University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]

Priorities:NMSU Strategic Priorities

2015-10-17T17:02:12Z

CJGershon:

= - Overview - =
[[File:Back to School ADS.png]]Founded in 1888 as a Land Grant institution New Mexico State University (NMSU) has a long history of entrepenurship and business development in the community.  As the second largest university in the state NMSU has a student population of nearly 18,000 students. Through the university discovery mission started by Dr. Carruthers, the Colleges of Business and Engineering have begun an initiative to integrate mulitdisciplinary learning across campus. This collaboration has encouraged students to take ownership of their learning, and has led to the creation of several dedicated innovation and design centers: The Aggie Innovation Space, Studio G, and Arrowhead Center.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJStVYEjawo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJStVYEjawo]

= - Strategies for Innovation & Entrepreneurship - =

== Studio G Satelite Office ==

Studio G, the student incubator located in the Arrowhead Research park, has been looking for ways to engage students in a more proactive manner. With the recent completion of renovations to the Corbett Student Union, there is the potential for available space to be occupied for entrepreneurship and innovation. This space would allow university student mentors and Innovation Fellows the ability to meet with students in a central location directly on campus. Services to be provided would include a continuation of current operations underway at the Arrowhead Entrepreneurship Institute and Aggie Innovation Space: business model development, rapid prototyping, concept design, manufacturing assistance, and team develpment training. 

== Multidisciplinary Senior Design Classes (Capstone) ==

Recognizing the global impact of education, it is essential for students to work on mulitdisciplinary projects throughout their student tenure. Through the Aggie Innovation Space, engineering students have begun collaborating and working in a more open and supportive environment where experiences have allowed for mentors to emerge. Over the past year, these mentors, from different majors, have worked together to guide a number of student projects through the design phase. Having seen the early success of this initiative, we are hoping to implement a university wide senior design course that will enable students from every college to work together to solve industry-based problems.

'''Integration of Baja SAE into a marketable and multidisciplinary capstone'''

Capstone projects are one of the most important parts of an engineer’s education. Recognizing that capstone can be used to learn, use and refine skills related to I&E, it must be made better. Baja SAE is a design challenge that is put on by Society of Automotive Engineers and to compete in this series take a great amount of engineering, marketing, and teamwork. Most importantly this design challenge is created out of the idea of each college being considered a startup firm that is to design and market their vehicle. This creates a great deal of I&E thinking. My hope is that integration of Baja SAE into a capstone project with raise the level of I&E in capstone while also providing students with a useful engineering project/start up.

Milestones:

#Talk to admins about proposal and any problems
#Introduce Baja for a single group (both ME and Business students)
#Fix any problems that arise from first semester of integration
#Introduce baja in a greater manner the next semester
#Full integrate Baja SAE as a capstone project
#Based on successfull ingegration other similar projects will be introduced to other departments capstone projects 

== Pop-up Classes ==

Building on early mentorship initiatives, it was determined that many students sought to learn in a non-traditional manner that would allow them to gain familiarity with new concepts quickly. These courses are desinged to help all university students learn the value behind innovation, and to provide them the essential tools for their project needs.  These courses have been very well recieved by university faculty memebers who regularly attend and often teach these new pop-up courses.  

== Industry Reverse Sabbatical ==

The newest concept being developed within the College of Engineering is an Industry sabbatical that will allow for people in industry to get back on campus to teach a full course.  The idea behind the initative is for students to gain familiarity with the practial applications of knowedge in industry.  Course topics will range from circuit design to additive manufacturing, enabling interested students to get an early understanding of an industry that they may seek to join in the future. 

== Technology Transfer and Business Model Canvas ==

Students, who work on Capstone project to complete their degrees, always dedicate their time to design and develop an idea or a concept to a prototype, demonstrating its working at the end of the semester; however, these students hardly get any chance to assess if there is any Intellectual property associated with their project and also is it a viable technology to start-up a business around it. So, it is very important to teach these students how to do a preliminary technology evaluation and build a business model canvas, exposing them to a great learning technology transfer/entrepreneurial tool. After learning these concepts, students will be asked to assess their project in a step-by-step process and present not only the technical part but also the business prospects of their work and thus earning an extra credit as an incentive.

== Involving Students in Grades 9-13 ==

There are a large number of students who compete in very innovative STEM competitions on campus, but are unaware that what they are doing is innovative.  A solution to this problem is to create a semester long Innovation Challenge that has teams develop innovative solutions to a real world problem and then present it to a panel of judges and receive awards and prizes.  Part of the challenge is creating a prototype of their solution, but also creating a business model canvas and trying to find a way to successfully market their product.  This approach focuses on improving students' design-thinking, entrepreneurial and communication skills while defining for them what the real meaning of innovation is.  It is crucial that we develop students interest in innovation and entrepreneurship at a young age in order to create a strong I&E culture on our college campus.  

== Increasing Awareness and Engagement ==

There is a wide array of resources available throughout the New Mexico State University Ecosystem that are unknown and underutilized. These resources are already established and continue to improve organically but are invisible in the eyes of most students on campus. The solution identified is to create a Marketing Blitz that will increase awareness of the resources but also push students to interact with these resources. Through large volume outreach to classes, faculty, and other organizations; awareness will increase and long term engagement will begin to develop. 

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/NMSU New Mexico State University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mauricio_Garcia Mauricio Garcia]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Brendan#New_Mexico_State_University.2C_UIF_Fellowship Brendan Sullivan]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ember_Krech Ember Krech]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joel_Cazares Joel Cazares]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/CJ_Gershon CJ Gershon]

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:NMSU Strategic Priorities

2015-10-17T17:01:27Z

CJGershon:

= - Overview - =
[[File:Back to School ADS.png]]Founded in 1888 as a Land Grant institution New Mexico State University (NMSU) has a long history of entrepenurship and business development in the community.  As the second largest university in the state NMSU has a student population of nearly 18,000 students. Through the university discovery mission started by Dr. Carruthers, the Colleges of Business and Engineering have begun an initiative to integrate mulitdisciplinary learning across campus. This collaboration has encouraged students to take ownership of their learning, and has led to the creation of several dedicated innovation and design centers: The Aggie Innovation Space, Studio G, and Arrowhead Center.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJStVYEjawo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJStVYEjawo]

= - Strategies for Innovation & Entrepreneurship - =

== Studio G Satelite Office ==

Studio G, the student incubator located in the Arrowhead Research park, has been looking for ways to engage students in a more proactive manner. With the recent completion of renovations to the Corbett Student Union, there is the potential for available space to be occupied for entrepreneurship and innovation. This space would allow university student mentors and Innovation Fellows the ability to meet with students in a central location directly on campus. Services to be provided would include a continuation of current operations underway at the Arrowhead Entrepreneurship Institute and Aggie Innovation Space: business model development, rapid prototyping, concept design, manufacturing assistance, and team develpment training. 

== Multidisciplinary Senior Design Classes (Capstone) ==

Recognizing the global impact of education, it is essential for students to work on mulitdisciplinary projects throughout their student tenure. Through the Aggie Innovation Space, engineering students have begun collaborating and working in a more open and supportive environment where experiences have allowed for mentors to emerge. Over the past year, these mentors, from different majors, have worked together to guide a number of student projects through the design phase. Having seen the early success of this initiative, we are hoping to implement a university wide senior design course that will enable students from every college to work together to solve industry-based problems.

'''Integration of Baja SAE into a marketable and multidisciplinary capstone'''

Capstone projects are one of the most important parts of an engineer’s education. Recognizing that capstone can be used to learn, use and refine skills related to I&E, it must be made better. Baja SAE is a design challenge that is put on by Society of Automotive Engineers and to compete in this series take a great amount of engineering, marketing, and teamwork. Most importantly this design challenge is created out of the idea of each college being considered a startup firm that is to design and market their vehicle. This creates a great deal of I&E thinking. My hope is that integration of Baja SAE into a capstone project with raise the level of I&E in capstone while also providing students with a useful engineering project/start up.

Milestones:

#Talk to admins about proposal and any problems
#Introduce Baja for a single group (both ME and Business students)
#Fix any problems that arise from first semester of integration
#Introduce baja in a greater manner the next semester
#Full integrate Baja SAE as a capstone project
#Based on successfull ingegration other similar projects will be introduced to other departments capstone projects 

== Pop-up Classes ==

Building on early mentorship initiatives, it was determined that many students sought to learn in a non-traditional manner that would allow them to gain familiarity with new concepts quickly. These courses are desinged to help all university students learn the value behind innovation, and to provide them the essential tools for their project needs.  These courses have been very well recieved by university faculty memebers who regularly attend and often teach these new pop-up courses.  

== Industry Reverse Sabbatical ==

The newest concept being developed within the College of Engineering is an Industry sabbatical that will allow for people in industry to get back on campus to teach a full course.  The idea behind the initative is for students to gain familiarity with the practial applications of knowedge in industry.  Course topics will range from circuit design to additive manufacturing, enabling interested students to get an early understanding of an industry that they may seek to join in the future. 

== Technology Transfer and Business Model Canvas ==

Students, who work on Capstone project to complete their degrees, always dedicate their time to design and develop an idea or a concept to a prototype, demonstrating its working at the end of the semester; however, these students hardly get any chance to assess if there is any Intellectual property associated with their project and also is it a viable technology to start-up a business around it. So, it is very important to teach these students how to do a preliminary technology evaluation and build a business model canvas, exposing them to a great learning technology transfer/entrepreneurial tool. After learning these concepts, students will be asked to assess their project in a step-by-step process and present not only the technical part but also the business prospects of their work and thus earning an extra credit as an incentive.

== Involving Students in Grades 9-13 ==

There are a large number of students who compete in very innovative STEM competitions on campus, but are unaware that what they are doing is innovative.  A solution to this problem is to create a semester long Innovation Challenge that has teams develop innovative solutions to a real world problem and then present it to a panel of judges and receive awards and prizes.  Part of the challenge is creating a prototype of their solution, but also creating a business model canvas and trying to find a way to successfully market their product.  This approach focuses on improving students' design-thinking, entrepreneurial and communication skills while defining for them what the real meaning of innovation is.  It is crucial that we develop students interest in innovation and entrepreneurship at a young age in order to create a strong I&E culture on our college campus.  

== Increasing Awareness and Engagement ==

There is a wide array of resources available throughout the New Mexico State University Ecosystem that are unknown and underutilized. They are already established and continue to improve organically but are invisible in the eyes of most students on campus. The solution identified is to create a Marketing Blitz that will increase awareness of the resources but also push students to interact with these resources. Through large volume outreach to classes, faculty, and other organizations; awareness will increase and long term engagement will begin to develop. 

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/NMSU New Mexico State University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mauricio_Garcia Mauricio Garcia]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Brendan#New_Mexico_State_University.2C_UIF_Fellowship Brendan Sullivan]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ember_Krech Ember Krech]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joel_Cazares Joel Cazares]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/CJ_Gershon CJ Gershon]

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Fellow:CJ Gershon

2015-10-17T16:50:55Z

CJGershon:

CJ Gershon is a University Innovation Fellow from the fall 2015 cohort. Born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico he [[File:CJGershon1.png|thumb]]developed a strong love of the outdoors through hiking, camping, hunting, and skiing. This love of exploration has been apparent throughout his life getting routinely lost on camping trips by always looking around the next corner to find something new. This explorative nature has transitioned into his studies as he always looks for something new to learn or a new experience to have.

At New Mexico State University, he is studying Finance and Small Business Management/Entrepreneurship. He is currently employed at Arrowhead Center, NMSU’s Business Incubator, where he does technology evaluations for University Intellectual Property and small business consulting for New Mexico companies who are developing new and innovative products. He has also interned at a Venture Capital firm in the southwest. Going forward, he plans to finish his education and pursue entrepreneurial endeavors.

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” -Richard Branson
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[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

School:New Mexico State University

2015-10-17T16:49:14Z

CJGershon:

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== ==

New Mexico State University (NMSU) is a comprehensive research, land-grant university excelling in teaching, research and public service that fuels the economy and prepares students to be productive citizens.

== - PROMOTING STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP -  ==

New Mexico State University is committed to advancing student involvement by creating spaces and organizations that advance and nurture the integration of innovation and entrepreneurship. Through the '''Aggie Innovation Space''' and '''Arrowhead Center''', students have the opportunity to use their creativity coupled with available resources to take an idea from inception to a marketable prototype.

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The '''Aggie Innovation Space''' (AIS), presented by Intel Corporation, is offered by the Engineering New Mexico Resource Network within the College of Engineering as a learning environment for all students, that invites innovation, ideation, creativity and entrepreneurship. AIS works to foster innovation and entrepreneurship by offering students rapid prototyping resources, such as 3D printers, electronics stations, programmable development boards, robotics kits, and necessary software, as well as a student mentoring program focused on helping students gain the extra skills needed to bring an idea into fruition.  

AIS recently started a mentoring program, allowing students who nurture the use of technology and encourage discovery to inspire and assist in student led projects. The space is equiped with 3D printers and engineering design tools to make the creative process come to life. In collaboration with Stuido G and Arrowhead Center, students can develop pathways to a new business startup. Learn more at [http://studiog.nmsu.edu/ aggieinnovationspace.nmsu.edu]

As part of '''Arrowhead Center''', '''Studio G''' is the first business incubator dedicated to helping NMSU students and alumni kickstart their business ideas. As a member of Studio G, students receive guidance from the qualified commercialization staff and access to Arrowhead's Enterprise Advisors, a group of professionals, engineers, and developers that are availabe to help launch businesses. As well, students have access to workshops with great prototyping resources: 3D printers, 3D scanners, vinyl cutters, video conferencing, etc. Studio G also provides funding opportunities and awards exclusive to members, and great momentum to license technology and start a business. Learn more at [http://studiog.nmsu.edu/ studiog.nmsu.edu]

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== - ENCOURAGING FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP - ==

New Mexico State University was one of 12 universities from across the country selected to take part in the National Science Foundation's first cohort of the Pathways to Innovation Program. The program is led by the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation, known as Epicenter, and was created to help universities incorporate entrepreneurship and innovation into undergraduate engineering education. The team of NMSU faculty and administrators has worked with Epicenter staff to design and implement a plan for the university to develop a successful model to integrate entrepreneurship into the curriculum. 

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Faculty innovation can also be linked to the Arrowhead Center and Aggie Innovation Space at New Mexico State University. Faculty can be part of innovative/entrepreneural activity also on the ''Lauch'' program, in which they can transfer technologies from the university and the region to commercial markets. Both facilities have an advisory committe of faculty and staff committed to creating opportunities for student success and offering guidance and necesary resources and research. The faculty interested in innovation technology, business mentoring, market analysis, student access to investment networks, encourage student technology development and commercialization to occur, as well as advancemens in faculty and staff research initiatives around campus..

Faculty also have the choice of working on the 'Enterprise Research', where businesses seek the resources to help them grow. Faculty can help with business plans, marketing studies, feasibility studies, financial and indutry analyses, and other services.

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== - ACTIVELY SUPPORTING THE UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION -  ==

Throughout NMSU there are no ''University Technology Transfer Offices ''or ''Technology Licensing Offices'', which consist of hubs within universities where innovators and outside business leaders engage to commercialize inventions. However, these resources are made available through the Arrowhead Center and NMSU Career Services Offices.

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Arrowhead Center was ceated by NMSU to be an engine for sustainable economic development, ultimately improving the quality of life for all New Mexicans. The Center is equipped to leverage innovation as an ongoing mechanism for promoting new business development and the job growth that goes with it. By collaboratively facilitating the creation of an innovation-driven-economy, the ability to convert ideas into marketable technologies, faster and better than the competition can be realized in an environment that students finde mentoring and guidance along the way. To accelerate the innovation economy, Arrowhead Center brokers the constant interplay between those in the market in search of solutions, innovative researchers, savvy entrepreneurs, eager students, educated employees, advanced facilities, and effective public/private partnerships.

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== - FACILITATING UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION - ==

New Mexico State University has partnerships with several companies for its students to increase technology development and innovation. NMSU Career Services offers Cooperative Education Programs (Co-Op), in which students combine classroom-based education with practical work experience; as well as internships during the summer. 

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The essence of the University internships and Co-op Programs is a 'partnership effort where the student, the employer, and the University all participate on an equal basis in an effort to make the educational experience richer and more meaningful' (NMSU Career Services, 2014).

Some of the current partnerships New Mexico State University has include Cummins, Intel, Halliburton, Tyson, Urenco, Johnson & Johnson, Raytheon. These companies, as well as many others, offer students a wonderful opportunity to experience innovation and entrepreneurship outside the classroom.

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== - ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS - ==

New Mexico is committed to regional economic development by contributing to local community businesses through service and projects such as the New Mexico Small Business Assistance program, which assists small businesses in New Mexico with technical and/or business challenges by providing resources and assistance from lab scientists or engineers from the local National Labs. The Arrowhead Center, as a contractor for Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories brings the resources of New Mexico State University through their students and faculty to assist in technical and business challenges. This program emphasizes on areas of: 

*Technology Readiness Level of Product/Technology (TRL)
*Demonstration and Validation of Product/Technology
*Product Usability Testing
*Feasibility Demonstration of Business or Technical Aspects

Utilizing these resources, the local community encourages members to pursue business ideas and create economic growth for the state.

== - LANDSCAPE CANVAS - ==

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== - RELATED LINKS - ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/New_Mexico_State_University_Student_Priorities New Mexico State University Student Priorities]

[[Mauricio Garcia|Mauricio_Garcia]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Brendan#New_Mexico_State_University.2C_UIF_Fellowship Brendan P. Sullivan]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ember_Krech Ember Krech]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Karl_Johannes Karl Johannes]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Shanta_Thoutam Shanta Thoutam]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jaymie_Velasquez Jaymie Velasquez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/CJ_Gershon CJ Gershon]

[[Category:Universities]]

Priorities:NMSU Strategic Priorities

2015-10-16T18:57:25Z

CJGershon:

= - Overview - =
[[File:Back to School ADS.png]]Founded in 1888 as a Land Grant institution New Mexico State University (NMSU) has a long history of entrepenurship and business development in the community.  As the second largest university in the state NMSU has a student population of nearly 18,000 students. Through the university discovery mission started by Dr. Carruthers, the Colleges of Business and Engineering have begun an initiative to integrate mulitdisciplinary learning across campus. This collaboration has encouraged students to take ownership of their learning, and has led to the creation of several dedicated innovation and design centers: The Aggie Innovation Space, Studio G, and Arrowhead Center.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJStVYEjawo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJStVYEjawo]

= - Strategies for Innovation & Entrepreneurship - =

== Studio G Satelite Office ==

Studio G, the student incubator located in the Arrowhead Research park, has been looking for ways to engage students in a more proactive manner. With the recent completion of renovations to the Corbett Student Union, there is the potential for available space to be occupied for entrepreneurship and innovation. This space would allow university student mentors and Innovation Fellows the ability to meet with students in a central location directly on campus. Services to be provided would include a continuation of current operations underway at the Arrowhead Entrepreneurship Institute and Aggie Innovation Space: business model development, rapid prototyping, concept design, manufacturing assistance, and team develpment training. 

== Multidisciplinary Senior Design Classes (Capstone) ==

Recognizing the global impact of education, it is essential for students to work on mulitdisciplinary projects throughout their student tenure. Through the Aggie Innovation Space, engineering students have begun collaborating and working in a more open and supportive environment where experiences have allowed for mentors to emerge. Over the past year, these mentors, from different majors, have worked together to guide a number of student projects through the design phase. Having seen the early success of this initiative, we are hoping to implement a university wide senior design course that will enable students from every college to work together to solve industry-based problems.

'''Integration of Baja SAE into a marketable and multidisciplinary capstone'''

Capstone projects are one of the most important parts of an engineer’s education. Recognizing that capstone can be used to learn, use and refine skills related to I&E, it must be made better. Baja SAE is a design challenge that is put on by Society of Automotive Engineers and to compete in this series take a great amount of engineering, marketing, and teamwork. Most importantly this design challenge is created out of the idea of each college being considered a startup firm that is to design and market their vehicle. This creates a great deal of I&E thinking. My hope is that integration of Baja SAE into a capstone project with raise the level of I&E in capstone while also providing students with a useful engineering project/start up.

Milestones:

#Talk to admins about proposal and any problems
#Introduce Baja for a single group (both ME and Business students)
#Fix any problems that arise from first semester of integration
#Introduce baja in a greater manner the next semester
#Full integrate Baja SAE as a capstone project
#Based on successfull ingegration other similar projects will be introduced to other departments capstone projects 

== Pop-up Classes ==

Building on early mentorship initiatives, it was determined that many students sought to learn in a non-traditional manner that would allow them to gain familiarity with new concepts quickly. These courses are desinged to help all university students learn the value behind innovation, and to provide them the essential tools for their project needs.  These courses have been very well recieved by university faculty memebers who regularly attend and often teach these new pop-up courses.  

== Industry Reverse Sabbatical ==

The newest concept being developed within the College of Engineering is an Industry sabbatical that will allow for people in industry to get back on campus to teach a full course.  The idea behind the initative is for students to gain familiarity with the practial applications of knowedge in industry.  Course topics will range from circuit design to additive manufacturing, enabling interested students to get an early understanding of an industry that they may seek to join in the future. 

== Technology Transfer and Business Model Canvas ==

Students, who work on Capstone project to complete their degrees, always dedicate their time to design and develop an idea or a concept to a prototype, demonstrating its working at the end of the semester; however, these students hardly get any chance to assess if there is any Intellectual property associated with their project and also is it a viable technology to start-up a business around it. So, it is very important to teach these students how to do a preliminary technology evaluation and build a business model canvas, exposing them to a great learning technology transfer/entrepreneurial tool. After learning these concepts, students will be asked to assess their project in a step-by-step process and present not only the technical part but also the business prospects of their work and thus earning an extra credit as an incentive.

== Involving Students in Grades 9-13 ==

There are a large number of students who compete in very innovative STEM competitions on campus, but are unaware that what they are doing is innovative.  A solution to this problem is to create a semester long Innovation Challenge that has teams develop innovative solutions to a real world problem and then present it to a panel of judges and receive awards and prizes.  Part of the challenge is creating a prototype of their solution, but also creating a business model canvas and trying to find a way to successfully market their product.  This approach focuses on improving students' design-thinking, entrepreneurial and communication skills while defining for them what the real meaning of innovation is.  It is crucial that we develop students interest in innovation and entrepreneurship at a young age in order to create a strong I&E culture on our college campus.  

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/NMSU New Mexico State University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mauricio_Garcia Mauricio Garcia]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Brendan#New_Mexico_State_University.2C_UIF_Fellowship Brendan Sullivan]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ember_Krech Ember Krech]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joel_Cazares Joel Cazares]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/CJ_Gershon CJ Gershon]

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:NMSU Strategic Priorities

2015-10-16T18:56:26Z

CJGershon:

= - Overview - =
[[File:Back to School ADS.png]]Founded in 1888 as a Land Grant institution New Mexico State University (NMSU) has a long history of entrepenurship and business development in the community.  As the second largest university in the state NMSU has a student population of nearly 18,000 students. Through the university discovery mission started by Dr. Carruthers, the Colleges of Business and Engineering have begun an initiative to integrate mulitdisciplinary learning across campus. This collaboration has encouraged students to take ownership of their learning, and has led to the creation of several dedicated innovation and design centers: The Aggie Innovation Space, Studio G, and Arrowhead Center.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJStVYEjawo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJStVYEjawo]

= - Strategies for Innovation & Entrepreneurship - =

== Studio G Satelite Office ==

Studio G, the student incubator located in the Arrowhead Research park, has been looking for ways to engage students in a more proactive manner. With the recent completion of renovations to the Corbett Student Union, there is the potential for available space to be occupied for entrepreneurship and innovation. This space would allow university student mentors and Innovation Fellows the ability to meet with students in a central location directly on campus. Services to be provided would include a continuation of current operations underway at the Arrowhead Entrepreneurship Institute and Aggie Innovation Space: business model development, rapid prototyping, concept design, manufacturing assistance, and team develpment training. 

== Multidisciplinary Senior Design Classes (Capstone) ==

Recognizing the global impact of education, it is essential for students to work on mulitdisciplinary projects throughout their student tenure. Through the Aggie Innovation Space, engineering students have begun collaborating and working in a more open and supportive environment where experiences have allowed for mentors to emerge. Over the past year, these mentors, from different majors, have worked together to guide a number of student projects through the design phase. Having seen the early success of this initiative, we are hoping to implement a university wide senior design course that will enable students from every college to work together to solve industry-based problems.

'''Integration of Baja SAE into a marketable and multidisciplinary capstone'''

Capstone projects are one of the most important parts of an engineer’s education. Recognizing that capstone can be used to learn, use and refine skills related to I&E, it must be made better. Baja SAE is a design challenge that is put on by Society of Automotive Engineers and to compete in this series take a great amount of engineering, marketing, and teamwork. Most importantly this design challenge is created out of the idea of each college being considered a startup firm that is to design and market their vehicle. This creates a great deal of I&E thinking. My hope is that integration of Baja SAE into a capstone project with raise the level of I&E in capstone while also providing students with a useful engineering project/start up.

Milestones:

#Talk to admins about proposal and any problems
#Introduce Baja for a single group (both ME and Business students)
#Fix any problems that arise from first semester of integration
#Introduce baja in a greater manner the next semester
#Full integrate Baja SAE as a capstone project
#Based on successfull ingegration other similar projects will be introduced to other departments capstone projects 

== Pop-up Classes ==

Building on early mentorship initiatives, it was determined that many students sought to learn in a non-traditional manner that would allow them to gain familiarity with new concepts quickly. These courses are desinged to help all university students learn the value behind innovation, and to provide them the essential tools for their project needs.  These courses have been very well recieved by university faculty memebers who regularly attend and often teach these new pop-up courses.  

== Industry Reverse Sabbatical ==

The newest concept being developed within the College of Engineering is an Industry sabbatical that will allow for people in industry to get back on campus to teach a full course.  The idea behind the initative is for students to gain familiarity with the practial applications of knowedge in industry.  Course topics will range from circuit design to additive manufacturing, enabling interested students to get an early understanding of an industry that they may seek to join in the future. 

== Technology Transfer and Business Model Canvas ==

Students, who work on Capstone project to complete their degrees, always dedicate their time to design and develop an idea or a concept to a prototype, demonstrating its working at the end of the semester; however, these students hardly get any chance to assess if there is any Intellectual property associated with their project and also is it a viable technology to start-up a business around it. So, it is very important to teach these students how to do a preliminary technology evaluation and build a business model canvas, exposing them to a great learning technology transfer/entrepreneurial tool. After learning these concepts, students will be asked to assess their project in a step-by-step process and present not only the technical part but also the business prospects of their work and thus earning an extra credit as an incentive.

== Involving Students in Grades 9-13 ==

There are a large number of students who compete in very innovative STEM competitions on campus, but are unaware that what they are doing is innovative.  A solution to this problem is to create a semester long Innovation Challenge that has teams develop innovative solutions to a real world problem and then present it to a panel of judges and receive awards and prizes.  Part of the challenge is creating a prototype of their solution, but also creating a business model canvas and trying to find a way to successfully market their product.  This approach focuses on improving students' design-thinking, entrepreneurial and communication skills while defining for them what the real meaning of innovation is.  It is crucial that we develop students interest in innovation and entrepreneurship at a young age in order to create a strong I&E culture on our college campus.  

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/NMSU New Mexico State University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mauricio_Garcia Mauricio Garcia]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Brendan#New_Mexico_State_University.2C_UIF_Fellowship Brendan Sullivan]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ember_Krech Ember Krech]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joel_Cazares Joel Cazares]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/CJ_Gershon CJ Gershon]

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CJ Gershon is a University Innovation Fellow from the fall 2015 cohort. Born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico he [[File:CJGershon1.png|thumb]]developed strong love of the outdoors through hiking, camping, hunting, and skiing. This love of exploration has been apparent throughout his life getting routinely lost on camping trips by always looking around the next corner to find something new. This explorative nature has transitioned into his studies as he always looks for something new to learn or a new experience to have.

At New Mexico State University, he is studying Finance and Small Business Management/Entrepreneurship. He is currently employed at Arrowhead Center, NMSU’s Business Incubator, where he does technology evaluations for University Intellectual Property and small business consulting for New Mexico companies who are developing new and innovative products. He has also interned at a Venture Capital firm in the southwest. Going forward, he plans to finish his education and pursue entrepreneurial endeavors.

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”
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