Product development is the exciting use of scientific knowledge to engineer a solution to a problem. Successful product development takes more than just strong technical skills, however. Successful products need to be scalable, reliable, and most of all, profitable. How do product development teams come together and turn science into things people need in an efficient and effective way? In this class you will learn some useful and proven systems and how to apply them at your own company.

Scientists and engineers often struggle to plan a private sector career. Most of our professors have no experience designing an industry career path and can’t help us. I recall my own advisor telling me “If you go into industry, you are on your own!”