation in stimulating the development of society and entrepreneurship; • be trained to evaluate and rank the level of technical innovation; • be able to create innovative ideas and define development constraints; • identify the necessary resources and the fulfillment of the postulates of innovative development; • recognize the physical, biological, ergonomic, aesthetic and environmental incentives and trends for innovative development of technical systems.

1.What is the technical system?; 2. The needs and the concept of technical innovation; 3. Creating a technical system and innovations; 4. Historical trends in technical innovation; 5. Planning of technical innovation; 6. The idea and how to get ideas for a new product; 7. The concept and importance of the functions of the technical system; 8. Transformation of the biological technology systems; 9. Harmonization of technical systems with the environment; 10. Creativity in developing new technical systems; 11. Software design tools

During semester students write essays giving an overview of existing technical systems used in a given field or activity. Systematized overview of existing technical systems should lead to the proposal of ideas for innovative technical solutions. For auditory exercises are more elaborate theoretical topics covered in classes in order to introduce students to the phenomena that need to discuss in essay, and to prepare for the tests. Elementary functions of software tools.

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1. Power-Point presentations with lectures available to students in the form of a hand-out materials. 2. presentations, animations, and movies on the construction solutions and innovative technical systems function. 3. Internet and search on the Internet of existing technical solutions and innovative systems. 4. Computer Classroom. 5. Moodle

Total assigned hours: 75

New material: 20
Elaboration and examples (recapitulation): 10

Auditory exercises: 10
Laboratory exercises: 0
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 10
Project: 0
Consultations: 0
Discussion/workshop: 10
Research study work: 0

Review and grading of calculation tasks: 0
Review and grading of lab reports: 0
Review and grading of seminar papers: 4
Review and grading of the project: 0
Test: 6
Test: 0
Final exam: 5

Activity during lectures: 10
Test/test: 40
Laboratory practice: 0
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 20
Project: 0
Final exam: 30
Requirement for taking the exam (required number of points): 35

Ognjanović M: Innovative development of technical systems (in Serbian), University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering 2014. ISBN 978-86-7083-830-7