How can I apply innovation in Engineering design field?

Look at the project as a solution of a problim (find a problim), and think as if you are an alien who came from another planet and with no knowledge of how people in earth think or behave (break the pattern, think outside the box)

Engineering is a just imaginaring. what you have to do is? imagen what we need to achieve, and work on it you will get innovative Ideas on that field.