One unique way to garner buy-in: Offer your manager input into the electives you take during the program, suggests Liz Kasberg, also a graduate Kenan-Flager.
One way this can be successfully accomplished is by "multiplexing" the electrodes normally used to relay touch input -- that is, using the same electrodes to handle the signals for both touch control and the pixels of the LCD, according to a 2010 IHS report on touch-screen displays.