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Fellow:Gabriel Conners

2018-06-05T21:44:08Z

Gconners:

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'''Serving as UIF Since:''' Spring 2015
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'''School: '''Illinois Institute of Technology '''What he does now:''' UIGuide, Univeristy Innovation Fellows '''What that means:''' He facilitates the on-boarding, design training, team bonding, leadership development, and self-reflection of University Innovation Fellows. As a pioneer of the first generation of UIGuides, he is laying the foundation for how future guides will distribute the function of this global fellowship of change agents.

[[File:Gabe 2018.jpeg|thumb|right]]

'''Contact him about:''' creative writing, coffee shops, culture and community development, policy analysis, program design and evaluation, divergent thoughts

'''Email: '''G@hawk.iit.edu '''Phone: '''(312) 434-9260

 

Gabe is a University Innovation Fellow, graduating in the summer of 2018 from Illinois Institute of Technology. With backgrounds in coffee, guest engagement, peer leadership, and now social and economic development policy, he is a renaissance man of community building.

 

When he arrived at Illinois Tech in 2014, he was pursuing a thesis of “Creativity as Currency,” convinced that the status quo economic structures at the turn of the 21st century were going to need more relevant and accessible ways of generating and exchanging value.

 

Over the next four years, Gabe operated as a change agent mandated by the [http://universityinnovationfellows.org/manifesto/ UIF Manifesto], working with the College of Human Sciences; Student Center for Diversity and Inclusion; Residence and Greek Life; Office of Campus Life; Office of Student Access, Success, and Diversity Initiatives; President’s Student Advisory Council, Student Government Association, Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization, Engineers Without Borders, and the Entrepreneurship Academy. Throughout these collaborations, he experimented in and developed deeper understandings of how relationship development and creative encouragement can be used to develop community.

 

When he came in to Illinois Tech, he thought his challenge was to build resource networks to empower communities to sustainably develop themselves. He learned over time that he was making a host of assumptions, and the problem reaches deeper: '''communities must first have the liberty to design themselves''', to discover their intent and bring it to life.

 

This revelation has inspired Gabe’s latest personal and professional quest: to prototype a new (for him) manifestation of democracy and identity as grounded in the creative rights of people—wherein the creative heart of each person is acknowledged in equality and recognized as deserving of full opportunity to thrive in creative expression, building on the foundations of the [http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights]. He sees one application as an improved model for civic education, where active citizenship involves ensuring those in the community have the freedom and resources to design.

 

When he isn’t musing on social, economic, and political system reconfigurations, you can find Gabe sauntering among the trees and high-rises of Chicago’s urban landscape, taking moments to ask strangers “what they are about in life.” He has a passion for local-roasted espresso, the communal spaces of coffee shops, and good climbing trees. He’ll go for Vivaldi, Mozart, and most musical playlists—Hamilton and Les Misérables FTW.

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== Related Links ==

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities]

Business Model Canvas

[https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1tQPV8tvI76kEmmgvExV9DfmqepUyAiDtGhHgwFij_2I&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-Ss9RUmnrPwbvX1kVpIAfv9JYyPg https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1tQPV8tvI76kEmmgvExV9DfmqepUyAiDtGhHgwFij_2I]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

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Fellow:Gabriel Conners

2018-06-05T21:43:53Z

Gconners:

<div>
'''Gabriel Conners'''
</div>
'''Serving as UIF Since:''' Spring 2015 '''School: '''Illinois Institute of Technology '''What he does now:''' UIGuide, Univeristy Innovation Fellows '''What that means:''' He facilitates the on-boarding, design training, team bonding, leadership development, and self-reflection of University Innovation Fellows. As a pioneer of the first generation of UIGuides, he is laying the foundation for how future guides will distribute the function of this global fellowship of change agents.

[[File:Gabe 2018.jpeg|thumb|right|Gabe 2018.jpeg]]

'''Contact him about:''' creative writing, coffee shops, culture and community development, policy analysis, program design and evaluation, divergent thoughts

'''Email: '''G@hawk.iit.edu '''Phone: '''(312) 434-9260

 

Gabe is a University Innovation Fellow, graduating in the summer of 2018 from Illinois Institute of Technology. With backgrounds in coffee, guest engagement, peer leadership, and now social and economic development policy, he is a renaissance man of community building.

 

When he arrived at Illinois Tech in 2014, he was pursuing a thesis of “Creativity as Currency,” convinced that the status quo economic structures at the turn of the 21st century were going to need more relevant and accessible ways of generating and exchanging value.

 

Over the next four years, Gabe operated as a change agent mandated by the [http://universityinnovationfellows.org/manifesto/ UIF Manifesto], working with the College of Human Sciences; Student Center for Diversity and Inclusion; Residence and Greek Life; Office of Campus Life; Office of Student Access, Success, and Diversity Initiatives; President’s Student Advisory Council, Student Government Association, Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization, Engineers Without Borders, and the Entrepreneurship Academy. Throughout these collaborations, he experimented in and developed deeper understandings of how relationship development and creative encouragement can be used to develop community.

 

When he came in to Illinois Tech, he thought his challenge was to build resource networks to empower communities to sustainably develop themselves. He learned over time that he was making a host of assumptions, and the problem reaches deeper: '''communities must first have the liberty to design themselves''', to discover their intent and bring it to life.

 

This revelation has inspired Gabe’s latest personal and professional quest: to prototype a new (for him) manifestation of democracy and identity as grounded in the creative rights of people—wherein the creative heart of each person is acknowledged in equality and recognized as deserving of full opportunity to thrive in creative expression, building on the foundations of the [http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights]. He sees one application as an improved model for civic education, where active citizenship involves ensuring those in the community have the freedom and resources to design.

 

When he isn’t musing on social, economic, and political system reconfigurations, you can find Gabe sauntering among the trees and high-rises of Chicago’s urban landscape, taking moments to ask strangers “what they are about in life.” He has a passion for local-roasted espresso, the communal spaces of coffee shops, and good climbing trees. He’ll go for Vivaldi, Mozart, and most musical playlists—Hamilton and Les Misérables FTW.

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== Related Links ==

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities]

Business Model Canvas

[https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1tQPV8tvI76kEmmgvExV9DfmqepUyAiDtGhHgwFij_2I&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-Ss9RUmnrPwbvX1kVpIAfv9JYyPg https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1tQPV8tvI76kEmmgvExV9DfmqepUyAiDtGhHgwFij_2I]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[[Category:Student Contributors|g]]

Fellow:Gabriel Conners

2018-06-05T21:42:57Z

Gconners:

<div>
'''Gabriel Conners'''
</div>
'''Serving as UIF Since:''' Spring 2015 '''School: '''Illinois Institute of Technology '''What he does now:''' UIGuide, Univeristy Innovation Fellows '''What that means:''' He facilitates the on-boarding, design training, team bonding, leadership development, and self-reflection of University Innovation Fellows. As a pioneer of the first generation of UIGuides, he is laying the foundation for how future guides will distribute the function of a global fellowship of change agents.

[[File:Gabe 2018.jpeg|thumb|right]]

'''Contact him about:''' creative writing, coffee shops, culture and community development, policy analysis, program design and evaluation, divergent thoughts

'''Email: '''G@hawk.iit.edu '''Phone: '''(312) 434-9260

 

Gabe is a University Innovation Fellow, graduating in the summer of 2018 from Illinois Institute of Technology. With backgrounds in coffee, guest engagement, peer leadership, and now social and economic development policy, he is a renaissance man of community building.

 

When he arrived at Illinois Tech in 2014, he was pursuing a thesis of “Creativity as Currency,” convinced that the status quo economic structures at the turn of the 21st century were going to need more relevant and accessible ways of generating and exchanging value.

 

Over the next four years, Gabe operated as a change agent mandated by the [http://universityinnovationfellows.org/manifesto/ UIF Manifesto], working with the College of Human Sciences; Student Center for Diversity and Inclusion; Residence and Greek Life; Office of Campus Life; Office of Student Access, Success, and Diversity Initiatives; President’s Student Advisory Council, Student Government Association, Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization, Engineers Without Borders, and the Entrepreneurship Academy. Throughout these collaborations, he experimented in and developed deeper understandings of how relationship development and creative encouragement can be used to develop community.

 

When he came in to Illinois Tech, he thought his challenge was to build resource networks to empower communities to sustainably develop themselves. He learned over time that he was making a host of assumptions, and the problem reaches deeper: '''communities must first have the liberty to design themselves''', to discover their intent and bring it to life.

 

This revelation has inspired Gabe’s latest personal and professional quest: to prototype a new (for him) manifestation of democracy and identity as grounded in the creative rights of people—wherein the creative heart of each person is acknowledged in equality and recognized as deserving of full opportunity to thrive in creative expression, building on the foundations of the [http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights]. He sees one application as an improved model for civic education, where active citizenship involves ensuring those in the community have the freedom and resources to design.

 

When he isn’t musing on social, economic, and political system reconfigurations, you can find Gabe sauntering among the trees and high-rises of Chicago’s urban landscape, taking moments to ask strangers “what they are about in life.” He has a passion for local-roasted espresso, the communal spaces of coffee shops, and good climbing trees. He’ll go for Vivaldi, Mozart, and most musical playlists—Hamilton and Les Misérables FTW.

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== Related Links ==

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities]

Business Model Canvas

[https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1tQPV8tvI76kEmmgvExV9DfmqepUyAiDtGhHgwFij_2I&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-Ss9RUmnrPwbvX1kVpIAfv9JYyPg https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1tQPV8tvI76kEmmgvExV9DfmqepUyAiDtGhHgwFij_2I]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[[Category:Student Contributors|g]]

Fellow:Gabriel Conners

2018-06-05T03:36:06Z

Gconners:

<div>
'''Gabriel Conners'''
</div>
'''Serving as UIF Since:''' Spring 2015 '''School: '''Illinois Institute of Technology '''What he does now:''' Citizen of Creative Liberation, Earth '''What that means:''' He develops a community’s ability to self-design by awakening and nurturing individual and group creativity.

[[File:Gabe 2018.jpeg|thumb|right|Gabe 2018.jpeg]]

'''Contact him about:''' creative writing, coffee shops, culture and community development, policy analysis, program design and evaluation, divergent thoughts

'''Email: '''G@hawk.iit.edu '''Phone: '''(312) 434-9260

 

Gabe is a University Innovation Fellow, graduating in the summer of 2018 from Illinois Institute of Technology. With backgrounds in coffee, guest engagement, peer leadership, and now social and economic development policy, he is a renaissance man of community building.

 

When he arrived at Illinois Tech in 2014, he was pursuing a thesis of “Creativity as Currency,” convinced that the status quo economic structures at the turn of the 21st century were going to need more relevant and accessible ways of generating and exchanging value.

 

Over the next four years, Gabe operated as a change agent mandated by the [http://universityinnovationfellows.org/manifesto/ UIF Manifesto], working with the College of Human Sciences; Student Center for Diversity and Inclusion; Residence and Greek Life; Office of Campus Life; Office of Student Access, Success, and Diversity Initiatives; President’s Student Advisory Council, Student Government Association, Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization, Engineers Without Borders, and the Entrepreneurship Academy. Throughout these collaborations, he experimented in and developed deeper understandings of how relationship development and creative encouragement can be used to develop community.

 

When he came in to Illinois Tech, he thought his challenge was to build resource networks to empower communities to sustainably develop themselves. He learned over time that he was making a host of assumptions, and the problem reaches deeper: '''communities must first have the liberty to design themselves''', to discover their intent and bring it to life.

 

This revelation has inspired Gabe’s latest personal and professional quest: to prototype a new (for him) manifestation of democracy and identity as grounded in the creative rights of people—wherein the creative heart of each person is acknowledged in equality and recognized as deserving of full opportunity to thrive in creative expression, building on the foundations of the [http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights]. He sees one application as an improved model for civic education, where active citizenship involves ensuring those in the community have the freedom and resources to design.

 

When he isn’t musing on social, economic, and political system reconfigurations, you can find Gabe sauntering among the trees and high-rises of Chicago’s urban landscape, taking moments to ask strangers “what they are about in life.” He has a passion for local-roasted espresso, the communal spaces of coffee shops, and good climbing trees. He’ll go for Vivaldi, Mozart, and most musical playlists—Hamilton and Les Misérables FTW.

----

== Related Links ==

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities]

Business Model Canvas

[https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1tQPV8tvI76kEmmgvExV9DfmqepUyAiDtGhHgwFij_2I&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-Ss9RUmnrPwbvX1kVpIAfv9JYyPg https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1tQPV8tvI76kEmmgvExV9DfmqepUyAiDtGhHgwFij_2I]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[[Category:Student Contributors|g]]

File:Gabe 2018.jpeg

2018-06-05T03:30:40Z

Gconners: Gabriel Conners UIF Shirt June 2018

Gabriel Conners
UIF Shirt
June 2018

School:Illinois Institute of Technology

2015-02-16T04:31:41Z

Gconners:

= Overview [[File:IIT.png|thumb]] =

When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.

The entrepreneurship academy at Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered  the largest resource and center on campus dedicated  to entrepreneurship. Illinois Institute of Technology also partners with many corporate sponsors to help fund events and programs focused on the concepts of both innovation and entrepreneurship.

= U.S. Deptartment of Commerce Innovation Ecosystem Categories =

=== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT offers many clubs and courses where students can work towards gaining a better understanding of I & E, all the while producing ideas and products to potentially launch. These programs also allow for students to practice skills important to I & E including experimentation, problem solving, and visual analysis:'' 

*IPRO
*Student groups or events (CEO, TedxIIT, Undergraduate Business Council, StartUp IIT, hackathons, and others)
*Over 75 courses relating to innovation/entrepreneurship
*Laboratories, Lounges, collaboration, prototyping and making spaces
*Incubator North and South (Tech park IIT)

 

=== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT professors are able to apply for individual grants from the NIH to be applied to their respectives labs, in order to fund ongoing research:''

*NIH funded grants (BME dept: Eric Brey (Diabetes REU Grant)
*NIH funded Business Start-up competition
*NIH funded Neurostartup Challenge
*NIH funded AP study                                                     

 

=== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ===

''IIT's office of Technology Commercialization works with other institutions, organizations, visiting fellows, faculty, and government programs like the NIH to share intellectual property and/or commercialize intellectual property.''

*[http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/ Office of Technology Commercialization (Technology Transfer)]
**[http://blogs.iit.edu/technology_commercialization/ Tech Commercialization Blog]
*Various companies in Tech Park

            *Theraproteins

            * Sigenics

            *Sinode Systems            

           *Smart Grid Network

            *Smartershade

=== Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration ===

''IIT works with Chicago based sponsors such as the Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium and the Container Store, as well as international [http://ipro.iit.edu/sponsors sponsors] such as Ford Motor company, General Motors, BP Amoco, Coca-Cola, Segway, and Hewlett-Packard into order to bring collaborative, real-world challenge based learning to IPRO courses. IIT also has numerous research institutions, each partnering on various research projects with outside industry.'' 

*IPROs
*Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering 
*IIT Research Institute (IITRI)
*Center for Innovation and Science and Applications (CISA)
*Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER)
*Faculty Engineering Labs
*Wet labs: Incubator North and South

 

=== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ===

''IIT's Community Affairs office partners with area businesses and regional development councils to improve the surrounding neighborhoods. Initiatives of Community Affairs and the Knapp center provide small or start up businesses with legal assistance, networking expertise, and technology training.''

*[http://iit.edu/knapp_center/ Knapp center]
*Community Affairs office
**[http://www.iit.edu/community_affairs/etsb/ Enhancing Technology for Small Businesses program]
*Entrepreneurial Law Clinic

= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship =

Armour College of Engineering
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>EMGT 363—Creativity, Inventions, and Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists</li>
<li>EMGT 407—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>EMGT 470—Project Management</li>
<li>ENGR 497: Introduction to Research Methods</li>
<li>CHE 506—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>ENGR 595: Product Development for Entrepreneurs</li>
</ul>

Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 341—Business Law for Entrepreneurs in the Modern Global Economy</li>
<li>BUS 361—Entrepreneurial Thinking and Practice</li>
<li>BUS 467—Managing Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Global Marketplace</li>
<li>BUS 472—New Product Development</li>
<li>BUS 468—Creating and Managing the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Enterprise</li>
<li>MBA/EMS 529/PA 550—Social Entrepreneurship</li>
<li>MBA 575—Creativity and Contemporary Entrepreneurial Opportunities</li>
<li>MBA 576—Creating and Financing New Technology Ventures</li>
<li>MSF 594—Entrepreneurial Finance</li>
</ul>

Project Courses Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 102—Computing Tools Bus Analysis</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 103—Ideation: What Are My Interests?</li>
<li>BUS 104—Needs Analysis and Opportunity Analysis Aligned with My Interests</li>
<li>BUS 203—Identification and Evaluation of Prospective Consumers</li>
<li>BUS 204—Identification and Evaluation of Competitive Advantage</li>
<li>BUS 303—Financial Analysis: Pro-Forma Financial Statements</li>
<li>BUS 403—Developing a Strategically Business Plan</li>
<li>BUS 404—Selling Your Business Plan</li>
</ul>

Graduate Programs or Certifications:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Master of Business Administration, Concentration in Innovation and Emerging Enterprises</li>
<li>Master of Public Administration with Economic Development and Social  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Master of Information Technology & Management with IT Management and  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Information Technology Innovation Leadership and Entrepreneurship Certificate  </li>
<li>Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate</li>
</ul>

= Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts =

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy:

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments and units. Its purpose is to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related co-curricular activities available for all university majors.

The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities that provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to have a real-world experience in innovation and entrepreneurship. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, and business and social organizations.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy IIT Entrepreneurship Academy]</li>
</ul>

The Interprofessional Projects Program

Developed at IIT in 1995, the IPRO Program consists of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth of the university’s disciplines and professional programs. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide students a variety of choices that tap their passion and disciplinary knowledge. IPRO projects also offer sponsors, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluated.

The interprofessional projects program at IIT gives students of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experience. Students also get the chance to display their projects to the public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their project.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/ IIT IPRO]</li>
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/wp-content/uploads/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf IPRO Brochure]</li>
</ul>

The Idea Shop

The Idea Shop is an exciting new facility developed in 2010 by IIT. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs and elevates the entire educational experience.

The idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of students and encourages interaction between students of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including 3D printers, cutters, labs, and team-specific areas. It gives students tools to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing so.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/programs/idea-shop Idea Shop]</li>
</ul>

= Student Entrepreneurship Initiatives =

The CEO Student Organization

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization whose main goal is to foster and support entrepreneurial efforts at Illinois Institute of Technology. This organization provides students of all majors with the necessary support and networks to become an effective entrepreneurial leader.          In collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technologies’ Undergraduate Business council, The Startup IIT weekend programs are hosted with the aims of providing mentorship and allows students the valuable experience of presenting in front of real-world entrepreneurs and investors.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://iitceo.org/startupiit/ IIT CEO]</li>
</ul>

= Entrepreneurial Partners =
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Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center

Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center offers a wide variety of supportive services for start-up and existing small businesses located in and around Illinois Institute of Technology. The Center is committed to helping neighborhood businesses grow and thrive, as well as helping the IIT students, alumni, faculty, and staff bring new ideas and services to life.

Innovation drives today’s business. But innovation is only the beginning.  The road to commercializing a product idea or revolutionary new service is difficult and filled with obstacles. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is available to help find resources to overcome these obstacles, and get you on the path to success.

For nearly 125 years, IIT has been teaching, developing, and coaching the best engineering, legal, architectural science, and business minds to improve the world we live in. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is yet another very important resource that demonstrates IIT’s commitment to improving life for all humankind. Whether you need help developing realistic cash flow projections, finding your break-even point, accessing capital or helping you hire your first employee, Knapp Center can provide all the neccessary resources.

''Knapp Center Resources''

Incubators

VentureShot

Themed Co-Working Spaces

1871

Catalyze

PanzanzeeCivicLab

Blue1647

Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

Coalition: Energy

Matter

TechNexus

Rev3

Accelerators

Impact Engine

Tech Stars Chicago

Chicago Innovation Exchange

'''Support Orgs'''

Energy Foundry

Propel

ITA

Chicago Innovation Mentors

MakerBiz

'''Companies'''

3d Printer Experience

Links to Additional Resources:

*[[Knapp Center|http://iit.edu/knapp_center/]]

Future Founders Foundation — College Founders
</div>
For many college-age entrepreneurs, the transition from school into the real world can be challenging. After graduation, the continual guidance from professors, classroom structure and school resources diminish, leaving many students unaware of how to navigate the community. College Founders bridges this gap by engaging students in community activities while they are in school.

At IIT,  College Founders promotes cross-collaboration and increases the capacity of university programs by broadening their reach into the community.

= Landscape Canvas =

{{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key=1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc|width=1300|height=700}}

= Conclusion =

Illinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future.

 Link to University
<ul style="font-size: 12.222222328186px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/ http://web.iit.edu/]</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview] 

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[[Bart Grabowski|http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Illinois Institute of Technology

2015-02-16T04:30:15Z

Gconners:

= Overview [[File:IIT.png|thumb]] =

When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.

The entrepreneurship academy at Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered  the largest resource and center on campus dedicated  to entrepreneurship. Illinois Institute of Technology also partners with many corporate sponsors to help fund events and programs focused on the concepts of both innovation and entrepreneurship.

= U.S. Deptartment of Commerce Innovation Ecosystem Categories =

=== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT offers many clubs and courses where students can work towards gaining a better understanding of I & E, all the while producing ideas and products to independently launch. These programs also allow for students to practice skills important to I & E including experimentation, problem solving, and visual analysis:'' 

*IPRO
*Student groups or events (CEO, TedxIIT, Undergraduate Business Council, StartUp IIT, hackathons, and others)
*Over 75 courses relating to innovation/entrepreneurship
*Laboratories, Lounges, collaboration, prototyping and making spaces
*Incubator North and South (Tech park IIT)

 

=== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT professors are able to apply for individual grants from the NIH to be applied to their respectives labs, in order to fund ongoing research:''

*NIH funded grants (BME dept: Eric Brey (Diabetes REU Grant)
*NIH funded Business Start-up competition
*NIH funded Neurostartup Challenge
*NIH funded AP study                                                     

 

=== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ===

''IIT's office of Technology Commercialization works with other institutions, organizations, visiting fellows, faculty, and government programs like the NIH to share intellectual property and/or commercialize intellectual property.''

*[http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/ Office of Technology Commercialization (Technology Transfer)]
**[http://blogs.iit.edu/technology_commercialization/ Tech Commercialization Blog]
*Various companies in Tech Park

            *Theraproteins

            * Sigenics

            *Sinode Systems            

           *Smart Grid Network

            *Smartershade

=== Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration ===

''IIT works with Chicago based sponsors such as the Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium and the Container Store, as well as international [http://ipro.iit.edu/sponsors sponsors] such as Ford Motor company, General Motors, BP Amoco, Coca-Cola, Segway, and Hewlett-Packard into order to bring collaborative, real-world challenge based learning to IPRO courses. IIT also has numerous research institutions, each partnering on various research projects with outside industry.'' 

*IPROs
*Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering 
*IIT Research Institute (IITRI)
*Center for Innovation and Science and Applications (CISA)
*Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER)
*Faculty Engineering Labs
*Wet labs: Incubator North and South

 

=== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ===

''IIT's Community Affairs office partners with area businesses and regional development councils to improve the surrounding neighborhoods. Initiatives of Community Affairs and the Knapp center provide small or start up businesses with legal assistance, networking expertise, and technology training.''

*[http://iit.edu/knapp_center/ Knapp center]
*Community Affairs office
**[http://www.iit.edu/community_affairs/etsb/ Enhancing Technology for Small Businesses program]
*Entrepreneurial Law Clinic

= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship =

Armour College of Engineering
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>EMGT 363—Creativity, Inventions, and Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists</li>
<li>EMGT 407—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>EMGT 470—Project Management</li>
<li>ENGR 497: Introduction to Research Methods</li>
<li>CHE 506—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>ENGR 595: Product Development for Entrepreneurs</li>
</ul>

Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 341—Business Law for Entrepreneurs in the Modern Global Economy</li>
<li>BUS 361—Entrepreneurial Thinking and Practice</li>
<li>BUS 467—Managing Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Global Marketplace</li>
<li>BUS 472—New Product Development</li>
<li>BUS 468—Creating and Managing the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Enterprise</li>
<li>MBA/EMS 529/PA 550—Social Entrepreneurship</li>
<li>MBA 575—Creativity and Contemporary Entrepreneurial Opportunities</li>
<li>MBA 576—Creating and Financing New Technology Ventures</li>
<li>MSF 594—Entrepreneurial Finance</li>
</ul>

Project Courses Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 102—Computing Tools Bus Analysis</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 103—Ideation: What Are My Interests?</li>
<li>BUS 104—Needs Analysis and Opportunity Analysis Aligned with My Interests</li>
<li>BUS 203—Identification and Evaluation of Prospective Consumers</li>
<li>BUS 204—Identification and Evaluation of Competitive Advantage</li>
<li>BUS 303—Financial Analysis: Pro-Forma Financial Statements</li>
<li>BUS 403—Developing a Strategically Business Plan</li>
<li>BUS 404—Selling Your Business Plan</li>
</ul>

Graduate Programs or Certifications:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Master of Business Administration, Concentration in Innovation and Emerging Enterprises</li>
<li>Master of Public Administration with Economic Development and Social  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Master of Information Technology & Management with IT Management and  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Information Technology Innovation Leadership and Entrepreneurship Certificate  </li>
<li>Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate</li>
</ul>

= Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts =

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy:

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments and units. Its purpose is to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related co-curricular activities available for all university majors.

The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities that provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to have a real-world experience in innovation and entrepreneurship. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, and business and social organizations.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy IIT Entrepreneurship Academy]</li>
</ul>

The Interprofessional Projects Program

Developed at IIT in 1995, the IPRO Program consists of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth of the university’s disciplines and professional programs. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide students a variety of choices that tap their passion and disciplinary knowledge. IPRO projects also offer sponsors, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluated.

The interprofessional projects program at IIT gives students of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experience. Students also get the chance to display their projects to the public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their project.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/ IIT IPRO]</li>
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/wp-content/uploads/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf IPRO Brochure]</li>
</ul>

The Idea Shop

The Idea Shop is an exciting new facility developed in 2010 by IIT. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs and elevates the entire educational experience.

The idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of students and encourages interaction between students of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including 3D printers, cutters, labs, and team-specific areas. It gives students tools to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing so.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/programs/idea-shop Idea Shop]</li>
</ul>

= Student Entrepreneurship Initiatives =

The CEO Student Organization

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization whose main goal is to foster and support entrepreneurial efforts at Illinois Institute of Technology. This organization provides students of all majors with the necessary support and networks to become an effective entrepreneurial leader.          In collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technologies’ Undergraduate Business council, The Startup IIT weekend programs are hosted with the aims of providing mentorship and allows students the valuable experience of presenting in front of real-world entrepreneurs and investors.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://iitceo.org/startupiit/ IIT CEO]</li>
</ul>

= Entrepreneurial Partners =
<div>
Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center

Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center offers a wide variety of supportive services for start-up and existing small businesses located in and around Illinois Institute of Technology. The Center is committed to helping neighborhood businesses grow and thrive, as well as helping the IIT students, alumni, faculty, and staff bring new ideas and services to life.

Innovation drives today’s business. But innovation is only the beginning.  The road to commercializing a product idea or revolutionary new service is difficult and filled with obstacles. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is available to help find resources to overcome these obstacles, and get you on the path to success.

For nearly 125 years, IIT has been teaching, developing, and coaching the best engineering, legal, architectural science, and business minds to improve the world we live in. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is yet another very important resource that demonstrates IIT’s commitment to improving life for all humankind. Whether you need help developing realistic cash flow projections, finding your break-even point, accessing capital or helping you hire your first employee, Knapp Center can provide all the neccessary resources.

''Knapp Center Resources''

Incubators

VentureShot

Themed Co-Working Spaces

1871

Catalyze

PanzanzeeCivicLab

Blue1647

Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

Coalition: Energy

Matter

TechNexus

Rev3

Accelerators

Impact Engine

Tech Stars Chicago

Chicago Innovation Exchange

'''Support Orgs'''

Energy Foundry

Propel

ITA

Chicago Innovation Mentors

MakerBiz

'''Companies'''

3d Printer Experience

Links to Additional Resources:

*[[Knapp Center|http://iit.edu/knapp_center/]]

Future Founders Foundation — College Founders
</div>
For many college-age entrepreneurs, the transition from school into the real world can be challenging. After graduation, the continual guidance from professors, classroom structure and school resources diminish, leaving many students unaware of how to navigate the community. College Founders bridges this gap by engaging students in community activities while they are in school.

At IIT,  College Founders promotes cross-collaboration and increases the capacity of university programs by broadening their reach into the community.

= Landscape Canvas =

{{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key=1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc|width=1300|height=700}}

= Conclusion =

Illinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future.

 Link to University
<ul style="font-size: 12.222222328186px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/ http://web.iit.edu/]</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview] 

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[[Bart Grabowski|http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Illinois Institute of Technology

2015-02-16T04:21:13Z

Gconners:

= Overview [[File:IIT.png|thumb]] =

When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.

The entrepreneurship academy at Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered  the largest resource and center on campus dedicated  to entrepreneurship. Illinois Institute of Technology also partners with many corporate sponsors to help fund events and programs focused on the concepts of both innovation and entrepreneurship.

= U.S. Deptartment of Commerce Innovation Ecosystem Categories =

=== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT offers many clubs and courses where students can work towards gaining a better understanding of I & E, all the while producing ideas and products to independently launch. These programs also allow for students to practice skills important to I & E including experimentation, problem solving, and visual analysis:'' 

*IPRO
*Student groups or events (CEO, TedxIIT, Undergraduate Business Council, StartUp IIT, hackathons, and others)
*Over 75 courses relating to innovation/entrepreneurship
*Laboratories, Lounges, collaboration, prototyping and making spaces
*Incubator North and South (Tech park IIT)

 

=== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT professors are able to apply for individual grants from the NIH to be applied to their respectives labs, in order to fund ongoing research:''

*NIH funded grants (BME dept: Eric Brey (Diabetes REU Grant)
*NIH funded Business Start-up competition
*NIH funded Neurostartup Challenge
*NIH funded AP study                                                     

 

=== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ===

''IIT works in collaboration with the Kaplan Institute and Entrepreneurship Council to integrate technology transfer across the university and its various colleges.'' ''The Kaplan Institute and Entrepreneurship Council also encourage encorporating entrepreneurship into curriculum, along with getting innovative students to turn their creative ideas into real innovations:''

*[http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/ http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/]
*Various companies in Tech Park

            *Theraproteins

            * Sigenics

            *Sinode Systems            

           *Smart Grid Network

            *Smartershade

=== Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration ===

''IIT works with Chicago based sponsors such as the Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium and the Container Store, as well as international [http://ipro.iit.edu/sponsors sponsors] such as Ford Motor company, General Motors, BP Amoco, Coca-Cola, Segway, and Hewlett-Packard into order to bring collaborative, real-world challenge based learning to IPRO courses. IIT also has numerous research institutions, each partnering on various research projects with outside industry.'' 

*IPROs
*Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering 
*IIT Research Institute (IITRI)
*Center for Innovation and Science and Applications (CISA)
*Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER)
*Faculty Engineering Labs
*Wet labs: Incubator North and South

 

=== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ===

''IIT's Community Affairs office partners with area businesses and regional development councils to improve the surrounding neighborhoods. Initiatives of Community Affairs and the Knapp center provide small or start up businesses with legal assistance, networking expertise, and technology training.''

*[http://iit.edu/knapp_center/ Knapp center]
*Community Affairs office
**[http://www.iit.edu/community_affairs/etsb/ Enhancing Technology for Small Businesses program]
*Entrepreneurial Law Clinic

= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship =

Armour College of Engineering
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>EMGT 363—Creativity, Inventions, and Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists</li>
<li>EMGT 407—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>EMGT 470—Project Management</li>
<li>ENGR 497: Introduction to Research Methods</li>
<li>CHE 506—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>ENGR 595: Product Development for Entrepreneurs</li>
</ul>

Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 341—Business Law for Entrepreneurs in the Modern Global Economy</li>
<li>BUS 361—Entrepreneurial Thinking and Practice</li>
<li>BUS 467—Managing Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Global Marketplace</li>
<li>BUS 472—New Product Development</li>
<li>BUS 468—Creating and Managing the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Enterprise</li>
<li>MBA/EMS 529/PA 550—Social Entrepreneurship</li>
<li>MBA 575—Creativity and Contemporary Entrepreneurial Opportunities</li>
<li>MBA 576—Creating and Financing New Technology Ventures</li>
<li>MSF 594—Entrepreneurial Finance</li>
</ul>

Project Courses Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 102—Computing Tools Bus Analysis</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 103—Ideation: What Are My Interests?</li>
<li>BUS 104—Needs Analysis and Opportunity Analysis Aligned with My Interests</li>
<li>BUS 203—Identification and Evaluation of Prospective Consumers</li>
<li>BUS 204—Identification and Evaluation of Competitive Advantage</li>
<li>BUS 303—Financial Analysis: Pro-Forma Financial Statements</li>
<li>BUS 403—Developing a Strategically Business Plan</li>
<li>BUS 404—Selling Your Business Plan</li>
</ul>

Graduate Programs or Certifications:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Master of Business Administration, Concentration in Innovation and Emerging Enterprises</li>
<li>Master of Public Administration with Economic Development and Social  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Master of Information Technology & Management with IT Management and  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Information Technology Innovation Leadership and Entrepreneurship Certificate  </li>
<li>Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate</li>
</ul>

= Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts =

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy:

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments and units. Its purpose is to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related co-curricular activities available for all university majors.

The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities that provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to have a real-world experience in innovation and entrepreneurship. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, and business and social organizations.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy IIT Entrepreneurship Academy]</li>
</ul>

The Interprofessional Projects Program

Developed at IIT in 1995, the IPRO Program consists of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth of the university’s disciplines and professional programs. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide students a variety of choices that tap their passion and disciplinary knowledge. IPRO projects also offer sponsors, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluated.

The interprofessional projects program at IIT gives students of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experience. Students also get the chance to display their projects to the public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their project.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/ IIT IPRO]</li>
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/wp-content/uploads/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf IPRO Brochure]</li>
</ul>

The Idea Shop

The Idea Shop is an exciting new facility developed in 2010 by IIT. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs and elevates the entire educational experience.

The idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of students and encourages interaction between students of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including 3D printers, cutters, labs, and team-specific areas. It gives students tools to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing so.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/programs/idea-shop Idea Shop]</li>
</ul>

= Student Entrepreneurship Initiatives =

The CEO Student Organization

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization whose main goal is to foster and support entrepreneurial efforts at Illinois Institute of Technology. This organization provides students of all majors with the necessary support and networks to become an effective entrepreneurial leader.          In collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technologies’ Undergraduate Business council, The Startup IIT weekend programs are hosted with the aims of providing mentorship and allows students the valuable experience of presenting in front of real-world entrepreneurs and investors.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://iitceo.org/startupiit/ IIT CEO]</li>
</ul>

= Entrepreneurial Partners =
<div>
Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center

Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center offers a wide variety of supportive services for start-up and existing small businesses located in and around Illinois Institute of Technology. The Center is committed to helping neighborhood businesses grow and thrive, as well as helping the IIT students, alumni, faculty, and staff bring new ideas and services to life.

Innovation drives today’s business. But innovation is only the beginning.  The road to commercializing a product idea or revolutionary new service is difficult and filled with obstacles. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is available to help find resources to overcome these obstacles, and get you on the path to success.

For nearly 125 years, IIT has been teaching, developing, and coaching the best engineering, legal, architectural science, and business minds to improve the world we live in. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is yet another very important resource that demonstrates IIT’s commitment to improving life for all humankind. Whether you need help developing realistic cash flow projections, finding your break-even point, accessing capital or helping you hire your first employee, Knapp Center can provide all the neccessary resources.

''Knapp Center Resources''

Incubators

VentureShot

Themed Co-Working Spaces

1871

Catalyze

PanzanzeeCivicLab

Blue1647

Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

Coalition: Energy

Matter

TechNexus

Rev3

Accelerators

Impact Engine

Tech Stars Chicago

Chicago Innovation Exchange

'''Support Orgs'''

Energy Foundry

Propel

ITA

Chicago Innovation Mentors

MakerBiz

'''Companies'''

3d Printer Experience

Links to Additional Resources:

*[[Knapp Center|http://iit.edu/knapp_center/]]

Future Founders Foundation — College Founders
</div>
For many college-age entrepreneurs, the transition from school into the real world can be challenging. After graduation, the continual guidance from professors, classroom structure and school resources diminish, leaving many students unaware of how to navigate the community. College Founders bridges this gap by engaging students in community activities while they are in school.

At IIT,  College Founders promotes cross-collaboration and increases the capacity of university programs by broadening their reach into the community.

= Landscape Canvas =

{{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key=1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc|width=1300|height=700}}

= Conclusion =

Illinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future.

 Link to University
<ul style="font-size: 12.222222328186px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/ http://web.iit.edu/]</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview] 

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[[Bart Grabowski|http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Illinois Institute of Technology

2015-02-16T04:09:37Z

Gconners:

= Overview [[File:IIT.png|thumb]] =

When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.

The entrepreneurship academy at Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered  the largest resource and center on campus dedicated  to entrepreneurship. Illinois Institute of Technology also partners with many corporate sponsors to help fund events and programs focused on the concepts of both innovation and entrepreneurship.

= U.S. Deptartment of Commerce Innovation Ecosystem Categories =

=== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT offers many clubs and courses where students can work towards gaining a better understanding of I & E, all the while producing ideas and products to independently launch. These programs also allow for students to practice skills important to I & E including experimentation, problem solving, and visual analysis:'' 

*IPRO
*Student groups or events (CEO, TedxIIT, Undergraduate Business Council, StartUp IIT, hackathons, and others)
*Over 75 courses relating to innovation/entrepreneurship
*Laboratories, Lounges, collaboration, prototyping and making spaces
*Incubator North and South (Tech park IIT)

 

=== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT professors are able to apply for individual grants from the NIH to be applied to their respectives labs, in order to fund ongoing research:''

*NIH funded grants (BME dept: Eric Brey (Diabetes REU Grant)
*NIH funded Business Start-up competition
*NIH funded Neurostartup Challenge
*NIH funded AP study                                                     

 

=== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ===

''IIT works in collaboration with the Kaplan Institute and Entrepreneurship Council to integrate technology transfer across the university and its various colleges.'' ''The Kaplan Institute and Entrepreneurship Council also encourage encorporating entrepreneurship into curriculum, along with getting innovative students to turn their creative ideas into real innovations:''

*[http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/ http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/]
*Various companies in Tech Park

            *Theraproteins

            * Sigenics

            *Sinode Systems            

           *Smart Grid Network

            *Smartershade

=== Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration ===

''IIT works with Chicago based sponsors such as the Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium and the Container Store into order to bring collaboration based learning to IPRO courses. Students work with these sponsors and aid them in bettering their business modules:'' 

*IPROs
*All the research institutes (WISER, IIFSH, etc)
*Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Engineering
*Faculty Engineering Labs
*Wet labs: Incubator North and South *
*[http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/ http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/] (Tech transfer)

 

=== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ===

''IIT's Community Affairs office partners with area businesses and regional development councils to improve the surrounding neighborhoods. Initiatives of Community Affairs and the Knapp center provide small or start up businesses with legal assistance, networking expertise, and technology training.''

*[http://iit.edu/knapp_center/ Knapp center]
*Community Affairs office
**[http://www.iit.edu/community_affairs/etsb/ Enhancing Technology for Small Businesses program]
*Entrepreneurial Law Clinic

= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship =

Armour College of Engineering
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>EMGT 363—Creativity, Inventions, and Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists</li>
<li>EMGT 407—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>EMGT 470—Project Management</li>
<li>ENGR 497: Introduction to Research Methods</li>
<li>CHE 506—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>ENGR 595: Product Development for Entrepreneurs</li>
</ul>

Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 341—Business Law for Entrepreneurs in the Modern Global Economy</li>
<li>BUS 361—Entrepreneurial Thinking and Practice</li>
<li>BUS 467—Managing Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Global Marketplace</li>
<li>BUS 472—New Product Development</li>
<li>BUS 468—Creating and Managing the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Enterprise</li>
<li>MBA/EMS 529/PA 550—Social Entrepreneurship</li>
<li>MBA 575—Creativity and Contemporary Entrepreneurial Opportunities</li>
<li>MBA 576—Creating and Financing New Technology Ventures</li>
<li>MSF 594—Entrepreneurial Finance</li>
</ul>

Project Courses Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 102—Computing Tools Bus Analysis</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 103—Ideation: What Are My Interests?</li>
<li>BUS 104—Needs Analysis and Opportunity Analysis Aligned with My Interests</li>
<li>BUS 203—Identification and Evaluation of Prospective Consumers</li>
<li>BUS 204—Identification and Evaluation of Competitive Advantage</li>
<li>BUS 303—Financial Analysis: Pro-Forma Financial Statements</li>
<li>BUS 403—Developing a Strategically Business Plan</li>
<li>BUS 404—Selling Your Business Plan</li>
</ul>

Graduate Programs or Certifications:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Master of Business Administration, Concentration in Innovation and Emerging Enterprises</li>
<li>Master of Public Administration with Economic Development and Social  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Master of Information Technology & Management with IT Management and  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Information Technology Innovation Leadership and Entrepreneurship Certificate  </li>
<li>Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate</li>
</ul>

= Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts =

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy:

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments and units. Its purpose is to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related co-curricular activities available for all university majors.

The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities that provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to have a real-world experience in innovation and entrepreneurship. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, and business and social organizations.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy IIT Entrepreneurship Academy]</li>
</ul>

The Interprofessional Projects Program

Developed at IIT in 1995, the IPRO Program consists of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth of the university’s disciplines and professional programs. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide students a variety of choices that tap their passion and disciplinary knowledge. IPRO projects also offer sponsors, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluated.

The interprofessional projects program at IIT gives students of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experience. Students also get the chance to display their projects to the public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their project.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/ IIT IPRO]</li>
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/wp-content/uploads/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf IPRO Brochure]</li>
</ul>

The Idea Shop

The Idea Shop is an exciting new facility developed in 2010 by IIT. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs and elevates the entire educational experience.

The idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of students and encourages interaction between students of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including 3D printers, cutters, labs, and team-specific areas. It gives students tools to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing so.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/programs/idea-shop Idea Shop]</li>
</ul>

= Student Entrepreneurship Initiatives =

The CEO Student Organization

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization whose main goal is to foster and support entrepreneurial efforts at Illinois Institute of Technology. This organization provides students of all majors with the necessary support and networks to become an effective entrepreneurial leader.          In collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technologies’ Undergraduate Business council, The Startup IIT weekend programs are hosted with the aims of providing mentorship and allows students the valuable experience of presenting in front of real-world entrepreneurs and investors.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://iitceo.org/startupiit/ IIT CEO]</li>
</ul>

= Entrepreneurial Partners =
<div>
Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center

Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center offers a wide variety of supportive services for start-up and existing small businesses located in and around Illinois Institute of Technology. The Center is committed to helping neighborhood businesses grow and thrive, as well as helping the IIT students, alumni, faculty, and staff bring new ideas and services to life.

Innovation drives today’s business. But innovation is only the beginning.  The road to commercializing a product idea or revolutionary new service is difficult and filled with obstacles. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is available to help find resources to overcome these obstacles, and get you on the path to success.

For nearly 125 years, IIT has been teaching, developing, and coaching the best engineering, legal, architectural science, and business minds to improve the world we live in. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is yet another very important resource that demonstrates IIT’s commitment to improving life for all humankind. Whether you need help developing realistic cash flow projections, finding your break-even point, accessing capital or helping you hire your first employee, Knapp Center can provide all the neccessary resources.

''Knapp Center Resources''

Incubators

VentureShot

Themed Co-Working Spaces

1871

Catalyze

PanzanzeeCivicLab

Blue1647

Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

Coalition: Energy

Matter

TechNexus

Rev3

Accelerators

Impact Engine

Tech Stars Chicago

Chicago Innovation Exchange

'''Support Orgs'''

Energy Foundry

Propel

ITA

Chicago Innovation Mentors

MakerBiz

'''Companies'''

3d Printer Experience

Links to Additional Resources:

*[[Knapp Center|http://iit.edu/knapp_center/]]

Future Founders Foundation — College Founders
</div>
For many college-age entrepreneurs, the transition from school into the real world can be challenging. After graduation, the continual guidance from professors, classroom structure and school resources diminish, leaving many students unaware of how to navigate the community. College Founders bridges this gap by engaging students in community activities while they are in school.

At IIT,  College Founders promotes cross-collaboration and increases the capacity of university programs by broadening their reach into the community.

= Landscape Canvas =

{{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key=1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc|width=1300|height=700}}

= Conclusion =

Illinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future.

 Link to University
<ul style="font-size: 12.222222328186px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/ http://web.iit.edu/]</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview] 

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[[Bart Grabowski|http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[[Category:Universities]]

Fellow:Gabriel Conners

2015-02-15T22:37:13Z

Gconners:

[[File:GabrielConners.jpg|thumb]]

I am Gabriel Conners, a Unversity Innovation Fellow from the Spring 2015 cohort and a student of “creativity as currency.” With a passion to empower the epic in everyone, I attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, nestled in the south of Chicago’s urban core. In 2009, I took a five-year hiatus from the rigors of academia to explore a nagging reality that I can best sum up as “why do people live apathetic and uninspired lives?” I came to see that the most satisfied people were either pursuing a passion or at peace with life(or both!).

This journey has led me to Illinois Tech, where I study Social and Economic Development Policy and work with the University Innovation Fellows, the IIT Student Government, and the office of Student Access, Success, and Diversity Initiatives, reforming the culture of campus to better nurture creative passions. My life’s mission involves spilling this type of culture shift into surrounding communities, so that education institutions drive creative revolutions in their neighborhoods.

In my spare time, I love to romance things: sunsets, trees, architectural masterpieces, symphonies, blackberry cobblers, fractals, you name it! There is beauty in everything. I mostly express my soul through poetry and song, though I certainly let my feet give way to the occasional dance. My favorite gems in this world are my nephews: 1 and 3 years old. They remind me of the importance of relationships and the unlimited potential within each of us.

I’d love to know about your passions and to explore opportunities for collaboration; how can we work together? Find me @GabrielConners and GabrielConners@gmail.com

----

== Related Links ==

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities]

Business Model Canvas

[https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1tQPV8tvI76kEmmgvExV9DfmqepUyAiDtGhHgwFij_2I&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-Ss9RUmnrPwbvX1kVpIAfv9JYyPg https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1tQPV8tvI76kEmmgvExV9DfmqepUyAiDtGhHgwFij_2I]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

School:Illinois Institute of Technology

2015-02-15T22:00:31Z

Gconners:

= Overview [[File:IIT.png|thumb]] =

When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.

The entrepreneurship academy at Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered  the largest resource and center on campus dedicated  to entrepreneurship. Illinois Institute of Technology also partners with many corporate sponsors to help fund events and programs focused on the concepts of both innovation and entrepreneurship.

= U.S. Deptartment of Commerce Innovation Ecosystem Categories =

=== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT offers many clubs and courses where students can work towards gaining a better understanding of I & E, all the while producing ideas and products to independently launch:'' 

*IPRO
*Student groups or events (CEO, TedxIIT, Undergraduate Business Council, StartUp IIT, hackathons, and others)
*Over 75 courses relating to innovation/entrepreneurship
*Laboratories, Lounges, collaboration, prototyping and making spaces
*Incubator North and South (Tech park IIT)

 

=== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT professors are able to apply for individual grants from the NIH to be applied to their respectives labs, in order to fund ongoing research:''

*NIH funded grants (BME dept: Eric Brey (Diabetes REU Grant)
*NIH funded Business Start-up competition

 

=== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ===

''IIT works in collaboration with the Kaplan Institute and Entrepreneurship Council to integrate technology transfer across the university and its various colleges:'' 

*[http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/ http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/]
*Various companies in Tech Park

            *Theraproteins

            * Sigenics

 

=== Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration ===

''IIT works with Chicago based sponsors such as the Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium and the Container Store into order to bring collaboration based learning to IPRO courses. Students work with these sponsors and aid them in bettering their business modules:'' 

*IPROs
*All the research institutes (WISER, IIFSH, etc)
*Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Engineering
*Faculty Engineering Labs
*Wet labs: Incubator North and South *
*[http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/ http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/] (Tech transfer)

 

=== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ===

''IIT has many offices and centers where students and faculty can gather and collaborate on various ideas:''

*Kaplan center
*Community Affairs office
*Intellectual Property Office

= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship =

Armour College of Engineering
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>EMGT 363—Creativity, Inventions, and Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists</li>
<li>EMGT 407—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>EMGT 470—Project Management</li>
<li>ENGR 497: Introduction to Research Methods</li>
<li>CHE 506—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>ENGR 595: Product Development for Entrepreneurs</li>
</ul>

Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 341—Business Law for Entrepreneurs in the Modern Global Economy</li>
<li>BUS 361—Entrepreneurial Thinking and Practice</li>
<li>BUS 467—Managing Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Global Marketplace</li>
<li>BUS 472—New Product Development</li>
<li>BUS 468—Creating and Managing the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Enterprise</li>
<li>MBA/EMS 529/PA 550—Social Entrepreneurship</li>
<li>MBA 575—Creativity and Contemporary Entrepreneurial Opportunities</li>
<li>MBA 576—Creating and Financing New Technology Ventures</li>
<li>MSF 594—Entrepreneurial Finance</li>
</ul>

Project Courses Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 102—Computing Tools Bus Analysis</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 103—Ideation: What Are My Interests?</li>
<li>BUS 104—Needs Analysis and Opportunity Analysis Aligned with My Interests</li>
<li>BUS 203—Identification and Evaluation of Prospective Consumers</li>
<li>BUS 204—Identification and Evaluation of Competitive Advantage</li>
<li>BUS 303—Financial Analysis: Pro-Forma Financial Statements</li>
<li>BUS 403—Developing a Strategically Business Plan</li>
<li>BUS 404—Selling Your Business Plan</li>
</ul>

Graduate Programs or Certifications:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Master of Business Administration, Concentration in Innovation and Emerging Enterprises</li>
<li>Master of Public Administration with Economic Development and Social  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Master of Information Technology & Management with IT Management and  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Information Technology Innovation Leadership and Entrepreneurship Certificate  </li>
<li>Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate</li>
</ul>

= Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts =

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy:

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments and units. Its purpose is to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related co-curricular activities available for all university majors.

The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities that provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to have a real-world experience in innovation and entrepreneurship. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, and business and social organizations.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy IIT Entrepreneurship Academy]</li>
</ul>

The Interprofessional Projects Program

Developed at IIT in 1995, the IPRO Program consists of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth of the university’s disciplines and professional programs. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide students a variety of choices that tap their passion and disciplinary knowledge. IPRO projects also offer sponsors, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluated.

The interprofessional projects program at IIT gives students of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experience. Students also get the chance to display their projects to the public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their project.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/ IIT IPRO]</li>
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/wp-content/uploads/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf IPRO Brochure]</li>
</ul>

The Idea Shop

The Idea Shop is an exciting new facility developed in 2010 by IIT. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs and elevates the entire educational experience.

The idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of students and encourages interaction between students of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including 3D printers, cutters, labs, and team-specific areas. It gives students tools to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing so.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/programs/idea-shop Idea Shop]</li>
</ul>

= Student Entrepreneurship Initiatives =

The CEO Student Organization

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization whose main goal is to foster and support entrepreneurial efforts at Illinois Institute of Technology. This organization provides students of all majors with the necessary support and networks to become an effective entrepreneurial leader.          In collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technologies’ Undergraduate Business council, The Startup IIT weekend programs are hosted with the aims of providing mentorship and allows students the valuable experience of presenting in front of real-world entrepreneurs and investors.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://iitceo.org/startupiit/ IIT CEO]</li>
</ul>

= Entrepreneurial Partners =
<div>
Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center

Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center offers a wide variety of supportive services for start-up and existing small businesses located in and around Illinois Institute of Technology. The Center is committed to helping neighborhood businesses grow and thrive, as well as helping the IIT students, alumni, faculty, and staff bring new ideas and services to life.

Innovation drives today’s business. But innovation is only the beginning.  The road to commercializing a product idea or revolutionary new service is difficult and filled with obstacles. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is available to help find resources to overcome these obstacles, and get you on the path to success.

For nearly 125 years, IIT has been teaching, developing, and coaching the best engineering, legal, architectural science, and business minds to improve the world we live in. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is yet another very important resource that demonstrates IIT’s commitment to improving life for all humankind. Whether you need help developing realistic cash flow projections, finding your break-even point, accessing capital or helping you hire your first employee, Knapp Center can provide all the neccessary resources.

''Knapp Center Resources''

Incubators

VentureShot

Themed Co-Working Spaces

1871

Catalyze

PanzanzeeCivicLab

Blue1647

Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

Coalition: Energy

Matter

TechNexus

Rev3

Accelerators

Impact Engine

Tech Stars Chicago

Chicago Innovation Exchange

'''Support Orgs'''

Energy Foundry

Propel

ITA

Chicago Innovation Mentors

MakerBiz

'''Companies'''

3d Printer Experience

Links to Additional Resources:

*[[Knapp Center|http://iit.edu/knapp_center/]]

Future Founders Foundation — College Founders
</div>
For many college-age entrepreneurs, the transition from school into the real world can be challenging. After graduation, the continual guidance from professors, classroom structure and school resources diminish, leaving many students unaware of how to navigate the community. College Founders bridges this gap by engaging students in community activities while they are in school.

At IIT,  College Founders promotes cross-collaboration and increases the capacity of university programs by broadening their reach into the community.

= Landscape Canvas =

{{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key=1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc|width=1300|height=700}}

= Conclusion =

Illinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future.

 Link to University
<ul style="font-size: 12.222222328186px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/ http://web.iit.edu/]</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview] 

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[[Bart Grabowski|http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Illinois Institute of Technology

2015-02-15T22:00:02Z

Gconners:

= Overview [[File:IIT.png|thumb]] =

When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.

The entrepreneurship academy at Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered  the largest resource and center on campus dedicated  to entrepreneurship. Illinois Institute of Technology also partners with many corporate sponsors to help fund events and programs focused on the concepts of both innovation and entrepreneurship.

= U.S. Deptartment of Commerce Innovation Ecosystem Categories =

=== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT offers many clubs and courses where students can work towards gaining a better understanding of I & E, all the while producing ideas and products to independently launch:'' 

*IPRO
*Student groups or events (CEO, TedxIIT, Undergraduate Business Council, StartUp IIT, hackathons, and others)
*Over 75 courses relating to innovation/entrepreneurship
*Laboratories, Lounges, collaboration, prototyping and making spaces
*Incubator North and South (Tech park IIT)

 

=== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT professors are able to apply for individual grants from the NIH to be applied to their respectives labs, in order to fund ongoing research:''

*NIH funded grants (BME dept: Eric Brey (Diabetes REU Grant)
*NIH funded Business Start-up competition

 

=== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ===

''IIT works in collaboration with the Kaplan Institute and Entrepreneurship Council to integrate technology transfer across the university and its various colleges:'' 

*[http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/ http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/]
*Various companies in Tech Park

            *Theraproteins

            * Sigenics

 

=== Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration ===

''IIT works with Chicago based sponsors such as the Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium and the Container Store into order to bring collaboration based learning to IPRO courses. Students work with these sponsors and aid them in bettering their business modules:'' 

*IPROs
*All the research institutes (WISER, IIFSH, etc)
*Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Engineering
*Faculty Engineering Labs
*Wet labs: Incubator North and South *
*[http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/ http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/] (Tech transfer)

 

=== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ===

''IIT has many offices and centers where students and faculty can gather and collaborate with for their various ideas:''

*Kaplan center
*Community Affairs office
*Intellectual Property Office

= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship =

Armour College of Engineering
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>EMGT 363—Creativity, Inventions, and Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists</li>
<li>EMGT 407—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>EMGT 470—Project Management</li>
<li>ENGR 497: Introduction to Research Methods</li>
<li>CHE 506—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>ENGR 595: Product Development for Entrepreneurs</li>
</ul>

Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 341—Business Law for Entrepreneurs in the Modern Global Economy</li>
<li>BUS 361—Entrepreneurial Thinking and Practice</li>
<li>BUS 467—Managing Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Global Marketplace</li>
<li>BUS 472—New Product Development</li>
<li>BUS 468—Creating and Managing the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Enterprise</li>
<li>MBA/EMS 529/PA 550—Social Entrepreneurship</li>
<li>MBA 575—Creativity and Contemporary Entrepreneurial Opportunities</li>
<li>MBA 576—Creating and Financing New Technology Ventures</li>
<li>MSF 594—Entrepreneurial Finance</li>
</ul>

Project Courses Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 102—Computing Tools Bus Analysis</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 103—Ideation: What Are My Interests?</li>
<li>BUS 104—Needs Analysis and Opportunity Analysis Aligned with My Interests</li>
<li>BUS 203—Identification and Evaluation of Prospective Consumers</li>
<li>BUS 204—Identification and Evaluation of Competitive Advantage</li>
<li>BUS 303—Financial Analysis: Pro-Forma Financial Statements</li>
<li>BUS 403—Developing a Strategically Business Plan</li>
<li>BUS 404—Selling Your Business Plan</li>
</ul>

Graduate Programs or Certifications:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Master of Business Administration, Concentration in Innovation and Emerging Enterprises</li>
<li>Master of Public Administration with Economic Development and Social  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Master of Information Technology & Management with IT Management and  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Information Technology Innovation Leadership and Entrepreneurship Certificate  </li>
<li>Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate</li>
</ul>

= Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts =

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy:

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments and units. Its purpose is to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related co-curricular activities available for all university majors.

The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities that provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to have a real-world experience in innovation and entrepreneurship. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, and business and social organizations.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy IIT Entrepreneurship Academy]</li>
</ul>

The Interprofessional Projects Program

Developed at IIT in 1995, the IPRO Program consists of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth of the university’s disciplines and professional programs. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide students a variety of choices that tap their passion and disciplinary knowledge. IPRO projects also offer sponsors, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluated.

The interprofessional projects program at IIT gives students of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experience. Students also get the chance to display their projects to the public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their project.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/ IIT IPRO]</li>
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/wp-content/uploads/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf IPRO Brochure]</li>
</ul>

The Idea Shop

The Idea Shop is an exciting new facility developed in 2010 by IIT. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs and elevates the entire educational experience.

The idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of students and encourages interaction between students of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including 3D printers, cutters, labs, and team-specific areas. It gives students tools to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing so.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/programs/idea-shop Idea Shop]</li>
</ul>

= Student Entrepreneurship Initiatives =

The CEO Student Organization

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization whose main goal is to foster and support entrepreneurial efforts at Illinois Institute of Technology. This organization provides students of all majors with the necessary support and networks to become an effective entrepreneurial leader.          In collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technologies’ Undergraduate Business council, The Startup IIT weekend programs are hosted with the aims of providing mentorship and allows students the valuable experience of presenting in front of real-world entrepreneurs and investors.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://iitceo.org/startupiit/ IIT CEO]</li>
</ul>

= Entrepreneurial Partners =
<div>
Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center

Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center offers a wide variety of supportive services for start-up and existing small businesses located in and around Illinois Institute of Technology. The Center is committed to helping neighborhood businesses grow and thrive, as well as helping the IIT students, alumni, faculty, and staff bring new ideas and services to life.

Innovation drives today’s business. But innovation is only the beginning.  The road to commercializing a product idea or revolutionary new service is difficult and filled with obstacles. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is available to help find resources to overcome these obstacles, and get you on the path to success.

For nearly 125 years, IIT has been teaching, developing, and coaching the best engineering, legal, architectural science, and business minds to improve the world we live in. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is yet another very important resource that demonstrates IIT’s commitment to improving life for all humankind. Whether you need help developing realistic cash flow projections, finding your break-even point, accessing capital or helping you hire your first employee, Knapp Center can provide all the neccessary resources.

''Knapp Center Resources''

Incubators

VentureShot

Themed Co-Working Spaces

1871

Catalyze

PanzanzeeCivicLab

Blue1647

Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

Coalition: Energy

Matter

TechNexus

Rev3

Accelerators

Impact Engine

Tech Stars Chicago

Chicago Innovation Exchange

'''Support Orgs'''

Energy Foundry

Propel

ITA

Chicago Innovation Mentors

MakerBiz

'''Companies'''

3d Printer Experience

Links to Additional Resources:

*[[Knapp Center|http://iit.edu/knapp_center/]]

Future Founders Foundation — College Founders
</div>
For many college-age entrepreneurs, the transition from school into the real world can be challenging. After graduation, the continual guidance from professors, classroom structure and school resources diminish, leaving many students unaware of how to navigate the community. College Founders bridges this gap by engaging students in community activities while they are in school.

At IIT,  College Founders promotes cross-collaboration and increases the capacity of university programs by broadening their reach into the community.

= Landscape Canvas =

{{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key=1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc|width=1300|height=700}}

= Conclusion =

Illinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future.

 Link to University
<ul style="font-size: 12.222222328186px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/ http://web.iit.edu/]</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview] 

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[[Bart Grabowski|http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Illinois Institute of Technology

2015-02-15T21:58:26Z

Gconners:

= Overview [[File:IIT.png|thumb]] =

When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.

The entrepreneurship academy at Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered  the largest resource and center on campus dedicated  to entrepreneurship. Illinois Institute of Technology also partners with many corporate sponsors to help fund events and programs focused on the concepts of both innovation and entrepreneurship.

= U.S. Deptartment of Commerce Innovation Ecosystem Categories =

=== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT offers many clubs and courses where students can work towards gaining a better understanding of I & E, all the while producing ideas and products to independently launch:'' 

*IPRO
*Student groups or events (CEO, TedxIIT, Undergrad business council, StartUp IIT, hackathons, and others)
*90ish courses relating to innovation/entrepreneurship
*Laboratories, Lounges, collaboration, prototyping and making spaces
*Incubator North and South (Tech park IIT)

 

=== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT professors are able to apply for individual grants from the NIH to be applied to their respectives labs, in order to fund ongoing research:''

*NIH funded grants (BME dept: Eric Brey (Diabetes REU Grant)
*NIH funded Business Start-up competition

 

=== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ===

''IIT works in collaboration with the Kaplan Institute and Entrepreneurship Council to integrate technology transfer across the university and its various colleges:'' 

*[http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/ http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/]
*Various companies in Tech Park

            *Theraproteins

            * Sigenics

 

=== Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration ===

''IIT works with Chicago based sponsors such as the Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium and the Container Store into order to bring collaboration based learning to IPRO courses. Students work with these sponsors and aid them in bettering their business modules:'' 

*IPROs
*All the research institutes (WISER, IIFSH, etc)
*Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Engineering
*Faculty Engineering Labs
*Wet labs: Incubator North and South *
*[http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/ http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/] (Tech transfer)

 

=== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ===

''IIT has many offices and centers where students and faculty can gather and collaborate with for their various ideas:''

*Kaplan center
*Community Affairs office
*Intellectual Property Office

= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship =

Armour College of Engineering
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>EMGT 363—Creativity, Inventions, and Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists</li>
<li>EMGT 407—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>EMGT 470—Project Management</li>
<li>ENGR 497: Introduction to Research Methods</li>
<li>CHE 506—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>ENGR 595: Product Development for Entrepreneurs</li>
</ul>

Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 341—Business Law for Entrepreneurs in the Modern Global Economy</li>
<li>BUS 361—Entrepreneurial Thinking and Practice</li>
<li>BUS 467—Managing Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Global Marketplace</li>
<li>BUS 472—New Product Development</li>
<li>BUS 468—Creating and Managing the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Enterprise</li>
<li>MBA/EMS 529/PA 550—Social Entrepreneurship</li>
<li>MBA 575—Creativity and Contemporary Entrepreneurial Opportunities</li>
<li>MBA 576—Creating and Financing New Technology Ventures</li>
<li>MSF 594—Entrepreneurial Finance</li>
</ul>

Project Courses Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 102—Computing Tools Bus Analysis</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 103—Ideation: What Are My Interests?</li>
<li>BUS 104—Needs Analysis and Opportunity Analysis Aligned with My Interests</li>
<li>BUS 203—Identification and Evaluation of Prospective Consumers</li>
<li>BUS 204—Identification and Evaluation of Competitive Advantage</li>
<li>BUS 303—Financial Analysis: Pro-Forma Financial Statements</li>
<li>BUS 403—Developing a Strategically Business Plan</li>
<li>BUS 404—Selling Your Business Plan</li>
</ul>

Graduate Programs or Certifications:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Master of Business Administration, Concentration in Innovation and Emerging Enterprises</li>
<li>Master of Public Administration with Economic Development and Social  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Master of Information Technology & Management with IT Management and  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Information Technology Innovation Leadership and Entrepreneurship Certificate  </li>
<li>Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate</li>
</ul>

= Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts =

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy:

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments and units. Its purpose is to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related co-curricular activities available for all university majors.

The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities that provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to have a real-world experience in innovation and entrepreneurship. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, and business and social organizations.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy IIT Entrepreneurship Academy]</li>
</ul>

The Interprofessional Projects Program

Developed at IIT in 1995, the IPRO Program consists of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth of the university’s disciplines and professional programs. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide students a variety of choices that tap their passion and disciplinary knowledge. IPRO projects also offer sponsors, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluated.

The interprofessional projects program at IIT gives students of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experience. Students also get the chance to display their projects to the public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their project.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/ IIT IPRO]</li>
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/wp-content/uploads/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf IPRO Brochure]</li>
</ul>

The Idea Shop

The Idea Shop is an exciting new facility developed in 2010 by IIT. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs and elevates the entire educational experience.

The idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of students and encourages interaction between students of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including 3D printers, cutters, labs, and team-specific areas. It gives students tools to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing so.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/programs/idea-shop Idea Shop]</li>
</ul>

= Student Entrepreneurship Initiatives =

The CEO Student Organization

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization whose main goal is to foster and support entrepreneurial efforts at Illinois Institute of Technology. This organization provides students of all majors with the necessary support and networks to become an effective entrepreneurial leader.          In collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technologies’ Undergraduate Business council, The Startup IIT weekend programs are hosted with the aims of providing mentorship and allows students the valuable experience of presenting in front of real-world entrepreneurs and investors.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://iitceo.org/startupiit/ IIT CEO]</li>
</ul>

= Entrepreneurial Partners =
<div>
Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center

Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center offers a wide variety of supportive services for start-up and existing small businesses located in and around Illinois Institute of Technology. The Center is committed to helping neighborhood businesses grow and thrive, as well as helping the IIT students, alumni, faculty, and staff bring new ideas and services to life.

Innovation drives today’s business. But innovation is only the beginning.  The road to commercializing a product idea or revolutionary new service is difficult and filled with obstacles. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is available to help find resources to overcome these obstacles, and get you on the path to success.

For nearly 125 years, IIT has been teaching, developing, and coaching the best engineering, legal, architectural science, and business minds to improve the world we live in. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is yet another very important resource that demonstrates IIT’s commitment to improving life for all humankind. Whether you need help developing realistic cash flow projections, finding your break-even point, accessing capital or helping you hire your first employee, Knapp Center can provide all the neccessary resources.

''Knapp Center Resources''

Incubators

VentureShot

Themed Co-Working Spaces

1871

Catalyze

PanzanzeeCivicLab

Blue1647

Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

Coalition: Energy

Matter

TechNexus

Rev3

Accelerators

Impact Engine

Tech Stars Chicago

Chicago Innovation Exchange

'''Support Orgs'''

Energy Foundry

Propel

ITA

Chicago Innovation Mentors

MakerBiz

'''Companies'''

3d Printer Experience

Links to Additional Resources:

*[[Knapp Center|http://iit.edu/knapp_center/]]

Future Founders Foundation — College Founders
</div>
For many college-age entrepreneurs, the transition from school into the real world can be challenging. After graduation, the continual guidance from professors, classroom structure and school resources diminish, leaving many students unaware of how to navigate the community. College Founders bridges this gap by engaging students in community activities while they are in school.

At IIT,  College Founders promotes cross-collaboration and increases the capacity of university programs by broadening their reach into the community.

= Landscape Canvas =

{{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key=1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc|width=1300|height=700}}

= Conclusion =

Illinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future.

 Link to University
<ul style="font-size: 12.222222328186px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/ http://web.iit.edu/]</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview] 

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[[Bart Grabowski|http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Illinois Institute of Technology

2015-02-15T21:57:46Z

Gconners:

= Overview [[File:IIT.png|thumb]] =

When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.

The entrepreneurship academy at Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered  the largest resource and center on campus dedicated  to entrepreneurship. Illinois Institute of Technology also partners with many corporate sponsors to help fund events and programs focused on the concepts of both innovation and entrepreneurship.

= U.S. Deptartment of Commerce Innovation Ecosystem Categories =

=== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT offers many clubs and courses where students can work towards gaining a better understanding of I & E, all the while produces ideas and products to independently launch:'' 

*IPRO
*Student groups or events (CEO, TedxIIT, Undergrad business council, StartUp IIT, hackathons, and others)
*90ish courses relating to innovation/entrepreneurship
*Laboratories, Lounges, collaboration, prototyping and making spaces
*Incubator North and South (Tech park IIT)

 

=== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT professors are able to apply for individual grants from the NIH to be applied to their respectives labs, in order to fund ongoing research:''

*NIH funded grants (BME dept: Eric Brey (Diabetes REU Grant)
*NIH funded Business Start-up competition

 

=== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ===

''IIT works in collaboration with the Kaplan Institute and Entrepreneurship Council to integrate technology transfer across the university and its various colleges:'' 

*[http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/ http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/]
*Various companies in Tech Park

            *Theraproteins

            * Sigenics

 

=== Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration ===

''IIT works with Chicago based sponsors such as the Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium and the Container Store into order to bring collaboration based learning to IPRO courses. Students work with these sponsors and aid them in bettering their business modules:'' 

*IPROs
*All the research institutes (WISER, IIFSH, etc)
*Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Engineering
*Faculty Engineering Labs
*Wet labs: Incubator North and South *
*[http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/ http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/] (Tech transfer)

 

=== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ===

''IIT has many offices and centers where students and faculty can gather and collaborate with for their various ideas:''

*Kaplan center
*Community Affairs office
*Intellectual Property Office

= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship =

Armour College of Engineering
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>EMGT 363—Creativity, Inventions, and Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists</li>
<li>EMGT 407—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>EMGT 470—Project Management</li>
<li>ENGR 497: Introduction to Research Methods</li>
<li>CHE 506—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>ENGR 595: Product Development for Entrepreneurs</li>
</ul>

Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 341—Business Law for Entrepreneurs in the Modern Global Economy</li>
<li>BUS 361—Entrepreneurial Thinking and Practice</li>
<li>BUS 467—Managing Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Global Marketplace</li>
<li>BUS 472—New Product Development</li>
<li>BUS 468—Creating and Managing the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Enterprise</li>
<li>MBA/EMS 529/PA 550—Social Entrepreneurship</li>
<li>MBA 575—Creativity and Contemporary Entrepreneurial Opportunities</li>
<li>MBA 576—Creating and Financing New Technology Ventures</li>
<li>MSF 594—Entrepreneurial Finance</li>
</ul>

Project Courses Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 102—Computing Tools Bus Analysis</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 103—Ideation: What Are My Interests?</li>
<li>BUS 104—Needs Analysis and Opportunity Analysis Aligned with My Interests</li>
<li>BUS 203—Identification and Evaluation of Prospective Consumers</li>
<li>BUS 204—Identification and Evaluation of Competitive Advantage</li>
<li>BUS 303—Financial Analysis: Pro-Forma Financial Statements</li>
<li>BUS 403—Developing a Strategically Business Plan</li>
<li>BUS 404—Selling Your Business Plan</li>
</ul>

Graduate Programs or Certifications:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Master of Business Administration, Concentration in Innovation and Emerging Enterprises</li>
<li>Master of Public Administration with Economic Development and Social  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Master of Information Technology & Management with IT Management and  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Information Technology Innovation Leadership and Entrepreneurship Certificate  </li>
<li>Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate</li>
</ul>

= Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts =

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy:

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments and units. Its purpose is to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related co-curricular activities available for all university majors.

The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities that provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to have a real-world experience in innovation and entrepreneurship. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, and business and social organizations.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy IIT Entrepreneurship Academy]</li>
</ul>

The Interprofessional Projects Program

Developed at IIT in 1995, the IPRO Program consists of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth of the university’s disciplines and professional programs. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide students a variety of choices that tap their passion and disciplinary knowledge. IPRO projects also offer sponsors, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluated.

The interprofessional projects program at IIT gives students of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experience. Students also get the chance to display their projects to the public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their project.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/ IIT IPRO]</li>
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/wp-content/uploads/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf IPRO Brochure]</li>
</ul>

The Idea Shop

The Idea Shop is an exciting new facility developed in 2010 by IIT. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs and elevates the entire educational experience.

The idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of students and encourages interaction between students of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including 3D printers, cutters, labs, and team-specific areas. It gives students tools to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing so.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/programs/idea-shop Idea Shop]</li>
</ul>

= Student Entrepreneurship Initiatives =

The CEO Student Organization

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization whose main goal is to foster and support entrepreneurial efforts at Illinois Institute of Technology. This organization provides students of all majors with the necessary support and networks to become an effective entrepreneurial leader.          In collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technologies’ Undergraduate Business council, The Startup IIT weekend programs are hosted with the aims of providing mentorship and allows students the valuable experience of presenting in front of real-world entrepreneurs and investors.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://iitceo.org/startupiit/ IIT CEO]</li>
</ul>

= Entrepreneurial Partners =
<div>
Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center

Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center offers a wide variety of supportive services for start-up and existing small businesses located in and around Illinois Institute of Technology. The Center is committed to helping neighborhood businesses grow and thrive, as well as helping the IIT students, alumni, faculty, and staff bring new ideas and services to life.

Innovation drives today’s business. But innovation is only the beginning.  The road to commercializing a product idea or revolutionary new service is difficult and filled with obstacles. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is available to help find resources to overcome these obstacles, and get you on the path to success.

For nearly 125 years, IIT has been teaching, developing, and coaching the best engineering, legal, architectural science, and business minds to improve the world we live in. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is yet another very important resource that demonstrates IIT’s commitment to improving life for all humankind. Whether you need help developing realistic cash flow projections, finding your break-even point, accessing capital or helping you hire your first employee, Knapp Center can provide all the neccessary resources.

''Knapp Center Resources''

Incubators

VentureShot

Themed Co-Working Spaces

1871

Catalyze

PanzanzeeCivicLab

Blue1647

Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

Coalition: Energy

Matter

TechNexus

Rev3

Accelerators

Impact Engine

Tech Stars Chicago

Chicago Innovation Exchange

'''Support Orgs'''

Energy Foundry

Propel

ITA

Chicago Innovation Mentors

MakerBiz

'''Companies'''

3d Printer Experience

Links to Additional Resources:

*[[Knapp Center|http://iit.edu/knapp_center/]]

Future Founders Foundation — College Founders
</div>
For many college-age entrepreneurs, the transition from school into the real world can be challenging. After graduation, the continual guidance from professors, classroom structure and school resources diminish, leaving many students unaware of how to navigate the community. College Founders bridges this gap by engaging students in community activities while they are in school.

At IIT,  College Founders promotes cross-collaboration and increases the capacity of university programs by broadening their reach into the community.

= Landscape Canvas =

{{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key=1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc|width=1300|height=700}}

= Conclusion =

Illinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future.

 Link to University
<ul style="font-size: 12.222222328186px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/ http://web.iit.edu/]</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview] 

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[[Bart Grabowski|http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Illinois Institute of Technology

2015-02-15T21:56:49Z

Gconners:

= Overview [[File:IIT.png|thumb|IIT.png]] =

When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.

The entrepreneurship academy at Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered  the largest resource and center on campus dedicated  to entrepreneurship. Illinois Institute of Technology also partners with many corporate sponsors to help fund events and programs focused on the concepts of both innovation and entrepreneurship.

= U.S. Deptartment of Commerce Innovation Ecosystem Categories =

=== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT offers many clubs and courses where students can work towards gaining a better understanding of I & E, all the while produces ideas and products to independently launch:'' 

*IPRO
*Student groups or events (CEO, TedxIIT, Undergrad business council, StartUp IIT, hackathons, and others)
*90ish courses relating to innovation/entrepreneurship
*Laboratories, Lounges, collaboration, prototyping and making spaces
*Incubator North and South (Tech park IIT)

 

=== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ===

''IIT professors are able to apply for individual grants from the NIH to be applied to their respectives labs, in order to fund ongoing research:''

*NIH funded grants (BME dept: Eric Brey (Diabetes REU Grant)
*NIH funded Business Start-up competition

 

=== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ===

''IIT works in collaboration with the Kaplan Institute and Entrepreneurship Council to integrate technology transfer across the university and its various colleges:'' 

*[http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/ http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/]
*Various companies in Tech Park

            *Theraproteins

            * Sigenics

 

=== Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration ===

''IIT works with Chicago based sponsors such as the Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium and the Container Store into order to bring collaboration based learning to IPRO courses. Students work with these sponsors and aid them in bettering their business modules:'' 

*IPROs
*All the research institutes (WISER, IIFSH, etc)
*Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Engineering
*Faculty Engineering Labs
*Wet labs: Incubator North and South *
*[http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/ http://www.iit.edu/research/services/ttip/] (Tech transfer)

 

=== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ===

''IIT has many offices and centers where students and faculty can gather and collaborate with for their various ideas:''

*Kaplan center
*Community Affairs office
*Intellectual Property Office

= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship =

Armour College of Engineering
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>EMGT 363—Creativity, Inventions, and Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists</li>
<li>EMGT 407—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>EMGT 470—Project Management</li>
<li>ENGR 497: Introduction to Research Methods</li>
<li>CHE 506—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>ENGR 595: Product Development for Entrepreneurs</li>
</ul>

Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 341—Business Law for Entrepreneurs in the Modern Global Economy</li>
<li>BUS 361—Entrepreneurial Thinking and Practice</li>
<li>BUS 467—Managing Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Global Marketplace</li>
<li>BUS 472—New Product Development</li>
<li>BUS 468—Creating and Managing the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Enterprise</li>
<li>MBA/EMS 529/PA 550—Social Entrepreneurship</li>
<li>MBA 575—Creativity and Contemporary Entrepreneurial Opportunities</li>
<li>MBA 576—Creating and Financing New Technology Ventures</li>
<li>MSF 594—Entrepreneurial Finance</li>
</ul>

Project Courses Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 102—Computing Tools Bus Analysis</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 103—Ideation: What Are My Interests?</li>
<li>BUS 104—Needs Analysis and Opportunity Analysis Aligned with My Interests</li>
<li>BUS 203—Identification and Evaluation of Prospective Consumers</li>
<li>BUS 204—Identification and Evaluation of Competitive Advantage</li>
<li>BUS 303—Financial Analysis: Pro-Forma Financial Statements</li>
<li>BUS 403—Developing a Strategically Business Plan</li>
<li>BUS 404—Selling Your Business Plan</li>
</ul>

Graduate Programs or Certifications:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Master of Business Administration, Concentration in Innovation and Emerging Enterprises</li>
<li>Master of Public Administration with Economic Development and Social  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Master of Information Technology & Management with IT Management and  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Information Technology Innovation Leadership and Entrepreneurship Certificate  </li>
<li>Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate</li>
</ul>

= Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts =

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy:

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments and units. Its purpose is to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related co-curricular activities available for all university majors.

The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities that provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to have a real-world experience in innovation and entrepreneurship. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, and business and social organizations.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy IIT Entrepreneurship Academy]</li>
</ul>

The Interprofessional Projects Program

Developed at IIT in 1995, the IPRO Program consists of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth of the university’s disciplines and professional programs. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide students a variety of choices that tap their passion and disciplinary knowledge. IPRO projects also offer sponsors, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluated.

The interprofessional projects program at IIT gives students of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experience. Students also get the chance to display their projects to the public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their project.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/ IIT IPRO]</li>
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/wp-content/uploads/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf IPRO Brochure]</li>
</ul>

The Idea Shop

The Idea Shop is an exciting new facility developed in 2010 by IIT. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs and elevates the entire educational experience.

The idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of students and encourages interaction between students of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including 3D printers, cutters, labs, and team-specific areas. It gives students tools to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing so.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/programs/idea-shop Idea Shop]</li>
</ul>

= Student Entrepreneurship Initiatives =

The CEO Student Organization

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization whose main goal is to foster and support entrepreneurial efforts at Illinois Institute of Technology. This organization provides students of all majors with the necessary support and networks to become an effective entrepreneurial leader.          In collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technologies’ Undergraduate Business council, The Startup IIT weekend programs are hosted with the aims of providing mentorship and allows students the valuable experience of presenting in front of real-world entrepreneurs and investors.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://iitceo.org/startupiit/ IIT CEO]</li>
</ul>

= Entrepreneurial Partners =
<div>
Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center

Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center offers a wide variety of supportive services for start-up and existing small businesses located in and around Illinois Institute of Technology. The Center is committed to helping neighborhood businesses grow and thrive, as well as helping the IIT students, alumni, faculty, and staff bring new ideas and services to life.

Innovation drives today’s business. But innovation is only the beginning.  The road to commercializing a product idea or revolutionary new service is difficult and filled with obstacles. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is available to help find resources to overcome these obstacles, and get you on the path to success.

For nearly 125 years, IIT has been teaching, developing, and coaching the best engineering, legal, architectural science, and business minds to improve the world we live in. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is yet another very important resource that demonstrates IIT’s commitment to improving life for all humankind. Whether you need help developing realistic cash flow projections, finding your break-even point, accessing capital or helping you hire your first employee, Knapp Center can provide all the neccessary resources.

''Knapp Center Resources''

Incubators

VentureShot

Themed Co-Working Spaces

1871

Catalyze

PanzanzeeCivicLab

Blue1647

Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

Coalition: Energy

Matter

TechNexus

Rev3

Accelerators

Impact Engine

Tech Stars Chicago

Chicago Innovation Exchange

'''Support Orgs'''

Energy Foundry

Propel

ITA

Chicago Innovation Mentors

MakerBiz

'''Companies'''

3d Printer Experience

Links to Additional Resources:

*[[Knapp Center|http://iit.edu/knapp_center/]]

Future Founders Foundation — College Founders
</div>
For many college-age entrepreneurs, the transition from school into the real world can be challenging. After graduation, the continual guidance from professors, classroom structure and school resources diminish, leaving many students unaware of how to navigate the community. College Founders bridges this gap by engaging students in community activities while they are in school.

At IIT,  College Founders promotes cross-collaboration and increases the capacity of university programs by broadening their reach into the community.

= Landscape Canvas =

{{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key=1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc|width=1300|height=700}}

= Conclusion =

Illinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future.

 Link to University
<ul style="font-size: 12.222222328186px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/ http://web.iit.edu/]</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview] 

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[[Bart Grabowski|http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Illinois Institute of Technology

2015-02-14T17:17:11Z

Gconners:

= Overview [[File:IIT.png|thumb]] =

When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.

The entrepreneurship academy at Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered  the largest resource and center on campus dedicated  to entrepreneurship. Illinois Institute of Technology also partners with many corporate sponsors to help fund events and programs focused on the concepts of both innovation and entrepreneurship.

= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship =

Armour College of Engineering
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>EMGT 363—Creativity, Inventions, and Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists</li>
<li>EMGT 407—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>EMGT 470—Project Management</li>
<li>CHE 506—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
</ul>

Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 341—Business Law for Entrepreneurs in the Modern Global Economy</li>
<li>BUS 361—Entrepreneurial Thinking and Practice</li>
<li>BUS 467—Managing Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Global Marketplace</li>
<li>BUS 472—New Product Development</li>
<li>BUS 468—Creating and Managing the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Enterprise</li>
<li>MBA/EMS 529/PA 550—Social Entrepreneurship</li>
<li>MBA 575—Creativity and Contemporary Entrepreneurial Opportunities</li>
<li>MBA 576—Creating and Financing New Technology Ventures</li>
<li>MSF 594—Entrepreneurial Finance</li>
</ul>

Project Courses Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 102—Computing Tools Bus Analysis</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 103—Ideation: What Are My Interests?</li>
<li>BUS 104—Needs Analysis and Opportunity Analysis Aligned with My Interests</li>
<li>BUS 203—Identification and Evaluation of Prospective Consumers</li>
<li>BUS 204—Identification and Evaluation of Competitive Advantage</li>
<li>BUS 303—Financial Analysis: Pro-Forma Financial Statements</li>
<li>BUS 403—Developing a Strategically Business Plan</li>
<li>BUS 404—Selling Your Business Plan</li>
</ul>

Graduate Programs or Certifications:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Master of Business Administration, Concentration in Innovation and Emerging Enterprises</li>
<li>Master of Public Administration with Economic Development and Social  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Master of Information Technology & Management with IT Management and  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Information Technology Innovation Leadership and Entrepreneurship Certificate  </li>
<li>Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate</li>
</ul>

= Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts =

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy:

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments and units. Its purpose is to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related co-curricular activities available for all university majors.

The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities that provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to have a real-world experience in innovation and entrepreneurship. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, and business and social organizations.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy IIT Entrepreneurship Academy]</li>
</ul>

The Interprofessional Projects Program

Developed at IIT in 1995, the IPRO Program consists of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth of the university’s disciplines and professional programs. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide students a variety of choices that tap their passion and disciplinary knowledge. IPRO projects also offer sponsors, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluated.

The interprofessional projects program at IIT gives students of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experience. Students also get the chance to display their projects to the public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their project.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/ IIT IPRO]</li>
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/wp-content/uploads/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf IPRO Brochure]</li>
</ul>

The Idea Shop

The Idea Shop is an exciting new facility developed in 2010 by IIT. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs and elevates the entire educational experience.

The idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of students and encourages interaction between students of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including 3D printers, cutters, labs, and team-specific areas. It gives students tools to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing so.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/programs/idea-shop Idea Shop]</li>
</ul>

= Student Entrepreneurship Initiatives =

The CEO Student Organization

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization whose main goal is to foster and support entrepreneurial efforts at Illinois Institute of Technology. This organization provides students of all majors with the necessary support and networks to become an effective entrepreneurial leader.          In collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technologies’ Undergraduate Business council, The Startup IIT weekend programs are hosted with the aims of providing mentorship and allows students the valuable experience of presenting in front of real-world entrepreneurs and investors.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://iitceo.org/startupiit/ IIT CEO]</li>
</ul>

= Entrepreneurial Partners =
<div>
Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center

Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center offers a wide variety of supportive services for start-up and existing small businesses located in and around Illinois Institute of Technology. The Center is committed to helping neighborhood businesses grow and thrive, as well as helping the IIT students, alumni, faculty, and staff bring new ideas and services to life.

Innovation drives today’s business. But innovation is only the beginning.  The road to commercializing a product idea or revolutionary new service is difficult and filled with obstacles. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is available to help find resources to overcome these obstacles, and get you on the path to success.

For nearly 125 years, IIT has been teaching, developing, and coaching the best engineering, legal, architectural science, and business minds to improve the world we live in. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is yet another very important resource that demonstrates IIT’s commitment to improving life for all humankind. Whether you need help developing realistic cash flow projections, finding your break-even point, accessing capital or helping you hire your first employee, Knapp Center can provide all the neccessary resources.

''Knapp Center Resources''

Incubators

VentureShot

Themed Co-Working Spaces

1871

Catalyze

PanzanzeeCivicLab

Blue1647

Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

Coalition: Energy

Matter

TechNexus

Rev3

Accelerators

Impact Engine

Tech Stars Chicago

Chicago Innovation Exchange

'''Support Orgs'''

Energy Foundry

Propel

ITA

Chicago Innovation Mentors

MakerBiz

'''Companies'''

3d Printer Experience

Links to Additional Resources:

*[[Knapp Center|http://iit.edu/knapp_center/]]

Future Founders Foundation — College Founders
</div>
For many college-age entrepreneurs, the transition from school into the real world can be challenging. After graduation, the continual guidance from professors, classroom structure and school resources diminish, leaving many students unaware of how to navigate the community. College Founders bridges this gap by engaging students in community activities while they are in school.

At IIT,  College Founders promotes cross-collaboration and increases the capacity of university programs by broadening their reach into the community.

= Landscape Canvas =

{{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key=1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc|width=1300|height=700}}

= Conclusion =

Illinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future. Link to University
<ul style="font-size: 12.222222328186px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/ http://web.iit.edu/]</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview] 

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[[Bart Grabowski|http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Illinois Institute of Technology

2015-02-14T17:03:56Z

Gconners:

= Overview [[File:IIT.png|thumb]] =

When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.

The entrepreneurship academy at Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered  the largest resource and center on campus dedicated  to entrepreneurship. Illinois Institute of Technology also partners with many corporate sponsors to help fund events and programs focused on the concepts of both innovation and entrepreneurship.

= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship =

Armour College of Engineering
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>EMGT 363—Creativity, Inventions, and Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists</li>
<li>EMGT 407—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>EMGT 470—Project Management</li>
<li>CHE 506—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
</ul>

Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 341—Business Law for Entrepreneurs in the Modern Global Economy</li>
<li>BUS 361—Entrepreneurial Thinking and Practice</li>
<li>BUS 467—Managing Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Global Marketplace</li>
<li>BUS 472—New Product Development</li>
<li>BUS 468—Creating and Managing the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Enterprise</li>
<li>MBA/EMS 529/PA 550—Social Entrepreneurship</li>
<li>MBA 575—Creativity and Contemporary Entrepreneurial Opportunities</li>
<li>MBA 576—Creating and Financing New Technology Ventures</li>
<li>MSF 594—Entrepreneurial Finance</li>
</ul>

Project Courses Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 102—Computing Tools Bus Analysis</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 103—Ideation: What Are My Interests?</li>
<li>BUS 104—Needs Analysis and Opportunity Analysis Aligned with My Interests</li>
<li>BUS 203—Identification and Evaluation of Prospective Consumers</li>
<li>BUS 204—Identification and Evaluation of Competitive Advantage</li>
<li>BUS 303—Financial Analysis: Pro-Forma Financial Statements</li>
<li>BUS 403—Developing a Strategically Business Plan</li>
<li>BUS 404—Selling Your Business Plan</li>
</ul>

Graduate Programs or Certifications:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Master of Business Administration, Concentration in Innovation and Emerging Enterprises</li>
<li>Master of Public Administration with Economic Development and Social  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Master of Information Technology & Management with IT Management and  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Information Technology Innovation Leadership and Entrepreneurship Certificate  </li>
<li>Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate</li>
</ul>

= Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts =

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy:

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments and units. Its purpose is to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related co-curricular activities available for all university majors.

The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities that provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to have a real-world experience in innovation and entrepreneurship. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, and business and social organizations.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy IIT Entrepreneurship Academy]</li>
</ul>

The Interprofessional Projects Program

Developed at IIT in 1995, the IPRO Program consists of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth of the university’s disciplines and professional programs. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide students a variety of choices that tap their passion and disciplinary knowledge. IPRO projects also offer sponsors, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluated.

The interprofessional projects program at IIT gives students of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experience. Students also get the chance to display their projects to the public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their project.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/ IIT IPRO]</li>
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/wp-content/uploads/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf IPRO Brochure]</li>
</ul>

The Idea Shop

The Idea Shop is an exciting new facility developed in 2010 by IIT. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs and elevates the entire educational experience.

The idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of students and encourages interaction between students of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including 3D printers, cutters, labs, and team-specific areas. It gives students tools to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing so.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/programs/idea-shop Idea Shop]</li>
</ul>

= Student Entrepreneurship Initiatives =

The CEO Student Organization

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization whose main goal is to foster and support entrepreneurial efforts at Illinois Institute of Technology. This organization provides students of all majors with the necessary support and networks to become an effective entrepreneurial leader.          In collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technologies’ Undergraduate Business council, The Startup IIT weekend programs are hosted with the aims of providing mentorship and allows students the valuable experience of presenting in front of real-world entrepreneurs and investors.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://iitceo.org/startupiit/ IIT CEO]</li>
</ul>

= Entrepreneurial Partners =
<div>
Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center

Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center offers a wide variety of supportive services for start-up and existing small businesses located in and around Illinois Institute of Technology. The Center is committed to helping neighborhood businesses grow and thrive, as well as helping the IIT students, alumni, faculty, and staff bring new ideas and services to life.

Innovation drives today’s business. But innovation is only the beginning.  The road to commercializing a product idea or revolutionary new service is difficult and filled with obstacles. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is available to help find resources to overcome these obstacles, and get you on the path to success.

For nearly 125 years, IIT has been teaching, developing, and coaching the best engineering, legal, architectural science, and business minds to improve the world we live in. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is yet another very important resource that demonstrates IIT’s commitment to improving life for all humankind. Whether you need help developing realistic cash flow projections, finding your break-even point, accessing capital or helping you hire your first employee, Knapp Center can provide all the neccessary resources.

''Knapp Center Resources''

Incubators

VentureShot

Themed Co-Working Spaces

1871

Catalyze

PanzanzeeCivicLab

Blue1647

Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

Coalition: Energy

Matter

TechNexus

Rev3

Accelerators

Impact Engine

Tech Stars Chicago

Chicago Innovation Exchange

'''Support Orgs'''

Energy Foundry

Propel

ITA

Chicago Innovation Mentors

MakerBiz

'''Companies'''

3d Printer Experience

Links to Additional Resources:

*[[Knapp Center|http://iit.edu/knapp_center/]]

Future Founders Foundation — College Founders
</div>
For many college-age entrepreneurs, the transition from school into the real world can be challenging. After graduation, the continual guidance from professors, classroom structure and school resources diminish, leaving many students unaware of how to navigate the community. College Founders bridges this gap by engaging students in community activities while they are in school.

At IIT,  College Founders promotes cross-collaboration and increases the capacity of university programs by broadening their reach into the community.

= Landscape Canvas =

[https://docs.google.com/a/hawk.iit.edu/spreadsheets/d/1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/a/hawk.iit.edu/spreadsheets/d/1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc/edit#gid=0]

{{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc |width=1300|height=700}}

==== Alternate Access: ====

The above field may be blank. If so, please visit the Landscape Canvass of IIT at [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc]

= Conclusion =

Illinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future. Link to University
<ul style="font-size: 12.222222328186px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/ http://web.iit.edu/]</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview] 

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[[Bart Grabowski|http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[[Category:Universities]]

Fellow:Bart Grabowski

2015-02-14T04:58:45Z

Gconners:

[[File:Iit-0240.jpg|thumb]]
<div>
Bart Grabowski is a University Innovation Fellow from the Spring 2015 Cohort who is currently a Junior at '''''Illinois Institute of Technology''''' where he is majoring in Business Administration, with a specialization in Finance.

Bart has been involved on campus in a number of activities that showcase his initiative and passion, including:

- Illinois Tech Men’s Soccer Team, NCAA - Division III - Student Athletic Advising Committee Member - IIT Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization (CEO)

A believer in learning by doing, Bart is currently co-founding a mobile application and service, BarTap, that simplifies the drink ordering processes within the bar industry. Bart's high entrepreneurial drive enables him to look at problems from different perspectives and focus on the pain points that affect everyone.

Bart has a natural ability to convey trustworthiness, and also possess a strong worth ethic. As a result, he has consistently proven himself to be a dependable asset to all stakeholders, especially '''''Illinois Tech'''''.
</div>
== Related Links ==

Business Model Canvass

[https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1yQqtZEGgPJ6zuV2LUfv6PLjC3B07P2IpsvvvHPMVfHQ/edit&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_UWO1jeDW13uDNSx2YvopV6kM3gQ https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1yQqtZEGgPJ6zuV2LUfv6PLjC3B07P2IpsvvvHPMVfHQ/edit]

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

School:Illinois Institute of Technology

2015-02-14T04:57:37Z

Gconners:

= Overview [[File:IIT.png|thumb]] =

When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.

The entrepreneurship academy at Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered  the largest resource and center on campus dedicated  to entrepreneurship. Illinois Institute of Technology also partners with many corporate sponsors to help fund events and programs focused on the concepts of both innovation and entrepreneurship.

= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship =

Armour College of Engineering
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>EMGT 363—Creativity, Inventions, and Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists</li>
<li>EMGT 407—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>EMGT 470—Project Management</li>
<li>CHE 506—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
</ul>

Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 341—Business Law for Entrepreneurs in the Modern Global Economy</li>
<li>BUS 361—Entrepreneurial Thinking and Practice</li>
<li>BUS 467—Managing Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Global Marketplace</li>
<li>BUS 472—New Product Development</li>
<li>BUS 468—Creating and Managing the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Enterprise</li>
<li>MBA/EMS 529/PA 550—Social Entrepreneurship</li>
<li>MBA 575—Creativity and Contemporary Entrepreneurial Opportunities</li>
<li>MBA 576—Creating and Financing New Technology Ventures</li>
<li>MSF 594—Entrepreneurial Finance</li>
</ul>

Project Courses Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 102—Computing Tools Bus Analysis</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 103—Ideation: What Are My Interests?</li>
<li>BUS 104—Needs Analysis and Opportunity Analysis Aligned with My Interests</li>
<li>BUS 203—Identification and Evaluation of Prospective Consumers</li>
<li>BUS 204—Identification and Evaluation of Competitive Advantage</li>
<li>BUS 303—Financial Analysis: Pro-Forma Financial Statements</li>
<li>BUS 403—Developing a Strategically Business Plan</li>
<li>BUS 404—Selling Your Business Plan</li>
</ul>

Graduate Programs or Certifications:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Master of Business Administration, Concentration in Innovation and Emerging Enterprises</li>
<li>Master of Public Administration with Economic Development and Social  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Master of Information Technology & Management with IT Management and  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Information Technology Innovation Leadership and Entrepreneurship Certificate  </li>
<li>Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate</li>
</ul>

= Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts =

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy:

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments and units. Its purpose is to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related co-curricular activities available for all university majors.

The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities that provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to have a real-world experience in innovation and entrepreneurship. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, and business and social organizations.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy IIT Entrepreneurship Academy]</li>
</ul>

The Interprofessional Projects Program

Developed at IIT in 1995, the IPRO Program consists of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth of the university’s disciplines and professional programs. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide students a variety of choices that tap their passion and disciplinary knowledge. IPRO projects also offer sponsors, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluated.

The interprofessional projects program at IIT gives students of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experience. Students also get the chance to display their projects to the public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their project.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/ IIT IPRO]</li>
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/wp-content/uploads/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf IPRO Brochure]</li>
</ul>

The Idea Shop

The Idea Shop is an exciting new facility developed in 2010 by IIT. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs and elevates the entire educational experience.

The idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of students and encourages interaction between students of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including 3D printers, cutters, labs, and team-specific areas. It gives students tools to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing so.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/programs/idea-shop Idea Shop]</li>
</ul>

= Student Entrepreneurship Initiatives =

The CEO Student Organization

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization whose main goal is to foster and support entrepreneurial efforts at Illinois Institute of Technology. This organization provides students of all majors with the necessary support and networks to become an effective entrepreneurial leader.          In collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technologies’ Undergraduate Business council, The Startup IIT weekend programs are hosted with the aims of providing mentorship and allows students the valuable experience of presenting in front of real-world entrepreneurs and investors.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://iitceo.org/startupiit/ IIT CEO]</li>
</ul>

= Entrepreneurial Partners =
<div>
Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center

Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center offers a wide variety of supportive services for start-up and existing small businesses located in and around Illinois Institute of Technology. The Center is committed to helping neighborhood businesses grow and thrive, as well as helping the IIT students, alumni, faculty, and staff bring new ideas and services to life.

Innovation drives today’s business. But innovation is only the beginning.  The road to commercializing a product idea or revolutionary new service is difficult and filled with obstacles. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is available to help find resources to overcome these obstacles, and get you on the path to success.

For nearly 125 years, IIT has been teaching, developing, and coaching the best engineering, legal, architectural science, and business minds to improve the world we live in. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is yet another very important resource that demonstrates IIT’s commitment to improving life for all humankind. Whether you need help developing realistic cash flow projections, finding your break-even point, accessing capital or helping you hire your first employee, Knapp Center can provide all the neccessary resources.

''Knapp Center Resources''

Incubators

VentureShot

Themed Co-Working Spaces

1871

Catalyze

PanzanzeeCivicLab

Blue1647

Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

Coalition: Energy

Matter

TechNexus

Rev3

Accelerators

Impact Engine

Tech Stars Chicago

Chicago Innovation Exchange

'''Support Orgs'''

Energy Foundry

Propel

ITA

Chicago Innovation Mentors

MakerBiz

'''Companies'''

3d Printer Experience

Links to Additional Resources:

*[[Knapp Center|http://iit.edu/knapp_center/]]

Future Founders Foundation — College Founders
</div>
For many college-age entrepreneurs, the transition from school into the real world can be challenging. After graduation, the continual guidance from professors, classroom structure and school resources diminish, leaving many students unaware of how to navigate the community. College Founders bridges this gap by engaging students in community activities while they are in school.

At IIT,  College Founders promotes cross-collaboration and increases the capacity of university programs by broadening their reach into the community.

= Landscape Canvas =

[https://docs.google.com/a/hawk.iit.edu/spreadsheets/d/1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/a/hawk.iit.edu/spreadsheets/d/1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc/edit#gid=0]

{{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key=1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc|width=1100|height=500}}

==== Alternate Access: ====

The above field may be blank. If so, please visit the Landscape Canvass of IIT at [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc]

= Conclusion =

Illinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future. Link to University
<ul style="font-size: 12.222222328186px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/ http://web.iit.edu/]</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview] 

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[[Bart Grabowski|http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[[Category:Universities]]

Priorities:Illinois Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2015-02-14T04:56:23Z

Gconners:

= Overview =

The University Innovation Fellows at Illinois Institute of Technology have discovered ample opportunities to advance our culture and services of innovation and entrepreneurship. Our current 2015 leadership circle of five hold a variety of backgrounds and majors, an advantage that reveals itself in the variety of strategic plans presented below. Informed by our work through the Landscape Canvass, a tool to evaluate the presence and distribution of innovative and entrepreneurial offerings at our university, we have developed the following strategies to nurture the creative potential of our campus.
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= Strategy #1: Finding Methods of Appeal to All Students That Introduce the Potential of Entrepreneurship =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic 1: Integrate a Circuit of Exchange Between Students Throughout Campus ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>The opportunity to present ideas visually across campus is already available. But with a major focus mainly on only innovative projects that have already been fully developed, mostly through a program with specific guidelines and requirements. The display of a potentially marketable idea to a diverse audience may open up a window for unique feedback and constant advice. And as an entrepreneur would do in the real-world, this type of setting will require the student to develop a model for their product and attempt gain the interest of others for the acquirement of resources and sponsorship for making big change happen with the encouragement of others. This could be in the form of a weekly idea board that follows the theme of scenarios that relate to the experiences students have on campus that are frequent and in need of a solution. It could be an event that provides materials necessary for students to experiment and brainstorm openly while gaining skills in creative thinking, collaboration, and product development. Or it could even be something as simple as a weekly meeting for students and faculty to identify and agree on opportunities to innovate and integrate entrepreneurship into various aspects of campus that have areas in obvious need of improvement, and also could be pictured as evolving from the students viewpoint as a result of entrepreneurial themes.</li>
</ul>

'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact: completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience: completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - May 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - October 2015</li>
<li>Building on our original idea - January 2016</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: An Interdisciplinary Course That Utilizes Current Events or Workplace Scenarios ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>The impact of a course that teaches students to think of solutions relative to what today's world demands and to acknowledge the expectations in a actual job setting could prove highly beneficial. The benefits could range from increased student motivation and excitement for fulfilling career goals to a deeper understanding of the importance of new ideas in bettering the systems and environments relative to the students’ major which will fuel the future. The collaboration involved will also put an important emphasis on the importance of peer feedback and consideration of others ideas to come to the most practical solutions. When the students ideas are tested in project form, they will also come to the realization of how crucial it is to search out potential flaws and acknowledge previous failures to learn what methods to avoid and how to design under constraints and specific techniques. This will provide training geared towards overcoming implications and meeting modern day performance standards. This will ultimately provide a bridge from college to the real-world.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Curriculum overview:Talk with professors and identify an ideal classroom set-up to shape this course - March 2015</li>
<li>Discussion with sponsors and team members who are optimistic about the benefits of this course type - May 2015</li>
<li>Brainstorm a curriculum - October 2015</li>
<li>identify candidates of interest for this course - January 2016</li>
<li>Open up the idea to create awareness - February 2016</li>
<li>Launch a course following the set-up described - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: A Technological Platform That Serves an Important Function in On Campus-Life ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>An implementation of a network for the ease and benefit of students that carries easy accessibility and handles a multitude of functions could be appraised by any student.  This could potentially be a platform for information storage, scheduling and reminders, and even an idea pool for campus events, study strategies, and social gatherings. This could also be a good aid for helping keeping students notified about what’s been happening in the college community and easier awareness can be spread like wildfire about situations that demand immediate attention and action. Acknowledging the successful study strategies of  others  through a feedback loop could enhance the learning experience and give struggling students hope in finding new methods to help them gain a deeper understanding in abstract academic material.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Get public appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Define the primary function - May 2015</li>
<li>Acknowledge the set up - October 2015</li>
<li>Join with others to put things together - March 2016</li>
<li>Notify the target audience - April 2016</li>
<li>Fully implement the platform - 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #2: Introduction of New Infrastructure =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic 1: Create a Hub in the Heart of an Area on Campus that Provides an Adaptable Environment that Allows Planning and Experimentation ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>If students could have a special zone on campus were an abundance and immediate access to tools for diagramming and mapping out future plans, students could greatly strengthen their powers of visual observation and display in a form that could also relay back to others who are intrigued by what they see in the ideas. This will also emphasize the importance of scaling products or ideas into the right size category and seeing design flaws first hand before the flaw becomes an implication on a potentially revolutionary new innovation. Structural analysis will also result from seeing an idea transformed into a 3D model as if it actually exists already as a prototype.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Identify settings ideal for this hub - May 2015</li>
<li>Identify the surroundings that could fuel it - October 2015</li>
<li>Estimate the amount of time and resources needed to construct it - January 2016</li>
<li>Get peer opinion and appeal - February 2016</li>
<li>Invest or acquire the necessary items - May 2016</li>
<li>Complete the construction of this “visual idea center” - 2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Have a Workshop that Introduces Students to New and Upcoming Platforms in Technology and Design by Having Corporate Leaders Discuss and Display Upcoming Modern Innovations, While also Connecting Them with a Relative Project Framework and Potential Sponsors. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>If students could be immersed with realities of innovation in relation to how our modern world is advancing, they could better understand the potential they have as future leaders and entrepreneurs alongside seeing firsthand what’s upcoming and how drastically these innovations can shape our future from the corporations point of view. Once students have the picture in their mind of the invention, they will think about what this will do for them in their everyday lives. Having a power figure in business or industry come and and talk ill give students the “once in a lifetime” experience feeling, they will feel as they have been given the gift of special knowledge and gain a sense of an entrepreneurial “destiny”. An ideal setting for this workshop would be an area on campus that already drives entrepreneurship and has constant student activity, such as the Idea Shop or the Stuart School of Business. If the students are left with a framework, they can better prioritize all the individual efforts involved with a project and set benchmarks to ensure they stay on top of what needs to ba accomplished in the cmoing months or years. With the tools to build bigger and better ideas in front of them, a student who has easy access to using them will realize the major opportunity right at hand. The sponsor will also be looked up to as a role model for the students, showing students that even ideas forming from the most far-out dreams are in reality not far from becoming something much greater.</li>
</ul>

     Milestones:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Identify sponsors and leaders who create suitable products or have created a meaningful invention-May 2015</li>
<li>Identify an ideal location on campus-August 2015</li>
<li>Find students who are interested and willing to help set things up-September 2015</li>
<li>Have students test this workshop-January 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop fully built-May 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop in full operation and spurring innovation-January 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #3: Changing Course Curriculum =

== Team Leader: Bart Grabowski ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology we are blessed to have courses that provide hands-on “learning by doing” experiences such as the Interprofessional Projects or IPRO course. However, IPRO courses are primarily reserved for junior and senior level students who have a couple years of knowledge within their respective majors(s). The goal is to implement more entrepreneurial courses in all majors here at IIT to allow a greater balance among course schedules in order for students to benefit after their studies.

=== Tactic 1: Introduction of Entrepreneurship in First Year Courses ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Students at IIT should be exposed to the ideas, principles, and other relevant works that fall under entrepreneurship and design thinking. In a student’s first year, IIT would provide a general course for all majors on what is entrepreneurship and how can it be applicable to your studies. Right off the bat, students will know guidelines to entrepreneurship and can benefit them in determining whether or not exploring entrepreneurship is the right path to go. Testing the waters, so to speak.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - September 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Required Innovation, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurial course(s) in All Majors ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Currently, IIT has implemented entrepreneurial courses in Engineering Management and of course Business. Students of all majors are allowed to take courses at the Stuart School of Business, but only count as elective courses. Essentially, IIT would implement courses that are innovation/entrepreneurial specific in the major that the student is studying. Courses would be structured from a learning-by doing basis and instructors would act as guidance for students. One important target point is that each department will structure such courses based upon the principles of the major and how entrepreneurship should be applied.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - May 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - June 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - November 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017 (subject to change)</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Illinois Institute of Technology should encourage students to become more entrepreneurial driven for them be able to create the next successful product, service, and or idea. One way IIT could do this is apply school credit to entrepreneurial ventures. Students would receive additional credit for their projects and would allow for a greater balance among student schedules. Students would be able to manage their time more wisely because their ‘ventures’ would be recognized by the university and would be credited to their degree.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - December 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017, 2017-2018</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #4: Leadership Seminars and Conferences Required by Course Instructors and Engineering Departments =

== Strategy Leader: Syeda Fatima ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology, there are various and some what random leadership seminars held throughout  the year on campus. Most of these leadership events are hosted by The Leadership Academy whose main target audience are its own Leadership Scholars, and the rest of the student population is forgotten. Even though these seminars are open to everywhere, most of the students who attend are the Leadership Scholars themselves, since it is a required component for remaining a scholar. After much research, I found that the speakers come from entrepreneurial backgrounds and can help in better IIT’s overall ecosystem. Therefore, the best way to get all students to attend these is by making them apart of the major curriculum. Students will be required to attend these seminars and in return receive a grade for them in their design related major courses.  Furthermore, engineering curriculums should also require their students to attend a conference or lecture during their undergraduate career which will help them gain a better grasp on entrepreneurship and innovation.

=== Tactic 1: IPRO 397 and 497 Make Attending at Least One of the Leadership Academy’s Monthly Seminars a Required Component of the Course. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>IPROs at IIT are designed to introduce students to concepts of design thinking and product design. However, these courses don’t provide any guidance for launching their product or concept on the course ends. This is where the Leadership Academy’s seminars come in. The speakers are these seminar are usually entrepreneurs themselves and their lectures cover topics such as ethics and  how-to-lectures on launching good leadership in your work/university place. Making this a required course component will help students in taking the first step to becoming entrepreneurs</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target courses who will be required to integrate these seminars into their curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific seminars which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with Leadership Academy to coordinate with IPRO curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist is tailoring speakers to fit the needs to the university Ecosystem- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: All Engineering Departments Should Make it Required for Students to Attend at Least Both One Entrepreneurial/ Innovation Themed Conference and Lecture Their Undergraduate Years. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>IIT engineering programs offer various levels of design classes during a student’s senior year of college. However, the students just speed through these classes in order to finish the requirement and graduate, there isn’t much learning going on. Therefore, departments should make it required for students to attend one conference and lecture related to their major. These conferences (such as the RSNA for biomedical engineers) offer tons of knowledge and learning experiences for students which they won’t receive in the classroom. For example, the RSNA features the newest in MRI and Ultrasound machines as well as innovation opportunities for undergrads, to assist these companies through internships.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target lectures/ conferences that engineering professor  will be required to integrate into their course curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific conferences or lectures  which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring conferences and lectures  to fit the needs of the students - July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: Each Engineering Department Should Create at Least One Entrepreneurial and Innovation Based Course specific to Their Department. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>For example, biomedical engineering will have an entrepreneurial course which will teach students how to patent, launch and design their ideas. Since the goal of engineering is to innovate and design a better world, engineering graduates will most likely at least once in their careers encounter a situation in which they will need to design something. Thus, these engineers should have some prior knowledge as to how to go about launching and implementing their product. Taking a course doing their undergraduate years which teaches them just that will be extremely useful.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum- April 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring an entrepreneurial course to fit the needs of the students -May to July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this new course during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

= Strategy #5: Pegasus Idea Exchange and Crowdfunding Network =

== Team Leader: Gabriel Conners ==

Overview: Pegasus is a crowdfunding network built on the momentum of an ecosystem of social support for student ideas. In our landscape canvass of 2015 at the Illinois Institute of Technology(IIT), we found a bell curve of support for innovation and entrepreneurship, where we had good opportunities in the areas of learning and experimenting, while we were found lacking in the outer categories of discovery, pursuit, and spin out. The ultimate and simple goal of Pegasus is to provide students with seed funding for their ideas, thus bolstering our ability to pursue ideas. In order to make this platform sustainable and highly visible, it must hold a foundation of self volunteering of content and a vibrant peer-to-peer idea exchange. This system of exchange will then contribute to the culture of discovery for innovation and entrepreneurship at IIT.

=== Tactic 1: Laying the Foundation of Storytelling ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Achieve Visibility of Student Innovators (03/2015)
*Identify and promote the innovative research, projects, and entrepreneurship currently happening on campus. 
*Innovation Spotlights: weekly posting highlighting one student or team’s work
**Online Spotlight blog created and shared through popular IIT digital channels (Facebook groups, twitter posts, communications emails, MyIIT Student Portal) 
**Spotlight Posters in every building on campus</li>

*Crowdsource Idea Promotion, Acheive Sustainable Storytelling (08/2015)
**Establish the culture and mechanisms that promote individuals to self-volunteer and share their “creative edge.”
***Create and promote a public use “hastag” for all campus innovation and entrepreneurship
***Solicit student suggestions for Spotlight features
***Create live feed of student-submitted(or tagged) data

=== Tactic 2: The Idea Exchange ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Launch Platform to Facilitate Conversations on Student Ideas (Pegasus Idea Exchange) (10/2015)
*Students can volunteer their ideas and projects and then comment, share, or otherwise have conversations on other student postings.</li>

*Add "Needs and Resources" Database (1/2016)
**Students can more easily navigate and contribute input to ideas that solicit their skills or interests.
*Add Team Formation functionality (1/2016)
**Students collaborating on the Pegasus Exchange can form teams to more intensively critique and construct ideas.

=== Tactic 3: A Horse and its Wings ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Partner with or Build a Crowdfunding Platform into Pegasus (8/2016)
*Leverage the social sharing community of Pegasus to promote ideas to broader funding bases. (Alumni, faculty, family, businesses, communities)</li>

*Relationship-Matching Algorithm (1/2017)
**Develop a relationship matching algorithm to streamline student-idea discovery and team formation.
**Integrate an Alumni interest database into Pegasus to improve relationship matching between student ideas and Alumni monies.
**Map out interests and social missions of businesses to build into relationship matching algorithm so students know what organizations to target in solicitation of funding.

= Strategy #6: Competitions that Involve I&E and Symposiums that Give an Insight to Students of the Early Stages of a Startup =

== Team Leader: Faizan Ahmad ==

Objective: College is the place to make big changes in life. Students know that the job market is evolving. A lot of students do not want to work on a 9 to 5 job. A lot of students want to be entrepreneurs and have businesses of their own. However, they face problems in the early stages of their businesses. Our objective is to provide them an insight of how work is done in a professional environment. The purpose is to let them know what steps they need to take and what type of management they need to perform when commencing their businesses and startups. For instance, competitions like Startup, Pitch competitions, Lean Startup competitions and Hackathons will help them learn how they need to perform proactively within a team. This will help them understand how they should organize their efforts while developing a product. Symposiums are very important too. We could have somebody like Balaji Srinivasan come in and explain to students what he learnt about the early stages of his startup. This will make it easier to understand what procedures do entrepreneurs go through when starting a business. They can communicate their ideas and understand how entrepreneurs perform risk-analysis. This is essential as the first step is one of the hardest ones for any business.

=== Tactic 1: Make attending such symposiums highly recommended and mandatory for those who are part of the entrepreneurship and related society on campus. ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship societies on campus, like College Entrepreneurial Organization at IIT, are a very effective way to communicating with students and allowing them to be part of related events. Introducing students to the symposiums is very important since students get a lot of information.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Investigation of targeted speakers who will come in for the symposiums -April 2015</li>
<li>Setting up dates of the events to be held.-May 2015</li>
<li>Informing the boards of the societies and clubs of the information of upcoming symposiums and convincing them make the attendance mandatory.-June 2015</li>
<li>Working with the leadership academy to coordinate the events.- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the event- August 2015</li>
<li>Get survey to see how students feel about this- October to December 2015</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Plan multiple competitions (HackIIT, Lean Startup at IIT) to be hosted by the University. ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>There are many societies at IIT that who attract students. The competitions can be coordinated with the help of the member of the societies. IIT has a great facility i.e The Idea Shop which acts as a working space and an incubator for IIT students. The Idea Shop can be used as the venue for such competitions. Companies like Microsoft and Cisco have sponsored Hackathons in the past. Students can also get their technology to work with.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Setting up the budget and dates for the events to be hosted and presenting it to the student board to be approved-April 2015</li>
<li>Contacting the companies and convince them for sponsorship.-May 2015</li>
<li>Approach the organizations to convince them to volunteer for the events.-June 2015</li>
<li>Work with different departments to reserve spaces for event to be held and coordinate the events.-July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the events - August 2015</li>
<li>Get surveys and reviews by the students of how they feel about the events.- October to November 2015</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

Priorities:Illinois Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2015-02-14T04:42:07Z

Gconners:

= Overview =

The University Innovation Fellows at Illinois Institute of Technology have discovered ample opportunities to advance our culture and services of innovation and entrepreneurship. Our current 2015 leadership circle of five hold a variety of backgrounds and majors, an advantage that reveals itself in the variety of strategic plans presented below. Informed by our work through the Landscape Canvass, a tool to evaluate the presence and distribution of innovative and entrepreneurial offerings at our university, we have developed the following strategies to nurture the creative potential of our campus.
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= Strategy #1: Finding Methods of Appeal to All Students That Introduce the Potential of Entrepreneurship =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic 1: Integrate a Circuit of Exchange Between Students Throughout Campus ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>The opportunity to present ideas visually across campus is already available. But with a major focus mainly on only innovative projects that have already been fully developed, mostly through a program with specific guidelines and requirements. The display of a potentially marketable idea to a diverse audience may open up a window for unique feedback and constant advice. And as an entrepreneur would do in the real-world, this type of setting will require the student to develop a model for their product and attempt gain the interest of others for the acquirement of resources and sponsorship for making big change happen with the encouragement of others. This could be in the form of a weekly idea board that follows the theme of scenarios that relate to the experiences students have on campus that are frequent and in need of a solution. It could be an event that provides materials necessary for students to experiment and brainstorm openly while gaining skills in creative thinking, collaboration, and product development. Or it could even be something as simple as a weekly meeting for students and faculty to identify and agree on opportunities to innovate and integrate entrepreneurship into various aspects of campus that have areas in obvious need of improvement, and also could be pictured as evolving from the students viewpoint as a result of entrepreneurial themes.</li>
</ul>

'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact: completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience: completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - May 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - October 2015</li>
<li>Building on our original idea - January 2016</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: An Interdisciplinary Course That Utilizes Current Events or Workplace Scenarios ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>The impact of a course that teaches students to think of solutions relative to what today's world demands and to acknowledge the expectations in a actual job setting could prove highly beneficial. The benefits could range from increased student motivation and excitement for fulfilling career goals to a deeper understanding of the importance of new ideas in bettering the systems and environments relative to the students’ major which will fuel the future. The collaboration involved will also put an important emphasis on the importance of peer feedback and consideration of others ideas to come to the most practical solutions. When the students ideas are tested in project form, they will also come to the realization of how crucial it is to search out potential flaws and acknowledge previous failures to learn what methods to avoid and how to design under constraints and specific techniques. This will provide training geared towards overcoming implications and meeting modern day performance standards. This will ultimately provide a bridge from college to the real-world.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Curriculum overview:Talk with professors and identify an ideal classroom set-up to shape this course - March 2015</li>
<li>Discussion with sponsors and team members who are optimistic about the benefits of this course type - May 2015</li>
<li>Brainstorm a curriculum - October 2015</li>
<li>identify candidates of interest for this course - January 2016</li>
<li>Open up the idea to create awareness - February 2016</li>
<li>Launch a course following the set-up described - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: A Technological Platform That Serves an Important Function in On Campus-Life ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>An implementation of a network for the ease and benefit of students that carries easy accessibility and handles a multitude of functions could be appraised by any student.  This could potentially be a platform for information storage, scheduling and reminders, and even an idea pool for campus events, study strategies, and social gatherings. This could also be a good aid for helping keeping students notified about what’s been happening in the college community and easier awareness can be spread like wildfire about situations that demand immediate attention and action. Acknowledging the successful study strategies of  others  through a feedback loop could enhance the learning experience and give struggling students hope in finding new methods to help them gain a deeper understanding in abstract academic material.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Get public appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Define the primary function - May 2015</li>
<li>Acknowledge the set up - October 2015</li>
<li>Join with others to put things together - March 2016</li>
<li>Notify the target audience - April 2016</li>
<li>Fully implement the platform - 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #2: Introduction of New Infrastructure =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic 1: Create a Hub in the Heart of an Area on Campus that Provides an Adaptable Environment that Allows Planning and Experimentation ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>If students could have a special zone on campus were an abundance and immediate access to tools for diagramming and mapping out future plans, students could greatly strengthen their powers of visual observation and display in a form that could also relay back to others who are intrigued by what they see in the ideas. This will also emphasize the importance of scaling products or ideas into the right size category and seeing design flaws first hand before the flaw becomes an implication on a potentially revolutionary new innovation. Structural analysis will also result from seeing an idea transformed into a 3D model as if it actually exists already as a prototype.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Identify settings ideal for this hub - May 2015</li>
<li>Identify the surroundings that could fuel it - October 2015</li>
<li>Estimate the amount of time and resources needed to construct it - January 2016</li>
<li>Get peer opinion and appeal - February 2016</li>
<li>Invest or acquire the necessary items - May 2016</li>
<li>Complete the construction of this “visual idea center” - 2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Have a Workshop that Introduces Students to New and Upcoming Platforms in Technology and Design by Having Corporate Leaders Discuss and Display Upcoming Modern Innovations, While also Connecting Them with a Relative Project Framework and Potential Sponsors. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>If students could be immersed with realities of innovation in relation to how our modern world is advancing, they could better understand the potential they have as future leaders and entrepreneurs alongside seeing firsthand what’s upcoming and how drastically these innovations can shape our future from the corporations point of view. Once students have the picture in their mind of the invention, they will think about what this will do for them in their everyday lives. Having a power figure in business or industry come and and talk ill give students the “once in a lifetime” experience feeling, they will feel as they have been given the gift of special knowledge and gain a sense of an entrepreneurial “destiny”. An ideal setting for this workshop would be an area on campus that already drives entrepreneurship and has constant student activity, such as the Idea Shop or the Stuart School of Business. If the students are left with a framework, they can better prioritize all the individual efforts involved with a project and set benchmarks to ensure they stay on top of what needs to ba accomplished in the cmoing months or years. With the tools to build bigger and better ideas in front of them, a student who has easy access to using them will realize the major opportunity right at hand. The sponsor will also be looked up to as a role model for the students, showing students that even ideas forming from the most far-out dreams are in reality not far from becoming something much greater.</li>
</ul>

     Milestones:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Identify sponsors and leaders who create suitable products or have created a meaningful invention-May 2015</li>
<li>Identify an ideal location on campus-August 2015</li>
<li>Find students who are interested and willing to help set things up-September 2015</li>
<li>Have students test this workshop-January 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop fully built-May 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop in full operation and spurring innovation-January 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #3: Changing Course Curriculum =

== Team Leader: Bart Grabowski ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology we are blessed to have courses that provide hands-on “learning by doing” experiences such as the Interprofessional Projects or IPRO course. However, IPRO courses are primarily reserved for junior and senior level students who have a couple years of knowledge within their respective majors(s). The goal is to implement more entrepreneurial courses in all majors here at IIT to allow a greater balance among course schedules in order for students to benefit after their studies.

=== Tactic 1: Introduction of Entrepreneurship in First Year Courses ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Students at IIT should be exposed to the ideas, principles, and other relevant works that fall under entrepreneurship and design thinking. In a student’s first year, IIT would provide a general course for all majors on what is entrepreneurship and how can it be applicable to your studies. Right off the bat, students will know guidelines to entrepreneurship and can benefit them in determining whether or not exploring entrepreneurship is the right path to go. Testing the waters, so to speak.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - September 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Required Innovation, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurial course(s) in All Majors ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Currently, IIT has implemented entrepreneurial courses in Engineering Management and of course Business. Students of all majors are allowed to take courses at the Stuart School of Business, but only count as elective courses. Essentially, IIT would implement courses that are innovation/entrepreneurial specific in the major that the student is studying. Courses would be structured from a learning-by doing basis and instructors would act as guidance for students. One important target point is that each department will structure such courses based upon the principles of the major and how entrepreneurship should be applied.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - May 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - June 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - November 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017 (subject to change)</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Illinois Institute of Technology should encourage students to become more entrepreneurial driven for them be able to create the next successful product, service, and or idea. One way IIT could do this is apply school credit to entrepreneurial ventures. Students would receive additional credit for their projects and would allow for a greater balance among student schedules. Students would be able to manage their time more wisely because their ‘ventures’ would be recognized by the university and would be credited to their degree.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - December 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017, 2017-2018</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #4: Leadership Seminars and Conferences Required by Course Instructors and Engineering Departments =

== Strategy Leader: Syeda Fatima ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology, there are various and some what random leadership seminars held throughout  the year on campus. Most of these leadership events are hosted by The Leadership Academy whose main target audience are its own Leadership Scholars, and the rest of the student population is forgotten. Even though these seminars are open to everywhere, most of the students who attend are the Leadership Scholars themselves, since it is a required component for remaining a scholar. After much research, I found that the speakers come from entrepreneurial backgrounds and can help in better IIT’s overall ecosystem. Therefore, the best way to get all students to attend these is by making them apart of the major curriculum. Students will be required to attend these seminars and in return receive a grade for them in their design related major courses.  Furthermore, engineering curriculums should also require their students to attend a conference or lecture during their undergraduate career which will help them gain a better grasp on entrepreneurship and innovation.

=== Tactic 1: IPRO 397 and 497 Make Attending at Least One of the Leadership Academy’s Monthly Seminars a Required Component of the Course. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>IPROs at IIT are designed to introduce students to concepts of design thinking and product design. However, these courses don’t provide any guidance for launching their product or concept on the course ends. This is where the Leadership Academy’s seminars come in. The speakers are these seminar are usually entrepreneurs themselves and their lectures cover topics such as ethics and  how-to-lectures on launching good leadership in your work/university place. Making this a required course component will help students in taking the first step to becoming entrepreneurs</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target courses who will be required to integrate these seminars into their curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific seminars which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with Leadership Academy to coordinate with IPRO curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist is tailoring speakers to fit the needs to the university Ecosystem- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: All Engineering Departments Should Make it Required for Students to Attend at Least Both One Entrepreneurial/ Innovation Themed Conference and Lecture Their Undergraduate Years. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>IIT engineering programs offer various levels of design classes during a student’s senior year of college. However, the students just speed through these classes in order to finish the requirement and graduate, there isn’t much learning going on. Therefore, departments should make it required for students to attend one conference and lecture related to their major. These conferences (such as the RSNA for biomedical engineers) offer tons of knowledge and learning experiences for students which they won’t receive in the classroom. For example, the RSNA features the newest in MRI and Ultrasound machines as well as innovation opportunities for undergrads, to assist these companies through internships.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target lectures/ conferences that engineering professor  will be required to integrate into their course curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific conferences or lectures  which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring conferences and lectures  to fit the needs of the students - July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: Each Engineering Department Should Create at Least One Entrepreneurial and Innovation Based Course specific to Their Department. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>For example, biomedical engineering will have an entrepreneurial course which will teach students how to patent, launch and design their ideas. Since the goal of engineering is to innovate and design a better world, engineering graduates will most likely at least once in their careers encounter a situation in which they will need to design something. Thus, these engineers should have some prior knowledge as to how to go about launching and implementing their product. Taking a course doing their undergraduate years which teaches them just that will be extremely useful.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum- April 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring an entrepreneurial course to fit the needs of the students -May to July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this new course during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

= Strategy #5: Pegasus Idea Exchange and Crowdfunding Network =

== Team Leader: Gabriel Conners ==

Overview: Pegasus is a crowdfunding network built on the momentum of an ecosystem of social support for student ideas. In our landscape canvass of 2015 at the Illinois Institute of Technology(IIT), we found a bell curve of support for innovation and entrepreneurship, where we had good opportunities in the areas of learning and experimenting, while we were found lacking in the outer categories of discovery, pursuit, and spin out. The ultimate and simple goal of Pegasus is to provide students with seed funding for their ideas, thus bolstering our ability to pursue ideas. In order to make this platform sustainable and highly visible, it must hold a foundation of self volunteering of content and a vibrant peer-to-peer idea exchange. This system of exchange will then contribute to the culture of discovery for innovation and entrepreneurship at IIT.

=== Tactic 1: Laying the Foundation of Storytelling ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Achieve Visibility of Student Innovators (03/2015)
*Identify and promote the innovative research, projects, and entrepreneurship currently happening on campus. 
*Innovation Spotlights: weekly posting highlighting one student or team’s work
**Online Spotlight blog created and shared through popular IIT digital channels (Facebook groups, twitter posts, communications emails, MyIIT Student Portal) 
**Spotlight Posters in every building on campus</li>

*Crowdsource Idea Promotion, Acheive Sustainable Storytelling (08/2015)
**Establish the culture and mechanisms that promote individuals to self-volunteer and share their “creative edge.”
***Create and promote a public use “hastag” for all campus innovation and entrepreneurship
***Solicit student suggestions for Spotlight features
***Create live feed of student-submitted(or tagged) data

=== Tactic 2: The Idea Exchange ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Launch Platform to Facilitate Conversations on Student Ideas (Pegasus Idea Exchange) (10/2015)
*Students can volunteer their ideas and projects and then comment, share, or otherwise have conversations on other student postings.</li>

*Add "Needs and Resources" Database (1/2016)
**Students can more easily navigate and contribute input to ideas that solicit their skills or interests.
*Add Team Formation functionality (1/2016)
**Students collaborating on the Pegasus Exchange can form teams to more intensively critique and construct ideas.

=== Tactic 3: A Horse and its Wings ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Partner with or Build a Crowdfunding Platform into Pegasus (8/2016)
*Leverage the social sharing community of Pegasus to promote ideas to broader funding bases. (Alumni, faculty, family, businesses, communities)</li>

*Relationship-Matching Algorithm (1/2017)
**Develop a relationship matching algorithm to streamline student-idea discovery and team formation.
**Integrate an Alumni interest database into Pegasus to improve relationship matching between student ideas and Alumni monies.
**Map out interests and social missions of businesses to build into relationship matching algorithm so students know what organizations to target in solicitation of funding.

= Strategy #6: Competitions that Involve I&E and Symposiums that Give an Insight to Students of the Early Stages of a Startup =

== Team Leader: Faizan Ahmad ==

Objective: College is the place to make big changes in life. Students know that the job market is evolving. A lot of students do not want to work on a 9 to 5 job. A lot of students want to be entrepreneurs and have businesses of their own. However, they face problems in the early stages of their businesses. Our objective is to provide them an insight of how work is done in a professional environment. The purpose is to let them know what steps they need to take and what type of management they need to perform when commencing their businesses and startups. For instance, competitions like Startup, Pitch competitions, Lean Startup competitions and Hackathons will help them learn how they need to perform proactively within a team. This will help them understand how they should organize their efforts while developing a product. Symposiums are very important too. We could have somebody like Balaji Srinivasan come in and explain to students what he learnt about the early stages of his startup. This will make it easier to understand what procedures do entrepreneurs go through when starting a business. They can communicate their ideas and understand how entrepreneurs perform risk-analysis. This is essential as the first step is one of the hardest ones for any business.

=== Tactic 1: Make attending such symposiums highly recommended and mandatory for those who are part of the entrepreneurship and related society on campus. ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Entrepreneurship societies on campus, like College Entrepreneurial Organization at IIT, are a very effective way to communicating with students and allowing them to be part of related events. Introducing students to the symposiums is very important since students get a lot of information.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Investigation of targeted speakers who will come in for the symposiums -April 2015</li>
<li>Setting up dates of the events to be held.-May 2015</li>
<li>Informing the boards of the societies and clubs of the information of upcoming symposiums and convincing them make the attendance mandatory.-June 2015</li>
<li>Working with the leadership academy to coordinate the events.- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the event- August 2015</li>
<li>Get survey to see how students feel about this- October to December 2015</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Plan multiple competitions (HackIIT, Lean Startup at IIT) to be hosted by the University. ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>There are many societies at IIT that who attract students. The competitions can be coordinated with the help of the member of the societies. IIT has a great facility i.e The Idea Shop which acts as a working space and an incubator for IIT students. The Idea Shop can be used as the venue for such competitions. Companies like Microsoft and Cisco have sponsored Hackathons in the past. Students can also get their technology to work with.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Setting up the budget and dates for the events to be hosted and presenting it to the student board to be approved-April 2015</li>
<li>Contacting the companies and convince them for sponsorship.-May 2015</li>
<li>Approach the organizations to convince them to volunteer for the events.-June 2015</li>
<li>Work with different departments to reserve spaces for event to be held and coordinate the events.-July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the events - August 2015</li>
<li>Get surveys and reviews by the students of how they feel about the events.- October to November 2015</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

Priorities:Illinois Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2015-02-14T03:47:50Z

Gconners:

= Overview =

The University Innovation Fellows at Illinois Institute of Technology have discovered ample opportunities to advance our culture and services of innovation and entrepreneurship. Our current 2015 leadership circle of five hold a variety of backgrounds and majors, an advantage that reveals itself in the variety of strategic plans presented below. Informed by our work through the Landscape Canvass, a tool to evaluate the presence and distribution of innovative and entrepreneurial offerings at our university, we have developed the following strategies to nurture the creative potential of our campus.
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= Strategy #1: Finding Methods of Appeal to All Students That Introduce the Potential of Entrepreneurship =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic 1: Integrate a Circuit of Exchange Between Students Throughout Campus ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>The opportunity to present ideas visually across campus is already available. But with a major focus mainly on only innovative projects that have already been fully developed, mostly through a program with specific guidelines and requirements. The display of a potentially marketable idea to a diverse audience may open up a window for unique feedback and constant advice. And as an entrepreneur would do in the real-world, this type of setting will require the student to develop a model for their product and attempt gain the interest of others for the acquirement of resources and sponsorship for making big change happen with the encouragement of others. This could be in the form of a weekly idea board that follows the theme of scenarios that relate to the experiences students have on campus that are frequent and in need of a solution. It could be an event that provides materials necessary for students to experiment and brainstorm openly while gaining skills in creative thinking, collaboration, and product development. Or it could even be something as simple as a weekly meeting for students and faculty to identify and agree on opportunities to innovate and integrate entrepreneurship into various aspects of campus that have areas in obvious need of improvement, and also could be pictured as evolving from the students viewpoint as a result of entrepreneurial themes.</li>
</ul>

'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact: completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience: completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - May 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - October 2015</li>
<li>Building on our original idea - January 2016</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: An Interdisciplinary Course That Utilizes Current Events or Workplace Scenarios ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>The impact of a course that teaches students to think of solutions relative to what today's world demands and to acknowledge the expectations in a actual job setting could prove highly beneficial. The benefits could range from increased student motivation and excitement for fulfilling career goals to a deeper understanding of the importance of new ideas in bettering the systems and environments relative to the students’ major which will fuel the future. The collaboration involved will also put an important emphasis on the importance of peer feedback and consideration of others ideas to come to the most practical solutions. When the students ideas are tested in project form, they will also come to the realization of how crucial it is to search out potential flaws and acknowledge previous failures to learn what methods to avoid and how to design under constraints and specific techniques. This will provide training geared towards overcoming implications and meeting modern day performance standards. This will ultimately provide a bridge from college to the real-world.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Curriculum overview:Talk with professors and identify an ideal classroom set-up to shape this course - March 2015</li>
<li>Discussion with sponsors and team members who are optimistic about the benefits of this course type - May 2015</li>
<li>Brainstorm a curriculum - October 2015</li>
<li>identify candidates of interest for this course - January 2016</li>
<li>Open up the idea to create awareness - February 2016</li>
<li>Launch a course following the set-up described - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: A Technological Platform That Serves an Important Function in On Campus-Life ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>An implementation of a network for the ease and benefit of students that carries easy accessibility and handles a multitude of functions could be appraised by any student.  This could potentially be a platform for information storage, scheduling and reminders, and even an idea pool for campus events, study strategies, and social gatherings. This could also be a good aid for helping keeping students notified about what’s been happening in the college community and easier awareness can be spread like wildfire about situations that demand immediate attention and action. Acknowledging the successful study strategies of  others  through a feedback loop could enhance the learning experience and give struggling students hope in finding new methods to help them gain a deeper understanding in abstract academic material.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Get public appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Define the primary function - May 2015</li>
<li>Acknowledge the set up - October 2015</li>
<li>Join with others to put things together - March 2016</li>
<li>Notify the target audience - April 2016</li>
<li>Fully implement the platform - 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #2: Introduction of New Infrastructure =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic 1: Create a Hub in the Heart of an Area on Campus that Provides an Adaptable Environment that Allows Planning and Experimentation ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>If students could have a special zone on campus were an abundance and immediate access to tools for diagramming and mapping out future plans, students could greatly strengthen their powers of visual observation and display in a form that could also relay back to others who are intrigued by what they see in the ideas. This will also emphasize the importance of scaling products or ideas into the right size category and seeing design flaws first hand before the flaw becomes an implication on a potentially revolutionary new innovation. Structural analysis will also result from seeing an idea transformed into a 3D model as if it actually exists already as a prototype.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Identify settings ideal for this hub - May 2015</li>
<li>Identify the surroundings that could fuel it - October 2015</li>
<li>Estimate the amount of time and resources needed to construct it - January 2016</li>
<li>Get peer opinion and appeal - February 2016</li>
<li>Invest or acquire the necessary items - May 2016</li>
<li>Complete the construction of this “visual idea center” - 2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Have a Workshop that Introduces Students to New and Upcoming Platforms in Technology and Design by Having Corporate Leaders Discuss and Display Upcoming Modern Innovations, While also Connecting Them with a Relative Project Framework and Potential Sponsors. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>If students could be immersed with realities of innovation in relation to how our modern world is advancing, they could better understand the potential they have as future leaders and entrepreneurs alongside seeing firsthand what’s upcoming and how drastically these innovations can shape our future from the corporations point of view. Once students have the picture in their mind of the invention, they will think about what this will do for them in their everyday lives. Having a power figure in business or industry come and and talk ill give students the “once in a lifetime” experience feeling, they will feel as they have been given the gift of special knowledge and gain a sense of an entrepreneurial “destiny”. An ideal setting for this workshop would be an area on campus that already drives entrepreneurship and has constant student activity, such as the Idea Shop or the Stuart School of Business. If the students are left with a framework, they can better prioritize all the individual efforts involved with a project and set benchmarks to ensure they stay on top of what needs to ba accomplished in the cmoing months or years. With the tools to build bigger and better ideas in front of them, a student who has easy access to using them will realize the major opportunity right at hand. The sponsor will also be looked up to as a role model for the students, showing students that even ideas forming from the most far-out dreams are in reality not far from becoming something much greater.</li>
</ul>

     Milestones:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Identify sponsors and leaders who create suitable products or have created a meaningful invention-May 2015</li>
<li>Identify an ideal location on campus-August 2015</li>
<li>Find students who are interested and willing to help set things up-September 2015</li>
<li>Have students test this workshop-January 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop fully built-May 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop in full operation and spurring innovation-January 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #3: Changing Course Curriculum =

== Team Leader: Bart Grabowski ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology we are blessed to have courses that provide hands-on “learning by doing” experiences such as the Interprofessional Projects or IPRO course. However, IPRO courses are primarily reserved for junior and senior level students who have a couple years of knowledge within their respective majors(s). The goal is to implement more entrepreneurial courses in all majors here at IIT to allow a greater balance among course schedules in order for students to benefit after their studies.

=== Tactic 1: Introduction of Entrepreneurship in First Year Courses ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Students at IIT should be exposed to the ideas, principles, and other relevant works that fall under entrepreneurship and design thinking. In a student’s first year, IIT would provide a general course for all majors on what is entrepreneurship and how can it be applicable to your studies. Right off the bat, students will know guidelines to entrepreneurship and can benefit them in determining whether or not exploring entrepreneurship is the right path to go. Testing the waters, so to speak.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - September 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Required Innovation, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurial course(s) in All Majors ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Currently, IIT has implemented entrepreneurial courses in Engineering Management and of course Business. Students of all majors are allowed to take courses at the Stuart School of Business, but only count as elective courses. Essentially, IIT would implement courses that are innovation/entrepreneurial specific in the major that the student is studying. Courses would be structured from a learning-by doing basis and instructors would act as guidance for students. One important target point is that each department will structure such courses based upon the principles of the major and how entrepreneurship should be applied.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - May 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - June 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - November 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017 (subject to change)</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Illinois Institute of Technology should encourage students to become more entrepreneurial driven for them be able to create the next successful product, service, and or idea. One way IIT could do this is apply school credit to entrepreneurial ventures. Students would receive additional credit for their projects and would allow for a greater balance among student schedules. Students would be able to manage their time more wisely because their ‘ventures’ would be recognized by the university and would be credited to their degree.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - December 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017, 2017-2018</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #4: Leadership Seminars and Conferences Required by Course Instructors and Engineering Departments =

== Strategy Leader: Syeda Fatima ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology, there are various and some what random leadership seminars held throughout  the year on campus. Most of these leadership events are hosted by The Leadership Academy whose main target audience are its own Leadership Scholars, and the rest of the student population is forgotten. Even though these seminars are open to everywhere, most of the students who attend are the Leadership Scholars themselves, since it is a required component for remaining a scholar. After much research, I found that the speakers come from entrepreneurial backgrounds and can help in better IIT’s overall ecosystem. Therefore, the best way to get all students to attend these is by making them apart of the major curriculum. Students will be required to attend these seminars and in return receive a grade for them in their design related major courses.  Furthermore, engineering curriculums should also require their students to attend a conference or lecture during their undergraduate career which will help them gain a better grasp on entrepreneurship and innovation.

=== Tactic 1: IPRO 397 and 497 Make Attending at Least One of the Leadership Academy’s Monthly Seminars a Required Component of the Course. ===
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<li>IPROs at IIT are designed to introduce students to concepts of design thinking and product design. However, these courses don’t provide any guidance for launching their product or concept on the course ends. This is where the Leadership Academy’s seminars come in. The speakers are these seminar are usually entrepreneurs themselves and their lectures cover topics such as ethics and  how-to-lectures on launching good leadership in your work/university place. Making this a required course component will help students in taking the first step to becoming entrepreneurs</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target courses who will be required to integrate these seminars into their curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific seminars which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with Leadership Academy to coordinate with IPRO curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist is tailoring speakers to fit the needs to the university Ecosystem- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: All Engineering Departments Should Make it Required for Students to Attend at Least Both One Entrepreneurial/ Innovation Themed Conference and Lecture Their Undergraduate Years. ===
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<li>IIT engineering programs offer various levels of design classes during a student’s senior year of college. However, the students just speed through these classes in order to finish the requirement and graduate, there isn’t much learning going on. Therefore, departments should make it required for students to attend one conference and lecture related to their major. These conferences (such as the RSNA for biomedical engineers) offer tons of knowledge and learning experiences for students which they won’t receive in the classroom. For example, the RSNA features the newest in MRI and Ultrasound machines as well as innovation opportunities for undergrads, to assist these companies through internships.</li>
</ul>
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<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target lectures/ conferences that engineering professor  will be required to integrate into their course curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific conferences or lectures  which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring conferences and lectures  to fit the needs of the students - July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: Each Engineering Department Should Create at Least One Entrepreneurial and Innovation Based Course specific to Their Department. ===
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<li>For example, biomedical engineering will have an entrepreneurial course which will teach students how to patent, launch and design their ideas. Since the goal of engineering is to innovate and design a better world, engineering graduates will most likely at least once in their careers encounter a situation in which they will need to design something. Thus, these engineers should have some prior knowledge as to how to go about launching and implementing their product. Taking a course doing their undergraduate years which teaches them just that will be extremely useful.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum- April 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring an entrepreneurial course to fit the needs of the students -May to July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this new course during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

= Strategy #5: Pegasus Idea Exchange =

Fellow on Point: Gabriel Conners

Pegasus is a crowdfunding network built on the momentum of an ecosystem of social support for student ideas. In our landscape canvass of 2015 at the Illinois Institute of Technology(IIT), we found a bell curve of support for innovation and entrepreneurship, where we had good opportunities in the areas of learning and experimenting, while we were found lacking in the outer categories of discovery, pursuit, and spin out. The ultimate and simple goal of Pegasus is to provide students with seed funding for their ideas, thus bolstering our ability to pursue ideas. In order to make this platform sustainable and highly visible, it must hold a foundation of self volunteering of content and a vibrant peer-to-peer idea exchange. This system of exchange will then contribute to the culture of discovery for innovation and entrepreneurship at IIT.
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== Laying the Foundation of Storytelling ==
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=== Tactic 1: Achieve Visibility of Student Innovators (03/2015) ===
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<li>Identify and promote the innovative research, projects, and entrepreneurship currently happening on campus.<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Innovation Spotlights: weekly posting highlighting one student or team’s work<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Online Spotlight blog created and shared through popular IIT digital channels (Facebook groups, twitter posts, communications emails, MyIIT Student Portal)</li>
<li>Spotlight Posters in every building on campus</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
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=== Tactic 2: Crowdsource Idea Promotion, Achieve Sustainable Storytelling (08/2015) ===
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<li>Establish the culture and mechanisms that promote individuals to self-volunteer and share their “creative edge.”<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Create and promote a public use “hastag” for all campus innovation and entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Solicit student suggestions for Spotlight features</li>
<li>Create live feed of student-submitted(or tagged) data</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
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== The Idea Exchange ==
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=== Tactic 3: Launch Platform to Facilitate Conversations on Student Ideas (Pegasus Idea Exchange) (10/2015) ===
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<li>Students can volunteer their ideas and projects and then comment, share, or otherwise have conversations on other student postings.</li>
</ul></li>
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=== Tactic 4: Add “Needs and Resource” Database (1/2016) ===
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<li>Students can more easily navigate and contribute input to ideas that solicit their skills or interests.</li>
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=== Tactic 5: Add Team Formation Functionality (1/2016) ===
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<li>Students collaborating on the Pegasus Exchange can form teams to more intensively critique and construct ideas.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
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== A Horse and its Wings ==
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=== Tactic 6: Partner with or Build a Crowdfunding Platform into Pegasus (8/2016) ===
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<li>Leverage the social sharing community of Pegasus to promote ideas to broader funding bases. (Alumni, faculty, family, businesses, communities)</li>
</ul></li>
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=== Tactic 7: Relationship Matching Algorithm (1/2017) ===
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</ul></li>
</ul>

= Strategy #6: Competitions that involve I&E and symposiums that give an insight to students of the early stages of a startup. =
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== Strategy Leader: Faizan Ahmad ==

Objective: College is the place to make big changes in life. Students know that the job market is evolving. A lot of students do not want to work on a 9 to 5 job. A lot of students want to be entrepreneurs and have businesses of their own. However, they face problems in the early stages of their businesses. Our objective is to provide them an insight of how work is done in a professional environment. The purpose is to let them know what steps they need to take and what type of management they need to perform when commencing their businesses and startups. For instance, competitions like Startup, Pitch competitions, Lean Startup competitions and Hackathons will help them learn how they need to perform proactively within a team. This will help them understand how they should organize their efforts while developing a product. Symposiums are very important too. We could have somebody like Balaji Srinivasan come in and explain to students what he learnt about the early stages of his startup. This will make it easier to understand what procedures do entrepreneurs go through when starting a business. They can communicate their ideas and understand how entrepreneurs perform risk-analysis. This is essential as the first step is one of the hardest ones for any business.

=== Tactic 1: Make attending such symposiums highly recommended and mandatory for those who are part of the entrepreneurship and related society on campus. ===

=== Tactic 2: Plan multiple competitions (HackIIT, Lean Startup at IIT) to be hosted by the University. ===
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<li>Entrepreneurship societies on campus, like College Entrepreneurial Organization at IIT, are a very effective way to communicating with students and allowing them to be part of related events. Introducing students to the symposiums is very important since students get a lot of information.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of targeted speakers who will come in for the symposiums -April 2015</li>
<li>Setting up dates of the events to be held.-May 2015</li>
<li>Informing the boards of the societies and clubs of the information of upcoming symposiums and convincing them make the attendance mandatory.-June 2015</li>
<li>Working with the leadership academy to coordinate the events.- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the event- August 2015</li>
<li>Get survey to see how students feel about this- October to December 2015</li>
</ul></li>
<li>There are many societies at IIT that who attract students. The competitions can be coordinated with  the help of the member of the societies. IIT has a great facility i.e The Idea Shop which acts as a working space and an incubator for IIT students. The Idea Shop can be used as the venue for such competitions. Companies like Microsoft and Ciscohave sponsored Hackathons in the past. Students can also get their technology to work with.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Setting up the budget and dates for the events to be hosted and presenting it to the student board to be approved-April 2015</li>
<li>Contacting the companies and convince them for sponsorship.-May 2015</li>
<li>Approach the organizations to convince them to volunteer for the events.-June 2015</li>
<li>Work with different departments to reserve spaces for event to be held and coordinate the events.-July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the events - August 2015</li>
<li>Get surveys and reviews by the students of how they feel about the events.- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

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= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

Priorities:Illinois Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2015-02-14T03:42:12Z

Gconners:

= Overview =

The University Innovation Fellows at Illinois Institute of Technology have discovered ample opportunities to advance our culture and services of innovation and entrepreneurship. Our current 2015 leadership circle of five hold a variety of backgrounds and majors, an advantage that reveals itself in the variety of strategic plans presented below. Informed by our work through the Landscape Canvass, a tool to evaluate the presence and distribution of innovative and entrepreneurial offerings at our university, we have developed the following strategies to nurture the creative potential of our campus.
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= Strategy #1: Finding Methods of Appeal to All Students That Introduce the Potential of Entrepreneurship =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic 1: Integrate a Circuit of Exchange Between Students Throughout Campus ===
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<li>The opportunity to present ideas visually across campus is already available. But with a major focus mainly on only innovative projects that have already been fully developed, mostly through a program with specific guidelines and requirements. The display of a potentially marketable idea to a diverse audience may open up a window for unique feedback and constant advice. And as an entrepreneur would do in the real-world, this type of setting will require the student to develop a model for their product and attempt gain the interest of others for the acquirement of resources and sponsorship for making big change happen with the encouragement of others. This could be in the form of a weekly idea board that follows the theme of scenarios that relate to the experiences students have on campus that are frequent and in need of a solution. It could be an event that provides materials necessary for students to experiment and brainstorm openly while gaining skills in creative thinking, collaboration, and product development. Or it could even be something as simple as a weekly meeting for students and faculty to identify and agree on opportunities to innovate and integrate entrepreneurship into various aspects of campus that have areas in obvious need of improvement, and also could be pictured as evolving from the students viewpoint as a result of entrepreneurial themes.</li>
</ul>

'' Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Investigation of target points of impact: completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience: completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - May 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - October 2015</li>
<li>Building on our original idea - January 2016</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: An Interdisciplinary Course That Utilizes Current Events or Workplace Scenarios ===
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<li>The impact of a course that teaches students to think of solutions relative to what today's world demands and to acknowledge the expectations in a actual job setting could prove highly beneficial. The benefits could range from increased student motivation and excitement for fulfilling career goals to a deeper understanding of the importance of new ideas in bettering the systems and environments relative to the students’ major which will fuel the future. The collaboration involved will also put an important emphasis on the importance of peer feedback and consideration of others ideas to come to the most practical solutions. When the students ideas are tested in project form, they will also come to the realization of how crucial it is to search out potential flaws and acknowledge previous failures to learn what methods to avoid and how to design under constraints and specific techniques. This will provide training geared towards overcoming implications and meeting modern day performance standards. This will ultimately provide a bridge from college to the real-world.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Curriculum overview:Talk with professors and identify an ideal classroom set-up to shape this course - March 2015</li>
<li>Discussion with sponsors and team members who are optimistic about the benefits of this course type - May 2015</li>
<li>Brainstorm a curriculum - October 2015</li>
<li>identify candidates of interest for this course - January 2016</li>
<li>Open up the idea to create awareness - February 2016</li>
<li>Launch a course following the set-up described - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: A Technological Platform That Serves an Important Function in On Campus-Life ===
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<li>An implementation of a network for the ease and benefit of students that carries easy accessibility and handles a multitude of functions could be appraised by any student.  This could potentially be a platform for information storage, scheduling and reminders, and even an idea pool for campus events, study strategies, and social gatherings. This could also be a good aid for helping keeping students notified about what’s been happening in the college community and easier awareness can be spread like wildfire about situations that demand immediate attention and action. Acknowledging the successful study strategies of  others  through a feedback loop could enhance the learning experience and give struggling students hope in finding new methods to help them gain a deeper understanding in abstract academic material.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Get public appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Define the primary function - May 2015</li>
<li>Acknowledge the set up - October 2015</li>
<li>Join with others to put things together - March 2016</li>
<li>Notify the target audience - April 2016</li>
<li>Fully implement the platform - 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #2: Introduction of New Infrastructure =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic 1: Create a Hub in the Heart of an Area on Campus that Provides an Adaptable Environment that Allows Planning and Experimentation ===
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<li>If students could have a special zone on campus were an abundance and immediate access to tools for diagramming and mapping out future plans, students could greatly strengthen their powers of visual observation and display in a form that could also relay back to others who are intrigued by what they see in the ideas. This will also emphasize the importance of scaling products or ideas into the right size category and seeing design flaws first hand before the flaw becomes an implication on a potentially revolutionary new innovation. Structural analysis will also result from seeing an idea transformed into a 3D model as if it actually exists already as a prototype.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Identify settings ideal for this hub - May 2015</li>
<li>Identify the surroundings that could fuel it - October 2015</li>
<li>Estimate the amount of time and resources needed to construct it - January 2016</li>
<li>Get peer opinion and appeal - February 2016</li>
<li>Invest or acquire the necessary items - May 2016</li>
<li>Complete the construction of this “visual idea center” - 2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Have a Workshop that Introduces Students to New and Upcoming Platforms in Technology and Design by Having Corporate Leaders Discuss and Display Upcoming Modern Innovations, While also Connecting Them with a Relative Project Framework and Potential Sponsors. ===
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<li>If students could be immersed with realities of innovation in relation to how our modern world is advancing, they could better understand the potential they have as future leaders and entrepreneurs alongside seeing firsthand what’s upcoming and how drastically these innovations can shape our future from the corporations point of view. Once students have the picture in their mind of the invention, they will think about what this will do for them in their everyday lives. Having a power figure in business or industry come and and talk ill give students the “once in a lifetime” experience feeling, they will feel as they have been given the gift of special knowledge and gain a sense of an entrepreneurial “destiny”. An ideal setting for this workshop would be an area on campus that already drives entrepreneurship and has constant student activity, such as the Idea Shop or the Stuart School of Business. If the students are left with a framework, they can better prioritize all the individual efforts involved with a project and set benchmarks to ensure they stay on top of what needs to ba accomplished in the cmoing months or years. With the tools to build bigger and better ideas in front of them, a student who has easy access to using them will realize the major opportunity right at hand. The sponsor will also be looked up to as a role model for the students, showing students that even ideas forming from the most far-out dreams are in reality not far from becoming something much greater.</li>
</ul>

     Milestones:
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<li>Identify sponsors and leaders who create suitable products or have created a meaningful invention-May 2015</li>
<li>Identify an ideal location on campus-August 2015</li>
<li>Find students who are interested and willing to help set things up-September 2015</li>
<li>Have students test this workshop-January 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop fully built-May 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop in full operation and spurring innovation-January 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #3: Changing Course Curriculum =

== Team Leader: Bart Grabowski ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology we are blessed to have courses that provide hands-on “learning by doing” experiences such as the Interprofessional Projects or IPRO course. However, IPRO courses are primarily reserved for junior and senior level students who have a couple years of knowledge within their respective majors(s). The goal is to implement more entrepreneurial courses in all majors here at IIT to allow a greater balance among course schedules in order for students to benefit after their studies.

=== Tactic 1: Introduction of Entrepreneurship in First Year Courses ===
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<li>Students at IIT should be exposed to the ideas, principles, and other relevant works that fall under entrepreneurship and design thinking. In a student’s first year, IIT would provide a general course for all majors on what is entrepreneurship and how can it be applicable to your studies. Right off the bat, students will know guidelines to entrepreneurship and can benefit them in determining whether or not exploring entrepreneurship is the right path to go. Testing the waters, so to speak.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - September 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Required Innovation, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurial course(s) in All Majors ===
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<li>Currently, IIT has implemented entrepreneurial courses in Engineering Management and of course Business. Students of all majors are allowed to take courses at the Stuart School of Business, but only count as elective courses. Essentially, IIT would implement courses that are innovation/entrepreneurial specific in the major that the student is studying. Courses would be structured from a learning-by doing basis and instructors would act as guidance for students. One important target point is that each department will structure such courses based upon the principles of the major and how entrepreneurship should be applied.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - May 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - June 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - November 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017 (subject to change)</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due ===
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<li>Illinois Institute of Technology should encourage students to become more entrepreneurial driven for them be able to create the next successful product, service, and or idea. One way IIT could do this is apply school credit to entrepreneurial ventures. Students would receive additional credit for their projects and would allow for a greater balance among student schedules. Students would be able to manage their time more wisely because their ‘ventures’ would be recognized by the university and would be credited to their degree.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - December 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017, 2017-2018</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #4: Leadership Seminars and Conferences Required by Course Instructors and Engineering Departments =

== Strategy Leader: Syeda Fatima ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology, there are various and some what random leadership seminars held throughout  the year on campus. Most of these leadership events are hosted by The Leadership Academy whose main target audience are its own Leadership Scholars, and the rest of the student population is forgotten. Even though these seminars are open to everywhere, most of the students who attend are the Leadership Scholars themselves, since it is a required component for remaining a scholar. After much research, I found that the speakers come from entrepreneurial backgrounds and can help in better IIT’s overall ecosystem. Therefore, the best way to get all students to attend these is by making them apart of the major curriculum. Students will be required to attend these seminars and in return receive a grade for them in their design related major courses.  Furthermore, engineering curriculums should also require their students to attend a conference or lecture during their undergraduate career which will help them gain a better grasp on entrepreneurship and innovation.

=== Tactic 1: IPRO 397 and 497 Make Attending at Least One of the Leadership Academy’s Monthly Seminars a Required Component of the Course. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>IPROs at IIT are designed to introduce students to concepts of design thinking and product design. However, these courses don’t provide any guidance for launching their product or concept on the course ends. This is where the Leadership Academy’s seminars come in. The speakers are these seminar are usually entrepreneurs themselves and their lectures cover topics such as ethics and  how-to-lectures on launching good leadership in your work/university place. Making this a required course component will help students in taking the first step to becoming entrepreneurs</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target courses who will be required to integrate these seminars into their curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific seminars which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with Leadership Academy to coordinate with IPRO curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist is tailoring speakers to fit the needs to the university Ecosystem- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: All Engineering Departments Should Make it Required for Students to Attend at Least Both One Entrepreneurial/ Innovation Themed Conference and Lecture Their Undergraduate Years. ===
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<li>IIT engineering programs offer various levels of design classes during a student’s senior year of college. However, the students just speed through these classes in order to finish the requirement and graduate, there isn’t much learning going on. Therefore, departments should make it required for students to attend one conference and lecture related to their major. These conferences (such as the RSNA for biomedical engineers) offer tons of knowledge and learning experiences for students which they won’t receive in the classroom. For example, the RSNA features the newest in MRI and Ultrasound machines as well as innovation opportunities for undergrads, to assist these companies through internships.</li>
</ul>
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<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target lectures/ conferences that engineering professor  will be required to integrate into their course curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific conferences or lectures  which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring conferences and lectures  to fit the needs of the students - July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: Each Engineering Department Should Create at Least One Entrepreneurial and Innovation Based Course specific to Their Department. ===
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<li>For example, biomedical engineering will have an entrepreneurial course which will teach students how to patent, launch and design their ideas. Since the goal of engineering is to innovate and design a better world, engineering graduates will most likely at least once in their careers encounter a situation in which they will need to design something. Thus, these engineers should have some prior knowledge as to how to go about launching and implementing their product. Taking a course doing their undergraduate years which teaches them just that will be extremely useful.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum- April 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring an entrepreneurial course to fit the needs of the students -May to July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this new course during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

= Strategy #5: Pegasus Idea Exchange =

Fellow on Point: Gabriel Conners

Pegasus is a crowdfunding network built on the momentum of an ecosystem of social support for student ideas. In our landscape canvass of 2015 at the Illinois Institute of Technology(IIT), we found a bell curve of support for innovation and entrepreneurship, where we had good opportunities in the areas of learning and experimenting, while we were found lacking in the outer categories of discovery, pursuit, and spin out. The ultimate and simple goal of Pegasus is to provide students with seed funding for their ideas, thus bolstering our ability to pursue ideas. In order to make this platform sustainable and highly visible, it must hold a foundation of self volunteering of content and a vibrant peer-to-peer idea exchange. This system of exchange will then contribute to the culture of discovery for innovation and entrepreneurship at IIT.
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== Laying the Foundation of Storytelling ==
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=== Tactic 1: Achieve Visibility of Student Innovators (03/2015) ===
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<li>Identify and promote the innovative research, projects, and entrepreneurship currently happening on campus.<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Innovation Spotlights: weekly posting highlighting one student or team’s work<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Online Spotlight blog created and shared through popular IIT digital channels (Facebook groups, twitter posts, communications emails, MyIIT Student Portal)</li>
<li>Spotlight Posters in every building on campus</li>
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=== Tactic 2: Crowdsource Idea Promotion, Achieve Sustainable Storytelling (08/2015) ===
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<li>Establish the culture and mechanisms that promote individuals to self-volunteer and share their “creative edge.”<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Create and promote a public use “hastag” for all campus innovation and entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Solicit student suggestions for Spotlight features</li>
<li>Create live feed of student-submitted(or tagged) data</li>
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== The Idea Exchange ==
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=== Tactic 3: Launch Platform to Facilitate Conversations on Student Ideas (Pegasus Idea Exchange) (10/2015) ===
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<li>Students can volunteer their ideas and projects and then comment, share, or otherwise have conversations on other student postings.</li>
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=== Tactic 4: Add “Needs and Resource” Database (1/2016) ===
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<li>Students can more easily navigate and contribute input to ideas that solicit their skills or interests.</li>
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=== Tactic 5: Add Team Formation Functionality (1/2016) ===
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<li>Students collaborating on the Pegasus Exchange can form teams to more intensively critique and construct ideas.</li>
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== A Horse and its Wings ==
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=== Tactic 6: Partner with or Build a Crowdfunding Platform into Pegasus (8/2016) ===
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<li>Leverage the social sharing community of Pegasus to promote ideas to broader funding bases. (Alumni, faculty, family, businesses, communities)</li>
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=== Tactic 7: Relationship Matching Algorithm (1/2017) ===
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= Strategy #6: Competitions that involve I&E and symposiums that give an insight to students of the early stages of a startup. =
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== Strategy Leader: Faizan Ahmad ==

Objective: College is the place to make big changes in life. Students know that the job market is evolving. A lot of students do not want to work on a 9 to 5 job. A lot of students want to be entrepreneurs and have businesses of their own. However, they face problems in the early stages of their businesses. Our objective is to provide them an insight of how work is done in a professional environment. The purpose is to let them know what steps they need to take and what type of management they need to perform when commencing their businesses and startups. For instance, competitions like Startup, Pitch competitions, Lean Startup competitions and Hackathons will help them learn how they need to perform proactively within a team. This will help them understand how they should organize their efforts while developing a product. Symposiums are very important too. We could have somebody like Balaji Srinivasan come in and explain to students what he learnt about the early stages of his startup. This will make it easier to understand what procedures do entrepreneurs go through when starting a business. They can communicate their ideas and understand how entrepreneurs perform risk-analysis. This is essential as the first step is one of the hardest ones for any business.

=== Tactic 1: Make attending such symposiums highly recommended and mandatory for those who are part of the entrepreneurship and related society on campus. ===

=== Tactic 2: Plan multiple competitions (HackIIT, Lean Startup at IIT) to be hosted by the University. ===
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<li>Develop a relationship matching algorithm to streamline student-idea discovery and team formation.</li>
<li>Integrate an Alumni interest database into Pegasus to improve relationship matching between student ideas and Alumni monies.</li>
<li>Map out interests and social missions of businesses to build into relationship matching algorithm so students know what organizations to target in solicitation of funding.</li>
<li>Entrepreneurship societies on campus, like College Entrepreneurial Organization at IIT, are a very effective way to communicating with students and allowing them to be part of related events. Introducing students to the symposiums is very important since students get a lot of information.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of targeted speakers who will come in for the symposiums -April 2015</li>
<li>Setting up dates of the events to be held.-May 2015</li>
<li>Informing the boards of the societies and clubs of the information of upcoming symposiums and convincing them make the attendance mandatory.-June 2015</li>
<li>Working with the leadership academy to coordinate the events.- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the event- August 2015</li>
<li>Get survey to see how students feel about this- October to December 2015</li>
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<li>There are many societies at IIT that who attract students. The competitions can be coordinated with  the help of the member of the societies. IIT has a great facility i.e The Idea Shop which acts as a working space and an incubator for IIT students. The Idea Shop can be used as the venue for such competitions. Companies like Microsoft and Ciscohave sponsored Hackathons in the past. Students can also get their technology to work with.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Setting up the budget and dates for the events to be hosted and presenting it to the student board to be approved-April 2015</li>
<li>Contacting the companies and convince them for sponsorship.-May 2015</li>
<li>Approach the organizations to convince them to volunteer for the events.-June 2015</li>
<li>Work with different departments to reserve spaces for event to be held and coordinate the events.-July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the events - August 2015</li>
<li>Get surveys and reviews by the students of how they feel about the events.- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

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= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

Fellow:Gabriel Conners

2015-02-14T03:28:51Z

Gconners:

[[File:GabrielConners.jpg|thumb|GabrielConners.jpg]]

I am Gabriel Conners, a Unversity Innovation Fellow from the Spring 2015 cohort and a student of “creativity as currency.” With a passion to empower the epic in everyone, I attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, nestled in the south of Chicago’s urban core. In 2009, I took a five-year hiatus from the rigors of academia to explore a nagging reality that I can best sum up as “why do people live apathetic and uninspired lives?” I came to see that the most satisfied people were either pursuing a passion or at peace with life(or both!).

This journey has led me to Illinois Tech, where I study Social and Economic Development Policy and work with the University Innovation Fellows, the IIT Student Government, and the office of Student Access, Success, and Diversity Initiatives to reform the culture of campus to better nurture creative passions. My life’s mission involves seeing this kind of culture shift spill over into surrounding communities, so that education institutions drive creative revolutions in their neighborhoods.

In my spare time, I love to romance things: sunsets, trees, architectural masterpieces, symphonies, blackberry cobblers, fractals, you name it! There is beauty in everything. I mostly express my soul through poetry and song, though I certainly let my feet give way to the occasional dance. My favorite gems in this world are my nephews: 1 and 3 years old. They remind me of the importance of relationships and the unlimited potential within each of us.

I’d love to know about your passions and to explore opportunities for collaboration; how can I help you realize your dreams? Find me @GabrielConners and GabrielConners@gmail.com

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== Related Links ==

Business Model Canvass

[https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1tQPV8tvI76kEmmgvExV9DfmqepUyAiDtGhHgwFij_2I&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-Ss9RUmnrPwbvX1kVpIAfv9JYyPg https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1tQPV8tvI76kEmmgvExV9DfmqepUyAiDtGhHgwFij_2I]

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

Fellow:Bart Grabowski

2015-02-14T03:27:56Z

Gconners:

[[File:Iit-0240.jpg|thumb]]
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Bart Grabowski is a University Innovation Fellow from the Spring 2015 Cohort who is currently a Junior at '''''Illinois Institute of Technology''''' where he is majoring in Business Administration, with a specialization in Finance.

Bart has been involved on campus in a number of activities that showcase his initiative and passion, including:

- Illinois Tech Men’s Soccer Team, NCAA - Division III - Student Athletic Advising Committee Member - IIT Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization (CEO)

A believer in learning by doing, Bart is currently co-founding a mobile application and service, BarTap, that simplifies the drink ordering processes within the bar industry. Bart's high entrepreneurial drive enables him to look at problems from different perspectives and focus on the pain points that affect everyone.

Bart has a natural ability to convey trustworthiness, and also possess a strong worth ethic. As a result, he has consistently proven himself to be a dependable asset to all stakeholders, especially '''''Illinois Tech'''''.
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== Related Links ==

Business Model Canvass

[https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1yQqtZEGgPJ6zuV2LUfv6PLjC3B07P2IpsvvvHPMVfHQ/edit&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_UWO1jeDW13uDNSx2YvopV6kM3gQ https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1yQqtZEGgPJ6zuV2LUfv6PLjC3B07P2IpsvvvHPMVfHQ/edit]

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

Fellow:Gabriel Conners

2015-02-14T03:25:30Z

Gconners:

[[File:GabrielConners.jpg|thumb|GabrielConners.jpg]]

I am Gabriel Conners, a Unversity Innovation Fellow from the Spring 2015 cohort and a student of “creativity as currency.” With a passion to empower the epic in everyone, I attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, nestled in the south of Chicago’s urban core. In 2009, I took a five-year hiatus from the rigors of academia to explore a nagging reality that I can best sum up as “why do people live apathetic and uninspired lives?” I came to see that the most satisfied people were either pursuing a passion or at peace with life(or both!).

This journey has led me to Illinois Tech, where I study Social and Economic Development Policy and work with the University Innovation Fellows, the IIT Student Government, and the office of Student Access, Success, and Diversity Initiatives to reform the culture of campus to better nurture creative passions. My life’s mission involves seeing this kind of culture shift spill over into surrounding communities, so that education institutions drive creative revolutions in their neighborhoods.

In my spare time, I love to romance things: sunsets, trees, architectural masterpieces, symphonies, blackberry cobblers, fractals, you name it! There is beauty in everything. I mostly express my soul through poetry and song, though I certainly let my feet give way to the occasional dance. My favorite gems in this world are my nephews: 1 and 3 years old. They remind me of the importance of relationships and the unlimited potential within each of us.

I’d love to know about your passions and to explore opportunities for collaboration; how can I help you realize your dreams? Find me @GabrielConners and GabrielConners@gmail.com

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== Related Links ==

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

Fellow:Gabriel Conners

2015-02-14T03:25:05Z

Gconners:

[[File:GabrielConners.jpg|thumb|GabrielConners.jpg]]

I am Gabriel Conners, a Unversity Innovation Fellow from the Spring 2015 cohort and a student of “creativity as currency.” With a passion to empower the epic in everyone, I attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, nestled in the south of Chicago’s urban core. In 2009, I took a five-year hiatus from the rigors of academia to explore a nagging reality that I can best sum up as “why do people live apathetic and uninspired lives?” I came to see that the most satisfied people were either pursuing a passion or at peace with life(or both!).

This journey has led me to Illinois Tech, where I study Social and Economic Development Policy and work with the University Innovation Fellows, the IIT Student Government, and the office of Student Access, Success, and Diversity Initiatives to reform the culture of campus to better nurture creative passions. My life’s mission involves seeing this kind of culture shift spill over into surrounding communities, so that education institutions drive creative revolutions in their neighborhoods.

In my spare time, I love to romance things: sunsets, trees, architectural masterpieces, symphonies, blackberry cobblers, fractals, you name it! There is beauty in everything. I mostly express my soul through poetry and song, though I certainly let my feet give way to the occasional dance. My favorite gems in this world are my nephews: 1 and 3 years old. They remind me of the importance of relationships and the unlimited potential within each of us.

I’d love to know about your passions and to explore opportunities for collaboration; how can I help you realize your dreams? Find me @GabrielConners and GabrielConners@gmail.com

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== Related Links ==

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

Priorities:Illinois Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2015-02-14T03:23:45Z

Gconners:

= Overview =

The University Innovation Fellows at Illinois Institute of Technology have discovered ample opportunities to advance our culture and services of innovation and entrepreneurship. Our current 2015 leadership circle of five hold a variety of backgrounds and majors, an advantage that reveals itself in the variety of strategic plans presented below. Informed by our work through the Landscape Canvass, a tool to evaluate the presence and distribution of innovative and entrepreneurial offerings at our university, we have devloped the following strategies to nurture the creative potential of our campus.

= Strategy #1: Finding Methods of Appeal to All Students That Introduce the Potential of Entrepreneurship =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic 1: Integrate a Circuit of Exchange Between Students Throughout Campus ===
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<li>The opportunity to present ideas visually across campus is already available. But with a major focus mainly on only innovative projects that have already been fully developed, mostly through a program with specific guidelines and requirements. The display of a potentially marketable idea to a diverse audience may open up a window for unique feedback and constant advice. And as an entrepreneur would do in the real-world, this type of setting will require the student to develop a model for their product and attempt gain the interest of others for the acquirement of resources and sponsorship for making big change happen with the encouragement of others. This could be in the form of a weekly idea board that follows the theme of scenarios that relate to the experiences students have on campus that are frequent and in need of a solution. It could be an event that provides materials necessary for students to experiment and brainstorm openly while gaining skills in creative thinking, collaboration, and product development. Or it could even be something as simple as a weekly meeting for students and faculty to identify and agree on opportunities to innovate and integrate entrepreneurship into various aspects of campus that have areas in obvious need of improvement, and also could be pictured as evolving from the students viewpoint as a result of entrepreneurial themes.</li>
</ul>

'' Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Investigation of target points of impact: completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience: completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - May 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - October 2015</li>
<li>Building on our original idea - January 2016</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: An Interdisciplinary Course That Utilizes Current Events or Workplace Scenarios ===
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<li>The impact of a course that teaches students to think of solutions relative to what today's world demands and to acknowledge the expectations in a actual job setting could prove highly beneficial. The benefits could range from increased student motivation and excitement for fulfilling career goals to a deeper understanding of the importance of new ideas in bettering the systems and environments relative to the students’ major which will fuel the future. The collaboration involved will also put an important emphasis on the importance of peer feedback and consideration of others ideas to come to the most practical solutions. When the students ideas are tested in project form, they will also come to the realization of how crucial it is to search out potential flaws and acknowledge previous failures to learn what methods to avoid and how to design under constraints and specific techniques. This will provide training geared towards overcoming implications and meeting modern day performance standards. This will ultimately provide a bridge from college to the real-world.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Curriculum overview:Talk with professors and identify an ideal classroom set-up to shape this course - March 2015</li>
<li>Discussion with sponsors and team members who are optimistic about the benefits of this course type - May 2015</li>
<li>Brainstorm a curriculum - October 2015</li>
<li>identify candidates of interest for this course - January 2016</li>
<li>Open up the idea to create awareness - February 2016</li>
<li>Launch a course following the set-up described - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: A Technological Platform That Serves an Important Function in On Campus-Life ===
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<li>An implementation of a network for the ease and benefit of students that carries easy accessibility and handles a multitude of functions could be appraised by any student.  This could potentially be a platform for information storage, scheduling and reminders, and even an idea pool for campus events, study strategies, and social gatherings. This could also be a good aid for helping keeping students notified about what’s been happening in the college community and easier awareness can be spread like wildfire about situations that demand immediate attention and action. Acknowledging the successful study strategies of  others  through a feedback loop could enhance the learning experience and give struggling students hope in finding new methods to help them gain a deeper understanding in abstract academic material.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Get public appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Define the primary function - May 2015</li>
<li>Acknowledge the set up - October 2015</li>
<li>Join with others to put things together - March 2016</li>
<li>Notify the target audience - April 2016</li>
<li>Fully implement the platform - 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #2: Introduction of New Infrastructure =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic 1: Create a Hub in the Heart of an Area on Campus that Provides an Adaptable Environment that Allows Planning and Experimentation ===
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<li>If students could have a special zone on campus were an abundance and immediate access to tools for diagramming and mapping out future plans, students could greatly strengthen their powers of visual observation and display in a form that could also relay back to others who are intrigued by what they see in the ideas. This will also emphasize the importance of scaling products or ideas into the right size category and seeing design flaws first hand before the flaw becomes an implication on a potentially revolutionary new innovation. Structural analysis will also result from seeing an idea transformed into a 3D model as if it actually exists already as a prototype.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Identify settings ideal for this hub - May 2015</li>
<li>Identify the surroundings that could fuel it - October 2015</li>
<li>Estimate the amount of time and resources needed to construct it - January 2016</li>
<li>Get peer opinion and appeal - February 2016</li>
<li>Invest or acquire the necessary items - May 2016</li>
<li>Complete the construction of this “visual idea center” - 2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Have a Workshop that Introduces Students to New and Upcoming Platforms in Technology and Design by Having Corporate Leaders Discuss and Display Upcoming Modern Innovations, While also Connecting Them with a Relative Project Framework and Potential Sponsors. ===
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<li>If students could be immersed with realities of innovation in relation to how our modern world is advancing, they could better understand the potential they have as future leaders and entrepreneurs alongside seeing firsthand what’s upcoming and how drastically these innovations can shape our future from the corporations point of view. Once students have the picture in their mind of the invention, they will think about what this will do for them in their everyday lives. Having a power figure in business or industry come and and talk ill give students the “once in a lifetime” experience feeling, they will feel as they have been given the gift of special knowledge and gain a sense of an entrepreneurial “destiny”. An ideal setting for this workshop would be an area on campus that already drives entrepreneurship and has constant student activity, such as the Idea Shop or the Stuart School of Business. If the students are left with a framework, they can better prioritize all the individual efforts involved with a project and set benchmarks to ensure they stay on top of what needs to ba accomplished in the cmoing months or years. With the tools to build bigger and better ideas in front of them, a student who has easy access to using them will realize the major opportunity right at hand. The sponsor will also be looked up to as a role model for the students, showing students that even ideas forming from the most far-out dreams are in reality not far from becoming something much greater.</li>
</ul>

     Milestones:
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<li>Identify sponsors and leaders who create suitable products or have created a meaningful invention-May 2015</li>
<li>Identify an ideal location on campus-August 2015</li>
<li>Find students who are interested and willing to help set things up-September 2015</li>
<li>Have students test this workshop-January 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop fully built-May 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop in full operation and spurring innovation-January 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #3: Changing Course Curriculum =

== Team Leader: Bart Grabowski ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology we are blessed to have courses that provide hands-on “learning by doing” experiences such as the Interprofessional Projects or IPRO course. However, IPRO courses are primarily reserved for junior and senior level students who have a couple years of knowledge within their respective majors(s). The goal is to implement more entrepreneurial courses in all majors here at IIT to allow a greater balance among course schedules in order for students to benefit after their studies.

=== Tactic 1: Introduction of Entrepreneurship in First Year Courses ===
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<li>Students at IIT should be exposed to the ideas, principles, and other relevant works that fall under entrepreneurship and design thinking. In a student’s first year, IIT would provide a general course for all majors on what is entrepreneurship and how can it be applicable to your studies. Right off the bat, students will know guidelines to entrepreneurship and can benefit them in determining whether or not exploring entrepreneurship is the right path to go. Testing the waters, so to speak.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - September 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Required Innovation, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurial course(s) in All Majors ===
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<li>Currently, IIT has implemented entrepreneurial courses in Engineering Management and of course Business. Students of all majors are allowed to take courses at the Stuart School of Business, but only count as elective courses. Essentially, IIT would implement courses that are innovation/entrepreneurial specific in the major that the student is studying. Courses would be structured from a learning-by doing basis and instructors would act as guidance for students. One important target point is that each department will structure such courses based upon the principles of the major and how entrepreneurship should be applied.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - May 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - June 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - November 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017 (subject to change)</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due ===
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<li>Illinois Institute of Technology should encourage students to become more entrepreneurial driven for them be able to create the next successful product, service, and or idea. One way IIT could do this is apply school credit to entrepreneurial ventures. Students would receive additional credit for their projects and would allow for a greater balance among student schedules. Students would be able to manage their time more wisely because their ‘ventures’ would be recognized by the university and would be credited to their degree.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - December 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017, 2017-2018</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #4: Leadership Seminars and Conferences Required by Course Instructors and Engineering Departments =

== Strategy Leader: Syeda Fatima ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology, there are various and some what random leadership seminars held throughout  the year on campus. Most of these leadership events are hosted by The Leadership Academy whose main target audience are its own Leadership Scholars, and the rest of the student population is forgotten. Even though these seminars are open to everywhere, most of the students who attend are the Leadership Scholars themselves, since it is a required component for remaining a scholar. After much research, I found that the speakers come from entrepreneurial backgrounds and can help in better IIT’s overall ecosystem. Therefore, the best way to get all students to attend these is by making them apart of the major curriculum. Students will be required to attend these seminars and in return receive a grade for them in their design related major courses.  Furthermore, engineering curriculums should also require their students to attend a conference or lecture during their undergraduate career which will help them gain a better grasp on entrepreneurship and innovation.

=== Tactic 1: IPRO 397 and 497 Make Attending at Least One of the Leadership Academy’s Monthly Seminars a Required Component of the Course. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>IPROs at IIT are designed to introduce students to concepts of design thinking and product design. However, these courses don’t provide any guidance for launching their product or concept on the course ends. This is where the Leadership Academy’s seminars come in. The speakers are these seminar are usually entrepreneurs themselves and their lectures cover topics such as ethics and  how-to-lectures on launching good leadership in your work/university place. Making this a required course component will help students in taking the first step to becoming entrepreneurs</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target courses who will be required to integrate these seminars into their curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific seminars which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with Leadership Academy to coordinate with IPRO curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist is tailoring speakers to fit the needs to the university Ecosystem- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: All Engineering Departments Should Make it Required for Students to Attend at Least Both One Entrepreneurial/ Innovation Themed Conference and Lecture Their Undergraduate Years. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>IIT engineering programs offer various levels of design classes during a student’s senior year of college. However, the students just speed through these classes in order to finish the requirement and graduate, there isn’t much learning going on. Therefore, departments should make it required for students to attend one conference and lecture related to their major. These conferences (such as the RSNA for biomedical engineers) offer tons of knowledge and learning experiences for students which they won’t receive in the classroom. For example, the RSNA features the newest in MRI and Ultrasound machines as well as innovation opportunities for undergrads, to assist these companies through internships.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target lectures/ conferences that engineering professor  will be required to integrate into their course curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific conferences or lectures  which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring conferences and lectures  to fit the needs of the students - July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: Each Engineering Department Should Create at Least One Entrepreneurial and Innovation Based Course specific to Their Department. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>For example, biomedical engineering will have an entrepreneurial course which will teach students how to patent, launch and design their ideas. Since the goal of engineering is to innovate and design a better world, engineering graduates will most likely at least once in their careers encounter a situation in which they will need to design something. Thus, these engineers should have some prior knowledge as to how to go about launching and implementing their product. Taking a course doing their undergraduate years which teaches them just that will be extremely useful.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum- April 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring an entrepreneurial course to fit the needs of the students -May to July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this new course during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

= Strategy #5 Pegasus Crowdfunding Network =

Fellow on Point: Gabriel Conners

Pegasus is a crowdfunding network built on the momentum of an ecosystem of social support for student ideas. In our landscape canvass of 2015 at the Illinois Institute of Technology(IIT), we found a bell curve of support for innovation and entrepreneurship, where we had good opportunities in the areas of learning and experimenting, while we were found lacking in the outer categories of discovery, pursuit, and spin out. The ultimate and simple goal of Pegasus is to provide students with seed funding for their ideas, thus bolstering our ability to pursue ideas. In order to make this platform sustainable and highly visible, it must hold a foundation of self volunteering of content and a vibrant peer-to-peer idea exchange. This system of exchange will then contribute to the culture of discovery for innovation and entrepreneurship at IIT.
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<li>
== Laying the Foundation of Storytelling ==
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<li>
=== Tactic 1: Achieve Visibility of Student Innovators (03/2015) ===
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<li>Identify and promote the innovative research, projects, and entrepreneurship currently happening on campus.<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Innovation Spotlights: weekly posting highlighting one student or team’s work<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Online Spotlight blog created and shared through popular IIT digital channels (Facebook groups, twitter posts, communications emails, MyIIT Student Portal)</li>
<li>Spotlight Posters in every building on campus</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>
=== Tactic 2: Crowdsource Idea Promotion, Achieve Sustainable Storytelling (08/2015) ===
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<li>Establish the culture and mechanisms that promote individuals to self-volunteer and share their “creative edge.”<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Create and promote a public use “hastag” for all campus innovation and entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Solicit student suggestions for Spotlight features</li>
<li>Create live feed of student-submitted(or tagged) data</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>
== The Idea Exchange ==
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<li>
=== Tactic 3: Launch Platform to Facilitate Conversations on Student Ideas (Pegasus Idea Exchange) (10/2015) ===
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<li>Students can volunteer their ideas and projects and then comment, share, or otherwise have conversations on other student postings.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>
=== Tactic 4: Add “Needs and Resource” Database (1/2016) ===
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<li>Students can more easily navigate and contribute input to ideas that solicit their skills or interests.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>
=== Tactic 5: Add Team Formation Functionality (1/2016) ===
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<li>Students collaborating on the Pegasus Exchange can form teams to more intensively critique and construct ideas.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>
== A Horse and its Wings ==
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<li>
=== Tactic 6: Partner with or Build a Crowdfunding Platform into Pegasus (8/2016) ===
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<li>Leverage the social sharing community of Pegasus to promote ideas to broader funding bases. (Alumni, faculty, family, businesses, communities)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>
=== Tactic 7: Relationship Matching Algorithm (1/2017) ===

= Strategy #6: Competitions that involve I&E and symposiums that give an insight to students of the early stages of a startup. =

== Strategy Leader: Faizan Ahmad ==

Objective: College is the place to make big changes in life. Students know that the job market is evolving. A lot of students do not want to work on a 9 to 5 job. A lot of students want to be entrepreneurs and have businesses of their own. However, they face problems in the early stages of their businesses. Our objective is to provide them an insight of how work is done in a professional environment. The purpose is to let them know what steps they need to take and what type of management they need to perform when commencing their businesses and startups. For instance, competitions like Startup, Pitch competitions, Lean Startup competitions and Hackathons will help them learn how they need to perform proactively within a team. This will help them understand how they should organize their efforts while developing a product. Symposiums are very important too. We could have somebody like Balaji Srinivasan come in and explain to students what he learnt about the early stages of his startup. This will make it easier to understand what procedures do entrepreneurs go through when starting a business. They can communicate their ideas and understand how entrepreneurs perform risk-analysis. This is essential as the first step is one of the hardest ones for any business.

=== Tactic 1: Make attending such symposiums highly recommended and mandatory for those who are part of the entrepreneurship and related society on campus. ===

=== Tactic 2: Plan multiple competitions (HackIIT, Lean Startup at IIT) to be hosted by the University. ===
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<li>Develop a relationship matching algorithm to streamline student-idea discovery and team formation.</li>
<li>Integrate an Alumni interest database into Pegasus to improve relationship matching between student ideas and Alumni monies.</li>
<li>Map out interests and social missions of businesses to build into relationship matching algorithm so students know what organizations to target in solicitation of funding.</li>
<li>Entrepreneurship societies on campus, like College Entrepreneurial Organization at IIT, are a very effective way to communicating with students and allowing them to be part of related events. Introducing students to the symposiums is very important since students get a lot of information.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of targeted speakers who will come in for the symposiums -April 2015</li>
<li>Setting up dates of the events to be held.-May 2015</li>
<li>Informing the boards of the societies and clubs of the information of upcoming symposiums and convincing them make the attendance mandatory.-June 2015</li>
<li>Working with the leadership academy to coordinate the events.- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the event- August 2015</li>
<li>Get survey to see how students feel about this- October to December 2015</li>
</ul></li>
<li>There are many societies at IIT that who attract students. The competitions can be coordinated with  the help of the member of the societies. IIT has a great facility i.e The Idea Shop which acts as a working space and an incubator for IIT students. The Idea Shop can be used as the venue for such competitions. Companies like Microsoft and Ciscohave sponsored Hackathons in the past. Students can also get their technology to work with.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Setting up the budget and dates for the events to be hosted and presenting it to the student board to be approved-April 2015</li>
<li>Contacting the companies and convince them for sponsorship.-May 2015</li>
<li>Approach the organizations to convince them to volunteer for the events.-June 2015</li>
<li>Work with different departments to reserve spaces for event to be held and coordinate the events.-July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the events - August 2015</li>
<li>Get surveys and reviews by the students of how they feel about the events.- October to November 2015 </li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

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= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

Priorities:Illinois Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2015-02-14T03:23:04Z

Gconners:

= Overview =

The University Innovation Fellows at Illinois Institute of Technology have discovered ample opportunities to advance our culture and services of innovation and entrepreneurship. Our current 2015 leadership circle of five hold a variety of backgrounds and majors, an advantage that reveals itself in the variety of strategic plans presented below. Informed by our work through the Landscape Canvass, a tool to evaluate the presence and distribution of innovative and entrepreneurial offerings at our university, we have devloped the following strategies to nurture the creative potential of our campus.

= Strategy #1: Finding Methods of Appeal to All Students That Introduce the Potential of Entrepreneurship =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic 1: Integrate a Circuit of Exchange Between Students Throughout Campus ===
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<li>The opportunity to present ideas visually across campus is already available. But with a major focus mainly on only innovative projects that have already been fully developed, mostly through a program with specific guidelines and requirements. The display of a potentially marketable idea to a diverse audience may open up a window for unique feedback and constant advice. And as an entrepreneur would do in the real-world, this type of setting will require the student to develop a model for their product and attempt gain the interest of others for the acquirement of resources and sponsorship for making big change happen with the encouragement of others. This could be in the form of a weekly idea board that follows the theme of scenarios that relate to the experiences students have on campus that are frequent and in need of a solution. It could be an event that provides materials necessary for students to experiment and brainstorm openly while gaining skills in creative thinking, collaboration, and product development. Or it could even be something as simple as a weekly meeting for students and faculty to identify and agree on opportunities to innovate and integrate entrepreneurship into various aspects of campus that have areas in obvious need of improvement, and also could be pictured as evolving from the students viewpoint as a result of entrepreneurial themes.</li>
</ul>

'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact: completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience: completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - May 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - October 2015</li>
<li>Building on our original idea - January 2016</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: An Interdisciplinary Course That Utilizes Current Events or Workplace Scenarios ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>The impact of a course that teaches students to think of solutions relative to what today's world demands and to acknowledge the expectations in a actual job setting could prove highly beneficial. The benefits could range from increased student motivation and excitement for fulfilling career goals to a deeper understanding of the importance of new ideas in bettering the systems and environments relative to the students’ major which will fuel the future. The collaboration involved will also put an important emphasis on the importance of peer feedback and consideration of others ideas to come to the most practical solutions. When the students ideas are tested in project form, they will also come to the realization of how crucial it is to search out potential flaws and acknowledge previous failures to learn what methods to avoid and how to design under constraints and specific techniques. This will provide training geared towards overcoming implications and meeting modern day performance standards. This will ultimately provide a bridge from college to the real-world.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Curriculum overview:Talk with professors and identify an ideal classroom set-up to shape this course - March 2015</li>
<li>Discussion with sponsors and team members who are optimistic about the benefits of this course type - May 2015</li>
<li>Brainstorm a curriculum - October 2015</li>
<li>identify candidates of interest for this course - January 2016</li>
<li>Open up the idea to create awareness - February 2016</li>
<li>Launch a course following the set-up described - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: A Technological Platform That Serves an Important Function in On Campus-Life ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>An implementation of a network for the ease and benefit of students that carries easy accessibility and handles a multitude of functions could be appraised by any student.  This could potentially be a platform for information storage, scheduling and reminders, and even an idea pool for campus events, study strategies, and social gatherings. This could also be a good aid for helping keeping students notified about what’s been happening in the college community and easier awareness can be spread like wildfire about situations that demand immediate attention and action. Acknowledging the successful study strategies of  others  through a feedback loop could enhance the learning experience and give struggling students hope in finding new methods to help them gain a deeper understanding in abstract academic material.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Get public appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Define the primary function - May 2015</li>
<li>Acknowledge the set up - October 2015</li>
<li>Join with others to put things together - March 2016</li>
<li>Notify the target audience - April 2016</li>
<li>Fully implement the platform - 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #2: Introduction of New Infrastructure =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic 1: Create a Hub in the Heart of an Area on Campus that Provides an Adaptable Environment that Allows Planning and Experimentation ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>If students could have a special zone on campus were an abundance and immediate access to tools for diagramming and mapping out future plans, students could greatly strengthen their powers of visual observation and display in a form that could also relay back to others who are intrigued by what they see in the ideas. This will also emphasize the importance of scaling products or ideas into the right size category and seeing design flaws first hand before the flaw becomes an implication on a potentially revolutionary new innovation. Structural analysis will also result from seeing an idea transformed into a 3D model as if it actually exists already as a prototype.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Identify settings ideal for this hub - May 2015</li>
<li>Identify the surroundings that could fuel it - October 2015</li>
<li>Estimate the amount of time and resources needed to construct it - January 2016</li>
<li>Get peer opinion and appeal - February 2016</li>
<li>Invest or acquire the necessary items - May 2016</li>
<li>Complete the construction of this “visual idea center” - 2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Have a Workshop that Introduces Students to New and Upcoming Platforms in Technology and Design by Having Corporate Leaders Discuss and Display Upcoming Modern Innovations, While also Connecting Them with a Relative Project Framework and Potential Sponsors. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>If students could be immersed with realities of innovation in relation to how our modern world is advancing, they could better understand the potential they have as future leaders and entrepreneurs alongside seeing firsthand what’s upcoming and how drastically these innovations can shape our future from the corporations point of view. Once students have the picture in their mind of the invention, they will think about what this will do for them in their everyday lives. Having a power figure in business or industry come and and talk ill give students the “once in a lifetime” experience feeling, they will feel as they have been given the gift of special knowledge and gain a sense of an entrepreneurial “destiny”. An ideal setting for this workshop would be an area on campus that already drives entrepreneurship and has constant student activity, such as the Idea Shop or the Stuart School of Business. If the students are left with a framework, they can better prioritize all the individual efforts involved with a project and set benchmarks to ensure they stay on top of what needs to ba accomplished in the cmoing months or years. With the tools to build bigger and better ideas in front of them, a student who has easy access to using them will realize the major opportunity right at hand. The sponsor will also be looked up to as a role model for the students, showing students that even ideas forming from the most far-out dreams are in reality not far from becoming something much greater.</li>
</ul>

     Milestones:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Identify sponsors and leaders who create suitable products or have created a meaningful invention-May 2015</li>
<li>Identify an ideal location on campus-August 2015</li>
<li>Find students who are interested and willing to help set things up-September 2015</li>
<li>Have students test this workshop-January 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop fully built-May 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop in full operation and spurring innovation-January 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #3: Changing Course Curriculum =

== Team Leader: Bart Grabowski ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology we are blessed to have courses that provide hands-on “learning by doing” experiences such as the Interprofessional Projects or IPRO course. However, IPRO courses are primarily reserved for junior and senior level students who have a couple years of knowledge within their respective majors(s). The goal is to implement more entrepreneurial courses in all majors here at IIT to allow a greater balance among course schedules in order for students to benefit after their studies.

=== Tactic 1: Introduction of Entrepreneurship in First Year Courses ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Students at IIT should be exposed to the ideas, principles, and other relevant works that fall under entrepreneurship and design thinking. In a student’s first year, IIT would provide a general course for all majors on what is entrepreneurship and how can it be applicable to your studies. Right off the bat, students will know guidelines to entrepreneurship and can benefit them in determining whether or not exploring entrepreneurship is the right path to go. Testing the waters, so to speak.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - September 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Required Innovation, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurial course(s) in All Majors ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Currently, IIT has implemented entrepreneurial courses in Engineering Management and of course Business. Students of all majors are allowed to take courses at the Stuart School of Business, but only count as elective courses. Essentially, IIT would implement courses that are innovation/entrepreneurial specific in the major that the student is studying. Courses would be structured from a learning-by doing basis and instructors would act as guidance for students. One important target point is that each department will structure such courses based upon the principles of the major and how entrepreneurship should be applied.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - May 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - June 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - November 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017 (subject to change)</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Illinois Institute of Technology should encourage students to become more entrepreneurial driven for them be able to create the next successful product, service, and or idea. One way IIT could do this is apply school credit to entrepreneurial ventures. Students would receive additional credit for their projects and would allow for a greater balance among student schedules. Students would be able to manage their time more wisely because their ‘ventures’ would be recognized by the university and would be credited to their degree.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - December 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017, 2017-2018</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #4: Leadership Seminars and Conferences Required by Course Instructors and Engineering Departments =

== Strategy Leader: Syeda Fatima ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology, there are various and some what random leadership seminars held throughout  the year on campus. Most of these leadership events are hosted by The Leadership Academy whose main target audience are its own Leadership Scholars, and the rest of the student population is forgotten. Even though these seminars are open to everywhere, most of the students who attend are the Leadership Scholars themselves, since it is a required component for remaining a scholar. After much research, I found that the speakers come from entrepreneurial backgrounds and can help in better IIT’s overall ecosystem. Therefore, the best way to get all students to attend these is by making them apart of the major curriculum. Students will be required to attend these seminars and in return receive a grade for them in their design related major courses.  Furthermore, engineering curriculums should also require their students to attend a conference or lecture during their undergraduate career which will help them gain a better grasp on entrepreneurship and innovation.

=== Tactic 1: IPRO 397 and 497 Make Attending at Least One of the Leadership Academy’s Monthly Seminars a Required Component of the Course. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>IPROs at IIT are designed to introduce students to concepts of design thinking and product design. However, these courses don’t provide any guidance for launching their product or concept on the course ends. This is where the Leadership Academy’s seminars come in. The speakers are these seminar are usually entrepreneurs themselves and their lectures cover topics such as ethics and  how-to-lectures on launching good leadership in your work/university place. Making this a required course component will help students in taking the first step to becoming entrepreneurs</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target courses who will be required to integrate these seminars into their curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific seminars which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with Leadership Academy to coordinate with IPRO curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist is tailoring speakers to fit the needs to the university Ecosystem- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: All Engineering Departments Should Make it Required for Students to Attend at Least Both One Entrepreneurial/ Innovation Themed Conference and Lecture Their Undergraduate Years. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>IIT engineering programs offer various levels of design classes during a student’s senior year of college. However, the students just speed through these classes in order to finish the requirement and graduate, there isn’t much learning going on. Therefore, departments should make it required for students to attend one conference and lecture related to their major. These conferences (such as the RSNA for biomedical engineers) offer tons of knowledge and learning experiences for students which they won’t receive in the classroom. For example, the RSNA features the newest in MRI and Ultrasound machines as well as innovation opportunities for undergrads, to assist these companies through internships.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target lectures/ conferences that engineering professor  will be required to integrate into their course curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific conferences or lectures  which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring conferences and lectures  to fit the needs of the students - July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: Each Engineering Department Should Create at Least One Entrepreneurial and Innovation Based Course specific to Their Department. ===
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<li>For example, biomedical engineering will have an entrepreneurial course which will teach students how to patent, launch and design their ideas. Since the goal of engineering is to innovate and design a better world, engineering graduates will most likely at least once in their careers encounter a situation in which they will need to design something. Thus, these engineers should have some prior knowledge as to how to go about launching and implementing their product. Taking a course doing their undergraduate years which teaches them just that will be extremely useful.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum- April 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring an entrepreneurial course to fit the needs of the students -May to July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this new course during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

= Strategy #5 Pegasus Crowdfunding Network =

Fellow on Point: Gabriel Conners

Pegasus is a crowdfunding network built on the momentum of an ecosystem of social support for student ideas. In our landscape canvass of 2015 at the Illinois Institute of Technology(IIT), we found a bell curve of support for innovation and entrepreneurship, where we had good opportunities in the areas of learning and experimenting, while we were found lacking in the outer categories of discovery, pursuit, and spin out. The ultimate and simple goal of Pegasus is to provide students with seed funding for their ideas, thus bolstering our ability to pursue ideas. In order to make this platform sustainable and highly visible, it must hold a foundation of self volunteering of content and a vibrant peer-to-peer idea exchange. This system of exchange will then contribute to the culture of discovery for innovation and entrepreneurship at IIT.
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== Laying the Foundation of Storytelling ==
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=== Tactic 1: Achieve Visibility of Student Innovators (03/2015) ===
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<li>Identify and promote the innovative research, projects, and entrepreneurship currently happening on campus.<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Innovation Spotlights: weekly posting highlighting one student or team’s work<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Online Spotlight blog created and shared through popular IIT digital channels (Facebook groups, twitter posts, communications emails, MyIIT Student Portal)</li>
<li>Spotlight Posters in every building on campus</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>
=== Tactic 2: Crowdsource Idea Promotion, Achieve Sustainable Storytelling (08/2015) ===
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<li>Establish the culture and mechanisms that promote individuals to self-volunteer and share their “creative edge.”<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Create and promote a public use “hastag” for all campus innovation and entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Solicit student suggestions for Spotlight features</li>
<li>Create live feed of student-submitted(or tagged) data</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>
== The Idea Exchange ==
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=== Tactic 3: Launch Platform to Facilitate Conversations on Student Ideas (Pegasus Idea Exchange) (10/2015) ===
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<li>Students can volunteer their ideas and projects and then comment, share, or otherwise have conversations on other student postings.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>
=== Tactic 4: Add “Needs and Resource” Database (1/2016) ===
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<li>Students can more easily navigate and contribute input to ideas that solicit their skills or interests.</li>
</ul></li>
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=== Tactic 5: Add Team Formation Functionality (1/2016) ===
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<li>Students collaborating on the Pegasus Exchange can form teams to more intensively critique and construct ideas.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>
== A Horse and its Wings ==
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=== Tactic 6: Partner with or Build a Crowdfunding Platform into Pegasus (8/2016) ===
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<li>Leverage the social sharing community of Pegasus to promote ideas to broader funding bases. (Alumni, faculty, family, businesses, communities)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>
=== Tactic 7: Relationship Matching Algorithm (1/2017) ===

= Strategy #6: Competitions that involve I&E and symposiums that give an insight to students of the early stages of a startup. =

== Strategy Leader: Faizan Ahmad ==

Objective: College is the place to make big changes in life. Students know that the job market is evolving. A lot of students do not want to work on a 9 to 5 job. A lot of students want to be entrepreneurs and have businesses of their own. However, they face problems in the early stages of their businesses. Our objective is to provide them an insight of how work is done in a professional environment. The purpose is to let them know what steps they need to take and what type of management they need to perform when commencing their businesses and startups. For instance, competitions like Startup, Pitch competitions, Lean Startup competitions and Hackathons will help them learn how they need to perform proactively within a team. This will help them understand how they should organize their efforts while developing a product. Symposiums are very important too. We could have somebody like Balaji Srinivasan come in and explain to students what he learnt about the early stages of his startup. This will make it easier to understand what procedures do entrepreneurs go through when starting a business. They can communicate their ideas and understand how entrepreneurs perform risk-analysis. This is essential as the first step is one of the hardest ones for any business.

=== Tactic 1: Make attending such symposiums highly recommended and mandatory for those who are part of the entrepreneurship and related society on campus. ===

=== Tactic 2: Plan multiple competitions (HackIIT, Lean Startup at IIT) to be hosted by the University. ===
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<li>Develop a relationship matching algorithm to streamline student-idea discovery and team formation.</li>
<li>Integrate an Alumni interest database into Pegasus to improve relationship matching between student ideas and Alumni monies.</li>
<li>Map out interests and social missions of businesses to build into relationship matching algorithm so students know what organizations to target in solicitation of funding.</li>
<li>Entrepreneurship societies on campus, like College Entrepreneurial Organization at IIT, are a very effective way to communicating with students and allowing them to be part of related events. Introducing students to the symposiums is very important since students get a lot of information.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of targeted speakers who will come in for the symposiums -April 2015</li>
<li>Setting up dates of the events to be held.-May 2015</li>
<li>Informing the boards of the societies and clubs of the information of upcoming symposiums and convincing them make the attendance mandatory.-June 2015</li>
<li>Working with the leadership academy to coordinate the events.- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the event- August 2015</li>
<li>Get survey to see how students feel about this- October to December 2015</li>
</ul></li>
<li>There are many societies at IIT that who attract students. The competitions can be coordinated with  the help of the member of the societies. IIT has a great facility i.e The Idea Shop which acts as a working space and an incubator for IIT students. The Idea Shop can be used as the venue for such competitions. Companies like Microsoft and Ciscohave sponsored Hackathons in the past. Students can also get their technology to work with.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Setting up the budget and dates for the events to be hosted and presenting it to the student board to be approved-April 2015</li>
<li>Contacting the companies and convince them for sponsorship.-May 2015</li>
<li>Approach the organizations to convince them to volunteer for the events.-June 2015</li>
<li>Work with different departments to reserve spaces for event to be held and coordinate the events.-July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the events - August 2015</li>
<li>Get surveys and reviews by the students of how they feel about the events.- October to November 2015 </li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

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= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowsk http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

Fellow:Gabriel Conners

2015-02-14T03:11:47Z

Gconners:

[[File:GabrielConners.jpg|thumb|GabrielConners.jpg]]

I am Gabriel Conners, a Unversity Innovation Fellow from the Spring 2015 cohort and a student of “creativity as currency.” With a passion to empower the epic in everyone, I attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, nestled in the south of Chicago’s urban core. In 2009, I took a five-year hiatus from the rigors of academia to explore a nagging reality that I can best sum up as “why do people live apathetic and uninspired lives?” I came to see that the most satisfied people were either pursuing a passion or at peace with life(or both!).

This journey has led me to Illinois Tech, where I study Social and Economic Development Policy and work with the University Innovation Fellows, the IIT Student Government, and the office of Student Access, Success, and Diversity Initiatives to reform the culture of campus to better nurture creative passions. My life’s mission involves seeing this kind of culture shift spill over into surrounding communities, so that education institutions drive creative revolutions in their neighborhoods.

In my spare time, I love to romance things: sunsets, trees, architectural masterpieces, symphonies, blackberry cobblers, fractals, you name it! There is beauty in everything. I mostly express my soul through poetry and song, though I certainly let my feet give way to the occasional dance. My favorite gems in this world are my nephews: 1 and 3 years old. They remind me of the importance of relationships and the unlimited potential within each of us.

I’d love to know about your passions and to explore opportunities for collaboration; how can I help you realize your dreams? Find me @GabrielConners and GabrielConners@gmail.com

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== Related Links ==

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

Fellow:Gabriel Conners

2015-02-14T03:11:16Z

Gconners:

[[File:GabrielConners.jpg|thumb]]

I am Gabriel Conners, a Unversity Innovation Fellow from the 2015 cohort and a student of “creativity as currency.” With a passion to empower the epic in everyone, I attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, nestled in the south of Chicago’s urban core. In 2009, I took a five-year hiatus from the rigors of academia to explore a nagging reality that I can best sum up as “why do people live apathetic and uninspired lives?” I came to see that the most satisfied people were either pursuing a passion or at peace with life(or both!).

This journey has led me to Illinois Tech, where I study Social and Economic Development Policy and work with the University Innovation Fellows, the IIT Student Government, and the office of Student Access, Success, and Diversity Initiatives to reform the culture of campus to better nurture creative passions. My life’s mission involves seeing this kind of culture shift spill over into surrounding communities, so that education institutions drive creative revolutions in their neighborhoods.

In my spare time, I love to romance things: sunsets, trees, architectural masterpieces, symphonies, blackberry cobblers, fractals, you name it! There is beauty in everything. I mostly express my soul through poetry and song, though I certainly let my feet give way to the occasional dance. My favorite gems in this world are my nephews: 1 and 3 years old. They remind me of the importance of relationships and the unlimited potential within each of us.

I’d love to know about your passions and to explore opportunities for collaboration; how can I help you realize your dreams? Find me @GabrielConners and GabrielConners@gmail.com

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== Related Links ==

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad

http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima

http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski

http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas

Priorities:Illinois Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2015-02-14T03:09:04Z

Gconners:

= Overview =

The University Innovation Fellows at Illinois Institute of Technology have discovered ample opportunities to advance our culture and services of innovation and entrepreneurship. Our current 2015 leadership circle of five hold a variety of backgrounds and majors, an advantage that reveals itself in the variety of strategic plans presented below. Informed by our work through the Landscape Canvass, a tool to evaluate the presence and distribution of innovative and entrepreneurial offerings at our university, we have devloped the following strategies to nurture the creative potential of our campus.

= Strategy #1: Finding Methods of Appeal to All Students That Introduce the Potential of Entrepreneurship =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic 1: Integrate a Circuit of Exchange Between Students Throughout Campus ===
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<li>The opportunity to present ideas visually across campus is already available. But with a major focus mainly on only innovative projects that have already been fully developed, mostly through a program with specific guidelines and requirements. The display of a potentially marketable idea to a diverse audience may open up a window for unique feedback and constant advice. And as an entrepreneur would do in the real-world, this type of setting will require the student to develop a model for their product and attempt gain the interest of others for the acquirement of resources and sponsorship for making big change happen with the encouragement of others. This could be in the form of a weekly idea board that follows the theme of scenarios that relate to the experiences students have on campus that are frequent and in need of a solution. It could be an event that provides materials necessary for students to experiment and brainstorm openly while gaining skills in creative thinking, collaboration, and product development. Or it could even be something as simple as a weekly meeting for students and faculty to identify and agree on opportunities to innovate and integrate entrepreneurship into various aspects of campus that have areas in obvious need of improvement, and also could be pictured as evolving from the students viewpoint as a result of entrepreneurial themes.</li>
</ul>

'' Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Investigation of target points of impact: completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience: completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - May 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - October 2015</li>
<li>Building on our original idea - January 2016</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: An Interdisciplinary Course That Utilizes Current Events or Workplace Scenarios ===
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<li>The impact of a course that teaches students to think of solutions relative to what today's world demands and to acknowledge the expectations in a actual job setting could prove highly beneficial. The benefits could range from increased student motivation and excitement for fulfilling career goals to a deeper understanding of the importance of new ideas in bettering the systems and environments relative to the students’ major which will fuel the future. The collaboration involved will also put an important emphasis on the importance of peer feedback and consideration of others ideas to come to the most practical solutions. When the students ideas are tested in project form, they will also come to the realization of how crucial it is to search out potential flaws and acknowledge previous failures to learn what methods to avoid and how to design under constraints and specific techniques. This will provide training geared towards overcoming implications and meeting modern day performance standards. This will ultimately provide a bridge from college to the real-world.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Curriculum overview:Talk with professors and identify an ideal classroom set-up to shape this course - March 2015</li>
<li>Discussion with sponsors and team members who are optimistic about the benefits of this course type - May 2015</li>
<li>Brainstorm a curriculum - October 2015</li>
<li>identify candidates of interest for this course - January 2016</li>
<li>Open up the idea to create awareness - February 2016</li>
<li>Launch a course following the set-up described - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: A Technological Platform That Serves an Important Function in On Campus-Life ===
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<li>An implementation of a network for the ease and benefit of students that carries easy accessibility and handles a multitude of functions could be appraised by any student.  This could potentially be a platform for information storage, scheduling and reminders, and even an idea pool for campus events, study strategies, and social gatherings. This could also be a good aid for helping keeping students notified about what’s been happening in the college community and easier awareness can be spread like wildfire about situations that demand immediate attention and action. Acknowledging the successful study strategies of  others  through a feedback loop could enhance the learning experience and give struggling students hope in finding new methods to help them gain a deeper understanding in abstract academic material.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Get public appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Define the primary function - May 2015</li>
<li>Acknowledge the set up - October 2015</li>
<li>Join with others to put things together - March 2016</li>
<li>Notify the target audience - April 2016</li>
<li>Fully implement the platform - 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #2: Introduction of New Infrastructure =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic 1: Create a Hub in the Heart of an Area on Campus that Provides an Adaptable Environment that Allows Planning and Experimentation ===
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<li>If students could have a special zone on campus were an abundance and immediate access to tools for diagramming and mapping out future plans, students could greatly strengthen their powers of visual observation and display in a form that could also relay back to others who are intrigued by what they see in the ideas. This will also emphasize the importance of scaling products or ideas into the right size category and seeing design flaws first hand before the flaw becomes an implication on a potentially revolutionary new innovation. Structural analysis will also result from seeing an idea transformed into a 3D model as if it actually exists already as a prototype.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Identify settings ideal for this hub - May 2015</li>
<li>Identify the surroundings that could fuel it - October 2015</li>
<li>Estimate the amount of time and resources needed to construct it - January 2016</li>
<li>Get peer opinion and appeal - February 2016</li>
<li>Invest or acquire the necessary items - May 2016</li>
<li>Complete the construction of this “visual idea center” - 2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Have a Workshop that Introduces Students to New and Upcoming Platforms in Technology and Design by Having Corporate Leaders Discuss and Display Upcoming Modern Innovations, While also Connecting Them with a Relative Project Framework and Potential Sponsors. ===
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<li>If students could be immersed with realities of innovation in relation to how our modern world is advancing, they could better understand the potential they have as future leaders and entrepreneurs alongside seeing firsthand what’s upcoming and how drastically these innovations can shape our future from the corporations point of view. Once students have the picture in their mind of the invention, they will think about what this will do for them in their everyday lives. Having a power figure in business or industry come and and talk ill give students the “once in a lifetime” experience feeling, they will feel as they have been given the gift of special knowledge and gain a sense of an entrepreneurial “destiny”. An ideal setting for this workshop would be an area on campus that already drives entrepreneurship and has constant student activity, such as the Idea Shop or the Stuart School of Business. If the students are left with a framework, they can better prioritize all the individual efforts involved with a project and set benchmarks to ensure they stay on top of what needs to ba accomplished in the cmoing months or years. With the tools to build bigger and better ideas in front of them, a student who has easy access to using them will realize the major opportunity right at hand. The sponsor will also be looked up to as a role model for the students, showing students that even ideas forming from the most far-out dreams are in reality not far from becoming something much greater.</li>
</ul>

     Milestones:
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<li>Identify sponsors and leaders who create suitable products or have created a meaningful invention-May 2015</li>
<li>Identify an ideal location on campus-August 2015</li>
<li>Find students who are interested and willing to help set things up-September 2015</li>
<li>Have students test this workshop-January 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop fully built-May 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop in full operation and spurring innovation-January 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #3: Changing Course Curriculum =

== Team Leader: Bart Grabowski ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology we are blessed to have courses that provide hands-on “learning by doing” experiences such as the Interprofessional Projects or IPRO course. However, IPRO courses are primarily reserved for junior and senior level students who have a couple years of knowledge within their respective majors(s). The goal is to implement more entrepreneurial courses in all majors here at IIT to allow a greater balance among course schedules in order for students to benefit after their studies.

=== Tactic 1: Introduction of Entrepreneurship in First Year Courses ===
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<li>Students at IIT should be exposed to the ideas, principles, and other relevant works that fall under entrepreneurship and design thinking. In a student’s first year, IIT would provide a general course for all majors on what is entrepreneurship and how can it be applicable to your studies. Right off the bat, students will know guidelines to entrepreneurship and can benefit them in determining whether or not exploring entrepreneurship is the right path to go. Testing the waters, so to speak.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - September 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Required Innovation, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurial course(s) in All Majors ===
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<li>Currently, IIT has implemented entrepreneurial courses in Engineering Management and of course Business. Students of all majors are allowed to take courses at the Stuart School of Business, but only count as elective courses. Essentially, IIT would implement courses that are innovation/entrepreneurial specific in the major that the student is studying. Courses would be structured from a learning-by doing basis and instructors would act as guidance for students. One important target point is that each department will structure such courses based upon the principles of the major and how entrepreneurship should be applied.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - May 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - June 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - November 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017 (subject to change)</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due ===
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<li>Illinois Institute of Technology should encourage students to become more entrepreneurial driven for them be able to create the next successful product, service, and or idea. One way IIT could do this is apply school credit to entrepreneurial ventures. Students would receive additional credit for their projects and would allow for a greater balance among student schedules. Students would be able to manage their time more wisely because their ‘ventures’ would be recognized by the university and would be credited to their degree.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - December 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017, 2017-2018</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #4: Leadership Seminars and Conferences Required by Course Instructors and Engineering Departments =

== Strategy Leader: Syeda Fatima ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology, there are various and some what random leadership seminars held throughout  the year on campus. Most of these leadership events are hosted by The Leadership Academy whose main target audience are its own Leadership Scholars, and the rest of the student population is forgotten. Even though these seminars are open to everywhere, most of the students who attend are the Leadership Scholars themselves, since it is a required component for remaining a scholar. After much research, I found that the speakers come from entrepreneurial backgrounds and can help in better IIT’s overall ecosystem. Therefore, the best way to get all students to attend these is by making them apart of the major curriculum. Students will be required to attend these seminars and in return receive a grade for them in their design related major courses.  Furthermore, engineering curriculums should also require their students to attend a conference or lecture during their undergraduate career which will help them gain a better grasp on entrepreneurship and innovation.

=== Tactic 1: IPRO 397 and 497 Make Attending at Least One of the Leadership Academy’s Monthly Seminars a Required Component of the Course. ===
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<li>IPROs at IIT are designed to introduce students to concepts of design thinking and product design. However, these courses don’t provide any guidance for launching their product or concept on the course ends. This is where the Leadership Academy’s seminars come in. The speakers are these seminar are usually entrepreneurs themselves and their lectures cover topics such as ethics and  how-to-lectures on launching good leadership in your work/university place. Making this a required course component will help students in taking the first step to becoming entrepreneurs</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target courses who will be required to integrate these seminars into their curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific seminars which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with Leadership Academy to coordinate with IPRO curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist is tailoring speakers to fit the needs to the university Ecosystem- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: All Engineering Departments Should Make it Required for Students to Attend at Least Both One Entrepreneurial/ Innovation Themed Conference and Lecture Their Undergraduate Years. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>IIT engineering programs offer various levels of design classes during a student’s senior year of college. However, the students just speed through these classes in order to finish the requirement and graduate, there isn’t much learning going on. Therefore, departments should make it required for students to attend one conference and lecture related to their major. These conferences (such as the RSNA for biomedical engineers) offer tons of knowledge and learning experiences for students which they won’t receive in the classroom. For example, the RSNA features the newest in MRI and Ultrasound machines as well as innovation opportunities for undergrads, to assist these companies through internships.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target lectures/ conferences that engineering professor  will be required to integrate into their course curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific conferences or lectures  which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring conferences and lectures  to fit the needs of the students - July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: Each Engineering Department Should Create at Least One Entrepreneurial and Innovation Based Course specific to Their Department. ===
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<li>For example, biomedical engineering will have an entrepreneurial course which will teach students how to patent, launch and design their ideas. Since the goal of engineering is to innovate and design a better world, engineering graduates will most likely at least once in their careers encounter a situation in which they will need to design something. Thus, these engineers should have some prior knowledge as to how to go about launching and implementing their product. Taking a course doing their undergraduate years which teaches them just that will be extremely useful.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum- April 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring an entrepreneurial course to fit the needs of the students -May to July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this new course during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

= Strategy #5 Pegasus Crowdfunding Network =

Fellow on Point: Gabriel Conners

Pegasus is a crowdfunding network built on the momentum of an ecosystem of social support for student ideas. In our landscape canvass of 2015 at the Illinois Institute of Technology(IIT), we found a bell curve of support for innovation and entrepreneurship, where we had good opportunities in the areas of learning and experimenting, while we were found lacking in the outer categories of discovery, pursuit, and spin out. The ultimate and simple goal of Pegasus is to provide students with seed funding for their ideas, thus bolstering our ability to pursue ideas. In order to make this platform sustainable and highly visible, it must hold a foundation of self volunteering of content and a vibrant peer-to-peer idea exchange. This system of exchange will then contribute to the culture of discovery for innovation and entrepreneurship at IIT.
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>
== Laying the Foundation of Storytelling ==
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>
=== Tactic 1: Achieve Visibility of Student Innovators (03/2015) ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Identify and promote the innovative research, projects, and entrepreneurship currently happening on campus.<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Innovation Spotlights: weekly posting highlighting one student or team’s work<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Online Spotlight blog created and shared through popular IIT digital channels (Facebook groups, twitter posts, communications emails, MyIIT Student Portal)</li>
<li>Spotlight Posters in every building on campus</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>
=== Tactic 2: Crowdsource Idea Promotion, Achieve Sustainable Storytelling (08/2015) ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Establish the culture and mechanisms that promote individuals to self-volunteer and share their “creative edge.”<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Create and promote a public use “hastag” for all campus innovation and entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Solicit student suggestions for Spotlight features</li>
<li>Create live feed of student-submitted(or tagged) data</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>
== The Idea Exchange ==
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<li>
=== Tactic 3: Launch Platform to Facilitate Conversations on Student Ideas (Pegasus Idea Exchange) (10/2015) ===
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<li>Students can volunteer their ideas and projects and then comment, share, or otherwise have conversations on other student postings.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>
=== Tactic 4: Add “Needs and Resource” Database (1/2016) ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Students can more easily navigate and contribute input to ideas that solicit their skills or interests.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>
=== Tactic 5: Add Team Formation Functionality (1/2016) ===
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<li>Students collaborating on the Pegasus Exchange can form teams to more intensively critique and construct ideas.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>
== A Horse and its Wings ==
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<li>
=== Tactic 6: Partner with or Build a Crowdfunding Platform into Pegasus (8/2016) ===
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<li>Leverage the social sharing community of Pegasus to promote ideas to broader funding bases. (Alumni, faculty, family, businesses, communities)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>
=== Tactic 7: Relationship Matching Algorithm (1/2017) ===

= Strategy #6: Competitions that involve I&E and symposiums that give an insight to students of the early stages of a startup. =

== Strategy Leader: Faizan Ahmad ==

Objective: College is the place to make big changes in life. Students know that the job market is evolving. A lot of students do not want to work on a 9 to 5 job. A lot of students want to be entrepreneurs and have businesses of their own. However, they face problems in the early stages of their businesses. Our objective is to provide them an insight of how work is done in a professional environment. The purpose is to let them know what steps they need to take and what type of management they need to perform when commencing their businesses and startups. For instance, competitions like Startup, Pitch competitions, Lean Startup competitions and Hackathons will help them learn how they need to perform proactively within a team. This will help them understand how they should organize their efforts while developing a product. Symposiums are very important too. We could have somebody like Balaji Srinivasan come in and explain to students what he learnt about the early stages of his startup. This will make it easier to understand what procedures do entrepreneurs go through when starting a business. They can communicate their ideas and understand how entrepreneurs perform risk-analysis. This is essential as the first step is one of the hardest ones for any business.

=== Tactic 1: Make attending such symposiums highly recommended and mandatory for those who are part of the entrepreneurship and related society on campus. ===

=== Tactic 2: Plan multiple competitions (HackIIT, Lean Startup at IIT) to be hosted by the University. ===
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<li>Develop a relationship matching algorithm to streamline student-idea discovery and team formation.</li>
<li>Integrate an Alumni interest database into Pegasus to improve relationship matching between student ideas and Alumni monies.</li>
<li>Map out interests and social missions of businesses to build into relationship matching algorithm so students know what organizations to target in solicitation of funding.</li>
<li>Entrepreneurship societies on campus, like College Entrepreneurial Organization at IIT, are a very effective way to communicating with students and allowing them to be part of related events. Introducing students to the symposiums is very important since students get a lot of information.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of targeted speakers who will come in for the symposiums -April 2015</li>
<li>Setting up dates of the events to be held.-May 2015</li>
<li>Informing the boards of the societies and clubs of the information of upcoming symposiums and convincing them make the attendance mandatory.-June 2015</li>
<li>Working with the leadership academy to coordinate the events.- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the event- August 2015</li>
<li>Get survey to see how students feel about this- October to December 2015</li>
</ul></li>
<li>There are many societies at IIT that who attract students. The competitions can be coordinated with  the help of the member of the societies. IIT has a great facility i.e The Idea Shop which acts as a working space and an incubator for IIT students. The Idea Shop can be used as the venue for such competitions. Companies like Microsoft and Ciscohave sponsored Hackathons in the past. Students can also get their technology to work with.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Setting up the budget and dates for the events to be hosted and presenting it to the student board to be approved-April 2015</li>
<li>Contacting the companies and convince them for sponsorship.-May 2015</li>
<li>Approach the organizations to convince them to volunteer for the events.-June 2015</li>
<li>Work with different departments to reserve spaces for event to be held and coordinate the events.-July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the events - August 2015</li>
<li>Get surveys and reviews by the students of how they feel about the events.- October to November 2015 </li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

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= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology]

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowsk http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowsk]i

http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

Priorities:Illinois Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2015-02-14T03:08:41Z

Gconners:

= Overview =

The University Innovation Fellows at Illinois Institute of Technology have discovered ample opportunities to advance our culture and services of innovation and entrepreneurship. Our current 2015 leadership circle of five hold a variety of backgrounds and majors, an advantage that reveals itself in the variety of strategic plans presented below. Informed by our work through the Landscape Canvass, a tool to evaluate the presence and distribution of innovative and entrepreneurial offerings at our university, we have devloped the following strategies to nurture the creative potential of our campus.

= Strategy #1: Finding Methods of Appeal to All Students That Introduce the Potential of Entrepreneurship =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic 1: Integrate a Circuit of Exchange Between Students Throughout Campus ===
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<li>The opportunity to present ideas visually across campus is already available. But with a major focus mainly on only innovative projects that have already been fully developed, mostly through a program with specific guidelines and requirements. The display of a potentially marketable idea to a diverse audience may open up a window for unique feedback and constant advice. And as an entrepreneur would do in the real-world, this type of setting will require the student to develop a model for their product and attempt gain the interest of others for the acquirement of resources and sponsorship for making big change happen with the encouragement of others. This could be in the form of a weekly idea board that follows the theme of scenarios that relate to the experiences students have on campus that are frequent and in need of a solution. It could be an event that provides materials necessary for students to experiment and brainstorm openly while gaining skills in creative thinking, collaboration, and product development. Or it could even be something as simple as a weekly meeting for students and faculty to identify and agree on opportunities to innovate and integrate entrepreneurship into various aspects of campus that have areas in obvious need of improvement, and also could be pictured as evolving from the students viewpoint as a result of entrepreneurial themes.</li>
</ul>

'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact: completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience: completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - May 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - October 2015</li>
<li>Building on our original idea - January 2016</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: An Interdisciplinary Course That Utilizes Current Events or Workplace Scenarios ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>The impact of a course that teaches students to think of solutions relative to what today's world demands and to acknowledge the expectations in a actual job setting could prove highly beneficial. The benefits could range from increased student motivation and excitement for fulfilling career goals to a deeper understanding of the importance of new ideas in bettering the systems and environments relative to the students’ major which will fuel the future. The collaboration involved will also put an important emphasis on the importance of peer feedback and consideration of others ideas to come to the most practical solutions. When the students ideas are tested in project form, they will also come to the realization of how crucial it is to search out potential flaws and acknowledge previous failures to learn what methods to avoid and how to design under constraints and specific techniques. This will provide training geared towards overcoming implications and meeting modern day performance standards. This will ultimately provide a bridge from college to the real-world.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Curriculum overview:Talk with professors and identify an ideal classroom set-up to shape this course - March 2015</li>
<li>Discussion with sponsors and team members who are optimistic about the benefits of this course type - May 2015</li>
<li>Brainstorm a curriculum - October 2015</li>
<li>identify candidates of interest for this course - January 2016</li>
<li>Open up the idea to create awareness - February 2016</li>
<li>Launch a course following the set-up described - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: A Technological Platform That Serves an Important Function in On Campus-Life ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>An implementation of a network for the ease and benefit of students that carries easy accessibility and handles a multitude of functions could be appraised by any student.  This could potentially be a platform for information storage, scheduling and reminders, and even an idea pool for campus events, study strategies, and social gatherings. This could also be a good aid for helping keeping students notified about what’s been happening in the college community and easier awareness can be spread like wildfire about situations that demand immediate attention and action. Acknowledging the successful study strategies of  others  through a feedback loop could enhance the learning experience and give struggling students hope in finding new methods to help them gain a deeper understanding in abstract academic material.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Get public appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Define the primary function - May 2015</li>
<li>Acknowledge the set up - October 2015</li>
<li>Join with others to put things together - March 2016</li>
<li>Notify the target audience - April 2016</li>
<li>Fully implement the platform - 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #2: Introduction of New Infrastructure =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic 1: Create a Hub in the Heart of an Area on Campus that Provides an Adaptable Environment that Allows Planning and Experimentation ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>If students could have a special zone on campus were an abundance and immediate access to tools for diagramming and mapping out future plans, students could greatly strengthen their powers of visual observation and display in a form that could also relay back to others who are intrigued by what they see in the ideas. This will also emphasize the importance of scaling products or ideas into the right size category and seeing design flaws first hand before the flaw becomes an implication on a potentially revolutionary new innovation. Structural analysis will also result from seeing an idea transformed into a 3D model as if it actually exists already as a prototype.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Identify settings ideal for this hub - May 2015</li>
<li>Identify the surroundings that could fuel it - October 2015</li>
<li>Estimate the amount of time and resources needed to construct it - January 2016</li>
<li>Get peer opinion and appeal - February 2016</li>
<li>Invest or acquire the necessary items - May 2016</li>
<li>Complete the construction of this “visual idea center” - 2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Have a Workshop that Introduces Students to New and Upcoming Platforms in Technology and Design by Having Corporate Leaders Discuss and Display Upcoming Modern Innovations, While also Connecting Them with a Relative Project Framework and Potential Sponsors. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>If students could be immersed with realities of innovation in relation to how our modern world is advancing, they could better understand the potential they have as future leaders and entrepreneurs alongside seeing firsthand what’s upcoming and how drastically these innovations can shape our future from the corporations point of view. Once students have the picture in their mind of the invention, they will think about what this will do for them in their everyday lives. Having a power figure in business or industry come and and talk ill give students the “once in a lifetime” experience feeling, they will feel as they have been given the gift of special knowledge and gain a sense of an entrepreneurial “destiny”. An ideal setting for this workshop would be an area on campus that already drives entrepreneurship and has constant student activity, such as the Idea Shop or the Stuart School of Business. If the students are left with a framework, they can better prioritize all the individual efforts involved with a project and set benchmarks to ensure they stay on top of what needs to ba accomplished in the cmoing months or years. With the tools to build bigger and better ideas in front of them, a student who has easy access to using them will realize the major opportunity right at hand. The sponsor will also be looked up to as a role model for the students, showing students that even ideas forming from the most far-out dreams are in reality not far from becoming something much greater.</li>
</ul>

     Milestones:
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<li>Identify sponsors and leaders who create suitable products or have created a meaningful invention-May 2015</li>
<li>Identify an ideal location on campus-August 2015</li>
<li>Find students who are interested and willing to help set things up-September 2015</li>
<li>Have students test this workshop-January 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop fully built-May 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop in full operation and spurring innovation-January 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #3: Changing Course Curriculum =

== Team Leader: Bart Grabowski ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology we are blessed to have courses that provide hands-on “learning by doing” experiences such as the Interprofessional Projects or IPRO course. However, IPRO courses are primarily reserved for junior and senior level students who have a couple years of knowledge within their respective majors(s). The goal is to implement more entrepreneurial courses in all majors here at IIT to allow a greater balance among course schedules in order for students to benefit after their studies.

=== Tactic 1: Introduction of Entrepreneurship in First Year Courses ===
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<li>Students at IIT should be exposed to the ideas, principles, and other relevant works that fall under entrepreneurship and design thinking. In a student’s first year, IIT would provide a general course for all majors on what is entrepreneurship and how can it be applicable to your studies. Right off the bat, students will know guidelines to entrepreneurship and can benefit them in determining whether or not exploring entrepreneurship is the right path to go. Testing the waters, so to speak.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - September 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: Required Innovation, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurial course(s) in All Majors ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Currently, IIT has implemented entrepreneurial courses in Engineering Management and of course Business. Students of all majors are allowed to take courses at the Stuart School of Business, but only count as elective courses. Essentially, IIT would implement courses that are innovation/entrepreneurial specific in the major that the student is studying. Courses would be structured from a learning-by doing basis and instructors would act as guidance for students. One important target point is that each department will structure such courses based upon the principles of the major and how entrepreneurship should be applied.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - May 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - June 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - November 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017 (subject to change)</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Illinois Institute of Technology should encourage students to become more entrepreneurial driven for them be able to create the next successful product, service, and or idea. One way IIT could do this is apply school credit to entrepreneurial ventures. Students would receive additional credit for their projects and would allow for a greater balance among student schedules. Students would be able to manage their time more wisely because their ‘ventures’ would be recognized by the university and would be credited to their degree.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - December 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017, 2017-2018</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #4: Leadership Seminars and Conferences Required by Course Instructors and Engineering Departments =

== Strategy Leader: Syeda Fatima ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology, there are various and some what random leadership seminars held throughout  the year on campus. Most of these leadership events are hosted by The Leadership Academy whose main target audience are its own Leadership Scholars, and the rest of the student population is forgotten. Even though these seminars are open to everywhere, most of the students who attend are the Leadership Scholars themselves, since it is a required component for remaining a scholar. After much research, I found that the speakers come from entrepreneurial backgrounds and can help in better IIT’s overall ecosystem. Therefore, the best way to get all students to attend these is by making them apart of the major curriculum. Students will be required to attend these seminars and in return receive a grade for them in their design related major courses.  Furthermore, engineering curriculums should also require their students to attend a conference or lecture during their undergraduate career which will help them gain a better grasp on entrepreneurship and innovation.

=== Tactic 1: IPRO 397 and 497 Make Attending at Least One of the Leadership Academy’s Monthly Seminars a Required Component of the Course. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>IPROs at IIT are designed to introduce students to concepts of design thinking and product design. However, these courses don’t provide any guidance for launching their product or concept on the course ends. This is where the Leadership Academy’s seminars come in. The speakers are these seminar are usually entrepreneurs themselves and their lectures cover topics such as ethics and  how-to-lectures on launching good leadership in your work/university place. Making this a required course component will help students in taking the first step to becoming entrepreneurs</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target courses who will be required to integrate these seminars into their curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific seminars which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with Leadership Academy to coordinate with IPRO curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist is tailoring speakers to fit the needs to the university Ecosystem- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 2: All Engineering Departments Should Make it Required for Students to Attend at Least Both One Entrepreneurial/ Innovation Themed Conference and Lecture Their Undergraduate Years. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>IIT engineering programs offer various levels of design classes during a student’s senior year of college. However, the students just speed through these classes in order to finish the requirement and graduate, there isn’t much learning going on. Therefore, departments should make it required for students to attend one conference and lecture related to their major. These conferences (such as the RSNA for biomedical engineers) offer tons of knowledge and learning experiences for students which they won’t receive in the classroom. For example, the RSNA features the newest in MRI and Ultrasound machines as well as innovation opportunities for undergrads, to assist these companies through internships.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target lectures/ conferences that engineering professor  will be required to integrate into their course curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific conferences or lectures  which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring conferences and lectures  to fit the needs of the students - July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic 3: Each Engineering Department Should Create at Least One Entrepreneurial and Innovation Based Course specific to Their Department. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>For example, biomedical engineering will have an entrepreneurial course which will teach students how to patent, launch and design their ideas. Since the goal of engineering is to innovate and design a better world, engineering graduates will most likely at least once in their careers encounter a situation in which they will need to design something. Thus, these engineers should have some prior knowledge as to how to go about launching and implementing their product. Taking a course doing their undergraduate years which teaches them just that will be extremely useful.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum- April 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring an entrepreneurial course to fit the needs of the students -May to July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this new course during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

= Strategy #5 Pegasus Crowdfunding Network =

Fellow on Point: Gabriel Conners

Pegasus is a crowdfunding network built on the momentum of an ecosystem of social support for student ideas. In our landscape canvass of 2015 at the Illinois Institute of Technology(IIT), we found a bell curve of support for innovation and entrepreneurship, where we had good opportunities in the areas of learning and experimenting, while we were found lacking in the outer categories of discovery, pursuit, and spin out. The ultimate and simple goal of Pegasus is to provide students with seed funding for their ideas, thus bolstering our ability to pursue ideas. In order to make this platform sustainable and highly visible, it must hold a foundation of self volunteering of content and a vibrant peer-to-peer idea exchange. This system of exchange will then contribute to the culture of discovery for innovation and entrepreneurship at IIT.
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>
== Laying the Foundation of Storytelling ==
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>
=== Tactic 1: Achieve Visibility of Student Innovators (03/2015) ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Identify and promote the innovative research, projects, and entrepreneurship currently happening on campus.<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Innovation Spotlights: weekly posting highlighting one student or team’s work<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Online Spotlight blog created and shared through popular IIT digital channels (Facebook groups, twitter posts, communications emails, MyIIT Student Portal)</li>
<li>Spotlight Posters in every building on campus</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>
=== Tactic 2: Crowdsource Idea Promotion, Achieve Sustainable Storytelling (08/2015) ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Establish the culture and mechanisms that promote individuals to self-volunteer and share their “creative edge.”<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Create and promote a public use “hastag” for all campus innovation and entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Solicit student suggestions for Spotlight features</li>
<li>Create live feed of student-submitted(or tagged) data</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>
== The Idea Exchange ==
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>
=== Tactic 3: Launch Platform to Facilitate Conversations on Student Ideas (Pegasus Idea Exchange) (10/2015) ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Students can volunteer their ideas and projects and then comment, share, or otherwise have conversations on other student postings.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>
=== Tactic 4: Add “Needs and Resource” Database (1/2016) ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Students can more easily navigate and contribute input to ideas that solicit their skills or interests.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>
=== Tactic 5: Add Team Formation Functionality (1/2016) ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Students collaborating on the Pegasus Exchange can form teams to more intensively critique and construct ideas.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>
== A Horse and its Wings ==
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>
=== Tactic 6: Partner with or Build a Crowdfunding Platform into Pegasus (8/2016) ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Leverage the social sharing community of Pegasus to promote ideas to broader funding bases. (Alumni, faculty, family, businesses, communities)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>
=== Tactic 7: Relationship Matching Algorithm (1/2017) ===

= Strategy #6: Competitions that involve I&E and symposiums that give an insight to students of the early stages of a startup. =

== Strategy Leader: Faizan Ahmad ==

Objective: College is the place to make big changes in life. Students know that the job market is evolving. A lot of students do not want to work on a 9 to 5 job. A lot of students want to be entrepreneurs and have businesses of their own. However, they face problems in the early stages of their businesses. Our objective is to provide them an insight of how work is done in a professional environment. The purpose is to let them know what steps they need to take and what type of management they need to perform when commencing their businesses and startups. For instance, competitions like Startup, Pitch competitions, Lean Startup competitions and Hackathons will help them learn how they need to perform proactively within a team. This will help them understand how they should organize their efforts while developing a product. Symposiums are very important too. We could have somebody like Balaji Srinivasan come in and explain to students what he learnt about the early stages of his startup. This will make it easier to understand what procedures do entrepreneurs go through when starting a business. They can communicate their ideas and understand how entrepreneurs perform risk-analysis. This is essential as the first step is one of the hardest ones for any business.

=== Tactic 1: Make attending such symposiums highly recommended and mandatory for those who are part of the entrepreneurship and related society on campus. ===

=== Tactic 2: Plan multiple competitions (HackIIT, Lean Startup at IIT) to be hosted by the University. ===
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Develop a relationship matching algorithm to streamline student-idea discovery and team formation.</li>
<li>Integrate an Alumni interest database into Pegasus to improve relationship matching between student ideas and Alumni monies.</li>
<li>Map out interests and social missions of businesses to build into relationship matching algorithm so students know what organizations to target in solicitation of funding.</li>
<li>Entrepreneurship societies on campus, like College Entrepreneurial Organization at IIT, are a very effective way to communicating with students and allowing them to be part of related events. Introducing students to the symposiums is very important since students get a lot of information.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of targeted speakers who will come in for the symposiums -April 2015</li>
<li>Setting up dates of the events to be held.-May 2015</li>
<li>Informing the boards of the societies and clubs of the information of upcoming symposiums and convincing them make the attendance mandatory.-June 2015</li>
<li>Working with the leadership academy to coordinate the events.- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the event- August 2015</li>
<li>Get survey to see how students feel about this- October to December 2015</li>
</ul></li>
<li>There are many societies at IIT that who attract students. The competitions can be coordinated with  the help of the member of the societies. IIT has a great facility i.e The Idea Shop which acts as a working space and an incubator for IIT students. The Idea Shop can be used as the venue for such competitions. Companies like Microsoft and Ciscohave sponsored Hackathons in the past. Students can also get their technology to work with.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Setting up the budget and dates for the events to be hosted and presenting it to the student board to be approved-April 2015</li>
<li>Contacting the companies and convince them for sponsorship.-May 2015</li>
<li>Approach the organizations to convince them to volunteer for the events.-June 2015</li>
<li>Work with different departments to reserve spaces for event to be held and coordinate the events.-July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the events - August 2015</li>
<li>Get surveys and reviews by the students of how they feel about the events.- October to November 2015 </li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

----

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Campus Overview

http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowsk

ihttp://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners

http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas

http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima

Fellow:Gabriel Conners

2015-02-13T23:49:41Z

Gconners:

[[File:GabrielConners.jpg|thumb|GabrielConners.jpg]]

I am Gabriel Conners, a Unversity Innovation Fellow from the 2015 cohort and a student of “creativity as currency.” With a passion to empower the epic in everyone, I attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, nestled in the south of Chicago’s urban core. In 2009, I took a five-year hiatus from the rigors of academia to explore a nagging reality that I can best sum up as “why do people live apathetic and uninspired lives?” I came to see that the most satisfied people were either pursuing a passion or at peace with life(or both!).

This journey has led me to Illinois Tech, where I study Social and Economic Development Policy and work with the University Innovation Fellows, the IIT Student Government, and the office of Student Access, Success, and Diversity Initiatives to reform the culture of campus to better nurture creative passions. My life’s mission involves seeing this kind of culture shift spill over into surrounding communities, so that education institutions drive creative revolutions in their neighborhoods.

In my spare time, I love to romance things: sunsets, trees, architectural masterpieces, symphonies, blackberry cobblers, fractals, you name it! There is beauty in everything. I mostly express my soul through poetry and song, though I certainly let my feet give way to the occasional dance. My favorite gems in this world are my nephews: 1 and 3 years old. They remind me of the importance of relationships and the unlimited potential within each of us.

I’d love to know about your passions and to explore opportunities for collaboration; how can I help you realize your dreams? Find me @GabrielConners and GabrielConners@gmail.com

School:Illinois Institute of Technology

2015-01-31T05:13:11Z

Gconners:

= Overview [[File:IIT.png|thumb]] =

When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.

The entrepreneurship academy at Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered  the largest resource and center on campus dedicated  to entrepreneurship. Illinois Institute of Technology also partners with many corporate sponsors to help fund events and programs focused on the concepts of both innovation and entrepreneurship.

= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship =

Armour College of Engineering
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>EMGT 363—Creativity, Inventions, and Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists</li>
<li>EMGT 407—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>EMGT 470—Project Management</li>
<li>CHE 506—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
</ul>

Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 341—Business Law for Entrepreneurs in the Modern Global Economy</li>
<li>BUS 361—Entrepreneurial Thinking and Practice</li>
<li>BUS 467—Managing Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Global Marketplace</li>
<li>BUS 472—New Product Development</li>
<li>BUS 468—Creating and Managing the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Enterprise</li>
<li>MBA/EMS 529/PA 550—Social Entrepreneurship</li>
<li>MBA 575—Creativity and Contemporary Entrepreneurial Opportunities</li>
<li>MBA 576—Creating and Financing New Technology Ventures</li>
<li>MSF 594—Entrepreneurial Finance</li>
</ul>

Project Courses Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 102—Computing Tools Bus Analysis</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 103—Ideation: What Are My Interests?</li>
<li>BUS 104—Needs Analysis and Opportunity Analysis Aligned with My Interests</li>
<li>BUS 203—Identification and Evaluation of Prospective Consumers</li>
<li>BUS 204—Identification and Evaluation of Competitive Advantage</li>
<li>BUS 303—Financial Analysis: Pro-Forma Financial Statements</li>
<li>BUS 403—Developing a Strategically Business Plan</li>
<li>BUS 404—Selling Your Business Plan</li>
</ul>

Graduate Programs or Certifications:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Master of Business Administration, Concentration in Innovation and Emerging Enterprises</li>
<li>Master of Public Administration with Economic Development and Social  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Master of Information Technology & Management with IT Management and  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Information Technology Innovation Leadership and Entrepreneurship Certificate  </li>
<li>Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate</li>
</ul>

= Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts =

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy:

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments and units. Its purpose is to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related co-curricular activities available for all university majors.

The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities that provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to have a real-world experience in innovation and entrepreneurship. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, and business and social organizations.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy IIT Entrepreneurship Academy]</li>
</ul>

The Interprofessional Projects Program

Developed at IIT in 1995, the IPRO Program consists of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth of the university’s disciplines and professional programs. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide students a variety of choices that tap their passion and disciplinary knowledge. IPRO projects also offer sponsors, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluated.

The interprofessional projects program at IIT gives students of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experience. Students also get the chance to display their projects to the public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their project.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/ IIT IPRO]</li>
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/wp-content/uploads/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf IPRO Brochure]</li>
</ul>

The Idea Shop

The Idea Shop is an exciting new facility developed in 2010 by IIT. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs and elevates the entire educational experience.

The idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of students and encourages interaction between students of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including 3D printers, cutters, labs, and team-specific areas. It gives students tools to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing so.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/programs/idea-shop Idea Shop]</li>
</ul>

= Student Entrepreneurship Initiatives =

The CEO Student Organization

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization whose main goal is to foster and support entrepreneurial efforts at Illinois Institute of Technology. This organization provides students of all majors with the necessary support and networks to become an effective entrepreneurial leader.          In collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technologies’ Undergraduate Business council, The Startup IIT weekend programs are hosted with the aims of providing mentorship and allows students the valuable experience of presenting in front of real-world entrepreneurs and investors.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://iitceo.org/startupiit/ IIT CEO]</li>
</ul>

= Entrepreneurial Partners =
<div>
Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center

Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center offers a wide variety of supportive services for start-up and existing small businesses located in and around Illinois Institute of Technology. The Center is committed to helping neighborhood businesses grow and thrive, as well as helping the IIT students, alumni, faculty, and staff bring new ideas and services to life.

Innovation drives today’s business. But innovation is only the beginning.  The road to commercializing a product idea or revolutionary new service is difficult and filled with obstacles. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is available to help find resources to overcome these obstacles, and get you on the path to success.

For nearly 125 years, IIT has been teaching, developing, and coaching the best engineering, legal, architectural science, and business minds to improve the world we live in. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is yet another very important resource that demonstrates IIT’s commitment to improving life for all humankind. Whether you need help developing realistic cash flow projections, finding your break-even point, accessing capital or helping you hire your first employee, Knapp Center can provide all the neccessary resources.

''Knapp Center Resources''

Incubators

VentureShot

Themed Co-Working Spaces

1871

Catalyze

PanzanzeeCivicLab

Blue1647

Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

Coalition: Energy

Matter

TechNexus

Rev3

Accelerators

Impact Engine

Tech Stars Chicago

Chicago Innovation Exchange

'''Support Orgs'''

Energy Foundry

Propel

ITA

Chicago Innovation Mentors

MakerBiz

'''Companies'''

3d Printer Experience

Links to Additional Resources:

*[[Knapp Center|http://iit.edu/knapp_center/]]

Future Founders Foundation — College Founders
</div>
For many college-age entrepreneurs, the transition from school into the real world can be challenging. After graduation, the continual guidance from professors, classroom structure and school resources diminish, leaving many students unaware of how to navigate the community. College Founders bridges this gap by engaging students in community activities while they are in school.

At IIT,  College Founders promotes cross-collaboration and increases the capacity of university programs by broadening their reach into the community.

= Landscape Canvas =

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==== Alternate Access: ====

The above field may be blank. If so, please visit the Landscape Canvass of IIT at [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d_OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc]

= Conclusion =

Illinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future. Link to University
<ul style="font-size: 12.222222328186px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/ http://web.iit.edu/]</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview] ( not completed entirely)

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Illinois Institute of Technology

2015-01-31T05:11:42Z

Gconners:

= Overview [[File:IIT.png|thumb]] =

When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.

The entrepreneurship academy at Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered  the largest resource and center on campus dedicated  to entrepreneurship. Illinois Institute of Technology also partners with many corporate sponsors to help fund events and programs focused on the concepts of both innovation and entrepreneurship.

= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship =

Armour College of Engineering
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>EMGT 363—Creativity, Inventions, and Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists</li>
<li>EMGT 407—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>EMGT 470—Project Management</li>
<li>CHE 506—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
</ul>

Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 341—Business Law for Entrepreneurs in the Modern Global Economy</li>
<li>BUS 361—Entrepreneurial Thinking and Practice</li>
<li>BUS 467—Managing Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Global Marketplace</li>
<li>BUS 472—New Product Development</li>
<li>BUS 468—Creating and Managing the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Enterprise</li>
<li>MBA/EMS 529/PA 550—Social Entrepreneurship</li>
<li>MBA 575—Creativity and Contemporary Entrepreneurial Opportunities</li>
<li>MBA 576—Creating and Financing New Technology Ventures</li>
<li>MSF 594—Entrepreneurial Finance</li>
</ul>

Project Courses Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 102—Computing Tools Bus Analysis</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 103—Ideation: What Are My Interests?</li>
<li>BUS 104—Needs Analysis and Opportunity Analysis Aligned with My Interests</li>
<li>BUS 203—Identification and Evaluation of Prospective Consumers</li>
<li>BUS 204—Identification and Evaluation of Competitive Advantage</li>
<li>BUS 303—Financial Analysis: Pro-Forma Financial Statements</li>
<li>BUS 403—Developing a Strategically Business Plan</li>
<li>BUS 404—Selling Your Business Plan</li>
</ul>

Graduate Programs or Certifications:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Master of Business Administration, Concentration in Innovation and Emerging Enterprises</li>
<li>Master of Public Administration with Economic Development and Social  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Master of Information Technology & Management with IT Management and  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Information Technology Innovation Leadership and Entrepreneurship Certificate  </li>
<li>Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate</li>
</ul>

= Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts =

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy:

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments and units. Its purpose is to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related co-curricular activities available for all university majors.

The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities that provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to have a real-world experience in innovation and entrepreneurship. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, and business and social organizations.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy IIT Entrepreneurship Academy]</li>
</ul>

The Interprofessional Projects Program

Developed at IIT in 1995, the IPRO Program consists of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth of the university’s disciplines and professional programs. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide students a variety of choices that tap their passion and disciplinary knowledge. IPRO projects also offer sponsors, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluated.

The interprofessional projects program at IIT gives students of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experience. Students also get the chance to display their projects to the public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their project.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/ IIT IPRO]</li>
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/wp-content/uploads/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf IPRO Brochure]</li>
</ul>

The Idea Shop

The Idea Shop is an exciting new facility developed in 2010 by IIT. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs and elevates the entire educational experience.

The idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of students and encourages interaction between students of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including 3D printers, cutters, labs, and team-specific areas. It gives students tools to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing so.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/programs/idea-shop Idea Shop]</li>
</ul>

= Student Entrepreneurship Initiatives =

The CEO Student Organization

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization whose main goal is to foster and support entrepreneurial efforts at Illinois Institute of Technology. This organization provides students of all majors with the necessary support and networks to become an effective entrepreneurial leader.          In collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technologies’ Undergraduate Business council, The Startup IIT weekend programs are hosted with the aims of providing mentorship and allows students the valuable experience of presenting in front of real-world entrepreneurs and investors.

Links to Additional Resources:
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>[http://iitceo.org/startupiit/ IIT CEO]</li>
</ul>

= Entrepreneurial Partners =
<div>
Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center

Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center offers a wide variety of supportive services for start-up and existing small businesses located in and around Illinois Institute of Technology. The Center is committed to helping neighborhood businesses grow and thrive, as well as helping the IIT students, alumni, faculty, and staff bring new ideas and services to life.

Innovation drives today’s business. But innovation is only the beginning.  The road to commercializing a product idea or revolutionary new service is difficult and filled with obstacles. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is available to help find resources to overcome these obstacles, and get you on the path to success.

For nearly 125 years, IIT has been teaching, developing, and coaching the best engineering, legal, architectural science, and business minds to improve the world we live in. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is yet another very important resource that demonstrates IIT’s commitment to improving life for all humankind. Whether you need help developing realistic cash flow projections, finding your break-even point, accessing capital or helping you hire your first employee, Knapp Center can provide all the neccessary resources.

''Knapp Center Resources''

Incubators

VentureShot

Themed Co-Working Spaces

1871

Catalyze

PanzanzeeCivicLab

Blue1647

Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

Coalition: Energy

Matter

TechNexus

Rev3

Accelerators

Impact Engine

Tech Stars Chicago

Chicago Innovation Exchange

'''Support Orgs'''

Energy Foundry

Propel

ITA

Chicago Innovation Mentors

MakerBiz

'''Companies'''

3d Printer Experience

Links to Additional Resources:

*[[Knapp Center|http://iit.edu/knapp_center/]]

Future Founders Foundation — College Founders
</div>
For many college-age entrepreneurs, the transition from school into the real world can be challenging. After graduation, the continual guidance from professors, classroom structure and school resources diminish, leaving many students unaware of how to navigate the community. College Founders bridges this gap by engaging students in community activities while they are in school.

At IIT,  College Founders promotes cross-collaboration and increases the capacity of university programs by broadening their reach into the community.

= Landscape Canvas =

{{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key=OsVteq94upnajugmKAsAzNOt8bol0as78c8uIsxsc|width=1300|height=700}}

= Conclusion =

Illinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future. Link to University
<ul style="font-size: 12.222222328186px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>[http://web.iit.edu/ http://web.iit.edu/]</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview] ( not completed entirely)

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Illinois Institute of Technology

2015-01-31T04:50:46Z

Gconners:

= Overview [[File:IIT.png|thumb]] =

When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.

The entrepreneurship academy at Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered  the largest resource and center on campus dedicated  to entrepreneurship. Illinois Institute of Technology also partners with many corporate sponsors to help fund events and programs focused on the concepts of both innovation and entrepreneurship.

= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship =

Armour College of Engineering
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>EMGT 363—Creativity, Inventions, and Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists</li>
<li>EMGT 407—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
<li>EMGT 470—Project Management</li>
<li>CHE 506—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</li>
</ul>

Stuart School of Business
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>BUS 341—Business Law for Entrepreneurs in the Modern Global Economy</li>
<li>BUS 361—Entrepreneurial Thinking and Practice</li>
<li>BUS 467—Managing Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Global Marketplace</li>
<li>BUS 472—New Product Development</li>
<li>BUS 468—Creating and Managing the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Enterprise</li>
<li>MBA/EMS 529/PA 550—Social Entrepreneurship</li>
<li>MBA 575—Creativity and Contemporary Entrepreneurial Opportunities</li>
<li>MBA 576—Creating and Financing New Technology Ventures</li>
<li>MSF 594—Entrepreneurial Finance</li>
</ul>

Project Courses Stuart School of Business
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<li>BUS 102—Computing Tools Bus Analysis</li>
</ul>
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<li>BUS 103—Ideation: What Are My Interests?</li>
<li>BUS 104—Needs Analysis and Opportunity Analysis Aligned with My Interests</li>
<li>BUS 203—Identification and Evaluation of Prospective Consumers</li>
<li>BUS 204—Identification and Evaluation of Competitive Advantage</li>
<li>BUS 303—Financial Analysis: Pro-Forma Financial Statements</li>
<li>BUS 403—Developing a Strategically Business Plan</li>
<li>BUS 404—Selling Your Business Plan</li>
</ul>

Graduate Programs or Certifications:
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<li>Master of Business Administration, Concentration in Innovation and Emerging Enterprises</li>
<li>Master of Public Administration with Economic Development and Social  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Master of Information Technology & Management with IT Management and  Entrepreneurship Specialization</li>
<li>Information Technology Innovation Leadership and Entrepreneurship Certificate  </li>
<li>Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate</li>
</ul>

= Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts =

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy:

The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments and units. Its purpose is to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related co-curricular activities available for all university majors.

The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities that provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to have a real-world experience in innovation and entrepreneurship. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, and business and social organizations.

Links to Additional Resources:
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<li>[http://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy IIT Entrepreneurship Academy]</li>
</ul>

The Interprofessional Projects Program

Developed at IIT in 1995, the IPRO Program consists of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth of the university’s disciplines and professional programs. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide students a variety of choices that tap their passion and disciplinary knowledge. IPRO projects also offer sponsors, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluated.

The interprofessional projects program at IIT gives students of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experience. Students also get the chance to display their projects to the public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their project.

Links to Additional Resources:
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<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/ IIT IPRO]</li>
<li>[http://ipro.iit.edu/wp-content/uploads/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf IPRO Brochure]</li>
</ul>

The Idea Shop

The Idea Shop is an exciting new facility developed in 2010 by IIT. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs and elevates the entire educational experience.

The idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of students and encourages interaction between students of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including 3D printers, cutters, labs, and team-specific areas. It gives students tools to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing so.

Links to Additional Resources:
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<li>[http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/programs/idea-shop Idea Shop]</li>
</ul>

= Student Entrepreneurship Initiatives =

The CEO Student Organization

The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization whose main goal is to foster and support entrepreneurial efforts at Illinois Institute of Technology. This organization provides students of all majors with the necessary support and networks to become an effective entrepreneurial leader.          In collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technologies’ Undergraduate Business council, The Startup IIT weekend programs are hosted with the aims of providing mentorship and allows students the valuable experience of presenting in front of real-world entrepreneurs and investors.

Links to Additional Resources:
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<li>[http://iitceo.org/startupiit/ IIT CEO]</li>
</ul>

= Entrepreneurial Partners =
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Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center

Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center offers a wide variety of supportive services for start-up and existing small businesses located in and around Illinois Institute of Technology. The Center is committed to helping neighborhood businesses grow and thrive, as well as helping the IIT students, alumni, faculty, and staff bring new ideas and services to life.

Innovation drives today’s business. But innovation is only the beginning.  The road to commercializing a product idea or revolutionary new service is difficult and filled with obstacles. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is available to help find resources to overcome these obstacles, and get you on the path to success.

For nearly 125 years, IIT has been teaching, developing, and coaching the best engineering, legal, architectural science, and business minds to improve the world we live in. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is yet another very important resource that demonstrates IIT’s commitment to improving life for all humankind. Whether you need help developing realistic cash flow projections, finding your break-even point, accessing capital or helping you hire your first employee, Knapp Center can provide all the neccessary resources.

''Knapp Center Resources''

Incubators

VentureShot

Themed Co-Working Spaces

1871

Catalyze

PanzanzeeCivicLab

Blue1647

Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

Coalition: Energy

Matter

TechNexus

Rev3

Accelerators

Impact Engine

Tech Stars Chicago

Chicago Innovation Exchange

'''Support Orgs'''

Energy Foundry

Propel

ITA

Chicago Innovation Mentors

MakerBiz

'''Companies'''

3d Printer Experience

Links to Additional Resources:

*[[Knapp Center|http://iit.edu/knapp_center/]]

Future Founders Foundation — College Founders
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For many college-age entrepreneurs, the transition from school into the real world can be challenging. After graduation, the continual guidance from professors, classroom structure and school resources diminish, leaving many students unaware of how to navigate the community. College Founders bridges this gap by engaging students in community activities while they are in school.

At IIT,  College Founders promotes cross-collaboration and increases the capacity of university programs by broadening their reach into the community.

= Landscape Canvas =

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= Conclusion =

Illinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future. Link to University
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<li>[http://web.iit.edu/ http://web.iit.edu/]</li>
</ul>

= Related Links =

Illinois Tech Student Priorities

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview] ( not completed entirely)

Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima]

[[Category:Universities]]

Priorities:Illinois Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2015-01-31T04:43:04Z

Gconners:

= Overview =

The University Innovation Fellows at Illinois Institute of Technology have discovered ample opportunities to advance our culture and services of innovation and entrepreneurship. Our current 2015 leadership circle of five hold a variety of backgrounds and majors, an advantage that reveals itself in the variety of strategic plans presented below. Informed by our work through the Landscape Canvass, a tool to evaluate the presence and distribution of innovative and entrepreneurial offerings at our university, we have devloped the following strategies to nurture the creative potential of our campus.

= Strategy #1: Finding Methods of Appeal to All Students That Introduce the Potential of Entrepreneurship =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic #1: Integrate a Circuit of Exchange Between Students Throughout Campus ===
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<li>The opportunity to present ideas visually across campus is already available. But with a major focus mainly on only innovative projects that have already been fully developed, mostly through a program with specific guidelines and requirements. The display of a potentially marketable idea to a diverse audience may open up a window for unique feedback and constant advice. And as an entrepreneur would do in the real-world, this type of setting will require the student to develop a model for their product and attempt gain the interest of others for the acquirement of resources and sponsorship for making big change happen with the encouragement of others. This could be in the form of a weekly idea board that follows the theme of scenarios that relate to the experiences students have on campus that are frequent and in need of a solution. It could be an event that provides materials necessary for students to experiment and brainstorm openly while gaining skills in creative thinking, collaboration, and product development. Or it could even be something as simple as a weekly meeting for students and faculty to identify and agree on opportunities to innovate and integrate entrepreneurship into various aspects of campus that have areas in obvious need of improvement, and also could be pictured as evolving from the students viewpoint as a result of entrepreneurial themes.</li>
</ul>

'' Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Investigation of target points of impact: completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience: completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - May 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - October 2015</li>
<li>Building on our original idea - January 2016</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic #2: An Interdisciplinary Course That Utilizes Current Events or Workplace Scenarios ===
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<li>The impact of a course that teaches students to think of solutions relative to what today's world demands and to acknowledge the expectations in a actual job setting could prove highly beneficial. The benefits could range from increased student motivation and excitement for fulfilling career goals to a deeper understanding of the importance of new ideas in bettering the systems and environments relative to the students’ major which will fuel the future. The collaboration involved will also put an important emphasis on the importance of peer feedback and consideration of others ideas to come to the most practical solutions. When the students ideas are tested in project form, they will also come to the realization of how crucial it is to search out potential flaws and acknowledge previous failures to learn what methods to avoid and how to design under constraints and specific techniques. This will provide training geared towards overcoming implications and meeting modern day performance standards. This will ultimately provide a bridge from college to the real-world.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Curriculum overview:Talk with professors and identify an ideal classroom set-up to shape this course - March 2015</li>
<li>Discussion with sponsors and team members who are optimistic about the benefits of this course type - May 2015</li>
<li>Brainstorm a curriculum - October 2015</li>
<li>identify candidates of interest for this course - January 2016</li>
<li>Open up the idea to create awareness - February 2016</li>
<li>Launch a course following the set-up described - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic #3: A Technological Platform That Serves an Important Function in On Campus-Life ===
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<li>An implementation of a network for the ease and benefit of students that carries easy accessibility and handles a multitude of functions could be appraised by any student.  This could potentially be a platform for information storage, scheduling and reminders, and even an idea pool for campus events, study strategies, and social gatherings. This could also be a good aid for helping keeping students notified about what’s been happening in the college community and easier awareness can be spread like wildfire about situations that demand immediate attention and action. Acknowledging the successful study strategies of  others  through a feedback loop could enhance the learning experience and give struggling students hope in finding new methods to help them gain a deeper understanding in abstract academic material.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Get public appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Define the primary function - May 2015</li>
<li>Acknowledge the set up - October 2015</li>
<li>Join with others to put things together - March 2016</li>
<li>Notify the target audience - April 2016</li>
<li>Fully implement the platform - 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #2: Introduction of New Infrastructure =

== Team Leader: Callie Joncas  ==

=== Tactic #1: Create a Hub in the Heart of an Area on Campus that Provides an Adaptable Environment that Allows Planning and Experimentation ===
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<li>If students could have a special zone on campus were an abundance and immediate access to tools for diagramming and mapping out future plans, students could greatly strengthen their powers of visual observation and display in a form that could also relay back to others who are intrigued by what they see in the ideas. This will also emphasize the importance of scaling products or ideas into the right size category and seeing design flaws first hand before the flaw becomes an implication on a potentially revolutionary new innovation. Structural analysis will also result from seeing an idea transformed into a 3D model as if it actually exists already as a prototype.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
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<li>Identify settings ideal for this hub - May 2015</li>
<li>Identify the surroundings that could fuel it - October 2015</li>
<li>Estimate the amount of time and resources needed to construct it - January 2016</li>
<li>Get peer opinion and appeal - February 2016</li>
<li>Invest or acquire the necessary items - May 2016</li>
<li>Complete the construction of this “visual idea center” - 2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic #2: Have a Workshop that Introduces Students to New and Upcoming Platforms in Technology and Design by Having Corporate Leaders Discuss and Display Upcoming Modern Innovations, While also Connecting Them with a Relative Project Framework and Potential Sponsors. ===
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<li>If students could be immersed with realities of innovation in relation to how our modern world is advancing, they could better understand the potential they have as future leaders and entrepreneurs alongside seeing firsthand what’s upcoming and how drastically these innovations can shape our future from the corporations point of view. Once students have the picture in their mind of the invention, they will think about what this will do for them in their everyday lives. Having a power figure in business or industry come and and talk ill give students the “once in a lifetime” experience feeling, they will feel as they have been given the gift of special knowledge and gain a sense of an entrepreneurial “destiny”. An ideal setting for this workshop would be an area on campus that already drives entrepreneurship and has constant student activity, such as the Idea Shop or the Stuart School of Business. If the students are left with a framework, they can better prioritize all the individual efforts involved with a project and set benchmarks to ensure they stay on top of what needs to ba accomplished in the cmoing months or years. With the tools to build bigger and better ideas in front of them, a student who has easy access to using them will realize the major opportunity right at hand. The sponsor will also be looked up to as a role model for the students, showing students that even ideas forming from the most far-out dreams are in reality not far from becoming something much greater.</li>
</ul>

     Milestones:
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<li>Identify sponsors and leaders who create suitable products or have created a meaningful invention-May 2015</li>
<li>Identify an ideal location on campus-August 2015</li>
<li>Find students who are interested and willing to help set things up-September 2015</li>
<li>Have students test this workshop-January 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop fully built-May 2016</li>
<li>Have the workshop in full operation and spurring innovation-January 2017</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #3: Changing Course Curriculum =

== Team Leader: Bart Grabowski ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology we are blessed to have courses that provide hands-on “learning by doing” experiences such as the Interprofessional Projects or IPRO course. However, IPRO courses are primarily reserved for junior and senior level students who have a couple years of knowledge within their respective majors(s). The goal is to implement more entrepreneurial courses in all majors here at IIT to allow a greater balance among course schedules in order for students to benefit after their studies.

=== Tactic #1: Introduction of Entrepreneurship in First Year Courses ===
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<li>Students at IIT should be exposed to the ideas, principles, and other relevant works that fall under entrepreneurship and design thinking. In a student’s first year, IIT would provide a general course for all majors on what is entrepreneurship and how can it be applicable to your studies. Right off the bat, students will know guidelines to entrepreneurship and can benefit them in determining whether or not exploring entrepreneurship is the right path to go. Testing the waters, so to speak.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - March 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - September 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic #2: Required Innovation, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurial course(s) in All Majors ===
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<li>Currently, IIT has implemented entrepreneurial courses in Engineering Management and of course Business. Students of all majors are allowed to take courses at the Stuart School of Business, but only count as elective courses. Essentially, IIT would implement courses that are innovation/entrepreneurial specific in the major that the student is studying. Courses would be structured from a learning-by doing basis and instructors would act as guidance for students. One important target point is that each department will structure such courses based upon the principles of the major and how entrepreneurship should be applied.</li>
</ul>



'' Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - May 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - June 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - November 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017 (subject to change)</li>
</ul>

=== Tactic #3: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due ===
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<li>Illinois Institute of Technology should encourage students to become more entrepreneurial driven for them be able to create the next successful product, service, and or idea. One way IIT could do this is apply school credit to entrepreneurial ventures. Students would receive additional credit for their projects and would allow for a greater balance among student schedules. Students would be able to manage their time more wisely because their ‘ventures’ would be recognized by the university and would be credited to their degree.</li>
</ul>



''Progressive Milestones''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target points of impact- completed with an enthusiastic and relevant faculty member along with interested peers - April 2015</li>
<li>Identification of target audience - completed with the opinion of peers and acknowledgement of common appeal - March 2015</li>
<li>Feedback from target audience - April 2015</li>
<li>Project preparation - December 2015</li>
<li>Implementation onto university campus - 2016-2017, 2017-2018</li>
</ul>

= Strategy #4: Leadership Seminars and Conferences Required by Course Instructors and Engineering Departments =

== Strategy Leader: Syeda Fatima ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology, there are various and some what random leadership seminars held throughout  the year on campus. Most of these leadership events are hosted by The Leadership Academy whose main target audience are its own Leadership Scholars, and the rest of the student population is forgotten. Even though these seminars are open to everywhere, most of the students who attend are the Leadership Scholars themselves, since it is a required component for remaining a scholar. After much research, I found that the speakers come from entrepreneurial backgrounds and can help in better IIT’s overall ecosystem. Therefore, the best way to get all students to attend these is by making them apart of the major curriculum. Students will be required to attend these seminars and in return receive a grade for them in their design related major courses.  Furthermore, engineering curriculums should also require their students to attend a conference or lecture during their undergraduate career which will help them gain a better grasp on entrepreneurship and innovation.

=== Tactic #1: IPRO 397 and 497 Make Attending at Least One of the Leadership Academy’s Monthly Seminars a Required Component of the Course. ===
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<li>IPROs at IIT are designed to introduce students to concepts of design thinking and product design. However, these courses don’t provide any guidance for launching their product or concept on the course ends. This is where the Leadership Academy’s seminars come in. The speakers are these seminar are usually entrepreneurs themselves and their lectures cover topics such as ethics and  how-to-lectures on launching good leadership in your work/university place. Making this a required course component will help students in taking the first step to becoming entrepreneurs</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target courses who will be required to integrate these seminars into their curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific seminars which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with Leadership Academy to coordinate with IPRO curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist is tailoring speakers to fit the needs to the university Ecosystem- July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic # 2: All Engineering Departments Should Make it Required for Students to Attend at Least Both One Entrepreneurial/ Innovation Themed Conference and Lecture Their Undergraduate Years. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>IIT engineering programs offer various levels of design classes during a student’s senior year of college. However, the students just speed through these classes in order to finish the requirement and graduate, there isn’t much learning going on. Therefore, departments should make it required for students to attend one conference and lecture related to their major. These conferences (such as the RSNA for biomedical engineers) offer tons of knowledge and learning experiences for students which they won’t receive in the classroom. For example, the RSNA features the newest in MRI and Ultrasound machines as well as innovation opportunities for undergrads, to assist these companies through internships.</li>
</ul>
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<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Investigation of target lectures/ conferences that engineering professor  will be required to integrate into their course curriculums-April 2015</li>
<li>Provide course instructors with specific conferences or lectures  which will prove useful to their students-May 2015</li>
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum-June 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring conferences and lectures  to fit the needs of the students - July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

=== Tactic # 3: Each Engineering Department Should Create at Least One Entrepreneurial and Innovation Based Course specific to Their Department. ===
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>For example, biomedical engineering will have an entrepreneurial course which will teach students how to patent, launch and design their ideas. Since the goal of engineering is to innovate and design a better world, engineering graduates will most likely at least once in their careers encounter a situation in which they will need to design something. Thus, these engineers should have some prior knowledge as to how to go about launching and implementing their product. Taking a course doing their undergraduate years which teaches them just that will be extremely useful.</li>
<li>Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum- April 2015</li>
<li>Assist department in  tailoring an entrepreneurial course to fit the needs of the students -May to July 2015</li>
<li>Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015</li>
<li>See how student feel about this new course during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

= Strategy #5 Pegasus Crowdfunding Network =

Fellow on Point: Gabriel Conners

Pegasus is a crowdfunding network built on the momentum of an ecosystem of social support for student ideas. In our landscape canvass of 2015 at the Illinois Institute of Technology(IIT), we found a bell curve of support for innovation and entrepreneurship, where we had good opportunities in the areas of learning and experimenting, while we were found lacking in the outer categories of discovery, pursuit, and spin out. The ultimate and simple goal of Pegasus is to provide students with seed funding for their ideas, thus bolstering our ability to pursue ideas. In order to make this platform sustainable and highly visible, it must hold a foundation of self volunteering of content and a vibrant peer-to-peer idea exchange. This system of exchange will then contribute to the culture of discovery for innovation and entrepreneurship at IIT.
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<li>
== Laying the Foundation of Storytelling ==
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<li>
=== Tactic 1: Achieve Visibility of Student Innovators (03/2015) ===
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<li>Identify and promote the innovative research, projects, and entrepreneurship currently happening on campus.<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Innovation Spotlights: weekly posting highlighting one student or team’s work<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Online Spotlight blog created and shared through popular IIT digital channels (Facebook groups, twitter posts, communications emails, MyIIT Student Portal)</li>
<li>Spotlight Posters in every building on campus</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>
=== Tactic 2: Crowdsource Idea Promotion, Achieve Sustainable Storytelling (08/2015) ===
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<li>Establish the culture and mechanisms that promote individuals to self-volunteer and share their “creative edge.”<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Create and promote a public use “hastag” for all campus innovation and entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Solicit student suggestions for Spotlight features</li>
<li>Create live feed of student-submitted(or tagged) data</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
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== The Idea Exchange ==
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=== Tactic 3: Launch Platform to Facilitate Conversations on Student Ideas (Pegasus Idea Exchange) (10/2015) ===
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<li>Students can volunteer their ideas and projects and then comment, share, or otherwise have conversations on other student postings.</li>
</ul></li>
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=== Tactic 4: Add “Needs and Resource” Database (1/2016) ===
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<li>Students can more easily navigate and contribute input to ideas that solicit their skills or interests.</li>
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=== Tactic 5: Add Team Formation Functionality (1/2016) ===
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<li>Students collaborating on the Pegasus Exchange can form teams to more intensively critique and construct ideas.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
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== A Horse and its Wings ==
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=== Tactic 6: Partner with or Build a Crowdfunding Platform into Pegasus (8/2016) ===
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<li>Leverage the social sharing community of Pegasus to promote ideas to broader funding bases. (Alumni, faculty, family, businesses, communities)</li>
</ul></li>
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=== Tactic 7: Relationship Matching Algorithm (1/2017) ===
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<li>Develop a relationship matching algorithm to streamline student-idea discovery and team formation.</li>
<li>Integrate an Alumni interest database into Pegasus to improve relationship matching between student ideas and Alumni monies.</li>
<li>Map out interests and social missions of businesses to build into relationship matching algorithm so students know what organizations to target in solicitation of funding.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<div> </div>

Organization:Design for America

2015-01-08T20:46:28Z

Gconners:

= Overview =

                                                                               [[File:DesignForAmerica.png]]

Founded in 2009 at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering, Design for America (DFA) focuses on creating student led design studios that find meaningful ways to create impact in their local communities. DFA has spread to 17 universities throughout the United States and continues to grow, with an increase of 70 applications in 2013. Looking at an individual studio level, DFA is a student-led organization on each campus. Studio is a term used to define a group of like-minded students that come together to think, design, and innovate. Studios at different universities vary from an actual designated physical space on campus to available classrooms where students can meet. The main idea of Design for America is that students find projects and create an impact within their community. DFA provides these each campus with the resources and training needed to be successful as a nascent organization. 

From teaching design innovation, Design for America hopes to give young adults the experience needed to be team players, purposeful learners, and leaders in every sense of the word. Another important aspect is that DFA has attempted to keep its student-led grass roots atmosphere by using the same formula from Northwestern's studio to build new studios on campuses throughout the United States. 

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= Purpose =

Design for America is an organization based on the idea that people cannot innovate without believing in themselves. This principle defines their motivation behind working on a national level to build a network of students who actively create impact at the local level through team-based projects. Design for America's goal is to create a network of students working to solve social problems and make a significant impact in their respective communities. Student teams survey their local community in order to assess its challenges and complete all the steps in the design process from ideation to viable product development. Teams of 2 to 3 students will then set out to create solutions based on the challenges identified. Student teams are either a part of a studio or independently run by students on campuses nationwide. Design for America believes that every student has the ability to make an impact, and through design innovation, students can solve problems in the world around them. 

Co-founder Dr. Liz Gerber has researched new ways of learning about human centered design called Extracurricular Design-Based Learning. This method engages students, community members and partners to think about our biggest challenges that we face in education, health, economy and environment. The best words to summarize this organization's vision is motivation informed by belief in ability. Design for America holds the idea that we must believe in our ability to develop innovative solutions that can address the world's challenges by implementing extracurricular design-based learning.

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =

The distinct value that Design for America offers is the formation of a campus organization devoted to helping students develop their ideas through working in teams and also using proven methods of designed-based learning. DFA provides studio support through faculty, advisors, professional design mentors, community partners, and administrators within the DFA organization. The significance of Design for America on your campus is the ability to create a pipeline of leaders and thinkers that can make an impact within their community. DFA is also simultaneously broadening the idea of an "impact" from the traditional sense of starting a new venture, to all types of social endeavours. For example, starting a volunteer organization or teaching classes about nutrition in the local community. Lastly, DFA is committed to the continuing development of interdisciplinary student teams. Students from all majors and backgrounds play crucial parts on campus studios and bridge the gap between business, science, engineering, and liberal arts. 

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

Since the creation of Design for America, over 2,000 students have participated in campus studios, 17 physical campus studios have been developed, and two start ups (SwipeSense and Jerry the Bear) have come to market and raised $1.5 million in funding. Furthermore, DFA has become nationally recognized through publicity such as the New York Times, Chicago Tribue, Forbes, and MIT Technology Review. Design for American has received several awards, invites to conferences, and grants. DFA also reports that employers consistently search out candidates from a DFA campus studio group for hiring because of their unique experiences while in DFA . 

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Student teams work on 2-3 self-selected design projects throughout the academic year and apply skills, knowledge, and expertise from their course work. Design for America teaches students how to look at their local community, find problems, think of solutions, and implement those changes. 

[[File:Northwestern2-bw.jpg]]

Students in DFAcampus studios usually report that they were able to find and learn more about their passion. Furthermore, students learn important marketable skills for the work place such as: team working abilities, problem solving, creativity, and perseverance. In addition, students enjoy connecting and working with students from across their campuses and outside their majors. Many students enjoy the impact they are able to make while in college, which in many insistences turn into a career path. Below are some of the campuses involved and companies that have started through DFA. 

Colleges Involved in Design for America:

*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/baltimore/ Baltimore]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/barnard-columbia/ Barnard | Columbia]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/case-western-cia/ Case Western | CIA]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/cornell/ Cornell]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/duke/ Duke]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/michigan-state/ Michigan State]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/mit/ MIT]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/northwestern/ Northwestern]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/rensselaer/ Rensselaer]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/rice/ Rice]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/risd-brown/ RISD | Brown]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/stanford/ Stanford]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/uc-berkeley/ UC Berkeley]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/uc-davis/ UC Davis]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/ucla/ UCLA]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/uiuc/ UIUC]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/university-of-oregon/ U Oregon]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/vanderbilt/ Vanderbilt]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/virginia-tech/ Virginia Tech]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/washu/ Wash U]
*[http://designforamerica.com/studios/yale/ Yale ]

Some Design for America Projects:

#Jerry the Bear- How can we help diabetic children care for themselves?
#Swipe Sense- How can we reduce hospital acquired infections?
#Fruit Buddi- How can we encourage and reward healthy snack choices?
#SEE[K]- How can we encourage alternative forms of transportation?
#Melo Sense- How can we increase play among children with non-verbal autism?
#Hot Dorms- How can we reduce waste heat energy in dorms?
#Helmet For- How can we encourage riders to wear their helmets?
#Bottle Share- How can we reduce the waste on college campuses?
#Tinker Turf- How can we create an exhibit that empower children to tinker?
#Luna Lights- How can we reduce the risk of falling for older adults?
#Blue Button Narrative- How can we make medical records more intuitive?

All this and more can be found here: [http://designforamerica.com/projects/ http://designforamerica.com/projects/]

= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =

In order to bring this resource to campus, student leaders need to learn the application process of Design for America. 

#Contact Design for America and start the DFA application 
#Student Leaders must attend conference in August to receive training from Design for America 
#Student leaders must identify a group of 30 students interested in Design for America
#Charter a Design for America studio on campus
#Identify 1- 10 projects for the studio
#Identify community partners 
#Start one project and go through the design process
#Final Interview and selection

For more information about applying, visit the Design for America webiste at [http://designforamerica.com/get-involved/students/apply/ http://designforamerica.com/get-involved/students/apply/].

= Contact Information =

To receive more general information visit Design for America's website: [http://designforamerica.com/ http://designforamerica.com/]

To get in contact with the Design for America team, submit a request or start the application process: [http://designforamerica.com/contact/ http://designforamerica.com/contact/]

Connect with Design for America through [https://www.facebook.com/designforamerica Facebook], [https://twitter.com/design4america Twitter], and/or [http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Design-America-Network-3086190/about LinkedIn].

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Grand Challenges Scholars Program

2015-01-08T20:27:11Z

Gconners:

= Overview =

[[File:Gc-logo-2012-small.jpg|none|Gc-logo-2012-small.jpg]]

The [http://www.nae.edu/ NAE] Grand Challenges Scholars program is a combined program with five components that are designed to create and inspire our next generation of engineers to face a lifetime of problem solving. These challenges range from simple to extreme and must be solved to create a stable and safe life for future generations. It is anticipated that each participating institution will develop its own specific realization of the five components, and that students who complete the program successfully will receive a distinction of Grand Challenge Scholar endorsed by their institution and the National Academy of Engineering. The Grand Challenge Scholar Program has two levels of organization and thus two levels of assessment are needed to ensure consistency with the core principles set forth by the founding committee.

The NAE Committee on Engineering's Grand Challenges has identified 14 areas awaiting engineering solutions in the 21st century:

#Making solar energy economical
#Provide energy from fusion
#Develop carbon sequestration methods
#Manage the nitrogen cycle
#Provide access to clean water
#Restore and improve urban infrastructure
#Advance health informatics
#Engineer better medicines
#Reverse-engineer the brain
#Prevent nuclear terror 
#Secure cyberspace
#Enhance virtual reality
#Advanced personalized learning
#Engineer the tools of scientific discovery



A [http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996.aspx 6-minute video] discusses the different aspects of the 14 areas in need of engineering solutions. Finding solutions to the Grand Challenges will positively effect life socially and economically. By creating a [http://www.e4uvideocontest.org/ 1 - 2 minute video] that shows how engineering serves the need of society, you can be entered to win $25,000. 

= Purpose =

Our next generation of engineers require more diverse knowledge than ever before. The purpose of [http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/ NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program] is to make engineering students ready to solve the grand challenges that our society currently faces. The Grand Challenges Scholars program is looking at these ambitious tasks:

* Create new capabilities
* Provide pragmatic solutions for basic human needs
* Develop new entrepreneurial opportunities
* Reinvent human interactions
* Transform systems thinking
* Be the architects of a sustainable society
* Be mindful of unintended consequences
* Connect technology with society

== Five Components Preparing Future Engineers ==

The five components of the Grand Challenge Scholars Program that will prepare future engineers include: 1. ''Project or research activity engaging a GC theme or challenge.'' Working to solve the NAE Grand Challenges is the motivation for the GCSP. Each GC scholar must participate in a substantial team or independent project relating to a Grand Challenge theme or specific Grand Challenge problem.  2. ''Interdisciplinary curriculum.'' Bridging engineering to other disciplines is essential for solving the NAE Grand Challenges. An “Engineering-Plus” curriculum should be devised that prepares engineering students to work at the boundary between an engineering and non-engineering discipline, such as public policy, international relations, business, law, ethics, human behavior, risk, medicine and the natural sciences. However, this must be more than simply double majoring or picking up a minor in a non-engineering discipline. Examples that span these disciplines with a coherent theme are Engery and the Environment, Sustainability, Uncertainty and Optimization, etc.  3. ''Entrepreneurship.'' Implementing innovation is central to technology development. Each GC scholar must participate in a curricular or meta-curricular component on the process of translating invention and innovation into market ventures. This may be either risk-taking ventures for business or introducing technology for not-for-profits that scale global solutions in the public interest.  4. ''Global dimension.'' Global awareness is necessary for working effectively in an interdependent world. Students may participate in a curricular or meta-curricular component that instills elements necessary to develop innovations in a global economy, or address ethical issues of global concern. Domestic activities that stress global or cross-cultural implications may satisfy this component. 5. ''Service learning.'' Working for the benefit of others is the foundation of a civil society. Students may participate in a curricular or meta-curricular component that deepens their social awareness and to heighten their motivation to bring their technical expertise to bear on societal problems. Programs such as [[Engineers Without Borders|Engineers Without Borders]], or [[Engineering World Health|Engineering World Health]] may be adapted to satisfy this component.

== Summit Series on the Grand Challenges ==

The goal of this summit is to change the way students become educated. 

#Enhance student interest in engineering and science.
#Increase the visibility and importance of engineering and science to society.
#Underscore the importance of recognizing that engineering education must by coupled to policy, business and law and must be student-focused. 
#Enhance student interest in engineering, science and technology entrepreneurship.
#Foment future collaborations of interested scientists, engineers, policy makers and researchers in business, law, social sciences and humanities needed to successfully address these complex societal issues.

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =

The Grand Challenges Scholars Program teaches engineers very important skills in learning how to deal with the biggest problems facing our society. This program is different because it explicitly defines the most relevant problems to our public and allows students across campus to participate. Students are able to collaborate with other engineers that are active in the scholarship program.  Not only will this program teach engineering students the skills necessary to solve problems, but it will also raise awareness around the most important worldly challenges and will inspire young engineers to tackle those challenges. The Grand Challenges Scholars Program is also working towards implementing a program for K-12 that will equip students to become engineers. 

Randy Atkins, Founder of the 14 Grand Challenges for the National Academy of Engineers says, "This provides students with a vision of what they can do with engineering and how they can change the world."

The Office of Science and Technology Policy is interested in seeing the program across many different campuses across the country. Check out this [http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/25/america-s-students-step-challenge article] to see what Washington has to say about the NAE!

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

'''Founding Grand Challenges Campuses:'''

*[http://www.pratt.duke.edu/undergrad/students/grand-challenge-scholars-program Duke University, Pratt School of Engineering]
*[http://www.grandchallengescholars.org/files/grandchscholars/OlinGCSP.pdf The Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering]
*[http://viterbi.usc.edu/research/grand-challenges/ University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering]

'''  Additional campuses currently involved with the NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program:'''

*[http://more.engineering.asu.edu/grandchallengescholars/ Arizona State University, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering]
*[http://coes.latech.edu/students/gcscholars.php Louisiana Tech University, College of Engineering and Science]
*[http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/grandchallenge/ NC State University, College of Engineering]
*[http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/about/college-services/grand-challenges University of Iowa, College of Engineering]
*[http://sites.lafayette.edu/grandchallenges/ Lafayette College, Lafayette College]
*[http://www.engr.utk.edu/outreach/TheGrandChallenge.html The University of Tennessee, College of Engineering]
*[http://www.bucknell.edu/GCSP.xml Bucknell University, Bucknell College of Engineering]
*[https://www1.wne.edu/engineering/index.cfm?selection=doc.8328 Western New England College, School of Engineering]
*[http://parks.slu.edu/current-students/gcsp/ St. Louis University, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology]
*[http://www.grandchallengescholars.org/files/grandchscholars/u1/GCSPDocumentFinal.pdf The Univerity of Texas at Austin, Cockrell School of Engineering]
*[https://www.coe.utah.edu/gcsp University of Utah, College of Engineering]
*[http://www.grandchallengescholars.org/sites/grandchallengescholars.org/files/ESF-GCSP_Application-20140404.pdf SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), Department of Environmental Resources Engineering]
*[https://www.grandchallengescholars.org/sites/grandchallengescholars.org/files/UCSD%20GCSP%20Proposal%20Revised%20-%209-4-2014%20clean%20copy.pdf UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering]
*The Ohio State University, College of Engineering
*[http://www.grandchallengescholars.org/sites/grandchallengescholars.org/files/gcsp-florida-gulf-coast.pdf Florida Gulf Coast University, U.A. Whitaker College of Engineering]
*[http://www.grandchallengescholars.org/sites/grandchallengescholars.org/files/Clemson-grand-challenge-scholars-final.docx Clemson University, College of Engineering and Science]

= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =

Interested in the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges Scholars Program? Student or faculty members can contact NAE by going to the [http://www.grandchallengescholars.org/join website] and submitting the required application. All engineering or non-engineering students are welcome to participate in this scholars program as well. To develop an approved program, follw these steps: 

#Join the [http://www.grandchallengescholars.org/join GCSP Community]. You can also [https://lists.latech.edu/mailman/listinfo/grand-challenges-scholars join the listserv] to keep up with the lestest GCSP information and news!
#Describe the GCSPvision to your school and [http://www.grandchallengescholars.org/sites/grandchallengescholars.org/files/proposing_a_gcs_program.pdf create a GCSP operational document (PDF)]. It may be helpful to look at [http://www.grandchallengescholars.org/active-programs operational documents from existing programs].
#Students are able to pick one of the 14 grand challenges as long as it is aligned with the 5 GC curricular components. 
#Submit application by emailing your completed operational document to [[Jenna@latech.edu|Dr. Jenna Carpenter]], Chair of the NAE GCSP Steering Committee. 
<ul style="margin-left: 80px;">
<li>Describe how GC scholars will be selected, including anticipated number of students involved and how the five GC curricular components will be met at your school.</li>
<li>Describe how GC scholars will be assessed and tracked at your school. Also include in this section how you will promote early student engagement in GC-related activities, as well as how you will foster intramural and extramural networking among GC scholars.</li>
</ul>

      5. The Steering Committee will review your application and provide feedback (most applicants typically make one revision). When                          the Steering Committee approves your operational document, you will become an official member of the NAE GCSP family!

= Contact Information =

== Chair and School Contact ==

'''Jenna P. Carpenter''' Associate Dean Administration and Strategic Initiatives Professor of Mathematics Louisiana Tech University [mailto:jenna@latech.edu jenna@latech.edu]  +1 (318) 257 - 2101

== Project Director ==

'''Randy Atkins''' Project Director Communications/Media National Academy of Engineering atkins@nae.edu (202) 334 - 1508

== Committee Members ==

=== Student Contact for the Duke Grand Challenge Scholars Program ===

'''Martha Absher''' Associate Dean Education & Research Programs [mailto:martha.absher@duke.edu martha.absher@duke.edu ]+1 (919) 660 - 5139 (tel)

=== Student Contact for the Olin Grand Challenge Scholars Program ===

'''Lynn Andrea Stein''' Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science The Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering [mailto:las@olin.edu las@olin.][[Las@olin.edu|edu]] +1 (781) 292 - 2525 (tel)

=== Student Contact for USC Viterbi Grand Challenge Scholars Program ===

'''Louise Yates''' Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs [mailto:yates@usc.edu yates@usc.edu ]+1 (213) 740 - 4530 (tel)

== For Additional Information ==

Please contact Randy Atkins, Project Director, at [[engineeringchallenges@nae.edu]].

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Grand Challenges Scholars Program

2015-01-08T20:16:41Z

Gconners:

= Overview =

[[File:Gc-logo-2012-small.jpg|none|Gc-logo-2012-small.jpg]]

The [http://www.nae.edu/ NAE] Grand Challenges Scholars program is a combined program with five components that are designed to create and inspire our next generation of engineers to face a lifetime of problem solving. These challenges range from simple to extreme and must be solved to create a stable and safe life for future generations. It is anticipated that each participating institution will develop its own specific realization of the five components, and that students who complete the program successfully will receive a distinction of Grand Challenge Scholar endorsed by their institution and the National Academy of Engineering. The Grand Challenge Scholar Program has two levels of organization and thus two levels of assessment are needed to ensure consistency with the core principles set forth by the founding committee.

The NAE Committee on Engineering's Grand Challenges has identified 14 areas awaiting engineering solutions in the 21st century:

#Making solar energy economical
#Provide energy from fusion
#Develop carbon sequestration methods
#Manage the nitrogen cycle
#Provide access to clean water
#Restore and improve urban infrastructure
#Advance health informatics
#Engineer better medicines
#Reverse-engineer the brain
#Prevent nuclear terror 
#Secure cyberspace
#Enhance virtual reality
#Advanced personalized learning
#Engineer the tools of scientific discovery



A [http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996.aspx 6-minute video] discusses the different aspects of the 14 areas in need of engineering solutions. Finding solutions to the Grand Challenges will positively effect life socially and economically. By creating a [http://www.e4uvideocontest.org/ 1 - 2 minute video] that shows how engineering serves the need of society, you can be entered to win $25,000. 

= Purpose =

Our next generation of engineers require more diverse knowledge than ever before. The purpose of [http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/ NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program] is to make engineering students ready to solve the grand challenges that our society currently faces. The Grand Challenges Scholars program is looking at these ambitious tasks:

* Create new capabilities
* Provide pragmatic solutions for basic human needs
* Develop new entrepreneurial opportunities
* Reinvent human interactions
* Transform systems thinking
* Be the architects of a sustainable society
* Be mindful of unintended consequences
* Connect technology with society

== Five Components Preparing Future Engineers ==

The five components of the Grand Challenge Scholars Program that will prepare future engineers include: 1. ''Project or research activity engaging a GC theme or challenge.'' Working to solve the NAE Grand Challenges is the motivation for the GCSP. Each GC scholar must participate in a substantial team or independent project relating to a Grand Challenge theme or specific Grand Challenge problem.  2. ''Interdisciplinary curriculum.'' Bridging engineering to other disciplines is essential for solving the NAE Grand Challenges. An “Engineering-Plus” curriculum should be devised that prepares engineering students to work at the boundary between an engineering and non-engineering discipline, such as public policy, international relations, business, law, ethics, human behavior, risk, medicine and the natural sciences. However, this must be more than simply double majoring or picking up a minor in a non-engineering discipline. Examples that span these disciplines with a coherent theme are Engery and the Environment, Sustainability, Uncertainty and Optimization, etc.  3. ''Entrepreneurship.'' Implementing innovation is central to technology development. Each GC scholar must participate in a curricular or meta-curricular component on the process of translating invention and innovation into market ventures. This may be either risk-taking ventures for business or introducing technology for not-for-profits that scale global solutions in the public interest.  4. ''Global dimension.'' Global awareness is necessary for working effectively in an interdependent world. Students may participate in a curricular or meta-curricular component that instills elements necessary to develop innovations in a global economy, or address ethical issues of global concern. Domestic activities that stress global or cross-cultural implications may satisfy this component. 5. ''Service learning.'' Working for the benefit of others is the foundation of a civil society. Students may participate in a curricular or meta-curricular component that deepens their social awareness and to heighten their motivation to bring their technical expertise to bear on societal problems. Programs such as [[Engineers Without Borders|Engineers Without Borders]], or [[Engineering World Health|Engineering World Health]] may be adapted to satisfy this component.

== Summit Series on the Grand Challenges ==

The goal of this summit is to change the way students become educated. 

#Enhance student interest in engineering and science.
#Increase the visibility and importance of engineering and science to society.
#Underscore the importance of recognizing that engineering education must by coupled to policy, business and law and must be student-focused. 
#Enhance student interest in engineering, science and technology entrepreneurship.
#Foment future collaborations of interested scientists, engineers, policy makers and researchers in business, law, social sciences and humanities needed to successfully address these complex societal issues.

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =

The Grand Challenges Scholars Program teaches engineers very important skills in learning how to deal with the biggest problems facing our society. This program is different because it explicitly defines the most relevant problems to our public and allows students across campus to participate. Students are able to collaborate with other engineers that are active in the scholarship program.  Not only will this program teach engineering students the skills necessary to solve problems, but it will also raise awareness around the most important worldly challenges and will inspire young engineers to tackle those challenges. The Grand Challenges Scholars Program is also working towards implementing a program for K-12 that will equip students to become engineers. 

Randy Atkins, Founder of the 14 Grand Challenges for the National Academy of Engineers says, "This provides students with a vision of what they can do with engineering and how they can change the world."

The Office of Science and Technology Policy is interested in seeing the program across many different campuses across the country. Check out this [http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/25/america-s-students-step-challenge article] to see what Washington has to say about the NAE!

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

'''Founding Grand Challenges Campuses:'''

*[http://www.pratt.duke.edu/undergrad/students/grand-challenge-scholars-program Duke University, Pratt School of Engineering]
*[http://www.grandchallengescholars.org/files/grandchscholars/OlinGCSP.pdf The Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering]
*[http://viterbi.usc.edu/research/grand-challenges/ University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering]

'''  Additional campuses currently involved with the NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program:'''

*[http://more.engineering.asu.edu/grandchallengescholars/ Arizona State University, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering]
*[http://coes.latech.edu/students/gcscholars.php Louisiana Tech University, College of Engineering and Science]
*[http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/grandchallenge/ NC State University, College of Engineering]
*[http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/about/college-services/grand-challenges University of Iowa, College of Engineering]
*[http://sites.lafayette.edu/grandchallenges/ Lafayette College, Lafayette College]
*[http://www.engr.utk.edu/outreach/TheGrandChallenge.html The University of Tennessee, College of Engineering]
*[http://www.bucknell.edu/GCSP.xml Bucknell University, Bucknell College of Engineering]
*[https://www1.wne.edu/engineering/index.cfm?selection=doc.8328 Western New England College, School of Engineering]
*[http://parks.slu.edu/current-students/gcsp/ St. Louis University, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology]
*[http://www.grandchallengescholars.org/files/grandchscholars/u1/GCSPDocumentFinal.pdf The Univerity of Texas at Austin, Cockrell School of Engineering]
*[https://www.coe.utah.edu/gcsp University of Utah, College of Engineering]

= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =

Interested in the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges Scholars Program? Student or faculty members can contact NAE by going to the [http://www.grandchallengescholars.org/join website] and submitting the required application. All engineering or non-engineering students are welcome to participate in this scholars program as well. To develop an approved program, follw these steps: 

#Join the [http://www.grandchallengescholars.org/join GCSP Community]. You can also [https://lists.latech.edu/mailman/listinfo/grand-challenges-scholars join the listserv] to keep up with the lestest GCSP information and news!
#Describe the GCSPvision to your school and [http://www.grandchallengescholars.org/sites/grandchallengescholars.org/files/proposing_a_gcs_program.pdf create a GCSP operational document (PDF)]. It may be helpful to look at [http://www.grandchallengescholars.org/active-programs operational documents from existing programs].
#Students are able to pick one of the 14 grand challenges as long as it is aligned with the 5 GC curricular components. 
#Submit application by emailing your completed operational document to [[Jenna@latech.edu|Dr. Jenna Carpenter]], Chair of the NAE GCSP Steering Committee. 
<ul style="margin-left: 80px;">
<li>Describe how GC scholars will be selected, including anticipated number of students involved and how the five GC curricular components will be met at your school.</li>
<li>Describe how GC scholars will be assessed and tracked at your school. Also include in this section how you will promote early student engagement in GC-related activities, as well as how you will foster intramural and extramural networking among GC scholars.</li>
</ul>

      5. The Steering Committee will review your application and provide feedback (most applicants typically make one revision). When                          the Steering Committee approves your operational document, you will become an official member of the NAE GCSP family!

= Contact Information =

== Chair and School Contact ==

'''Jenna P. Carpenter''' Associate Dean Administration and Strategic Initiatives Professor of Mathematics Louisiana Tech University [mailto:jenna@latech.edu jenna@latech.edu]  +1 (318) 257 - 2101

== Project Director ==

'''Randy Atkins''' Project Director Communications/Media National Academy of Engineering atkins@nae.edu (202) 334 - 1508

== Committee Members ==

=== Student Contact for the Duke Grand Challenge Scholars Program ===

'''Martha Absher''' Associate Dean Education & Research Programs [mailto:martha.absher@duke.edu martha.absher@duke.edu ]+1 (919) 660 - 5139 (tel)

=== Student Contact for the Olin Grand Challenge Scholars Program ===

'''Lynn Andrea Stein''' Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science The Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering [mailto:las@olin.edu las@olin.][[Las@olin.edu|edu]] +1 (781) 292 - 2525 (tel)

=== Student Contact for USC Viterbi Grand Challenge Scholars Program ===

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== For Additional Information ==

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Fellow:Gabriel Conners

2015-01-04T01:55:44Z

Gconners:

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I am Gabriel Conners, a student of collaboration and “creativity as currency.” With a passion to empower the epic in everyone, I attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, nestled in the south of Chicago’s urban core. In 2009, I took a five-year hiatus from the rigors of academia to explore a nagging reality that I can best sum up as “why do people live apathetic and uninspired lives?” I came to see that the most satisfied people were either pursuing a passion or at peace with life(or both!).

This journey has led me to Illinois Tech, where I study Social and Economic Development Policy and work with the University Innovation Fellows, the IIT Student Government, and the office of Student Access, Success, and Diversity Initiatives to reform the culture of campus to better nurture creative passions. My life’s mission involves seeing this kind of culture shift spill over into surrounding communities, so that education institutions drive creative revolutions in their neighborhoods.

In my spare time, I love to romance things: sunsets, trees, architectural masterpieces, symphonies, blackberry cobblers, fractals, you name it! There is beauty in everything. I mostly express my soul through poetry and song, though I certainly let my feet give way to the occasional dance. My favorite gems in this world are my nephews: 1 and 3 years old. They remind me of the importance of relationships and the unlimited potential within each of us.

I’d love to know about your passions and to explore opportunities for collaboration; how can I help you realize your dreams? Find me @GabrielConners and GabrielConners@gmail.com

Fellow:Gabriel Conners

2015-01-04T01:51:04Z

Gconners: Student of Community Development; Creativity + Collaboration = Community Revolution.

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I am Gabriel Conners, a student of collaboration and “creativity as currency.” With a passion to empower the epic in everyone, I attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, nestled in the south of Chicago’s urban core. In 2009, I took a five-year hiatus from the rigors of academia to explore a nagging reality that I can best sum up as “why do people live apathetic and uninspired lives?” I came to see that the most satisfied people were either pursuing a passion or at peace with life(or both!).

This journey has led me to Illinois Tech, where I study Social and Economic Development Policy and work with the University Innovations Fellowship, the IIT Student Government, and the office of Student Access, Success, and Diversity Initiatives to reform the culture of campus to better nurture creative passions. My life’s mission involves seeing this kind of culture shift spill over into surrounding communities, so that education institutions drive creative revolutions in their neighborhoods.

In my spare time, I love to romance things: sunsets, trees, architectural masterpieces, symphonies, blackberry cobblers, fractals, you name it! There is beauty in everything. I mostly express my soul through poetry and song, though I certainly let my feet give way to the occasional dance. My favorite gems in this world are my nephews: 1 and 3 years old. They remind me of the importance of relationships and the unlimited potential within each of us.

I’d love to know about your passions and to explore opportunities for collaboration; how can I help you realize your dreams? Find me @GabrielConners and GabrielConners@gmail.com

Fellow:Gabriel Conners

2015-01-03T23:24:16Z

Gconners: Created page with "thumbAn enthralling bio to come in this space!"

[[File:GabrielConners.jpg|thumb]]An enthralling bio to come in this space!

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2015-01-03T23:18:33Z

Gconners: Illinois Institute of Technology, UIF Spring 2015

Illinois Institute of Technology, UIF Spring 2015