DESIGN THINKINGErick Sosa

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MY 50 IDEAS …. SOME GREAT, SOME OTHER VERY SILLY :O) 1-10

1. Work as an intern before studying

2. Include an internship as part of the work.

3. Teachers with real life experience

4. Include visits to companies

5. Run a simulation for at least one year in second life (Simms)

6. Social work to promote their designs

7. Take courses of entrepreneurship

8. Shadowing other graduates

9. Present real life cases in an scenario

10. Shadow teachers

MY 50 IDEAS …. SOME GREAT, SOME OTHER VERY SILLY :O) 11-20

11. Simulate real life scenarios in class

12. Make visits with companies to investigate how they work

13. Submit work for other companies evaluations not only teachers.

14. Work business case for each work not only designs

15. Include a sales presentation for each work that they do

16. Submit their work to social networks

17. If you are a graduate, you have to make some parenting with the new ones to teach how you work.

18. Implement, a "bring your graduate to work" day in all the design studios so new graduates can go an learn on the job.

19. Present business cases before a professional panels

20. Involve in the national plan of the country and see how they can help with their ideas and solutions to real life problems

MY 50 IDEAS …. SOME GREAT, SOME OTHER VERY SILLY :O) 21-30

21. Apart one semester just to invite professionals to leverage their feedback

22. Stop of being so theorical and start practicing before end of career

23. Give a bunch of money and 10 months to build their own building and sell it

24. Create a law that force companies to accept new graduates

25. Build your own house with your budget and be evaluated in time, budget, etc.

26. Work for free six months before graduate

27. Not only study but also work part time since the beginning of the work

28. The university must create a design study and give a formal employment to each student.

29. Participate in at least one concourse annually

30. Hire a prestigious firm and give the student a bunch of money to build their own project

MY 50 IDEAS …. SOME GREAT, SOME OTHER VERY SILLY :O) 31-40

31. Create an study as part of their graduate requisites

32. Each parent must give money to the pre graduate to run his own company

33. An "adopt your pregraduate" program, each professional must adopt a pre graduate and take him to the real world to learn how to work, the government can facilitate the program and exonerate some taxes.

34. Create a game on Facebook where you simulate to be a professional and sell your services

35. Don’t study, just work, and receive classes on the office

36. Work part time and pay the university with credits and sales generations in your own company.

37. Create a program for worker exchange between countries, so you can help to supply the demand generated in other countries.

38. Run your career as an employee in a company, with a P&L and show results to your stakeholders, so you can learn how to manage a business since the very beginning.

39. Accept and student in the career, only if he already took a six month of internship and is sure about the career.

40. Study three days and work two of any given week

MY 50 IDEAS …. SOME GREAT, SOME OTHER VERY SILLY :O) 41-50

41. Give to the students several real cases to present since the first year.

42. Participate in an student exchange between universities and companies to learn from many disciplines.

43. If you are a professional, you have to participate in chalk talks to students at least every three months in order to get your license as professional.

44. Alternate on year student, the next year working, and so for.

45. Shadow a company for at least two years as part of the graduation process

46. Involve in local projects with the government as freelancer before graduate.

47. Choose the area of specialization at the very beginning of the career and participate in one project by year related with that specialties.

48. Simulate real life experiences in the class and be evaluated by professionals, teachers and other students.

49. If you are part of the university, you must give chalk talks about how to move to the work force

50. Develop your own portfolio during your career and be prepared to present it at the end of your career before graduate.

MY FAVORITESMy three favorites solutions

RUN A SIMULATION FOR ONE YEAR (AT LEAST)

• There are many programs that simulate real life now like www.secondlife.com; the idea, is that the student must create a person in this “world” that simulate a pregraduate student (architecture). This person must survive and create some branding around his name to learn how the things in the real world can be.

• You are going to be evaluated by income, prestige and by the type of work you are doing

“ADOPT YOUR PREGRADUATE” PROGRAM

• The idea is that every professional in the country can adopt a pregraduate as his assistant for six months at least. With this, the student can learn some abilities, tips and tricks about the job in the real world.

• If you are a professional and adopt an student, the government can give you, as gratitude, a redemption of taxes.

(not exactly like this type of goodfather but you got the idea )

GIVE MONEY TO THE NEW GRADUATES TO START HIS OWN COMPANY AND GIVE THEM

A REAL PROJECT• If you are a pregraduate student, you can apply for a bucket of money to

start your own company with your fellows and receive a real project to start working on that as soon as possible.

• You have one year to show some results or the money, instead of investment, can turn into a loan and you have to pay for that, no charity.