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Valentina Aguirre Garrido

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The diffusion of innovation theory explains how a specific idea is able to be spread and adopted in different social systems. The need for innovations capable of producing desired outcomes in the real world has become an important opportunity for improvement in every field of human activity in the last century. These innovations and works deriving from them can include new techniques, concepts, or products. This article reviews the importance of diffusing innovations to engineering education and healthcare systems in Latin American environments. Thus, we will describe two conceptual types of research, not well known in Colombia, that seek opportunities in those fields: systems engineering and sleep management and monitoring. Firstly, systems engineering (SE) provides a way of delivering resources to multiple engineering students on "how to" address the complexity of problem-solving within an interconnected and changing world. Secondly, sleep management offers an opportunity for tracking and responding to sleep disruption and chronic disorders, which can encourage advances in both sleep medicine and treatments. Such innovations (SE concepts and techniques; sleep management techniques and products) are meant to improve the quality of life for people throughout Colombia. In that sense, finding a way to diffuse these innovations becomes an important goal to achieve. This paper will address the possibilities for grand engineering education and health challenges in Colombia as both conceptual and technical innovations regarding relevant factors that improve the impact of the diffusion processes.

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Purdue University / 2023

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Valentina Aguirre Garrido