University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]

Fellow:Jake Ropson

2018-10-18T05:30:06Z

Jake Ropson:

Jake Ropson is a junior at Colorado School of Mines studying Chemical Engineering. He hopes to use his degree to actively pursue research in semiconductors and processors. Later on, his ultimate goal is to start his own company dedicated towards photovolatic technology.

[[File:JakeRopsonPic.jpg]] 

 

Jake enjoys hanging out with friends and being outdoors, playing a chess, and all water activities. Coming to Colorado, he has taken on snowboarding and therefore falling down as two of his out of school hobbies. Aside from his hobbies, Jake is involved with the Adventure Leadership Community (ALC), which involves intertwining teaching freshman leadership traits while all sharing the common passion for outdoors. Furthermore, he is involved with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, a program dedicated towards the collaboration of current and future chemical engineers on projects and current research.

Fellow:Jake Ropson

2018-10-18T05:26:57Z

Jake Ropson:

Jake Ropson is a junior at Colorado School of Mines studying Chemical Engineering. He hopes to use his degree to actively pursue research in semiconductors and processors. Later on, his ultimate goal is to start his own company dedicated towards photovolatic technology.

[[File:JakeRopsonPic.jpg]]

Jake enjoys hanging out with friends and being outdoors, playing a chess, and all water activities. Coming to Colorado, he has taken on snowboarding and therefore falling down as two of his out of school hobbies. Aside from his hobbies, Jake is involved with the Adventure Leadership Community (ALC), which involves intertwining teaching freshman leadership traits while all sharing the common passion for outdoors. Furthermore, he is involved with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, a program dedicated towards the collaboration of current and future chemical engineers on projects and current research.

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2018-10-18T05:25:20Z

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2018-10-18T05:20:50Z

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Fellow:Jake Ropson

2018-10-18T05:14:09Z

Jake Ropson:

Jake Ropson is a junior at Colorado School of Mines studying Chemical Engineering. He hopes to use his degree to actively pursue research in semiconductors and processors. Later on, his ultimate goal is to start his own company dedicated towards photovolatic technology.

Jake enjoys hanging out with friends and being outdoors, playing a chess, and all water activities. Coming to Colorado, he has taken on snowboarding and therefore falling down as two of his out of school hobbies. Aside from his hobbies, Jake is involved with the Adventure Leadership Community (ALC), which involves intertwining teaching freshman leadership traits while all sharing the common passion for outdoors. Furthermore, he is involved with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, a program dedicated towards the collaboration of current and future chemical engineers on projects and current research.

School:Colorado School of Mines

2018-10-18T04:38:55Z

Jake Ropson:

The [http://www.mines.edu Colorado School of Mines] is a public research university of engineering and applied science in Golden, Colorado. 

== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==

=== Entrepreneurship Club (E-Club) ===

In the Spring 2014 semester, the Entrepreneurship Club at mines was restarted to become an active campus organization that has brought in local entrepreneurs to talk about their experiences. The club will organize several campus wide events in the coming academic year to increase awareness and exposure to innovation and entrepreneurship.

Website is under development.

=== Design Lab ===

The Director of Senior Design for Mechanical Engineering, Jered Dean, has taken steps to transform the mechanical engineering senior design lab into an open design lab that allows students to use equipment for any academic or personal project. The lab consists of 6 new makerbot 3D printers along with other prototyping equipment in the basement of Brown Hall. The entire Senior Design Program is Known as the Capstone Design Program and is named as such to Symbolize the "Capstone" at the end of the undergraduate program at Mines. As part of this program students can partner with companies and use the senior design lab as a space to innovate and generate prototypes and designs.

Another Option that is avalible to all Students as a resource for pursueing inrest in innovation and design is the Career center where students can connect with bussinesses that can assist with Ideas and projects students wish to pursue or apply for internships with Companies whose intrests align with there own.

In the past few months many new design areas have been added to campus some for all enrolled students like the Blaster Design Factory, and others for specific majors like The Outlet. Spaces like these and others provide students with the ability and the means to bring life to their ideas. Other spaces like the The Digger Design Factory and the Machine Shop are for a more hands on approach instead of a more design oriented enviornment. 

=== Startup Summer ===

Employers participating in [http://www.startupcolorado.com/startup-summer Startup Summer] have come to Mines to promote the program where students interested in startups can have a paid internship and gain valuable insight into innovation and entrepreneurship. This program has been a pathway for post graduation employment for several Mines graduates.

=== Maker Society ===

The Maker Society democratizes 'making' on campus. The Society implemented a hub and spoke model to connect all of the maker spaces on campus with a brand new maker space at the center, the Blaster Design Factory (BDF). The BDF is a space for rapid prototyping that is open to all students and faculty. They foster innovation and connect students to the other spaces on campus. Their main focus is the idea that "anyone can create anything."

=== Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation ===

The center for entrepreneurship and innovation here at the Colorado School of Mines aspires to give students the opportunity to build skills which will vastly help them in their bright futures.

They have two primary objectives:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Educate our students in modern entrepreneurial thinking.
</li>
<li>
Provide the opportunity for our students and faculty to explore the commercialization of their science and technology ideas.
</li>
</ol>

Their vision for the future is to create a Colorado School of Mines where entrepreneurs are seamlessly connected with the infrastructure, resources, and funding they need to achieve their goal: developing sustainable and successful commercial entities based on either Mines-derived or individual-derived technologies.

<span style="text-decoration-line: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[https://innovation.mines.edu/about/ https://innovation.mines.edu/about/]
<div> </div>

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship'''  ==

=== Pathway to Innovation Leadership Team ===

Overall, encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship has become a focus here at Mines. The Pathway to Innovation Leadership Team is a group of faculty members focused on promoting innovation and entrepreneurship amidst the student body.

*The Pathways to Innovation Leadership Team partnered with the University Innovation Fellows to put on the first Inovation Competition for students at Mines.
*The team has connections to other faculty members with experience in business and entrepreneurship. These faculty members have expressed interest in showcasing their experiences and running workshops around innovation and entrepreneurship.

=== Resources for Midea ===

Faculty members have helped develop resources for the Midea Hub (online tool used by students looking for resources while in different stages of the innovation or entrepreneurship process). These faculty members range in expertise from design thinking to policy and paperwork regarding patents.

=== '''Building Relationships with Faculty Members''' ===

The Colorado School of Mines UIF Leadership circle focuses on building professional and personal relationships with faculty in order to encourage faculty innovation and rally support for the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship. 

== '''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function''' ==

The office of technology transfer (OTT) has primarily been used to commercialize PhD research.

OTT has provided an [http://inside.mines.edu/RES-Resources-Technology-Transfer extensive list] of regional and national resources that might be of use for students interested in innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Office of Research Administration (ORA) is also a resource for students who are interested in researching a particular subject in depth. The ORA provides guidance for all steps of research, including proposal preparation, grant writing, and seeking for fundings. A full list of resources and contact information can be found [http://inside.mines.edu/ORA-About#contact here].

In addition to the above resources, Mines has recently put together a new website named [http://midea.mines.edu/ Midea] that contains resources both on campus and on the web.  The vision for this website is to be a hub for all student innovation and entrepreneurial activities where students can see projects other students have put together, find inspiration, or seek help from other students or faculty.  This site is still in its beginning stages and many of its pages do not yet have any information on them, but this will be changing over the next several weeks as information is continually being added.  

== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==

Current collaboration exists between research groups and industry. These collaborations are primarily used to fund graduate students and do not promote innovation/entrepreneurship.

== Resources on Campus ==

While the majority of collaboration is used to fund graduate students. There are resources that help students branch out and make lasting connections

=== McBride Honors Program ===

The McBride Honors Program is very generous in funding scholarships that can be used to travel abroad and help pay for internship costs. They also provide an extensive list of available internships and programs. Due to the engineering focus on Mines' campus, most of the opportunities are focused in engineering and creating policy around it. But there are opportunities that allow for experiences that can be used to learn a great deal about how other places and cultures run their schooling systems and how people associate in general.

One such opportunity is the various programs offered by [http://ptpi.org/ People to People International]. These programs link people through the exchange of experiences and ideas.

=== Career Center and Alumni Association ===

The Career Center at Colorado School of Mines does not fund students, but it does offer a wide range of career and internship opportunities. Many students take advantage of the Career Day and different workshops around campus to secure positions from a wide range of fields.

The Alumni Association also offers vast neworking opportunities outside of the university.

== Off Campus Resources ==

=== Denver Area Resources ===

Off campus resources include places such as Innovation Pavilion where anyone can rent out conference rooms and use the on site resources. While places such as these so require additional cost, they are important resources to consider once becoming more established.

= '''Related Links''' =

'''Colorado School of Mines'''

[[CSM Strategic Priorities|Colorado School of Mines Student Priorites]]

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Fall 2018:

*[[Jake Ropson|Jake Ropson]]
*[[Keenan Urmann|Keenan Urmann]]
*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Miguel_Moreira Miguel Moreira]
*Anastasia Sjahputera

Spring 2018:

*[[Adam Marcinkowski|Adam Marcinkowski]]
*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Curtis_Harrison Curtis Harrison]
*[[Michael Thuis|Michael Thuis]]
*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Torin_Johnson Torin Johnson]

Spring 2017:

*[[Emma May|Emma May]]
*[[Tanner McAdoo|Tanner McAdoo]]
*[[Sarah Ingram|Sarah Ingram]]
*[[Samuel Warfield|Samuel Warfield]]

Spring 2016:

*[[Mallory Britz|Mallory Britz]]
*[[Daniel Dickason|Daniel Dickason]]
*[[Trevor Clevenger|Trevor Clevenger]]
*[[Tara Maestas|Tara Maestas]]
*[[Asya Sergoyan|Asya Sergoyan]]
*[[Nicholas Yuan|Nicholas Yuan]]

Spring 2014:

*[[Corey Brugh|Corey Brugh]]

== CSM Landscape Canvas ==

=== Fall 2018 ===

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IJ6fCIjbBrTWoW482E7YLFjtAvwPzw00C1P01SrelnI/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IJ6fCIjbBrTWoW482E7YLFjtAvwPzw00C1P01SrelnI/edit#gid=0]

=== Spring 2018 ===

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SW0lMDsP_PIEB4M3APyt8At7vjSu-o-D/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SW0lMDsP_PIEB4M3APyt8At7vjSu-o-D/view?usp=sharing]

=== Spring 2017 ===

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11rTy4QVidrtZd7eWqCl7whB1fICfmWOZyZVIrGTJJng/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11rTy4QVidrtZd7eWqCl7whB1fICfmWOZyZVIrGTJJng/edit#gid=0]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Colorado School of Mines

2018-10-18T04:38:32Z

Jake Ropson:

The [http://www.mines.edu Colorado School of Mines] is a public research university of engineering and applied science in Golden, Colorado. 

== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==

=== Entrepreneurship Club (E-Club) ===

In the Spring 2014 semester, the Entrepreneurship Club at mines was restarted to become an active campus organization that has brought in local entrepreneurs to talk about their experiences. The club will organize several campus wide events in the coming academic year to increase awareness and exposure to innovation and entrepreneurship.

Website is under development.

=== Design Lab ===

The Director of Senior Design for Mechanical Engineering, Jered Dean, has taken steps to transform the mechanical engineering senior design lab into an open design lab that allows students to use equipment for any academic or personal project. The lab consists of 6 new makerbot 3D printers along with other prototyping equipment in the basement of Brown Hall. The entire Senior Design Program is Known as the Capstone Design Program and is named as such to Symbolize the "Capstone" at the end of the undergraduate program at Mines. As part of this program students can partner with companies and use the senior design lab as a space to innovate and generate prototypes and designs.

Another Option that is avalible to all Students as a resource for pursueing inrest in innovation and design is the Career center where students can connect with bussinesses that can assist with Ideas and projects students wish to pursue or apply for internships with Companies whose intrests align with there own.

In the past few months many new design areas have been added to campus some for all enrolled students like the Blaster Design Factory, and others for specific majors like The Outlet. Spaces like these and others provide students with the ability and the means to bring life to their ideas. Other spaces like the The Digger Design Factory and the Machine Shop are for a more hands on approach instead of a more design oriented enviornment. 

=== Startup Summer ===

Employers participating in [http://www.startupcolorado.com/startup-summer Startup Summer] have come to Mines to promote the program where students interested in startups can have a paid internship and gain valuable insight into innovation and entrepreneurship. This program has been a pathway for post graduation employment for several Mines graduates.

=== Maker Society ===

The Maker Society democratizes 'making' on campus. The Society implemented a hub and spoke model to connect all of the maker spaces on campus with a brand new maker space at the center, the Blaster Design Factory (BDF). The BDF is a space for rapid prototyping that is open to all students and faculty. They foster innovation and connect students to the other spaces on campus. Their main focus is the idea that "anyone can create anything."

=== Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation ===

The center for entrepreneurship and innovation here at the Colorado School of Mines aspires to give students the opportunity to build skills which will vastly help them in their bright futures.

They have two primary objectives:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Educate our students in modern entrepreneurial thinking.
</li>
<li>
Provide the opportunity for our students and faculty to explore the commercialization of their science and technology ideas.
</li>
</ol>

Their vision for the future is to create a Colorado School of Mines where entrepreneurs are seamlessly connected with the infrastructure, resources, and funding they need to achieve their goal: developing sustainable and successful commercial entities based on either Mines-derived or individual-derived technologies.

<span style="text-decoration-line: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[https://innovation.mines.edu/about/ https://innovation.mines.edu/about/]
<div> </div>

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship'''  ==

=== Pathway to Innovation Leadership Team ===

Overall, encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship has become a focus here at Mines. The Pathway to Innovation Leadership Team is a group of faculty members focused on promoting innovation and entrepreneurship amidst the student body.

*The Pathways to Innovation Leadership Team partnered with the University Innovation Fellows to put on the first Inovation Competition for students at Mines.
*The team has connections to other faculty members with experience in business and entrepreneurship. These faculty members have expressed interest in showcasing their experiences and running workshops around innovation and entrepreneurship.

=== Resources for Midea ===

Faculty members have helped develop resources for the Midea Hub (online tool used by students looking for resources while in different stages of the innovation or entrepreneurship process). These faculty members range in expertise from design thinking to policy and paperwork regarding patents.

=== '''Building Relationships with Faculty Members''' ===

The Colorado School of Mines UIF Leadership circle focuses on building professional and personal relationships with faculty in order to encourage faculty innovation and rally support for the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship. 

== '''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function''' ==

The office of technology transfer (OTT) has primarily been used to commercialize PhD research.

OTT has provided an [http://inside.mines.edu/RES-Resources-Technology-Transfer extensive list] of regional and national resources that might be of use for students interested in innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Office of Research Administration (ORA) is also a resource for students who are interested in researching a particular subject in depth. The ORA provides guidance for all steps of research, including proposal preparation, grant writing, and seeking for fundings. A full list of resources and contact information can be found [http://inside.mines.edu/ORA-About#contact here].

In addition to the above resources, Mines has recently put together a new website named [http://midea.mines.edu/ Midea] that contains resources both on campus and on the web.  The vision for this website is to be a hub for all student innovation and entrepreneurial activities where students can see projects other students have put together, find inspiration, or seek help from other students or faculty.  This site is still in its beginning stages and many of its pages do not yet have any information on them, but this will be changing over the next several weeks as information is continually being added.  

== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==

Current collaboration exists between research groups and industry. These collaborations are primarily used to fund graduate students and do not promote innovation/entrepreneurship.

== Resources on Campus ==

While the majority of collaboration is used to fund graduate students. There are resources that help students branch out and make lasting connections

=== McBride Honors Program ===

The McBride Honors Program is very generous in funding scholarships that can be used to travel abroad and help pay for internship costs. They also provide an extensive list of available internships and programs. Due to the engineering focus on Mines' campus, most of the opportunities are focused in engineering and creating policy around it. But there are opportunities that allow for experiences that can be used to learn a great deal about how other places and cultures run their schooling systems and how people associate in general.

One such opportunity is the various programs offered by [http://ptpi.org/ People to People International]. These programs link people through the exchange of experiences and ideas.

=== Career Center and Alumni Association ===

The Career Center at Colorado School of Mines does not fund students, but it does offer a wide range of career and internship opportunities. Many students take advantage of the Career Day and different workshops around campus to secure positions from a wide range of fields.

The Alumni Association also offers vast neworking opportunities outside of the university.

== Off Campus Resources ==

=== Denver Area Resources ===

Off campus resources include places such as Innovation Pavilion where anyone can rent out conference rooms and use the on site resources. While places such as these so require additional cost, they are important resources to consider once becoming more established.

= '''Related Links''' =

'''Colorado School of Mines'''

[[CSM Strategic Priorities|Colorado School of Mines Student Priorites]]

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Fall 2018:

*[[Jake_Ropson|Jake_Ropson]]
*[[Keenan Urmann|Keenan Urmann]]
*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Miguel_Moreira Miguel Moreira]
*Anastasia Sjahputera

Spring 2018:

*[[Adam Marcinkowski|Adam Marcinkowski]]
*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Curtis_Harrison Curtis Harrison]
*[[Michael Thuis|Michael Thuis]]
*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Torin_Johnson Torin Johnson]

Spring 2017:

*[[Emma May|Emma May]]
*[[Tanner McAdoo|Tanner McAdoo]]
*[[Sarah Ingram|Sarah Ingram]]
*[[Samuel Warfield|Samuel Warfield]]

Spring 2016:

*[[Mallory Britz|Mallory Britz]]
*[[Daniel Dickason|Daniel Dickason]]
*[[Trevor Clevenger|Trevor Clevenger]]
*[[Tara Maestas|Tara Maestas]]
*[[Asya Sergoyan|Asya Sergoyan]]
*[[Nicholas Yuan|Nicholas Yuan]]

Spring 2014:

*[[Corey Brugh|Corey Brugh]]

== CSM Landscape Canvas ==

=== Fall 2018 ===

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IJ6fCIjbBrTWoW482E7YLFjtAvwPzw00C1P01SrelnI/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IJ6fCIjbBrTWoW482E7YLFjtAvwPzw00C1P01SrelnI/edit#gid=0]

=== Spring 2018 ===

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SW0lMDsP_PIEB4M3APyt8At7vjSu-o-D/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SW0lMDsP_PIEB4M3APyt8At7vjSu-o-D/view?usp=sharing]

=== Spring 2017 ===

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11rTy4QVidrtZd7eWqCl7whB1fICfmWOZyZVIrGTJJng/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11rTy4QVidrtZd7eWqCl7whB1fICfmWOZyZVIrGTJJng/edit#gid=0]

[[Category:Universities]]

Fellow:Jake Ropson

2018-10-18T01:53:40Z

Jake Ropson:

Jake Ropson is a junior at Colorado School of Mines studying Chemical Engineering. He hopes to use his degree to actively pursue research in semiconductors and processors. Later on, his ultimate goal is to start his own company dedicated towards photovolatic technology.

Jake enjoys hanging out with friends and being outdoors, playing a chess, and all water activities. Coming to Colorado, he has taken on snowboarding and therefore falling down as two of his out of school hobbies. Aside from his hobbies, Jake is involved with the Adventure Leadership Community (ALC), which involves intertwining teaching freshman leadership traits while all sharing the common passion for outdoors. Furthermore, he is involved with 

Fellow:Jake Ropson

2018-10-18T01:50:43Z

Jake Ropson:

Jake Ropson is a junior at Colorado School of Mines studying Chemical Engineering. He hopes to use his degree to actively pursue research in semiconductors and processors. Later on, his ultimate goal is to start his own company dedicated towards photovolatic technology.

Jake enjoys hanging out with friends and being outdoors, and all water activities. Coming to Colorado, he has taken on snowboarding and therefore falling down as two of his out of school hobbies. Aside from his hobbies, Jake is involved with the Adventure Leadership Community (ALC), which involves intertwining teaching freshman leadership traits while all sharing the common passion for outdoors. Furthermore, he is involved with 

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2018-10-18T01:47:36Z

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2018-10-18T01:45:20Z

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2018-10-18T01:45:00Z

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2018-10-18T01:40:05Z

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2018-10-18T01:36:30Z

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2018-10-18T01:35:49Z

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School:Colorado School of Mines

2018-10-03T00:50:08Z

Jake Ropson:

The [http://www.mines.edu Colorado School of Mines] is a public research university of engineering and applied science in Golden, Colorado. 

== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==

=== Entrepreneurship Club (E-Club) ===

In the Spring 2014 semester, the Entrepreneurship Club at mines was restarted to become an active campus organization that has brought in local entrepreneurs to talk about their experiences. The club will organize several campus wide events in the coming academic year to increase awareness and exposure to innovation and entrepreneurship.

Website is under development.

=== Design Lab ===

The Director of Senior Design for Mechanical Engineering, Jered Dean, has taken steps to transform the mechanical engineering senior design lab into an open design lab that allows students to use equipment for any academic or personal project. The lab consists of 6 new makerbot 3D printers along with other prototyping equipment in the basement of Brown Hall. The entire Senior Design Program is Known as the Capstone Design Program and is named as such to Symbolize the "Capstone" at the end of the undergraduate program at Mines. As part of this program students can partner with companies and use the senior design lab as a space to innovate and generate prototypes and designs.

Another Option that is avalible to all Students as a resource for pursueing inrest in innovation and design is the Career center where students can connect with bussinesses that can assist with Ideas and projects students wish to pursue or apply for internships with Companies whose intrests align with there own.

In the past few months many new design areas have been added to campus some for all enrolled students like the Blaster Design Factory, and others for specific majors like The Outlet. Spaces like these and others provide students with the ability and the means to bring life to their ideas. Other spaces like the The Digger Design Factory and the Machine Shop are for a more hands on approach instead of a more design oriented enviornment. 

=== Startup Summer ===

Employers participating in [http://www.startupcolorado.com/startup-summer Startup Summer] have come to Mines to promote the program where students interested in startups can have a paid internship and gain valuable insight into innovation and entrepreneurship. This program has been a pathway for post graduation employment for several Mines graduates.

=== Maker Society ===

The Maker Society democratizes 'making' on campus. The Society implemented a hub and spoke model to connect all of the maker spaces on campus with a brand new maker space at the center, the Blaster Design Factory (BDF). The BDF is a space for rapid prototyping that is open to all students and faculty. They foster innovation and connect students to the other spaces on campus. Their main focus is the idea that "anyone can create anything."

=== Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation ===

The center for entrepreneurship and innovation here at the Colorado School of Mines aspires to give students the opportunity to build skills which will vastly help them in their bright futures.

They have two primary objectives:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Educate our students in modern entrepreneurial thinking.
</li>
<li>
Provide the opportunity for our students and faculty to explore the commercialization of their science and technology ideas.
</li>
</ol>

Their vision for the future is to create a Colorado School of Mines where entrepreneurs are seamlessly connected with the infrastructure, resources, and funding they need to achieve their goal: developing sustainable and successful commercial entities based on either Mines-derived or individual-derived technologies.

<span style="text-decoration-line: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[https://innovation.mines.edu/about/ https://innovation.mines.edu/about/]
<div> </div>

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship'''  ==

=== Pathway to Innovation Leadership Team ===

Overall, encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship has become a focus here at Mines. The Pathway to Innovation Leadership Team is a group of faculty members focused on promoting innovation and entrepreneurship amidst the student body.

*The Pathways to Innovation Leadership Team partnered with the University Innovation Fellows to put on the first Inovation Competition for students at Mines.
*The team has connections to other faculty members with experience in business and entrepreneurship. These faculty members have expressed interest in showcasing their experiences and running workshops around innovation and entrepreneurship.

=== Resources for Midea ===

Faculty members have helped develop resources for the Midea Hub (online tool used by students looking for resources while in different stages of the innovation or entrepreneurship process). These faculty members range in expertise from design thinking to policy and paperwork regarding patents.

=== '''Building Relationships with Faculty Members''' ===

The Colorado School of Mines UIF Leadership circle focuses on building professional and personal relationships with faculty in order to encourage faculty innovation and rally support for the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship. 

== '''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function''' ==

The office of technology transfer (OTT) has primarily been used to commercialize PhD research.

OTT has provided an [http://inside.mines.edu/RES-Resources-Technology-Transfer extensive list] of regional and national resources that might be of use for students interested in innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Office of Research Administration (ORA) is also a resource for students who are interested in researching a particular subject in depth. The ORA provides guidance for all steps of research, including proposal preparation, grant writing, and seeking for fundings. A full list of resources and contact information can be found [http://inside.mines.edu/ORA-About#contact here].

In addition to the above resources, Mines has recently put together a new website named [http://midea.mines.edu/ Midea] that contains resources both on campus and on the web.  The vision for this website is to be a hub for all student innovation and entrepreneurial activities where students can see projects other students have put together, find inspiration, or seek help from other students or faculty.  This site is still in its beginning stages and many of its pages do not yet have any information on them, but this will be changing over the next several weeks as information is continually being added.  

== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==

Current collaboration exists between research groups and industry. These collaborations are primarily used to fund graduate students and do not promote innovation/entrepreneurship.

== Resources on Campus ==

While the majority of collaboration is used to fund graduate students. There are resources that help students branch out and make lasting connections

=== McBride Honors Program ===

The McBride Honors Program is very generous in funding scholarships that can be used to travel abroad and help pay for internship costs. They also provide an extensive list of available internships and programs. Due to the engineering focus on Mines' campus, most of the opportunities are focused in engineering and creating policy around it. But there are opportunities that allow for experiences that can be used to learn a great deal about how other places and cultures run their schooling systems and how people associate in general.

One such opportunity is the various programs offered by [http://ptpi.org/ People to People International]. These programs link people through the exchange of experiences and ideas.

=== Career Center and Alumni Association ===

The Career Center at Colorado School of Mines does not fund students, but it does offer a wide range of career and internship opportunities. Many students take advantage of the Career Day and different workshops around campus to secure positions from a wide range of fields.

The Alumni Association also offers vast neworking opportunities outside of the university.

== Off Campus Resources ==

=== Denver Area Resources ===

Off campus resources include places such as Innovation Pavilion where anyone can rent out conference rooms and use the on site resources. While places such as these so require additional cost, they are important resources to consider once becoming more established.

= '''Related Links''' =

'''Colorado School of Mines'''

[[CSM Strategic Priorities|Colorado School of Mines Student Priorites]]

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Fall 2018:

*Jake Ropson
*Keenan Urmann
*Miguel Moreira
*Anastasia Sjahputera

Spring 2018:

*[[Adam Marcinkowski|Adam Marcinkowski]]
*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Curtis_Harrison Curtis Harrison]
*[[Michael Thuis|Michael Thuis]]
*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Torin_Johnson Torin Johnson]

Spring 2017:

*[[Emma May|Emma May]]
*[[Tanner McAdoo|Tanner McAdoo]]
*[[Sarah Ingram|Sarah Ingram]]
*[[Samuel Warfield|Samuel Warfield]]

Spring 2016:

*[[Mallory Britz|Mallory Britz]]
*[[Daniel Dickason|Daniel Dickason]]
*[[Trevor Clevenger|Trevor Clevenger]]
*[[Tara Maestas|Tara Maestas]]
*[[Asya Sergoyan|Asya Sergoyan]]
*[[Nicholas Yuan|Nicholas Yuan]]

Spring 2014:

*[[Corey Brugh|Corey Brugh]]

== CSM Landscape Canvas ==

=== Fall 2018 ===

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IJ6fCIjbBrTWoW482E7YLFjtAvwPzw00C1P01SrelnI/edit#gid=0

=== Spring 2018 ===

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SW0lMDsP_PIEB4M3APyt8At7vjSu-o-D/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SW0lMDsP_PIEB4M3APyt8At7vjSu-o-D/view?usp=sharing]

=== Spring 2017 ===

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11rTy4QVidrtZd7eWqCl7whB1fICfmWOZyZVIrGTJJng/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11rTy4QVidrtZd7eWqCl7whB1fICfmWOZyZVIrGTJJng/edit#gid=0]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Colorado School of Mines

2018-10-03T00:49:14Z

Jake Ropson:

The [http://www.mines.edu Colorado School of Mines] is a public research university of engineering and applied science in Golden, Colorado. 

== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==

=== Entrepreneurship Club (E-Club) ===

In the Spring 2014 semester, the Entrepreneurship Club at mines was restarted to become an active campus organization that has brought in local entrepreneurs to talk about their experiences. The club will organize several campus wide events in the coming academic year to increase awareness and exposure to innovation and entrepreneurship.

Website is under development.

=== Design Lab ===

The Director of Senior Design for Mechanical Engineering, Jered Dean, has taken steps to transform the mechanical engineering senior design lab into an open design lab that allows students to use equipment for any academic or personal project. The lab consists of 6 new makerbot 3D printers along with other prototyping equipment in the basement of Brown Hall. The entire Senior Design Program is Known as the Capstone Design Program and is named as such to Symbolize the "Capstone" at the end of the undergraduate program at Mines. As part of this program students can partner with companies and use the senior design lab as a space to innovate and generate prototypes and designs.

Another Option that is avalible to all Students as a resource for pursueing inrest in innovation and design is the Career center where students can connect with bussinesses that can assist with Ideas and projects students wish to pursue or apply for internships with Companies whose intrests align with there own.

In the past few months many new design areas have been added to campus some for all enrolled students like the Blaster Design Factory, and others for specific majors like The Outlet. Spaces like these and others provide students with the ability and the means to bring life to their ideas. Other spaces like the The Digger Design Factory and the Machine Shop are for a more hands on approach instead of a more design oriented enviornment. 

=== Startup Summer ===

Employers participating in [http://www.startupcolorado.com/startup-summer Startup Summer] have come to Mines to promote the program where students interested in startups can have a paid internship and gain valuable insight into innovation and entrepreneurship. This program has been a pathway for post graduation employment for several Mines graduates.

=== Maker Society ===

The Maker Society democratizes 'making' on campus. The Society implemented a hub and spoke model to connect all of the maker spaces on campus with a brand new maker space at the center, the Blaster Design Factory (BDF). The BDF is a space for rapid prototyping that is open to all students and faculty. They foster innovation and connect students to the other spaces on campus. Their main focus is the idea that "anyone can create anything."

=== Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation ===

The center for entrepreneurship and innovation here at the Colorado School of Mines aspires to give students the opportunity to build skills which will vastly help them in their bright futures.

They have two primary objectives:
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Educate our students in modern entrepreneurial thinking.
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Provide the opportunity for our students and faculty to explore the commercialization of their science and technology ideas.
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Their vision for the future is to create a Colorado School of Mines where entrepreneurs are seamlessly connected with the infrastructure, resources, and funding they need to achieve their goal: developing sustainable and successful commercial entities based on either Mines-derived or individual-derived technologies.

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== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship'''  ==

=== Pathway to Innovation Leadership Team ===

Overall, encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship has become a focus here at Mines. The Pathway to Innovation Leadership Team is a group of faculty members focused on promoting innovation and entrepreneurship amidst the student body.

*The Pathways to Innovation Leadership Team partnered with the University Innovation Fellows to put on the first Inovation Competition for students at Mines.
*The team has connections to other faculty members with experience in business and entrepreneurship. These faculty members have expressed interest in showcasing their experiences and running workshops around innovation and entrepreneurship.

=== Resources for Midea ===

Faculty members have helped develop resources for the Midea Hub (online tool used by students looking for resources while in different stages of the innovation or entrepreneurship process). These faculty members range in expertise from design thinking to policy and paperwork regarding patents.

=== '''Building Relationships with Faculty Members''' ===

The Colorado School of Mines UIF Leadership circle focuses on building professional and personal relationships with faculty in order to encourage faculty innovation and rally support for the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship. 

== '''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function''' ==

The office of technology transfer (OTT) has primarily been used to commercialize PhD research.

OTT has provided an [http://inside.mines.edu/RES-Resources-Technology-Transfer extensive list] of regional and national resources that might be of use for students interested in innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Office of Research Administration (ORA) is also a resource for students who are interested in researching a particular subject in depth. The ORA provides guidance for all steps of research, including proposal preparation, grant writing, and seeking for fundings. A full list of resources and contact information can be found [http://inside.mines.edu/ORA-About#contact here].

In addition to the above resources, Mines has recently put together a new website named [http://midea.mines.edu/ Midea] that contains resources both on campus and on the web.  The vision for this website is to be a hub for all student innovation and entrepreneurial activities where students can see projects other students have put together, find inspiration, or seek help from other students or faculty.  This site is still in its beginning stages and many of its pages do not yet have any information on them, but this will be changing over the next several weeks as information is continually being added.  

== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==

Current collaboration exists between research groups and industry. These collaborations are primarily used to fund graduate students and do not promote innovation/entrepreneurship.

== Resources on Campus ==

While the majority of collaboration is used to fund graduate students. There are resources that help students branch out and make lasting connections

=== McBride Honors Program ===

The McBride Honors Program is very generous in funding scholarships that can be used to travel abroad and help pay for internship costs. They also provide an extensive list of available internships and programs. Due to the engineering focus on Mines' campus, most of the opportunities are focused in engineering and creating policy around it. But there are opportunities that allow for experiences that can be used to learn a great deal about how other places and cultures run their schooling systems and how people associate in general.

One such opportunity is the various programs offered by [http://ptpi.org/ People to People International]. These programs link people through the exchange of experiences and ideas.

=== Career Center and Alumni Association ===

The Career Center at Colorado School of Mines does not fund students, but it does offer a wide range of career and internship opportunities. Many students take advantage of the Career Day and different workshops around campus to secure positions from a wide range of fields.

The Alumni Association also offers vast neworking opportunities outside of the university.

== Off Campus Resources ==

=== Denver Area Resources ===

Off campus resources include places such as Innovation Pavilion where anyone can rent out conference rooms and use the on site resources. While places such as these so require additional cost, they are important resources to consider once becoming more established.

= '''Related Links''' =

'''Colorado School of Mines'''

[[CSM Strategic Priorities|Colorado School of Mines Student Priorites]]

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Fall 2018:

*Jake Ropson
*Keenan Urmann
*Miguel Moreira
*Anastasia Sjahputera

Spring 2018:

*[[Adam Marcinkowski|Adam Marcinkowski]]
*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Curtis_Harrison Curtis Harrison]
*[[Michael Thuis|Michael Thuis]]
*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Torin_Johnson Torin Johnson]

Spring 2017:

*[[Emma May|Emma May]]
*[[Tanner McAdoo|Tanner McAdoo]]
*[[Sarah Ingram|Sarah Ingram]]
*[[Samuel Warfield|Samuel Warfield]]

Spring 2016:

*[[Mallory Britz|Mallory Britz]]
*[[Daniel Dickason|Daniel Dickason]]
*[[Trevor Clevenger|Trevor Clevenger]]
*[[Tara Maestas|Tara Maestas]]
*[[Asya Sergoyan|Asya Sergoyan]]
*[[Nicholas Yuan|Nicholas Yuan]]

Spring 2014:

*[[Corey Brugh|Corey Brugh]]

== CSM Landscape Canvas ==

=== Spring 2018 ===

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SW0lMDsP_PIEB4M3APyt8At7vjSu-o-D/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SW0lMDsP_PIEB4M3APyt8At7vjSu-o-D/view?usp=sharing]

=== Spring 2017 ===

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11rTy4QVidrtZd7eWqCl7whB1fICfmWOZyZVIrGTJJng/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11rTy4QVidrtZd7eWqCl7whB1fICfmWOZyZVIrGTJJng/edit#gid=0]

[[Category:Universities]]