Choose and read any one (or more) of the following, to be referenced in the assignments that follow:

• The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Inventions and Innovation (I&I) offers financial and technical support to inventors and businesses for promising energy-saving concepts and technologies.
  http://www1.eere.energy.gov/inventions/
• Smithsonian Online Encyclopedia of Engineering, Industry, and Invention
  http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/science_and_technology/Engineeringand
  Industry_Technology.htm
• Microsoft, Innovation: The Democratization of Technology
  http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/1508
• By Kids for Kids: Website that provides tools and funding to assist young inventors
  http://www.bkfk.com
• Video Interview on Innovation Process: New Prosthetic arm for veterans
  http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/82