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Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2014-09-29T01:35:57Z

KChristopher00:

OVERVIEW

The GVSU innovation fellows realized that while there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, they often don't have the inspiration or the information to start. The two strategies we propose to work on immediately focus on introducing better methods to inspire young innovative students at Grand Valley and to intrduce communication pipeline so that good ideas can travel to a place they can be developed into a solution. 

PROJECT #1 - Health Science and Engineering Idea Pipeline [6 months]

This project would be collaboration between the College of Engineering and the College of Health Sciences. Both of these buildings are located in downtown Grand Rapids within a half mile of the Medical Mile. Often times, student nurses, physical thereapists, occupational therapists and other health science students will do a semester of clinical training out in the field. These clincal students are brand new to the hospital scene and therefore have an easier time determining what problems exist in the biomedical field. For example, while a seasoned nurse might assume that completing a task would be time consuming becasue "that is the way they have always done it", a student nurse might ask why it has to be done that way and be able to suggust a way to do it differently. 

Recognizing the problems in the biomedical field is only half of the battle. Once student nurses and other clinical health science students discover a problem they. generally, do not have any way to fix it or report it. This is where the Idea Pipeline comes in. The Idea Pipeline creates a way to report problems in the biomedical industry from student experiences and takes them directly to the engineers who have the background in technology to develop innovative solutions. 

Not only does this promote collaboration between differnent colleges at the university, it also gives projects to professors in the engineering college for their classes, and provides engineering students with a real life issure to solve. In addition, this Idea Pipeline has the potential to create biomedical start-ups in a city that has many resources for testing and promoting biotechnology. 

The project would start as a partnership between the College of Engineering - Product Design & Manufacturing section and the College of Nursing clinical students. The project will start with a presentation to the Student Nurses Association and hosting an event for Nursing Extra Credit. This will give use access to several student contacts and allow us to test out the Idea Pipeline. Next semester we hope to incorporate it into the cirriculum and have an online reporting system up and running through Grand Valley's website. The problems reported will be put into a pool and the top problems will be implemented as projects for the Product Design courses. 

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1cE2chUHjT9FmKaY1vV1X-GeZ_-C3kUSFZg6eEyl2IQk/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1cE2chUHjT9FmKaY1vV1X-GeZ_-C3kUSFZg6eEyl2IQk/edit?usp=sharin]g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH7qA0P-_JI&feature=youtu.be

PROJECT #2 - Catalyst: Inspiration Event [6-9 months]

The goal of this project is to get students inspired to create and innovate. We hope to host a TEDx talk at Grand Valley and try to focus on the innovative ideas in the community and state that have made large impacts. If we cannot get licensing for a TEDx talk we would host our own version of TEDx to get students inspired with the focus on local celebrities, investors, entrepreneurs, and resources. 

We recognize that inspiration is a key component to having student innovation at a university; currently there are a good amount of resources for entrepreneurs but they are not known to any students outside of the business school. In order to have successful innovative ideas come from our University, students from all disciplines need to come together on projects to highlight a variety of talents. By providing a resource of inspiration to all majors and promiting this even campus wide we believe we can reach many students and inspire them to start creating together. 

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1XkiPwkR6MdM7GCNgcFpNqWWzGfcY1wg7Uud4p10sPrQ/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1XkiPwkR6MdM7GCNgcFpNqWWzGfcY1wg7Uud4p10sPrQ/edit?usp=sharing]

PROJECT #3 - Business and Entrepreneurship Collaboration [24 months]

GVSU has a new major as of this year, the entrepreneurship major. This major is in the business college and therefore, like all business majors a Grand Valley, requires the busines capstone class. In addition, all senior engineering students are assigned a two semester senior project immediately before they graduate. We believe that for some of the senior projects it would be benficial to assign them a entrepreneurship/business major to write business plans, run finaces, etc to determine if the design project would make a viable business. 

This would not only encourage collaboration between colleges but would also give students a sense of how products are designed in the real world. This would also introduce business concepts to the engineering students and technology to the business students. 

In addition, this could be run as an add on to PROJECT #1 once it gets going. Since the projects coming from the Idea Pipeline would be for a new product, having business majors on a team for that would be quite beneficial in order to determine if the product would be viable in the real world. 

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1nxIFRM9dljXvOBbQ1Y7gDOll-cy8sdixY_nKtg6iunU/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1nxIFRM9dljXvOBbQ1Y7gDOll-cy8sdixY_nKtg6iunU/edit?usp=sharing]

PROJECT #4 - Student Inovation Group [12-24 months]

There are a total of 8 colleges in West Michigan which all came together for the first time last year in West Michigan's first multi-college business model competition. In hopes of gathering people from all majors and fields, we believe it would be a good idea to create club or meeting group that crosses the college boundaries to pursue innovation. Several of the colleges in West Michigan specialize in a particular field, this would be helpful in creating a diverse group of people with whom a student could brainstorm with or get help on a project with. 

From the business model competition we have several contacts at a few of the schools, however, more research and networking would need to be done (possibly between existing clubs on campuses) to gather student interest at each of the universities. This club would serve to inspire new innovation by bringing in speakers and hosting workshops while also serve as a place to further develop and design existing ideas into companies. 

There are several places in Grand Rapids that exist to help entrepreneurs and to bring entrepreneurship to West Michigan and we believe they would be more than willing to host or even sponsor a group like this. 

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/13q03TmItvyul6dNp4EZSR-kIP4v5S8syeyxJb4c_W3A/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/13q03TmItvyul6dNp4EZSR-kIP4v5S8syeyxJb4c_W3A/edit?usp=sharing]

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[[Grand_Valley_State_University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH7qA0P-_JI&feature=youtu.be

School:Grand Valley State University

2014-09-29T01:31:15Z

KChristopher00:

== [[File:GVSU Campus.png|thumb|GVSU Campus.png]] ==

== Introduction  ==

Grand Valley State University (also known as GVSU), is a public liberal arts university in Allendale, Michigan, United States, west of Grand Rapids. Classes are also offered downtown Grand Rapids on GVSU's Pew Campus. Pew Campus supports programs in Engineering, Education, Nursing and Business. There has been a movement to improve innovation and entrepreneurship landscape on GVSU’s campuses. Many courses, clubs, workshops, competitions and other programs involving innovation and entrepreneurship  have been researched and put together to build an infrastructure for students to utilize.

== Entrepreneurship & Academics  ==

The Faculty at GVSU integrates innovation and entrepreneurship in their courses through hands on projects and assignments. The classes below empathizes on I&E. 

*EGR 301 - Product  Design

*MKT 450 - Marketing Capstone

*EGR 401 - Advanced Product Design

*ENT 180

*ENT 350

== Events & Community  ==

Not only does Grand Valley State University supports it’s students in innovation and entrepreneurship both in and outside the classroom but the Grand Rapids community also supports it. There are many organizations that offer funding, advising, space and much more for small start up companies and businesses. Below is a list of some community organizations and GVSU programs that support innovation and entrepreneurship. 

==== Community:  ====

*StartGarden Speakers/Workshops

*GRIN

*GR Current 

==== Campus:  ====

*Idea Pitch

*CEO Club

*MWest 

==== Resources:  ====

Engineering prototyping lab, machine shop, and wood shop. 

== Co-op Program  ==

For GVSU’s Engineering program students must participate in a 3 semester co-op program. The last two years of an Engineer’s education, a student will alternate between co-op (usually at a company) and school every other semester. This allows students to apply what they have learned in real live situations and gain valuable industrial work experience. Typically students will get job offers after graduation with the company they co-oped with. The program also has a two semester long undergraduate senior project.  

Not only does all this hands-on experience cause students to develop work ethic/economics and project management skills, it offers a more active participation in innovation and entrepreneurship.

== Landscape Canvace/Student Projects ==

https://docs.google.com/a/mail.gvsu.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtGRsz4i6ggadDRGTjNxOXpmMDBhaTRDZkIxX1FGdUE&usp=drive_web

[http://youtu.be/RH7qA0P-_JI http://youtu.be/RH7qA0P-_JI]

[[GVSU Student Priorities|GVSU_Student_Priorities]]

Fellow:Kathryn Christopher

2014-09-29T01:28:18Z

KChristopher00:

[[File:KC.png|thumb|KC.png]]

Kathryn Christopher Grand Valley State Univeristy Chriskat@mail.gvsu.edu UIF Fall 2014

Kathryn Christopher, or KC as most of her friends call her, is a University Innovation Fellow at Grand Valley State Universtiy in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is a senior at GVSU and is studying Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering. KC is currently working on a startup company with several other students and Grand Valley State University for a medical device designed for the intensive care unit. This project has sparked her interest in entreprenership and prompted her to apply for the University Innovation Fellows program.

She is currently trying to tackle the lack of communication and  interdiciplinary projects between the engineering, business, and biomedical science programs at her universtiy, and she believes that if there were more programs that collectively utilized these students' strengths that there would be a dramatic increase in innovation at GVSU. Looking into the future, KC's dream is to continue her passion for learning by attending graduate school in either business or engineering. KC currently works as an engineering co-op at Charter House Innovations in Zeeland, MI and enjoys camping, running, and a good craft beer. 

[[Grand_Valley_State_University|Grand_Valley_State_University]]

[[GVSU_Student_Priorities|GVSU_Student_Priorities]]

http://youtu.be/RH7qA0P-_JI

School:Grand Valley State University

2014-09-29T01:24:25Z

KChristopher00:

== [[File:GVSU Campus.png|thumb|GVSU Campus.png]] ==

== Introduction  ==

Grand Valley State University (also known as GVSU), is a public liberal arts university in Allendale, Michigan, United States, west of Grand Rapids. Classes are also offered downtown Grand Rapids on GVSU's Pew Campus. Pew Campus supports programs in Engineering, Education, Nursing and Business. There has been a movement to improve innovation and entrepreneurship landscape on GVSU’s campuses. Many courses, clubs, workshops, competitions and other programs involving innovation and entrepreneurship  have been researched and put together to build an infrastructure for students to utilize.

== Entrepreneurship & Academics  ==

The Faculty at GVSU integrates innovation and entrepreneurship in their courses through hands on projects and assignments. The classes below empathizes on I&E. 

*EGR 301 - Product  Design

*MKT 450 - Marketing Capstone

*EGR 401 - Advanced Product Design

*ENT 180

*ENT 350

== Events & Community  ==

Not only does Grand Valley State University supports it’s students in innovation and entrepreneurship both in and outside the classroom but the Grand Rapids community also supports it. There are many organizations that offer funding, advising, space and much more for small start up companies and businesses. Below is a list of some community organizations and GVSU programs that support innovation and entrepreneurship. 

==== Community:  ====

*StartGarden Speakers/Workshops

*GRIN

*GR Current 

==== Campus:  ====

*Idea Pitch

*CEO Club

*MWest 

==== Resources:  ====

Engineering prototyping lab, machine shop, and wood shop. 

== Co-op Program  ==

For GVSU’s Engineering program students must participate in a 3 semester co-op program. The last two years of an Engineer’s education, a student will alternate between co-op (usually at a company) and school every other semester. This allows students to apply what they have learned in real live situations and gain valuable industrial work experience. Typically students will get job offers after graduation with the company they co-oped with. The program also has a two semester long undergraduate senior project.  

Not only does all this hands-on experience cause students to develop work ethic/economics and project management skills, it offers a more active participation in innovation and entrepreneurship.

== Student Projects ==

[http://youtu.be/RH7qA0P-_JI http://youtu.be/RH7qA0P-_JI]

[[GVSU Student Priorities|GVSU_Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2014-09-29T01:22:16Z

KChristopher00:

OVERVIEW

The GVSU innovation fellows realized that while there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, they often don't have the inspiration or the information to start. The two strategies we propose to work on immediately focus on introducing better methods to inspire young innovative students at Grand Valley and to intrduce communication pipeline so that good ideas can travel to a place they can be developed into a solution. 

PROJECT #1 - Health Science and Engineering Idea Pipeline [6 months]

This project would be collaboration between the College of Engineering and the College of Health Sciences. Both of these buildings are located in downtown Grand Rapids within a half mile of the Medical Mile. Often times, student nurses, physical thereapists, occupational therapists and other health science students will do a semester of clinical training out in the field. These clincal students are brand new to the hospital scene and therefore have an easier time determining what problems exist in the biomedical field. For example, while a seasoned nurse might assume that completing a task would be time consuming becasue "that is the way they have always done it", a student nurse might ask why it has to be done that way and be able to suggust a way to do it differently. 

Recognizing the problems in the biomedical field is only half of the battle. Once student nurses and other clinical health science students discover a problem they. generally, do not have any way to fix it or report it. This is where the Idea Pipeline comes in. The Idea Pipeline creates a way to report problems in the biomedical industry from student experiences and takes them directly to the engineers who have the background in technology to develop innovative solutions. 

Not only does this promote collaboration between differnent colleges at the university, it also gives projects to professors in the engineering college for their classes, and provides engineering students with a real life issure to solve. In addition, this Idea Pipeline has the potential to create biomedical start-ups in a city that has many resources for testing and promoting biotechnology. 

The project would start as a partnership between the College of Engineering - Product Design & Manufacturing section and the College of Nursing clinical students. The project will start with a presentation to the Student Nurses Association and hosting an event for Nursing Extra Credit. This will give use access to several student contacts and allow us to test out the Idea Pipeline. Next semester we hope to incorporate it into the cirriculum and have an online reporting system up and running through Grand Valley's website. The problems reported will be put into a pool and the top problems will be implemented as projects for the Product Design courses. 

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1cE2chUHjT9FmKaY1vV1X-GeZ_-C3kUSFZg6eEyl2IQk/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1cE2chUHjT9FmKaY1vV1X-GeZ_-C3kUSFZg6eEyl2IQk/edit?usp=sharing]

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/RH7qA0P-_JI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

PROJECT #2 - Catalyst: Inspiration Event [6-9 months]

The goal of this project is to get students inspired to create and innovate. We hope to host a TEDx talk at Grand Valley and try to focus on the innovative ideas in the community and state that have made large impacts. If we cannot get licensing for a TEDx talk we would host our own version of TEDx to get students inspired with the focus on local celebrities, investors, entrepreneurs, and resources. 

We recognize that inspiration is a key component to having student innovation at a university; currently there are a good amount of resources for entrepreneurs but they are not known to any students outside of the business school. In order to have successful innovative ideas come from our University, students from all disciplines need to come together on projects to highlight a variety of talents. By providing a resource of inspiration to all majors and promiting this even campus wide we believe we can reach many students and inspire them to start creating together. 

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1XkiPwkR6MdM7GCNgcFpNqWWzGfcY1wg7Uud4p10sPrQ/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1XkiPwkR6MdM7GCNgcFpNqWWzGfcY1wg7Uud4p10sPrQ/edit?usp=sharing]

PROJECT #3 - Business and Entrepreneurship Collaboration [24 months]

GVSU has a new major as of this year, the entrepreneurship major. This major is in the business college and therefore, like all business majors a Grand Valley, requires the busines capstone class. In addition, all senior engineering students are assigned a two semester senior project immediately before they graduate. We believe that for some of the senior projects it would be benficial to assign them a entrepreneurship/business major to write business plans, run finaces, etc to determine if the design project would make a viable business. 

This would not only encourage collaboration between colleges but would also give students a sense of how products are designed in the real world. This would also introduce business concepts to the engineering students and technology to the business students. 

In addition, this could be run as an add on to PROJECT #1 once it gets going. Since the projects coming from the Idea Pipeline would be for a new product, having business majors on a team for that would be quite beneficial in order to determine if the product would be viable in the real world. 

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1nxIFRM9dljXvOBbQ1Y7gDOll-cy8sdixY_nKtg6iunU/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1nxIFRM9dljXvOBbQ1Y7gDOll-cy8sdixY_nKtg6iunU/edit?usp=sharing]

PROJECT #4 - Student Inovation Group [12-24 months]

There are a total of 8 colleges in West Michigan which all came together for the first time last year in West Michigan's first multi-college business model competition. In hopes of gathering people from all majors and fields, we believe it would be a good idea to create club or meeting group that crosses the college boundaries to pursue innovation. Several of the colleges in West Michigan specialize in a particular field, this would be helpful in creating a diverse group of people with whom a student could brainstorm with or get help on a project with. 

From the business model competition we have several contacts at a few of the schools, however, more research and networking would need to be done (possibly between existing clubs on campuses) to gather student interest at each of the universities. This club would serve to inspire new innovation by bringing in speakers and hosting workshops while also serve as a place to further develop and design existing ideas into companies. 

There are several places in Grand Rapids that exist to help entrepreneurs and to bring entrepreneurship to West Michigan and we believe they would be more than willing to host or even sponsor a group like this. 

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/13q03TmItvyul6dNp4EZSR-kIP4v5S8syeyxJb4c_W3A/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/13q03TmItvyul6dNp4EZSR-kIP4v5S8syeyxJb4c_W3A/edit?usp=sharing]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2014-09-27T05:08:00Z

KChristopher00:

OVERVIEW

The GVSU innovation fellows realized that while there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, they often don't have the inspiration or the information to start. The two strategies we propose to work on immediately focus on introducing better methods to inspire young innovative students at Grand Valley and to intrduce communication pipeline so that good ideas can travel to a place they can be developed into a solution. 

PROJECT #1 - Health Science and Engineering Idea Pipeline [6 months]

This project would be collaboration between the College of Engineering and the College of Health Sciences. Both of these buildings are located in downtown Grand Rapids within a half mile of the Medical Mile. Often times, student nurses, physical thereapists, occupational therapists and other health science students will do a semester of clinical training out in the field. These clincal students are brand new to the hospital scene and therefore have an easier time determining what problems exist in the biomedical field. For example, while a seasoned nurse might assume that completing a task would be time consuming becasue "that is the way they have always done it", a student nurse might ask why it has to be done that way and be able to suggust a way to do it differently. 

Recognizing the problems in the biomedical field is only half of the battle. Once student nurses and other clinical health science students discover a problem they. generally, do not have any way to fix it or report it. This is where the Idea Pipeline comes in. The Idea Pipeline creates a way to report problems in the biomedical industry from student experiences and takes them directly to the engineers who have the background in technology to develop innovative solutions. 

Not only does this promote collaboration between differnent colleges at the university, it also gives projects to professors in the engineering college for their classes, and provides engineering students with a real life issure to solve. In addition, this Idea Pipeline has the potential to create biomedical start-ups in a city that has many resources for testing and promoting biotechnology. 

The project would start as a partnership between the College of Engineering - Product Design & Manufacturing section and the College of Nursing clinical students. The project will start with a presentation to the Student Nurses Association and hosting an event for Nursing Extra Credit. This will give use access to several student contacts and allow us to test out the Idea Pipeline. Next semester we hope to incorporate it into the cirriculum and have an online reporting system up and running through Grand Valley's website. The problems reported will be put into a pool and the top problems will be implemented as projects for the Product Design courses. 

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1cE2chUHjT9FmKaY1vV1X-GeZ_-C3kUSFZg6eEyl2IQk/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1cE2chUHjT9FmKaY1vV1X-GeZ_-C3kUSFZg6eEyl2IQk/edit?usp=sharing]

PROJECT #2 - Catalyst: Inspiration Event [6-9 months]

The goal of this project is to get students inspired to create and innovate. We hope to host a TEDx talk at Grand Valley and try to focus on the innovative ideas in the community and state that have made large impacts. If we cannot get licensing for a TEDx talk we would host our own version of TEDx to get students inspired with the focus on local celebrities, investors, entrepreneurs, and resources. 

We recognize that inspiration is a key component to having student innovation at a university; currently there are a good amount of resources for entrepreneurs but they are not known to any students outside of the business school. In order to have successful innovative ideas come from our University, students from all disciplines need to come together on projects to highlight a variety of talents. By providing a resource of inspiration to all majors and promiting this even campus wide we believe we can reach many students and inspire them to start creating together. 

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1XkiPwkR6MdM7GCNgcFpNqWWzGfcY1wg7Uud4p10sPrQ/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1XkiPwkR6MdM7GCNgcFpNqWWzGfcY1wg7Uud4p10sPrQ/edit?usp=sharing]

PROJECT #3 - Business and Entrepreneurship Collaboration [24 months]

GVSU has a new major as of this year, the entrepreneurship major. This major is in the business college and therefore, like all business majors a Grand Valley, requires the busines capstone class. In addition, all senior engineering students are assigned a two semester senior project immediately before they graduate. We believe that for some of the senior projects it would be benficial to assign them a entrepreneurship/business major to write business plans, run finaces, etc to determine if the design project would make a viable business. 

This would not only encourage collaboration between colleges but would also give students a sense of how products are designed in the real world. This would also introduce business concepts to the engineering students and technology to the business students. 

In addition, this could be run as an add on to PROJECT #1 once it gets going. Since the projects coming from the Idea Pipeline would be for a new product, having business majors on a team for that would be quite beneficial in order to determine if the product would be viable in the real world. 

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1nxIFRM9dljXvOBbQ1Y7gDOll-cy8sdixY_nKtg6iunU/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1nxIFRM9dljXvOBbQ1Y7gDOll-cy8sdixY_nKtg6iunU/edit?usp=sharing]

PROJECT #4 - Student Inovation Group [12-24 months]

There are a total of 8 colleges in West Michigan which all came together for the first time last year in West Michigan's first multi-college business model competition. In hopes of gathering people from all majors and fields, we believe it would be a good idea to create club or meeting group that crosses the college boundaries to pursue innovation. Several of the colleges in West Michigan specialize in a particular field, this would be helpful in creating a diverse group of people with whom a student could brainstorm with or get help on a project with. 

From the business model competition we have several contacts at a few of the schools, however, more research and networking would need to be done (possibly between existing clubs on campuses) to gather student interest at each of the universities. This club would serve to inspire new innovation by bringing in speakers and hosting workshops while also serve as a place to further develop and design existing ideas into companies. 

There are several places in Grand Rapids that exist to help entrepreneurs and to bring entrepreneurship to West Michigan and we believe they would be more than willing to host or even sponsor a group like this. 

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/13q03TmItvyul6dNp4EZSR-kIP4v5S8syeyxJb4c_W3A/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/13q03TmItvyul6dNp4EZSR-kIP4v5S8syeyxJb4c_W3A/edit?usp=sharing]

Priorities:GVSU Student Priorities

2014-09-27T05:04:58Z

KChristopher00: Created page with "OVERVIEW The GVSU innovation fellows realized that while there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, they often don't have the inspiration or the inform..."

OVERVIEW

The GVSU innovation fellows realized that while there are many great resources for entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids, they often don't have the inspiration or the information to start. The two strategies we propose to work on immediately focus on introducing better methods to inspire young innovative students at Grand Valley and to intrduce communication pipeline so that good ideas can travel to a place they can be developed into a solution. 

PROJECT #1 - Health Science and Engineering Idea Pipeline

This project would be collaboration between the College of Engineering and the College of Health Sciences. Both of these buildings are located in downtown Grand Rapids within a half mile of the Medical Mile. Often times, student nurses, physical thereapists, occupational therapists and other health science students will do a semester of clinical training out in the field. These clincal students are brand new to the hospital scene and therefore have an easier time determining what problems exist in the biomedical field. For example, while a seasoned nurse might assume that completing a task would be time consuming becasue "that is the way they have always done it", a student nurse might ask why it has to be done that way and be able to suggust a way to do it differently. 

Recognizing the problems in the biomedical field is only half of the battle. Once student nurses and other clinical health science students discover a problem they. generally, do not have any way to fix it or report it. This is where the Idea Pipeline comes in. The Idea Pipeline creates a way to report problems in the biomedical industry from student experiences and takes them directly to the engineers who have the background in technology to develop innovative solutions. 

Not only does this promote collaboration between differnent colleges at the university, it also gives projects to professors in the engineering college for their classes, and provides engineering students with a real life issure to solve. In addition, this Idea Pipeline has the potential to create biomedical start-ups in a city that has many resources for testing and promoting biotechnology. 

The project would start as a partnership between the College of Engineering - Product Design & Manufacturing section and the College of Nursing clinical students. The project will start with a presentation to the Student Nurses Association and hosting an event for Nursing Extra Credit. This will give use access to several student contacts and allow us to test out the Idea Pipeline. Next semester we hope to incorporate it into the cirriculum and have an online reporting system up and running through Grand Valley's website. The problems reported will be put into a pool and the top problems will be implemented as projects for the Product Design courses. 

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1cE2chUHjT9FmKaY1vV1X-GeZ_-C3kUSFZg6eEyl2IQk/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1cE2chUHjT9FmKaY1vV1X-GeZ_-C3kUSFZg6eEyl2IQk/edit?usp=sharing]

PROJECT #2 - Catalyst: Inspiration Event

The goal of this project is to get students inspired to create and innovate. We hope to host a TEDx talk at Grand Valley and try to focus on the innovative ideas in the community and state that have made large impacts. If we cannot get licensing for a TEDx talk we would host our own version of TEDx to get students inspired with the focus on local celebrities, investors, entrepreneurs, and resources. 

We recognize that inspiration is a key component to having student innovation at a university; currently there are a good amount of resources for entrepreneurs but they are not known to any students outside of the business school. In order to have successful innovative ideas come from our University, students from all disciplines need to come together on projects to highlight a variety of talents. By providing a resource of inspiration to all majors and promiting this even campus wide we believe we can reach many students and inspire them to start creating together. 

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1XkiPwkR6MdM7GCNgcFpNqWWzGfcY1wg7Uud4p10sPrQ/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1XkiPwkR6MdM7GCNgcFpNqWWzGfcY1wg7Uud4p10sPrQ/edit?usp=sharing]

PROJECT #3 - Business and Entrepreneurship Collaboration

GVSU has a new major as of this year, the entrepreneurship major. This major is in the business college and therefore, like all business majors a Grand Valley, requires the busines capstone class. In addition, all senior engineering students are assigned a two semester senior project immediately before they graduate. We believe that for some of the senior projects it would be benficial to assign them a entrepreneurship/business major to write business plans, run finaces, etc to determine if the design project would make a viable business. 

This would not only encourage collaboration between colleges but would also give students a sense of how products are designed in the real world. This would also introduce business concepts to the engineering students and technology to the business students. 

In addition, this could be run as an add on to PROJECT #1 once it gets going. Since the projects coming from the Idea Pipeline would be for a new product, having business majors on a team for that would be quite beneficial in order to determine if the product would be viable in the real world. 

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PROJECT #4 - Student Inovation Group

There are a total of 8 colleges in West Michigan which all came together for the first time last year in West Michigan's first multi-college business model competition. In hopes of gathering people from all majors and fields, we believe it would be a good idea to create club or meeting group that crosses the college boundaries to pursue innovation. Several of the colleges in West Michigan specialize in a particular field, this would be helpful in creating a diverse group of people with whom a student could brainstorm with or get help on a project with. 

From the business model competition we have several contacts at a few of the schools, however, more research and networking would need to be done (possibly between existing clubs on campuses) to gather student interest at each of the universities. This club would serve to inspire new innovation by bringing in speakers and hosting workshops while also serve as a place to further develop and design existing ideas into companies. 

There are several places in Grand Rapids that exist to help entrepreneurs and to bring entrepreneurship to West Michigan and we believe they would be more than willing to host or even sponsor a group like this. 

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