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Priorities:James Madison University Student Priorities

2019-10-12T21:30:21Z

Jone24ce:

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://youtu.be/IjWHk05M9Ac James Madison University Cohort 4A Video Pitch]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwQchRx6HDM Promoting Innovation & Entrepreneurial Opportunities at James Madison University ]

= Strategy #1 =

We recognize that the institutions and resources for innovation and entrepreneurship already exist at James Madison University and that we must strive to increase the utilization of these facilities. In addition, we will work to improve and update areas of the university that may not receive as much attention as some.

== Tactic #1: Marketing of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Survey Method ==

*Description: Incentivize students to participate in a survey to learn more about Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs available on campus with free food. 
**D-Hall Commons gets a lot of foot traffic every day making it an easy location to consider when implementing this survey. This is also a place that many organizations already utilize for similar ways of capturing students’ attention.
**Festival Conference Center is the equivalent of commons, but on East Campus, allowing students who are not on the main campus to access the same information we are providing.
**Showker Hall is where most of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs are since it is the business school, but since there is construction currently in that area, it could get a little hectic trying to find these I&E resources. Setting up a survey station there would also be beneficial in that aspect. 

== Tactic #2: Funding for Programs All Over Campus That Have Innovators ==

*Description: A new, interdisciplinary, course hosted by XLabs that focuses on teaching students successful business practices, agile team management, human-centered design, and much more. The class would ask for students to form into teams and progress through the design of a project by hitting bi-weekly deadlines and then giving a final pitch to a panel of judges that would then decide on whether or not they want to financially support the teams’ project/business.

== Tactic #3: Updating and Innovating on Liberal Arts Curriculums ==

*Description: Liberal arts majors, like history, writing, english, etc. have been largely left behind by the advances in higher education. 
**Brainstorm possibilities: it is easy to dismiss the need to improve these courses because they have been taught the same way for so long. It might even be hard to imagine, for example, learning history by any other means than reading and lecturing. A wide, creative swath of ideas should be proposed to revamp these curriculums.
**Demonstrate ideas: design a single lesson or a fraction of a class to show proof of concept. Test this plan on an objective, unbiased selection of students to determine its effectiveness.
**Propose solutions: with these insights and data in mind, create a concise and clear plan and propose to one of the academic deans or a similarly influential figure in one of the liberal arts departments. 

== Tactic #4: Centralization of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programs around Campus ==

*Description: An organization and summit dedicated to creating connections between various organizations on campus with interests in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 
**This organization would be a board with liaisons from various clubs on campus that would serve as connections, and representatives, for each of these I&E organizations.
**Additionally, an annual Innovation Summit would be held for faculty and students to discuss how to implement I&E in higher education as well as the opportunities present on campus. Events could include presentations, landscape canvases, inter-group projects, and more.

== Tactic #5: Funding the Patenting Process for Students. ==

*Description: An organization dedicated to assisting students with unique, innovative ideas in the process of getting their creations patented, trademarked, or etc., as well as providing funding for this costly, time-consuming process.
**This program would be open to any student with a passion for creating but would work closely with STEM majors who sometimes require specialized creations to be made for their Jr/Sr Capstone project.
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= Strategy #2 =

Provide students with more innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities by exposing them to the Landscape Canvas & Wiki Pages. This would be executed by making information easily accessible and intuitive for students campus-wide.

== Tactic #1: Interactive Panels and Tablets Across Campus ==

*Description: Install fun to use tablets in areas on campus where foot traffic is heavy.
**Dining Locations
**Residence Halls
**Libraries
**Maker Spaces

== Tactic #2: Information Posted on Student Websites ==

*Description: Make information more available on student websites in a more accessible fashion.
**MyMadison
**JMU.org
**Canvas

== Tactic #3: Print Out Versions of Information ==

*Description: Provide an easy to read flowchart of innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities on print outs to distribute to students.
**House in Libraries
**Have University Innovation Fellows and or University Faculty distribute print outs to interested students.
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== Tactic #4: Hold Seminar Targeted at Underclassmen ==

*Description: Hold seminars open to all students walking through the different opportunities found in the Landscape Canvas.
**Have representatives from courses, programs, and organizations speak about how they inspire innovation and entrepreneurship type thinking.
**Give out small brochures describing the information on the landscape canvas.

'''Tactic #5: Mock Case Study'''

*Connect case study to the local community surrounding James Madison University
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*Recognition of students through rewards, prizes, or opportunity to implement a project
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*The ability for students to gain experience that allows them to distinguishes themselves and gain valuable skills

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*Teams intermingled with students from all different years so knowledge and wisdom can be exchanged

*Opportunity for students to showcase their problem-solving abilities

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= Strategy #3 =

Bring international students to James Madison University for a 2-week summer program focused heavily on innovation and entrepreneurship.

== Tactic #1: Course Variety ==

*Description: Provide courses in various fields of study to encourage a wider audience of students.
**Examples:
***Engineering
***Business Start-Up
***Rapid Prototyping

== Tactic #2: University Exposure ==

*Description: Introduce students to campus and University life in the United States.
**JMU Dining
**Student Organizations
**Residential Life
**University Recreation
**Speaking with Professors

== Tactic #3: Hackathon Connections ==

*Description: Provide students with the opportunity to make connections through a hackathon that would take place during the summer school program.
**Sponsors could incorporate prizes.
**Company employees and James Madison faculty would serve as mentors during the innovative process.
**Students can search for potential jobs or internship opportunities.
**Participants are given the opportunity to engage in design thinking.

'''Tactic 4: Programming Competition/Workshop'''

*Description: 24-hour programming competition. Every level of programming experience you have, you are welcome to attend this competition. There will be various programming workshops taught during the competition to sharpen your skills. Companies will sponsor the event for prize money and recruiting opportunities. Judges will consist of CS, CIS, Engineering or any related discipline professors.
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*Get students more interested in programming at a low stakes level.
*Give students the opportunity to talk with recruiters to get an idea of what careers involve programming.

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*Programming is starting to become a valuable skill in many different professions, not limited to Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, etc.

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= Strategy #4 =

Expand X-Labs space within Lakeview Hall and throughout campus to promote innovation and entrepreneurship.

== Tactic #1:Convert Office Spaces ==

*Description: Transforming the current offices in Lakeview Hall into an expanded collaborative work and maker space.
**Remove non-innovative spaces in Lakeview Hall to provide more room for innovation and space for more technologies.

== Tactic #2: Implement Into JMU General Education Curriculum ==

Create a new cluster of required classes for JMU students that will enhance the innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus.

*Description: The entrepreneurial mindset is an important tool for all incoming and existing students as a form of engaged learning.

== Tactic #3: Satellite Maker Spaces ==

*Description: Convert or improve current lab spaces around campus into X-Labs affiliated maker spaces.
**Help to promote X-Labs names and encourage participation in innovative opportunities.
**Further, establish X-Labs as an asset to the JMU ecosystem.

= Strategy #5 =

Create Collisions amongst entrepreneurially minded students and the general population amongst all disciplines, in order to organically spread innovation, collaboration, creativity, and entrepreneurship.

== Tactic #1: Theme Based Think-A-Thons ==

*Description: Cultivate talent in theme-based hack-a-thon style events that correlate to the various colleges of academics, but appeal to the general population. We would want to create a brand that does not alienate or intimidate students that don’t necessarily think of this as “their” thing.
**1-2 times per month
**24hr Think-A-Thons
**Various themes/prompts that represent the interests of all the colleges of academics
***College of Education:
****Reinvent the classroom
***College of Health and Behavioral Studies:
****Create low-cost products that meet the basic needs of the world's poorest people
***Integrated Science and Technology / School of Art, Design, and Art History:
****Designing for a sustainable campus
****Fashion Think-A-Thon
**The theme of these thinker-mixers/hack-a-thons would vary each time and would touch on topics that are up-to-date with current events to help attract students from all colleges within JMU. This, in turn, would help continuity of participation and the dismantlement of silos.
**Gathering participant information gives us a more defined target audience to project some marketing efforts towards.
**Approaching these events with hopes of there being multi-disciplinary teams does not expedite the view that these are hack-a-thons or "techie" events.  This merely generates exploratory and problem-solving experiences for any given area of study.

== Tactic #2: Make the I&E Network Accessible to Students ==

*Description: Launch a heavily marketed website that establishes a network for students looking to collaborate and pursue a business or product idea. This JMU affiliated website would help spread awareness of funding opportunities, resources available on campus, upcoming I&E events, and clubs/groups.
*Replicate a Landspace Canvas for I&E or create a landscape map to guide students through the process of finding relevant resources on campus for their prospective entrepreneurs. 
**Daniel Phonelath will spearhead this project.

== Tactic #3: 100 Level Collaborative Course  ==

*'''Course Description''': A 100 level course that will bring freshmen across a variety of majors together to help with the transition from high school to college. This course will utilize group discussions and short-term projects with teams made of diverse disciplines to foster collaborative and teamworking skills growth. 
*Emphases on leadership, creativity, and design thinking through 3 week-long projects.
**Leadership: Through the use of the JMU Dux Center students will benchmark their leadership/teamworking skills style at the beginning of the course. Throughout the course, as they finish a 3-week project cycle, the group leader will receive 4-5 leadership reviews from their team members and each team member will receive reviews from their team members. At the end of the course, a student will have participated in 4 groups, lead one, received feedback and completed the leadership challenge workbook.
**Creativity: During class students will practice creativity exercises, learn it's application and further their understanding through the text; "Creative Confidence" By David and Tom Kelly. 
**Design Thinking: The course will be project-based with the application of light design thinking. In 3 weeks students will have had to discover more about a problem they have to solve, ideate solutions, prototype solutions and select the best idea for presentations.
**Public Presentations: At the end of a 3-week cycle each team will present their process, idea, and prototype in a public space such as TDU. Each student will be required to bring at least 2 guests (no repeats) to this public event. 
*Course Plan
**Find the best way to register the course on MyMadison by Oct. 23, 2018 
**Continue interviewing professors who show interest in co-leading the course until Nov. 6, 2018
**Meeting with all stakeholders and potential course leaders to create a plan of action-Nov.9-13, 2018

'''Tactic #4: Internship Workshop'''
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<li>Description: Address pain points with internships and gauge interest for future workshops from first and second-year students.<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>This workshop’s purpose is to be an introduction to summer internships available for engineering students. Through this workshop participants will learn about what types of internships their peers have attended previously, the different types of internships available per discipline of engineering, and will participate in a discussion to gauge what content future workshops will cover.</li>
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<li>Have an open discussion with students about what it is like to be an intern and some advice for applying/ interviewing</li>
<li>Topics to talk about with students:<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Tailoring your classes/ electives to score your target internship</li>
<li>How to make your interview stand out</li>
<li>Ask students if they would be interested to have a career advisor come in from CAP services to teach them how to make resumes and cover letters</li>
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= Strategy #6 =

Establish an entity on campus where any student with a creative idea can get the resources needed to become the entrepreneur they want to be, and test, launch, and grow their business.

== Tactic #1: MadX Labs ==

*Description: Test, iterate, and scale MadX Labs, JMU’s first seed-stage startup accelerator.   
**MadX Labs will serve JMU’s most talented student founders, giving them the opportunity by leveraging the resources of a University and its potential contacts. We will give young entrepreneurs at JMU the opportunity to experience a traditional accelerator program; with the mentorship, training, space, and funding they need in order to test, launch, and grow their business.
**Students are encouraged to apply to MadX Labs accelerator two times a year in the beginning of each semester during "The Entrepreneurment Procurement". After 12 weeks, the program culminates in a Demo Day, where they will have the opportunity to pitch an invite an only audience of JMU investor
**Agenda for planning:
***Begin idea generation for funding - January 2018
***Finalized Idea - February 20th, 2018
***Generation of interest/Advertisement - May 2018/August 2018
***Planned Event Time - September 10-14

= Strategy #7 =

Provide opportunities for incoming students and underclassmen to become introduced to innovation and entrepreneurship as well as recognize their potential to become entrepreneurs at an early point in their collegiate careers. This strategy will revolve around creating and marketing well-known opportunities and physical spaces for students to express their innovative minds as well as stimulate team collaboration. 

== Tactic #1: Pop-Up Courses ==

*Description: Continue the spread of several “test courses” that can provide the administration with an example of how a pattern of entrepreneurial and innovative courses in the General Education Program can lead to escalating forms of venture creation.
**February 2018
***Continue to host the "Pop-Up" classes in the JMU X-Labs maker space.
***Work on gaining feedback through response forms and questionnaires. 
**April 2018
***Expand Pop-Up courses to a large capacity for more involvement.
***Increase the range of topics in the Pop-Up classes outside of typical STEM classes.
**May 2018
***Work on continuing Pop-Up classes outreach and schedule more Pop-Up classes for the Fall semester.

== Tactic #2: Summer Program ==

*Description: Continue a four to five-week ideation and entrepreneurship summer program for incoming freshmen and rising sophomores. This apply-for and optional course would not only fuel the entrepreneur mindset for these underclassmen early in their college career but it would also help mix students and provide infrastructure for a network of collaborators. The program would be open to all majors.
*Timeline: 6-Week program led by the Center for Entrepreneurship at James Madison. This 'Accelerator' helps students start ventures and allow them to grow in the X-Labs space.

== Tactic #3: Spread the Word ==

*Description: Create a medium-scale marketing campaign for the JMU X-Labs. 
*Tools: The following tools will be used to help spread the word of the Labs.
**Social Media including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.
**On-Campus Resources such as flyers, banners, and post-cards.
*Timeline: It can start immediately in February 2018. This could take place as a flash-marketing campaign or a long term strategy.

= Strategy #8 =

Create a culture on campus that elevates JMU national visibility in I&E in order to attract the most talented entrepreneurially minded faculty and students.  

== Tactic #1: Develop a Hub ==

*Description: Develop, design, fundraise, and build a hub for student entrepreneurship and innovation that includes living space, maker spaces, open workspace, etc.
**To prove a need for this hub, we plan to use the spaces that currently exist on and around campus to establish smaller-scale environments in which student thinkers and entrepreneurs can come to work on their projects and collaborate on ideas.
**Through this beacon of entrepreneurship, offer a wide variety of programs and engagement opportunities for students to learn about and engage in all phases of the entrepreneurship and innovation process.
***“Idea mixers” or “idea factory workshops” that are heavily marketed

'''Tactic #2: Mentorship Program'''
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<li>Problem: There is a clear gap between underclassmen and upperclassmen engineers. It is very clear that after engineering 101, first-year students are not connected with upperclassmen ab VB resources on campus to help guide them and find their passions.</li>
<li>Proposal: I think we can help bridge this gap by implementing an engineering mentorship program. This would be conducted by pairing first-year students with third-year students and second-year students with fourth-year students based on their specific interests. This would help to bridge a gap within our interdisciplinary engineering bbbprogram but B.B. b.  B. B. Ben and bbbb and allow students to create relationships with older students, have guidance from someone who has been in their place, and to help them network!</li>
<li>Prototyping:</li>
<li>Feedback<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>I told Dr. Callie Miller about this idea and she completely agreed that there is a gap here between underclassmen and upperclassmen. She told me that I would have to speak with Dr. Paterson, the department head, and Dr. Gipson who is in charge of a lot of the first-year students to get some feedback.</li>
<li>This idea started when I was a TA for a first-year class, ENGR 112, and many students approached me for advice and help with their first-year concerns and classes. They expressed gratitude for my help and said that it was nice to have someone older than them that has been through these struggles/classes and can give them some insight and advice. THIS WAS MY PROTOTYPING PHASE. I realized that after Engineering 101 these kids are on their own. If every student had an older mentor, they would feel more a part of a community and more likely to get involved on campus!</li>
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= Strategy #9 =
<div>Provide opportunities for students to engage in entrepreneurship and innovation with the greater local and regional community.</div>
== Tactic #1: Regional Meet-up ==

*Description: The regional meet-up will bring UIF students from campuses within a 5-hour driving distance to James Madison University campus. Through various workshops, students will understand JMU’s campus and share their own experiences from their respective campuses. Current James Madison University UIF members will create a collaborative environment for students to share ideas with each other. 

== Tactic #2: Corporate Outreach/Integration Efforts ==

*Description: The goal is to connect corporate environments with higher education. We will approach this by connecting with well-known and widely respected corporate entities such as Google in order to organize "high-demand/interest" events and talks out of our ICE resources. All events should be informational, interactive and the hope is to connect students with corporate resources as they progress through their course-load and approach graduation.

= Strategy #10 =

Provide students with the opportunity to gain global competencies throughout a semester-long course

'''Tactic #1: Implement a Tech-Elective "How to Engineer Abroad"'''

*This course will provide students with techniques for realizing and pursuing international engineering opportunities. These opportunities will include a series of collaborative mini-challenges, a project pitch, and a case study.
*This course will include lectures on global issues, a collaborative project with an international university, exposure to international opportunities and learning to market your international experiences. 

'''Tactic #2: 8 Week Design Challenge with International University '''

*'''Week 1:''' Getting to know your team and the design challenges
*'''Week 2: '''Define problem statement, determine scope and stakeholders, set team expectations
*'''Week 3:''' Discover phase of IDEO design process
*'''Week 4:''' Ideate phase and conceptual design
*'''Week 5: '''Alpha prototype
*'''Week 6: '''Beta prototype
*'''Week 7: '''Testing and refinement 
*'''Week 8:''' Project presentation

'''Tactic #3: International Career Fair'''

* Provide students the opportunity to interact with international organizations

Related Links

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James%20Madison%20University James Madison University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Madison_University_Student_Priorities James Madison University Student Priorities]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Madison_University_Innovative_Spaces James Madison University Innovation Spaces]

== Fellows ==

[[Chris Ashley|Chris Ashley]]

[[Jack O'Neill|Jack O'Neill]]

[[Andrew Carlone|Andrew Carlone]]

[[Timothy Moore|Timothy Moore]]

[[Emily Platt|Emily Platt]]

[[Mark Castro|Mark Castro]]

[[Nahom Fissaha|Nahom Fissaha]]

[[Greg Mayo|Greg Mayo]]

[[Ryan Ohneiser|Ryan Ohneiser]]

[[Daniel Phonelath|Daniel Phonelath]]

[[Jared Michael Zurn|Jared Michael Zurn]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Catharine_Willett Catharine Willett]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grace_carter Grace Carter]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kyle_steven_anderson Kyle Anderson]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Connor_bergeron Connor Bergeron]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jack_Boone Jack Boone]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anne_rusher Anne Rusher]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Stephanie_Morales Stephanie Morales]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marian_Gerlitzki Marian Gerlitzki] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/PEYTON_PITTMAN Peyton Pittman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Natalie_Dillinger Natalie Dillinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kareem_Ebraham Kareem Ebraham]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emma_de_Leon Emma de Leon]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lexy_Foor Lexy Foor]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sally_Todd Sally Todd]

Skylar Wollen

Claire Fulk 

[[Poppy Crawshaw|Poppy Crawshaw]]

[[Arie Bradley|Arie Bradley]]

[[Andrew Payne|Andrew Payne]]

[[Kerry McCullagh|Kerry McCullagh]]

[[Sabrina Hammell|Sabrina Hammell]]

[[Christopher_Jones|Christopher_Jones]]

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Fellow:Christopher Jones

2019-10-12T21:29:53Z

Jone24ce:

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I’m Christopher Jones, currently a Junior engineering Major at James Madison University. I have four minors: Geographic Science, Mathematics, Physics for Engineers, and African, African American and Diaspora Studies (AAADS). I am also involved in a number of extra curriculars such as Engineering Ambassadors (EA), Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers JMU Chapter (SHPE) and Madison Welders. I also currently work three jobs on campus: Physics Learning Assistant, Math Tutor and Machine Apprentice. I have also spent the past two summers traveling to Tanzania for a study abroad as well as conducting research. Finally, I am currently working on a capstone in which we are trying to redesign latrines within Ifakara, Tanzania. This was a capstone that I proposed after my second trip to Tanzania in which I got to interact with the community and stakeholders that my project is focused on. 

Growing up I was always interested in how things work. I loved taking apart machines and trying to put them back together. Lego’s were my go to material to tinker with. I also learned that I loved to travel when I was young. I lived away from home when I was 10 years old, living in Barcelona, Spain with my best friends’ family. After living abroad, I knew that whatever career I went into I wanted to ensure that it would be one in which I could travel and experience the world. 

Joining UIF allowed me to act on ideas that I have had for a while. I always knew I wanted to make a difference on my campus, especially within the engineering department. Furthermore, I wanted to address a growing concern in engineering education which is Global Competency. Being a part of UIF has given me skills and connections to make my ideas come to fruition. I am so excited to see what change myself and my cohort can make within this year as well as the rest of our time at JMU. 

Fellow:Christopher Jones

2019-10-12T21:25:27Z

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I’m Christopher Jones, currently a Junior engineering Major at James Madison University. I have four minors: Geographic Science, Mathematics, Physics for Engineers, and African, African American and Diaspora Studies (AAADS). I am also involved in a number of extra curriculars such as Engineering Ambassadors (EA), Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers JMU Chapter (SHPE) and Madison Welders. I also currently work three jobs on campus: Physics Learning Assistant, Math Tutor and Machine Apprentice. I have also spent the past two summers traveling to Tanzania for a study abroad as well as conducting research. Finally, I am currently working on a capstone in which we are trying to redesign latrines within Ifakara, Tanzania. This was a capstone that I proposed after my second trip to Tanzania in which I got to interact with the community and stakeholders that my project is focused on. 

Growing up I was always interested in how things work. I loved taking apart machines and trying to put them back together. Lego’s were my go to material to tinker with. I also learned that I loved to travel when I was young. I lived away from home when I was 10 years old, living in Barcelona, Spain with my best friends’ family. After living abroad, I knew that whatever career I went into I wanted to ensure that it would be one in which I could travel and experience the world. 

Joining UIF allowed me to act on ideas that I have had for a while. I always knew I wanted to make a difference on my campus, especially within the engineering department. Furthermore, I wanted to address a growing concern in engineering education which is Global Competency. Being a part of UIF has given me skills and connections to make my ideas come to fruition. I am so excited to see what change myself and my cohort can make within this year as well as the rest of our time at JMU. 

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2019-10-12T21:05:16Z

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School:James Madison University

2019-10-12T21:02:03Z

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= James Madison University =

== '''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship''' ==

'''[https://beinvolved.jmu.edu/organization/arcdclub Architectural Design Club]'''

*The ARCD club at JMU allows students to join chapters of the American Institute of Architecture Students and the American Society of Interior Designers, where students can attend national conferences, meet professional mentors, and gain points that lead to accreditation in the professional world.

'''[http://www.jmu.edu/cob/centers/center-for-entrepreneurship/index.shtml Center for Entrepreneurship]'''

*The Center for Entrepreneurship offers teams of students the chance to grow their ideas into a startup company through the Venture Creation Fellowship. Small teams of students and/or faculty members can apply to the fellowship and if accepted they will attend an 8-week program running from June to July aimed at helping them transform their ideas into success stories. Teams are given a stipend, granted access to the ICE House workspaces, and paired with an experienced mentor. 

'''[https://beinvolved.jmu.edu/organization/industrialdesignsociety Industrial Design Society of America]'''

*''''''The IDSA at JMU is an interdisciplinary group that meets weekly to organizes workshops, keynote speaker events, collaborative design projects, and trips to conferences. At its core, the IDSA is empowering industrial design students to make an impact on their community with their innovative design skills. Many are active in other groups that are altering campus or have personal pursuits in design and entrepreneurship. With the industrial design concentration now becoming a full major and the number of students increasing, it is becoming a more vital part of the track for industrial designers at JMU.

'''Mad Inc. Labs'''

*Mad Inc. Labs is JMU’s first seed-stage startup investment accelerator. It aims to serve JMU’s most talented student founders by allowing them to experience a traditional accelerator program; with the mentorship, funding, and office space - while maintaining status as a student.

'''[https://beinvolved.jmu.edu/organization/JMUSOE Society of Entrepreneurs]'''

*''''''The JMU Society of Entrepreneurs brings entrepreneurially minded students together. In the organization, members educate each other and the JMU community on topics of interest, support each other with new ventures, and reach out to entrepreneurs in the community to help them and learn from them. The society also hosts speakers and events to educate the JMU community about different topics based around entrepreneurship. The society is application based and therefore consists of high-caliber entrepreneurs at JMU.

'''[https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/tedx-program TEDx]'''

*Students are able to attend lectures from other students, professors, and guest speakers.
*Events can be located here:
*[https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/18693 2016 (Theme: Fool's Gold)], [https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/20798 2017 (Theme: Horizons)], [https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/25554 2018 (Theme undetermined)]

'''[https://a2ru.org/ Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (A2RU)]'''

*''''''James Madison University has been accepted as a founding member of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities largely for its proven reputation as an institution valuing and supporting interdisciplinary undergraduate research. JMU is one of 28 founders and the only comprehensive institution in the alliance whose aim is "to help equip students and faculty to address the world's most pressing, complex and open-ended challenges with creative confidence as well as disciplinary expertise," according to alliance documents.

'''ISAT Capstone Projects'''

*''''''As part of the ISAT experience, every senior completes a capstone project. Working individually or in teams, students work on a problem with a real-world component, sometimes teaming with a local industry or governmental sponsor. Capstone project ideas can come from the students themselves, from faculty advisors, or from sponsors. The capstone project allows students the opportunity to use the knowledge and skills they learned in ISAT to address a real-world problem and receive valuable hands-on experience. Students are required to produce a final project report, both in written form and in the form of an oral presentation to the faculty, their student peers, and the public.  

'''Engineering Ambassadors'''

*The Engineering Ambassadors Network is an international program that focuses on "changing the conversation" about engineering. The focus of the group is to demonstrate that, while math and science are important, art, history, and other classes are just as important. Other classes can provide a well-rounded insight to understanding how engineering is incoroporated into every day life. Students who participate in workshops are taught the Human Centered Design Process to brainstorm innovative solutions for their clients.

'''Engineering Capstone Projects'''

*''''''Students work in teams under the direction of a faculty advisor to tackle an engineering design project. Engineering communication, such as reports and oral presentations are covered. We emphasize practical, hands-on experience, and integrate analytical and design skills acquired in companion senior-level core courses.

'''Engineers Without Borders'''

*''''''Engineers Without Borders is an organization established to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life.  JMU EWB is open not only to Engineering majors.  Our hope is to recruit students in ISAT, Health and Human Sciences, Business, and Education.

'''Entrepreneurship RLC'''

*''''''The Entrepreneurship Residential Learning Center is in the process of being developed here at JMU. Students who participate in this Residential Learning Community will have the unique opportunity to live and take classes with a small group of students who share similar interests in Entrepreneurship.  The Entrepreneurship RLC is planned to be ready for the incoming class of 2019.

'''[https://www.jmu.edu/cob/graduate/mba/innovation/index.shtml MBA Program]'''

*''''''This two-year masters program starts with the fundamentals of business before taking a deep dive into creating an inventive environment where students transform into leaders in technology. The program responds to the realization that the business world outside of the university setting is increasingly getting faster so the content of the class aligns with functional topics. While in the curriculum the student is required to take an international trip to one of three countries and gain leadership skills through workshops. Overall, the Innovation MBA provides the graduate with a competitive advantage for approaching problems in a business setting.

'''Project Lab (The Pit)'''

* The Pit is a flexible laboratory space that contains overflow machine tools, materials testing equipment, and other experimental equipment. Labs for materials science courses are conducted in this space under the guidance of faculty and trained student assistants.

'''[http://swejmu.weebly.com/ Society of Women Engineers (SWE)]'''

*The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is an educational and service organization that empowers women to succeed and advance in the field of engineering and to be recognized for their life-changing contributions as engineers and leaders. SWE establishes engineering as a highly desirable career for women through an exciting array of training and development programs, networking opportunities, scholarships, outreach and advocacy activities, and much more.

'''[https://www.jmu.edu/cap/recruitaduke/ Recruit-A-Duke]'''

*Recruit-A-Duke is James Madison University’s online career services management system that provides JMU students access to internships, full-time jobs, career fairs, workshops, information sessions, and more.

'''[https://www.jmu.edu/engineering/places/labs-studios.shtml Visualization Lab]'''

*Laboratory for Engineering students that includes 3D printers to visualize prototypes and computers to analyze drawings or create flow simulations.

'''[http://sites.jmu.edu/3SPACE/ 3Space Classroom]'''

*The 3Space Classroom is the first 3-D printing lab in the country designed for general-education use. Students in any major can enroll in 3Space classes and then be granted access to the 3-D printing computer lab. 

'''[http://www.jmu.edu/directory/buildings/ICE.shtml The ICE House]'''

*The Innovation, Collaboration, and Entrepreneurship (ICE) House is a lean startup started by the College of Business, Center for Entrepreneurship, JMU Technology Innovation and 4-VA. It is run by JMU X-Labs to set up, speed up and support business ideas or lean. startups and encourage Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

'''[https://jmuxlabs.org/ X-Labs]'''

*This on-campus makerspace facilitates open labs and pop-up classes that teach students skills such as 3D printing, laser cutting, glassblowing, and virtual reality.

'''Engineering Labs'''

*The engineering labs offering various spaces that coincide with the design process. This includes the make shop, prototyping lab, communication studio, inspiration studo, and ideation studio. The engineering department also offers spaces for collaborative work between students.These spaces are restrictied to use by engineering students.

 

'''IEEE'''

*<span style="text-align: left; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: pre-wrap; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="text-align: left; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Source Sans Pro,sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The purpose of IEEE Computer Society is to participate in the confrontation of key developmental tasks, particularly in the areas of moral and intellectual development and values clarification. The purpose shall be the dissemination of knowledge of the theory and practice of all aspects of electrical engineering, electronics, radio, allied branches of engineering or the related arts and sciences, as well as the furtherance of the professional development of the students.

== '''[https://www.jmu.edu/cob/centers/center-for-entrepreneurship/students/competitions.shtml Competitions:]''' ==

'''BizBlitz'''
<ul style="margin-left: 40px;">
<li>''''''BizBlitz is JMU’s first full scale “Startup Weekend” style events for entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, makers, and others who want to pitch a startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. At BizBlitz, teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote), and then it’s a 54-hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekend culminates with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders for another opportunity for critical feedback.</li>
</ul>

'''Innovation X'''
<ul style="margin-left: 40px;">
<li>Innovation Xis a 24-hour hackathon facilitated by X-Labs.  Teams of students from all majors and backgrounds are guided by mentors and are encouraged to create and compete.  Idea and product generation areas include food/agriculture, healthcare, and consumer devices and tools.</li>
</ul>

'''I.C.C.E Pitch Competition & Conference'''
<ul style="margin-left: 40px;">
<li>''''''The I.C.C.E Pitch Competition and Conference is a high energy evening celebrating JMU Entrepreneurs and featuring: JMU Student Pitch Competition, I.C.C.E Talks, networking with entrepreneurial alumni, faculty, and students.</li>
</ul>

'''MadHack'''
<ul style="margin-left: 40px;">
<li>''''''MadHack was JMU’s first full-scale hackathon, sponsored by Capital One, offering a creative and collaborative software development experience. For 24 hours students built innovative web and mobile apps, as well as hardware.</li>
</ul>

'''Startup Studio'''
<ul style="margin-left: 40px;">
<li>Startup Studio is a rapid-pitch event hosted by the Society of Entrepreneurs semi-regularly.  In the confines of two hours, students meet, split into groups, recognize a problem related to the given theme, develop a solution, and pitch their idea to the rest of the groups.  This exercise helps to illustrate to students how to think with an entrepreneurial, creative problem-solving mindset.</li>
</ul>

'''Incubator Challenge'''

*The incubator challenge is a two week long problem-solving competition hosted by Booz Allen Hamilton. It gives you a chance to approach a real-world challenge in a collaborative environment - leveraging technology and a diverse skill set to create and present an innovative solution to representatives from Booz Allen.

'''Hacking for Defense'''

*'''T<span style="text-align: center; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">his course brings an''''''[http://www.h4di.org/ innovative problem-solving mode]l developed at Stanford University to complex problems faced by the departments of Defense and State. The course is sponsored by[http://4-va.org/ 4-VA]and takes place in JMU’s[http://jmuxlabs.org/ X-Labs]''' 

'''FBLA'''

*<span style="text-align: left; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-variant: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The FBLA National Awards Program, also known as competitive events, recognizes and rewards excellence in a broad range of business and career-related areas. FBLA competitive events also prepare students for successful careers in business by providing opportunities to apply classroom concepts in a workforce-simulated competitive environment. 

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== '''Undergraduate Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship''' ==

*MGT 310 (Business Fundamentals for Entrepreneurs (non-COB majors))
*COB 300A (Integrated Business Functions (required for non-MGT COB majors))
*MGT 320 (Management of Innovation and Technology)
*MGT 471 (Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management)
*MGT 472 (New Venture Creation)
*ACTG 244 (Accounting for Non-Business Majors)
*ENGR 498 (Advanced Topics in Engineering: Innovation)
*ENGR 498 (Advanced Topics in Engineering: Realization)
*ENGR 498 (Advanced Topics in Engineering: Innovation Exchange)
*ENGR 498 (Advanced Topics in Engineering: Social Entrepreneurship)
*MGT 340 (International Management)
*MGT 365 (Fundamentals of Human Resource Management)
*MKTG 380 (Principles of Marketing (for non-CoB majors only))
*NPS 300 (Introduction to Nonprofits)
*INDU 402 (Social Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship)
*COB 218 (Legal and Ethical Environment of Business)
*MKTG 380 (Principles of Marketing)
*MGT 405 (Topics in Management)
*MGT 472 (Venture Creation)
*MUI 440 (Entrepreneurship in the Music Industry)
*SOCI 385 (Madness and Soceity Environments, Technologies and Innovation)
*ENGR 221 (Managment of Technology I: Product Development and Entrepreneurial Engineering)

=== '''Entrepreneurship Minor''' ===

*Paula Daly, Coordinator
*Phone: (540) 568-3038
*Email: dalyps@jmu.edu

The entrepreneurship minor is designed to introduce students from any discipline to the knowledge, skills and mindset necessary for successful new venture creation. The minor isopen to students in any major except management, which offers a track in innovation and entrepreneurship. Students who successfully complete the entrepreneurship minor will develop the knowledge base and skills needed for new venture creation and management. They will be able to: Understand entrepreneurship as a possible career path, its role in economic growth and opportunity, and its associated social benefits; recognize/identify entrepreneurial opportunities that fit the individual student includes self-analysis in the context of possible entrepreneurial activities and demonstration of the ability to identify and analyze the attractiveness of potential markets. Develop a business model and create a business plan. This includes completing a clear and concise written plan that serves as a blueprint for creation of the proposed venture. Apply relevant financial and business principles to assess the need for start-up capital, conduct break even analysis, and identify cash flow needed for future growth. Identify and evaluate various sources of funding. Articulate an effective pitch to gain support from investors, suppliers, customers, or potential employees. Interact and collaborate with various stakeholders to develop and evaluate ideas, and grow those ideas to fruition.

Students are required to submit an application to be considered for enrollment in the minor. More information on the entrepreneurship minor can be found [http://www.jmu.edu/cob/undergraduate/entrepreneurship-minor.shtml here.]

== '''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship''' ==

'''[http://4-va.org/ 4-Virginia]'''

*4-VA is a collaborative partnership between four Virginia universities. Its mission is to promote inter-university collaborations that leverage the strengths of each partner university in order to accomplish much more than any individual university could achieve alone. A large focus of 4-VA is in training professors and other faculty to implement innovative instructional technologies into their courses.  Additionally, 4-VA encourages and funds multiple interdisciplinary courses that deal with innovation in the medical and engineering fields.

'''[https://www.jmu.edu/cise/committees-groups/exec-advisory-council.shtml CISE Dean's Advisory Council]'''

*The Dean's Advisory Council is a select community of CISE students that meet with the dean once per semester to discuss issues about the college. These issues include faculty changes in methods to a more student friendly and innovative approach. Along with upcoming plans for new groups, clubs, organizations, and classes within the college.

  

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

'''The Office of Technology Transfer'''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>The Office of Technology Transfer aims to promote innovation, enhance research by connecting inventors and industry, and foster economic development through protecting and commercializing intellectual property in an efficient and effective manner to benefit the University, the Shenandoah Valley, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and society as a whole.</li>
</ul>

'''Center for Instructional Technology'''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>The mission of CIT is to lead, support and advocate for the meaningful integration of appropriate technologies into the academic experience. Its goalsare to; the faculty and the administration of emerging technologies and related issues, develop the instructional faculty's skills in the mechanics and pedagogically-sound methods of using technology in instruction, provide resources, people, equipment, money and space to help faculty create and integrate digital content into their course materials and scholarly work, engage in research and development to create new instructional technologies, and manage and support or coordinate the management and support of instructional technology delivery systems.</li>
</ul>

'''[https://beinvolved.jmu.edu/organization/JMUSOE Society of Entrepreneurs]'''

*The JMU Society of Entrepreneurs brings James Madison University entrepreneurially minded students together. In the organization, we educate each other and the JMU community on topics of interest, support each other with new ventures and reach out to entrepreneurs in the community to help them and learn from them. The society also hosts speakers and events to educate the JMU community about different topics based around entrepreneurship.

'''[https://www.jmu.edu/innovation/ James Madison Innovations]'''

*JMI is the non-profit organization that is affiliated with JMU Technology Innovation to commercialize technologies. Together, the JMI Startup Fund, a philanthropic effort to move prototypes forward and launch companies, and the Innovation Network of professionals provide dollars and managerial expertise to prove products and markets.

'''[http://www.jmu.edu/cob/centers/center-for-entrepreneurship/index.shtml Center for Entrepreneurship]'''

*The Center for Entrepreneurship is used to promote, foster, and perpetuate the American entrepreneurial tradition for undergraduates at JMU and to strengthen both Virginia's and national economies by encouraging entrepreneurship, innovation, and the creation of new enterprises.

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= Project Pitch Video =

[https://youtu.be/IjWHk05M9Ac James Madison University Cohort 4A Video Pitch]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwQchRx6HDM Promoting Innovation & Entrepreneurial Opportunities at James Madison University ]

= Strategy #1 =

We recognize that the institutions and resources for innovation and entrepreneurship already exist at James Madison University and that we must strive to increase the utilization of these facilities. In addition, we will work to improve and update areas of the university that may not receive as much attention as some.

== Tactic #1: Marketing of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Survey Method ==

*Description: Incentivize students to participate in a survey to learn more about Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs available on campus with free food. 
**D-Hall Commons gets a lot of foot traffic every day making it an easy location to consider when implementing this survey. This is also a place that many organizations already utilize for similar ways of capturing students’ attention.
**Festival Conference Center is the equivalent of commons, but on East Campus, allowing students who are not on the main campus to access the same information we are providing.
**Showker Hall is where most of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs are since it is the business school, but since there is construction currently in that area, it could get a little hectic trying to find these I&E resources. Setting up a survey station there would also be beneficial in that aspect. 

== Tactic #2: Funding for Programs All Over Campus That Have Innovators ==

*Description: A new, interdisciplinary, course hosted by XLabs that focuses on teaching students successful business practices, agile team management, human-centered design, and much more. The class would ask for students to form into teams and progress through the design of a project by hitting bi-weekly deadlines and then giving a final pitch to a panel of judges that would then decide on whether or not they want to financially support the teams’ project/business.

== Tactic #3: Updating and Innovating on Liberal Arts Curriculums ==

*Description: Liberal arts majors, like history, writing, english, etc. have been largely left behind by the advances in higher education. 
**Brainstorm possibilities: it is easy to dismiss the need to improve these courses because they have been taught the same way for so long. It might even be hard to imagine, for example, learning history by any other means than reading and lecturing. A wide, creative swath of ideas should be proposed to revamp these curriculums.
**Demonstrate ideas: design a single lesson or a fraction of a class to show proof of concept. Test this plan on an objective, unbiased selection of students to determine its effectiveness.
**Propose solutions: with these insights and data in mind, create a concise and clear plan and propose to one of the academic deans or a similarly influential figure in one of the liberal arts departments. 

== Tactic #4: Centralization of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programs around Campus ==

*Description: An organization and summit dedicated to creating connections between various organizations on campus with interests in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 
**This organization would be a board with liaisons from various clubs on campus that would serve as connections, and representatives, for each of these I&E organizations.
**Additionally, an annual Innovation Summit would be held for faculty and students to discuss how to implement I&E in higher education as well as the opportunities present on campus. Events could include presentations, landscape canvases, inter-group projects, and more.

== Tactic #5: Funding the Patenting Process for Students. ==

*Description: An organization dedicated to assisting students with unique, innovative ideas in the process of getting their creations patented, trademarked, or etc., as well as providing funding for this costly, time-consuming process.
**This program would be open to any student with a passion for creating but would work closely with STEM majors who sometimes require specialized creations to be made for their Jr/Sr Capstone project.
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= Strategy #2 =

Provide students with more innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities by exposing them to the Landscape Canvas & Wiki Pages. This would be executed by making information easily accessible and intuitive for students campus-wide.

== Tactic #1: Interactive Panels and Tablets Across Campus ==

*Description: Install fun to use tablets in areas on campus where foot traffic is heavy.
**Dining Locations
**Residence Halls
**Libraries
**Maker Spaces

== Tactic #2: Information Posted on Student Websites ==

*Description: Make information more available on student websites in a more accessible fashion.
**MyMadison
**JMU.org
**Canvas

== Tactic #3: Print Out Versions of Information ==

*Description: Provide an easy to read flowchart of innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities on print outs to distribute to students.
**House in Libraries
**Have University Innovation Fellows and or University Faculty distribute print outs to interested students.
<div>
== Tactic #4: Hold Seminar Targeted at Underclassmen ==

*Description: Hold seminars open to all students walking through the different opportunities found in the Landscape Canvas.
**Have representatives from courses, programs, and organizations speak about how they inspire innovation and entrepreneurship type thinking.
**Give out small brochures describing the information on the landscape canvas.

'''Tactic #5: Mock Case Study'''

*Connect case study to the local community surrounding James Madison University
*Make it a competition where individuals compete against each other on teams<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
</ul></ul>
</ul>
</ul> </ul>

*Recognition of students through rewards, prizes, or opportunity to implement a project
*Can lead to real projects and solutions that aren’t apart of the engineering curriculum<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
</ul></ul>
</ul>
</ul>

*The ability for students to gain experience that allows them to distinguishes themselves and gain valuable skills

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*Make it open for all years (Freshman - Senior)<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
</ul></ul>
</ul>
</ul>

*Teams intermingled with students from all different years so knowledge and wisdom can be exchanged

*Opportunity for students to showcase their problem-solving abilities

</ul>

</ul>
</div>
= Strategy #3 =

Bring international students to James Madison University for a 2-week summer program focused heavily on innovation and entrepreneurship.

== Tactic #1: Course Variety ==

*Description: Provide courses in various fields of study to encourage a wider audience of students.
**Examples:
***Engineering
***Business Start-Up
***Rapid Prototyping

== Tactic #2: University Exposure ==

*Description: Introduce students to campus and University life in the United States.
**JMU Dining
**Student Organizations
**Residential Life
**University Recreation
**Speaking with Professors

== Tactic #3: Hackathon Connections ==

*Description: Provide students with the opportunity to make connections through a hackathon that would take place during the summer school program.
**Sponsors could incorporate prizes.
**Company employees and James Madison faculty would serve as mentors during the innovative process.
**Students can search for potential jobs or internship opportunities.
**Participants are given the opportunity to engage in design thinking.

'''Tactic 4: Programming Competition/Workshop'''

*Description: 24-hour programming competition. Every level of programming experience you have, you are welcome to attend this competition. There will be various programming workshops taught during the competition to sharpen your skills. Companies will sponsor the event for prize money and recruiting opportunities. Judges will consist of CS, CIS, Engineering or any related discipline professors.
*Takeaways:<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
</ul></ul>

</ul>

</ul>

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*Get students more interested in programming at a low stakes level.
*Give students the opportunity to talk with recruiters to get an idea of what careers involve programming.

*Open for all years (Freshman - Seniors) and for all majors<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
</ul></ul>

</ul>

</ul>

</ul>

*Programming is starting to become a valuable skill in many different professions, not limited to Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, etc.

</ul>

</ul>

= Strategy #4 =

Expand X-Labs space within Lakeview Hall and throughout campus to promote innovation and entrepreneurship.

== Tactic #1:Convert Office Spaces ==

*Description: Transforming the current offices in Lakeview Hall into an expanded collaborative work and maker space.
**Remove non-innovative spaces in Lakeview Hall to provide more room for innovation and space for more technologies.

== Tactic #2: Implement Into JMU General Education Curriculum ==

Create a new cluster of required classes for JMU students that will enhance the innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus.

*Description: The entrepreneurial mindset is an important tool for all incoming and existing students as a form of engaged learning.

== Tactic #3: Satellite Maker Spaces ==

*Description: Convert or improve current lab spaces around campus into X-Labs affiliated maker spaces.
**Help to promote X-Labs names and encourage participation in innovative opportunities.
**Further, establish X-Labs as an asset to the JMU ecosystem.

= Strategy #5 =

Create Collisions amongst entrepreneurially minded students and the general population amongst all disciplines, in order to organically spread innovation, collaboration, creativity, and entrepreneurship.

== Tactic #1: Theme Based Think-A-Thons ==

*Description: Cultivate talent in theme-based hack-a-thon style events that correlate to the various colleges of academics, but appeal to the general population. We would want to create a brand that does not alienate or intimidate students that don’t necessarily think of this as “their” thing.
**1-2 times per month
**24hr Think-A-Thons
**Various themes/prompts that represent the interests of all the colleges of academics
***College of Education:
****Reinvent the classroom
***College of Health and Behavioral Studies:
****Create low-cost products that meet the basic needs of the world's poorest people
***Integrated Science and Technology / School of Art, Design, and Art History:
****Designing for a sustainable campus
****Fashion Think-A-Thon
**The theme of these thinker-mixers/hack-a-thons would vary each time and would touch on topics that are up-to-date with current events to help attract students from all colleges within JMU. This, in turn, would help continuity of participation and the dismantlement of silos.
**Gathering participant information gives us a more defined target audience to project some marketing efforts towards.
**Approaching these events with hopes of there being multi-disciplinary teams does not expedite the view that these are hack-a-thons or "techie" events.  This merely generates exploratory and problem-solving experiences for any given area of study.

== Tactic #2: Make the I&E Network Accessible to Students ==

*Description: Launch a heavily marketed website that establishes a network for students looking to collaborate and pursue a business or product idea. This JMU affiliated website would help spread awareness of funding opportunities, resources available on campus, upcoming I&E events, and clubs/groups.
*Replicate a Landspace Canvas for I&E or create a landscape map to guide students through the process of finding relevant resources on campus for their prospective entrepreneurs. 
**Daniel Phonelath will spearhead this project.

== Tactic #3: 100 Level Collaborative Course  ==

*'''Course Description''': A 100 level course that will bring freshmen across a variety of majors together to help with the transition from high school to college. This course will utilize group discussions and short-term projects with teams made of diverse disciplines to foster collaborative and teamworking skills growth. 
*Emphases on leadership, creativity, and design thinking through 3 week-long projects.
**Leadership: Through the use of the JMU Dux Center students will benchmark their leadership/teamworking skills style at the beginning of the course. Throughout the course, as they finish a 3-week project cycle, the group leader will receive 4-5 leadership reviews from their team members and each team member will receive reviews from their team members. At the end of the course, a student will have participated in 4 groups, lead one, received feedback and completed the leadership challenge workbook.
**Creativity: During class students will practice creativity exercises, learn it's application and further their understanding through the text; "Creative Confidence" By David and Tom Kelly. 
**Design Thinking: The course will be project-based with the application of light design thinking. In 3 weeks students will have had to discover more about a problem they have to solve, ideate solutions, prototype solutions and select the best idea for presentations.
**Public Presentations: At the end of a 3-week cycle each team will present their process, idea, and prototype in a public space such as TDU. Each student will be required to bring at least 2 guests (no repeats) to this public event. 
*Course Plan
**Find the best way to register the course on MyMadison by Oct. 23, 2018 
**Continue interviewing professors who show interest in co-leading the course until Nov. 6, 2018
**Meeting with all stakeholders and potential course leaders to create a plan of action-Nov.9-13, 2018

'''Tactic #4: Internship Workshop'''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Description: Address pain points with internships and gauge interest for future workshops from first and second-year students.<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>This workshop’s purpose is to be an introduction to summer internships available for engineering students. Through this workshop participants will learn about what types of internships their peers have attended previously, the different types of internships available per discipline of engineering, and will participate in a discussion to gauge what content future workshops will cover.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Have an open discussion with students about what it is like to be an intern and some advice for applying/ interviewing</li>
<li>Topics to talk about with students:<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Tailoring your classes/ electives to score your target internship</li>
<li>How to make your interview stand out</li>
<li>Ask students if they would be interested to have a career advisor come in from CAP services to teach them how to make resumes and cover letters</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

= Strategy #6 =

Establish an entity on campus where any student with a creative idea can get the resources needed to become the entrepreneur they want to be, and test, launch, and grow their business.

== Tactic #1: MadX Labs ==

*Description: Test, iterate, and scale MadX Labs, JMU’s first seed-stage startup accelerator.   
**MadX Labs will serve JMU’s most talented student founders, giving them the opportunity by leveraging the resources of a University and its potential contacts. We will give young entrepreneurs at JMU the opportunity to experience a traditional accelerator program; with the mentorship, training, space, and funding they need in order to test, launch, and grow their business.
**Students are encouraged to apply to MadX Labs accelerator two times a year in the beginning of each semester during "The Entrepreneurment Procurement". After 12 weeks, the program culminates in a Demo Day, where they will have the opportunity to pitch an invite an only audience of JMU investor
**Agenda for planning:
***Begin idea generation for funding - January 2018
***Finalized Idea - February 20th, 2018
***Generation of interest/Advertisement - May 2018/August 2018
***Planned Event Time - September 10-14

= Strategy #7 =

Provide opportunities for incoming students and underclassmen to become introduced to innovation and entrepreneurship as well as recognize their potential to become entrepreneurs at an early point in their collegiate careers. This strategy will revolve around creating and marketing well-known opportunities and physical spaces for students to express their innovative minds as well as stimulate team collaboration. 

== Tactic #1: Pop-Up Courses ==

*Description: Continue the spread of several “test courses” that can provide the administration with an example of how a pattern of entrepreneurial and innovative courses in the General Education Program can lead to escalating forms of venture creation.
**February 2018
***Continue to host the "Pop-Up" classes in the JMU X-Labs maker space.
***Work on gaining feedback through response forms and questionnaires. 
**April 2018
***Expand Pop-Up courses to a large capacity for more involvement.
***Increase the range of topics in the Pop-Up classes outside of typical STEM classes.
**May 2018
***Work on continuing Pop-Up classes outreach and schedule more Pop-Up classes for the Fall semester.

== Tactic #2: Summer Program ==

*Description: Continue a four to five-week ideation and entrepreneurship summer program for incoming freshmen and rising sophomores. This apply-for and optional course would not only fuel the entrepreneur mindset for these underclassmen early in their college career but it would also help mix students and provide infrastructure for a network of collaborators. The program would be open to all majors.
*Timeline: 6-Week program led by the Center for Entrepreneurship at James Madison. This 'Accelerator' helps students start ventures and allow them to grow in the X-Labs space.

== Tactic #3: Spread the Word ==

*Description: Create a medium-scale marketing campaign for the JMU X-Labs. 
*Tools: The following tools will be used to help spread the word of the Labs.
**Social Media including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.
**On-Campus Resources such as flyers, banners, and post-cards.
*Timeline: It can start immediately in February 2018. This could take place as a flash-marketing campaign or a long term strategy.

= Strategy #8 =

Create a culture on campus that elevates JMU national visibility in I&E in order to attract the most talented entrepreneurially minded faculty and students.  

== Tactic #1: Develop a Hub ==

*Description: Develop, design, fundraise, and build a hub for student entrepreneurship and innovation that includes living space, maker spaces, open workspace, etc.
**To prove a need for this hub, we plan to use the spaces that currently exist on and around campus to establish smaller-scale environments in which student thinkers and entrepreneurs can come to work on their projects and collaborate on ideas.
**Through this beacon of entrepreneurship, offer a wide variety of programs and engagement opportunities for students to learn about and engage in all phases of the entrepreneurship and innovation process.
***“Idea mixers” or “idea factory workshops” that are heavily marketed

'''Tactic #2: Mentorship Program'''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Problem: There is a clear gap between underclassmen and upperclassmen engineers. It is very clear that after engineering 101, first-year students are not connected with upperclassmen ab VB resources on campus to help guide them and find their passions.</li>
<li>Proposal: I think we can help bridge this gap by implementing an engineering mentorship program. This would be conducted by pairing first-year students with third-year students and second-year students with fourth-year students based on their specific interests. This would help to bridge a gap within our interdisciplinary engineering bbbprogram but B.B. b.  B. B. Ben and bbbb and allow students to create relationships with older students, have guidance from someone who has been in their place, and to help them network!</li>
<li>Prototyping:</li>
<li>Feedback<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>I told Dr. Callie Miller about this idea and she completely agreed that there is a gap here between underclassmen and upperclassmen. She told me that I would have to speak with Dr. Paterson, the department head, and Dr. Gipson who is in charge of a lot of the first-year students to get some feedback.</li>
<li>This idea started when I was a TA for a first-year class, ENGR 112, and many students approached me for advice and help with their first-year concerns and classes. They expressed gratitude for my help and said that it was nice to have someone older than them that has been through these struggles/classes and can give them some insight and advice. THIS WAS MY PROTOTYPING PHASE. I realized that after Engineering 101 these kids are on their own. If every student had an older mentor, they would feel more a part of a community and more likely to get involved on campus!</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

= Strategy #9 =
<div>Provide opportunities for students to engage in entrepreneurship and innovation with the greater local and regional community.</div>
== Tactic #1: Regional Meet-up ==

*Description: The regional meet-up will bring UIF students from campuses within a 5-hour driving distance to James Madison University campus. Through various workshops, students will understand JMU’s campus and share their own experiences from their respective campuses. Current James Madison University UIF members will create a collaborative environment for students to share ideas with each other. 

== Tactic #2: Corporate Outreach/Integration Efforts ==

*Description: The goal is to connect corporate environments with higher education. We will approach this by connecting with well-known and widely respected corporate entities such as Google in order to organize "high-demand/interest" events and talks out of our ICE resources. All events should be informational, interactive and the hope is to connect students with corporate resources as they progress through their course-load and approach graduation.

= Strategy #10 =

Provide students with the opportunity to gain global competencies throughout a semester-long course

'''Tactic #1: Implement a Tech-Elective "How to Engineer Abroad"'''

*This course will provide students with techniques for realizing and pursuing international engineering opportunities. These opportunities will include a series of collaborative mini-challenges, a project pitch, and a case study.
*This course will include lectures on global issues, a collaborative project with an international university, exposure to international opportunities and learning to market your international experiences. 

'''Tactic #2: 8 Week Design Challenge with International University '''

*'''Week 1:''' Getting to know your team and the design challenges
*'''Week 2: '''Define problem statement, determine scope and stakeholders, set team expectations
*'''Week 3:''' Discover phase of IDEO design process
*'''Week 4:''' Ideate phase and conceptual design
*'''Week 5: '''Alpha prototype
*'''Week 6: '''Beta prototype
*'''Week 7: '''Testing and refinement 
*'''Week 8:''' Project presentation

'''Tactic #3: International Career Fair'''

* Provide students the opportunity to interact with international organizations

Related Links

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James%20Madison%20University James Madison University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Madison_University_Student_Priorities James Madison University Student Priorities]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Madison_University_Innovative_Spaces James Madison University Innovation Spaces]

== Fellows ==

[[Chris Ashley|Chris Ashley]]

[[Jack O'Neill|Jack O'Neill]]

[[Andrew Carlone|Andrew Carlone]]

[[Timothy Moore|Timothy Moore]]

[[Emily Platt|Emily Platt]]

[[Mark Castro|Mark Castro]]

[[Nahom Fissaha|Nahom Fissaha]]

[[Greg Mayo|Greg Mayo]]

[[Ryan Ohneiser|Ryan Ohneiser]]

[[Daniel Phonelath|Daniel Phonelath]]

[[Jared Michael Zurn|Jared Michael Zurn]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Catharine_Willett Catharine Willett]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grace_carter Grace Carter]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kyle_steven_anderson Kyle Anderson]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Connor_bergeron Connor Bergeron]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jack_Boone Jack Boone]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anne_rusher Anne Rusher]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Stephanie_Morales Stephanie Morales]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marian_Gerlitzki Marian Gerlitzki] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/PEYTON_PITTMAN Peyton Pittman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Natalie_Dillinger Natalie Dillinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kareem_Ebraham Kareem Ebraham]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emma_de_Leon Emma de Leon]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lexy_Foor Lexy Foor]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sally_Todd Sally Todd]

Skylar Wollen

Claire Fulk 

[[Poppy Crawshaw|Poppy Crawshaw]]

[[Arie Bradley|Arie Bradley]]

[[Andrew Payne|Andrew Payne]]

[[Kerry McCullagh|Kerry McCullagh]]

[[Sabrina Hammell|Sabrina Hammell]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|j]]

Priorities:James Madison University Student Priorities

2019-10-03T00:57:55Z

Jone24ce:

= Project Pitch Video =

[https://youtu.be/IjWHk05M9Ac James Madison University Cohort 4A Video Pitch]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwQchRx6HDM Promoting Innovation & Entrepreneurial Opportunities at James Madison University ]

= Strategy #1 =

We recognize that the institutions and resources for innovation and entrepreneurship already exist at James Madison University and that we must strive to increase the utilization of these facilities. In addition, we will work to improve and update areas of the university that may not receive as much attention as some.

== Tactic #1: Marketing of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Survey Method ==

*Description: Incentivize students to participate in a survey to learn more about Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs available on campus with free food. 
**D-Hall Commons gets a lot of foot traffic every day making it an easy location to consider when implementing this survey. This is also a place that many organizations already utilize for similar ways of capturing students’ attention.
**Festival Conference Center is the equivalent of commons, but on East Campus, allowing students who are not on the main campus to access the same information we are providing.
**Showker Hall is where most of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs are since it is the business school, but since there is construction currently in that area, it could get a little hectic trying to find these I&E resources. Setting up a survey station there would also be beneficial in that aspect. 

== Tactic #2: Funding for Programs All Over Campus That Have Innovators ==

*Description: A new, interdisciplinary, course hosted by XLabs that focuses on teaching students successful business practices, agile team management, human-centered design, and much more. The class would ask for students to form into teams and progress through the design of a project by hitting bi-weekly deadlines and then giving a final pitch to a panel of judges that would then decide on whether or not they want to financially support the teams’ project/business.

== Tactic #3: Updating and Innovating on Liberal Arts Curriculums ==

*Description: Liberal arts majors, like history, writing, english, etc. have been largely left behind by the advances in higher education. 
**Brainstorm possibilities: it is easy to dismiss the need to improve these courses because they have been taught the same way for so long. It might even be hard to imagine, for example, learning history by any other means than reading and lecturing. A wide, creative swath of ideas should be proposed to revamp these curriculums.
**Demonstrate ideas: design a single lesson or a fraction of a class to show proof of concept. Test this plan on an objective, unbiased selection of students to determine its effectiveness.
**Propose solutions: with these insights and data in mind, create a concise and clear plan and propose to one of the academic deans or a similarly influential figure in one of the liberal arts departments. 

== Tactic #4: Centralization of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programs around Campus ==

*Description: An organization and summit dedicated to creating connections between various organizations on campus with interests in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 
**This organization would be a board with liaisons from various clubs on campus that would serve as connections, and representatives, for each of these I&E organizations.
**Additionally, an annual Innovation Summit would be held for faculty and students to discuss how to implement I&E in higher education as well as the opportunities present on campus. Events could include presentations, landscape canvases, inter-group projects, and more.

== Tactic #5: Funding the Patenting Process for Students. ==

*Description: An organization dedicated to assisting students with unique, innovative ideas in the process of getting their creations patented, trademarked, or etc., as well as providing funding for this costly, time-consuming process.
**This program would be open to any student with a passion for creating but would work closely with STEM majors who sometimes require specialized creations to be made for their Jr/Sr Capstone project.
<div> </div>
= Strategy #2 =

Provide students with more innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities by exposing them to the Landscape Canvas & Wiki Pages. This would be executed by making information easily accessible and intuitive for students campus-wide.

== Tactic #1: Interactive Panels and Tablets Across Campus ==

*Description: Install fun to use tablets in areas on campus where foot traffic is heavy.
**Dining Locations
**Residence Halls
**Libraries
**Maker Spaces

== Tactic #2: Information Posted on Student Websites ==

*Description: Make information more available on student websites in a more accessible fashion.
**MyMadison
**JMU.org
**Canvas

== Tactic #3: Print Out Versions of Information ==

*Description: Provide an easy to read flowchart of innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities on print outs to distribute to students.
**House in Libraries
**Have University Innovation Fellows and or University Faculty distribute print outs to interested students.
<div>
== Tactic #4: Hold Seminar Targeted at Underclassmen ==

*Description: Hold seminars open to all students walking through the different opportunities found in the Landscape Canvas.
**Have representatives from courses, programs, and organizations speak about how they inspire innovation and entrepreneurship type thinking.
**Give out small brochures describing the information on the landscape canvas.

'''Tactic #5: Mock Case Study'''

*Connect case study to the local community surrounding James Madison University
*Make it a competition where individuals compete against each other on teams<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
</ul></ul>
</ul>
</ul>

*Recognition of students through rewards, prizes, or opportunity to implement a project
*Can lead to real projects and solutions that aren’t apart of the engineering curriculum<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
</ul></ul>
</ul>
*The ability for students to gain experience that allows them to distinguishes themselves and gain valuable skills

</ul>

*Make it open for all years (Freshman - Senior)<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
</ul></ul>
</ul>
*Teams intermingled with students from all different years so knowledge and wisdom can be exchanged

*Opportunity for students to showcase their problem-solving abilities

</ul>

</ul>
</div>
= Strategy #3 =

Bring international students to James Madison University for a 2-week summer program focused heavily on innovation and entrepreneurship.

== Tactic #1: Course Variety ==

*Description: Provide courses in various fields of study to encourage a wider audience of students.
**Examples:
***Engineering
***Business Start-Up
***Rapid Prototyping

== Tactic #2: University Exposure ==

*Description: Introduce students to campus and University life in the United States.
**JMU Dining
**Student Organizations
**Residential Life
**University Recreation
**Speaking with Professors

== Tactic #3: Hackathon Connections ==

*Description: Provide students with the opportunity to make connections through a hackathon that would take place during the summer school program.
**Sponsors could incorporate prizes.
**Company employees and James Madison faculty would serve as mentors during the innovative process.
**Students can search for potential jobs or internship opportunities.
**Participants are given the opportunity to engage in design thinking.

'''Tactic 4: Programming Competition/Workshop'''

*Description: 24-hour programming competition. Every level of programming experience you have, you are welcome to attend this competition. There will be various programming workshops taught during the competition to sharpen your skills. Companies will sponsor the event for prize money and recruiting opportunities. Judges will consist of CS, CIS, Engineering or any related discipline professors.
*Takeaways:<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
</ul></ul>

</ul>

</ul>

</ul>

*Get students more interested in programming at a low stakes level.
*Give students the opportunity to talk with recruiters to get an idea of what careers involve programming.

*Open for all years (Freshman - Seniors) and for all majors<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
</ul></ul>

</ul>

</ul>

*Programming is starting to become a valuable skill in many different professions, not limited to Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, etc.

</ul>

</ul>

= Strategy #4 =

Expand X-Labs space within Lakeview Hall and throughout campus to promote innovation and entrepreneurship.

== Tactic #1:Convert Office Spaces ==

*Description: Transforming the current offices in Lakeview Hall into an expanded collaborative work and maker space.
**Remove non-innovative spaces in Lakeview Hall to provide more room for innovation and space for more technologies.

== Tactic #2: Implement Into JMU General Education Curriculum ==

Create a new cluster of required classes for JMU students that will enhance the innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus.

*Description: The entrepreneurial mindset is an important tool for all incoming and existing students as a form of engaged learning.

== Tactic #3: Satellite Maker Spaces ==

*Description: Convert or improve current lab spaces around campus into X-Labs affiliated maker spaces.
**Help to promote X-Labs names and encourage participation in innovative opportunities.
**Further, establish X-Labs as an asset to the JMU ecosystem.

= Strategy #5 =

Create Collisions amongst entrepreneurially minded students and the general population amongst all disciplines, in order to organically spread innovation, collaboration, creativity, and entrepreneurship.

== Tactic #1: Theme Based Think-A-Thons ==

*Description: Cultivate talent in theme-based hack-a-thon style events that correlate to the various colleges of academics, but appeal to the general population. We would want to create a brand that does not alienate or intimidate students that don’t necessarily think of this as “their” thing.
**1-2 times per month
**24hr Think-A-Thons
**Various themes/prompts that represent the interests of all the colleges of academics
***College of Education:
****Reinvent the classroom
***College of Health and Behavioral Studies:
****Create low-cost products that meet the basic needs of the world's poorest people
***Integrated Science and Technology / School of Art, Design, and Art History:
****Designing for a sustainable campus
****Fashion Think-A-Thon
**The theme of these thinker-mixers/hack-a-thons would vary each time and would touch on topics that are up-to-date with current events to help attract students from all colleges within JMU. This, in turn, would help continuity of participation and the dismantlement of silos.
**Gathering participant information gives us a more defined target audience to project some marketing efforts towards.
**Approaching these events with hopes of there being multi-disciplinary teams does not expedite the view that these are hack-a-thons or "techie" events.  This merely generates exploratory and problem-solving experiences for any given area of study.

== Tactic #2: Make the I&E Network Accessible to Students ==

*Description: Launch a heavily marketed website that establishes a network for students looking to collaborate and pursue a business or product idea. This JMU affiliated website would help spread awareness of funding opportunities, resources available on campus, upcoming I&E events, and clubs/groups.
*Replicate a Landspace Canvas for I&E or create a landscape map to guide students through the process of finding relevant resources on campus for their prospective entrepreneurs. 
**Daniel Phonelath will spearhead this project.

== Tactic #3: 100 Level Collaborative Course  ==

*'''Course Description''': A 100 level course that will bring freshmen across a variety of majors together to help with the transition from high school to college. This course will utilize group discussions and short-term projects with teams made of diverse disciplines to foster collaborative and teamworking skills growth. 
*Emphases on leadership, creativity, and design thinking through 3 week-long projects.
**Leadership: Through the use of the JMU Dux Center students will benchmark their leadership/teamworking skills style at the beginning of the course. Throughout the course, as they finish a 3-week project cycle, the group leader will receive 4-5 leadership reviews from their team members and each team member will receive reviews from their team members. At the end of the course, a student will have participated in 4 groups, lead one, received feedback and completed the leadership challenge workbook.
**Creativity: During class students will practice creativity exercises, learn it's application and further their understanding through the text; "Creative Confidence" By David and Tom Kelly. 
**Design Thinking: The course will be project-based with the application of light design thinking. In 3 weeks students will have had to discover more about a problem they have to solve, ideate solutions, prototype solutions and select the best idea for presentations.
**Public Presentations: At the end of a 3-week cycle each team will present their process, idea, and prototype in a public space such as TDU. Each student will be required to bring at least 2 guests (no repeats) to this public event. 
*Course Plan
**Find the best way to register the course on MyMadison by Oct. 23, 2018 
**Continue interviewing professors who show interest in co-leading the course until Nov. 6, 2018
**Meeting with all stakeholders and potential course leaders to create a plan of action-Nov.9-13, 2018

'''Tactic #4: Internship Workshop'''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Description: Address pain points with internships and gauge interest for future workshops from first and second-year students.<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>This workshop’s purpose is to be an introduction to summer internships available for engineering students. Through this workshop participants will learn about what types of internships their peers have attended previously, the different types of internships available per discipline of engineering, and will participate in a discussion to gauge what content future workshops will cover.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Have an open discussion with students about what it is like to be an intern and some advice for applying/ interviewing</li>
<li>Topics to talk about with students:<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Tailoring your classes/ electives to score your target internship</li>
<li>How to make your interview stand out</li>
<li>Ask students if they would be interested to have a career advisor come in from CAP services to teach them how to make resumes and cover letters</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

= Strategy #6 =

Establish an entity on campus where any student with a creative idea can get the resources needed to become the entrepreneur they want to be, and test, launch, and grow their business.

== Tactic #1: MadX Labs ==

*Description: Test, iterate, and scale MadX Labs, JMU’s first seed-stage startup accelerator.   
**MadX Labs will serve JMU’s most talented student founders, giving them the opportunity by leveraging the resources of a University and its potential contacts. We will give young entrepreneurs at JMU the opportunity to experience a traditional accelerator program; with the mentorship, training, space, and funding they need in order to test, launch, and grow their business.
**Students are encouraged to apply to MadX Labs accelerator two times a year in the beginning of each semester during "The Entrepreneurment Procurement". After 12 weeks, the program culminates in a Demo Day, where they will have the opportunity to pitch an invite an only audience of JMU investor
**Agenda for planning:
***Begin idea generation for funding - January 2018
***Finalized Idea - February 20th, 2018
***Generation of interest/Advertisement - May 2018/August 2018
***Planned Event Time - September 10-14

= Strategy #7 =

Provide opportunities for incoming students and underclassmen to become introduced to innovation and entrepreneurship as well as recognize their potential to become entrepreneurs at an early point in their collegiate careers. This strategy will revolve around creating and marketing well-known opportunities and physical spaces for students to express their innovative minds as well as stimulate team collaboration. 

== Tactic #1: Pop-Up Courses ==

*Description: Continue the spread of several “test courses” that can provide the administration with an example of how a pattern of entrepreneurial and innovative courses in the General Education Program can lead to escalating forms of venture creation.
**February 2018
***Continue to host the "Pop-Up" classes in the JMU X-Labs maker space.
***Work on gaining feedback through response forms and questionnaires. 
**April 2018
***Expand Pop-Up courses to a large capacity for more involvement.
***Increase the range of topics in the Pop-Up classes outside of typical STEM classes.
**May 2018
***Work on continuing Pop-Up classes outreach and schedule more Pop-Up classes for the Fall semester.

== Tactic #2: Summer Program ==

*Description: Continue a four to five-week ideation and entrepreneurship summer program for incoming freshmen and rising sophomores. This apply-for and optional course would not only fuel the entrepreneur mindset for these underclassmen early in their college career but it would also help mix students and provide infrastructure for a network of collaborators. The program would be open to all majors.
*Timeline: 6-Week program led by the Center for Entrepreneurship at James Madison. This 'Accelerator' helps students start ventures and allow them to grow in the X-Labs space.

== Tactic #3: Spread the Word ==

*Description: Create a medium-scale marketing campaign for the JMU X-Labs. 
*Tools: The following tools will be used to help spread the word of the Labs.
**Social Media including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.
**On-Campus Resources such as flyers, banners, and post-cards.
*Timeline: It can start immediately in February 2018. This could take place as a flash-marketing campaign or a long term strategy.

= Strategy #8 =

Create a culture on campus that elevates JMU national visibility in I&E in order to attract the most talented entrepreneurially minded faculty and students.  

== Tactic #1: Develop a Hub ==

*Description: Develop, design, fundraise, and build a hub for student entrepreneurship and innovation that includes living space, maker spaces, open workspace, etc.
**To prove a need for this hub, we plan to use the spaces that currently exist on and around campus to establish smaller-scale environments in which student thinkers and entrepreneurs can come to work on their projects and collaborate on ideas.
**Through this beacon of entrepreneurship, offer a wide variety of programs and engagement opportunities for students to learn about and engage in all phases of the entrepreneurship and innovation process.
***“Idea mixers” or “idea factory workshops” that are heavily marketed

'''Tactic #2: Mentorship Program'''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Problem: There is a clear gap between underclassmen and upperclassmen engineers. It is very clear that after engineering 101, first-year students are not connected with upperclassmen ab VB resources on campus to help guide them and find their passions.</li>
<li>Proposal: I think we can help bridge this gap by implementing an engineering mentorship program. This would be conducted by pairing first-year students with third-year students and second-year students with fourth-year students based on their specific interests. This would help to bridge a gap within our interdisciplinary engineering bbbprogram but B.B. b.  B. B. Ben and bbbb and allow students to create relationships with older students, have guidance from someone who has been in their place, and to help them network!</li>
<li>Prototyping:</li>
<li>Feedback<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>I told Dr. Callie Miller about this idea and she completely agreed that there is a gap here between underclassmen and upperclassmen. She told me that I would have to speak with Dr. Paterson, the department head, and Dr. Gipson who is in charge of a lot of the first-year students to get some feedback.</li>
<li>This idea started when I was a TA for a first-year class, ENGR 112, and many students approached me for advice and help with their first-year concerns and classes. They expressed gratitude for my help and said that it was nice to have someone older than them that has been through these struggles/classes and can give them some insight and advice. THIS WAS MY PROTOTYPING PHASE. I realized that after Engineering 101 these kids are on their own. If every student had an older mentor, they would feel more a part of a community and more likely to get involved on campus!</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

= Strategy #9 =
<div>Provide opportunities for students to engage in entrepreneurship and innovation with the greater local and regional community.</div>
== Tactic #1: Regional Meet-up ==

*Description: The regional meet-up will bring UIF students from campuses within a 5-hour driving distance to James Madison University campus. Through various workshops, students will understand JMU’s campus and share their own experiences from their respective campuses. Current James Madison University UIF members will create a collaborative environment for students to share ideas with each other. 

== Tactic #2: Corporate Outreach/Integration Efforts ==

*Description: The goal is to connect corporate environments with higher education. We will approach this by connecting with well-known and widely respected corporate entities such as Google in order to organize "high-demand/interest" events and talks out of our ICE resources. All events should be informational, interactive and the hope is to connect students with corporate resources as they progress through their course-load and approach graduation.

= Strategy #10 =

Provide students with the opportunity to gain global competencies throughout a semester-long course

'''Tactic #1: Implement a Tech-Elective "How to Engineer Abroad"'''

*This course will provide students with techniques for realizing and pursuing international engineering opportunities. These opportunities will include a series of collaborative mini-challenges, a project pitch, and a case study.
*This course will include lectures on global issues, a collaborative project with an international university, exposure to international opportunities and learning to market your international experiences. 

'''Tactic #2: 8 Week Design Challenge with International University '''

*'''Week 1:''' Getting to know your team and the design challenges
*'''Week 2: '''Define problem statement, determine scope and stakeholders, set team expectations
*'''Week 3:''' Discover phase of IDEO design process
*'''Week 4:''' Ideate phase and conceptual design
*'''Week 5:'''Alpha prototype
*'''Week 6: '''Beta prototype
*'''Week 7: '''Testing and refinement 
*'''Week 8:'''  Project presentation

'''Tactic #3: International Career Fair'''

*'''''' Provide students the opportunity to interact with 

Related Links

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James%20Madison%20University James Madison University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Madison_University_Student_Priorities James Madison University Student Priorities]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Madison_University_Innovative_Spaces James Madison University Innovation Spaces]

== Fellows ==

[[Chris Ashley|Chris Ashley]]

[[Jack O'Neill|Jack O'Neill]]

[[Andrew Carlone|Andrew Carlone]]

[[Timothy Moore|Timothy Moore]]

[[Emily Platt|Emily Platt]]

[[Mark Castro|Mark Castro]]

[[Nahom Fissaha|Nahom Fissaha]]

[[Greg Mayo|Greg Mayo]]

[[Ryan Ohneiser|Ryan Ohneiser]]

[[Daniel Phonelath|Daniel Phonelath]]

[[Jared Michael Zurn|Jared Michael Zurn]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Catharine_Willett Catharine Willett]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grace_carter Grace Carter]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kyle_steven_anderson Kyle Anderson]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Connor_bergeron Connor Bergeron]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jack_Boone Jack Boone]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anne_rusher Anne Rusher]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Stephanie_Morales Stephanie Morales]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marian_Gerlitzki Marian Gerlitzki] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/PEYTON_PITTMAN Peyton Pittman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Natalie_Dillinger Natalie Dillinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kareem_Ebraham Kareem Ebraham]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emma_de_Leon Emma de Leon]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lexy_Foor Lexy Foor]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sally_Todd Sally Todd]

Skylar Wollen

Claire Fulk 

[[Poppy Crawshaw|Poppy Crawshaw]]

[[Arie Bradley|Arie Bradley]]

[[Andrew Payne|Andrew Payne]]

[[Kerry McCullagh|Kerry McCullagh]]

[[Sabrina Hammell|Sabrina Hammell]]

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