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2014-04-25T05:40:08Z

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Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-07T11:32:55Z

Brownh:

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[[File:Lidarhamptonu.jpg|none|Lidarhamptonu.jpg]]
 '''The Six Strategies'''

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'''1) IdeaSpace''' - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

'''2) Engage Underclassmen''' - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''3) STEM Research and B-School Integration''' - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''4) Change IP rules for students''' - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

'''5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students''' - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

'''6) Courses and Programs''' - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

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'''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

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'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-07T11:28:52Z

Brownh:

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[[File:Lidarhamptonu.jpg|none|Lidarhamptonu.jpg]]
 '''The Six Strategies'''

----

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

----

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'''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

----

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-07T02:59:24Z

Brownh:

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[[File:Lidarhamptonu.jpg|none|Lidarhamptonu.jpg]]
 '''The Six Strategies'''

----

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

----

http://youtu.be/tWxZP-2bySY

'''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

----

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-06T05:19:48Z

Brownh:

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[[File:Lidarhamptonu.jpg|none|Lidarhamptonu.jpg]]
 '''The Six Strategies'''

----

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

----

[http://www.youtube.com/embed/cJqgerNFFlA http://www.youtube.com/embed/cJqgerNFFlA]

'''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

----

''

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-06T05:19:12Z

Brownh:

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[[File:Lidarhamptonu.jpg|none|Lidarhamptonu.jpg]]
 '''The Six Strategies'''

----

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

----

[http://www.youtube.com/embed/cJqgerNFFlA http://www.youtube.com/embed/cJqgerNFFlA]

'''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

School:Hampton University

2014-04-06T05:18:42Z

Brownh:

[[File:Lidarhamptonu.jpg|none|Lidarhamptonu.jpg]]
----

'''Background'''

----

Hampton University is a comprehensive institution of higher education, dedicated to the promotion of learning, building of character and preparation of promising students for positions of leadership and service. Its curriculum emphasis is scientific and professional with a strong liberal arts under girding. In carrying out its mission, the University requires that everything that it does be of the highest quality.

Research and public service are integral parts of Hampton's mission. In order to enhance scholarship and discovery, the faculty is engaged in writing, research, and grantsmanship. Faculty, staff and students provide leadership and service to the University as well as the global community.
[[File:SETHamptonUniversity.jpg|none|SETHamptonUniversity.jpg]]
----

'''Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''

----

Hampton University is located near a number of external facilities such as Nasa Langley Research Center, National Institute of Aerospace Headquarters, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Veterans Affairs Hospital and much more.  This easy accessbility provides a multitude of resources for faculty to tap into for providing students with involvement that complements the on campus learning experience.

There are a number of ways that students are able to be involved in innovation.  It starts in the classroom with classes such as Introduction to Physics with calculus and Engineering Principles 101 planting the seed of critical thinking and the appropriate fundamental methodologies used for problem solving.  These are further nurtured from various hands-on experiences that can be had via on campus research.  From the natural sciences such as Physics, Biology and Chemistry to various Engineering disciplines, these lab experiences, many of which are funded by NSF, military research offices such as Army Research Office, Naval Research Lab and/or private companies, supplement the textbook knowledge with application.

Talks from guests are frequent to give students more insight into directions that their technical skills can be applied to.  Whether students are listening to Damian Young of MIT/Harvard's Broad Institute speaking about diversity oriented synthesis for drug discovery or attending a visiting professor's talk on novel research in Big Data at the National Institute of Aerospace, there is never a shortage of inspirational material.

----

'''Faculty Innovation'''

----

Hampton University faculty includes a number of patent holders and innovators.  Inventors of fiber optic based artificial nerves, novel spectroscopic techniques and all manner of advanced sensors call Hampton University their home by the sea.  Various research centers are housed all over campus covering broad topics such as atmospheric sciences, quantumn optics, health disparity, skin of color research, information research, genomics and more.  These centers are locations where faculty not only develops innovative solutions to problems but also pass on the torch to students.

[[File:Tour-gantry-treatment-room.jpg|none|Tour-gantry-treatment-room.jpg]]In 2005 our President Dr. William R. Harvey and several medical and nuclear physicists on our campus began to shape a vision of creating a proton therapy cancer treatment facility in Virginia.  This culminated with our groundbreaking ceremoney in 2010 of the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute.

----

'''University Technology Transfer'''

----

Hampton University does not have a tech transfer office.  The university is not patent-friendly with a patent policy that is derivative of and modified from MIT's policy as it stood sixteen years ago.  The school tends to shy away from pursuing patent registration as they don't believe the number of patents that break even against the registration fees warrant the expense.  Changing the patent policy to be more inventor friendly as well as instituting a tech transfer office is but a small part of our strategy.

----

'''University-Industry Collaboration Efforts'''

----

As-is professors have been doing a great job of going out and interfacing with industry companies to form collaborations.  One example is how the Solid State Laser Development group within the department of Physics collaborates with Brimrose Corporation, the Army Research Office and Baitaille for basic research within laser induced breakdown spectroscopy and optical refrigeration of rare-earth doped solids.  Collaborations like these bring in the necessary funding to support both undergraduate and Ph. D. candidates while also paying for infrastructure such as PC's for the physics labs and such.  These initiatives are created by individual professors.  With a tech transfer office in place, we'd be able to accomplish more.

----

'''Landscape Canvas'''

----

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgvotShYR559dERYeTNWY1VkZmxrRnlhVUlNbzBZX3c&usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgvotShYR559dERYeTNWY1VkZmxrRnlhVUlNbzBZX3c&usp=sharing]

== Related Links ==

[[Howard Brown|Howard Brown]]

[[Hampton University Strategic Plan|Hampton University Strategic Plan]]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-06T05:14:14Z

Brownh:

'''Overview'''

----
[[File:Lidarhamptonu.jpg|none|Lidarhamptonu.jpg]]
 '''The Six Strategies'''

----

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

----

http://www.youtube.com/embed/cJqgerNFFlA

'''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-06T05:13:45Z

Brownh:

'''Overview'''

----
[[File:Lidarhamptonu.jpg|none|Lidarhamptonu.jpg]]
 '''The Six Strategies'''

----

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

----

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'''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

School:Hampton University

2014-04-06T05:11:24Z

Brownh:

[[File:Lidarhamptonu.jpg|none|Lidarhamptonu.jpg]]
----

'''Background'''

----

Hampton University is a comprehensive institution of higher education, dedicated to the promotion of learning, building of character and preparation of promising students for positions of leadership and service. Its curriculum emphasis is scientific and professional with a strong liberal arts under girding. In carrying out its mission, the University requires that everything that it does be of the highest quality.

Research and public service are integral parts of Hampton's mission. In order to enhance scholarship and discovery, the faculty is engaged in writing, research, and grantsmanship. Faculty, staff and students provide leadership and service to the University as well as the global community.
[[File:SETHamptonUniversity.jpg|none|SETHamptonUniversity.jpg]]
----

'''Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''

----

Hampton University is located near a number of external facilities such as Nasa Langley Research Center, National Institute of Aerospace Headquarters, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Veterans Affairs Hospital and much more.  This easy accessbility provides a multitude of resources for faculty to tap into for providing students with involvement that complements the on campus learning experience.

There are a number of ways that students are able to be involved in innovation.  It starts in the classroom with classes such as Introduction to Physics with calculus and Engineering Principles 101 planting the seed of critical thinking and the appropriate fundamental methodologies used for problem solving.  These are further nurtured from various hands-on experiences that can be had via on campus research.  From the natural sciences such as Physics, Biology and Chemistry to various Engineering disciplines, these lab experiences, many of which are funded by NSF, military research offices such as Army Research Office, Naval Research Lab and/or private companies, supplement the textbook knowledge with application.

Talks from guests are frequent to give students more insight into directions that their technical skills can be applied to.  Whether students are listening to Damian Young of MIT/Harvard's Broad Institute speaking about diversity oriented synthesis for drug discovery or attending a visiting professor's talk on novel research in Big Data at the National Institute of Aerospace, there is never a shortage of inspirational material.

----

'''Faculty Innovation'''

----

Hampton University faculty includes a number of patent holders and innovators.  Inventors of fiber optic based artificial nerves, novel spectroscopic techniques and all manner of advanced sensors call Hampton University their home by the sea.  Various research centers are housed all over campus covering broad topics such as atmospheric sciences, quantumn optics, health disparity, skin of color research, information research, genomics and more.  These centers are locations where faculty not only develops innovative solutions to problems but also pass on the torch to students.

[[File:Tour-gantry-treatment-room.jpg|none|Tour-gantry-treatment-room.jpg]]In 2005 our President Dr. William R. Harvey and several medical and nuclear physicists on our campus began to shape a vision of creating a proton therapy cancer treatment facility in Virginia.  This culminated with our groundbreaking ceremoney in 2010 of the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute.

----

'''University Technology Transfer'''

----

Hampton University does not have a tech transfer office.  The university is not patent-friendly with a patent policy that is derivative of and modified from MIT's policy as it stood sixteen years ago.  The school tends to shy away from pursuing patent registration as they don't believe the number of patents that break even against the registration fees warrant the expense.  Changing the patent policy to be more inventor friendly as well as instituting a tech transfer office is but a small part of our strategy.

----

'''University-Industry Collaboration Efforts'''

----

As-is professors have been doing a great job of going out and interfacing with industry companies to form collaborations.  One example is how the Solid State Laser Development group within the department of Physics collaborates with Brimrose Corporation, the Army Research Office and Baitaille for basic research within laser induced breakdown spectroscopy and optical refrigeration of rare-earth doped solids.  Collaborations like these bring in the necessary funding to support both undergraduate and Ph. D. candidates while also paying for infrastructure such as PC's for the physics labs and such.  These initiatives are created by individual professors.  With a tech transfer office in place, we'd be able to accomplish more.

----

'''Landscape Canvas'''

----

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgvotShYR559dERYeTNWY1VkZmxrRnlhVUlNbzBZX3c&usp=sharing

== Related Links ==

[[Howard Brown|Howard Brown]]

[[Hampton University Strategic Plan|Hampton University Strategic Plan]]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-06T04:58:35Z

Brownh:

'''Overview'''

----
[[File:Lidarhamptonu.jpg|none|Lidarhamptonu.jpg]]
 '''The Six Strategies'''

----

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

----

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''

'''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-06T04:57:25Z

Brownh:

'''Overview'''

----
[[File:Lidarhamptonu.jpg|none|Lidarhamptonu.jpg]]
 '''The Six Strategies'''

----

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

----

 [http://www.youtube.com/embed/cJqgerNFFlA http://www.youtube.com/embed/cJqgerNFFlA]

 '''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-06T04:57:05Z

Brownh:

Overview

----
[[File:Lidarhamptonu.jpg|none]]
 '''The Six Strategies'''

----

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

----

 [http://www.youtube.com/embed/cJqgerNFFlA http://www.youtube.com/embed/cJqgerNFFlA]

 '''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-06T04:56:27Z

Brownh:

Overview

----
http://universityinnovation.org/images/9/93/Lidarhamptonu.jpg

'''The Six Strategies'''

----

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

----

 [http://www.youtube.com/embed/cJqgerNFFlA http://www.youtube.com/embed/cJqgerNFFlA]

 '''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-06T04:55:20Z

Brownh:

Overview

----

'''The Six Strategies'''

----

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

----

 [http://www.youtube.com/embed/cJqgerNFFlA http://www.youtube.com/embed/cJqgerNFFlA]

 '''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-06T04:54:50Z

Brownh:

Overview

----

'''The Six Strategies'''

----

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

----

 <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cJqgerNFFlA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 '''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-06T04:54:01Z

Brownh:

Overview

----

'''The Six Strategies'''

----

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

----

 <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/cJqgerNFFlA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 '''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-06T04:06:39Z

Brownh:

Overview

----

'''The Six Strategies'''

----

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

----

'''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-06T04:06:04Z

Brownh:

Overview

----

'''The Six Strategies'''

----

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

----

'''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-06T04:05:41Z

Brownh:

Overview

----





'''The Six Strategies'''

----

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''''

----

'''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/Howard%20Brown Howard Brown]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University Hampton University]

Fellow:Howard Brown

2014-04-06T04:04:22Z

Brownh:

[[File:HowardBrown.jpg|thumb|none]]Howard Brown is an undergraduate student at Hampton University majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics.  His research experience includes optical refrigeration of rare-earth doped solids, solid state laser development and spectroscopy, materials science, high performance computing and artificial intelligence.  He spent a decade as a senior editor at a media outlet establishing and maintaining relationships with companies such as Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and managed a team of writers across multiple entertainment industries.  He has experience working at an NGO as well as mentoring high school students in nanoscience.  Upon graduation he plans to pursue a PhD in computer science while creating a discipline-agnostic general form model for solving nonlinear problems across massive data sets.

== Related Links ==

[[Hampton University|Hampton University]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Hampton%20University%20Strategic%20Plan Hampton University Strategic Plan]
<pre id="line1" />

School:Hampton University

2014-04-06T04:03:25Z

Brownh:

[[File:Lidarhamptonu.jpg|none|Lidarhamptonu.jpg]]
----

'''Background'''

----

Hampton University is a comprehensive institution of higher education, dedicated to the promotion of learning, building of character and preparation of promising students for positions of leadership and service. Its curriculum emphasis is scientific and professional with a strong liberal arts under girding. In carrying out its mission, the University requires that everything that it does be of the highest quality.

Research and public service are integral parts of Hampton's mission. In order to enhance scholarship and discovery, the faculty is engaged in writing, research, and grantsmanship. Faculty, staff and students provide leadership and service to the University as well as the global community.
[[File:SETHamptonUniversity.jpg|none|SETHamptonUniversity.jpg]]
----

'''Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''

----

Hampton University is located near a number of external facilities such as Nasa Langley Research Center, National Institute of Aerospace Headquarters, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Veterans Affairs Hospital and much more.  This easy accessbility provides a multitude of resources for faculty to tap into for providing students with involvement that complements the on campus learning experience.

There are a number of ways that students are able to be involved in innovation.  It starts in the classroom with classes such as Introduction to Physics with calculus and Engineering Principles 101 planting the seed of critical thinking and the appropriate fundamental methodologies used for problem solving.  These are further nurtured from various hands-on experiences that can be had via on campus research.  From the natural sciences such as Physics, Biology and Chemistry to various Engineering disciplines, these lab experiences, many of which are funded by NSF, military research offices such as Army Research Office, Naval Research Lab and/or private companies, supplement the textbook knowledge with application.

Talks from guests are frequent to give students more insight into directions that their technical skills can be applied to.  Whether students are listening to Damian Young of MIT/Harvard's Broad Institute speaking about diversity oriented synthesis for drug discovery or attending a visiting professor's talk on novel research in Big Data at the National Institute of Aerospace, there is never a shortage of inspirational material.

----

'''Faculty Innovation'''

----

Hampton University faculty includes a number of patent holders and innovators.  Inventors of fiber optic based artificial nerves, novel spectroscopic techniques and all manner of advanced sensors call Hampton University their home by the sea.  Various research centers are housed all over campus covering broad topics such as atmospheric sciences, quantumn optics, health disparity, skin of color research, information research, genomics and more.  These centers are locations where faculty not only develops innovative solutions to problems but also pass on the torch to students.

[[File:Tour-gantry-treatment-room.jpg|none|Tour-gantry-treatment-room.jpg]]In 2005 our President Dr. William R. Harvey and several medical and nuclear physicists on our campus began to shape a vision of creating a proton therapy cancer treatment facility in Virginia.  This culminated with our groundbreaking ceremoney in 2010 of the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute.

----

'''University Technology Transfer'''

----

Hampton University does not have a tech transfer office.  The university is not patent-friendly with a patent policy that is derivative of and modified from MIT's policy as it stood sixteen years ago.  The school tends to shy away from pursuing patent registration as they don't believe the number of patents that break even against the registration fees warrant the expense.  Changing the patent policy to be more inventor friendly as well as instituting a tech transfer office is but a small part of our strategy.

----

'''University-Industry Collaboration Efforts'''

----

As-is professors have been doing a great job of going out and interfacing with industry companies to form collaborations.  One example is how the Solid State Laser Development group within the department of Physics collaborates with Brimrose Corporation, the Army Research Office and Baitaille for basic research within laser induced breakdown spectroscopy and optical refrigeration of rare-earth doped solids.  Collaborations like these bring in the necessary funding to support both undergraduate and Ph. D. candidates while also paying for infrastructure such as PC's for the physics labs and such.  These initiatives are created by individual professors.  With a tech transfer office in place, we'd be able to accomplish more.

== Related Links ==

[[Howard Brown|Howard Brown]]

[[Hampton_University_Strategic_Plan|Hampton University Strategic Plan]]

Priorities:Hampton University Strategic Plan

2014-04-06T04:00:36Z

Brownh: Created page with "Overview ---- '''The Six Strategies''' 1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being create..."

Overview

----

'''The Six Strategies'''

1) IdeaSpace - This collaborative space is being created with the idea of being an area in which students across all disciplines can come and just be.  The focus is more on idea generation and collaboration with only low resolution, basic prototyping.  The intention here is to have this area be a feeder that will see students generating ideas with others out of their comfort zones and then go forth into the myriad of other labs and spaces on campus for more in depth prototyping.

2) Engage Underclassmen - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

3) STEM Research and B-School Integration - Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

4) Change IP rules for students - The rules regarding IP are one size fits all at Hampton University right now.  Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus or utilizing University resources belongs to the university.  This policy allows the University to keep 100% of 0.  This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university gets a share of ideas/companies grown from within so everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.

5) Industry partners bringing in R&D projects as prototype challenges for students - We want students to get accustomed to doing.  We do not want someone who may not be able to express their innovative ideas yet to not be able to participate.  To this end, we'd like to involve our industry partners in such a way that they can bring ideas for things they need done and we can allow students to create prototypes to address those needs.  This will allow everyone to participate, even those who haven't tapped into their inner innovator yet.  Barriers to entry need to be minimized as much as possible.

6) Courses and Programs - Hampton University has programs and courses already that address innovation and entrepreneurship.  We still could use some more.  One exmaple of how this is being addressed is a new Software Innovation course within Computer Science.  Created with the help of my Department Chair (Jean A. Muhammad), this course will be available for student enrollment in Spring 2015.

'''''Top Two Strategies'''''

'''''1) Engage Underclassmen'''''

Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook on the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them.  This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do and inspires their dreams that will fuel these actions.

'''''This engagement will be achieved by a number of ways:'''''

a) Prototype activities - Prototype activities are seen as any manner of action in which students are able to do something.  This can manifest itself as things as simple as written lists or drawings on paper or whiteboard that can be iterated upon, test code snippets or mock-ups to express an idea for an app, Raspberry Pi or Arduino creations or any manner of expression from any discipline. A number of things can be done in this area.

b) We can have students gather in Leadership Circle meetings and have themed activities such as Build Nights, Creative Thinking workshops, Collaborative Thinking through team-building games and more.

c) We can co-sponsor activities to be held during meetings for established student organizations on campus that will allow us to have targeted activities to reach out directly to specific disciplinary demographics that would be helpful to the movement.

d) Competitions - This category is where Hackathons, Business Plan competitions, Demo Days, Robotic Competitions, etc come in.  This will allow the skills learned from the weekly meetings of Leadership Circle and other organizations we're cross-pollinating with to be put to the test so that the greater campus and community at large can see what is going on with the movement.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Initial Leadership Council has been formed and students have convened

*Faculty across multiple disciplines and schools across campus have been brought on board to be part of the movement and to share in engaging students.  Passionate faculty with patent experience, extensive research experience or extensive industry experience were and are continuously being sought after to participate in this regard.

*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February and completing actionable items on this as well as all other strategies regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship on campus.

*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for Fall Semester to greet our students.

'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''

Description: Our business school is very active on the entrepreneurship side.  We have an entrepreneurship major and minor as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week.  There are a number of businesses started by business students each year.  There is quite a bit of separation between the business school and the STEM disciplines, however.  The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of allowing business students to build hands-on-experience in applying business practices within a scientific or engineering background.  It will also allow researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.

'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''

a) Current research projects within School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions including information such as:

i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to or correlations with commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc

b) Dean of the School of Business and students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.

c) This business school team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.

d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed and seed money from the school of business will be used to fund this transition.

'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''

a) Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more than likely be applying their business skills to upon graduation.  They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way it can address a problem for a wide number of people.

b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab.  This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that can often be missing from those with STEM backgrounds.

c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering.  Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process not only in the lab but also the creative side that looks at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to huge impact.

'''''Timeline:'''''

*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of School of Business) about the idea

*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted and the process for team selection

*Currently creating lists of projects so that the first project can be submitted to Business School

*Will beta-test process this Summer

Fellow:Howard Brown

2014-04-05T22:35:12Z

Brownh:

School:Hampton University

2014-04-05T22:34:28Z

Brownh:

[[File:Lidarhamptonu.jpg|none|Lidarhamptonu.jpg]]
----

'''Background'''

----

Hampton University is a comprehensive institution of higher education, dedicated to the promotion of learning, building of character and preparation of promising students for positions of leadership and service. Its curriculum emphasis is scientific and professional with a strong liberal arts under girding. In carrying out its mission, the University requires that everything that it does be of the highest quality.

Research and public service are integral parts of Hampton's mission. In order to enhance scholarship and discovery, the faculty is engaged in writing, research, and grantsmanship. Faculty, staff and students provide leadership and service to the University as well as the global community.
[[File:SETHamptonUniversity.jpg|none|SETHamptonUniversity.jpg]]
----

'''Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''

----

Hampton University is located near a number of external facilities such as Nasa Langley Research Center, National Institute of Aerospace Headquarters, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Veterans Affairs Hospital and much more.  This easy accessbility provides a multitude of resources for faculty to tap into for providing students with involvement that complements the on campus learning experience.

There are a number of ways that students are able to be involved in innovation.  It starts in the classroom with classes such as Introduction to Physics with calculus and Engineering Principles 101 planting the seed of critical thinking and the appropriate fundamental methodologies used for problem solving.  These are further nurtured from various hands-on experiences that can be had via on campus research.  From the natural sciences such as Physics, Biology and Chemistry to various Engineering disciplines, these lab experiences, many of which are funded by NSF, military research offices such as Army Research Office, Naval Research Lab and/or private companies, supplement the textbook knowledge with application.

Talks from guests are frequent to give students more insight into directions that their technical skills can be applied to.  Whether students are listening to Damian Young of MIT/Harvard's Broad Institute speaking about diversity oriented synthesis for drug discovery or attending a visiting professor's talk on novel research in Big Data at the National Institute of Aerospace, there is never a shortage of inspirational material.

----

'''Faculty Innovation'''

----

Hampton University faculty includes a number of patent holders and innovators.  Inventors of fiber optic based artificial nerves, novel spectroscopic techniques and all manner of advanced sensors call Hampton University their home by the sea.  Various research centers are housed all over campus covering broad topics such as atmospheric sciences, quantumn optics, health disparity, skin of color research, information research, genomics and more.  These centers are locations where faculty not only develops innovative solutions to problems but also pass on the torch to students.

[[File:Tour-gantry-treatment-room.jpg|none|Tour-gantry-treatment-room.jpg]]In 2005 our President Dr. William R. Harvey and several medical and nuclear physicists on our campus began to shape a vision of creating a proton therapy cancer treatment facility in Virginia.  This culminated with our groundbreaking ceremoney in 2010 of the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute.

----

'''University Technology Transfer'''

----

Hampton University does not have a tech transfer office.  The university is not patent-friendly with a patent policy that is derivative of and modified from MIT's policy as it stood sixteen years ago.  The school tends to shy away from pursuing patent registration as they don't believe the number of patents that break even against the registration fees warrant the expense.  Changing the patent policy to be more inventor friendly as well as instituting a tech transfer office is but a small part of our strategy.

----

'''University-Industry Collaboration Efforts'''

----

As-is professors have been doing a great job of going out and interfacing with industry companies to form collaborations.  One example is how the Solid State Laser Development group within the department of Physics collaborates with Brimrose Corporation, the Army Research Office and Baitaille for basic research within laser induced breakdown spectroscopy and optical refrigeration of rare-earth doped solids.  Collaborations like these bring in the necessary funding to support both undergraduate and Ph. D. candidates while also paying for infrastructure such as PC's for the physics labs and such.  These initiatives are created by individual professors.  With a tech transfer office in place, we'd be able to accomplish more.

== Related Links ==

[[Howard Brown|Howard Brown]]

Fellow:Howard Brown

2014-04-05T21:45:18Z

Brownh:

[[File:HowardBrown.jpg|thumb|none]]Howard Brown is an undergraduate student at Hampton University majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics.  His research experience includes optical refrigeration of rare-earth doped solids, solid state laser development and spectroscopy, materials science, high performance computing and artificial intelligence.  He spent a decade as a senior editor at a media outlet establishing and maintaining relationships with companies such as Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and managed a team of writers across multiple entertainment industries.  He has experience working at an NGO as well as mentoring high school students in nanoscience.  Upon graduation he plans to pursue a PhD in computer science while creating a discipline-agnostic general form model for solving nonlinear problems across massive data sets.

'''Related Links'''

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Fellow:Howard Brown

2014-04-05T21:41:30Z

Brownh:

[[File:HowardBrown.jpg|thumb|none|HowardBrown.jpg]]Howard Brown is an undergraduate student at Hampton University majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics.  His research experience includes optical refrigeration of rare-earth doped solids, solid state laser development and spectroscopy, materials science, high performance computing and artificial intelligence.  He spent a decade as a senior editor at a media outlet establishing and maintaining relationships with companies such as Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and managed a team of writers across multiple entertainment industries.  He has experience working at an NGO as well as mentoring high school students in nanoscience.  Upon graduation he plans to pursue a PhD in computer science while creating a discipline-agnostic general form model for solving nonlinear problems across massive data sets.

'''Related Links'''

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<pre id="line1">[[Hampton_University|Hampton University]]
</pre>

Fellow:Howard Brown

2014-04-05T21:17:26Z

Brownh:

[[File:HowardBrown.jpg|thumb|none|HowardBrown.jpg]]Howard Brown is an undergraduate student at Hampton University majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics.  His research experience includes optical refrigeration of rare-earth doped solids, solid state laser development and spectroscopy, materials science, high performance computing and artificial intelligence.  He spent a decade as a senior editor at a media outlet establishing and maintaining relationships with companies such as Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and managed a team of writers across multiple entertainment industries.  He has experience working at an NGO as well as mentoring high school students in nanoscience.  Upon graduation he plans to pursue a PhD in computer science while creating a discipline-agnostic general form model for solving nonlinear problems across massive data sets.

'''Related Links'''

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<tt>[[[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hampton_University%7CHampton http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hampton_University | Hampton] University]]</tt>

Fellow:Howard Brown

2014-04-05T21:16:20Z

Brownh:

[[File:HowardBrown.jpg|thumb|none|HowardBrown.jpg]]Howard Brown is an undergraduate student at Hampton University majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics.  His research experience includes optical refrigeration of rare-earth doped solids, solid state laser development and spectroscopy, materials science, high performance computing and artificial intelligence.  He spent a decade as a senior editor at a media outlet establishing and maintaining relationships with companies such as Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and managed a team of writers across multiple entertainment industries.  He has experience working at an NGO as well as mentoring high school students in nanoscience.  Upon graduation he plans to pursue a PhD in computer science while creating a discipline-agnostic general form model for solving nonlinear problems across massive data sets.

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