University of Detroit Mercy

Jonathan Weaver, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy, teaches a variety of courses many of them focusing on innovation, creativity, and the product development process. He holds a BS degree from Virginia Tech, and MS and Ph.D. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He serves as the co-curriculum director for the Masters in Product Development Program, is a Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network Fellow, and is part of a team currently working to bring entrepreneurship content to engineering and other technical programs at the university. He has been involved in the development of curricular materials related to innovation and technical entrepreneurship cases that are freely available at http://weaverjm.faculty.udmercy.edu.