32 Innovation Factors

About the Book

This is a book about how to think "out of the box". 32 Innovation Factors describes the elements behind the creative Engineering process. The Innovation Factors are a engineering periodic table. These factors are combined elementally to structurally generate Innovation. They represent a new way to think about engineering for novelty. They can Improve existing systems and generate new product families. Over nine years in the making, this book distills those mental building blocks engineers use to brainstorm.

The first part of the book details the engineering life cycle. The second part describes the Innovation Factors. The third part looks at a set of core technologies and how the Innovation Factors can be applied to them.

About the Author

Benjamin Cheung graduated from Purdue University in 1989. He went on to complete his masters in electrical engineering. In 1991, he joined General Electric Medical Systems as an engineer. He helped develop magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound diagnostic medical imaging technology. In 1996, Ben joined Lucent Technologies in Whippany, New Jersey. There he worked on Wireless (Cellular) Telephone systems, contributing to TDMA mobile telephone systems, GPRS and Universal Mobile Telecommunication Services (UMTS). He has numerous patents pending and has been published in Bell Labs Technology Journal. His first book, 32 Innovation Factors, Engineering for Novelty, was published in 2003. This book identifies the mental building blocks to produce innovations in engineering. Ben's second book was 3G Cellular Systems in 90 Minutes. It concisely describes how third-generation wireless cellular systems function. His third book was Robotics in 90 minutes, a primer to robotic systems. You may view many of his organized thoughts at his webpage http://www.interzone.com/~cheung