Industry — academia cooperation support for creative thinking skills strengthening of undergraduates' students in electrical engineering

Training a new generation of engineers, who will create new enterprises and new products for market in the field of electrical engineering is achieving through supporting of individuals creative thinking. In this work, introduction of the innovation management course for undergraduate students of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, the top down and bottom up approach related cooperation with an industry is described. Teaching methods such as a project — based method, mentoring approach, double supervision of scientific research, industrial internships and final prototyping are discussed in this work. The case of visiting students training in a frame of the ERASMUS+ project, applied testing methodology and analysis of the results are discussed in this work.