how can one innovate project on engineering?

Question: how can one innovate project on engineering?
- Keywords:
  engineering,
  project
Asked by sharline1 to Peter, Jonathan, Grace, Doris, David, Ann on 4 Jun 2019.
- Peter Macharia answered on 4 Jun 2019:
  
  @975bmay33,
  
  I think you need to read science books, understand previous projects and see on how you can improve them, OR see a problem in society and try to solve it, eg a localized windmill in a village without power
- Grace Kago answered on 6 Jun 2019:
  
  In order to innovate, one has to come up with a new way to answer/fix an existing problem.
  But before that, you have to verify that your way is actually “new”. In order to do that, first it is super duper important to have a decent grasp of what other people have done and how far they have addressed the problem that you want to solve.