University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]

Fellow:Alexander Schloss

2023-02-06T04:28:51Z

Alexanderschloss: /* "Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'." */

==<cite>"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."</cite>==
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==Alexander is a Master of Social Work student at Boise State University. This past summer, he finished his graduate placement with St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. This year (his final year of graduate school), he will work with the veteran community at the Boise VA Medical Center. Before attending Boise State University, Alexander worked with students on the Autism Spectrum for a year and a half. Afterwards, he lived in Japan for four years, teaching English to junior high school students in one of Japan's smallest cities. Despite his short time there, he has continued to develop numerous lifelong relationships with teachers, students and members of the community. Currently, one of Alexander's passions is his research into cutting edge therapeutic interventions that use emerging technologies to treat PTSD. He is also interested in working with schools to develop support systems that can effectively increase retention of gifted students and is working with other students to develop a set of guidelines for the growth of Boise State University's makerspace culture. When he is not studying, Alexander can be found playing with his Corgi, studying Japanese, reading Science Fiction or playing video games with his wife. If you have any questions, book recommendations or thoughts on why Die Hard is the greatest Christmas movie of all time, feel free to e-mail him at [aschloss@u.boisestate.com]==

=Related Links=

[[Boise State University|Boise State University]]

[[Boise State University Student Priorities|Boise State University Student Priorities]]

Spring 2016:

[[Ann Delaney|Ann Delaney]]

[[Kelly Schutt|Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward|Rebecka Steward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Donovan Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Sienna George|Sienna George]]

[[Category:Student Contributors|a]]
[[Category:Student Contributors]]
[[Category:Boise_State_University_(2016_Fall_cohort)]]
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Fellow:Alexander Schloss

2021-08-09T00:32:08Z

Alexanderschloss: /* "Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'." */

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==<cite>"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."</cite>==
<div> </div>
==Alexander is a Master of Social Work student at Boise State University. This past summer, he finished his graduate placement with St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. This year (his final year of graduate school), he will work with the veteran community at the Boise VA Medical Center. Before attending Boise State University, Alexander worked with students on the Autism Spectrum for a year and a half. Afterwards, he lived in Japan for four years, teaching English to junior high school students in one of Japan's smallest cities. Despite his short time there, he has continued to develop numerous lifelong relationships with teachers, students and members of the community. Currently, one of Alexander's passions is his research into cutting edge therapeutic interventions that use emerging technologies to treat PTSD. He is also interested in working with schools to develop support systems that can effectively increase retention of gifted students and is working with other students to develop a set of guidelines for the growth of Boise State University's makerspace culture. When he is not studying, Alexander can be found playing with his Corgi, studying Japanese, reading Science Fiction or playing video games with his wife. If you have any questions, book recommendations or thoughts on why Die Hard is the greatest Christmas movie of all time, feel free to e-mail him at [aschloss@u.boisestate.com]==

=Related Links =

[[Boise State University|Boise State University]]

[[Boise State University Student Priorities|Boise State University Student Priorities]]

Spring 2016:

[[Ann Delaney|Ann Delaney]]

[[Kelly Schutt|Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward|Rebecka Steward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Donovan Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Sienna George|Sienna George]]

[[Category:Student Contributors|a]]
[[Category:Student Contributors]]
[[Category:Boise_State_University_(2016_Fall_cohort)]]
[[Category:Student Contributors]]
{{CatTree|Boise_State_University}}

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

2016-10-30T07:12:12Z

Alexanderschloss:

= Project Pitch Video =

== Fall 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=gbHu8HA4Ifw}}

== Spring 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=Tz6zaINxFr4}}

= FALL 2016 Priorities =

= Strategy #1: Encourage and Promote a System of Diverse Learning Styles That Allows for Interdisciplinary Collaboration =

== 72 Hour Design Thinking Challenge ==

*Multidisciplinary student-teams work together over a 72 hour period to develop new models of education.
*Each student-team showcases and pitches their model to the school administration and investors of the school.
*Based on the success of these pitches, new educational models will be adopted and integrated, in a partnership with the school administration and investors of the university, to radically reimagine higher education systems.
*To be held ever year year to meet a constantly changing 'start-up' university model that exists at Boise State University.

= Strategy #2: Build Interdisiplinary Student Community and Increase Social Support For Students  =

== Integration of Self-Care, Self-Awareness and Social Awareness Into Education System (Student, Teacher, Classroom, Campus) ==

*

== Development and Implementation of Interdisciplinary Cohort Group ==

*

= SPRING 2016 Priorities =

= Strategy #1: Increase Awareness of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering =

== Engineering & Innovation Living-Learning Community ==

*Freshmen students with majors in the College of Innovation and Design and the College of Engineering live together and take a class which involves community service and team building, as well as aspects of the different majors encompassed by CID and Engineering.
*This Living-Learning Community (LLC) was just established (formerly it was only engineering students), and thus could be a great place to prototype the implementation of I&E concepts and engage freshmen with these ideas
*This is also a great place to test the effectiveness of LLCs in creating a community across disciplines

== Introduce I&E Concepts in Introduction to Engineering Classes ==

*All incoming freshmen engineering students are required to take ENGR 120 (Introduction to Engineering) or ENGR 130 (Introduction to Engineering Applications)
*These courses are project-based, and teach students about engineering disciplines, as well as developing critical thinking and provides a "design-oriented engineering experience"
*ENGR 130 involves a service project where students work with a client from the community to apply the engineering design process to solve a problem
*While some design thinking is already a part of these courses, there could be room for the addition of more explicitly human-centered design principles into the curriculum
*This could also be a platform to introduce engineering students to entrepreneurship concepts to which they may not otherwise be exposed 

== Promote Growth of Vertically Integrated Projects ==

*The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program unites undergraduate education and faculty research in a team-based context
*Undergraduate VIP students earn academic credits, while faculty and graduate students benefit from the design/discovery efforts of their teams
*The Boise State University VIP program is part of a broad national and international consortium of universities
*While this program already exists in an early phase, more work remains to create campus-wide awareness about the vision and purpose of Vertically Integrated Projects in order to attract students and faculty to participate in current and new projects
*This program presents an inherent opportunity for a culture of I&E to thrive in a community of students and faculty from different disciplines across campus
*VIP projects differ from a traditional research lab setting in that the experiences, interests, and abilities of all members - faculty and students alike - are valued equally
*Close-knit VIP teams provide an opportunity to support vulnerable populations of students who might not finish their degrees without a supportive community and mentorship opportunities

== Provide Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Mentoring to Engineering Students ==

*The New Product Development Lab, housed within the College of Engineering, mostly provides rapid prototyping and design consulting services to local businesses and entrepreneurs outside the university, but is also a resource available to student entrepreneurs that is not currently well-publicized
*While Venture College's services are available to all students, and they have been expanding their reach to Computer Science majors, this services is still unknown to most engineering majors
*A goal for the future would be to implement a program which partners engineering students with ideas with mentors from the local entrepreneurship community and/or students from the Business College to help them work toward commercializing their ideas (or co-developing ideas for new ventures)

= Strategy #2: Promote Collaboration Across Disciplines on Campus =

== Promote New and Existing Spaces for Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Idea Generation and Work Toward Making More ==

*The Honors College provides dorms and multi-disciplinary classes to connect students from different majors
*Some Living-Learning Communities offer cross-disciplinary themes such as fitness, while some are major- or college-specific.
*The MakerLab is a makerspace hosted in the Boise State Library and run by librarians and student employees.  This space is very user-driven, and offers student- and staff-led workshops on technologies such as arduinos and 3D printing.  Students can print designs for free on the two 3D printers.

== Host a TEDx Boise Viewing Party ==

*TEDx tickets are often outside the price range of interested students
*Hosting a live streaming event of the talks would be a great opportunity to foster collaboration and creativity among a group of interested students
*This could be a good "hook" to get students into the event, where we could then direct them to other on- and off-campus resources

= Strategy #3: Increase Overall Student Awareness of I&E Concepts and Resources =

== Create a Website for I&E Resources ==

*Create a one-page website with links to relevant resources on and off campus
*Publish through the College of Innovation and Design's website
*Advertise the website in department email newsletters across campus
*Try to get a link put on students' my.Boisestate pages

== Freshmen Orientation Design Thinking Pop-Up ==

*Create a design thinking pop-up program as part of freshmen orientation
*Engage students to think about what they want to do in terms of a mission, not just a major

== Integrate Design Thinking Concepts into University Foundations Courses ==

*All incoming Boise State students are required to take these courses
*Each section explores a different concept (e.g. "The History and Future of Education", "Invention and Discovery")
*While innovation is a core part of the mission of the UF program, design thinking is not an explicit part of the curriculum of most sections right now
*This might be another great place to introduce I&E concepts to freshmen

== Reach Out to Underserved Groups Through the Institute for STEM and Diversity ==

*The Institute for STEM and Diversity runs a number of programs aimed at underserved populations such as minorities and students who are the first in their families to go to college
*This could be a great connection to reach out to these populations, who might not otherwise be reached

= Strategy #4: Provide Feedback Mechanisms for Students to Give Input to the University Administration =

== Implement a student satisfaction survey ==

*The overall intent of this survey would be to gather a significant amount of data on what actual students think of our ideas and of what is currently available on campus right now, to help ground our mission for change in facts and figures
*The use of a Likert scale (e.g. Very good, good, neutral, bad, very bad) could allow students to rate various aspects of their experience (e.g. I&E resources, quality of education, value for tuition, quality of faculty overall, internship and job opportunities, etc.)
*This survey could be dynamic (e.g. questions could change based on identifiers such as major, part-time/full-time, etc.) to gather specific data about different parts of the student population
*Open-ended feedback could allow us to gather new ideas about what students are interested in

== Host an event to generate student ideas for campus improvements ==

*This could be a workshop, or more of a design sprint or hackathon
*We could break out into small teams and document feedback
*A streamlined report could be addressed to the university administration
*Our partnerships with the MakerLab and College of Innovation and Design could provide conduits to implement some ideas

== Provide a social feedback system ==

*Allow students to submit ideas for improving campus online
*Each idea/thread can be upvoted or downvoted and allows comments
*Top upvoted ideas for a given period can be candidates for implementation, or at least get a response from the university administration
*Another approach for an online community could be a slack channel.  A Boise State slack channel already exists, but is not well-publicized outside of the MakerLab and Computer Science communities.

= Related Links =

[[Boise State University]]

'''Boise State University Student Priorities'''

University Innovation Fellows

Spring 2016:

[[Ann Delaney]]

[[Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Sienna George|Sienna George]]

[[Alexander Schloss|Alexander Schloss]]

[[Donovan Kay|Donovan Kay]]

*c
*

== Deve ==

[[Category:Student Priorities|b]]

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

2016-10-30T07:11:24Z

Alexanderschloss:

= Project Pitch Video =

== Fall 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=gbHu8HA4Ifw}}

== Spring 2016 ==

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=Tz6zaINxFr4}}

= FALL 2016 Priorities =

= Strategy #1: Encourage and Promote a System of Diverse Learning Styles That Allows for Interdisciplinary Collaboration =

== 72 Hour Design Thinking Challenge ==

*Multidisciplinary student-teams work together over a 72 hour period to develop new models of education.
*Each student-team showcases and pitches their model to the school administration and investors of the school.
*Based on the success of these pitches, new educational models will be adopted and integrated, in a partnership with the school administration and investors of the university, to radically reimagine higher education systems.
*To be held ever year year to meet a constantly changing 'start-up' university model that exists at Boise State University.

= Strategy #2: Build Interdisiplinary Student Community and Increase Social Support For Students  =

== Integration of Self-Care, Self-Awareness and Social Awareness Into Education System (Student, Teacher, Classroom, Campus) ==

*

== Development and Implementation of Interdisciplinary Cohort Group ==

*

= SPRING 2016 Priorities =

= Strategy #1: Increase Awareness of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering =

== Engineering & Innovation Living-Learning Community ==

*Freshmen students with majors in the College of Innovation and Design and the College of Engineering live together and take a class which involves community service and team building, as well as aspects of the different majors encompassed by CID and Engineering.
*This Living-Learning Community (LLC) was just established (formerly it was only engineering students), and thus could be a great place to prototype the implementation of I&E concepts and engage freshmen with these ideas
*This is also a great place to test the effectiveness of LLCs in creating a community across disciplines

== Introduce I&E Concepts in Introduction to Engineering Classes ==

*All incoming freshmen engineering students are required to take ENGR 120 (Introduction to Engineering) or ENGR 130 (Introduction to Engineering Applications)
*These courses are project-based, and teach students about engineering disciplines, as well as developing critical thinking and provides a "design-oriented engineering experience"
*ENGR 130 involves a service project where students work with a client from the community to apply the engineering design process to solve a problem
*While some design thinking is already a part of these courses, there could be room for the addition of more explicitly human-centered design principles into the curriculum
*This could also be a platform to introduce engineering students to entrepreneurship concepts to which they may not otherwise be exposed 

== Promote Growth of Vertically Integrated Projects ==

*The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program unites undergraduate education and faculty research in a team-based context
*Undergraduate VIP students earn academic credits, while faculty and graduate students benefit from the design/discovery efforts of their teams
*The Boise State University VIP program is part of a broad national and international consortium of universities
*While this program already exists in an early phase, more work remains to create campus-wide awareness about the vision and purpose of Vertically Integrated Projects in order to attract students and faculty to participate in current and new projects
*This program presents an inherent opportunity for a culture of I&E to thrive in a community of students and faculty from different disciplines across campus
*VIP projects differ from a traditional research lab setting in that the experiences, interests, and abilities of all members - faculty and students alike - are valued equally
*Close-knit VIP teams provide an opportunity to support vulnerable populations of students who might not finish their degrees without a supportive community and mentorship opportunities

== Provide Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Mentoring to Engineering Students ==

*The New Product Development Lab, housed within the College of Engineering, mostly provides rapid prototyping and design consulting services to local businesses and entrepreneurs outside the university, but is also a resource available to student entrepreneurs that is not currently well-publicized
*While Venture College's services are available to all students, and they have been expanding their reach to Computer Science majors, this services is still unknown to most engineering majors
*A goal for the future would be to implement a program which partners engineering students with ideas with mentors from the local entrepreneurship community and/or students from the Business College to help them work toward commercializing their ideas (or co-developing ideas for new ventures)

= Strategy #2: Promote Collaboration Across Disciplines on Campus =

== Promote New and Existing Spaces for Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Idea Generation and Work Toward Making More ==

*The Honors College provides dorms and multi-disciplinary classes to connect students from different majors
*Some Living-Learning Communities offer cross-disciplinary themes such as fitness, while some are major- or college-specific.
*The MakerLab is a makerspace hosted in the Boise State Library and run by librarians and student employees.  This space is very user-driven, and offers student- and staff-led workshops on technologies such as arduinos and 3D printing.  Students can print designs for free on the two 3D printers.

== Host a TEDx Boise Viewing Party ==

*TEDx tickets are often outside the price range of interested students
*Hosting a live streaming event of the talks would be a great opportunity to foster collaboration and creativity among a group of interested students
*This could be a good "hook" to get students into the event, where we could then direct them to other on- and off-campus resources

= Strategy #3: Increase Overall Student Awareness of I&E Concepts and Resources =

== Create a Website for I&E Resources ==

*Create a one-page website with links to relevant resources on and off campus
*Publish through the College of Innovation and Design's website
*Advertise the website in department email newsletters across campus
*Try to get a link put on students' my.Boisestate pages

== Freshmen Orientation Design Thinking Pop-Up ==

*Create a design thinking pop-up program as part of freshmen orientation
*Engage students to think about what they want to do in terms of a mission, not just a major

== Integrate Design Thinking Concepts into University Foundations Courses ==

*All incoming Boise State students are required to take these courses
*Each section explores a different concept (e.g. "The History and Future of Education", "Invention and Discovery")
*While innovation is a core part of the mission of the UF program, design thinking is not an explicit part of the curriculum of most sections right now
*This might be another great place to introduce I&E concepts to freshmen

== Reach Out to Underserved Groups Through the Institute for STEM and Diversity ==

*The Institute for STEM and Diversity runs a number of programs aimed at underserved populations such as minorities and students who are the first in their families to go to college
*This could be a great connection to reach out to these populations, who might not otherwise be reached

= Strategy #4: Provide Feedback Mechanisms for Students to Give Input to the University Administration =

== Implement a student satisfaction survey ==

*The overall intent of this survey would be to gather a significant amount of data on what actual students think of our ideas and of what is currently available on campus right now, to help ground our mission for change in facts and figures
*The use of a Likert scale (e.g. Very good, good, neutral, bad, very bad) could allow students to rate various aspects of their experience (e.g. I&E resources, quality of education, value for tuition, quality of faculty overall, internship and job opportunities, etc.)
*This survey could be dynamic (e.g. questions could change based on identifiers such as major, part-time/full-time, etc.) to gather specific data about different parts of the student population
*Open-ended feedback could allow us to gather new ideas about what students are interested in

== Host an event to generate student ideas for campus improvements ==

*This could be a workshop, or more of a design sprint or hackathon
*We could break out into small teams and document feedback
*A streamlined report could be addressed to the university administration
*Our partnerships with the MakerLab and College of Innovation and Design could provide conduits to implement some ideas

== Provide a social feedback system ==

*Allow students to submit ideas for improving campus online
*Each idea/thread can be upvoted or downvoted and allows comments
*Top upvoted ideas for a given period can be candidates for implementation, or at least get a response from the university administration
*Another approach for an online community could be a slack channel.  A Boise State slack channel already exists, but is not well-publicized outside of the MakerLab and Computer Science communities.

= Related Links =

[[Boise State University]]

'''Boise State University Student Priorities'''

University Innovation Fellows

Spring 2016:

[[Ann Delaney]]

[[Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Sienna George|Sienna George]]

[[Alexander Schloss|Alexander Schloss]]

[[Donovan Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|b]]

*c
*

== Deve ==

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

2016-10-20T22:26:06Z

Alexanderschloss: /* Strategy #2: Building Resilience, Belonging and Esteem */

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbHu8HA4Ifw&feature=youtu.be Boise State University - Fall 2016 - Project Pitch ]

= Strategy #1: Increase Awareness of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering =

== Engineering & Innovation Living-Learning Community ==

*Freshmen students with majors in the College of Innovation and Design and the College of Engineering live together and take a class which involves community service and team building, as well as aspects of the different majors encompassed by CID and Engineering.
*This Living-Learning Community (LLC) was just established (formerly it was only engineering students), and thus could be a great place to prototype the implementation of I&E concepts and engage freshmen with these ideas
*This is also a great place to test the effectiveness of LLCs in creating a community across disciplines

== Introduce I&E Concepts in Introduction to Engineering Classes ==

*All incoming freshmen engineering students are required to take ENGR 120 (Introduction to Engineering) or ENGR 130 (Introduction to Engineering Applications)
*These courses are project-based, and teach students about engineering disciplines, as well as developing critical thinking and provides a "design-oriented engineering experience"
*ENGR 130 involves a service project where students work with a client from the community to apply the engineering design process to solve a problem
*While some design thinking is already a part of these courses, there could be room for the addition of more explicity human-centered design principles into the curriculum
*This could also be a platform to introduce engineering students to entrepreneurship concepts to which they may not otherwise be exposed 

== Promote Growth of Vertically Integrated Projects ==

*The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program unites undergraduate education and faculty research in a team-based context
*Undergraduate VIP students earn academic credits, while faculty and graduate students benefit from the design/discovery efforts of their teams
*The Boise State University VIP program is part of a broad national and international consortium of universities
*While this program already exists in an early phase, more work remains to create campus-wide awareness about the vision and purpose of Vertically Integrated Projects in order to attract students and faculty to participate in current and new projects
*This program presents an inherent opportunity for a culture of I&E to thrive in a community of students and faculty from different disciplines across campus
*VIP projects differ from a traditional research lab setting in that the experiences, interests, and abilities of all members - faculty and students alike - are valued equally
*Close-knit VIP teams provide an opportunity to support vulnerable populations of students who might not finish their degrees without a supportive community and mentorship opportunities

== Provide Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Mentoring to Engineering Students ==

*The New Product Development Lab, housed within the College of Engineering, mostly provides rapid prototyping and design consulting services to local businesses and entrepreneurs outside the university, but is also a resource available to student entrepreneurs that is not currently well-publicized
*While Venture College's services are available to all students, and they have been expanding their reach to Computer Science majors, this services is still unknown to most engineering majors
*A goal for the future would be to implement a program which partners engineering students with ideas with mentors from the local entrepreneurship community and/or students from the Business College to help them work toward commercializing their ideas (or co-developing ideas for new ventures)

= Strategy #2: Promote Collaboration Across Disciplines on Campus =

== Promote New and Existing Spaces for Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Idea Generation and Work Toward Making More ==

*The Honors College provides dorms and multi-disciplinary classes to connect students from different majors
*Some Living-Learning Communities offer cross-disciplinary themes such as fitness, while some are major- or college-specific.
*The MakerLab is a makerspace hosted in the Boise State Library and run by librarians and student employees.  This space is very user-driven, and offers student- and staff-led workshops on technologies such as arduinos and 3D printing.  Students can print designs for free on the two 3D printers.

== Host a TEDx Boise Viewing Party ==

*TEDx tickets are often outside the price range of interested students
*Hosting a live streaming event of the talks would be a great opportunity to foster collaboration and creativity among a group of interested students
*This could be a good "hook" to get students into the event, where we could then direct them to other on- and off-campus resources

= Strategy #3: Increase Overall Student Awareness of I&E Concepts and Resources =

== Create a Website for I&E Resources ==

*Create a one-page website with links to relevant resources on and off campus
*Publish through the College of Innovation and Design's website
*Advertise the website in department email newsletters across campus
*Try to get a link put on students' my.Boisestate pages

== Freshmen Orientation Design Thinking Pop-Up ==

*Create a design thinking pop-up program as part of freshmen orientation
*Engage students to think about what they want to do in terms of a mission, not just a major

== Integrate Design Thinking Concepts into University Foundations Courses ==

*All incoming Boise State students are required to take these courses
*Each section explores a different concept (e.g. "The History and Future of Education", "Invention and Discovery")
*While innovation is a core part of the mission of the UF program, design thinking is not an explicit part of the curriculum of most sections right now
*This might be another great place to introduce I&E concepts to freshmen

== Reach Out to Underserved Groups Through the Institute for STEM and Diversity ==

*The Institute for STEM and Diversity runs a number of programs aimed at underserved populations such as minorities and students who are the first in their families to go to college
*This could be a great connection to reach out to these populations, who might not otherwise be reached

= Strategy #4: Provide Feedback Mechanisms for Students to Give Input to the University Administration =

== Implement a student satisfaction survey ==

*The overall intent of this survey would be to gather a significant amount of data on what actual students think of our ideas and of what is currently available on campus right now, to help ground our mission for change in facts and figures
*The use of a Likert scale (e.g. Very good, good, neutral, bad, very bad) could allow students to rate various aspects of their experience (e.g. I&E resources, quality of education, value for tuition, quality of faculty overall, internship and job opportunities, etc.)
*This survey could be dynamic (e.g. questions could change based on identifiers such as major, part-time/full-time, etc.) to gather specific data about different parts of the student population
*Open-ended feedback could allow us to gather new ideas about what students are interested in

== Host an event to generate student ideas for campus improvements ==

*This could be a workshop, or more of a design sprint or hackathon
*We could break out into small teams and document feedback
*A streamlined report could be addressed to the university administration
*Our partnerships with the MakerLab and College of Innovation and Design could provide conduits to implement some ideas

== Provide a social feedback system ==

*Allow students to submit ideas for improving campus online
*Each idea/thread can be upvoted or downvoted and allows comments
*Top upvoted ideas for a given period can be candidates for implementation, or at least get a response from the university administration
*Another approach for an online community could be a slack channe.  A Boise State slack channel already exists, but is not well-publicized outside of the MakerLab and Computer Science communities.

= Related Links =

[[Boise State University]]

'''Boise State University Student Priorities'''

University Innovation Fellows

Spring 2016:

[[Ann Delaney]]

[[Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Sienna_George|Sienna George]]

[[Alexander_Schloss|Alexander Schloss]]

[[Donovan_Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|b]]

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

2016-10-20T22:24:33Z

Alexanderschloss: /* Strategy #3: Increase Overall Student Awareness of I&E Concepts and Resources */

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbHu8HA4Ifw&feature=youtu.be Boise State University - Fall 2016 - Project Pitch ]

= Strategy #1: Increase Awareness of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering =

== Engineering & Innovation Living-Learning Community ==

*Freshmen students with majors in the College of Innovation and Design and the College of Engineering live together and take a class which involves community service and team building, as well as aspects of the different majors encompassed by CID and Engineering.
*This Living-Learning Community (LLC) was just established (formerly it was only engineering students), and thus could be a great place to prototype the implementation of I&E concepts and engage freshmen with these ideas
*This is also a great place to test the effectiveness of LLCs in creating a community across disciplines

== Introduce I&E Concepts in Introduction to Engineering Classes ==

*All incoming freshmen engineering students are required to take ENGR 120 (Introduction to Engineering) or ENGR 130 (Introduction to Engineering Applications)
*These courses are project-based, and teach students about engineering disciplines, as well as developing critical thinking and provides a "design-oriented engineering experience"
*ENGR 130 involves a service project where students work with a client from the community to apply the engineering design process to solve a problem
*While some design thinking is already a part of these courses, there could be room for the addition of more explicity human-centered design principles into the curriculum
*This could also be a platform to introduce engineering students to entrepreneurship concepts to which they may not otherwise be exposed 

== Promote Growth of Vertically Integrated Projects ==

*The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program unites undergraduate education and faculty research in a team-based context
*Undergraduate VIP students earn academic credits, while faculty and graduate students benefit from the design/discovery efforts of their teams
*The Boise State University VIP program is part of a broad national and international consortium of universities
*While this program already exists in an early phase, more work remains to create campus-wide awareness about the vision and purpose of Vertically Integrated Projects in order to attract students and faculty to participate in current and new projects
*This program presents an inherent opportunity for a culture of I&E to thrive in a community of students and faculty from different disciplines across campus
*VIP projects differ from a traditional research lab setting in that the experiences, interests, and abilities of all members - faculty and students alike - are valued equally
*Close-knit VIP teams provide an opportunity to support vulnerable populations of students who might not finish their degrees without a supportive community and mentorship opportunities

== Provide Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Mentoring to Engineering Students ==

*The New Product Development Lab, housed within the College of Engineering, mostly provides rapid prototyping and design consulting services to local businesses and entrepreneurs outside the university, but is also a resource available to student entrepreneurs that is not currently well-publicized
*While Venture College's services are available to all students, and they have been expanding their reach to Computer Science majors, this services is still unknown to most engineering majors
*A goal for the future would be to implement a program which partners engineering students with ideas with mentors from the local entrepreneurship community and/or students from the Business College to help them work toward commercializing their ideas (or co-developing ideas for new ventures)

= Strategy #2: Building Resilience, Belonging and Esteem =

== Create and Integrate a Protected Class Period for Students Within Each Department for only Pro-Social or Self-Discovery Activities ==

*The Honors College provides dorms and multi-disciplinary classes to connect students from different majors
*Some Living-Learning Communities offer cross-disciplinary themes such as fitness, while some are major- or college-specific.
*The MakerLab is a makerspace hosted in the Boise State Library and run by librarians and student employees.  This space is very user-driven, and offers student- and staff-led workshops on technologies such as arduinos and 3D printing.  Students can print designs for free on the two 3D printers.

== Integrate Themes of Self-Care and Self-Awareness into Syllabi ==

*[in progress]
*[in progress]
*[in progress]

= Strategy #3: Increase Overall Student Awareness of I&E Concepts and Resources =

== Create a Website for I&E Resources ==

*Create a one-page website with links to relevant resources on and off campus
*Publish through the College of Innovation and Design's website
*Advertise the website in department email newsletters across campus
*Try to get a link put on students' my.Boisestate pages

== Freshmen Orientation Design Thinking Pop-Up ==

*Create a design thinking pop-up program as part of freshmen orientation
*Engage students to think about what they want to do in terms of a mission, not just a major

== Integrate Design Thinking Concepts into University Foundations Courses ==

*All incoming Boise State students are required to take these courses
*Each section explores a different concept (e.g. "The History and Future of Education", "Invention and Discovery")
*While innovation is a core part of the mission of the UF program, design thinking is not an explicit part of the curriculum of most sections right now
*This might be another great place to introduce I&E concepts to freshmen

== Reach Out to Underserved Groups Through the Institute for STEM and Diversity ==

*The Institute for STEM and Diversity runs a number of programs aimed at underserved populations such as minorities and students who are the first in their families to go to college
*This could be a great connection to reach out to these populations, who might not otherwise be reached

= Strategy #4: Provide Feedback Mechanisms for Students to Give Input to the University Administration =

== Implement a student satisfaction survey ==

*The overall intent of this survey would be to gather a significant amount of data on what actual students think of our ideas and of what is currently available on campus right now, to help ground our mission for change in facts and figures
*The use of a Likert scale (e.g. Very good, good, neutral, bad, very bad) could allow students to rate various aspects of their experience (e.g. I&E resources, quality of education, value for tuition, quality of faculty overall, internship and job opportunities, etc.)
*This survey could be dynamic (e.g. questions could change based on identifiers such as major, part-time/full-time, etc.) to gather specific data about different parts of the student population
*Open-ended feedback could allow us to gather new ideas about what students are interested in

== Host an event to generate student ideas for campus improvements ==

*This could be a workshop, or more of a design sprint or hackathon
*We could break out into small teams and document feedback
*A streamlined report could be addressed to the university administration
*Our partnerships with the MakerLab and College of Innovation and Design could provide conduits to implement some ideas

== Provide a social feedback system ==

*Allow students to submit ideas for improving campus online
*Each idea/thread can be upvoted or downvoted and allows comments
*Top upvoted ideas for a given period can be candidates for implementation, or at least get a response from the university administration
*Another approach for an online community could be a slack channe.  A Boise State slack channel already exists, but is not well-publicized outside of the MakerLab and Computer Science communities.

= Related Links =

[[Boise State University]]

'''Boise State University Student Priorities'''

University Innovation Fellows

Spring 2016:

[[Ann Delaney]]

[[Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Sienna_George|Sienna George]]

[[Alexander_Schloss|Alexander Schloss]]

[[Donovan_Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|b]]

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

2016-10-20T22:24:09Z

Alexanderschloss: /* Strategy #2: Building Resilience, Belonging and Esteem */

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbHu8HA4Ifw&feature=youtu.be Boise State University - Fall 2016 - Project Pitch ]

= Strategy #1: Increase Awareness of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering =

== Engineering & Innovation Living-Learning Community ==

*Freshmen students with majors in the College of Innovation and Design and the College of Engineering live together and take a class which involves community service and team building, as well as aspects of the different majors encompassed by CID and Engineering.
*This Living-Learning Community (LLC) was just established (formerly it was only engineering students), and thus could be a great place to prototype the implementation of I&E concepts and engage freshmen with these ideas
*This is also a great place to test the effectiveness of LLCs in creating a community across disciplines

== Introduce I&E Concepts in Introduction to Engineering Classes ==

*All incoming freshmen engineering students are required to take ENGR 120 (Introduction to Engineering) or ENGR 130 (Introduction to Engineering Applications)
*These courses are project-based, and teach students about engineering disciplines, as well as developing critical thinking and provides a "design-oriented engineering experience"
*ENGR 130 involves a service project where students work with a client from the community to apply the engineering design process to solve a problem
*While some design thinking is already a part of these courses, there could be room for the addition of more explicity human-centered design principles into the curriculum
*This could also be a platform to introduce engineering students to entrepreneurship concepts to which they may not otherwise be exposed 

== Promote Growth of Vertically Integrated Projects ==

*The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program unites undergraduate education and faculty research in a team-based context
*Undergraduate VIP students earn academic credits, while faculty and graduate students benefit from the design/discovery efforts of their teams
*The Boise State University VIP program is part of a broad national and international consortium of universities
*While this program already exists in an early phase, more work remains to create campus-wide awareness about the vision and purpose of Vertically Integrated Projects in order to attract students and faculty to participate in current and new projects
*This program presents an inherent opportunity for a culture of I&E to thrive in a community of students and faculty from different disciplines across campus
*VIP projects differ from a traditional research lab setting in that the experiences, interests, and abilities of all members - faculty and students alike - are valued equally
*Close-knit VIP teams provide an opportunity to support vulnerable populations of students who might not finish their degrees without a supportive community and mentorship opportunities

== Provide Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Mentoring to Engineering Students ==

*The New Product Development Lab, housed within the College of Engineering, mostly provides rapid prototyping and design consulting services to local businesses and entrepreneurs outside the university, but is also a resource available to student entrepreneurs that is not currently well-publicized
*While Venture College's services are available to all students, and they have been expanding their reach to Computer Science majors, this services is still unknown to most engineering majors
*A goal for the future would be to implement a program which partners engineering students with ideas with mentors from the local entrepreneurship community and/or students from the Business College to help them work toward commercializing their ideas (or co-developing ideas for new ventures)

= Strategy #2: Building Resilience, Belonging and Esteem =

== Create and Integrate a Protected Class Period for Students Within Each Department for only Pro-Social or Self-Discovery Activities ==

*The Honors College provides dorms and multi-disciplinary classes to connect students from different majors
*Some Living-Learning Communities offer cross-disciplinary themes such as fitness, while some are major- or college-specific.
*The MakerLab is a makerspace hosted in the Boise State Library and run by librarians and student employees.  This space is very user-driven, and offers student- and staff-led workshops on technologies such as arduinos and 3D printing.  Students can print designs for free on the two 3D printers.

== Integrate Themes of Self-Care and Self-Awareness into Syllabi ==

*[in progress]
*[in progress]
*[in progress]

= Strategy #3: Increase Overall Student Awareness of I&E Concepts and Resources =

== Create a Website for I&E Resources ==

*Create a one-page website with links to relevant resources on and off campus
*Publish through the College of Innovation and Design's website
*Advertise the website in department email newsletters across campus
*Try to get a link put on students' my.Boisestate pages

== Freshmen Orientation Design Thinking Pop-Up ==

*Create a design thinking pop-up program as part of freshmen orientation
*Engage students to think about what they want to do in terms of a mission, not just a major

== Integrate Design Thinking Concepts into University Foundations Courses ==

*All incoming Boise State students are required to take these courses
*Each section explores a different concept (e.g. "The History and Future of Education", "Invention and Discovery")
*While innovation is a core part of the mission of the UF program, design thinking is not an explicit part of the curriculum of most sections right now
*This might be another great place to introduce I&E concepts to freshmen

== Reach Out to Underserved Groups Through the Institute for STEM and Diversity ==

*The Institute for STEM and Diversity runs a number of programs aimed at underserved populations such as minorities and students who are the first in their families to go to college
*This could be a great connection to reach out to these populations, who might not otherwise be reached

= Related Links =

[[Boise State University]]

'''Boise State University Student Priorities'''

University Innovation Fellows

Spring 2016:

[[Ann Delaney]]

[[Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Sienna_George|Sienna George]]

[[Alexander_Schloss|Alexander Schloss]]

[[Donovan_Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|b]]

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

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Alexanderschloss: /* Provide Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Mentoring to Engineering Students */

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

2016-10-20T20:55:40Z

Alexanderschloss: /* Promote Growth of Vertically Integrated Projects */

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

2016-10-20T20:55:26Z

Alexanderschloss: /* Introduce I&E Concepts in Introduction to Engineering Classes */

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

2016-10-20T20:55:11Z

Alexanderschloss: /* Engineering & Innovation Living-Learning Community */

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

2016-10-20T20:54:52Z

Alexanderschloss: /* Create and Integrate a Protected Class Period for Students Within Each Department for only Pro-Social or Self-Discovery Activities */

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

2016-10-20T20:54:39Z

Alexanderschloss: /* Host a TEDx Boise Viewing Party */

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

2016-10-20T20:53:34Z

Alexanderschloss: /* Strategy #2: Promote Collaboration Across Disciplines on Campus */

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

2016-10-20T20:47:56Z

Alexanderschloss: /* Strategy #4: Provide Feedback Mechanisms for Students to Give Input to the University Administration */

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

2016-10-20T20:47:36Z

Alexanderschloss: /* Strategy #3: Increase Overall Student Awareness of I&E Concepts and Resources */

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbHu8HA4Ifw&feature=youtu.be Boise State University - Fall 2016 - Project Pitch ]

= Strategy #1: Multidisciplinary Student-teams Showcase + Pitch New Models of Education =

== Engineering & Innovation Living-Learning Community ==

*Freshmen students with majors in the College of Innovation and Design and the College of Engineering live together and take a class which involves community service and team building, as well as aspects of the different majors encompassed by CID and Engineering.
*This Living-Learning Community (LLC) was just established (formerly it was only engineering students), and thus could be a great place to prototype the implementation of I&E concepts and engage freshmen with these ideas
*This is also a great place to test the effectiveness of LLCs in creating a community across disciplines

== Introduce I&E Concepts in Introduction to Engineering Classes ==

*All incoming freshmen engineering students are required to take ENGR 120 (Introduction to Engineering) or ENGR 130 (Introduction to Engineering Applications)
*These courses are project-based, and teach students about engineering disciplines, as well as developing critical thinking and provides a "design-oriented engineering experience"
*ENGR 130 involves a service project where students work with a client from the community to apply the engineering design process to solve a problem
*While some design thinking is already a part of these courses, there could be room for the addition of more explicity human-centered design principles into the curriculum
*This could also be a platform to introduce engineering students to entrepreneurship concepts to which they may not otherwise be exposed 

== Promote Growth of Vertically Integrated Projects ==

*The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program unites undergraduate education and faculty research in a team-based context
*Undergraduate VIP students earn academic credits, while faculty and graduate students benefit from the design/discovery efforts of their teams
*The Boise State University VIP program is part of a broad national and international consortium of universities
*While this program already exists in an early phase, more work remains to create campus-wide awareness about the vision and purpose of Vertically Integrated Projects in order to attract students and faculty to participate in current and new projects
*This program presents an inherent opportunity for a culture of I&E to thrive in a community of students and faculty from different disciplines across campus
*VIP projects differ from a traditional research lab setting in that the experiences, interests, and abilities of all members - faculty and students alike - are valued equally
*Close-knit VIP teams provide an opportunity to support vulnerable populations of students who might not finish their degrees without a supportive community and mentorship opportunities

== Provide Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Mentoring to Engineering Students ==

*The New Product Development Lab, housed within the College of Engineering, mostly provides rapid prototyping and design consulting services to local businesses and entrepreneurs outside the university, but is also a resource available to student entrepreneurs that is not currently well-publicized
*While Venture College's services are available to all students, and they have been expanding their reach to Computer Science majors, this services is still unknown to most engineering majors
*A goal for the future would be to implement a program which partners engineering students with ideas with mentors from the local entrepreneurship community and/or students from the Business College to help them work toward commercializing their ideas (or co-developing ideas for new ventures)

= Strategy #2: Promote Collaboration Across Disciplines on Campus =

== Promote New and Existing Spaces for Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Idea Generation and Work Toward Making More ==

*The Honors College provides dorms and multi-disciplinary classes to connect students from different majors
*Some Living-Learning Communities offer cross-disciplinary themes such as fitness, while some are major- or college-specific.
*The MakerLab is a makerspace hosted in the Boise State Library and run by librarians and student employees.  This space is very user-driven, and offers student- and staff-led workshops on technologies such as arduinos and 3D printing.  Students can print designs for free on the two 3D printers.

== Host a TEDx Boise Viewing Party ==

*TEDx tickets are often outside the price range of interested students
*Hosting a live streaming event of the talks would be a great opportunity to foster collaboration and creativity among a group of interested students
*This could be a good "hook" to get students into the event, where we could then direct them to other on- and off-campus resources

= Strategy #4: Provide Feedback Mechanisms for Students to Give Input to the University Administration =

== Implement a student satisfaction survey ==

*The overall intent of this survey would be to gather a significant amount of data on what actual students think of our ideas and of what is currently available on campus right now, to help ground our mission for change in facts and figures
*The use of a Likert scale (e.g. Very good, good, neutral, bad, very bad) could allow students to rate various aspects of their experience (e.g. I&E resources, quality of education, value for tuition, quality of faculty overall, internship and job opportunities, etc.)
*This survey could be dynamic (e.g. questions could change based on identifiers such as major, part-time/full-time, etc.) to gather specific data about different parts of the student population
*Open-ended feedback could allow us to gather new ideas about what students are interested in

== Host an event to generate student ideas for campus improvements ==

*This could be a workshop, or more of a design sprint or hackathon
*We could break out into small teams and document feedback
*A streamlined report could be addressed to the university administration
*Our partnerships with the MakerLab and College of Innovation and Design could provide conduits to implement some ideas

== Provide a social feedback system ==

*Allow students to submit ideas for improving campus online
*Each idea/thread can be upvoted or downvoted and allows comments
*Top upvoted ideas for a given period can be candidates for implementation, or at least get a response from the university administration
*Another approach for an online community could be a slack channe.  A Boise State slack channel already exists, but is not well-publicized outside of the MakerLab and Computer Science communities.

= Related Links =

[[Boise State University]]

'''Boise State University Student Priorities'''

University Innovation Fellows

Spring 2016:

[[Ann Delaney]]

[[Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Sienna_George|Sienna George]]

[[Alexander_Schloss|Alexander Schloss]]

[[Donovan_Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|b]]

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

2016-10-20T20:46:46Z

Alexanderschloss: /* Strategy #1: Multidisciplinary Student-teams Showcase + Pitch New Models of Education */

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbHu8HA4Ifw&feature=youtu.be Boise State University - Fall 2016 - Project Pitch ]

= Strategy #1: Multidisciplinary Student-teams Showcase + Pitch New Models of Education =

== Engineering & Innovation Living-Learning Community ==

*Freshmen students with majors in the College of Innovation and Design and the College of Engineering live together and take a class which involves community service and team building, as well as aspects of the different majors encompassed by CID and Engineering.
*This Living-Learning Community (LLC) was just established (formerly it was only engineering students), and thus could be a great place to prototype the implementation of I&E concepts and engage freshmen with these ideas
*This is also a great place to test the effectiveness of LLCs in creating a community across disciplines

== Introduce I&E Concepts in Introduction to Engineering Classes ==

*All incoming freshmen engineering students are required to take ENGR 120 (Introduction to Engineering) or ENGR 130 (Introduction to Engineering Applications)
*These courses are project-based, and teach students about engineering disciplines, as well as developing critical thinking and provides a "design-oriented engineering experience"
*ENGR 130 involves a service project where students work with a client from the community to apply the engineering design process to solve a problem
*While some design thinking is already a part of these courses, there could be room for the addition of more explicity human-centered design principles into the curriculum
*This could also be a platform to introduce engineering students to entrepreneurship concepts to which they may not otherwise be exposed 

== Promote Growth of Vertically Integrated Projects ==

*The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program unites undergraduate education and faculty research in a team-based context
*Undergraduate VIP students earn academic credits, while faculty and graduate students benefit from the design/discovery efforts of their teams
*The Boise State University VIP program is part of a broad national and international consortium of universities
*While this program already exists in an early phase, more work remains to create campus-wide awareness about the vision and purpose of Vertically Integrated Projects in order to attract students and faculty to participate in current and new projects
*This program presents an inherent opportunity for a culture of I&E to thrive in a community of students and faculty from different disciplines across campus
*VIP projects differ from a traditional research lab setting in that the experiences, interests, and abilities of all members - faculty and students alike - are valued equally
*Close-knit VIP teams provide an opportunity to support vulnerable populations of students who might not finish their degrees without a supportive community and mentorship opportunities

== Provide Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Mentoring to Engineering Students ==

*The New Product Development Lab, housed within the College of Engineering, mostly provides rapid prototyping and design consulting services to local businesses and entrepreneurs outside the university, but is also a resource available to student entrepreneurs that is not currently well-publicized
*While Venture College's services are available to all students, and they have been expanding their reach to Computer Science majors, this services is still unknown to most engineering majors
*A goal for the future would be to implement a program which partners engineering students with ideas with mentors from the local entrepreneurship community and/or students from the Business College to help them work toward commercializing their ideas (or co-developing ideas for new ventures)

= Strategy #2: Promote Collaboration Across Disciplines on Campus =

== Promote New and Existing Spaces for Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Idea Generation and Work Toward Making More ==

*The Honors College provides dorms and multi-disciplinary classes to connect students from different majors
*Some Living-Learning Communities offer cross-disciplinary themes such as fitness, while some are major- or college-specific.
*The MakerLab is a makerspace hosted in the Boise State Library and run by librarians and student employees.  This space is very user-driven, and offers student- and staff-led workshops on technologies such as arduinos and 3D printing.  Students can print designs for free on the two 3D printers.

== Host a TEDx Boise Viewing Party ==

*TEDx tickets are often outside the price range of interested students
*Hosting a live streaming event of the talks would be a great opportunity to foster collaboration and creativity among a group of interested students
*This could be a good "hook" to get students into the event, where we could then direct them to other on- and off-campus resources

= Strategy #3: Increase Overall Student Awareness of I&E Concepts and Resources =

== Create a Website for I&E Resources ==

*Create a one-page website with links to relevant resources on and off campus
*Publish through the College of Innovation and Design's website
*Advertise the website in department email newsletters across campus
*Try to get a link put on students' my.Boisestate pages

== Freshmen Orientation Design Thinking Pop-Up ==

*Create a design thinking pop-up program as part of freshmen orientation
*Engage students to think about what they want to do in terms of a mission, not just a major

== Integrate Design Thinking Concepts into University Foundations Courses ==

*All incoming Boise State students are required to take these courses
*Each section explores a different concept (e.g. "The History and Future of Education", "Invention and Discovery")
*While innovation is a core part of the mission of the UF program, design thinking is not an explicit part of the curriculum of most sections right now
*This might be another great place to introduce I&E concepts to freshmen

== Reach Out to Underserved Groups Through the Institute for STEM and Diversity ==

*The Institute for STEM and Diversity runs a number of programs aimed at underserved populations such as minorities and students who are the first in their families to go to college
*This could be a great connection to reach out to these populations, who might not otherwise be reached

= Strategy #4: Provide Feedback Mechanisms for Students to Give Input to the University Administration =

== Implement a student satisfaction survey ==

*The overall intent of this survey would be to gather a significant amount of data on what actual students think of our ideas and of what is currently available on campus right now, to help ground our mission for change in facts and figures
*The use of a Likert scale (e.g. Very good, good, neutral, bad, very bad) could allow students to rate various aspects of their experience (e.g. I&E resources, quality of education, value for tuition, quality of faculty overall, internship and job opportunities, etc.)
*This survey could be dynamic (e.g. questions could change based on identifiers such as major, part-time/full-time, etc.) to gather specific data about different parts of the student population
*Open-ended feedback could allow us to gather new ideas about what students are interested in

== Host an event to generate student ideas for campus improvements ==

*This could be a workshop, or more of a design sprint or hackathon
*We could break out into small teams and document feedback
*A streamlined report could be addressed to the university administration
*Our partnerships with the MakerLab and College of Innovation and Design could provide conduits to implement some ideas

== Provide a social feedback system ==

*Allow students to submit ideas for improving campus online
*Each idea/thread can be upvoted or downvoted and allows comments
*Top upvoted ideas for a given period can be candidates for implementation, or at least get a response from the university administration
*Another approach for an online community could be a slack channe.  A Boise State slack channel already exists, but is not well-publicized outside of the MakerLab and Computer Science communities.

= Related Links =

[[Boise State University]]

'''Boise State University Student Priorities'''

University Innovation Fellows

Spring 2016:

[[Ann Delaney]]

[[Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Sienna_George|Sienna George]]

[[Alexander_Schloss|Alexander Schloss]]

[[Donovan_Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|b]]

Fellow:Alexander Schloss

2016-10-20T20:38:27Z

Alexanderschloss: /* Alexander is a Master of Social Work student at Boise State University. This past summer, he finished his graduate placement with St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. This year (his final year of graduate school), he will work with the veteran com...

[[File:AlexanderSchlossProf.jpg|border|center|AlexanderSchlossProf.jpg]]

== <cite>"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."</cite> ==
<div> </div>
== Alexander is a Master of Social Work student at Boise State University. This past summer, he finished his graduate placement with St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. This year (his final year of graduate school), he will work with the veteran community at the Boise VA Medical Center. Before attending Boise State University, Alexander worked with students on the Autism Spectrum for a year and a half. Afterwards, he lived in Japan for four years, teaching English to junior high school students in one of Japan's smallest cities. Despite his short time there, he has continued to develop numerous lifelong relationships with teachers, students and members of the community. Currently, one of Alexander's passions is his research into cutting edge therapeutic interventions that use emerging technologies to treat PTSD. He is also interested in working with schools to develop support systems that can effectively increase retention of gifted students and is working with other students to develop a set of guidelines for the growth of Boise State University's makerspace culture. When he is not studying, Alexander can be found playing with his Corgi, studying Japanese, reading Science Fiction or playing video games with his wife. If you have any questions, book recommendations or thoughts on why Die Hard is the greatest Christmas movie of all time, feel free to e-mail him at [Alexander.Schloss@gmail.com] ==

= Related Links =

[[Boise State University|Boise State University]]

[[Boise State University Student Priorities|Boise State University Student Priorities]]

Spring 2016:

[[Ann Delaney|Ann Delaney]]

[[Kelly Schutt|Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward|Rebecka Steward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Donovan Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Sienna George|Sienna George]]

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

2016-10-20T20:32:05Z

Alexanderschloss: /* Project Pitch Video */

Priorities:Boise State University Student Priorities

2016-10-20T20:31:53Z

Alexanderschloss: /* Project Pitch Video */

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbHu8HA4Ifw&feature=youtu.be Boise State University - Spring 2016 - Project Pitch ]

= Strategy #1: Increase Awareness of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering =

== Engineering & Innovation Living-Learning Community ==

*Freshmen students with majors in the College of Innovation and Design and the College of Engineering live together and take a class which involves community service and team building, as well as aspects of the different majors encompassed by CID and Engineering.
*This Living-Learning Community (LLC) was just established (formerly it was only engineering students), and thus could be a great place to prototype the implementation of I&E concepts and engage freshmen with these ideas
*This is also a great place to test the effectiveness of LLCs in creating a community across disciplines

== Introduce I&E Concepts in Introduction to Engineering Classes ==

*All incoming freshmen engineering students are required to take ENGR 120 (Introduction to Engineering) or ENGR 130 (Introduction to Engineering Applications)
*These courses are project-based, and teach students about engineering disciplines, as well as developing critical thinking and provides a "design-oriented engineering experience"
*ENGR 130 involves a service project where students work with a client from the community to apply the engineering design process to solve a problem
*While some design thinking is already a part of these courses, there could be room for the addition of more explicity human-centered design principles into the curriculum
*This could also be a platform to introduce engineering students to entrepreneurship concepts to which they may not otherwise be exposed 

== Promote Growth of Vertically Integrated Projects ==

*The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program unites undergraduate education and faculty research in a team-based context
*Undergraduate VIP students earn academic credits, while faculty and graduate students benefit from the design/discovery efforts of their teams
*The Boise State University VIP program is part of a broad national and international consortium of universities
*While this program already exists in an early phase, more work remains to create campus-wide awareness about the vision and purpose of Vertically Integrated Projects in order to attract students and faculty to participate in current and new projects
*This program presents an inherent opportunity for a culture of I&E to thrive in a community of students and faculty from different disciplines across campus
*VIP projects differ from a traditional research lab setting in that the experiences, interests, and abilities of all members - faculty and students alike - are valued equally
*Close-knit VIP teams provide an opportunity to support vulnerable populations of students who might not finish their degrees without a supportive community and mentorship opportunities

== Provide Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Mentoring to Engineering Students ==

*The New Product Development Lab, housed within the College of Engineering, mostly provides rapid prototyping and design consulting services to local businesses and entrepreneurs outside the university, but is also a resource available to student entrepreneurs that is not currently well-publicized
*While Venture College's services are available to all students, and they have been expanding their reach to Computer Science majors, this services is still unknown to most engineering majors
*A goal for the future would be to implement a program which partners engineering students with ideas with mentors from the local entrepreneurship community and/or students from the Business College to help them work toward commercializing their ideas (or co-developing ideas for new ventures)

= Strategy #2: Promote Collaboration Across Disciplines on Campus =

== Promote New and Existing Spaces for Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Idea Generation and Work Toward Making More ==

*The Honors College provides dorms and multi-disciplinary classes to connect students from different majors
*Some Living-Learning Communities offer cross-disciplinary themes such as fitness, while some are major- or college-specific.
*The MakerLab is a makerspace hosted in the Boise State Library and run by librarians and student employees.  This space is very user-driven, and offers student- and staff-led workshops on technologies such as arduinos and 3D printing.  Students can print designs for free on the two 3D printers.

== Host a TEDx Boise Viewing Party ==

*TEDx tickets are often outside the price range of interested students
*Hosting a live streaming event of the talks would be a great opportunity to foster collaboration and creativity among a group of interested students
*This could be a good "hook" to get students into the event, where we could then direct them to other on- and off-campus resources

= Strategy #3: Increase Overall Student Awareness of I&E Concepts and Resources =

== Create a Website for I&E Resources ==

*Create a one-page website with links to relevant resources on and off campus
*Publish through the College of Innovation and Design's website
*Advertise the website in department email newsletters across campus
*Try to get a link put on students' my.Boisestate pages

== Freshmen Orientation Design Thinking Pop-Up ==

*Create a design thinking pop-up program as part of freshmen orientation
*Engage students to think about what they want to do in terms of a mission, not just a major

== Integrate Design Thinking Concepts into University Foundations Courses ==

*All incoming Boise State students are required to take these courses
*Each section explores a different concept (e.g. "The History and Future of Education", "Invention and Discovery")
*While innovation is a core part of the mission of the UF program, design thinking is not an explicit part of the curriculum of most sections right now
*This might be another great place to introduce I&E concepts to freshmen

== Reach Out to Underserved Groups Through the Institute for STEM and Diversity ==

*The Institute for STEM and Diversity runs a number of programs aimed at underserved populations such as minorities and students who are the first in their families to go to college
*This could be a great connection to reach out to these populations, who might not otherwise be reached

= Strategy #4: Provide Feedback Mechanisms for Students to Give Input to the University Administration =

== Implement a student satisfaction survey ==

*The overall intent of this survey would be to gather a significant amount of data on what actual students think of our ideas and of what is currently available on campus right now, to help ground our mission for change in facts and figures
*The use of a Likert scale (e.g. Very good, good, neutral, bad, very bad) could allow students to rate various aspects of their experience (e.g. I&E resources, quality of education, value for tuition, quality of faculty overall, internship and job opportunities, etc.)
*This survey could be dynamic (e.g. questions could change based on identifiers such as major, part-time/full-time, etc.) to gather specific data about different parts of the student population
*Open-ended feedback could allow us to gather new ideas about what students are interested in

== Host an event to generate student ideas for campus improvements ==

*This could be a workshop, or more of a design sprint or hackathon
*We could break out into small teams and document feedback
*A streamlined report could be addressed to the university administration
*Our partnerships with the MakerLab and College of Innovation and Design could provide conduits to implement some ideas

== Provide a social feedback system ==

*Allow students to submit ideas for improving campus online
*Each idea/thread can be upvoted or downvoted and allows comments
*Top upvoted ideas for a given period can be candidates for implementation, or at least get a response from the university administration
*Another approach for an online community could be a slack channe.  A Boise State slack channel already exists, but is not well-publicized outside of the MakerLab and Computer Science communities.

= Related Links =

[[Boise State University]]

'''Boise State University Student Priorities'''

University Innovation Fellows

Spring 2016:

[[Ann Delaney]]

[[Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Sienna_George|Sienna George]]

[[Alexander_Schloss|Alexander Schloss]]

[[Donovan_Kay|Donovan Kay]]

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Fellow:Alexander Schloss

2016-10-20T02:17:05Z

Alexanderschloss:

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== <cite>"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."</cite> ==
<div> </div>

== Alexander is a Master of Social Work student at Boise State University. This past summer, he finished his graduate placement with St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. This year (his final year of graduate school), he will work with the veteran community at the Boise VA Medical Center. Before attending Boise State University, Alexander worked with students on the Autism Spectrum for a year and a half. Afterwards, he lived in Japan for four years, teaching English to junior high school students in one of Japan's smallest cities. Despite his short time there, he has continued to develop numerous lifelong relationships with teachers, students and members of the community. Currently, one of Alexander's passions is his research into cutting edge therapeutic interventions that use emerging technologies to treat PTSD. He is also interested in working with schools to develop support systems that can effectively increase retention of gifted students and is working with other students to develop a set of guidelines for the growth of Boise State University's makerspace culture. When he is not studying, Alexander can be found playing with his Corgi, studying Japanese, reading Science Fiction or playing video games with his wife. If you have any questions, book recommendations or thoughts on why Die Hard is the greatest Christmas movie of all time, feel free to e-mail him at Alexander.Schloss@gmail.com ==



Fall:2015

[[Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Donovan Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Sienna George|Sienna George]]

Fellow:Alexander Schloss

2016-10-20T02:16:21Z

Alexanderschloss:

[[File:AlexanderSchlossProf.jpg|border|center|AlexanderSchlossProf.jpg]]

== <cite>"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."</cite> ==
<div> </div>

== Alexander is a Master of Social Work student at Boise State University. This past summer, he finished his graduate placement with St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. This year (his final year of graduate school), he will work with the veteran community at the Boise VA Medical Center. Before attending Boise State University, Alexander worked with students on the Autism Spectrum for a year and a half. Afterwards, he lived in Japan for four years, teaching English to junior high school students in one of Japan's smallest cities. Despite his short time there, he has continued to develop numerous lifelong relationships with teachers, students and members of the community. Currently, one of Alexander's passions is his research into cutting edge therapeutic interventions that use emerging technologies to treat PTSD. He is also interested in working with schools to develop support systems that can effectively increase retention of gifted students and is working with other students to develop a set of guidelines for the growth of Boise State University's makerspace culture. When he is not studying, Alexander can be found playing with his Corgi, studying Japanese, reading Science Fiction or playing video games with his wife. If you have any questions, book recommendations or thoughts on why Die Hard is the greatest Christmas movie of all time, feel free to e-mail him at Alexander.Schloss@gmail.com ==

Fall:2015

[[Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Donovan Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Sienna George|Sienna George]]

Fellow:Alexander Schloss

2016-10-20T02:15:16Z

Alexanderschloss:

[[File:AlexanderSchlossProf.jpg|border|center|AlexanderSchlossProf.jpg]]

== Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. ==

== Alexander is a Master of Social Work student at Boise State University. This past summer, he finished his graduate placement with St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. This year (his final year of graduate school), he will work with the veteran community at the Boise VA Medical Center. Before attending Boise State University, Alexander worked with students on the Autism Spectrum for a year and a half. Afterwards, he lived in Japan for four years, teaching English to junior high school students in one of Japan's smallest cities. Despite his short time there, he has continued to develop numerous lifelong relationships with teachers, students and members of the community. Currently, one of Alexander's passions is his research into cutting edge therapeutic interventions that use emerging technologies to treat PTSD. He is also interested in working with schools to develop support systems that can effectively increase retention of gifted students and is working with other students to develop a set of guidelines for the growth of Boise State University's makerspace culture. When he is not studying, Alexander can be found playing with his Corgi, studying Japanese, reading Science Fiction or playing video games with his wife. If you have any questions, book recommendations or thoughts on why Die Hard is the greatest Christmas movie of all time, feel free to e-mail him at Alexander.Schloss@gmail.com ==

Fall:2015

[[Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Donovan Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Sienna George|Sienna George]]

Fellow:Alexander Schloss

2016-10-20T02:15:03Z

Alexanderschloss:

[[File:AlexanderSchlossProf.jpg|border|center|AlexanderSchlossProf.jpg]]

== Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. ==

== -Viktor Frankl ==

Alexander is a Master of Social Work student at Boise State University. This past summer, he finished his graduate placement with St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. This year (his final year of graduate school), he will work with the veteran community at the Boise VA Medical Center. Before attending Boise State University, Alexander worked with students on the Autism Spectrum for a year and a half. Afterwards, he lived in Japan for four years, teaching English to junior high school students in one of Japan's smallest cities. Despite his short time there, he has continued to develop numerous lifelong relationships with teachers, students and members of the community. Currently, one of Alexander's passions is his research into cutting edge therapeutic interventions that use emerging technologies to treat PTSD. He is also interested in working with schools to develop support systems that can effectively increase retention of gifted students and is working with other students to develop a set of guidelines for the growth of Boise State University's makerspace culture. When he is not studying, Alexander can be found playing with his Corgi, studying Japanese, reading Science Fiction or playing video games with his wife. If you have any questions, book recommendations or thoughts on why Die Hard is the greatest Christmas movie of all time, feel free to e-mail him at Alexander.Schloss@gmail.com

Fall:2015

[[Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Donovan Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Sienna George|Sienna George]]

Fellow:Alexander Schloss

2016-10-20T02:14:46Z

Alexanderschloss:

[[File:AlexanderSchlossProf.jpg|border|center|AlexanderSchlossProf.jpg]]

== Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. -Viktor Frankl ==

Alexander is a Master of Social Work student at Boise State University. This past summer, he finished his graduate placement with St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. This year (his final year of graduate school), he will work with the veteran community at the Boise VA Medical Center. Before attending Boise State University, Alexander worked with students on the Autism Spectrum for a year and a half. Afterwards, he lived in Japan for four years, teaching English to junior high school students in one of Japan's smallest cities. Despite his short time there, he has continued to develop numerous lifelong relationships with teachers, students and members of the community. Currently, one of Alexander's passions is his research into cutting edge therapeutic interventions that use emerging technologies to treat PTSD. He is also interested in working with schools to develop support systems that can effectively increase retention of gifted students and is working with other students to develop a set of guidelines for the growth of Boise State University's makerspace culture. When he is not studying, Alexander can be found playing with his Corgi, studying Japanese, reading Science Fiction or playing video games with his wife. If you have any questions, book recommendations or thoughts on why Die Hard is the greatest Christmas movie of all time, feel free to e-mail him at Alexander.Schloss@gmail.com

Fall:2015

[[Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Donovan Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Sienna George|Sienna George]]

Fellow:Alexander Schloss

2016-10-20T02:12:11Z

Alexanderschloss:

[[File:AlexanderSchlossProf.jpg|border|center|AlexanderSchlossProf.jpg]]

Alexander is a Master of Social Work student at Boise State University. This past summer, he finished his graduate placement with St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. This year (his final year of graduate school), he will work with the veteran community at the Boise VA Medical Center. Before attending Boise State University, Alexander worked with students on the Autism Spectrum for a year and a half. Afterwards, he lived in Japan for four years, teaching English to junior high school students in one of Japan's smallest cities. Despite his short time there, he has continued to develop numerous lifelong relationships with teachers, students and members of the community. Currently, one of Alexander's passions is his research into cutting edge therapeutic interventions that use emerging technologies to treat PTSD. He is also interested in working with schools to develop support systems that can effectively increase retention of gifted students and is working with other students to develop a set of guidelines for the growth of Boise State University's makerspace culture. When he is not studying, Alexander can be found playing with his Corgi, studying Japanese, reading Science Fiction or playing video games with his wife. If you have any questions, book recommendations or thoughts on why Die Hard is the greatest Christmas movie of all time, feel free to e-mail him at Alexander.Schloss@gmail.com

Fall:2015

[[Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Donovan Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Sienna George|Sienna George]]

Fellow:Alexander Schloss

2016-10-20T02:08:55Z

Alexanderschloss:

Alexander is a Master of Social Work student at Boise State University. This past summer, he finished his graduate placement with St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. This year (his final year of graduate school), he will work with the veteran community at the Boise VA Medical Center. Before attending Boise State University, Alexander worked with students on the Autism Spectrum for a year and a half. Afterwards, he lived in Japan for four years, teaching English to junior high school students in one of Japan's smallest cities. Despite his short time there, he has continued to develop numerous lifelong relationships with teachers, students and members of the community. Currently, one of Alexander's passions is his research into cutting edge therapeutic interventions that use emerging technologies to treat PTSD. He is also interested in working with schools to develop support systems that can effectively increase retention of gifted students and is working with other students to develop a set of guidelines for the growth of Boise State University's makerspace culture. When he is not studying, Alexander can be found playing with his Corgi, studying Japanese, reading Science Fiction or playing video games with his wife. If you have any questions, book recommendations or thoughts on why Die Hard is the greatest Christmas movie of all time, feel free to e-mail him at Alexander.Schloss@gmail.com

Fall:2015

[[Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward]]

Fall 2016:

[[Donovan Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Sienna George|Sienna George]]

File:AlexanderSchlossProf.jpg

2016-10-20T02:07:32Z

Alexanderschloss:

Fellow:Sienna George

2016-10-20T02:02:35Z

Alexanderschloss: Sienna George

Sienna George is a junior at Boise State University where she is pursuing a degree in Communication and a minor in Sociology while also working as the Creative Marketing Specialist for The College of Innovation + Design, serving as a Student Assembly member for the Associated Students of Boise State University, creating instituionalized programing for all first year students regarding sexual assault prevention and consent, spending time with her Alpha Xi Delta sorority sisters, and launching a business venture to teach empathy and compassion to high school students. After facing countless board rooms filled with adults who doubted her and her friends' ability to create change as high school students, Sienna spent 1,5000 hours serving as a board member for the student-run nonprofit, One Stone, where she and her peers led human-centered and design-thinking-inspired service projects. As a senior in high school, Sienna founded Brave Empowerment Network-- a collaboration between student leaders to promote and encourage the practice of character values. Today, Sienna continues to love the transformative power of compassion, leading Kind Weeks for local high schools. In her free time, Sienna enjoys challenging the perceptions held by older generations about millennials, mobilizing action through meaningful discussion (some of which include passionate debates about the finest Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors, the best camping spots in Idaho, and the greatest autobiographies ever written), engaging in conversations about ethics, social justice, human rights, and poetry, writing absurdly long Instagram captions (#sorrynotsorry), inspiring change in higher education through empathy, and making the world a better place through acts of kind. Sienna often finds herself dreaming about attending law school to become an advocate for others, starting her own not-for-profit high school to help students recognize their potential and purpose, combating poverty, writing for TIME and/or filming a documentary, sharing Oreos with The Dalai Lama, Oprah and Jedidiah Jenkins, and traveling to every continent.

School:Boise State University

2016-10-20T02:02:00Z

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= Overview =

[[File:Boise-State-Campus.jpg|none|Boise-State-Campus.jpg]]

Photo credit: John Kelly of Boise State Photographic Services

Boise is one of the [http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mhj45mhlf/15-boise-id/ fastest growing] cities in the United States, and consistently ranks in Forbes' top 10 [http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eddf45gihi/no-2-boise-idaho/ cities for careers] and [http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eddf45edgee/no-7-boise-id/ families]. Boise State University [http://enrollmentservices.boisestate.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2016/02/Census-Day-Enrollment-Profile-Fall-2015-1.pdf serves about 21,000 undergraduates and 3,000 graduate students]. Engineering enrollment has grown by 75%, to 2,847 students, over the past five years. Key partners include Micron Technology, a top 5 semiconductor company with headquarters in Boise, NASA, and Idaho National Laboratories.

Recently, Boise became home to the business incubator, [https://trailheadboise.org/ Trailhead], as well as annual speaking events including [http://tedxboise.org/ TedX], [http://www.igniteboise.com/ Ignite Boise], and the [http://ethosprojectboise.com/ Ethos Project]. New initiatives at Boise State University include the [http://venturecollege.boisestate.edu/ Venture College], which has launched 17 revenue generating businesses, the [http://cid.boisestate.edu/ College of Innovation and Design], a [https://makerlab.boisestate.edu/ MakerLab], and the [http://www.techhelp.org/services/design-prototype-new-product-development/ New Product Development Lab], and a [https://news.boisestate.edu/update/2015/10/22/micron-foundation-gives-25-million-for-materials-science/ $25M Center for Materials Research].

= Student Entrepreneurship =

Business launched through the [http://venturecollege.boisestate.edu/ Venture College] include:

*[http://vividroots.com/ Vivid Roots] sells apparel and water bottles. A portion of each sale provides potable water to people in need.
*[http://www.txtengage.com/ txtENGAGE] provide customer relationship and marketing platforms.
*[http://www.gratisaid.org/ Gratis Huminatarian Aid Network] distributes medical supplies to remote regions in Eastern and Central Africa.
*[http://www.adventuredata.com/ Adventure Data] provides real-time avalanche data monitoring for outdoor safety.
*[http://whitneyhansen.com/ Whitney Hansen] provides finanial consulting with a focus on student debt.

[http://cid.boisestate.edu/iec/ The Idaho Entrepreneur Challenge] awards over $100,000 annually in seed funding to student entrepreneurs. Previous winners include:

*[http://www.moto-trax.com/ MotoTrax] designs, manufactures, and sells "snowbikes", a dirtbike/snowmobile crossover
*TimeStage provides staining and imaging technology for microscopes that improves diagnosis and research related to infectious diseases.
*TriBiz provides a targeted advertising service restaurants.
*[http://vividroots.com/ Vivid Roots] sells apparel and water bottles. A portion of each sale provides potable water to people in need.

= Faculty Entrepreneurship =

*[http://coen.boisestate.edu/magnetic-materials-lab/peter-mullner/ Dr. Peter Mullner] specializes in shape-memory alloys. He recently [http://www.shawmountaintechnology.com/about.html launched a startup] to commercialize solid-state electronic devices based on these materials.
*[http://coen.boisestate.edu/faculty-staff/yanliangzhang/ Dr. Yanliang Zhang] completed [http://coen.boisestate.edu/mse-reu/project-13/ successful prototypes] of a thermoelectric device designed to replace alternators in cars. This work, funded by a Department of Energy grant, should improve fuel economy by 10-15%. Hyundai (or Honda?) is currently working to commercialize this device.
*[http://research.boisestate.edu/uiv/executives-in-residence/ Dr. Kevin Learned] co-founded Idaho's first commercial software company and its first angel investment group.
*[http://www.medman.com/ Ed Zimmer] served as the CEO of ECCO Group as it grew from 20 employees to over 500 employees with plants in Boise, England, and Australia.

= University-Industry Collaboration =

*[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1344915 The Scalable Nanomanufacturing Grant], lead by [http://coen.boisestate.edu/faculty-staff/willhughes/ Dr. Will Hughes], partners Boise State University with Harvard University and Micron Technologies. This project investigates applications for DNA nanotechnology in the semiconductor industry.
*A year-long Senior Design course partners senior engineering students with an industry sponsor to gain practical industry experience. [http://coen.boisestate.edu/seniordesign/industry-sponsors/ Partners include]: Micron Technology, Clearwater Analytics, Hewlett Packard, Cradlepoint Technology, and Idaho Power, among others.
*The Boise State [http://coen.boisestate.edu/cs/ Computer Science Department] will be [https://news.boisestate.edu/update/2014/06/24/computer-science-program-moving-downtown-boise/ moving into a new building downtown], which they will share with local tech company [http://clearwater-analytics.com/about Clearwater Analytics], among others.  This move is intended to position Boise State CS students and faculty within close proximity to the growing number of tech startups located in downtown Boise.

= University Technology Transfer Office =

[https://research.boisestate.edu/ott/ The Office of Technology Transfer] supports research activities and manages industry relations and intellectual property commercialization for the university.  The office is responsible for the assessment, protection, development and marketing of new inventions for commercial use and facilitates the internal and external relationships that contribute to the process.  The office also supports the advancement of innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development programs and initiatives on campus.

= Local and Regional Development =

*'''Employment: '''BSU more than 3,000 Idaho residents and another 2,000 indirectly. Wages and salary are $113M
*'''Spending:''' students spend $195M annually on living expenses in Idaho
**Out-of-state students spend another $17M annually
**BSU purchasing, construction, and employee spending is ~$325M annually
*'''Service: '''2,000 students across 30 departments contribute ~52,000 hours to 80 community organizations through the service-learning program
*'''Alumni:''' 70% of Boise State alumni remain in Idaho, working and paying taxes
**Idaho residents with at least a bachelor's degree earn double the wages of those without one. Alumni have an unemployment rate that is about 1/3 of that of the workforce with only a high school diploma
**Alumni have an estimated $903M economic impact on the state annually
*'''Funding:''' BSU receives 22% of its revenue from state appropriations, and attracts an additional $250M of revenue from private sources
*'''Apparel: '''apparel generates ~$11M in sales for retailers
*'''Research:''' BSU attracts more than $37M in research awards, 80% of which are from federal soruces

Additional information is in the [http://president.boisestate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/2010_Economic_Impact.pdf Boise State Economic Impact Report]

= Related Links =

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[[Boise State University Student Priorities|Boise State University Student Priorities]]

University Innovation Fellows

Spring 2016:

[[Ann Delaney]]

[[Kelly Schutt]]

[[Rebecka Seward]]

[[Donovan Kay|Donovan Kay]]

[[Sienna George|Sienna George]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alexander_Schloss Alexander Schloss]

[[Category:Universities]]

Fellow:Alexander Schloss

2016-10-20T01:58:43Z

Alexanderschloss: Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Viktor Frankl