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Priorities:Louisiana Tech University Student Priorities

2018-10-19T03:50:27Z

Lexielybrand:

= <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 28px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2018 Student Priorities =

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #1 - Freshmen are exposed to I&E ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Incorporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship into the First Year Experience Course

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The FYE 100 course that all freshmen take Fall Quarter is designed to provide application experiences in communication, critical thinking, and collaboration while students engage in university culture. Incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship into the course will enhance their critical thinking and collaboration skills while also introducing them to opportunities and resources available to them on campus.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario – students involved with I&E produce lesson plan (with input from faculty) for one day of instruction in design thinking and what LaTech has to offer for innovation and entrepreneurship ambitions (Thingery, Rawle Center, Top Dog, student organizations). To make the lesson more effective, stagger instruction days so that the I&E students who produced the lesson plan can actually teach the class to the freshmen, showing student leadership in I&E and that a community for it exists on campus.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planning during fall quarter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trail runs in select class during Winter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 2<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Innovation and Entrepreneurship event at orientations during summer.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most freshmen attend one of the orientation session the summer before attending to become familiar and excited about LaTech. Implementing an I&E event they attend during orientation would provide them the opportunity to know about what resources are available and spark their interest before weight of classes and other responsibilities set in during the quarter.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario – students involved with I&E host a demonstration of design thinking in Thingery that orientation groups cycle through. Students receive crash course on the design thinking process, they find out where the Thingery is located, and are given the opportunity to sign up for workshops in the school year and I&E affiliated organizations.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planning during academic year 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trail run during upcoming organizational browse

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Refine and implement during summer of 2019

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #2 - I&E Organizations' significance is better communicated across campus ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Emphasize the importance of joining I&E organizations during a short lesson in the First Year Experience class.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In an attempt to motivate students to become more involved among campus I&E organizations, teachers could teach a lesson on the importance of participating in said organizations. The focus will be on the experience it would provide students and the benefits it would reap for both the students, school, and community.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario- Speakers can come in to testify as to why getting involved in I&E organizations is beneficial to students during both school and later on in life. Teachers can show the different organizations offered, and what each one focuses on. Students can take some sort of “test” based on skills, values, and interests to discover which organization they best fit with.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during Fall Quarter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Trial Run will occur in selected Winter 2018 class

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #3 - Students have opportunity to experience I&E in locations they frequent ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– During Fall Quarter, Innovation Alliance will organize daylong event, or week of smaller events, celebrating I&E with support from Innovation Enterprise. The event would include I&E topic presentations from campus and guest speakers, activities in the Quad and Centennial Plaza that demonstrate some aspect of I&E (20,000 passions, design thinking crash course, elevator pitch game), and an expo of local entrepreneurs and innovations showing students the work they are doing in the student center.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during academic year 2018-2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Event occurs during latter half of Fall Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Smaller scale I&E days with one per quarter organized by Innovation Alliance with support from Innovation Enterprise. I&E days would include one guest speaker (on campus or from region) and an engagement activity in Quad or Centennial Plaza. Would be less pressure on the organizers and spread out excitement for I&E among quarters instead of once at beginning of year.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during Winter Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Test run during Spring Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Refine model and host first official I&E day Fall Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Continue each following quarter (excluding Summer Quarter for now)

  

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #4 - I&E organizations have support from the university ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Vocal, financial, resource support from the university (specifically Innovation Enterprise) for I&E organizations like Bulldog Entrepreneurs and Operations Tech (innovation club). The university collaborates with I&E student organizations to gain help in planning and promoting events/curriculum/initiatives on campus thereby including various student perspectives and interest in university planning.

= 2017 Student Priorities =

== Strategy #1 - Freshmen experience I&E ==

'''Tactic 1''' - Incorporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship into the First Year Experience Course

The FYE 100 course that all freshmen take Fall Quarter is designed to provide application experiences in communication, critical thinking, and collaboration while students engage in university culture. Incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship into the course will enhance their critical thinking and collaboration skills while also introducing them to opportunities and resources available to them on campus.

Possible scenario – students involved with I&E produce lesson plan (with input from faculty) for one day of instruction in design thinking and what LaTech has to offer for innovation and entrepreneurship ambitions (Thingery, Rawle Center, Top Dog, student organizations). To make the lesson more effective, stagger instruction days so that the I&E students who produced the lesson plan can actually teach the class to the freshmen, showing student leadership in I&E and that a community for it exists on campus.

Projected timeline

-        Planning during academic year 2017-2018

-        Trail runs in select classes during Fall 2018

-        Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

'''Tactic 2''' – Innovation and Entrepreneurship event at orientations during summer.

Most freshmen attend one of the orientation session the summer before attending to become familiar and excited about LaTech. Implementing an I&E event they attend during orientation would provide them the opportunity to know about what resources are available and spark their interest before weight of classes and other responsibilities set in during the quarter.

Possible scenario – students involved with I&E host a demonstration of design thinking in Thingery that orientation groups cycle through. Students receive crash course on the design thinking process, they find out where the Thingery is located, and are given the opportunity to sign up for workshops in the school year and I&E affiliated organizations.

Projected timeline

-        Planning during Winter Quarter 2018

-        Trail run during Time out for Tech Spring

-        Refine and implement during summer of 2018

== '''Strategy #2 - Students have opportunity to experience I&E in locations they frequent''' ==

'''Tactic 1''' – During Fall Quarter, I&E related student organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) organize daylong event celebrating I&E with support from Innovation Enterprise. The event would include I&E topic presentations from campus and guest speakers, activities in the Quad and Centennial Plaza that demonstrate some aspect of I&E (20,000 passions, design thinking crash course, elevator pitch game), and an expo of local entrepreneurs and innovations showing students the work they are doing in the student center.

Projected Timeline

-       Planning during academic year 2017/2018

-       Event occurs during latter half of Fall Quarter 2018

'''Tactic 2 '''– Smaller scale I&E days with one per quarter organized by I&E related organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) with support from Innovation Enterprise. I&E days would include one guest speaker (on campus or from region) and an engagement activity in Quad or Centennial Plaza. Would be less pressure on the organizers and spread out excitement for I&E among quarters instead of once at beginning of year.

Projected Timeline

-       Planning during Winter Quarter 2018

-       Test run during Spring Quarter 2018

-       Refine model and host first official I&E day Fall Quarter 2018

-       Continue each following quarter (excluding Summer Quarter for now)

== '''Strategy #3 - I&E organizations have support from the university''' ==

'''Tactic 1''' – Vocal, financial, resource support from the university (specifically Innovation Enterprise) for I&E organizations like Bulldog Entrepreneurs and Operations Tech (innovation club). The university collaborates with I&E student organizations to gain help in planning and promoting events/curriculum/initiatives on campus thereby including various student perspectives and interest in university planning.

 

== '''Strategy #4 - Support for I&E development after graduation''' ==

'''Tactic 1 '''– Establish “Collaborative Community” group of entrepreneurial students

Support creation and development of a “Collaborative Community” with space on campus for entrepreneurial students to work on startup ideas, collaborate with others working on their own startups, and have opportunity to develop network for after graduation. Ground work for this is already laid with a few students and faculty setting up the vision for this group and first steps towards creation having been taken. Full implementation with university support will allow students on campus to meet and develop their ideas for startups and entrepreneurial skills together.

Projected Timeline

-       Allocate space for students to meet completed

-       Recruit students at different levels of idea development to start the community end of fall quarter 2017

 

'''Tactic 2''' – Mentoring Network between entrepreneurial minded students, alumni, and local business owners

Establish a university sponsored network where students that want to dive into entrepreneurship, alumni that are involved with entrepreneurial activities, and local entrepreneurs can meet, communicate, collaborate, lend resources/expertise, and learn from each other. The individuals with a lot of experience can officially mentor less experienced members meeting online or in person weekly or monthly to strengthen community connection between like-minded people in the region.

Projected Timeline

-       Recruit and logistics planning for network during academic year 2017/2018

-       Soft launch of network to work out bugs and issues fall 2018

-       Pending soft launch is effective, official launch spring quarter 2019

= Related Links =

[[Louisiana Tech University|Louisiana_Tech_University]]

[https://youtu.be/j-ao8DN2w2w https://youtu.be/j-ao8DN2w2w]

'''Fall 2018 UIFs'''

'''[[Lexie Lybrand|Lexie_Lybrand]]'''

'''Fall 2017 UIFs'''

'''[[Ryan Botts|Ryan_Botts]]'''

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Priorities:Louisiana Tech University Student Priorities

2018-10-18T21:41:58Z

Lexielybrand:

= <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 28px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2018 Student Priorities =

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #1 - Freshmen are exposed to I&E ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Incorporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship into the First Year Experience Course

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The FYE 100 course that all freshmen take Fall Quarter is designed to provide application experiences in communication, critical thinking, and collaboration while students engage in university culture. Incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship into the course will enhance their critical thinking and collaboration skills while also introducing them to opportunities and resources available to them on campus.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario – students involved with I&E produce lesson plan (with input from faculty) for one day of instruction in design thinking and what LaTech has to offer for innovation and entrepreneurship ambitions (Thingery, Rawle Center, Top Dog, student organizations). To make the lesson more effective, stagger instruction days so that the I&E students who produced the lesson plan can actually teach the class to the freshmen, showing student leadership in I&E and that a community for it exists on campus.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planning during fall quarter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trail runs in select class during Winter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 2<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Innovation and Entrepreneurship event at orientations during summer.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most freshmen attend one of the orientation session the summer before attending to become familiar and excited about LaTech. Implementing an I&E event they attend during orientation would provide them the opportunity to know about what resources are available and spark their interest before weight of classes and other responsibilities set in during the quarter.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario – students involved with I&E host a demonstration of design thinking in Thingery that orientation groups cycle through. Students receive crash course on the design thinking process, they find out where the Thingery is located, and are given the opportunity to sign up for workshops in the school year and I&E affiliated organizations.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planning during academic year 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trail run during upcoming organizational browse

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Refine and implement during summer of 2019

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #2 - I&E Organizations' significance is better communicated across campus ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Emphasize the importance of joining I&E organizations during a short lesson in the First Year Experience class.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In an attempt to motivate students to become more involved among campus I&E organizations, teachers could teach a lesson on the importance of participating in said organizations. The focus will be on the experience it would provide students and the benefits it would reap for both the students, school, and community.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario- Speakers can come in to testify as to why getting involved in I&E organizations is beneficial to students during both school and later on in life. Teachers can show the different organizations offered, and what each one focuses on. Students can take some sort of “test” based on skills, values, and interests to discover which organization they best fit with.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during Fall Quarter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Trial Run will occur in selected Winter 2018 class

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #3 - Students have opportunity to experience I&E in locations they frequent ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– During Fall Quarter, Innovation Alliance will organize daylong event, or week of smaller events, celebrating I&E with support from Innovation Enterprise. The event would include I&E topic presentations from campus and guest speakers, activities in the Quad and Centennial Plaza that demonstrate some aspect of I&E (20,000 passions, design thinking crash course, elevator pitch game), and an expo of local entrepreneurs and innovations showing students the work they are doing in the student center.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during academic year 2018-2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Event occurs during latter half of Fall Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Smaller scale I&E days with one per quarter organized by Innovation Alliance with support from Innovation Enterprise. I&E days would include one guest speaker (on campus or from region) and an engagement activity in Quad or Centennial Plaza. Would be less pressure on the organizers and spread out excitement for I&E among quarters instead of once at beginning of year.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during Winter Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Test run during Spring Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Refine model and host first official I&E day Fall Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Continue each following quarter (excluding Summer Quarter for now)

  

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #4 - I&E organizations have support from the university ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Vocal, financial, resource support from the university (specifically Innovation Enterprise) for I&E organizations like Bulldog Entrepreneurs and Operations Tech (innovation club). The university collaborates with I&E student organizations to gain help in planning and promoting events/curriculum/initiatives on campus thereby including various student perspectives and interest in university planning.

= 2017 Student Priorities =

== Strategy #1 - Freshmen experience I&E ==

'''Tactic 1''' - Incorporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship into the First Year Experience Course

The FYE 100 course that all freshmen take Fall Quarter is designed to provide application experiences in communication, critical thinking, and collaboration while students engage in university culture. Incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship into the course will enhance their critical thinking and collaboration skills while also introducing them to opportunities and resources available to them on campus.

Possible scenario – students involved with I&E produce lesson plan (with input from faculty) for one day of instruction in design thinking and what LaTech has to offer for innovation and entrepreneurship ambitions (Thingery, Rawle Center, Top Dog, student organizations). To make the lesson more effective, stagger instruction days so that the I&E students who produced the lesson plan can actually teach the class to the freshmen, showing student leadership in I&E and that a community for it exists on campus.

Projected timeline

-        Planning during academic year 2017-2018

-        Trail runs in select classes during Fall 2018

-        Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

'''Tactic 2''' – Innovation and Entrepreneurship event at orientations during summer.

Most freshmen attend one of the orientation session the summer before attending to become familiar and excited about LaTech. Implementing an I&E event they attend during orientation would provide them the opportunity to know about what resources are available and spark their interest before weight of classes and other responsibilities set in during the quarter.

Possible scenario – students involved with I&E host a demonstration of design thinking in Thingery that orientation groups cycle through. Students receive crash course on the design thinking process, they find out where the Thingery is located, and are given the opportunity to sign up for workshops in the school year and I&E affiliated organizations.

Projected timeline

-        Planning during Winter Quarter 2018

-        Trail run during Time out for Tech Spring

-        Refine and implement during summer of 2018

== '''Strategy #2 - Students have opportunity to experience I&E in locations they frequent''' ==

'''Tactic 1''' – During Fall Quarter, I&E related student organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) organize daylong event celebrating I&E with support from Innovation Enterprise. The event would include I&E topic presentations from campus and guest speakers, activities in the Quad and Centennial Plaza that demonstrate some aspect of I&E (20,000 passions, design thinking crash course, elevator pitch game), and an expo of local entrepreneurs and innovations showing students the work they are doing in the student center.

Projected Timeline

-       Planning during academic year 2017/2018

-       Event occurs during latter half of Fall Quarter 2018

'''Tactic 2 '''– Smaller scale I&E days with one per quarter organized by I&E related organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) with support from Innovation Enterprise. I&E days would include one guest speaker (on campus or from region) and an engagement activity in Quad or Centennial Plaza. Would be less pressure on the organizers and spread out excitement for I&E among quarters instead of once at beginning of year.

Projected Timeline

-       Planning during Winter Quarter 2018

-       Test run during Spring Quarter 2018

-       Refine model and host first official I&E day Fall Quarter 2018

-       Continue each following quarter (excluding Summer Quarter for now)

== '''Strategy #3 - I&E organizations have support from the university''' ==

'''Tactic 1''' – Vocal, financial, resource support from the university (specifically Innovation Enterprise) for I&E organizations like Bulldog Entrepreneurs and Operations Tech (innovation club). The university collaborates with I&E student organizations to gain help in planning and promoting events/curriculum/initiatives on campus thereby including various student perspectives and interest in university planning.

 

== '''Strategy #4 - Support for I&E development after graduation''' ==

'''Tactic 1 '''– Establish “Collaborative Community” group of entrepreneurial students

Support creation and development of a “Collaborative Community” with space on campus for entrepreneurial students to work on startup ideas, collaborate with others working on their own startups, and have opportunity to develop network for after graduation. Ground work for this is already laid with a few students and faculty setting up the vision for this group and first steps towards creation having been taken. Full implementation with university support will allow students on campus to meet and develop their ideas for startups and entrepreneurial skills together.

Projected Timeline

-       Allocate space for students to meet completed

-       Recruit students at different levels of idea development to start the community end of fall quarter 2017

 

'''Tactic 2''' – Mentoring Network between entrepreneurial minded students, alumni, and local business owners

Establish a university sponsored network where students that want to dive into entrepreneurship, alumni that are involved with entrepreneurial activities, and local entrepreneurs can meet, communicate, collaborate, lend resources/expertise, and learn from each other. The individuals with a lot of experience can officially mentor less experienced members meeting online or in person weekly or monthly to strengthen community connection between like-minded people in the region.

Projected Timeline

-       Recruit and logistics planning for network during academic year 2017/2018

-       Soft launch of network to work out bugs and issues fall 2018

-       Pending soft launch is effective, official launch spring quarter 2019

= Related Links =

[[Louisiana Tech University|Louisiana_Tech_University]]

'''Fall 2018 UIFs'''

'''[[Lexie Lybrand|Lexie_Lybrand]]'''

'''Fall 2017 UIFs'''

'''[[Ryan Botts|Ryan_Botts]]'''

[[Category:Student Priorities|l]]

Fellow:Lexie Lybrand

2018-10-18T17:59:15Z

Lexielybrand:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Lexie profile pic.jpg|frame|right|Lexie profile pic.jpg]]Lexie Lybrand is a University Innovation Fellow and a sophomore undergraduate student studying Marketing at Louisiana Tech University. Raised in Hot Springs, AR, she wanted to attend college in a new environment that pushed her to step out of her comfort zone while still being close to home. With dreams of eventually opening a business, she plans to build up funding and knowledge for such a venture by working as a Market Research Analyst.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Spending most of her childhood either camping with her family or skiing on the lake, Lexie tries to spend any free time outside- whether that’s playing tennis with friends, hiking mountains in AR, or reading in a hammock. She’s her happiest when surrounded by the people who make her laugh, doing the things that make her smile.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">In the past two years of college, Lexie has organized a school-wide function as a committee head on her campus’s Union Board, co-founded a service and r&d oriented organization called Operations Tech, become a member of Lambda Sigma (a sophomore honor society) and Phi Mu (a panhellenic sorority), and is in the process of starting up a group that will act as a liaison between all student organizations on campus.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Lexie made it one of her main goals (academics aside, of course) to find what she was truly passionate about in life. Through various opportunities and experiences offered to her, she realized that her own passion is helping others find their passions. It’s this reason that she wants to put her UIF focus on building up student awareness of the I&E resources and organizations available to them, and on increasing student interaction with said opportunities.

'''Related Links'''

[[Louisiana Tech University|Louisiana_Tech_University]]

[[Louisiana Tech University Student Priorities|Louisiana_Tech_University_Student_Priorities]]

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Fellow:Lexie Lybrand

2018-10-18T17:57:38Z

Lexielybrand:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Lexie profile pic.jpg|frame|right|Lexie profile pic.jpg]]Lexie Lybrand is a University Innovation Fellow and a sophomore undergraduate student studying Marketing at Louisiana Tech University. Raised in Hot Springs, AR, she wanted to attend college in a new environment that pushed her to step out of her comfort zone while still being close to home. With dreams of eventually opening a business, she plans to build up funding and knowledge for such a venture by working as a Market Research Analyst.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Spending most of her childhood either camping with her family or skiing on the lake, Lexie tries to spend any free time outside- whether that’s playing tennis with friends, hiking mountains in AR, or reading in a hammock. She’s her happiest when surrounded by the people who make her laugh, doing the things that make her smile.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">In the past two years of college, Lexie has organized a school-wide function as a committee head on her campus’s Union Board, co-founded a service and r&d oriented organization called Operations Tech, become a member of Lambda Sigma (a sophomore honor society) and Phi Mu (a panhellenic sorority), and is in the process of starting up a group that will act as a liaison between all student organizations on campus.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Lexie made it one of her main goals (academics aside, of course) to find what she was truly passionate about in life. Through various opportunities and experiences offered to her, she realized that her own passion is helping others find their passions. It’s this reason that she wants to put her UIF focus on building up student awareness of the I&E resources and organizations available to them, and on increasing student interaction with said opportunities.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Related Links

[[Louisiana Tech University|Louisiana_Tech_University]]

[[Louisiana Tech University Student Priorities|Louisiana_Tech_University_Student_Priorities]]

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Priorities:Louisiana Tech University Student Priorities

2018-10-18T17:56:00Z

Lexielybrand:

= <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 28px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2018 Student Priorities =

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #1 - Freshmen are exposed to I&E ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Incorporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship into the First Year Experience Course

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The FYE 100 course that all freshmen take Fall Quarter is designed to provide application experiences in communication, critical thinking, and collaboration while students engage in university culture. Incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship into the course will enhance their critical thinking and collaboration skills while also introducing them to opportunities and resources available to them on campus.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario – students involved with I&E produce lesson plan (with input from faculty) for one day of instruction in design thinking and what LaTech has to offer for innovation and entrepreneurship ambitions (Thingery, Rawle Center, Top Dog, student organizations). To make the lesson more effective, stagger instruction days so that the I&E students who produced the lesson plan can actually teach the class to the freshmen, showing student leadership in I&E and that a community for it exists on campus.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planning during fall quarter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trail runs in select class during Winter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 2<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Innovation and Entrepreneurship event at orientations during summer.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most freshmen attend one of the orientation session the summer before attending to become familiar and excited about LaTech. Implementing an I&E event they attend during orientation would provide them the opportunity to know about what resources are available and spark their interest before weight of classes and other responsibilities set in during the quarter.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario – students involved with I&E host a demonstration of design thinking in Thingery that orientation groups cycle through. Students receive crash course on the design thinking process, they find out where the Thingery is located, and are given the opportunity to sign up for workshops in the school year and I&E affiliated organizations.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planning during academic year 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trail run during upcoming organizational browse

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Refine and implement during summer of 2019

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #2 - I&E Organizations hold a heavier focus ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Emphasize the importance of joining I&E organizations during a short lesson in the First Year Experience class.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In an attempt to motivate students to become more involved among campus I&E organizations, teachers could teach a lesson on the importance of participating in said organizations. The focus will be on the experience it would provide students and the benefits it would reap for both the students, school, and community.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario- Speakers can come in to testify as to why getting involved in I&E organizations is beneficial to students during both school and later on in life. Teachers can show the different organizations offered, and what each one focuses on. Students can take some sort of “test” based on skills, values, and interests to discover which organization they best fit with.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during Fall Quarter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Trial Run will occur in selected Winter 2018 class

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #3 - Students have opportunity to experience I&E in locations they frequent ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– During Fall Quarter, I&E related student organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) organize daylong event, or week of smaller events, celebrating I&E with support from Innovation Enterprise. The event would include I&E topic presentations from campus and guest speakers, activities in the Quad and Centennial Plaza that demonstrate some aspect of I&E (20,000 passions, design thinking crash course, elevator pitch game), and an expo of local entrepreneurs and innovations showing students the work they are doing in the student center.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during academic year 2018-2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Event occurs during latter half of Fall Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Smaller scale I&E days with one per quarter organized by I&E related organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) with support from Innovation Enterprise. I&E days would include one guest speaker (on campus or from region) and an engagement activity in Quad or Centennial Plaza. Would be less pressure on the organizers and spread out excitement for I&E among quarters instead of once at beginning of year.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during Winter Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Test run during Spring Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Refine model and host first official I&E day Fall Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Continue each following quarter (excluding Summer Quarter for now)

  

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #4 - I&E organizations have support from the university ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Vocal, financial, resource support from the university (specifically Innovation Enterprise) for I&E organizations like Bulldog Entrepreneurs and Operations Tech (innovation club). The university collaborates with I&E student organizations to gain help in planning and promoting events/curriculum/initiatives on campus thereby including various student perspectives and interest in university planning.

= 2017 Student Priorities =

== Strategy #1 - Freshmen experience I&E ==

'''Tactic 1''' - Incorporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship into the First Year Experience Course

The FYE 100 course that all freshmen take Fall Quarter is designed to provide application experiences in communication, critical thinking, and collaboration while students engage in university culture. Incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship into the course will enhance their critical thinking and collaboration skills while also introducing them to opportunities and resources available to them on campus.

Possible scenario – students involved with I&E produce lesson plan (with input from faculty) for one day of instruction in design thinking and what LaTech has to offer for innovation and entrepreneurship ambitions (Thingery, Rawle Center, Top Dog, student organizations). To make the lesson more effective, stagger instruction days so that the I&E students who produced the lesson plan can actually teach the class to the freshmen, showing student leadership in I&E and that a community for it exists on campus.

Projected timeline

-        Planning during academic year 2017-2018

-        Trail runs in select classes during Fall 2018

-        Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

'''Tactic 2''' – Innovation and Entrepreneurship event at orientations during summer.

Most freshmen attend one of the orientation session the summer before attending to become familiar and excited about LaTech. Implementing an I&E event they attend during orientation would provide them the opportunity to know about what resources are available and spark their interest before weight of classes and other responsibilities set in during the quarter.

Possible scenario – students involved with I&E host a demonstration of design thinking in Thingery that orientation groups cycle through. Students receive crash course on the design thinking process, they find out where the Thingery is located, and are given the opportunity to sign up for workshops in the school year and I&E affiliated organizations.

Projected timeline

-        Planning during Winter Quarter 2018

-        Trail run during Time out for Tech Spring

-        Refine and implement during summer of 2018

== '''Strategy #2 - Students have opportunity to experience I&E in locations they frequent''' ==

'''Tactic 1''' – During Fall Quarter, I&E related student organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) organize daylong event celebrating I&E with support from Innovation Enterprise. The event would include I&E topic presentations from campus and guest speakers, activities in the Quad and Centennial Plaza that demonstrate some aspect of I&E (20,000 passions, design thinking crash course, elevator pitch game), and an expo of local entrepreneurs and innovations showing students the work they are doing in the student center.

Projected Timeline

-       Planning during academic year 2017/2018

-       Event occurs during latter half of Fall Quarter 2018

'''Tactic 2 '''– Smaller scale I&E days with one per quarter organized by I&E related organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) with support from Innovation Enterprise. I&E days would include one guest speaker (on campus or from region) and an engagement activity in Quad or Centennial Plaza. Would be less pressure on the organizers and spread out excitement for I&E among quarters instead of once at beginning of year.

Projected Timeline

-       Planning during Winter Quarter 2018

-       Test run during Spring Quarter 2018

-       Refine model and host first official I&E day Fall Quarter 2018

-       Continue each following quarter (excluding Summer Quarter for now)

== '''Strategy #3 - I&E organizations have support from the university''' ==

'''Tactic 1''' – Vocal, financial, resource support from the university (specifically Innovation Enterprise) for I&E organizations like Bulldog Entrepreneurs and Operations Tech (innovation club). The university collaborates with I&E student organizations to gain help in planning and promoting events/curriculum/initiatives on campus thereby including various student perspectives and interest in university planning.

 

== '''Strategy #4 - Support for I&E development after graduation''' ==

'''Tactic 1 '''– Establish “Collaborative Community” group of entrepreneurial students

Support creation and development of a “Collaborative Community” with space on campus for entrepreneurial students to work on startup ideas, collaborate with others working on their own startups, and have opportunity to develop network for after graduation. Ground work for this is already laid with a few students and faculty setting up the vision for this group and first steps towards creation having been taken. Full implementation with university support will allow students on campus to meet and develop their ideas for startups and entrepreneurial skills together.

Projected Timeline

-       Allocate space for students to meet completed

-       Recruit students at different levels of idea development to start the community end of fall quarter 2017

 

'''Tactic 2''' – Mentoring Network between entrepreneurial minded students, alumni, and local business owners

Establish a university sponsored network where students that want to dive into entrepreneurship, alumni that are involved with entrepreneurial activities, and local entrepreneurs can meet, communicate, collaborate, lend resources/expertise, and learn from each other. The individuals with a lot of experience can officially mentor less experienced members meeting online or in person weekly or monthly to strengthen community connection between like-minded people in the region.

Projected Timeline

-       Recruit and logistics planning for network during academic year 2017/2018

-       Soft launch of network to work out bugs and issues fall 2018

-       Pending soft launch is effective, official launch spring quarter 2019

= Related Links =

[[Louisiana Tech University|Louisiana_Tech_University]]

'''Fall 2018 UIFs'''

'''[[Lexie Lybrand|Lexie_Lybrand]]'''

'''Fall 2017 UIFs'''

'''[[Ryan Botts|Ryan_Botts]]'''

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= '''Campus Overview''' =

== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Louisiana Tech University offers many opportunities for all of the nearly 13,000 students on campus to explore their interests in innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E). To facilitate open access of I&E resources to all students, the university established the Innovation Enterprise group which is independent of any college on campus as its sole focus is promoting I&E on campus and in the region. One of the most visible projects of Innovation Enterprise is the Thingery, a makerspace on campus that has tools for rapid-prototyping including 3D printers, screen-printing stations, a cnc router, a laser cutter, and more. The Thingery also hosts workshops for all students to learn how to use the tools available and further their skills in design. Another way students can get involved is through a new workshop called Fundamentals for Founders. Being led by local executives with experience, the opportunity is open to the community. In addition to the makerspace, LaTech hosts two idea pitch competitions and a venture championship event every year to help students present their ideas to entrepreneurs in the region and receive the training and feedback necessary to grow those ideas into startups. In the classroom, engineering students are introduced to design thinking and product development during their first years as part of the freshmen “Living with the Lab” course. The business college offers a Bachelors of Arts in Management with a concentration on Entrepreneurship that provides many courses on different aspects of starting a business such as business plan development and human resources management for small businesses. Both engineering students and business students, along with art students, are offered the chance to take “Innovative Product Design”, a course that takes students through the process of forming a startup within a quarter. Engineering and entrepreneurship students can then take a senior design capstone project class where they spend the year in teams taking an idea and creating a startup from that idea. Architecture students have a junior course where they design and construct an architectural structure that solves a need for the local community (for the past few years they have done multiple projects for MedCamps, a non-profit camp for children with disabilities). New to campus is a collaborative space for students with entrepreneurial projects to develop their ideas and work to make them a reality while being able to collaborate and interact with other students working towards similar goals. In addition to university sponsored I&E activities, students are starting to take leadership in progressing I&E on campus through student organizations. An innovation club was started in 2016, and in 2017 the entrepreneurship club has started an attempt to revitalize its engagement with students and grow its presence on campus. Not even established as an official organization yet, the marketing club plans to work with other organizations to help market what they have to offer.

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Louisiana Tech University has many research centers on campus involving faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students that provide opportunities for developing new technologies. Encouraging innovation, establishing technological breakthroughs, and creating economic value for the region are all highly valued by the university and any opportunities to do so are encouraged. Research and economic developments of developed technologies is practiced within the College of Engineering and Science where many professors spend a bulk of their time. Here, they can lead research endeavors or run a side business (often times with their graduate students) that make use of the technologies produced during research. The university has a system in place to retain a percentage of profits from technologies and patents developed with university resources, but it is not so large a percentage that faculty refrain from pursuing further development.

== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ==

LaTech has a technology transfer office called the Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization that is an educational and management resource for faculty and students pursuing patent and licensing paths. It specifically focuses on facilitating the process of faculty assessing the commercial potential of their inventions and discoveries, and then negotiating with industrial partners to get the technology developed into applications that benefit society. There is also a “Tech Transfer and Commercialization” course offered to graduate business and engineering students to educate them on the process of successfully transitioning their intellectual works from the university to the market.

== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==

A few years ago the university broke ground on the Enterprise Campus- a research park on campus whose goal is to utilize the intellectual and research strength of LaTech along with industry partners to bring a wealth of economic development to the region. The centerpiece of the Enterprise Campus is Tech Pointe, a commercial facility located between the College of Engineering and Science and the College of Business that provides leased space to high tech companies and startups who employ students. The arrangement provides companies access to students who are learning the newest and best practices in their fields while the students are able to graduate with multiple years of real world experience. This often sets them apart from other students who have only had academic experiences and summer internships. In addition to the Enterprise Campus, LaTech has invested in and advocated for the development of the National Cyber Research Park in Bossier City (roughly 60 miles away) which is working to develop a knowledge-based workforce as well as technology research and development in the region.

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

Aside from educating students who provide a major economic impact to the region both while in school and after graduating, the main vehicle through which LaTech works towards local and regional economic development is the efforts of the Innovation Enterprise team. LA Tech recently lost funding to a program that provided training, mentorship, and networking opportunities strengthened by local investors and entrepreneurs. To encourage entrepreneurship, the Technology Business Development Center helps with the process of starting, operating, and leaving an innovative business venture. Opened to the region, opportunities are held all throughout Northern Louisiana. On top of help from the community, Louisiana Tech was one of many schools in the region to receive funding from the New Louisiana Angel Fund 2. While it is still a very recent thing, the funding will go to increasing the presence of innovation and entrepreneurship on Tech’s campus.

'''Related Links'''

[[Louisiana Tech University Student Priorities|'''Louisiana_Tech_University_Student_Priorities''']]

'''Fall 2018 UIF'''

'''[[Lexie Lybrand|Lexie_Lybrand]]'''

'''Fall 2017 UIF'''

'''[[Ryan Botts|Ryan_Botts]]'''

=== ===

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= <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 28px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2018 Student Priorities =

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #1 - Freshmen are exposed to I&E ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Incorporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship into the First Year Experience Course

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The FYE 100 course that all freshmen take Fall Quarter is designed to provide application experiences in communication, critical thinking, and collaboration while students engage in university culture. Incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship into the course will enhance their critical thinking and collaboration skills while also introducing them to opportunities and resources available to them on campus.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario – students involved with I&E produce lesson plan (with input from faculty) for one day of instruction in design thinking and what LaTech has to offer for innovation and entrepreneurship ambitions (Thingery, Rawle Center, Top Dog, student organizations). To make the lesson more effective, stagger instruction days so that the I&E students who produced the lesson plan can actually teach the class to the freshmen, showing student leadership in I&E and that a community for it exists on campus.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planning during fall quarter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trail runs in select class during Winter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 2<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Innovation and Entrepreneurship event at orientations during summer.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most freshmen attend one of the orientation session the summer before attending to become familiar and excited about LaTech. Implementing an I&E event they attend during orientation would provide them the opportunity to know about what resources are available and spark their interest before weight of classes and other responsibilities set in during the quarter.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario – students involved with I&E host a demonstration of design thinking in Thingery that orientation groups cycle through. Students receive crash course on the design thinking process, they find out where the Thingery is located, and are given the opportunity to sign up for workshops in the school year and I&E affiliated organizations.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planning during academic year 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trail run during upcoming organizational browse

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Refine and implement during summer of 2019

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #2 - I&E Organizations hold a heavier focus ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Emphasize the importance of joining I&E organizations during a short lesson in the First Year Experience class.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In an attempt to motivate students to become more involved among campus I&E organizations, teachers could teach a lesson on the importance of participating in said organizations. The focus will be on the experience it would provide students and the benefits it would reap for both the students, school, and community.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario- Speakers can come in to testify as to why getting involved in I&E organizations is beneficial to students during both school and later on in life. Teachers can show the different organizations offered, and what each one focuses on. Students can take some sort of “test” based on skills, values, and interests to discover which organization they best fit with.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during Fall Quarter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Trial Run will occur in selected Winter 2018 class

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #3 - Students have opportunity to experience I&E in locations they frequent ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– During Fall Quarter, I&E related student organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) organize daylong event, or week of smaller events, celebrating I&E with support from Innovation Enterprise. The event would include I&E topic presentations from campus and guest speakers, activities in the Quad and Centennial Plaza that demonstrate some aspect of I&E (20,000 passions, design thinking crash course, elevator pitch game), and an expo of local entrepreneurs and innovations showing students the work they are doing in the student center.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during academic year 2018-2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Event occurs during latter half of Fall Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Smaller scale I&E days with one per quarter organized by I&E related organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) with support from Innovation Enterprise. I&E days would include one guest speaker (on campus or from region) and an engagement activity in Quad or Centennial Plaza. Would be less pressure on the organizers and spread out excitement for I&E among quarters instead of once at beginning of year.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during Winter Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Test run during Spring Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Refine model and host first official I&E day Fall Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Continue each following quarter (excluding Summer Quarter for now)

  

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #4 - I&E organizations have support from the university ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Vocal, financial, resource support from the university (specifically Innovation Enterprise) for I&E organizations like Bulldog Entrepreneurs and Operations Tech (innovation club). The university collaborates with I&E student organizations to gain help in planning and promoting events/curriculum/initiatives on campus thereby including various student perspectives and interest in university planning.

= 2017 Student Priorities =

== Strategy #1 - Freshmen experience I&E ==

'''Tactic 1''' - Incorporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship into the First Year Experience Course

The FYE 100 course that all freshmen take Fall Quarter is designed to provide application experiences in communication, critical thinking, and collaboration while students engage in university culture. Incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship into the course will enhance their critical thinking and collaboration skills while also introducing them to opportunities and resources available to them on campus.

Possible scenario – students involved with I&E produce lesson plan (with input from faculty) for one day of instruction in design thinking and what LaTech has to offer for innovation and entrepreneurship ambitions (Thingery, Rawle Center, Top Dog, student organizations). To make the lesson more effective, stagger instruction days so that the I&E students who produced the lesson plan can actually teach the class to the freshmen, showing student leadership in I&E and that a community for it exists on campus.

Projected timeline

-        Planning during academic year 2017-2018

-        Trail runs in select classes during Fall 2018

-        Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

'''Tactic 2''' – Innovation and Entrepreneurship event at orientations during summer.

Most freshmen attend one of the orientation session the summer before attending to become familiar and excited about LaTech. Implementing an I&E event they attend during orientation would provide them the opportunity to know about what resources are available and spark their interest before weight of classes and other responsibilities set in during the quarter.

Possible scenario – students involved with I&E host a demonstration of design thinking in Thingery that orientation groups cycle through. Students receive crash course on the design thinking process, they find out where the Thingery is located, and are given the opportunity to sign up for workshops in the school year and I&E affiliated organizations.

Projected timeline

-        Planning during Winter Quarter 2018

-        Trail run during Time out for Tech Spring

-        Refine and implement during summer of 2018

== '''Strategy #2 - Students have opportunity to experience I&E in locations they frequent''' ==

'''Tactic 1''' – During Fall Quarter, I&E related student organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) organize daylong event celebrating I&E with support from Innovation Enterprise. The event would include I&E topic presentations from campus and guest speakers, activities in the Quad and Centennial Plaza that demonstrate some aspect of I&E (20,000 passions, design thinking crash course, elevator pitch game), and an expo of local entrepreneurs and innovations showing students the work they are doing in the student center.

Projected Timeline

-       Planning during academic year 2017/2018

-       Event occurs during latter half of Fall Quarter 2018

'''Tactic 2 '''– Smaller scale I&E days with one per quarter organized by I&E related organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) with support from Innovation Enterprise. I&E days would include one guest speaker (on campus or from region) and an engagement activity in Quad or Centennial Plaza. Would be less pressure on the organizers and spread out excitement for I&E among quarters instead of once at beginning of year.

Projected Timeline

-       Planning during Winter Quarter 2018

-       Test run during Spring Quarter 2018

-       Refine model and host first official I&E day Fall Quarter 2018

-       Continue each following quarter (excluding Summer Quarter for now)

== '''Strategy #3 - I&E organizations have support from the university''' ==

'''Tactic 1''' – Vocal, financial, resource support from the university (specifically Innovation Enterprise) for I&E organizations like Bulldog Entrepreneurs and Operations Tech (innovation club). The university collaborates with I&E student organizations to gain help in planning and promoting events/curriculum/initiatives on campus thereby including various student perspectives and interest in university planning.

 

== '''Strategy #4 - Support for I&E development after graduation''' ==

'''Tactic 1 '''– Establish “Collaborative Community” group of entrepreneurial students

Support creation and development of a “Collaborative Community” with space on campus for entrepreneurial students to work on startup ideas, collaborate with others working on their own startups, and have opportunity to develop network for after graduation. Ground work for this is already laid with a few students and faculty setting up the vision for this group and first steps towards creation having been taken. Full implementation with university support will allow students on campus to meet and develop their ideas for startups and entrepreneurial skills together.

Projected Timeline

-       Allocate space for students to meet completed

-       Recruit students at different levels of idea development to start the community end of fall quarter 2017

 

'''Tactic 2''' – Mentoring Network between entrepreneurial minded students, alumni, and local business owners

Establish a university sponsored network where students that want to dive into entrepreneurship, alumni that are involved with entrepreneurial activities, and local entrepreneurs can meet, communicate, collaborate, lend resources/expertise, and learn from each other. The individuals with a lot of experience can officially mentor less experienced members meeting online or in person weekly or monthly to strengthen community connection between like-minded people in the region.

Projected Timeline

-       Recruit and logistics planning for network during academic year 2017/2018

-       Soft launch of network to work out bugs and issues fall 2018

-       Pending soft launch is effective, official launch spring quarter 2019

= Related Links =

[[Louisiana Tech University|Louisiana_Tech_University]]

'''Fall 2018 UIFs'''

'''[[Lexie Lybrand|Lexie_Lybrand]]'''

'''Fall 2017 UIFs'''

'''[[Ryan Botts|Ryan_Botts]]'''

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= <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 28px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2018 Student Priorities =

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #1 - Freshmen are exposed to I&E ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Incorporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship into the First Year Experience Course

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The FYE 100 course that all freshmen take Fall Quarter is designed to provide application experiences in communication, critical thinking, and collaboration while students engage in university culture. Incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship into the course will enhance their critical thinking and collaboration skills while also introducing them to opportunities and resources available to them on campus.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario – students involved with I&E produce lesson plan (with input from faculty) for one day of instruction in design thinking and what LaTech has to offer for innovation and entrepreneurship ambitions (Thingery, Rawle Center, Top Dog, student organizations). To make the lesson more effective, stagger instruction days so that the I&E students who produced the lesson plan can actually teach the class to the freshmen, showing student leadership in I&E and that a community for it exists on campus.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planning during fall quarter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trail runs in select class during Winter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 2<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Innovation and Entrepreneurship event at orientations during summer.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most freshmen attend one of the orientation session the summer before attending to become familiar and excited about LaTech. Implementing an I&E event they attend during orientation would provide them the opportunity to know about what resources are available and spark their interest before weight of classes and other responsibilities set in during the quarter.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario – students involved with I&E host a demonstration of design thinking in Thingery that orientation groups cycle through. Students receive crash course on the design thinking process, they find out where the Thingery is located, and are given the opportunity to sign up for workshops in the school year and I&E affiliated organizations.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planning during academic year 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trail run during upcoming organizational browse

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Refine and implement during summer of 2019

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #2 - I&E Organizations hold a heavier focus ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Emphasize the importance of joining I&E organizations during a short lesson in the First Year Experience class.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In an attempt to motivate students to become more involved among campus I&E organizations, teachers could teach a lesson on the importance of participating in said organizations. The focus will be on the experience it would provide students and the benefits it would reap for both the students, school, and community.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario- Speakers can come in to testify as to why getting involved in I&E organizations is beneficial to students during both school and later on in life. Teachers can show the different organizations offered, and what each one focuses on. Students can take some sort of “test” based on skills, values, and interests to discover which organization they best fit with.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during Fall Quarter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Trial Run will occur in selected Winter 2018 class

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #3 - Students have opportunity to experience I&E in locations they frequent ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– During Fall Quarter, I&E related student organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) organize daylong event, or week of smaller events, celebrating I&E with support from Innovation Enterprise. The event would include I&E topic presentations from campus and guest speakers, activities in the Quad and Centennial Plaza that demonstrate some aspect of I&E (20,000 passions, design thinking crash course, elevator pitch game), and an expo of local entrepreneurs and innovations showing students the work they are doing in the student center.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during academic year 2018-2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Event occurs during latter half of Fall Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Smaller scale I&E days with one per quarter organized by I&E related organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) with support from Innovation Enterprise. I&E days would include one guest speaker (on campus or from region) and an engagement activity in Quad or Centennial Plaza. Would be less pressure on the organizers and spread out excitement for I&E among quarters instead of once at beginning of year.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during Winter Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Test run during Spring Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Refine model and host first official I&E day Fall Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Continue each following quarter (excluding Summer Quarter for now)

  

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #4 - I&E organizations have support from the university ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Vocal, financial, resource support from the university (specifically Innovation Enterprise) for I&E organizations like Bulldog Entrepreneurs and Operations Tech (innovation club). The university collaborates with I&E student organizations to gain help in planning and promoting events/curriculum/initiatives on campus thereby including various student perspectives and interest in university planning.

= 2017 Student Priorities =

== Strategy #1 - Freshmen experience I&E ==

'''Tactic 1''' - Incorporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship into the First Year Experience Course

The FYE 100 course that all freshmen take Fall Quarter is designed to provide application experiences in communication, critical thinking, and collaboration while students engage in university culture. Incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship into the course will enhance their critical thinking and collaboration skills while also introducing them to opportunities and resources available to them on campus.

Possible scenario – students involved with I&E produce lesson plan (with input from faculty) for one day of instruction in design thinking and what LaTech has to offer for innovation and entrepreneurship ambitions (Thingery, Rawle Center, Top Dog, student organizations). To make the lesson more effective, stagger instruction days so that the I&E students who produced the lesson plan can actually teach the class to the freshmen, showing student leadership in I&E and that a community for it exists on campus.

Projected timeline

-        Planning during academic year 2017-2018

-        Trail runs in select classes during Fall 2018

-        Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

'''Tactic 2''' – Innovation and Entrepreneurship event at orientations during summer.

Most freshmen attend one of the orientation session the summer before attending to become familiar and excited about LaTech. Implementing an I&E event they attend during orientation would provide them the opportunity to know about what resources are available and spark their interest before weight of classes and other responsibilities set in during the quarter.

Possible scenario – students involved with I&E host a demonstration of design thinking in Thingery that orientation groups cycle through. Students receive crash course on the design thinking process, they find out where the Thingery is located, and are given the opportunity to sign up for workshops in the school year and I&E affiliated organizations.

Projected timeline

-        Planning during Winter Quarter 2018

-        Trail run during Time out for Tech Spring

-        Refine and implement during summer of 2018

== '''Strategy #2 - Students have opportunity to experience I&E in locations they frequent''' ==

'''Tactic 1''' – During Fall Quarter, I&E related student organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) organize daylong event celebrating I&E with support from Innovation Enterprise. The event would include I&E topic presentations from campus and guest speakers, activities in the Quad and Centennial Plaza that demonstrate some aspect of I&E (20,000 passions, design thinking crash course, elevator pitch game), and an expo of local entrepreneurs and innovations showing students the work they are doing in the student center.

Projected Timeline

-       Planning during academic year 2017/2018

-       Event occurs during latter half of Fall Quarter 2018

'''Tactic 2 '''– Smaller scale I&E days with one per quarter organized by I&E related organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) with support from Innovation Enterprise. I&E days would include one guest speaker (on campus or from region) and an engagement activity in Quad or Centennial Plaza. Would be less pressure on the organizers and spread out excitement for I&E among quarters instead of once at beginning of year.

Projected Timeline

-       Planning during Winter Quarter 2018

-       Test run during Spring Quarter 2018

-       Refine model and host first official I&E day Fall Quarter 2018

-       Continue each following quarter (excluding Summer Quarter for now)

== '''Strategy #3 - I&E organizations have support from the university''' ==

'''Tactic 1''' – Vocal, financial, resource support from the university (specifically Innovation Enterprise) for I&E organizations like Bulldog Entrepreneurs and Operations Tech (innovation club). The university collaborates with I&E student organizations to gain help in planning and promoting events/curriculum/initiatives on campus thereby including various student perspectives and interest in university planning.

 

== '''Strategy #4 - Support for I&E development after graduation''' ==

'''Tactic 1 '''– Establish “Collaborative Community” group of entrepreneurial students

Support creation and development of a “Collaborative Community” with space on campus for entrepreneurial students to work on startup ideas, collaborate with others working on their own startups, and have opportunity to develop network for after graduation. Ground work for this is already laid with a few students and faculty setting up the vision for this group and first steps towards creation having been taken. Full implementation with university support will allow students on campus to meet and develop their ideas for startups and entrepreneurial skills together.

Projected Timeline

-       Allocate space for students to meet completed

-       Recruit students at different levels of idea development to start the community end of fall quarter 2017

 

'''Tactic 2''' – Mentoring Network between entrepreneurial minded students, alumni, and local business owners

Establish a university sponsored network where students that want to dive into entrepreneurship, alumni that are involved with entrepreneurial activities, and local entrepreneurs can meet, communicate, collaborate, lend resources/expertise, and learn from each other. The individuals with a lot of experience can officially mentor less experienced members meeting online or in person weekly or monthly to strengthen community connection between like-minded people in the region.

Projected Timeline

-       Recruit and logistics planning for network during academic year 2017/2018

-       Soft launch of network to work out bugs and issues fall 2018

-       Pending soft launch is effective, official launch spring quarter 2019

= Related Links =

'''Fall 2018 UIFs'''

'''[[Lexie Lybrand|Lexie_Lybrand]]'''

'''Fall 2017 UIFs'''

'''[[Ryan Botts|Ryan_Botts]]'''

[[Category:Student Priorities|l]]

School:Louisiana Tech University

2018-10-18T17:50:46Z

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= '''Campus Overview''' =

== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Louisiana Tech University offers many opportunities for all of the nearly 13,000 students on campus to explore their interests in innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E). To facilitate open access of I&E resources to all students, the university established the Innovation Enterprise group which is independent of any college on campus as its sole focus is promoting I&E on campus and in the region. One of the most visible projects of Innovation Enterprise is the Thingery, a makerspace on campus that has tools for rapid-prototyping including 3D printers, screen-printing stations, a cnc router, a laser cutter, and more. The Thingery also hosts workshops for all students to learn how to use the tools available and further their skills in design. Another way students can get involved is through a new workshop called Fundamentals for Founders. Being led by local executives with experience, the opportunity is open to the community. In addition to the makerspace, LaTech hosts two idea pitch competitions and a venture championship event every year to help students present their ideas to entrepreneurs in the region and receive the training and feedback necessary to grow those ideas into startups. In the classroom, engineering students are introduced to design thinking and product development during their first years as part of the freshmen “Living with the Lab” course. The business college offers a Bachelors of Arts in Management with a concentration on Entrepreneurship that provides many courses on different aspects of starting a business such as business plan development and human resources management for small businesses. Both engineering students and business students, along with art students, are offered the chance to take “Innovative Product Design”, a course that takes students through the process of forming a startup within a quarter. Engineering and entrepreneurship students can then take a senior design capstone project class where they spend the year in teams taking an idea and creating a startup from that idea. Architecture students have a junior course where they design and construct an architectural structure that solves a need for the local community (for the past few years they have done multiple projects for MedCamps, a non-profit camp for children with disabilities). New to campus is a collaborative space for students with entrepreneurial projects to develop their ideas and work to make them a reality while being able to collaborate and interact with other students working towards similar goals. In addition to university sponsored I&E activities, students are starting to take leadership in progressing I&E on campus through student organizations. An innovation club was started in 2016, and in 2017 the entrepreneurship club has started an attempt to revitalize its engagement with students and grow its presence on campus. Not even established as an official organization yet, the marketing club plans to work with other organizations to help market what they have to offer.

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Louisiana Tech University has many research centers on campus involving faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students that provide opportunities for developing new technologies. Encouraging innovation, establishing technological breakthroughs, and creating economic value for the region are all highly valued by the university and any opportunities to do so are encouraged. Research and economic developments of developed technologies is practiced within the College of Engineering and Science where many professors spend a bulk of their time. Here, they can lead research endeavors or run a side business (often times with their graduate students) that make use of the technologies produced during research. The university has a system in place to retain a percentage of profits from technologies and patents developed with university resources, but it is not so large a percentage that faculty refrain from pursuing further development.

== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ==

LaTech has a technology transfer office called the Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization that is an educational and management resource for faculty and students pursuing patent and licensing paths. It specifically focuses on facilitating the process of faculty assessing the commercial potential of their inventions and discoveries, and then negotiating with industrial partners to get the technology developed into applications that benefit society. There is also a “Tech Transfer and Commercialization” course offered to graduate business and engineering students to educate them on the process of successfully transitioning their intellectual works from the university to the market.

== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==

A few years ago the university broke ground on the Enterprise Campus- a research park on campus whose goal is to utilize the intellectual and research strength of LaTech along with industry partners to bring a wealth of economic development to the region. The centerpiece of the Enterprise Campus is Tech Pointe, a commercial facility located between the College of Engineering and Science and the College of Business that provides leased space to high tech companies and startups who employ students. The arrangement provides companies access to students who are learning the newest and best practices in their fields while the students are able to graduate with multiple years of real world experience. This often sets them apart from other students who have only had academic experiences and summer internships. In addition to the Enterprise Campus, LaTech has invested in and advocated for the development of the National Cyber Research Park in Bossier City (roughly 60 miles away) which is working to develop a knowledge-based workforce as well as technology research and development in the region.

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

Aside from educating students who provide a major economic impact to the region both while in school and after graduating, the main vehicle through which LaTech works towards local and regional economic development is the efforts of the Innovation Enterprise team. LA Tech recently lost funding to a program that provided training, mentorship, and networking opportunities strengthened by local investors and entrepreneurs. To encourage entrepreneurship, the Technology Business Development Center helps with the process of starting, operating, and leaving an innovative business venture. Opened to the region, opportunities are held all throughout Northern Louisiana. On top of help from the community, Louisiana Tech was one of many schools in the region to receive funding from the New Louisiana Angel Fund 2. While it is still a very recent thing, the funding will go to increasing the presence of innovation and entrepreneurship on Tech’s campus.

'''Related Links'''

'''Fall 2018 UIF'''

'''[[Lexie Lybrand|Lexie_Lybrand]]'''

'''Fall 2017 UIF'''

'''[[Ryan Botts|Ryan_Botts]]'''

=== ===

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Louisiana Tech University

2018-10-18T17:33:10Z

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= '''Campus Overview''' =

== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Louisiana Tech University offers many opportunities for all of the nearly 13,000 students on campus to explore their interests in innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E). To facilitate open access of I&E resources to all students, the university established the Innovation Enterprise group which is independent of any college on campus as its sole focus is promoting I&E on campus and in the region. One of the most visible projects of Innovation Enterprise is the Thingery, a makerspace on campus that has tools for rapid-prototyping including 3D printers, screen-printing stations, a cnc router, a laser cutter, and more. The Thingery also hosts workshops for all students to learn how to use the tools available and further their skills in design. Another way students can get involved is through a new workshop called Fundamentals for Founders. Being led by local executives with experience, the opportunity is open to the community. In addition to the makerspace, LaTech hosts two idea pitch competitions and a venture championship event every year to help students present their ideas to entrepreneurs in the region and receive the training and feedback necessary to grow those ideas into startups. In the classroom, engineering students are introduced to design thinking and product development during their first years as part of the freshmen “Living with the Lab” course. The business college offers a Bachelors of Arts in Management with a concentration on Entrepreneurship that provides many courses on different aspects of starting a business such as business plan development and human resources management for small businesses. Both engineering students and business students, along with art students, are offered the chance to take “Innovative Product Design”, a course that takes students through the process of forming a startup within a quarter. Engineering and entrepreneurship students can then take a senior design capstone project class where they spend the year in teams taking an idea and creating a startup from that idea. Architecture students have a junior course where they design and construct an architectural structure that solves a need for the local community (for the past few years they have done multiple projects for MedCamps, a non-profit camp for children with disabilities). New to campus is a collaborative space for students with entrepreneurial projects to develop their ideas and work to make them a reality while being able to collaborate and interact with other students working towards similar goals. In addition to university sponsored I&E activities, students are starting to take leadership in progressing I&E on campus through student organizations. An innovation club was started in 2016, and in 2017 the entrepreneurship club has started an attempt to revitalize its engagement with students and grow its presence on campus. Not even established as an official organization yet, the marketing club plans to work with other organizations to help market what they have to offer.

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Louisiana Tech University has many research centers on campus involving faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students that provide opportunities for developing new technologies. Encouraging innovation, establishing technological breakthroughs, and creating economic value for the region are all highly valued by the university and any opportunities to do so are encouraged. Research and economic developments of developed technologies is practiced within the College of Engineering and Science where many professors spend a bulk of their time. Here, they can lead research endeavors or run a side business (often times with their graduate students) that make use of the technologies produced during research. The university has a system in place to retain a percentage of profits from technologies and patents developed with university resources, but it is not so large a percentage that faculty refrain from pursuing further development.

== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ==

LaTech has a technology transfer office called the Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization that is an educational and management resource for faculty and students pursuing patent and licensing paths. It specifically focuses on facilitating the process of faculty assessing the commercial potential of their inventions and discoveries, and then negotiating with industrial partners to get the technology developed into applications that benefit society. There is also a “Tech Transfer and Commercialization” course offered to graduate business and engineering students to educate them on the process of successfully transitioning their intellectual works from the university to the market.

== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==

A few years ago the university broke ground on the Enterprise Campus- a research park on campus whose goal is to utilize the intellectual and research strength of LaTech along with industry partners to bring a wealth of economic development to the region. The centerpiece of the Enterprise Campus is Tech Pointe, a commercial facility located between the College of Engineering and Science and the College of Business that provides leased space to high tech companies and startups who employ students. The arrangement provides companies access to students who are learning the newest and best practices in their fields while the students are able to graduate with multiple years of real world experience. This often sets them apart from other students who have only had academic experiences and summer internships. In addition to the Enterprise Campus, LaTech has invested in and advocated for the development of the National Cyber Research Park in Bossier City (roughly 60 miles away) which is working to develop a knowledge-based workforce as well as technology research and development in the region.

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

Aside from educating students who provide a major economic impact to the region both while in school and after graduating, the main vehicle through which LaTech works towards local and regional economic development is the efforts of the Innovation Enterprise team. LA Tech recently lost funding to a program that provided training, mentorship, and networking opportunities strengthened by local investors and entrepreneurs. To encourage entrepreneurship, the Technology Business Development Center helps with the process of starting, operating, and leaving an innovative business venture. Opened to the region, opportunities are held all throughout Northern Louisiana. On top of help from the community, Louisiana Tech was one of many schools in the region to receive funding from the New Louisiana Angel Fund 2. While it is still a very recent thing, the funding will go to increasing the presence of innovation and entrepreneurship on Tech’s campus.

'''Related Links'''

'''Fall 2018 UIF'''

'''[[Lexie Lybrand|Lexie_Lybrand]]'''

'''Fall 2017 UIF'''

'''[[Ryan Botts|Ryan_Botts]]'''

=== ===

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Louisiana Tech University

2018-10-18T17:31:14Z

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= '''Campus Overview''' =

== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Louisiana Tech University offers many opportunities for all of the nearly 13,000 students on campus to explore their interests in innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E). To facilitate open access of I&E resources to all students, the university established the Innovation Enterprise group which is independent of any college on campus as its sole focus is promoting I&E on campus and in the region. One of the most visible projects of Innovation Enterprise is the Thingery, a makerspace on campus that has tools for rapid-prototyping including 3D printers, screen-printing stations, a cnc router, a laser cutter, and more. The Thingery also hosts workshops for all students to learn how to use the tools available and further their skills in design. Another way students can get involved is through a new workshop called Fundamentals for Founders. Being led by local executives with experience, the opportunity is open to the community. In addition to the makerspace, LaTech hosts two idea pitch competitions and a venture championship event every year to help students present their ideas to entrepreneurs in the region and receive the training and feedback necessary to grow those ideas into startups. In the classroom, engineering students are introduced to design thinking and product development during their first years as part of the freshmen “Living with the Lab” course. The business college offers a Bachelors of Arts in Management with a concentration on Entrepreneurship that provides many courses on different aspects of starting a business such as business plan development and human resources management for small businesses. Both engineering students and business students, along with art students, are offered the chance to take “Innovative Product Design”, a course that takes students through the process of forming a startup within a quarter. Engineering and entrepreneurship students can then take a senior design capstone project class where they spend the year in teams taking an idea and creating a startup from that idea. Architecture students have a junior course where they design and construct an architectural structure that solves a need for the local community (for the past few years they have done multiple projects for MedCamps, a non-profit camp for children with disabilities). New to campus is a collaborative space for students with entrepreneurial projects to develop their ideas and work to make them a reality while being able to collaborate and interact with other students working towards similar goals. In addition to university sponsored I&E activities, students are starting to take leadership in progressing I&E on campus through student organizations. An innovation club was started in 2016, and in 2017 the entrepreneurship club has started an attempt to revitalize its engagement with students and grow its presence on campus. Not even established as an official organization yet, the marketing club plans to work with other organizations to help market what they have to offer.

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Louisiana Tech University has many research centers on campus involving faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students that provide opportunities for developing new technologies. Encouraging innovation, establishing technological breakthroughs, and creating economic value for the region are all highly valued by the university and any opportunities to do so are encouraged. Research and economic developments of developed technologies is practiced within the College of Engineering and Science where many professors spend a bulk of their time. Here, they can lead research endeavors or run a side business (often times with their graduate students) that make use of the technologies produced during research. The university has a system in place to retain a percentage of profits from technologies and patents developed with university resources, but it is not so large a percentage that faculty refrain from pursuing further development.

== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ==

LaTech has a technology transfer office called the Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization that is an educational and management resource for faculty and students pursuing patent and licensing paths. It specifically focuses on facilitating the process of faculty assessing the commercial potential of their inventions and discoveries, and then negotiating with industrial partners to get the technology developed into applications that benefit society. There is also a “Tech Transfer and Commercialization” course offered to graduate business and engineering students to educate them on the process of successfully transitioning their intellectual works from the university to the market.

== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==

A few years ago the university broke ground on the Enterprise Campus- a research park on campus whose goal is to utilize the intellectual and research strength of LaTech along with industry partners to bring a wealth of economic development to the region. The centerpiece of the Enterprise Campus is Tech Pointe, a commercial facility located between the College of Engineering and Science and the College of Business that provides leased space to high tech companies and startups who employ students. The arrangement provides companies access to students who are learning the newest and best practices in their fields while the students are able to graduate with multiple years of real world experience. This often sets them apart from other students who have only had academic experiences and summer internships. In addition to the Enterprise Campus, LaTech has invested in and advocated for the development of the National Cyber Research Park in Bossier City (roughly 60 miles away) which is working to develop a knowledge-based workforce as well as technology research and development in the region.

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

Aside from educating students who provide a major economic impact to the region both while in school and after graduating, the main vehicle through which LaTech works towards local and regional economic development is the efforts of the Innovation Enterprise team. LA Tech recently lost funding to a program that provided training, mentorship, and networking opportunities strengthened by local investors and entrepreneurs. To encourage entrepreneurship, the Technology Business Development Center helps with the process of starting, operating, and leaving an innovative business venture. Opened to the region, opportunities are held all throughout Northern Louisiana. On top of help from the community, Louisiana Tech was one of many schools in the region to receive funding from the New Louisiana Angel Fund 2. While it is still a very recent thing, the funding will go to increasing the presence of innovation and entrepreneurship on Tech’s campus.

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Fellow:Lexie Lybrand

2018-10-17T03:49:54Z

Lexielybrand:

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2018-10-17T03:43:12Z

Lexielybrand:

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2018-10-17T03:31:24Z

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Fellow:Lexie Lybrand

2018-10-17T03:29:00Z

Lexielybrand:

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spending most of her childhood either camping with her family or skiing on the lake, Lexie tries to spend any free time outside- whether that’s playing tennis with friends, hiking mountains in AR, or reading in a hammock. She’s her happiest when surrounded by the people who make her laugh, doing the things that make her smile.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lexie made it one of her main goals (academics aside, of course) to find what she was truly passionate about in life. Through various opportunities and experiences offered to her, she realized that her own passion is helping others find their passions. It’s this reason that she wants to put her UIF focus on building up student awareness of the I&E resources and organizations available to them, and on increasing student interaction with said opportunities.

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Fellow:Lexie Lybrand

2018-10-17T03:26:23Z

Lexielybrand:

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Fellow:Lexie Lybrand

2018-10-17T03:24:16Z

Lexielybrand:

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the past two years of college, Lexie has organized a school-wide function as a committee head on her campus’s Union Board, co-founded a service and r&d oriented organization called Operations Tech, become a member of Lambda Sigma (a sophomore honor society) and Phi Mu (a panhellenic sorority), and is in the process of starting up a group that will act as a liaison between all student organizations on campus.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lexie made it one of her main goals (academics aside, of course) to find what she was truly passionate about in life. Through various opportunities and experiences offered to her, she realized that her own passion is helping others find their passions. It’s this reason that she wants to put her UIF focus on building up student awareness of the I&E resources and organizations available to them, and on increasing student interaction with said opportunities.

{{Category: Student Contributors}}

Fellow:Lexie Lybrand

2018-10-17T03:17:34Z

Lexielybrand: Created page with "<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decor..."

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spending most of her childhood either camping with her family or skiing on the lake, Lexie tries to spend any free time outside- whether that’s playing tennis with friends, hiking mountains in AR, or reading in a hammock. She’s her happiest when surrounded by the people who make her laugh, doing the things that make her smile.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the past two years of college, Lexie has organized a school-wide function as a committee head on her campus’s Union Board, co-founded a service and r&d oriented organization called Operations Tech, become a member of Lambda Sigma (a sophomore honor society) and Phi Mu (a panhellenic sorority), and is in the process of starting up a group that will act as a liaison between all student organizations on campus.

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Priorities:Louisiana Tech University Student Priorities

2018-10-05T03:40:37Z

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= <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 28px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2018 Student Priorities =

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #1 - Freshmen are exposed to I&E ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Incorporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship into the First Year Experience Course

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The FYE 100 course that all freshmen take Fall Quarter is designed to provide application experiences in communication, critical thinking, and collaboration while students engage in university culture. Incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship into the course will enhance their critical thinking and collaboration skills while also introducing them to opportunities and resources available to them on campus.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario – students involved with I&E produce lesson plan (with input from faculty) for one day of instruction in design thinking and what LaTech has to offer for innovation and entrepreneurship ambitions (Thingery, Rawle Center, Top Dog, student organizations). To make the lesson more effective, stagger instruction days so that the I&E students who produced the lesson plan can actually teach the class to the freshmen, showing student leadership in I&E and that a community for it exists on campus.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planning during fall quarter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trail runs in select class during Winter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 2<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Innovation and Entrepreneurship event at orientations during summer.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most freshmen attend one of the orientation session the summer before attending to become familiar and excited about LaTech. Implementing an I&E event they attend during orientation would provide them the opportunity to know about what resources are available and spark their interest before weight of classes and other responsibilities set in during the quarter.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario – students involved with I&E host a demonstration of design thinking in Thingery that orientation groups cycle through. Students receive crash course on the design thinking process, they find out where the Thingery is located, and are given the opportunity to sign up for workshops in the school year and I&E affiliated organizations.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trail run during upcoming organizational browse

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">    <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Refine and implement during summer of 2019

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #2 - I&E Organizations hold a heavier focus ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Emphasize the importance of joining I&E organizations during a short lesson in the First Year Experience class.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In an attempt to motivate students to become more involved among campus I&E organizations, teachers could teach a lesson on the importance of participating in said organizations. The focus will be on the experience it would provide students and the benefits it would reap for both the students, school, and community.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible scenario- Speakers can come in to testify as to why getting involved in I&E organizations is beneficial to students during both school and later on in life. Teachers can show the different organizations offered, and what each one focuses on. Students can take some sort of “test” based on skills, values, and interests to discover which organization they best fit with.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during Fall Quarter 2018

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Trial Run will occur in selected Winter 2018 class

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #3 - Students have opportunity to experience I&E in locations they frequent ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– During Fall Quarter, I&E related student organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) organize daylong event, or week of smaller events, celebrating I&E with support from Innovation Enterprise. The event would include I&E topic presentations from campus and guest speakers, activities in the Quad and Centennial Plaza that demonstrate some aspect of I&E (20,000 passions, design thinking crash course, elevator pitch game), and an expo of local entrepreneurs and innovations showing students the work they are doing in the student center.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during academic year 2018-2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Event occurs during latter half of Fall Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Smaller scale I&E days with one per quarter organized by I&E related organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) with support from Innovation Enterprise. I&E days would include one guest speaker (on campus or from region) and an engagement activity in Quad or Centennial Plaza. Would be less pressure on the organizers and spread out excitement for I&E among quarters instead of once at beginning of year.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projected Timeline

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Planning during Winter Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Test run during Spring Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Refine model and host first official I&E day Fall Quarter 2019

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-       Continue each following quarter (excluding Summer Quarter for now)

  

== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 25.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #4 - I&E organizations have support from the university ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Vocal, financial, resource support from the university (specifically Innovation Enterprise) for I&E organizations like Bulldog Entrepreneurs and Operations Tech (innovation club). The university collaborates with I&E student organizations to gain help in planning and promoting events/curriculum/initiatives on campus thereby including various student perspectives and interest in university planning.

= 2017 Student Priorities =

== Strategy #1 - Freshmen experience I&E ==

'''Tactic 1''' - Incorporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship into the First Year Experience Course

The FYE 100 course that all freshmen take Fall Quarter is designed to provide application experiences in communication, critical thinking, and collaboration while students engage in university culture. Incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship into the course will enhance their critical thinking and collaboration skills while also introducing them to opportunities and resources available to them on campus.

Possible scenario – students involved with I&E produce lesson plan (with input from faculty) for one day of instruction in design thinking and what LaTech has to offer for innovation and entrepreneurship ambitions (Thingery, Rawle Center, Top Dog, student organizations). To make the lesson more effective, stagger instruction days so that the I&E students who produced the lesson plan can actually teach the class to the freshmen, showing student leadership in I&E and that a community for it exists on campus.

Projected timeline

-        Planning during academic year 2017-2018

-        Trail runs in select classes during Fall 2018

-        Refine model and fully implement during Fall 2019

'''Tactic 2''' – Innovation and Entrepreneurship event at orientations during summer.

Most freshmen attend one of the orientation session the summer before attending to become familiar and excited about LaTech. Implementing an I&E event they attend during orientation would provide them the opportunity to know about what resources are available and spark their interest before weight of classes and other responsibilities set in during the quarter.

Possible scenario – students involved with I&E host a demonstration of design thinking in Thingery that orientation groups cycle through. Students receive crash course on the design thinking process, they find out where the Thingery is located, and are given the opportunity to sign up for workshops in the school year and I&E affiliated organizations.

Projected timeline

-        Planning during Winter Quarter 2018

-        Trail run during Time out for Tech Spring

-        Refine and implement during summer of 2018

== '''Strategy #2 - Students have opportunity to experience I&E in locations they frequent''' ==

'''Tactic 1''' – During Fall Quarter, I&E related student organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) organize daylong event celebrating I&E with support from Innovation Enterprise. The event would include I&E topic presentations from campus and guest speakers, activities in the Quad and Centennial Plaza that demonstrate some aspect of I&E (20,000 passions, design thinking crash course, elevator pitch game), and an expo of local entrepreneurs and innovations showing students the work they are doing in the student center.

Projected Timeline

-       Planning during academic year 2017/2018

-       Event occurs during latter half of Fall Quarter 2018

'''Tactic 2 '''– Smaller scale I&E days with one per quarter organized by I&E related organizations (Bulldog Entrepreneurs and OpTech) with support from Innovation Enterprise. I&E days would include one guest speaker (on campus or from region) and an engagement activity in Quad or Centennial Plaza. Would be less pressure on the organizers and spread out excitement for I&E among quarters instead of once at beginning of year.

Projected Timeline

-       Planning during Winter Quarter 2018

-       Test run during Spring Quarter 2018

-       Refine model and host first official I&E day Fall Quarter 2018

-       Continue each following quarter (excluding Summer Quarter for now)

== '''Strategy #3 - I&E organizations have support from the university''' ==

'''Tactic 1''' – Vocal, financial, resource support from the university (specifically Innovation Enterprise) for I&E organizations like Bulldog Entrepreneurs and Operations Tech (innovation club). The university collaborates with I&E student organizations to gain help in planning and promoting events/curriculum/initiatives on campus thereby including various student perspectives and interest in university planning.

 

== '''Strategy #4 - Support for I&E development after graduation''' ==

'''Tactic 1 '''– Establish “Collaborative Community” group of entrepreneurial students

Support creation and development of a “Collaborative Community” with space on campus for entrepreneurial students to work on startup ideas, collaborate with others working on their own startups, and have opportunity to develop network for after graduation. Ground work for this is already laid with a few students and faculty setting up the vision for this group and first steps towards creation having been taken. Full implementation with university support will allow students on campus to meet and develop their ideas for startups and entrepreneurial skills together.

Projected Timeline

-       Allocate space for students to meet completed

-       Recruit students at different levels of idea development to start the community end of fall quarter 2017

 

'''Tactic 2''' – Mentoring Network between entrepreneurial minded students, alumni, and local business owners

Establish a university sponsored network where students that want to dive into entrepreneurship, alumni that are involved with entrepreneurial activities, and local entrepreneurs can meet, communicate, collaborate, lend resources/expertise, and learn from each other. The individuals with a lot of experience can officially mentor less experienced members meeting online or in person weekly or monthly to strengthen community connection between like-minded people in the region.

Projected Timeline

-       Recruit and logistics planning for network during academic year 2017/2018

-       Soft launch of network to work out bugs and issues fall 2018

-       Pending soft launch is effective, official launch spring quarter 2019

= Related Links =

<a href="Louisiana%20Tech%20University">Louisiana_Tech_University</a>

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= '''Campus Overview''' =

== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Louisiana Tech University offers many opportunities for all of the nearly 13,000 students on campus to explore their interests in innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E). To facilitate open access of I&E resources to all students, the university established the Innovation Enterprise group which is independent of any college on campus as its sole focus is promoting I&E on campus and in the region. One of the most visible projects of Innovation Enterprise is the Thingery, a makerspace on campus that has tools for rapid-prototyping including 3D printers, screen-printing stations, a cnc router, a laser cutter, and more. The Thingery also hosts workshops for all students to learn how to use the tools available and further their skills in design. Another way students can get involved is through a new workshop called Fundamentals for Founders. Being led by local executives with experience, the opportunity is open to the community. In addition to the makerspace, LaTech hosts two idea pitch competitions and a venture championship event every year to help students present their ideas to entrepreneurs in the region and receive the training and feedback necessary to grow those ideas into startups. In the classroom, engineering students are introduced to design thinking and product development during their first years as part of the freshmen “Living with the Lab” course. The business college offers a Bachelors of Arts in Management with a concentration on Entrepreneurship that provides many courses on different aspects of starting a business such as business plan development and human resources management for small businesses. Both engineering students and business students, along with art students, are offered the chance to take “Innovative Product Design”, a course that takes students through the process of forming a startup within a quarter. Engineering and entrepreneurship students can then take a senior design capstone project class where they spend the year in teams taking an idea and creating a startup from that idea. Architecture students have a junior course where they design and construct an architectural structure that solves a need for the local community (for the past few years they have done multiple projects for MedCamps, a non-profit camp for children with disabilities). New to campus is a collaborative space for students with entrepreneurial projects to develop their ideas and work to make them a reality while being able to collaborate and interact with other students working towards similar goals. In addition to university sponsored I&E activities, students are starting to take leadership in progressing I&E on campus through student organizations. An innovation club was started in 2016, and in 2017 the entrepreneurship club has started an attempt to revitalize its engagement with students and grow its presence on campus. Not even established as an official organization yet, the marketing club plans to work with other organizations to help market what they have to offer.

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Louisiana Tech University has many research centers on campus involving faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students that provide opportunities for developing new technologies. Encouraging innovation, establishing technological breakthroughs, and creating economic value for the region are all highly valued by the university and any opportunities to do so are encouraged. Research and economic developments of developed technologies is practiced within the College of Engineering and Science where many professors spend a bulk of their time. Here, they can lead research endeavors or run a side business (often times with their graduate students) that make use of the technologies produced during research. The university has a system in place to retain a percentage of profits from technologies and patents developed with university resources, but it is not so large a percentage that faculty refrain from pursuing further development.

== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ==

LaTech has a technology transfer office called the Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization that is an educational and management resource for faculty and students pursuing patent and licensing paths. It specifically focuses on facilitating the process of faculty assessing the commercial potential of their inventions and discoveries, and then negotiating with industrial partners to get the technology developed into applications that benefit society. There is also a “Tech Transfer and Commercialization” course offered to graduate business and engineering students to educate them on the process of successfully transitioning their intellectual works from the university to the market.

== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==

A few years ago the university broke ground on the Enterprise Campus- a research park on campus whose goal is to utilize the intellectual and research strength of LaTech along with industry partners to bring a wealth of economic development to the region. The centerpiece of the Enterprise Campus is Tech Pointe, a commercial facility located between the College of Engineering and Science and the College of Business that provides leased space to high tech companies and startups who employ students. The arrangement provides companies access to students who are learning the newest and best practices in their fields while the students are able to graduate with multiple years of real world experience. This often sets them apart from other students who have only had academic experiences and summer internships. In addition to the Enterprise Campus, LaTech has invested in and advocated for the development of the National Cyber Research Park in Bossier City (roughly 60 miles away) which is working to develop a knowledge-based workforce as well as technology research and development in the region.

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

Aside from educating students who provide a major economic impact to the region both while in school and after graduating, the main vehicle through which LaTech works towards local and regional economic development is the efforts of the Innovation Enterprise team. LA Tech recently lost funding to a program that provided training, mentorship, and networking opportunities strengthened by local investors and entrepreneurs. To encourage entrepreneurship, the Technology Business Development Center helps with the process of starting, operating, and leaving an innovative business venture. Opened to the region, opportunities are held all throughout Northern Louisiana. On top of help from the community, Louisiana Tech was one of many schools in the region to receive funding from the New Louisiana Angel Fund 2. While it is still a very recent thing, the funding will go to increasing the presence of innovation and entrepreneurship on Tech’s campus.

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