Signature Design Course Gets a New Name
From: McCormick - Spring 2013 - page 2

For 15 years McCormick freshmen have completed a foundational course to learn
special design problem-solving and communication skills, known as "design
thinking" in business and academic circles: frame a problem, consider
solutions, refine, execute. The course that teaches these skills, formerly
known as Engineering Design and Communication, has been renamed Design
Thinking and Communication to showcase its key outcomes.

Through partnerships with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, students
spend the first half of the two-quarter course working with clients who have
disabilities. Projects have included a device to help someone open a jar
using only one arm and a pill dispenser for a man who cannot use his arms or
legs. Second-quarter projects address a variety of healthcare, industry, and
education problems.

Read the entire article at: (2nd article)
http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/magazine/spring-2013/mccormick-news.html

Link:
Design Thinking and Communication
http://www.segal.northwestern.edu/undergraduate/dtc/