Certificate Program Description The new Graduate Certificate Program in Discovery, Design, and Innovation responds to the growing need for persons having special training in methods for enhancing our imaginative, inventive, or creative capabilities. In industrial, military, and governmental organizations great reliance is placed on the ability of engineers and others to provide innovative solutions to problems of growing complexity that now confront us as we enter the 21st century. This certificate program has been designed to provide students with a balanced understanding of the intimate relationship between the processes of discovery and invention and the reliance of both processes on imaginative or creative thought. Although our imaginative and creative capabilities are not well understood presently, there is a vast and exciting literature emerging in many disciplines that concerns these human capabilities. Although many remarkable innovations surrounds us, the great complexity of problems we now face threatens to outstrip the innovative and imaginative capabilities with which we have been endowed by nature. Naturally, we seek to devise methods for enhancing these capabilities, and, we often turn to computers for assistance in generating new engineering designs. Indeed, this has been one of the major emphases in research conducted by the faculty members who will be associated with this new certificate program. Many of our past and current graduate students in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University have shared these interests and have actively participated in this research. One of our objectives in offering this certificate program is to encourage more students to share in the exciting work now in progress, with the goal of enhancing our abilities to generate new and more suitable engineering designs that are now required in many different contexts.