A new course will allow up to 30 students to get hands-on experience and help launch the UNL Maker Space in the spring semester.
The course, “Making for Innovation,” will be the first to meet at Nebraska Innovation Studio — formerly the UNL Maker Space — on Nebraska Innovation Campus. Shane Farritor, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and Liana Owad, Maker Space coordinator, will guide the class.
“The space is still going to be pretty raw,” Farritor said. “But we’ll have equipment in place and we’ll be able to start teaching students how to use creative ways to think through problems and chart paths to innovation.”
The course is designed on two basic ideas: building and hands-on problem solving are important paths to innovation; and that innovation occurs at the boundary between humanities and technology.
To help push toward that…
