https://universityinnovation.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=JaredSteeleUniversity Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]2026-04-25T12:28:03ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.33.1https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:Texas_Tech_University_Student_Priorities_Page&diff=31179Priorities:Texas Tech University Student Priorities Page2016-02-12T01:39:24Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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== <span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 1: Resource Consolidation on Website</span> ==<br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Valente Rodriguez</span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Organize each resource by category</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Create a user-friendly interface for students/faculty/staff to easily access I&E related resources</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Meet with OVPR administration</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Meet with point of contact for each resource</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Develop draft for web layout</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Relay information to director of communication for web development</span></span></li><br />
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<span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Update: This project is no longer run by a UI Fellow at TTU, instead the OVPR has taken ownership of it and is currently working on a page. UIF is contributing by making the landscape canvas and working on display tools, like a Google Map.</span></span><br />
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 2: OTC opportunities and collaboration between colleges</span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Frank Atore</span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Have interdisciplinary classes that are taught by at least two professors from different departments or colleges</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Train and provide hands on learning on how to design around a problem from conceptual to finished product in a one semester course. &nbsp;</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Reach out to current departments and colleges to facilitate cross talk and find volunteers: 2/14</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Either create an institute for design in the research park or retro fit existing department: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Obtain funding for the program at $500 per student group and funding for travel to need areas (market)&nbsp;: 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Promote program to undergraduate seniors and graduate students 7/15</span></span></li><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #2: Internship opportunities in the Office of Technology Commercialization for students</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Gain hands on learning on how to market technology and form a business around a technology</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Reach out to the office of the VPR on openness to do program: 2/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Find funding sources for the program and the IP backlog in the OTC: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Send out student survey for program: 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Promote program to undergraduate and graduate students: 5/15</span></span></li><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #3: Departmental “Champions” or points of contact for entrepreneurial design and studies</span></span> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Be a point of reference for faculty to communicate their current research endeavors and a reference for the OTC to relay market or industry interests to faculty.</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Find experienced and enthusiastic innovators: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Create a database or knowledge base for faculty to vote on each others ideas or suggestions (before posting, they rank others ideas, but not theirs): 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Discuss funding availability with the OVPR 5/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Discuss with OTC about employing subject matter experts in the OTC to be counterparts to the departmental champions.9/15</span></span></li><br />
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Update: This project is discontinued, but we like the vision of it and will try to get around to it (or similar goals) in the future.<br />
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 3: Transportation improvement</span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Frank Atore</span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Rental Bikes on Campus</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Have bikes stationed on areas around parking lots and campus perimeter</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Liability and restrictions</span></li><br />
<li>Funding availability in current transportation budget</li><br />
<li>Establish payment system (use student ID)</li><br />
<li>Security cameras at bike stations</li><br />
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== Strategy #4: Reduce Shortage of Software Developers for I&E ==<br />
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'''Leadership Circle Representative:'''&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner]<br />
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'''Problem Statement:'''&nbsp;Tech has many students with ideas, but most of these ideas require software developers (and talented ones) to some degree. Our Computer Science department is mostly theory focused and most students don't do side projects, which causes many students studying CS to not feel comfortable working on industry level projects as undergrads.<br />
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'''Solution Overview:'''&nbsp;Solving this issue is going to require several overall strategies. These involve working with the department to have more software engineering projects (and ones with more rigor), working with student organizations to develop more of a "try, fail, try again till you succeed" culture. It's entirely possible to learn everything you need to know on your own, and as a full-time engineer you'll be required to do this. Finally, the last part involves creating coding courses for non-CS majors that help them gain the confidence to go out and learn on their own.<br />
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=== Tactic #1: Implementing Web-CAT Autograder in CS Department ===<br />
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*Description: Have the Computer Science department use an auto-grader for labs and develop better programming assignments.<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**December 2015:<br />
***Get the chair and associate chair of the department onboard with the project.<br />
***Secure funding for a server to run the system.<br />
**January 2016:<br />
***Get a working Web-CAT server up and running (and capable of grading Python, Java, or C++ assignments)<br />
**February 2016:<br />
***Find professors willing to test the autograder<br />
***Finish getting Python, Java, and C++ working on Web-CAT<br />
**March 2016:<br />
***Finish documenting how to setup and use Web-CAT (hopefully make some videos for that as well).<br />
***Create additional demo projects to show how to use Web-CAT<br />
***Trial run the system with students and TAs/Faculty and get feedback.<br />
**April 2016:<br />
***Secure a way for students to get elective credit if they develop good programming assignments for courses (or plugins for the system).<br />
**May-August 2016:<br />
***Test run the system with TAs, Students, and Professors. Take additional feedback and try to solve issues.<br />
**Fall 2016:<br />
***Run a course or courses using this system.<br />
**2017 and after:<br />
***Expand the system to other departments at TTU.<br />
***Maintain and build a support structure for the system in the CS department.<br />
***Reach out to other schools and try to help them do the same.<br />
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=== Tactic #2: Programming Courses for Non-CS Majors ===<br />
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*Description: Have a course in the concepts of programming (run by students or the department) for non-CS majors.<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**May-August 2016:<br />
***Use CS For All (from Harvey Mudd) to create a trial run of a course for Non-CS majors (2-6 motivated individuals).<br />
***Use the feedback to develop a larger course that can be run by students each semester.<br />
**Fall 2016 and Spring 2017:<br />
***Run a trial course for non-CS majors, larger this time (10-20 students).<br />
***Take feedback and improve<br />
**Stretch Goals for 2017+ (or, if I can find the support):<br />
***Build enough interest to get the CS department to have an official course based off of CS For All.<br />
***Use the CS For All course as a way to improve CS education within the department as a whole (more implementation in addition to the theory).<br />
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=== Tactic #3: Software Development Club Community Integration ===<br />
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*Description: Currently the Software Development Club is somewhat small and casual. The goal is to make it larger and more driven, integrating it more with the I&E community on campus (and hopefully the country).<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**Summer 2016:<br />
***Build a framework for integrating new officers and motivating them to overachieve. Possibly build a points system for the entire club. Rewards would include getting&nbsp;money to go to conferences.<br />
***Take select individuals and ensure they have (and continue) projects through the summer to act as inspiration for the rest of the team.<br />
***Train officers to relate on a personal level with members.<br />
**Fall 2016:<br />
***Get the members more self-motivated and in smaller teams (3-5 per team).<br />
***Change the culture and encourage members to work on projects for at least 5 hours per week instead of the 2 we do now.<br />
***Change weekly meetings to be more team-building, planning, getting help, and less about sitting quietly and coding.<br />
**2017 and after:<br />
***Work with other student organizations to find out what software they need. Teach design thinking to the CS majors during the process of doing these projects.<br />
***Get the Software Development Club traveling more, visiting conferences and hackathons.<br />
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=== '''Strategy #5: Encourage growth of I&E through incenticvizing students through a competitively based hackaton & research project competition (HackConf)'''<br/> ===<br />
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'''<u style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Description</u>'''<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">: Implement a hackathon + research presentation competition for high school students as well as Texas Tech University students to teach an important skill set for those interested in STEM fields.&nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span><u style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Milestones:</u><br />
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*February 2016:<br />
**Have core member board meeting. Establish date, involvement, and events to include.&nbsp;<br />
*March 2016:<br />
**Secure location, solicit additional funding, create website/social media profiles, and create agenda for event.<br />
*April 2016:<br />
**Perform classroom visits, post ads, and raise awareness.&nbsp;<br />
*May 2016:<br />
**Host event. Have debriefing session with members to see what went well, what participants did/did not like, and how to improve for next years HackConf.<br />
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*June-September 2016:<br />
**Create new core member board group. Establish responsibilities, roles, and outcomes.<br />
*October-December 2016:<br />
**Speak with professors/teachers to gain additional support through extra credit points, assigned work, or any other means to drive higher participation for next HackConf.<br />
*January-February 2017:<br />
**Begin classroom visits and pursue outreach channels.<br />
*March-April 2017:<br />
**Contact local news for press release, solicit additional sponsorship/funding, finalize event details.<br />
*May 2017:<br />
**Host event. Have debriefing session with members to see what went well, what participants did/did not like, and how to improve for next years HackConf.<br />
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*June-September 2017:<br />
**Recruit more members to establish responsibilities, roles, and outcomes.&nbsp;<br />
*October-December 2017:<br />
**Re-establish relationships with professors, faculty, and teachers showing the impact/results of past events. Look to expand to other geographical areas (high schools) nearby.<br />
*January-February 2018:<br />
**Do classroom visits, and pursue outreach channels.<br />
*March-April 2018:<br />
**Contact local news channels/newspapers for press release. Solicit funding from local businesses in similar fields (TimeForge, SmoothFusion, etc.) and give prospects for interns/employment opportunities.<br />
*May 2018:<br />
**Host event. Determine outcomes and how to improve for next year.&nbsp;<br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spring 2016 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alyx_Horace Alyx Horace]<br />
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Alfonso Alarcon<br />
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Berto Garcia<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner]<br />
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[[Jared Steele|Jared Steele]]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Francis_Atore Francis Atore]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Benjamin_Simmons Benjamin Simmons]</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Valente_Rodriguez Valente Rodriguez]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Victoria_Young Victoria Young]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Person Taylor Person]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">South Plains Connection:</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marshal_Head Marshal Head]</span></span><br />
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=== [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University# Campus Overview]<br/> ===<br />
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== <span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 1: Resource Consolidation on Website</span> ==<br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Valente Rodriguez</span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Organize each resource by category</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Create a user-friendly interface for students/faculty/staff to easily access I&E related resources</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Meet with OVPR administration</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Meet with point of contact for each resource</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Develop draft for web layout</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Relay information to director of communication for web development</span></span></li><br />
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<span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Update: This project is no longer run by a UI Fellow at TTU, instead the OVPR has taken ownership of it and is currently working on a page. UIF is contributing by making the landscape canvas and working on display tools, like a Google Map.</span></span><br />
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 2: OTC opportunities and collaboration between colleges</span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Frank Atore</span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Have interdisciplinary classes that are taught by at least two professors from different departments or colleges</span></span><br/> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Train and provide hands on learning on how to design around a problem from conceptual to finished product in a one semester course. &nbsp;</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Reach out to current departments and colleges to facilitate cross talk and find volunteers: 2/14</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Either create an institute for design in the research park or retro fit existing department: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Obtain funding for the program at $500 per student group and funding for travel to need areas (market)&nbsp;: 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Promote program to undergraduate seniors and graduate students 7/15</span></span></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #2: Internship opportunities in the Office of Technology Commercialization for students</span></span><br/> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Gain hands on learning on how to market technology and form a business around a technology</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Reach out to the office of the VPR on openness to do program: 2/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Find funding sources for the program and the IP backlog in the OTC: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Send out student survey for program: 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Promote program to undergraduate and graduate students: 5/15</span></span></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #3: Departmental “Champions” or points of contact for entrepreneurial design and studies</span></span> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Be a point of reference for faculty to communicate their current research endeavors and a reference for the OTC to relay market or industry interests to faculty.</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Find experienced and enthusiastic innovators: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Create a database or knowledge base for faculty to vote on each others ideas or suggestions (before posting, they rank others ideas, but not theirs): 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Discuss funding availability with the OVPR 5/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Discuss with OTC about employing subject matter experts in the OTC to be counterparts to the departmental champions.9/15</span></span></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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Update: This project is discontinued, but we like the vision of it and will try to get around to it (or similar goals) in the future.<br />
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 3: Transportation improvement</span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Frank Atore</span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Rental Bikes on Campus</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Have bikes stationed on areas around parking lots and campus perimeter</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Liability and restrictions</span></li><br />
<li>Funding availability in current transportation budget</li><br />
<li>Establish payment system (use student ID)</li><br />
<li>Security cameras at bike stations</li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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== Strategy #4: Reduce Shortage of Software Developers for I&E ==<br />
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'''Leadership Circle Representative:'''&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner]<br />
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'''Problem Statement:'''&nbsp;Tech has many students with ideas, but most of these ideas require software developers (and talented ones) to some degree. Our Computer Science department is mostly theory focused and most students don't do side projects, which causes many students studying CS to not feel comfortable working on industry level projects as undergrads.<br />
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'''Solution Overview:'''&nbsp;Solving this issue is going to require several overall strategies. These involve working with the department to have more software engineering projects (and ones with more rigor), working with student organizations to develop more of a "try, fail, try again till you succeed" culture. It's entirely possible to learn everything you need to know on your own, and as a full-time engineer you'll be required to do this. Finally, the last part involves creating coding courses for non-CS majors that help them gain the confidence to go out and learn on their own.<br />
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=== Tactic #1: Implementing Web-CAT Autograder in CS Department ===<br />
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*Description: Have the Computer Science department use an auto-grader for labs and develop better programming assignments.<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**December 2015:<br />
***Get the chair and associate chair of the department onboard with the project.<br />
***Secure funding for a server to run the system.<br />
**January 2016:<br />
***Get a working Web-CAT server up and running (and capable of grading Python, Java, or C++ assignments)<br />
**February 2016:<br />
***Find professors willing to test the autograder<br />
***Finish getting Python, Java, and C++ working on Web-CAT<br />
**March 2016:<br />
***Finish documenting how to setup and use Web-CAT (hopefully make some videos for that as well).<br />
***Create additional demo projects to show how to use Web-CAT<br />
***Trial run the system with students and TAs/Faculty and get feedback.<br />
**April 2016:<br />
***Secure a way for students to get elective credit if they develop good programming assignments for courses (or plugins for the system).<br />
**May-August 2016:<br />
***Test run the system with TAs, Students, and Professors. Take additional feedback and try to solve issues.<br />
**Fall 2016:<br />
***Run a course or courses using this system.<br />
**2017 and after:<br />
***Expand the system to other departments at TTU.<br />
***Maintain and build a support structure for the system in the CS department.<br />
***Reach out to other schools and try to help them do the same.<br />
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=== Tactic #2: Programming Courses for Non-CS Majors ===<br />
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*Description: Have a course in the concepts of programming (run by students or the department) for non-CS majors.<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**May-August 2016:<br />
***Use CS For All (from Harvey Mudd) to create a trial run of a course for Non-CS majors (2-6 motivated individuals).<br />
***Use the feedback to develop a larger course that can be run by students each semester.<br />
**Fall 2016 and Spring 2017:<br />
***Run a trial course for non-CS majors, larger this time (10-20 students).<br />
***Take feedback and improve<br />
**Stretch Goals for 2017+ (or, if I can find the support):<br />
***Build enough interest to get the CS department to have an official course based off of CS For All.<br />
***Use the CS For All course as a way to improve CS education within the department as a whole (more implementation in addition to the theory).<br />
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=== Tactic #3: Software Development Club Community Integration ===<br />
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*Description: Currently the Software Development Club is somewhat small and casual. The goal is to make it larger and more driven, integrating it more with the I&E community on campus (and hopefully the country).<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**Summer 2016:<br />
***Build a framework for integrating new officers and motivating them to overachieve. Possibly build a points system for the entire club. Rewards would include getting&nbsp;money to go to conferences.<br />
***Take select individuals and ensure they have (and continue) projects through the summer to act as inspiration for the rest of the team.<br />
***Train officers to relate on a personal level with members.<br />
**Fall 2016:<br />
***Get the members more self-motivated and in smaller teams (3-5 per team).<br />
***Change the culture and encourage members to work on projects for at least 5 hours per week instead of the 2 we do now.<br />
***Change weekly meetings to be more team-building, planning, getting help, and less about sitting quietly and coding.<br />
**2017 and after:<br />
***Work with other student organizations to find out what software they need. Teach design thinking to the CS majors during the process of doing these projects.<br />
***Get the Software Development Club traveling more, visiting conferences and hackathons.<br />
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=== '''Strategy #5: Encourage growth of I&E through incenticvizing students through a competitively based hackaton & research project competition (HackConf)'''<br/> ===<br />
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'''<u style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Description</u>'''<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">: Implement a hackathon + research presentation competition for high school and TTU.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span><u style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Milestones:</u><br />
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*February 2016:<br />
**Have core member board meeting. Establish date, involvement, and events to include.&nbsp;<br />
*March 2016:<br />
**Secure location, solicit additional funding, create website/social media profiles, and create agenda for event.<br />
*April 2016:<br />
**Perform classroom visits, post ads, and raise awareness.&nbsp;<br />
*May 2016:<br />
**Host event. Have debriefing session with members to see what went well, what participants did/did not like, and how to improve for next years HackConf.<br />
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*June-September 2016:<br />
**Create new core member board group. Establish responsibilities, roles, and outcomes.<br />
*October-December 2016:<br />
**Speak with professors/teachers to gain additional support through extra credit points, assigned work, or any other means to drive higher participation for next HackConf.<br />
*January-February 2017:<br />
**Begin classroom visits and pursue outreach channels.<br />
*March-April 2017:<br />
**Contact local news for press release, solicit additional sponsorship/funding, finalize event details.<br />
*May 2017:<br />
**Host event. Have debriefing session with members to see what went well, what participants did/did not like, and how to improve for next years HackConf.<br />
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*June-September 2017:<br />
**Recruit more members to establish responsibilities, roles, and outcomes.&nbsp;<br />
*October-December 2017:<br />
**Re-establish relationships with professors, faculty, and teachers showing the impact/results of past events. Look to expand to other geographical areas (high schools) nearby.<br />
*January-February 2018:<br />
**Do classroom visits, and pursue outreach channels.<br />
*March-April 2018:<br />
**Contact local news channels/newspapers for press release. Solicit funding from local businesses in similar fields (TimeForge, SmoothFusion, etc.) and give prospects for interns/employment opportunities.<br />
*May 2018:<br />
**Host event. Determine outcomes and how to improve for next year.&nbsp;<br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spring 2016 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alyx_Horace Alyx Horace]<br />
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Alfonso Alarcon<br />
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Berto Garcia<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner]<br />
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[[Jared Steele|Jared Steele]]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Spring 2015 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Francis_Atore Francis Atore]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Benjamin_Simmons Benjamin Simmons]</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Valente_Rodriguez Valente Rodriguez]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Victoria_Young Victoria Young]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Person Taylor Person]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">South Plains Connection:</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marshal_Head Marshal Head]</span></span><br />
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=== [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University# Campus Overview]<br/> ===<br />
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== <span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 1: Resource Consolidation on Website</span> ==<br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Valente Rodriguez</span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Organize each resource by category</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Create a user-friendly interface for students/faculty/staff to easily access I&E related resources</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Meet with OVPR administration</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Meet with point of contact for each resource</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Develop draft for web layout</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Relay information to director of communication for web development</span></span></li><br />
</ol></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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<br />
<span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Update: This project is no longer run by a UI Fellow at TTU, instead the OVPR has taken ownership of it and is currently working on a page. UIF is contributing by making the landscape canvas and working on display tools, like a Google Map.</span></span><br />
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 2: OTC opportunities and collaboration between colleges</span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Frank Atore</span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Have interdisciplinary classes that are taught by at least two professors from different departments or colleges</span></span><br/> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Train and provide hands on learning on how to design around a problem from conceptual to finished product in a one semester course. &nbsp;</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Reach out to current departments and colleges to facilitate cross talk and find volunteers: 2/14</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Either create an institute for design in the research park or retro fit existing department: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Obtain funding for the program at $500 per student group and funding for travel to need areas (market)&nbsp;: 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Promote program to undergraduate seniors and graduate students 7/15</span></span></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #2: Internship opportunities in the Office of Technology Commercialization for students</span></span><br/> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Gain hands on learning on how to market technology and form a business around a technology</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Reach out to the office of the VPR on openness to do program: 2/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Find funding sources for the program and the IP backlog in the OTC: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Send out student survey for program: 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Promote program to undergraduate and graduate students: 5/15</span></span></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #3: Departmental “Champions” or points of contact for entrepreneurial design and studies</span></span> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Be a point of reference for faculty to communicate their current research endeavors and a reference for the OTC to relay market or industry interests to faculty.</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Find experienced and enthusiastic innovators: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Create a database or knowledge base for faculty to vote on each others ideas or suggestions (before posting, they rank others ideas, but not theirs): 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Discuss funding availability with the OVPR 5/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Discuss with OTC about employing subject matter experts in the OTC to be counterparts to the departmental champions.9/15</span></span></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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Update: This project is discontinued, but we like the vision of it and will try to get around to it (or similar goals) in the future.<br />
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 3: Transportation improvement</span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Frank Atore</span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Rental Bikes on Campus</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Have bikes stationed on areas around parking lots and campus perimeter</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Liability and restrictions</span></li><br />
<li>Funding availability in current transportation budget</li><br />
<li>Establish payment system (use student ID)</li><br />
<li>Security cameras at bike stations</li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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== Strategy #4: Reduce Shortage of Software Developers for I&E ==<br />
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'''Leadership Circle Representative:'''&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner]<br />
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'''Problem Statement:'''&nbsp;Tech has many students with ideas, but most of these ideas require software developers (and talented ones) to some degree. Our Computer Science department is mostly theory focused and most students don't do side projects, which causes many students studying CS to not feel comfortable working on industry level projects as undergrads.<br />
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'''Solution Overview:'''&nbsp;Solving this issue is going to require several overall strategies. These involve working with the department to have more software engineering projects (and ones with more rigor), working with student organizations to develop more of a "try, fail, try again till you succeed" culture. It's entirely possible to learn everything you need to know on your own, and as a full-time engineer you'll be required to do this. Finally, the last part involves creating coding courses for non-CS majors that help them gain the confidence to go out and learn on their own.<br />
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=== Tactic #1: Implementing Web-CAT Autograder in CS Department ===<br />
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*Description: Have the Computer Science department use an auto-grader for labs and develop better programming assignments.<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**December 2015:<br />
***Get the chair and associate chair of the department onboard with the project.<br />
***Secure funding for a server to run the system.<br />
**January 2016:<br />
***Get a working Web-CAT server up and running (and capable of grading Python, Java, or C++ assignments)<br />
**February 2016:<br />
***Find professors willing to test the autograder<br />
***Finish getting Python, Java, and C++ working on Web-CAT<br />
**March 2016:<br />
***Finish documenting how to setup and use Web-CAT (hopefully make some videos for that as well).<br />
***Create additional demo projects to show how to use Web-CAT<br />
***Trial run the system with students and TAs/Faculty and get feedback.<br />
**April 2016:<br />
***Secure a way for students to get elective credit if they develop good programming assignments for courses (or plugins for the system).<br />
**May-August 2016:<br />
***Test run the system with TAs, Students, and Professors. Take additional feedback and try to solve issues.<br />
**Fall 2016:<br />
***Run a course or courses using this system.<br />
**2017 and after:<br />
***Expand the system to other departments at TTU.<br />
***Maintain and build a support structure for the system in the CS department.<br />
***Reach out to other schools and try to help them do the same.<br />
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=== Tactic #2: Programming Courses for Non-CS Majors ===<br />
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*Description: Have a course in the concepts of programming (run by students or the department) for non-CS majors.<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**May-August 2016:<br />
***Use CS For All (from Harvey Mudd) to create a trial run of a course for Non-CS majors (2-6 motivated individuals).<br />
***Use the feedback to develop a larger course that can be run by students each semester.<br />
**Fall 2016 and Spring 2017:<br />
***Run a trial course for non-CS majors, larger this time (10-20 students).<br />
***Take feedback and improve<br />
**Stretch Goals for 2017+ (or, if I can find the support):<br />
***Build enough interest to get the CS department to have an official course based off of CS For All.<br />
***Use the CS For All course as a way to improve CS education within the department as a whole (more implementation in addition to the theory).<br />
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=== Tactic #3: Software Development Club Community Integration ===<br />
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*Description: Currently the Software Development Club is somewhat small and casual. The goal is to make it larger and more driven, integrating it more with the I&E community on campus (and hopefully the country).<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**Summer 2016:<br />
***Build a framework for integrating new officers and motivating them to overachieve. Possibly build a points system for the entire club. Rewards would include getting&nbsp;money to go to conferences.<br />
***Take select individuals and ensure they have (and continue) projects through the summer to act as inspiration for the rest of the team.<br />
***Train officers to relate on a personal level with members.<br />
**Fall 2016:<br />
***Get the members more self-motivated and in smaller teams (3-5 per team).<br />
***Change the culture and encourage members to work on projects for at least 5 hours per week instead of the 2 we do now.<br />
***Change weekly meetings to be more team-building, planning, getting help, and less about sitting quietly and coding.<br />
**2017 and after:<br />
***Work with other student organizations to find out what software they need. Teach design thinking to the CS majors during the process of doing these projects.<br />
***Get the Software Development Club traveling more, visiting conferences and hackathons.<br />
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=== '''Strategy #5: Encourage growth of I&E through incenticvizing students through a competitively based hackaton & research project competition (HackConf)'''<br/> ===<br />
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== '''<u style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Description</u>'''<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">: Implement a hackathon + research presentation competition for high school and TTU.</span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span><u style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Milestones:</u><br />
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*<u style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></u>February 2016:<br />
**Have core member board meeting. Establish date, involvement, and events to include.&nbsp;<br />
*March 2016:<br />
**Secure location, solicit additional funding, create website/social media profiles, and create agenda for event.<br />
*April 2016:<br />
**Perform classroom visits, post ads, and raise awareness.&nbsp;<br />
*May 2016:<br />
**Host event. Have debriefing session with members to see what went well, what participants did/did not like, and how to improve for next years HackConf.<br />
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*June-September 2016:<br />
**Create new core member board group. Establish responsibilities, roles, and outcomes.<br />
*October-December 2016:<br />
**Speak with professors/teachers to gain additional support through extra credit points, assigned work, or any other means to drive higher participation for next HackConf.<br />
*January-February 2017:<br />
**Begin classroom visits and pursue outreach channels.<br />
*March-April 2017:<br />
**Contact local news for press release, solicit additional sponsorship/funding, finalize event details.<br />
*May 2017:<br />
**Host event. Have debriefing session with members to see what went well, what participants did/did not like, and how to improve for next years HackConf.<br />
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*June-September 2017:<br />
**Recruit more members to establish responsibilities, roles, and outcomes.&nbsp;<br />
*October-December 2017:<br />
**Re-establish relationships with professors, faculty, and teachers showing the impact/results of past events. Look to expand to other geographical areas (high schools) nearby.<br />
*January-February 2018:<br />
**Do classroom visits, and pursue outreach channels.<br />
*March-April 2018:<br />
**Contact local news channels/newspapers for press release. Solicit funding from local businesses in similar fields (TimeForge, SmoothFusion, etc.) and give prospects for interns/employment opportunities.<br />
*May 2018:<br />
**Host event. Determine outcomes and how to improve for next year.&nbsp;<br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spring 2016 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alyx_Horace Alyx Horace]<br />
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Alfonso Alarcon<br />
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Berto Garcia<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner]<br />
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[[Jared Steele|Jared Steele]]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Spring 2015 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Francis_Atore Francis Atore]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Benjamin_Simmons Benjamin Simmons]</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Valente_Rodriguez Valente Rodriguez]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Victoria_Young Victoria Young]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Person Taylor Person]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">South Plains Connection:</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marshal_Head Marshal Head]</span></span><br />
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=== [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University# Campus Overview]<br/> ===<br />
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[[Category:Student Priorities|t]]</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:Texas_Tech_University_Student_Priorities_Page&diff=31161Priorities:Texas Tech University Student Priorities Page2016-02-12T01:36:09Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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== <span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 1: Resource Consolidation on Website</span> ==<br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Valente Rodriguez</span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Organize each resource by category</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Create a user-friendly interface for students/faculty/staff to easily access I&E related resources</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Meet with OVPR administration</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Meet with point of contact for each resource</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Develop draft for web layout</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Relay information to director of communication for web development</span></span></li><br />
</ol></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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<span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Update: This project is no longer run by a UI Fellow at TTU, instead the OVPR has taken ownership of it and is currently working on a page. UIF is contributing by making the landscape canvas and working on display tools, like a Google Map.</span></span><br />
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 2: OTC opportunities and collaboration between colleges</span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Frank Atore</span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Have interdisciplinary classes that are taught by at least two professors from different departments or colleges</span></span><br/> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Train and provide hands on learning on how to design around a problem from conceptual to finished product in a one semester course. &nbsp;</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Reach out to current departments and colleges to facilitate cross talk and find volunteers: 2/14</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Either create an institute for design in the research park or retro fit existing department: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Obtain funding for the program at $500 per student group and funding for travel to need areas (market)&nbsp;: 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Promote program to undergraduate seniors and graduate students 7/15</span></span></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #2: Internship opportunities in the Office of Technology Commercialization for students</span></span><br/> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Gain hands on learning on how to market technology and form a business around a technology</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Reach out to the office of the VPR on openness to do program: 2/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Find funding sources for the program and the IP backlog in the OTC: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Send out student survey for program: 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Promote program to undergraduate and graduate students: 5/15</span></span></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #3: Departmental “Champions” or points of contact for entrepreneurial design and studies</span></span> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Be a point of reference for faculty to communicate their current research endeavors and a reference for the OTC to relay market or industry interests to faculty.</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Find experienced and enthusiastic innovators: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Create a database or knowledge base for faculty to vote on each others ideas or suggestions (before posting, they rank others ideas, but not theirs): 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Discuss funding availability with the OVPR 5/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Discuss with OTC about employing subject matter experts in the OTC to be counterparts to the departmental champions.9/15</span></span></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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Update: This project is discontinued, but we like the vision of it and will try to get around to it (or similar goals) in the future.<br />
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 3: Transportation improvement</span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Frank Atore</span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Rental Bikes on Campus</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Have bikes stationed on areas around parking lots and campus perimeter</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Liability and restrictions</span></li><br />
<li>Funding availability in current transportation budget</li><br />
<li>Establish payment system (use student ID)</li><br />
<li>Security cameras at bike stations</li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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== Strategy #4: Reduce Shortage of Software Developers for I&E ==<br />
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'''Leadership Circle Representative:'''&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner]<br />
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'''Problem Statement:'''&nbsp;Tech has many students with ideas, but most of these ideas require software developers (and talented ones) to some degree. Our Computer Science department is mostly theory focused and most students don't do side projects, which causes many students studying CS to not feel comfortable working on industry level projects as undergrads.<br />
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'''Solution Overview:'''&nbsp;Solving this issue is going to require several overall strategies. These involve working with the department to have more software engineering projects (and ones with more rigor), working with student organizations to develop more of a "try, fail, try again till you succeed" culture. It's entirely possible to learn everything you need to know on your own, and as a full-time engineer you'll be required to do this. Finally, the last part involves creating coding courses for non-CS majors that help them gain the confidence to go out and learn on their own.<br />
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=== Tactic #1: Implementing Web-CAT Autograder in CS Department ===<br />
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*Description: Have the Computer Science department use an auto-grader for labs and develop better programming assignments.<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**December 2015:<br />
***Get the chair and associate chair of the department onboard with the project.<br />
***Secure funding for a server to run the system.<br />
**January 2016:<br />
***Get a working Web-CAT server up and running (and capable of grading Python, Java, or C++ assignments)<br />
**February 2016:<br />
***Find professors willing to test the autograder<br />
***Finish getting Python, Java, and C++ working on Web-CAT<br />
**March 2016:<br />
***Finish documenting how to setup and use Web-CAT (hopefully make some videos for that as well).<br />
***Create additional demo projects to show how to use Web-CAT<br />
***Trial run the system with students and TAs/Faculty and get feedback.<br />
**April 2016:<br />
***Secure a way for students to get elective credit if they develop good programming assignments for courses (or plugins for the system).<br />
**May-August 2016:<br />
***Test run the system with TAs, Students, and Professors. Take additional feedback and try to solve issues.<br />
**Fall 2016:<br />
***Run a course or courses using this system.<br />
**2017 and after:<br />
***Expand the system to other departments at TTU.<br />
***Maintain and build a support structure for the system in the CS department.<br />
***Reach out to other schools and try to help them do the same.<br />
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=== Tactic #2: Programming Courses for Non-CS Majors ===<br />
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*Description: Have a course in the concepts of programming (run by students or the department) for non-CS majors.<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**May-August 2016:<br />
***Use CS For All (from Harvey Mudd) to create a trial run of a course for Non-CS majors (2-6 motivated individuals).<br />
***Use the feedback to develop a larger course that can be run by students each semester.<br />
**Fall 2016 and Spring 2017:<br />
***Run a trial course for non-CS majors, larger this time (10-20 students).<br />
***Take feedback and improve<br />
**Stretch Goals for 2017+ (or, if I can find the support):<br />
***Build enough interest to get the CS department to have an official course based off of CS For All.<br />
***Use the CS For All course as a way to improve CS education within the department as a whole (more implementation in addition to the theory).<br />
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=== Tactic #3: Software Development Club Community Integration ===<br />
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*Description: Currently the Software Development Club is somewhat small and casual. The goal is to make it larger and more driven, integrating it more with the I&E community on campus (and hopefully the country).<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**Summer 2016:<br />
***Build a framework for integrating new officers and motivating them to overachieve. Possibly build a points system for the entire club. Rewards would include getting&nbsp;money to go to conferences.<br />
***Take select individuals and ensure they have (and continue) projects through the summer to act as inspiration for the rest of the team.<br />
***Train officers to relate on a personal level with members.<br />
**Fall 2016:<br />
***Get the members more self-motivated and in smaller teams (3-5 per team).<br />
***Change the culture and encourage members to work on projects for at least 5 hours per week instead of the 2 we do now.<br />
***Change weekly meetings to be more team-building, planning, getting help, and less about sitting quietly and coding.<br />
**2017 and after:<br />
***Work with other student organizations to find out what software they need. Teach design thinking to the CS majors during the process of doing these projects.<br />
***Get the Software Development Club traveling more, visiting conferences and hackathons.<br />
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== '''Strategy #5: Encourage growth of I&E through incenticvizing students through a competitively based hackaton & research project competition (HackConf)'''<br/> ==<br />
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== '''<u style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Description</u>'''<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">: Implement a hackathon + research presentation competition for high school and TTU.</span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span><u style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Milestones:</u><br />
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*<u style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></u>February 2016:<br />
**Have core member board meeting. Establish date, involvement, and events to include.&nbsp;<br />
*March 2016:<br />
**Secure location, solicit additional funding, create website/social media profiles, and create agenda for event.<br />
*April 2016:<br />
**Perform classroom visits, post ads, and raise awareness.&nbsp;<br />
*May 2016:<br />
**Host event. Have debriefing session with members to see what went well, what participants did/did not like, and how to improve for next years HackConf.<br />
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*June-September 2016:<br />
**Create new core member board group. Establish responsibilities, roles, and outcomes.<br />
*October-December 2016:<br />
**Speak with professors/teachers to gain additional support through extra credit points, assigned work, or any other means to drive higher participation for next HackConf.<br />
*January-February 2017:<br />
**Begin classroom visits and pursue outreach channels.<br />
*March-April 2017:<br />
**Contact local news for press release, solicit additional sponsorship/funding, finalize event details.<br />
*May 2017:<br />
**Host event. Have debriefing session with members to see what went well, what participants did/did not like, and how to improve for next years HackConf.<br />
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*June-September 2017:<br />
**Recruit more members to establish responsibilities, roles, and outcomes.&nbsp;<br />
*October-December 2017:<br />
**Re-establish relationships with professors, faculty, and teachers showing the impact/results of past events. Look to expand to other geographical areas (high schools) nearby.<br />
*January-February 2018:<br />
**Do classroom visits, and pursue outreach channels.<br />
*March-April 2018:<br />
**Contact local news channels/newspapers for press release. Solicit funding from local businesses in similar fields (TimeForge, SmoothFusion, etc.) and give prospects for interns/employment opportunities.<br />
*May 2018:<br />
**Host event. Determine outcomes and how to improve for next year.&nbsp;<br />
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= '''Video Presentation:''' =<br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spring 2016 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alyx_Horace Alyx Horace]<br />
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Alfonso Alarcon<br />
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Berto Garcia<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner]<br />
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[[Jared Steele|Jared Steele]]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Spring 2015 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Francis_Atore Francis Atore]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Benjamin_Simmons Benjamin Simmons]</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Valente_Rodriguez Valente Rodriguez]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Victoria_Young Victoria Young]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Person Taylor Person]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">South Plains Connection:</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marshal_Head Marshal Head]</span></span><br />
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=== [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University# Campus Overview]<br/> ===<br />
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[[Category:Student Priorities|t]]</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:Texas_Tech_University_Student_Priorities_Page&diff=31146Priorities:Texas Tech University Student Priorities Page2016-02-12T01:30:28Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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== <span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 1: Resource Consolidation on Website</span> ==<br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Valente Rodriguez</span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Organize each resource by category</span></span><br/> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Create a user-friendly interface for students/faculty/staff to easily access I&E related resources</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Meet with OVPR administration</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Meet with point of contact for each resource</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Develop draft for web layout</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Relay information to director of communication for web development</span></span></li><br />
</ol></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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<br />
<span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Update: This project is no longer run by a UI Fellow at TTU, instead the OVPR has taken ownership of it and is currently working on a page. UIF is contributing by making the landscape canvas and working on display tools, like a Google Map.</span></span><br />
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 2: OTC opportunities and collaboration between colleges</span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Frank Atore</span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Have interdisciplinary classes that are taught by at least two professors from different departments or colleges</span></span><br/> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Train and provide hands on learning on how to design around a problem from conceptual to finished product in a one semester course. &nbsp;</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Reach out to current departments and colleges to facilitate cross talk and find volunteers: 2/14</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Either create an institute for design in the research park or retro fit existing department: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Obtain funding for the program at $500 per student group and funding for travel to need areas (market)&nbsp;: 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Promote program to undergraduate seniors and graduate students 7/15</span></span></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #2: Internship opportunities in the Office of Technology Commercialization for students</span></span><br/> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Gain hands on learning on how to market technology and form a business around a technology</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Reach out to the office of the VPR on openness to do program: 2/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Find funding sources for the program and the IP backlog in the OTC: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Send out student survey for program: 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Promote program to undergraduate and graduate students: 5/15</span></span></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #3: Departmental “Champions” or points of contact for entrepreneurial design and studies</span></span> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Be a point of reference for faculty to communicate their current research endeavors and a reference for the OTC to relay market or industry interests to faculty.</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Find experienced and enthusiastic innovators: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Create a database or knowledge base for faculty to vote on each others ideas or suggestions (before posting, they rank others ideas, but not theirs): 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Discuss funding availability with the OVPR 5/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Discuss with OTC about employing subject matter experts in the OTC to be counterparts to the departmental champions.9/15</span></span></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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Update: This project is discontinued, but we like the vision of it and will try to get around to it (or similar goals) in the future.<br />
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 3: Transportation improvement</span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Frank Atore</span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Rental Bikes on Campus</span></span><br/> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Have bikes stationed on areas around parking lots and campus perimeter</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Liability and restrictions</span></li><br />
<li>Funding availability in current transportation budget</li><br />
<li>Establish payment system (use student ID)</li><br />
<li>Security cameras at bike stations</li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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== Strategy #4: Reduce Shortage of Software Developers for I&E ==<br />
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'''Leadership Circle Representative:'''&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner]<br />
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'''Problem Statement:'''&nbsp;Tech has many students with ideas, but most of these ideas require software developers (and talented ones) to some degree. Our Computer Science department is mostly theory focused and most students don't do side projects, which causes many students studying CS to not feel comfortable working on industry level projects as undergrads.<br />
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'''Solution Overview:'''&nbsp;Solving this issue is going to require several overall strategies. These involve working with the department to have more software engineering projects (and ones with more rigor), working with student organizations to develop more of a "try, fail, try again till you succeed" culture. It's entirely possible to learn everything you need to know on your own, and as a full-time engineer you'll be required to do this. Finally, the last part involves creating coding courses for non-CS majors that help them gain the confidence to go out and learn on their own.<br />
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=== Tactic #1: Implementing Web-CAT Autograder in CS Department ===<br />
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*Description: Have the Computer Science department use an auto-grader for labs and develop better programming assignments.<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**December 2015:<br />
***Get the chair and associate chair of the department onboard with the project.<br />
***Secure funding for a server to run the system.<br />
**January 2016:<br />
***Get a working Web-CAT server up and running (and capable of grading Python, Java, or C++ assignments)<br />
**February 2016:<br />
***Find professors willing to test the autograder<br />
***Finish getting Python, Java, and C++ working on Web-CAT<br />
**March 2016:<br />
***Finish documenting how to setup and use Web-CAT (hopefully make some videos for that as well).<br />
***Create additional demo projects to show how to use Web-CAT<br />
***Trial run the system with students and TAs/Faculty and get feedback.<br />
**April 2016:<br />
***Secure a way for students to get elective credit if they develop good programming assignments for courses (or plugins for the system).<br />
**May-August 2016:<br />
***Test run the system with TAs, Students, and Professors. Take additional feedback and try to solve issues.<br />
**Fall 2016:<br />
***Run a course or courses using this system.<br />
**2017 and after:<br />
***Expand the system to other departments at TTU.<br />
***Maintain and build a support structure for the system in the CS department.<br />
***Reach out to other schools and try to help them do the same.<br />
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=== Tactic #2: Programming Courses for Non-CS Majors ===<br />
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*Description: Have a course in the concepts of programming (run by students or the department) for non-CS majors.<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**May-August 2016:<br />
***Use CS For All (from Harvey Mudd) to create a trial run of a course for Non-CS majors (2-6 motivated individuals).<br />
***Use the feedback to develop a larger course that can be run by students each semester.<br />
**Fall 2016 and Spring 2017:<br />
***Run a trial course for non-CS majors, larger this time (10-20 students).<br />
***Take feedback and improve<br />
**Stretch Goals for 2017+ (or, if I can find the support):<br />
***Build enough interest to get the CS department to have an official course based off of CS For All.<br />
***Use the CS For All course as a way to improve CS education within the department as a whole (more implementation in addition to the theory).<br />
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=== Tactic #3: Software Development Club Community Integration ===<br />
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*Description: Currently the Software Development Club is somewhat small and casual. The goal is to make it larger and more driven, integrating it more with the I&E community on campus (and hopefully the country).<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**Summer 2016:<br />
***Build a framework for integrating new officers and motivating them to overachieve. Possibly build a points system for the entire club. Rewards would include getting&nbsp;money to go to conferences.<br />
***Take select individuals and ensure they have (and continue) projects through the summer to act as inspiration for the rest of the team.<br />
***Train officers to relate on a personal level with members.<br />
**Fall 2016:<br />
***Get the members more self-motivated and in smaller teams (3-5 per team).<br />
***Change the culture and encourage members to work on projects for at least 5 hours per week instead of the 2 we do now.<br />
***Change weekly meetings to be more team-building, planning, getting help, and less about sitting quietly and coding.<br />
**2017 and after:<br />
***Work with other student organizations to find out what software they need. Teach design thinking to the CS majors during the process of doing these projects.<br />
***Get the Software Development Club traveling more, visiting conferences and hackathons.<br />
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== Strategy #5: Encourage growth of I&E through incenticvizing students through a competitively based hackaton & research project competition. ==<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><u>Description</u>: Implement a hackathon + research presentation competition for high school and TTU.</span><br />
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><u>Milestones:</u></div><br />
*February 2016: <br />
**Have core member board meeting. Establish date, involvement, and events to include.&nbsp;<br />
*March 2016:<br />
**Secure location, solicit additional funding, create website/social media profiles, and create agenda for event.<br />
*April 2016: <br />
**Perform classroom visits, post ads, and raise awareness.&nbsp;<br />
*May 2016: <br />
**Host event. Have debriefing session with members to see what went well, what participants did/did not like, and how to improve for next years HackConf.<br />
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*June-September 2016: <br />
**Create new core member board group. Establish responsibilities, roles, and outcomes.<br />
*October-December 2016: <br />
**Speak with professors/teachers to gain additional support through extra credit points, assigned work, or any other means to drive higher participation for next HackConf.<br />
*January-February 2017: <br />
**Begin classroom visits and pursue outreach channels.<br />
*March-April 2017:<br />
**Contact local news for press release, solicit additional sponsorship/funding, finalize event details.<br />
*May 2017: <br />
**Host event. Have debriefing session with members to see what went well, what participants did/did not like, and how to improve for next years HackConf.<br />
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*June-September 2017: <br />
**Recruit more members to establish responsibilities, roles, and outcomes.&nbsp;<br />
*October-December 2017: <br />
**Re-establish relationships with professors, faculty, and teachers showing the impact/results of past events. Look to expand to other geographical areas (high schools) nearby.<br />
*January-February 2018: <br />
**Do classroom visits, and pursue outreach channels.<br />
*March-April 2018: <br />
**Contact local news channels/newspapers for press release. Solicit funding from local businesses in similar fields (TimeForge, SmoothFusion, etc.) and give prospects for interns/employment opportunities.<br />
*May 2018: <br />
**Host event. Determine outcomes and how to improve for next year.&nbsp;<br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spring 2016 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alyx_Horace Alyx Horace]<br />
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Alfonso Alarcon<br />
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Berto Garcia<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner]<br />
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[[Jared Steele|Jared Steele]]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Spring 2015 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Francis_Atore Francis Atore]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Benjamin_Simmons Benjamin Simmons]</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Valente_Rodriguez Valente Rodriguez]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Victoria_Young Victoria Young]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Person Taylor Person]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">South Plains Connection:</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marshal_Head Marshal Head]</span></span><br />
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=== [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University# Campus Overview]<br/> ===<br />
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== <span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 1: Resource Consolidation on Website</span> ==<br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Valente Rodriguez</span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Organize each resource by category</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Create a user-friendly interface for students/faculty/staff to easily access I&E related resources</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Meet with OVPR administration</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Meet with point of contact for each resource</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Develop draft for web layout</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Relay information to director of communication for web development</span></span></li><br />
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<span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Update: This project is no longer run by a UI Fellow at TTU, instead the OVPR has taken ownership of it and is currently working on a page. UIF is contributing by making the landscape canvas and working on display tools, like a Google Map.</span></span><br />
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 2: OTC opportunities and collaboration between colleges</span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Frank Atore</span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Have interdisciplinary classes that are taught by at least two professors from different departments or colleges</span></span><br/> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Train and provide hands on learning on how to design around a problem from conceptual to finished product in a one semester course. &nbsp;</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Reach out to current departments and colleges to facilitate cross talk and find volunteers: 2/14</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Either create an institute for design in the research park or retro fit existing department: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Obtain funding for the program at $500 per student group and funding for travel to need areas (market)&nbsp;: 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Promote program to undergraduate seniors and graduate students 7/15</span></span></li><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #2: Internship opportunities in the Office of Technology Commercialization for students</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Gain hands on learning on how to market technology and form a business around a technology</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Reach out to the office of the VPR on openness to do program: 2/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Find funding sources for the program and the IP backlog in the OTC: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Send out student survey for program: 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Promote program to undergraduate and graduate students: 5/15</span></span></li><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #3: Departmental “Champions” or points of contact for entrepreneurial design and studies</span></span> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Be a point of reference for faculty to communicate their current research endeavors and a reference for the OTC to relay market or industry interests to faculty.</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Find experienced and enthusiastic innovators: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Create a database or knowledge base for faculty to vote on each others ideas or suggestions (before posting, they rank others ideas, but not theirs): 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Discuss funding availability with the OVPR 5/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Discuss with OTC about employing subject matter experts in the OTC to be counterparts to the departmental champions.9/15</span></span></li><br />
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Update: This project is discontinued, but we like the vision of it and will try to get around to it (or similar goals) in the future.<br />
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 3: Transportation improvement</span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Frank Atore</span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Rental Bikes on Campus</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Have bikes stationed on areas around parking lots and campus perimeter</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Liability and restrictions</span></li><br />
<li>Funding availability in current transportation budget</li><br />
<li>Establish payment system (use student ID)</li><br />
<li>Security cameras at bike stations</li><br />
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== Strategy #4: Reduce Shortage of Software Developers for I&E ==<br />
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'''Leadership Circle Representative:'''&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner]<br />
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'''Problem Statement:'''&nbsp;Tech has many students with ideas, but most of these ideas require software developers (and talented ones) to some degree. Our Computer Science department is mostly theory focused and most students don't do side projects, which causes many students studying CS to not feel comfortable working on industry level projects as undergrads.<br />
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'''Solution Overview:'''&nbsp;Solving this issue is going to require several overall strategies. These involve working with the department to have more software engineering projects (and ones with more rigor), working with student organizations to develop more of a "try, fail, try again till you succeed" culture. It's entirely possible to learn everything you need to know on your own, and as a full-time engineer you'll be required to do this. Finally, the last part involves creating coding courses for non-CS majors that help them gain the confidence to go out and learn on their own.<br />
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=== Tactic #1: Implementing Web-CAT Autograder in CS Department ===<br />
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*Description: Have the Computer Science department use an auto-grader for labs and develop better programming assignments.<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**December 2015:<br />
***Get the chair and associate chair of the department onboard with the project.<br />
***Secure funding for a server to run the system.<br />
**January 2016:<br />
***Get a working Web-CAT server up and running (and capable of grading Python, Java, or C++ assignments)<br />
**February 2016:<br />
***Find professors willing to test the autograder<br />
***Finish getting Python, Java, and C++ working on Web-CAT<br />
**March 2016:<br />
***Finish documenting how to setup and use Web-CAT (hopefully make some videos for that as well).<br />
***Create additional demo projects to show how to use Web-CAT<br />
***Trial run the system with students and TAs/Faculty and get feedback.<br />
**April 2016:<br />
***Secure a way for students to get elective credit if they develop good programming assignments for courses (or plugins for the system).<br />
**May-August 2016:<br />
***Test run the system with TAs, Students, and Professors. Take additional feedback and try to solve issues.<br />
**Fall 2016:<br />
***Run a course or courses using this system.<br />
**2017 and after:<br />
***Expand the system to other departments at TTU.<br />
***Maintain and build a support structure for the system in the CS department.<br />
***Reach out to other schools and try to help them do the same.<br />
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=== Tactic #2: Programming Courses for Non-CS Majors ===<br />
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*Description: Have a course in the concepts of programming (run by students or the department) for non-CS majors.<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**May-August 2016:<br />
***Use CS For All (from Harvey Mudd) to create a trial run of a course for Non-CS majors (2-6 motivated individuals).<br />
***Use the feedback to develop a larger course that can be run by students each semester.<br />
**Fall 2016 and Spring 2017:<br />
***Run a trial course for non-CS majors, larger this time (10-20 students).<br />
***Take feedback and improve<br />
**Stretch Goals for 2017+ (or, if I can find the support):<br />
***Build enough interest to get the CS department to have an official course based off of CS For All.<br />
***Use the CS For All course as a way to improve CS education within the department as a whole (more implementation in addition to the theory).<br />
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=== Tactic #3: Software Development Club Community Integration ===<br />
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*Description: Currently the Software Development Club is somewhat small and casual. The goal is to make it larger and more driven, integrating it more with the I&E community on campus (and hopefully the country).<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**Summer 2016:<br />
***Build a framework for integrating new officers and motivating them to overachieve. Possibly build a points system for the entire club. Rewards would include getting&nbsp;money to go to conferences.<br />
***Take select individuals and ensure they have (and continue) projects through the summer to act as inspiration for the rest of the team.<br />
***Train officers to relate on a personal level with members.<br />
**Fall 2016:<br />
***Get the members more self-motivated and in smaller teams (3-5 per team).<br />
***Change the culture and encourage members to work on projects for at least 5 hours per week instead of the 2 we do now.<br />
***Change weekly meetings to be more team-building, planning, getting help, and less about sitting quietly and coding.<br />
**2017 and after:<br />
***Work with other student organizations to find out what software they need. Teach design thinking to the CS majors during the process of doing these projects.<br />
***Get the Software Development Club traveling more, visiting conferences and hackathons.<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alyx_Horace Alyx Horace]<br />
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Alfonso Alarcon<br />
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Berto Garcia<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner]<br />
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[[Jared Steele|Jared Steele]]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Francis_Atore Francis Atore]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Victoria_Young Victoria Young]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Person Taylor Person]</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marshal_Head Marshal Head]</span></span><br />
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=== [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University# Campus Overview]<br/> ===<br />
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[[Category:Student Priorities|t]]</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:Texas_Tech_University_Student_Priorities_Page&diff=31103Priorities:Texas Tech University Student Priorities Page2016-02-12T01:21:57Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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== <span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 1: Resource Consolidation on Website</span> ==<br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Organize each resource by category</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Create a user-friendly interface for students/faculty/staff to easily access I&E related resources</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Meet with OVPR administration</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Meet with point of contact for each resource</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Develop draft for web layout</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Relay information to director of communication for web development</span></span></li><br />
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<span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Update: This project is no longer run by a UI Fellow at TTU, instead the OVPR has taken ownership of it and is currently working on a page. UIF is contributing by making the landscape canvas and working on display tools, like a Google Map.</span></span><br />
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 2: OTC opportunities and collaboration between colleges</span></span><br/> ==<br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Have interdisciplinary classes that are taught by at least two professors from different departments or colleges</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Train and provide hands on learning on how to design around a problem from conceptual to finished product in a one semester course. &nbsp;</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Reach out to current departments and colleges to facilitate cross talk and find volunteers: 2/14</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Either create an institute for design in the research park or retro fit existing department: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Obtain funding for the program at $500 per student group and funding for travel to need areas (market)&nbsp;: 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Promote program to undergraduate seniors and graduate students 7/15</span></span></li><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #2: Internship opportunities in the Office of Technology Commercialization for students</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Gain hands on learning on how to market technology and form a business around a technology</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Reach out to the office of the VPR on openness to do program: 2/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Find funding sources for the program and the IP backlog in the OTC: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Send out student survey for program: 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Promote program to undergraduate and graduate students: 5/15</span></span></li><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #3: Departmental “Champions” or points of contact for entrepreneurial design and studies</span></span> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Be a point of reference for faculty to communicate their current research endeavors and a reference for the OTC to relay market or industry interests to faculty.</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Find experienced and enthusiastic innovators: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Create a database or knowledge base for faculty to vote on each others ideas or suggestions (before posting, they rank others ideas, but not theirs): 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Discuss funding availability with the OVPR 5/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Discuss with OTC about employing subject matter experts in the OTC to be counterparts to the departmental champions.9/15</span></span></li><br />
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 3: Transportation improvement</span></span><br/> ==<br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Rental Bikes on Campus</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Liability and restrictions</span></li><br />
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== Strategy #4: Reduce Shortage of Software Developers for I&E ==<br />
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'''Problem Statement:'''&nbsp;Tech has many students with ideas, but most of these ideas require software developers (and talented ones) to some degree. Our Computer Science department is mostly theory focused and most students don't do side projects, which causes many students studying CS to not feel comfortable working on industry level projects as undergrads.<br />
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'''Solution Overview:'''&nbsp;Solving this issue is going to require several overall strategies. These involve working with the department to have more software engineering projects (and ones with more rigor), working with student organizations to develop more of a "try, fail, try again till you succeed" culture. It's entirely possible to learn everything you need to know on your own, and as a full-time engineer you'll be required to do this. Finally, the last part involves creating coding courses for non-CS majors that help them gain the confidence to go out and learn on their own.<br />
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=== Tactic #1: Implementing Web-CAT Autograder in CS Department ===<br />
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*Description: Have the Computer Science department use an auto-grader for labs and develop better programming assignments.<br />
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**December 2015:<br />
***Get the chair and associate chair of the department onboard with the project.<br />
***Secure funding for a server to run the system.<br />
**January 2016:<br />
***Get a working Web-CAT server up and running (and capable of grading Python, Java, or C++ assignments)<br />
**February 2016:<br />
***Find professors willing to test the autograder<br />
***Finish getting Python, Java, and C++ working on Web-CAT<br />
**March 2016:<br />
***Finish documenting how to setup and use Web-CAT (hopefully make some videos for that as well).<br />
***Create additional demo projects to show how to use Web-CAT<br />
***Trial run the system with students and TAs/Faculty and get feedback.<br />
**April 2016:<br />
***Secure a way for students to get elective credit if they develop good programming assignments for courses (or plugins for the system).<br />
**May-August 2016:<br />
***Test run the system with TAs, Students, and Professors. Take additional feedback and try to solve issues.<br />
**Fall 2016:<br />
***Run a course or courses using this system.<br />
**2017 and after:<br />
***Expand the system to other departments at TTU.<br />
***Maintain and build a support structure for the system in the CS department.<br />
***Reach out to other schools and try to help them do the same.<br />
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=== Tactic #2: Programming Courses for Non-CS Majors ===<br />
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*Description: Have a course in the concepts of programming (run by students or the department) for non-CS majors.<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**May-August 2016:<br />
***Use CS For All (from Harvey Mudd) to create a trial run of a course for Non-CS majors (2-6 motivated individuals).<br />
***Use the feedback to develop a larger course that can be run by students each semester.<br />
**Fall 2016 and Spring 2017:<br />
***Run a trial course for non-CS majors, larger this time (10-20 students).<br />
***Take feedback and improve<br />
**Stretch Goals for 2017+ (or, if I can find the support):<br />
***Build enough interest to get the CS department to have an official course based off of CS For All.<br />
***Use the CS For All course as a way to improve CS education within the department as a whole (more implementation in addition to the theory).<br />
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=== Tactic #3: Software Development Club Community Integration ===<br />
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*Description: Currently the Software Development Club is somewhat small and casual. The goal is to make it larger and more driven, integrating it more with the I&E community on campus (and hopefully the country).<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**Summer 2016:<br />
***Build a framework for integrating new officers and motivating them to overachieve. Possibly build a points system for the entire club. Rewards would include getting&nbsp;money to go to conferences.<br />
***Take select individuals and ensure they have (and continue) projects through the summer to act as inspiration for the rest of the team.<br />
***Train officers to relate on a personal level with members.<br />
**Fall 2016:<br />
***Get the members more self-motivated and in smaller teams (3-5 per team).<br />
***Change the culture and encourage members to work on projects for at least 5 hours per week instead of the 2 we do now.<br />
***Change weekly meetings to be more team-building, planning, getting help, and less about sitting quietly and coding.<br />
**2017 and after:<br />
***Work with other student organizations to find out what software they need. Teach design thinking to the CS majors during the process of doing these projects.<br />
***Get the Software Development Club traveling more, visiting conferences and hackathons.<br />
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Alfonso Alarcon<br />
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Berto Garcia<br />
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[[Jared Steele|Jared Steele]]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Valente_Rodriguez Valente Rodriguez]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Victoria_Young Victoria Young]</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marshal_Head Marshal Head]</span></span><br />
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=== [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University# Campus Overview]<br/> ===<br />
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[[Category:Student Priorities|t]]</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:Jared_Steele&diff=31000Fellow:Jared Steele2016-02-12T00:47:40Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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<div>Jared Steele is a student at Texas Tech University where he is studying Business Management with a concentration [[File:JaredSteele.JPG|thumb]]in entrepreneurship. He is involved in a wide array of organizations, activities, and leadership positions in hopes to expand his skill set and knowledge base. Examples of these include 3 Day Startup, Regional Outreach Coordinator for Texas Tech Innovation Mentorship & Entrepreneurship, member of 2016 Kinetic Accelerator Cohort, and Pledge Class President of Sigma Nu fraternity. Before transferring to Texas Tech, Jared was Chapter President of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, Chair of Fundraising for Enactus, and helped extensively with the Green Club.<br />
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Jared has been involved with I&E since a young age. He founded and ran the Business & Investing club in highschool, which has grown exponentially since it's creation. Other entreprenuerial ventures he has undertaken include co-founding two snow cone stands, a residential property addressing business, and a mobile iPhone screen repair business. Although these experiences proved to be a great education, Jared has decided to move towards a career in technology commericalization.&nbsp;<br />
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Being a self-acclaimed "workaholic", Jared has held multiple different jobs. Currently he is the intern at ManageForge, and was an analyst for NEC over the 2015 summer. Other work experience include working at startups and smaller businesses doing sales, marketing, and customer/product validation.&nbsp;<br />
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When not working or studying, Jared's time is typically spent reading, gardening (hydroponically), or socializing. Projects he would like to pursue within his life is addressing the problem of ocean overfishing, marine conservation, and non-traditional education.<br />
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= Related Links =<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University Texas Tech University Overview]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University_Student_Priorities_Page#Related_Links: Texas Tech University Priorities and Projects]<br />
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Fellows<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Francis_Atore Francis Atore]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alyx_Horace Alyx Horace]<br />
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Alfonso Alarcon<br />
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Berto Garcia<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Tad_Davis Tad Davis]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Tad_Davis Tad Davis]</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:Jared_Steele&diff=30999Fellow:Jared Steele2016-02-12T00:47:25Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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<div>Jared Steele is a student at Texas Tech University where he is studying Business Management with a concentration [[File:JaredSteele.JPG|thumb]]in entrepreneurship. He is involved in a wide array of organizations, activities, and leadership positions in hopes to expand his skill set and knowledge base. Examples of these include 3 Day Startup, Regional Outreach Coordinator for Texas Tech Innovation Mentorship & Entrepreneurship, member of 2016 Kinetic Accelerator Cohort, and Pledge Class President of Sigma Nu fraternity. Before transferring to Texas Tech, Jared was Chapter President of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, Chair of Fundraising for Enactus, and helped extensively with the Green Club.<br />
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Jared has been involved with I&E since a young age. He founded and ran the Business & Investing club in highschool, which has grown exponentially since it's creation. Other entreprenuerial ventures he has undertaken include co-founding two snow cone stands, a residential property addressing business, and a mobile iPhone screen repair business. Although these experiences proved to be a great education, Jared has decided to move towards a career in technology commericalization.&nbsp;<br />
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Being a self-acclaimed "workaholic", Jared has held multiple different jobs. Currently he is the intern at ManageForge, and was an analyst for NEC over the 2015 summer. Other work experience include working at startups and smaller businesses doing sales, marketing, and customer/product validation.&nbsp;<br />
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When not working or studying, Jared's time is typically spent reading, gardening (hydroponically), or socializing. Projects he would like to pursue within his life is addressing the problem of ocean overfishing, marine conservation, and non-traditional education.<br />
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= Related Links =<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University Texas Tech University Overview]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University_Student_Priorities_Page#Related_Links: Texas Tech University Priorities and Projects]<br />
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Fellows<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Francis_Atore Francis Atore]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alyx_Horace Alyx Horace]<br />
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Alfonso Alarcon<br />
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Berto Garcia<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Tad_Davis Tad Davis]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Tad_Davis Tad Davis]</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:Jared_Steele&diff=30991Fellow:Jared Steele2016-02-12T00:43:41Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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<div>Jared Steele is a student at Texas Tech University where he is studying Business Management with a concentration [[File:JaredSteele.JPG|thumb]]in entrepreneurship. He is involved in a wide array of organizations, activities, and leadership positions in hopes to expand his skill set and knowledge base. Examples of these include 3 Day Startup, Regional Outreach Coordinator for Texas Tech Innovation Mentorship & Entrepreneurship, member of 2016 Kinetic Accelerator Cohort, and Pledge Class President of Sigma Nu fraternity. Before transferring to Texas Tech, Jared was Chapter President of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, Chair of Fundraising for Enactus, and helped extensively with the Green Club.<br />
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Jared has been involved with I&E since a young age. He founded and ran the Business & Investing club in highschool, which has grown exponentially since it's creation. Other entreprenuerial ventures he has undertaken include co-founding two snow cone stands, a residential property addressing business, and a mobile iPhone screen repair business. Although these experiences proved to be a great education, Jared has decided to move towards a career in technology commericalization.&nbsp;<br />
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Being a self-acclaimed "workaholic", Jared has held multiple different jobs. Currently he is the intern at ManageForge, and was an analyst for NEC over the 2015 summer. Other work experience include working at startups and smaller businesses doing sales, marketing, and customer/product validation.&nbsp;<br />
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When not working or studying, Jared's time is typically spent reading, gardening (hydroponically), or socializing. Projects he would like to pursue within his life is addressing the problem of ocean overfishing, marine conservation, and non-traditional education.<br />
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= Related Links =<br />
<br />
Texas Tech University Overview</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:Jared_Steele&diff=30989Fellow:Jared Steele2016-02-12T00:39:36Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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<div>Jared Steele is a student at Texas Tech University where he is studying Business Management with a concentration [[File:JaredSteele.JPG|thumb|JaredSteele.JPG]]in entrepreneurship. He is involved in a wide array of organizations, activities, and leadership positions in hopes to expand his skill set and knowledge base. Examples of these include 3 Day Startup, Regional Outreach Coordinator for Texas Tech Innovation Mentorship & Entrepreneurship, member of 2016 Kinetic Accelerator Cohort, and Pledge Class President of Sigma Nu fraternity. Before transferring to Texas Tech, Jared was Chapter President of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, Chair of Fundraising for Enactus, and helped extensively with the Green Club.<br />
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Jared has been involved with I&E since a young age. He founded and ran the Business & Investing club in highschool, which has grown exponentially since it's creation. Other entreprenuerial ventures he has undertaken include co-founding two snow cone stands, a residential property addressing business, and a mobile iPhone screen repair business. Although these experiences proved to be a great education, Jared has decided to move towards a career in technology commericalization.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
Being a self-acclaimed "workaholic", Jared has held multiple different jobs. Currently he is the intern at ManageForge, and was an analyst for NEC over the 2015 summer. Other work experience include working at startups and smaller businesses doing sales, marketing, and customer/product validation.&nbsp;<br />
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When not working or studying, Jared's time is typically spent reading, gardening (hydroponically), or socializing. Projects he would like to pursue within his life is addressing the problem of ocean overfishing, marine conservation, and non-traditional education.</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:Texas_Tech_University_Student_Priorities_Page&diff=30984Priorities:Texas Tech University Student Priorities Page2016-02-12T00:38:09Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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== <span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 1: Resource Consolidation on Website</span> ==<br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Valente Rodriguez</span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Organize each resource by category</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Create a user-friendly interface for students/faculty/staff to easily access I&E related resources</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Meet with OVPR administration</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Meet with point of contact for each resource</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Develop draft for web layout</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Relay information to director of communication for web development</span></span></li><br />
</ol></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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<span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Update: This project is no longer run by a UI Fellow at TTU, instead the OVPR has taken ownership of it and is currently working on a page. UIF is contributing by making the landscape canvas and working on display tools, like a Google Map.</span></span><br />
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 2: OTC opportunities and collaboration between colleges</span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Frank Atore</span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Have interdisciplinary classes that are taught by at least two professors from different departments or colleges</span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Train and provide hands on learning on how to design around a problem from conceptual to finished product in a one semester course. &nbsp;</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Reach out to current departments and colleges to facilitate cross talk and find volunteers: 2/14</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Either create an institute for design in the research park or retro fit existing department: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Obtain funding for the program at $500 per student group and funding for travel to need areas (market)&nbsp;: 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Promote program to undergraduate seniors and graduate students 7/15</span></span></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #2: Internship opportunities in the Office of Technology Commercialization for students</span></span><br/> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Gain hands on learning on how to market technology and form a business around a technology</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Reach out to the office of the VPR on openness to do program: 2/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Find funding sources for the program and the IP backlog in the OTC: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Send out student survey for program: 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Promote program to undergraduate and graduate students: 5/15</span></span></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #3: Departmental “Champions” or points of contact for entrepreneurial design and studies</span></span> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Be a point of reference for faculty to communicate their current research endeavors and a reference for the OTC to relay market or industry interests to faculty.</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Find experienced and enthusiastic innovators: 3/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Create a database or knowledge base for faculty to vote on each others ideas or suggestions (before posting, they rank others ideas, but not theirs): 4/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Discuss funding availability with the OVPR 5/15</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Discuss with OTC about employing subject matter experts in the OTC to be counterparts to the departmental champions.9/15</span></span></li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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Update: This project is discontinued, but we like the vision of it and will try to get around to it (or similar goals) in the future.<br />
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Strategy # 3: Transportation improvement</span></span><br/> ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">'''Leadership Circle Representative:''' Frank Atore</span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Tactic #1: Rental Bikes on Campus</span></span><br/> ===<br />
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Description: Have bikes stationed on areas around parking lots and campus perimeter</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ffe8dcb-4260-1ad8-c4ad-f8cbe39f55f4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Milestones:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Liability and restrictions</span></li><br />
<li>Funding availability in current transportation budget</li><br />
<li>Establish payment system (use student ID)</li><br />
<li>Security cameras at bike stations</li><br />
</ul></li><br />
</ul><br />
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== Strategy #4: Reduce Shortage of Software Developers for I&E ==<br />
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'''Leadership Circle Representative:'''&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner]<br />
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'''Problem Statement:'''&nbsp;Tech has many students with ideas, but most of these ideas require software developers (and talented ones) to some degree. Our Computer Science department is mostly theory focused and most students don't do side projects, which causes many students studying CS to not feel comfortable working on industry level projects as undergrads.<br />
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'''Solution Overview:'''&nbsp;Solving this issue is going to require several overall strategies. These involve working with the department to have more software engineering projects (and ones with more rigor), working with student organizations to develop more of a "try, fail, try again till you succeed" culture. It's entirely possible to learn everything you need to know on your own, and as a full-time engineer you'll be required to do this. Finally, the last part involves creating coding courses for non-CS majors that help them gain the confidence to go out and learn on their own.<br />
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=== Tactic #1: Implementing Web-CAT Autograder in CS Department ===<br />
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*Description: Have the Computer Science department use an auto-grader for labs and develop better programming assignments.<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**December 2015:<br />
***Get the chair and associate chair of the department onboard with the project.<br />
***Secure funding for a server to run the system.<br />
**January 2016:<br />
***Get a working Web-CAT server up and running (and capable of grading Python, Java, or C++ assignments)<br />
**February 2016:<br />
***Find professors willing to test the autograder<br />
***Finish getting Python, Java, and C++ working on Web-CAT<br />
**March 2016:<br />
***Finish documenting how to setup and use Web-CAT (hopefully make some videos for that as well).<br />
***Create additional demo projects to show how to use Web-CAT<br />
***Trial run the system with students and TAs/Faculty and get feedback.<br />
**April 2016:<br />
***Secure a way for students to get elective credit if they develop good programming assignments for courses (or plugins for the system).<br />
**May-August 2016:<br />
***Test run the system with TAs, Students, and Professors. Take additional feedback and try to solve issues.<br />
**Fall 2016:<br />
***Run a course or courses using this system.<br />
**2017 and after:<br />
***Expand the system to other departments at TTU.<br />
***Maintain and build a support structure for the system in the CS department.<br />
***Reach out to other schools and try to help them do the same.<br />
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=== Tactic #2: Programming Courses for Non-CS Majors ===<br />
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*Description: Have a course in the concepts of programming (run by students or the department) for non-CS majors.<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**May-August 2016:<br />
***Use CS For All (from Harvey Mudd) to create a trial run of a course for Non-CS majors (2-6 motivated individuals).<br />
***Use the feedback to develop a larger course that can be run by students each semester.<br />
**Fall 2016 and Spring 2017:<br />
***Run a trial course for non-CS majors, larger this time (10-20 students).<br />
***Take feedback and improve<br />
**Stretch Goals for 2017+ (or, if I can find the support):<br />
***Build enough interest to get the CS department to have an official course based off of CS For All.<br />
***Use the CS For All course as a way to improve CS education within the department as a whole (more implementation in addition to the theory).<br />
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=== Tactic #3: Software Development Club Community Integration ===<br />
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*Description: Currently the Software Development Club is somewhat small and casual. The goal is to make it larger and more driven, integrating it more with the I&E community on campus (and hopefully the country).<br />
*Milestones:<br />
**Summer 2016:<br />
***Build a framework for integrating new officers and motivating them to overachieve. Possibly build a points system for the entire club. Rewards would include getting&nbsp;money to go to conferences.<br />
***Take select individuals and ensure they have (and continue) projects through the summer to act as inspiration for the rest of the team.<br />
***Train officers to relate on a personal level with members.<br />
**Fall 2016:<br />
***Get the members more self-motivated and in smaller teams (3-5 per team).<br />
***Change the culture and encourage members to work on projects for at least 5 hours per week instead of the 2 we do now.<br />
***Change weekly meetings to be more team-building, planning, getting help, and less about sitting quietly and coding.<br />
**2017 and after:<br />
***Work with other student organizations to find out what software they need. Teach design thinking to the CS majors during the process of doing these projects.<br />
***Get the Software Development Club traveling more, visiting conferences and hackathons.<br />
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== '''Video Presentation:''' ==<br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spring 2016 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alyx_Horace Alyx Horace]<br />
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Alfonso Alarcon<br />
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Berto Garcia<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner Isaac Griswold-Steiner]<br />
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[[Jared Steele|Jared Steele]]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Spring 2015 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Francis_Atore Francis Atore]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Benjamin_Simmons Benjamin Simmons]</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Valente_Rodriguez Valente Rodriguez]</span></span><br />
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[[Category:Student Priorities|t]]</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Texas_Tech_University&diff=30955School:Texas Tech University2016-02-12T00:17:36Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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<div>= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[[File:DoubleT.gif|right|DoubleT.gif]]Introduction</span></span><big><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">:</span></big> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">With over [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/centers-institutes.php 60 centers and institutes] in addition to recently being named a Tier 1 Research Instiution by the Carnegie Foundation, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">research is strong throughout many departments within Texas Tech University. &nbsp;However, efforts are continuously being made to translate this research and innovation into industry and commerical application. With the recent construction of the [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/research-park/about/index.php Research Park & Innovation Hub], resources are readily available to startups and technology commercialization initiatives. When summed together, these effots result in massive strides forward for the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Texas Tech.</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">&nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech University hosts a number of student organizations that promote the concepts and practice of and engage students in innovation and entrepreneurship:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://doubletimettu.org Texas Tech Innovation Mentorship and Entrepreneurship (TTIME)] </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">is a student organization for both undergraduate and graduate students of any discipline. This program promotes entrepreneurship through connecting students with innovative faculty mentors, local entrepreneurs, and the resource channels to go from concept to customer.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Officer of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) currently hosts [http://texastech.3daystartup.org/ 3 Day Startup], an intensive, bi-annual, weekend-long event that exposes students to the science of successfully starting a business. From idea, to market validation, to the investor pitch, students gain invaluable entrepreneurial experience while simultaneously expanding their skill set.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The OVPR also hosts the </span>[http://www.kineticaccelerator.com/ Kinetic accelerator cohort]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, an annual, semester-long program. Kinetic contains two sections; technology commercialization and student entrepreneurs who are looking thorough mentorship and guidance for their own startup.</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.facebook.com/ttumeig/?fref=ts Media Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group] is a student organization from the College of Media and Communications that promotes startup media companies and entrepreneurial projects. They host multiple pitch competitions, speaker series, and events where student entrepreneurs can come together and share ideas and experiences.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech also has a chapter of the [https://www.facebook.com/ttuceo/?fref=ts Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization], which through the College of Business promotes entrepreneurship.</span><br />
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<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">For those who are interested in a technical entrepreneurial experience, the [https://www.facebook.com/SDCTTU/?fref=ts Software Development Club] aims to help members hone their skills and channel it into ways to solve real-world problems. Although being a relatively new organization, the leadership team is making efforts to become an impactful part the entrepreneurship community at Texas Tech.</span></font><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">At the undergraduate level, student innovation is fostered through the many research [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/undergraduate-research.php opportunities]</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">. While funding is available for students to travel to conferences to present their research, little assistance is available for student to turn their research into a startup. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Faculty's primary responsibility lies in research; however, moderate participation in entrepreneurial endeavors (60/40) should also be encouraged. With extensive dedication to teaching and research responsibilities, faculty can devote upwards of 60 to 80 hours of their time on these two areas.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Therefore, expecting them to also chase after companies to buy into their research or consider their patent portfolio should be incentivized for doing extra work.</span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/commercialization/ Office of Research Commercialization] (ORC) does provide a way for research to be patented and commercialized, however, the system doesn't have the best reputation. One professor has had several research discoveries rejected as patents, and within weeks&nbsp;or months of publishing his research large companies came forward to ask him to give a talk on it. So the university missed out on an opportunity because people in the ORC didn't understand the potential value of the research. The old system (according to faculty and staff) didn't include enough a rigorous enough process for evaluating the value of research. It's currently undergoing changes that were started after new leadership took over.</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">It is the responsibility of the Office of Research Commercialization to recognize when a technology is considered groundbreaking, especially after winning many accolades (i.e. Dr. Harvinder Gill's Pollen and Microneedle patents). Staff should be taught to analyze and interface with faculty regularly following up with faculty on their projects and &nbsp;interest in industry partners. It would help if there were subject matter experts in the office with technical qualifications in the faculty disciplines; be it a phD in engineering, Biology, Computer Science and MBA and a JD. The staff in the commercialization office needs to be motivated</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">A relatively new avenue for research commercialization is the Kinetic accelerator. It's run by someone with many years of experience in this field and they specifically encourage students to take on the task of commercializing TTU research and patents.</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">There needs to be a reward or incentive for faculty to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors. Such a reward could be university sponsored funding for the most innovative technology idea. Also, faculty needs to know their interests will be protected and that the technology will be licensed to qualified personnel or businesses.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Additional resources for building up your startup are available through the OVPR and ORC, including the best mentors available in the area. One of the main facilities is the Innovation Hub at Research Park, where startups can have office space (sometimes free for a limited time).</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Improvements can be made regarding the establsihment and maitenance of alumni network relations. Whenever new technologies are developed that can interface with industry, it is important to utilize the knowledge and experince of alumni by presenting opportunities,seeking their input, and utilizing their connections to the applicable industry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Another present insufficiency is the lack of community outreach and involvement. There are several people in the community who are trying to get projects going that will encourage innovation and entrepreneurship, and it would be beneficial to have TTU helping bring these projects forward (either through advice or advertising through the student population). The more intermixing and collaboration between Texas Tech and Lubbock communities, the more robust and profound each entrepreneurship community will be. A notable organzation worth collaboration with is [http://ulabstx.com/ ULabs]. Despite being new, the stakeholders involved exercise a passionate vision to make it a permanent feature of the Lubbock community.</span><br />
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[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19Vk8LX6LL-oVgSeraZpYLjtrEUA72Eoqm6Y8smb2Hy8/edit?usp=sharing Click here to view the Spring 2016 Landscape Slidedeck.]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alyx_Horace <span style="font-size: larger;">Alyx Horace</span>]<br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Alfonso Alarcon</span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner <span style="font-size:larger;">Isaac Griswold-Steiner</span>]<br />
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[[Jared Steele|Jared Steele]]<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Benjamin_Simmons Benjamin Simmons]</span><br />
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[[Category:Universities]]</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:Jared_Steele&diff=30932Fellow:Jared Steele2016-02-12T00:03:16Z<p>JaredSteele: Created page with "Jared Steele is a student at Texas Tech University where he is studying Business Management with a concentration thumbin entrepreneurship. He is invol..."</p>
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<div>Jared Steele is a student at Texas Tech University where he is studying Business Management with a concentration [[File:JaredSteele.JPG|thumb]]in entrepreneurship. He is involved in a wide array of organizations, activities, and leadership positions in hopes to expand his skill set and knowledge base. Examples of these include 3 Day Startup, Regional Outreach Coordinator for Texas Tech Innovation Mentorship & Entrepreneurship, member of 2016 Kinetic Accelerator Cohort, and Pledge Class President of Sigma Nu fraternity. Before transferring to Texas Tech, Jared was Chapter President of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, Chair of Fundraising for Enactus, and helped extensively with the Green Club.<br />
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Jared has been involved with I&E since a young age. He founded and ran the Business & Investing club in highschool, which has grown exponentially since it's creation. Other entreprenuerial ventures he has undertaken include co-founding two snow cone stands, a residential property addressing business, and a mobile iPhone screen repair business. Although these experiences proved to be a great education, Jared has decided to move towards a career in technology commericalization.&nbsp;<br />
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Being a self-acclaimed "workaholic", Jared has held multiple different jobs. Currently he is the intern at ManageForge, and was an analyst for NEC over the 2015 summer. Other work experience include working at startups and smaller businesses doing sales, marketing, and customer/product validation.&nbsp;<br />
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When not working or studying, Jared's time is typically spent reading, gardening (hydroponically), or socializing. Projects he would like to pursue within his life is addressing the problem of ocean overfishing, marine conservation, and non-traditional education.</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=File:JaredSteele.JPG&diff=30931File:JaredSteele.JPG2016-02-12T00:02:45Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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<div></div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Texas_Tech_University&diff=29757School:Texas Tech University2016-02-10T08:54:12Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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<div>= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[[File:DoubleT.gif|right|DoubleT.gif]]Introduction</span></span><big><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">:</span></big> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">With over [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/centers-institutes.php 60 centers and institutes] in addition to recently being named a Tier 1 Research Instiution by the Carnegie Foundation, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">research is strong throughout many departments within Texas Tech University. &nbsp;However, efforts are continuously being made to translate this research and innovation into industry and commerical application. With the recent construction of the [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/research-park/about/index.php Research Park & Innovation Hub], resources are readily available to startups and technology commercialization initiatives. When summed together, these effots result in massive strides forward for the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Texas Tech.</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">&nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://doubletimettu.org Texas Tech Innovation Mentorship and Entrepreneurship (TTIME)] </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">is a student organization for both undergraduate and graduate students of any discipline. This program promotes entrepreneurship through connecting students with innovative faculty mentors, local entrepreneurs, and the resource channels to go from concept to customer.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Officer of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) currently hosts [http://texastech.3daystartup.org/ 3 Day Startup], an intensive, bi-annual, weekend-long event that exposes students to the science of successfully starting a business. From idea, to market validation, to the investor pitch, students gain invaluable entrepreneurial experience while simultaneously expanding their skill set.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The OVPR also hosts the </span>[http://www.kineticaccelerator.com/ Kinetic accelerator cohort]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, an annual, semester-long program. Kinetic contains two sections; technology commercialization and student entrepreneurs who are looking thorough mentorship and guidance for their own startup.</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.facebook.com/ttumeig/?fref=ts Media Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group] is a student organization from the College of Media and Communications that promotes startup media companies and entrepreneurial projects. They host multiple pitch competitions, speaker series, and events where student entrepreneurs can come together and share ideas and experiences.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech also has a chapter of the [https://www.facebook.com/ttuceo/?fref=ts Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization], which through the College of Business promotes entrepreneurship.</span><br />
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<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">For those who are interested in a technical entrepreneurial experience, the [https://www.facebook.com/SDCTTU/?fref=ts Software Development Club] aims to help members hone their skills and channel it into ways to solve real-world problems. Although being a relatively new organization, the leadership team is making efforts to become an impactful part the entrepreneurship community at Texas Tech.</span></font><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">At the undergraduate level, student innovation is fostered through the many research [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/undergraduate-research.php opportunities]</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">. While funding is available for students to travel to conferences to present their research, little assistance is available for student to turn their research into a startup. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Faculty's primary responsibility lies in research; however, moderate participation in entrepreneurial endeavors (60/40) should also be encouraged. With extensive dedication to teaching and research responsibilities, faculty can devote upwards of 60 to 80 hours of their time on these two areas.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Therefore, expecting them to also chase after companies to buy into their research or consider their patent portfolio should be incentivized for doing extra work.</span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/commercialization/ Office of Research Commercialization] (ORC) does provide a way for research to be patented and commercialized, however, the system doesn't have the best reputation. One professor has had several research discoveries rejected as patents, and within weeks&nbsp;or months of publishing his research large companies came forward to ask him to give a talk on it. So the university missed out on an opportunity because people in the ORC didn't understand the potential value of the research. The old system (according to faculty and staff) didn't include enough a rigorous enough process for evaluating the value of research. It's currently undergoing changes that were started after new leadership took over.</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">It is the responsibility of the Office of Research Commercialization to recognize when a technology is considered groundbreaking, especially after winning many accolades (i.e. Dr. Harvinder Gill's Pollen and Microneedle patents). Staff should be taught to analyze and interface with faculty regularly following up with faculty on their projects and &nbsp;interest in industry partners. It would help if there were subject matter experts in the office with technical qualifications in the faculty disciplines; be it a phD in engineering, Biology, Computer Science and MBA and a JD. The staff in the commercialization office needs to be motivated</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><font color="#333333"></font></span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">A relatively new avenue for research commercialization is the Kinetic accelerator. It's run by someone with many years of experience in this field and they specifically encourage students to take on the task of commercializing TTU research and patents.</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">There needs to be a reward or incentive for faculty to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors. Such a reward could be university sponsored funding for the most innovative technology idea. Also, faculty needs to know their interests will be protected and that the technology will be licensed to qualified personnel or businesses.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Additional resources for building up your startup are available through the OVPR and ORC, including the best mentors available in the area. One of the main facilities is the Innovation Hub at Research Park, where startups can have office space (sometimes free for a limited time).</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Improvements can be made regarding the establsihment and maitenance of alumni network relations. Whenever new technologies are developed that can interface with industry, it is important to utilize the knowledge and experince of alumni by presenting opportunities,seeking their input, and utilizing their connections to the applicable industry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Another present insufficiency is the lack of community outreach and involvement. There are several people in the community who are trying to get projects going that will encourage innovation and entrepreneurship, and it would be beneficial to have TTU helping bring these projects forward (either through advice or advertising through the student population). The more intermixing and collaboration between Texas Tech and Lubbock communities, the more robust and profound each entrepreneurship community will be. A notable organzation worth collaboration with is [http://ulabstx.com/ ULabs]. Despite being new, the stakeholders involved exercise a passionate vision to make it a permanent feature of the Lubbock community.</span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Landscape Slidedeck/</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap">Canvas:</span> =<br />
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[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e4bkNOheO7K47l6kEptWB0UzZiR0wqep1J34vAsXe7w/edit?usp=sharing Click here to view the Spring 2016 Landscape Canvas from Texas Tech.]<br />
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[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19Vk8LX6LL-oVgSeraZpYLjtrEUA72Eoqm6Y8smb2Hy8/edit?usp=sharing Click here to view the Spring 2016 Landscape Slidedeck.]<br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spring 2016 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Alyx Horace</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Alfonso Alarcon</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Berto Garcia</span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner <span style="font-size:larger;">Isaac Griswold-Steiner</span>]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:JaredSteele <span style="font-size: larger;">Jared Steele</span>]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Spring 2015 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Francis_Atore Francis Atore]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Benjamin_Simmons Benjamin Simmons]</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Valente_Rodriguez Valente Rodriguez]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Victoria_Young Victoria Young]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Person Taylor Person]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">South Plains Connection:</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marshal_Head Marshal Head]</span></span><br />
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=== [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University_Student_Priorities_Page <span style="font-size:medium">Student Priorities Page</span>]<br/> ===<br />
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[[Category:Universities]]</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Texas_Tech_University&diff=29756School:Texas Tech University2016-02-10T08:38:35Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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<div>= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[[File:DoubleT.gif|right|DoubleT.gif]]Introduction</span></span><big><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">:</span></big> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">With over [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/centers-institutes.php 60 centers and institutes] in addition to recently being named a Tier 1 Research Instiution by the Carnegie Foundation, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">research is strong throughout many departments within Texas Tech University. &nbsp;However, efforts are continuously being made to translate this research and innovation into industry and commerical application. With the recent construction of the [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/research-park/about/index.php Research Park & Innovation Hub], resources are readily available to startups and technology commercialization initiatives. When summed together, these effots result in massive strides forward for the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Texas Tech.</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">&nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech University hosts a number of student organizations that promote the concepts and practice of and engage students in innovation and entrepreneurship:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://doubletimettu.org Texas Tech Innovation Mentorship and Entrepreneurship (TTIME)] </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">is a student organization for both undergraduate and graduate students of any discipline. This program promotes entrepreneurship through connecting students with innovative faculty mentors, local entrepreneurs, and the resource channels to go from concept to customer.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Officer of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) currently hosts [http://texastech.3daystartup.org/ 3 Day Startup], an intensive, bi-annual, weekend-long event that exposes students to the science of successfully starting a business. From idea, to market validation, to the investor pitch, students gain invaluable entrepreneurial experience while simultaneously expanding their skill set.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The OVPR also hosts the </span>[http://www.kineticaccelerator.com/ Kinetic accelerator cohort]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, an annual, semester-long program. Kinetic contains two sections; technology commercialization and student entrepreneurs who are looking thorough mentorship and guidance for their own startup.</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.facebook.com/ttumeig/?fref=ts Media Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group] is a student organization from the College of Media and Communications that promotes startup media companies and entrepreneurial projects. They host multiple pitch competitions, speaker series, and events where student entrepreneurs can come together and share ideas and experiences.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech also has a chapter of the [https://www.facebook.com/ttuceo/?fref=ts Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization], which through the College of Business promotes entrepreneurship.</span><br />
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<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">For those who are interested in a technical entrepreneurial experience, the [https://www.facebook.com/SDCTTU/?fref=ts Software Development Club] aims to help members hone their skills and channel it into ways to solve real-world problems. Although being a relatively new organization, the leadership team is making efforts to become an impactful part the entrepreneurship community at Texas Tech.</span></font><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">At the undergraduate level, student innovation is fostered through the many research [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/undergraduate-research.php opportunities]</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">. While funding is available for students to travel to conferences to present their research, little assistance is available for student to turn their research into a startup. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Faculty primary responsibility lies in research but they should also partake in some entrepreneurial endeavors (60/40). Faculty already have teaching and research responsibilities which take up upwards of 60 to 80 hours of their time. Therefore, expecting them to also chase after companies to buy into their research or consider their patent portfolio should be incentivized for doing extra work.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/commercialization/ Office of Research Commercialization] (ORC) does provide a way for research to be patented and commercialized, however, the system doesn't have the best reputation. One professor has had several research discoveries rejected as patents, and within weeks&nbsp;or months of publishing his research large companies came forward to ask him to give a talk on it. So the university missed out on an opportunity because people in the ORC didn't understand the potential value of the research. The old system (according to faculty and staff) didn't include enough a rigorous enough process for evaluating the value of research. It's currently undergoing changes that were started after new leadership took over.</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">It is the responsibility of the Office of Research Commercialization to recognize when a technology is considered groundbreaking, especially after winning many accolades (i.e. Dr. Harvinder Gill's Pollen and Microneedle patents). Staff should be taught to analyze and interface with faculty regularly following up with faculty on their projects and &nbsp;interest in industry partners. It would help if there were subject matter experts in the office with technical qualifications in the faculty disciplines; be it a phD in engineering, Biology, Computer Science and MBA and a JD. The staff in the commercialization office needs to be motivated</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><font color="#333333"></font></span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">A relatively new avenue for research commercialization is the Kinetic accelerator. It's run by someone with many years of experience in this field and they specifically encourage students to take on the task of commercializing TTU research and patents.</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">There needs to be a reward or incentive for faculty to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors. Such a reward could be university sponsored funding for the most innovative technology idea. Also, faculty needs to know their interests will be protected and that the technology will be licensed to qualified personnel or businesses.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Additional resources for building up your startup are available through the OVPR and ORC, including the best mentors available in the area. One of the main facilities is the Innovation Hub at Research Park, where startups can have office space (sometimes free for a limited time).</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Improvements can be made regarding the establsihment and maitenance of alumni network relations. Whenever new technologies are developed that can interface with industry, it is important to utilize the knowledge and experince of alumni by presenting opportunities,seeking their input, and utilizing their connections to the applicable industry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Another present insufficiency is the lack of community outreach and involvement. There are several people in the community who are trying to get projects going that will encourage innovation and entrepreneurship, and it would be beneficial to have TTU helping bring these projects forward (either through advice or advertising through the student population). The more intermixing and collaboration between Texas Tech and Lubbock communities, the more robust and profound each entrepreneurship community will be. A notable organzation worth collaboration with is [http://ulabstx.com/ ULabs]. Despite being new, the stakeholders involved exercise a passionate vision to make it a permanent feature of the Lubbock community.</span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Landscape Slidedeck/</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap">Canvas:</span> =<br />
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[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e4bkNOheO7K47l6kEptWB0UzZiR0wqep1J34vAsXe7w/edit?usp=sharing Click here to view the Spring 2016 Landscape Canvas from Texas Tech.]<br />
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[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19Vk8LX6LL-oVgSeraZpYLjtrEUA72Eoqm6Y8smb2Hy8/edit?usp=sharing Click here to view the Spring 2016 Landscape Slidedeck.]<br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spring 2016 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Alyx Horace</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Alfonso Alarcon</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Berto Garcia</span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner <span style="font-size:larger;">Isaac Griswold-Steiner</span>]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:JaredSteele <span style="font-size: larger;">Jared Steele</span>]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Spring 2015 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Francis_Atore Francis Atore]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Benjamin_Simmons Benjamin Simmons]</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Valente_Rodriguez Valente Rodriguez]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Victoria_Young Victoria Young]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Person Taylor Person]</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marshal_Head Marshal Head]</span></span><br />
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=== [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University_Student_Priorities_Page <span style="font-size:medium">Student Priorities Page</span>]<br/> ===<br />
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[[Category:Universities]]</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Texas_Tech_University&diff=29755School:Texas Tech University2016-02-10T08:21:15Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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<div>= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[[File:DoubleT.gif|right|DoubleT.gif]]Introduction</span></span><big><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">:</span></big> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">With over [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/centers-institutes.php 60 centers and institutes] in addition to recently being named a Tier 1 Research Instiution by the Carnegie Foundation, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">research is strong throughout many departments within Texas Tech University. &nbsp;However, efforts are continuously being made to translate this research and innovation into industry and commerical application. With the recent construction of the [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/research-park/about/index.php Research Park & Innovation Hub], resources are readily available to startups and technology commercialization initiatives. When summed together, these effots result in massive strides forward for the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Texas Tech.</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">&nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech University hosts a number of student organizations that promote the concepts and practice of and engage students in innovation and entrepreneurship:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://doubletimettu.org Texas Tech Innovation Mentorship and Entrepreneurship (TTIME)] </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">is a student organization for both undergraduate and graduate students of any discipline. This program promotes entrepreneurship through connecting students with innovative faculty mentors, local entrepreneurs, and the resource channels to go from concept to customer.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Officer of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) currently hosts [http://texastech.3daystartup.org/ 3 Day Startup], an intensive, bi-annual, weekend-long event that exposes students to the science of successfully starting a business. From idea, to market validation, to the investor pitch, students gain invaluable entrepreneurial experience while simultaneously expanding their skill set.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The OVPR also hosts the </span>[http://www.kineticaccelerator.com/ Kinetic accelerator cohort]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, an annual, semester-long program. Kinetic contains two sections; technology commercialization and student entrepreneurs who are looking thorough mentorship and guidance for their own startup.</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.facebook.com/ttumeig/?fref=ts Media Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group] is a student organization from the College of Media and Communications that promotes startup media companies and entrepreneurial projects. They host multiple pitch competitions, speaker series, and events where student entrepreneurs can come together and share ideas and experiences.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech also has a chapter of the [https://www.facebook.com/ttuceo/?fref=ts Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization], which through the College of Business promotes entrepreneurship.</span><br />
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<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">For those who are interested in a technical entrepreneurial experience, the [https://www.facebook.com/SDCTTU/?fref=ts Software Development Club] aims to help members hone their skills and channel it into ways to solve real-world problems. Although being a relatively new organization, the leadership team is making efforts to become an impactful part the entrepreneurship community at Texas Tech.</span></font><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">At the undergraduate level, student innovation is fostered through the many research [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/undergraduate-research.php opportunities]</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">. While funding is available for students to travel to conferences to present their research, little assistance is available for student to turn their research into a startup. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Faculty primary responsibility lies in research but they should also partake in some entrepreneurial endeavors (60/40). Faculty already have teaching and research responsibilities which take up upwards of 60 to 80 hours of their time. Therefore, expecting them to also chase after companies to buy into their research or consider their patent portfolio should be incentivized for doing extra work.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/commercialization/ Office of Research Commercialization] (ORC) does provide a way for research to be patented and commercialized, however, the system doesn't have the best reputation. One professor has had several research discoveries rejected as patents, and within weeks&nbsp;or months of publishing his research large companies came forward to ask him to give a talk on it. So the university missed out on an opportunity because people in the ORC didn't understand the potential value of the research. The old system (according to faculty and staff) didn't include enough a rigorous enough process for evaluating the value of research. It's currently undergoing changes that were started after new leadership took over.</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">It is the responsibility of the Office of Research Commercialization to recognize when a technology is considered groundbreaking, especially after winning many accolades (i.e. Dr. Harvinder Gill's Pollen and Microneedle patents). Staff should be taught to analyze and interface with faculty regularly following up with faculty on their projects and &nbsp;interest in industry partners. It would help if there were subject matter experts in the office with technical qualifications in the faculty disciplines; be it a phD in engineering, Biology, Computer Science and MBA and a JD. The staff in the commercialization office needs to be motivated</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><font color="#333333"></font></span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">A relatively new avenue for research commercialization is the Kinetic accelerator. It's run by someone with many years of experience in this field and they specifically encourage students to take on the task of commercializing TTU research and patents.</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">There needs to be a reward or incentive for faculty to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors. Such a reward could be university sponsored funding for the most innovative technology idea. Also, faculty needs to know their interests will be protected and that the technology will be licensed to qualified personnel or businesses.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Additional resources for building up your startup are available through the OVPR and ORC, including the best mentors available in the area. One of the main facilities is the Innovation Hub at Research Park, where startups can have office space (sometimes free for a limited time).</span></span><br />
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[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e4bkNOheO7K47l6kEptWB0UzZiR0wqep1J34vAsXe7w/edit?usp=sharing Click here to view the Spring 2016 Landscape Canvas from Texas Tech.]<br />
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[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19Vk8LX6LL-oVgSeraZpYLjtrEUA72Eoqm6Y8smb2Hy8/edit?usp=sharing Click here to view the Spring 2016 Landscape Slidedeck.]<br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Alyx Horace</span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner <span style="font-size:larger;">Isaac Griswold-Steiner</span>]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:JaredSteele <span style="font-size: larger;">Jared Steele</span>]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Francis_Atore Francis Atore]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Benjamin_Simmons Benjamin Simmons]</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Valente_Rodriguez Valente Rodriguez]</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marshal_Head Marshal Head]</span></span><br />
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=== [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University_Student_Priorities_Page <span style="font-size:medium">Student Priorities Page</span>]<br/> ===<br />
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[[Category:Universities]]</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Texas_Tech_University&diff=29754School:Texas Tech University2016-02-10T07:51:42Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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<div>= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[[File:DoubleT.gif|right|DoubleT.gif]]Introduction</span></span><big><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">:</span></big> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">With over [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/centers-institutes.php 60 centers and institutes] in addition to recently being named a Tier 1 Research Instiution by the Carnegie Foundation, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">research is strong throughout many departments within Texas Tech University. &nbsp;However, efforts are continuously being made to translate this research and innovation into industry and commerical application. With the recent construction of the [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/research-park/about/index.php Research Park & Innovation Hub], resources are readily available to startups and technology commercialization initiatives. When summed together, these effots result in massive strides forward for the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Texas Tech.</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">&nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech University has a number of student organization that promote and engage students in innovation and entrepreneurship:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://doubletimettu.org Texas Tech Innovation Mentorship and Entrepreneurship (TTIME)] </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">is a student organization for both undergraduate and graduate students of any discipline. This program promotes entrepreneurship while connecting students with innovative faculty mentors.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Officer of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) currently host a [http://texastech.3daystartup.org/ 3 Day Startup] event every semester to promote and facilitate entrepreneurship. The OVPR also runs the [http://www.kineticaccelerator.com/ Kinetic accelerator], which happens every spring semester. Kinetic has two sections, one for technology commercialization and one for student entrepreneurs who are looking for guidance on their own startup.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.facebook.com/ttumeig/?fref=ts Media Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group] is a student organization from the College of Media and Communications that promotes startup media companies and entrepreneurial projects.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech also has a chapter of the [https://www.facebook.com/ttuceo/?fref=ts Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization], which through the College of Business promotes entrepreneurship.</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">At the undergraduate level, student innovation is fostered through the many research [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/undergraduate-research.php opportunities]</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">. While funding is available for students to travel to conferences to present their research, little assistance is available for student to turn their research into a startup. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Faculty primary responsibility lies in research but they should also partake in some entrepreneurial endeavors (60/40). Faculty already have teaching and research responsibilities which take up upwards of 60 to 80 hours of their time. Therefore, expecting them to also chase after companies to buy into their research or consider their patent portfolio should be incentivized for doing extra work.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/commercialization/ Office of Research Commercialization] (ORC) does provide a way for research to be patented and commercialized, however, the system doesn't have the best reputation. One professor has had several research discoveries rejected as patents, and within weeks&nbsp;or months of publishing his research large companies came forward to ask him to give a talk on it. So the university missed out on an opportunity because people in the ORC didn't understand the potential value of the research. The old system (according to faculty and staff) didn't include enough a rigorous enough process for evaluating the value of research. It's currently undergoing changes that were started after new leadership took over.</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">It is the responsibility of the Office of Research Commercialization to recognize when a technology is considered groundbreaking, especially after winning many accolades (i.e. Dr. Harvinder Gill's Pollen and Microneedle patents). Staff should be taught to analyze and interface with faculty regularly following up with faculty on their projects and &nbsp;interest in industry partners. It would help if there were subject matter experts in the office with technical qualifications in the faculty disciplines; be it a phD in engineering, Biology, Computer Science and MBA and a JD. The staff in the commercialization office needs to be motivated</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><font color="#333333"></font></span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">A relatively new avenue for research commercialization is the Kinetic accelerator. It's run by someone with many years of experience in this field and they specifically encourage students to take on the task of commercializing TTU research and patents.</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">There needs to be a reward or incentive for faculty to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors. Such a reward could be university sponsored funding for the most innovative technology idea. Also, faculty needs to know their interests will be protected and that the technology will be licensed to qualified personnel or businesses.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Additional resources for building up your startup are available through the OVPR and ORC, including the best mentors available in the area. One of the main facilities is the Innovation Hub at Research Park, where startups can have office space (sometimes free for a limited time).</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">We need to maintain a better alumni network, whenever a new technology is developed that can interface with industry we need to tap into alumni and present the opportunity to them seeking their opinion and support to connect with industry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">There is also a need for community outreach and involvement. There are several people in the community who are trying to get projects going that will encourage innovation and entrepreneurship, and it would be beneficial to have TTU helping bring these projects forward (either through advice or advertising through the student population). The more intermixing there is between the university and Lubbock communities, the more robust each entrepreneurship community will be. One such project worth collaborating with is [http://ulabstx.com/ ULabs]. It's very new but the people involved are passionate about making the project a permanent feature of Lubbock.</span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Landscape Slidedeck/</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap">Canvas:</span> =<br />
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[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e4bkNOheO7K47l6kEptWB0UzZiR0wqep1J34vAsXe7w/edit?usp=sharing Click here to view the Spring 2016 Landscape Canvas from Texas Tech.]<br />
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[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19Vk8LX6LL-oVgSeraZpYLjtrEUA72Eoqm6Y8smb2Hy8/edit?usp=sharing Click here to view the Spring 2016 Landscape Slidedeck.]<br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spring 2016 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Alyx Horace</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Alfonso Alarcon</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Berto Garcia</span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner <span style="font-size:larger;">Isaac Griswold-Steiner</span>]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:JaredSteele <span style="font-size: larger;">Jared Steele</span>]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Spring 2015 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Francis_Atore Francis Atore]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Benjamin_Simmons Benjamin Simmons]</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Valente_Rodriguez Valente Rodriguez]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Victoria_Young Victoria Young]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Person Taylor Person]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">South Plains Connection:</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marshal_Head Marshal Head]</span></span><br />
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=== [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University_Student_Priorities_Page <span style="font-size:medium">Student Priorities Page</span>]<br/> ===<br />
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[[Category:Universities]]</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Texas_Tech_University&diff=29753School:Texas Tech University2016-02-10T07:49:34Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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<div>= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[[File:DoubleT.gif|right|DoubleT.gif]]Introduction</span></span><big><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">:</span></big> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">With over [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/centers-institutes.php 60 centers and institutes] in addition to recently being named a Tier 1 Research Instiution by the Carnegie Foundation, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">research is strong throughout many departments at Texas Tech University. &nbsp;However, efforts are continuously being made to translate this research and innovation into industry application. With the recent construction of the [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/research-park/about/index.php Research Park & Innovation Hub], resources are readily available to startups and technology commercialization initiatives. When summed together, these effots result in huge strides forward in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Texas Tech.</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">&nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech University has a number of student organization that promote and engage students in innovation and entrepreneurship:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://doubletimettu.org Texas Tech Innovation Mentorship and Entrepreneurship (TTIME)] </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">is a student organization for both undergraduate and graduate students of any discipline. This program promotes entrepreneurship while connecting students with innovative faculty mentors.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Officer of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) currently host a [http://texastech.3daystartup.org/ 3 Day Startup] event every semester to promote and facilitate entrepreneurship. The OVPR also runs the [http://www.kineticaccelerator.com/ Kinetic accelerator], which happens every spring semester. Kinetic has two sections, one for technology commercialization and one for student entrepreneurs who are looking for guidance on their own startup.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.facebook.com/ttumeig/?fref=ts Media Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group] is a student organization from the College of Media and Communications that promotes startup media companies and entrepreneurial projects.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech also has a chapter of the [https://www.facebook.com/ttuceo/?fref=ts Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization], which through the College of Business promotes entrepreneurship.</span><br />
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<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span>There is also a [https://www.facebook.com/SDCTTU/?fref=ts Software Development Club] on campus that is active in trying to get students to develop their own software and even startups. It's still a relatively new organization, however, the leadership is currently trying to ramp up its activities so that it can play a greater role in the entrepreneurship community at Texas Tech.</span></font><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">At the undergraduate level, student innovation is fostered through the many research [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/undergraduate-research.php opportunities]</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">. While funding is available for students to travel to conferences to present their research, little assistance is available for student to turn their research into a startup. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Faculty primary responsibility lies in research but they should also partake in some entrepreneurial endeavors (60/40). Faculty already have teaching and research responsibilities which take up upwards of 60 to 80 hours of their time. Therefore, expecting them to also chase after companies to buy into their research or consider their patent portfolio should be incentivized for doing extra work.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/commercialization/ Office of Research Commercialization] (ORC) does provide a way for research to be patented and commercialized, however, the system doesn't have the best reputation. One professor has had several research discoveries rejected as patents, and within weeks&nbsp;or months of publishing his research large companies came forward to ask him to give a talk on it. So the university missed out on an opportunity because people in the ORC didn't understand the potential value of the research. The old system (according to faculty and staff) didn't include enough a rigorous enough process for evaluating the value of research. It's currently undergoing changes that were started after new leadership took over.</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">It is the responsibility of the Office of Research Commercialization to recognize when a technology is considered groundbreaking, especially after winning many accolades (i.e. Dr. Harvinder Gill's Pollen and Microneedle patents). Staff should be taught to analyze and interface with faculty regularly following up with faculty on their projects and &nbsp;interest in industry partners. It would help if there were subject matter experts in the office with technical qualifications in the faculty disciplines; be it a phD in engineering, Biology, Computer Science and MBA and a JD. The staff in the commercialization office needs to be motivated</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><font color="#333333"></font></span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">A relatively new avenue for research commercialization is the Kinetic accelerator. It's run by someone with many years of experience in this field and they specifically encourage students to take on the task of commercializing TTU research and patents.</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">There needs to be a reward or incentive for faculty to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors. Such a reward could be university sponsored funding for the most innovative technology idea. Also, faculty needs to know their interests will be protected and that the technology will be licensed to qualified personnel or businesses.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Additional resources for building up your startup are available through the OVPR and ORC, including the best mentors available in the area. One of the main facilities is the Innovation Hub at Research Park, where startups can have office space (sometimes free for a limited time).</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">We need to maintain a better alumni network, whenever a new technology is developed that can interface with industry we need to tap into alumni and present the opportunity to them seeking their opinion and support to connect with industry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">There is also a need for community outreach and involvement. There are several people in the community who are trying to get projects going that will encourage innovation and entrepreneurship, and it would be beneficial to have TTU helping bring these projects forward (either through advice or advertising through the student population). The more intermixing there is between the university and Lubbock communities, the more robust each entrepreneurship community will be. One such project worth collaborating with is [http://ulabstx.com/ ULabs]. It's very new but the people involved are passionate about making the project a permanent feature of Lubbock.</span><br />
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[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e4bkNOheO7K47l6kEptWB0UzZiR0wqep1J34vAsXe7w/edit?usp=sharing Click here to view the Spring 2016 Landscape Canvas from Texas Tech.]<br />
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[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19Vk8LX6LL-oVgSeraZpYLjtrEUA72Eoqm6Y8smb2Hy8/edit?usp=sharing Click here to view the Spring 2016 Landscape Slidedeck.]<br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spring 2016 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Alyx Horace</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Alfonso Alarcon</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Berto Garcia</span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner <span style="font-size:larger;">Isaac Griswold-Steiner</span>]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:JaredSteele <span style="font-size: larger;">Jared Steele</span>]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Spring 2015 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Francis_Atore Francis Atore]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Benjamin_Simmons Benjamin Simmons]</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Valente_Rodriguez Valente Rodriguez]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Victoria_Young Victoria Young]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Person Taylor Person]</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marshal_Head Marshal Head]</span></span><br />
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=== [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University_Student_Priorities_Page <span style="font-size:medium">Student Priorities Page</span>]<br/> ===<br />
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[[Category:Universities]]</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Texas_Tech_University&diff=29752School:Texas Tech University2016-02-10T07:40:16Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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<div>= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[[File:DoubleT.gif|right|DoubleT.gif]]Introduction</span></span><big><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">:</span></big> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">With over [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/centers-institutes.php 60 centers and institutes] in addition to recently being named a Tier 1 Research Instiution by the Carnegie Foundation, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">research is strong through all departments at Texas Tech University. &nbsp;However, many efforts are still being made to translate this research into industry. &nbsp;With the construction of the [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/research-park/about/index.php Research Park & Innovation Hub] </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">that will house new startups, entrepreneurship is on the rise. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech University has a number of student organization that promote and engage students in innovation and entrepreneurship:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://doubletimettu.org Texas Tech Innovation Mentorship and Entrepreneurship (TTIME)] </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">is a student organization for both undergraduate and graduate students of any discipline. This program promotes entrepreneurship while connecting students with innovative faculty mentors.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Officer of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) currently host a [http://texastech.3daystartup.org/ 3 Day Startup] event every semester to promote and facilitate entrepreneurship. The OVPR also runs the [http://www.kineticaccelerator.com/ Kinetic accelerator], which happens every spring semester. Kinetic has two sections, one for technology commercialization and one for student entrepreneurs who are looking for guidance on their own startup.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.facebook.com/ttumeig/?fref=ts Media Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group] is a student organization from the College of Media and Communications that promotes startup media companies and entrepreneurial projects.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech also has a chapter of the [https://www.facebook.com/ttuceo/?fref=ts Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization], which through the College of Business promotes entrepreneurship.</span><br />
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<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span>There is also a [https://www.facebook.com/SDCTTU/?fref=ts Software Development Club] on campus that is active in trying to get students to develop their own software and even startups. It's still a relatively new organization, however, the leadership is currently trying to ramp up its activities so that it can play a greater role in the entrepreneurship community at Texas Tech.</span></font><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">At the undergraduate level, student innovation is fostered through the many research [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/undergraduate-research.php opportunities]</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">. While funding is available for students to travel to conferences to present their research, little assistance is available for student to turn their research into a startup. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Faculty primary responsibility lies in research but they should also partake in some entrepreneurial endeavors (60/40). Faculty already have teaching and research responsibilities which take up upwards of 60 to 80 hours of their time. Therefore, expecting them to also chase after companies to buy into their research or consider their patent portfolio should be incentivized for doing extra work.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/commercialization/ Office of Research Commercialization] (ORC) does provide a way for research to be patented and commercialized, however, the system doesn't have the best reputation. One professor has had several research discoveries rejected as patents, and within weeks&nbsp;or months of publishing his research large companies came forward to ask him to give a talk on it. So the university missed out on an opportunity because people in the ORC didn't understand the potential value of the research. The old system (according to faculty and staff) didn't include enough a rigorous enough process for evaluating the value of research. It's currently undergoing changes that were started after new leadership took over.</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">It is the responsibility of the Office of Research Commercialization to recognize when a technology is considered groundbreaking, especially after winning many accolades (i.e. Dr. Harvinder Gill's Pollen and Microneedle patents). Staff should be taught to analyze and interface with faculty regularly following up with faculty on their projects and &nbsp;interest in industry partners. It would help if there were subject matter experts in the office with technical qualifications in the faculty disciplines; be it a phD in engineering, Biology, Computer Science and MBA and a JD. The staff in the commercialization office needs to be motivated</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><font color="#333333"></font></span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">A relatively new avenue for research commercialization is the Kinetic accelerator. It's run by someone with many years of experience in this field and they specifically encourage students to take on the task of commercializing TTU research and patents.</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">There needs to be a reward or incentive for faculty to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors. Such a reward could be university sponsored funding for the most innovative technology idea. Also, faculty needs to know their interests will be protected and that the technology will be licensed to qualified personnel or businesses.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Additional resources for building up your startup are available through the OVPR and ORC, including the best mentors available in the area. One of the main facilities is the Innovation Hub at Research Park, where startups can have office space (sometimes free for a limited time).</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">We need to maintain a better alumni network, whenever a new technology is developed that can interface with industry we need to tap into alumni and present the opportunity to them seeking their opinion and support to connect with industry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">There is also a need for community outreach and involvement. There are several people in the community who are trying to get projects going that will encourage innovation and entrepreneurship, and it would be beneficial to have TTU helping bring these projects forward (either through advice or advertising through the student population). The more intermixing there is between the university and Lubbock communities, the more robust each entrepreneurship community will be. One such project worth collaborating with is [http://ulabstx.com/ ULabs]. It's very new but the people involved are passionate about making the project a permanent feature of Lubbock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Alyx Horace</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Alfonso Alarcon</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Berto Garcia</span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner <span style="font-size:larger;">Isaac Griswold-Steiner</span>]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:JaredSteele <span style="font-size: larger;">Jared Steele</span>]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Francis_Atore Francis Atore]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Benjamin_Simmons Benjamin Simmons]</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Valente_Rodriguez Valente Rodriguez]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Victoria_Young Victoria Young]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Person Taylor Person]</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marshal_Head Marshal Head]</span></span><br />
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=== [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University_Student_Priorities_Page <span style="font-size:medium">Student Priorities Page</span>]<br/> ===<br />
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[[Category:Universities]]</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Texas_Tech_University&diff=29746School:Texas Tech University2016-02-10T06:36:55Z<p>JaredSteele: </p>
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<div>= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[[File:DoubleT.gif|right|DoubleT.gif]]Introduction</span></span><big><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">:</span></big> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">With over [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/centers-institutes.php 60 centers and institutes] </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">research is strong through all departments at Texas Tech University. &nbsp;However, many efforts are still being made to translate this research into industry. &nbsp;With the construction of a [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/research-park/about/index.php Research Park] </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">that will house new startups, entrepreneurship is on the rise. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech University has a number of student organization that promote and engage students in innovation and entrepreneurship:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://doubletimettu.org Texas Tech Innovation Mentorship and Entrepreneurship (TTIME)] </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">is a student organization for both undergraduate and graduate students of any discipline. This program promotes entrepreneurship while connecting students with innovative faculty mentors.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Officer of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) currently host a [http://texastech.3daystartup.org/ 3 Day Startup] event every semester to promote and facilitate entrepreneurship. The OVPR also runs the [http://www.kineticaccelerator.com/ Kinetic accelerator], which happens every spring semester. Kinetic has two sections, one for technology commercialization and one for student entrepreneurs who are looking for guidance on their own startup.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.facebook.com/ttumeig/?fref=ts Media Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group] is a student organization from the College of Media and Communications that promotes startup media companies and entrepreneurial projects.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech also has a chapter of the [https://www.facebook.com/ttuceo/?fref=ts Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization], which through the College of Business promotes entrepreneurship.</span><br />
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<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span>There is also a [https://www.facebook.com/SDCTTU/?fref=ts Software Development Club] on campus that is active in trying to get students to develop their own software and even startups. It's still a relatively new organization, however, the leadership is currently trying to ramp up its activities so that it can play a greater role in the entrepreneurship community at Texas Tech.</span></font><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">At the undergraduate level, student innovation is fostered through the many research [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/undergraduate-research.php opportunities]</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">. While funding is available for students to travel to conferences to present their research, little assistance is available for student to turn their research into a startup. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Faculty primary responsibility lies in research but they should also partake in some entrepreneurial endeavors (60/40). Faculty already have teaching and research responsibilities which take up upwards of 60 to 80 hours of their time. Therefore, expecting them to also chase after companies to buy into their research or consider their patent portfolio should be incentivized for doing extra work.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/commercialization/ Office of Research Commercialization] (ORC) does provide a way for research to be patented and commercialized, however, the system doesn't have the best reputation. One professor has had several research discoveries rejected as patents, and within weeks&nbsp;or months of publishing his research large companies came forward to ask him to give a talk on it. So the university missed out on an opportunity because people in the ORC didn't understand the potential value of the research. The old system (according to faculty and staff) didn't include enough a rigorous enough process for evaluating the value of research. It's currently undergoing changes that were started after new leadership took over.</span></span><br />
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function:</span></span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">It is the responsibility of the Office of Research Commercialization to recognize when a technology is considered groundbreaking, especially after winning many accolades (i.e. Dr. Harvinder Gill's Pollen and Microneedle patents). Staff should be taught to analyze and interface with faculty regularly following up with faculty on their projects and &nbsp;interest in industry partners. It would help if there were subject matter experts in the office with technical qualifications in the faculty disciplines; be it a phD in engineering, Biology, Computer Science and MBA and a JD. The staff in the commercialization office needs to be motivated</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><font color="#333333"></font></span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">A relatively new avenue for research commercialization is the Kinetic accelerator. It's run by someone with many years of experience in this field and they specifically encourage students to take on the task of commercializing TTU research and patents.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">There needs to be a reward or incentive for faculty to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors. Such a reward could be university sponsored funding for the most innovative technology idea. Also, faculty needs to know their interests will be protected and that the technology will be licensed to qualified personnel or businesses.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Additional resources for building up your startup are available through the OVPR and ORC, including the best mentors available in the area. One of the main facilities is the Innovation Hub at Research Park, where startups can have office space (sometimes free for a limited time).</span></span><br />
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[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e4bkNOheO7K47l6kEptWB0UzZiR0wqep1J34vAsXe7w/edit?usp=sharing Click here to view the Spring 2016 Landscape Canvas from Texas Tech.]<br />
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[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19Vk8LX6LL-oVgSeraZpYLjtrEUA72Eoqm6Y8smb2Hy8/edit?usp=sharing Click here to view the Spring 2016 Landscape Slidedeck.]<br />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spring 2016 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Alyx Horace</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Alfonso Alarcon</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Berto Garcia</span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Griswold-Steiner <span style="font-size:larger;">Isaac Griswold-Steiner</span>]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:JaredSteele <span style="font-size: larger;">Jared Steele</span>]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Spring 2015 UIF Leadership Circle Candidates:</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Francis_Atore Francis Atore]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Benjamin_Simmons Benjamin Simmons]</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Valente_Rodriguez Valente Rodriguez]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Victoria_Young Victoria Young]</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-422f-91b6-e021-6e89c931a321"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Taylor_Person Taylor Person]</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marshal_Head Marshal Head]</span></span><br />
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[[Category:Universities]]</div>JaredSteelehttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=User:JaredSteele&diff=29736User:JaredSteele2016-02-10T06:16:20Z<p>JaredSteele: Created page with "Jared Steele is a student at Texas Tech University where he is studying Business Management with a concentration in entrepreneurship. He is involved in a wide array of organiz..."</p>
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<div>Jared Steele is a student at Texas Tech University where he is studying Business Management with a concentration in entrepreneurship. He is involved in a wide array of organizations, activities, and leadership positions in hopes to expand his skill set and knowledge base. Examples of these include 3 Day Startup, Regional Outreach Coordinator for Texas Tech Innovation Mentorship & Entrepreneurship, member of 2016 Kinetic Accelerator Cohort, and Pledge Class President of Sigma Nu fraternity. Before transferring to Texas Tech, Jared was Chapter President of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, Chair of Fundraising for Enactus, and helped extensively with the Green Club.<br />
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Jared has been involved with I&E since a young age. He founded and ran the Business & Investing club in highschool, which has grown exponentially since it's creation. Other entreprenuerial ventures he has undertaken include co-founding two snow cone stands, a residential property addressing business, and a mobile iPhone screen repair business. Although these experiences proved to be a great education, Jared has decided to move towards a career in technology commericalization.&nbsp;<br />
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Being a self-acclaimed "workaholic", Jared has held multiple different jobs. Currently he is the intern at ManageForge, and was an analyst for NEC over the 2015 summer. Other work experience include working at startups and smaller businesses doing sales, marketing, and customer/product validation.&nbsp;<br />
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When not working or studying, Jared's time is typically spent reading, gardening (hydroponically), or socializing. Projects he would like to pursue within his life is addressing the problem of ocean overfishing, marine conservation, and non-traditional education.</div>JaredSteele