1. IDEAS STUDIOS
Our mission is to provide real-world
projects in and out of the classroom by
engaging engineering students in
practical hands-on interdisciplinary
educational experiences.
Shane Cohen
KEEN Industrial Liaison
Phone: 570-577-3707
E-mail: scohen@bucknell.edu
For additional information please contact:
IDEAS Extra-Curricular Activities
BFAB (Bucknell Fabrication Workshop):
A multi-day workshop experience that
emphasizes the use of product development
tools that will help students to develop
functional prototypes of their ideas and learn
how to bring their ideas to market through
the product development process.
K-WIDE (KEEN Winter Interdisciplinary
Design Experience):
K-WIDE is a hands-on, multidisciplinary
design experience that exposes students to
pressing issues at the intersection of global
society and technology while instilling an
entrepreneurial mindset. Students work
together on relevant, real-world problems
and see connections between the various
skill sets provided by different disciplines.
Students grapple with mindsets that will
stretch them as designers, value creators,
and leaders.
Funding generously provided by:
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Interdisciplinary student teams are provided
with a challenge for which they must compete
against each other to design and fabricate a
solution.
Design Challenges:
Fast Facts
 Bucknell’s College of Engineering has
more than 35 years of history
collaborating with companies, ranging
from startups to Fortune 500
corporations
 The College of Engineering contains over
25 laboratories providing access to 3D
printing, laser cutting, electrical
fabrication, scanning electronic
microscope (SEM), and more!

2. What is an IDEAS Studio?
Students enrolled in the Innovation, Design,
Entrepreneurship, Application and Systems
(IDEAS) Studio courses focus on using
engineering design to solve real-world,
open-ended problems by understanding
customer value propositions, learning to be
responsive to customer/client needs, and
identifying markets. Content is driven by real
design problems informed by industry and other
for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.
Sponsors provide funding to cover materials,
supplies, site visits, and program administration,
making each studio inherently project-based as
students work through hands-on design projects.
IDEAS Studios:
IDEAS Studio 1: Product Archeology
IDEAS Studio 2: Build Your Idea
IDEAS Studio 3: Concept to Commercialization
IDEAS Studio 4: Creative System Design
IDEAS Studio 5: Should We Start This Company
IDEAS Studio 6: Interdisciplinary Senior Design
IDEAS Extra-Curricular Activities:
BFAB (Bucknell Fabrication Workshop)
K-WIDE (KEEN Winter Interdisciplinary Design
Experience)
Design Challenges
IDEAS Studio 4: Creative System DesignIDEAS Studio 1: Product Archeology
IDEAS Studio 3: Concept to Commercialization
IDEAS Studio 5: Should We Start This
Company?
Throughout this studio, students develop a full
business strategy including business plan,
business model, feasibility evaluation, and
implementation timeline for their own business
idea or aspects of a business plan for a sponsor.
Advancements in technology have enabled
devices to shrink in both size and cost, allowing
wearable tech to become one of the fastest
growing trends. Through the lens of value
creation, students create working prototypes of
their next best idea in wearable tech.
What makes a product tick? Is it just technical or
something more? Students dissect real commercial
products from every angle carefully examining the
history and then make recommendations to the
company on how to make it better.
The first step in invention is having an idea. The
second step is building it. Learn how to take your
ideas from concept to prototype using a wide range of
traditional and advanced fabrication processes.
Design and Innovation. Entrepreneurship for the
developing world. Explore new technological
opportunities for the 4 billion poorest people in the
world through empathy, creativity, and a paradigm shift
in perspective.
IDEAS Studio 2: Build Your Idea
IDEAS Studio 6: Interdisciplinary Senior
Design
Students come together with various
disciplinary knowledge, skills and
competencies to solve a real-world company
problem in an interdisciplinary context.