University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-17T00:55:41Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

 

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

== '''Strategy 3: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 4: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

== '''Strategy 5: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 6: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 7: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

 Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 8: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015 Fellows

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-17T00:55:25Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}
 ==

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

== '''Strategy 3: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 4: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

== '''Strategy 5: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 6: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 7: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

 Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 8: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015 Fellows

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:51:06Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

 Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015 Fellows

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:50:16Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

 Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

 

== ==

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015 Fellows

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

School:Wichita State University

2017-02-16T21:46:05Z

Mmoustafa:

== '''Overview''' ==

[[File:WSU LOGO.png|right|250px|WSU LOGO.png]]

Wichita State University is a public research university of 15,000 students located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. In April of 2014, the university established its commitment towards Innovation Campus with the purpose to transform the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship and economic impact. In line with the school’s vision and its multi-disciplinary concept, Wichita State University is starting to offer new avenues to encourage students and faculty to be innovative while attracting industry partners.

Wichita State is committed to break down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results. At the same time, it expects to create an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business, so it could build new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

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

Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is a foundation of Wichita State University’s curriculum and strategic plan. Wichita State holds Kansas’ only entrepreneurship major as well as an entrepreneurship minor for both business and non-business majors, a graduate certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation and an MBA with focus on entrepreneurship. WSU has expanded its degree opportunities by offering an Innovation Design Masters degree, which started Spring 2016. The schools of Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Business, and Engineering are offering courses that incorporate entrepreneurship into the foundations of their curriculum.

Beyond academics, there are several programs encouraging entrepreneurship on campus. Every year students compete in the Shocker New Venture Competition, where winning student groups are awarded startup capital to aid in the launch of their new venture. Students also attend inspirational and informational speaker series focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and design, such as Business Booster Series, Shocker Startup Impact, and Lunch and Learn.

The Wichita State campus is expanding to reflect the innovation and entrepreneurship demands of the economy. In spring of 2017, a new makerspace, located in the Experiential Engineering Building, opened to cater to innovative Wichita State students from all majors and backgrounds. The WSU makerspace has the purpose to be a place where people can meet, collaborate and make things happen – it is part manufacturing plant, part design studio and part garage workshop. It’s a place where creative people of all ages and skill levels have access to sophisticated equipment and training, shared work spaces and a supportive community. 

[[File:EEB Eagle 560.jpg]]

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

Many faculty at Wichita State University identify that the university encourages them to pursue innovation in and out of the classroom.  This is becoming more and more evident through the goals of the university's Strategic Plan. Wichita State University is working towards becoming an innovation university by transforming the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship, and economic impact.

WSU defines the following words as:

'''Innovation''' – Bringing university researchers, students and industry together to share the ideas that will drive change.

'''Applied Learning''' – Breaking down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results.

'''Entrepreneurship '''– Fostering an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business.

'''Economic Impact''' – Creating new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

However, there is a clear sentiment that the incentive system of the university is not in line with promoting innovation through faculty.  Faculty members recognize that the money on campus is in traditional research and building the innovation campus rather than on promoting faculty support of  innovation and entrepreneurship.

An exciting new development is the Brenton Myers Innovation in Engineering Education Award.  The purpose of this award is to provide funds for College of Engineering faculty to introduce new curriculum that is designed to implement innovative and entrepreneurial methods in the classroom.  Although only engineering faculty will have access to these funds, effective strategies that are created by the faculty will be shared with other colleges in the university.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function''' ==

Many faculty and admin feel that the university’s current IP policy generally favors students and promotes innovation. However, a significant portion of the student body and faculty view the IP policy negatively. Wichita State University’s Technology Transfer has been trying to rectify this. For example, they have begun to question the intellectual property agreement and have opened the discussion to students. Some design-based classes lead students to produce academic creations that could easily be patentable. Technology Transfer has made it a point to speak at some of these classes (Senior Design for Engineering). There are even workshops that help students and faculty understand intellectual property and patent law.

Faculty at Wichita State University are passionate about ensuring that students know the copyright and intellectual property policies. In some courses, professors have a lecture dedicated specifically for these topics and offer additional help to students seeking it. The Wichita State University library also offers workshops, guides, and other tools to make this information easily accessible for students.

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

With the creation and building of the new Innovation Campus, WSU is partnering up with some big industry names to bring collaboration and innovation to its new campus. The goal of such partnerships will be to encourage and improve collaboration and innovation between students and professionals in the industry.  The new innovation campus will boast multiple Partnership Buildings where companies will be able to lease space and work with WSU students and faculty. These Partnership Buildings will open up a new line of networking between students and industry to provide internship and job opportunities. At the same time, the companies will be able to provide and fund new research and experimental facilities. As a benefit to them, they will be able to recruit and new talent continuously.

Some of the companies and organizations that have already partnered with WSU include Airbus, NetApp, Applied Technology Acceleration Institute, National Institute of Aviation Research, Tech Mahindra, iTalent Corp, Youth Entrepreneurs, ABI Group, Koch Industries, and others. Airbus, for example, will relocate their engineering center in downtown Wichita to the new Innovation campus. Airbus’ presence on campus will allow them to access research, testing labs, student employees, and faculty expertise quickly and easily. With NIAR already present on the campus, Airbus relocating to the new WSU campus will add to the research centers provided to students. 

Wichita State is working to facilitate university-industry collaboration at a much aggressive pace than in past year due to the need to bring advance research and experimental facilities for students and faculty. The goal is to turn Wichita State into an innovation focused university that is partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry.
'''WSU Innovation Campus Master Plan Walkthrough'''{{#Widget:Youtube|id=QWz_nNS99iM}}
== '''Engaging With Regional & Local Economic Development Efforts''' ==

Campus outreach with specific industries is very strong, some of the industries represented more than others are aerospace, manufacturing, and education. In aerospace the university engages in a mass amount of research for advanced materials, coatings, and general controls design. Wichita hosts the number one industry funded Aerospace research firm in the nation named NIAR (National Institute For Aviation Research). In manufacturing the university has many researchers who specialize in advanced manufacturing and prototyping, most of these resources are being used for Aerospace research. In education the department reaches out to the schools in our community to create better teachers and facilities. Unfortunately not all of the industries are represented in the university's outreach but there is room for improvement.

== '''Landscape Canvas''' ==

'''Google Spreadsheet'''

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/]

'''Google Presentation'''

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/]

== '''Related Links''' ==

'''Wichita State University'''

[[Wichita State University Student Priorities|Wichita State University Student Priorities]]

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

Spring 2016 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

Fall 2015 Fellows

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Wichita State University

2017-02-16T21:44:33Z

Mmoustafa:

== '''Overview''' ==

[[File:WSU LOGO.png|right|250px|WSU LOGO.png]]

Wichita State University is a public research university of 15,000 students located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. In April of 2014, the university established its commitment towards Innovation Campus with the purpose to transform the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship and economic impact. In line with the school’s vision and its multi-disciplinary concept, Wichita State University is starting to offer new avenues to encourage students and faculty to be innovative while attracting industry partners.

Wichita State is committed to break down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results. At the same time, it expects to create an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business, so it could build new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

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

Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is a foundation of Wichita State University’s curriculum and strategic plan. Wichita State holds Kansas’ only entrepreneurship major as well as an entrepreneurship minor for both business and non-business majors, a graduate certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation and an MBA with focus on entrepreneurship. WSU has expanded its degree opportunities by offering an Innovation Design Masters degree, which started Spring 2016. The schools of Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Business, and Engineering are offering courses that incorporate entrepreneurship into the foundations of their curriculum.

Beyond academics, there are several programs encouraging entrepreneurship on campus. Every year students compete in the Shocker New Venture Competition, where winning student groups are awarded startup capital to aid in the launch of their new venture. Students also attend inspirational and informational speaker series focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and design, such as Business Booster Series, Shocker Startup Impact, and Lunch and Learn.

The Wichita State campus is expanding to reflect the innovation and entrepreneurship demands of the economy. In spring of 2017, a new makerspace, located in the Experiential Engineering Building, opened to cater to innovative Wichita State students from all majors and backgrounds. The WSU makerspace has the purpose to be a place where people can meet, collaborate and make things happen – it is part manufacturing plant, part design studio and part garage workshop. It’s a place where creative people of all ages and skill levels have access to sophisticated equipment and training, shared work spaces and a supportive community. 

[[File:EEB Eagle 560.jpg]]

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

Many faculty at Wichita State University identify that the university encourages them to pursue innovation in and out of the classroom.  This is becoming more and more evident through the goals of the university's Strategic Plan. Wichita State University is working towards becoming an innovation university by transforming the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship, and economic impact.

WSU defines the following words as:

'''Innovation''' – Bringing university researchers, students and industry together to share the ideas that will drive change.

'''Applied Learning''' – Breaking down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results.

'''Entrepreneurship '''– Fostering an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business.

'''Economic Impact''' – Creating new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

However, there is a clear sentiment that the incentive system of the university is not in line with promoting innovation through faculty.  Faculty members recognize that the money on campus is in traditional research and building the innovation campus rather than on promoting faculty support of  innovation and entrepreneurship.

An exciting new development is the Brenton Myers Innovation in Engineering Education Award.  The purpose of this award is to provide funds for College of Engineering faculty to introduce new curriculum that is designed to implement innovative and entrepreneurial methods in the classroom.  Although only engineering faculty will have access to these funds, effective strategies that are created by the faculty will be shared with other colleges in the university.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function''' ==

Many faculty and admin feel that the university’s current IP policy generally favors students and promotes innovation. However, a significant portion of the student body and faculty view the IP policy negatively. Wichita State University’s Technology Transfer has been trying to rectify this. For example, they have begun to question the intellectual property agreement and have opened the discussion to students. Some design-based classes lead students to produce academic creations that could easily be patentable. Technology Transfer has made it a point to speak at some of these classes (Senior Design for Engineering). There are even workshops that help students and faculty understand intellectual property and patent law.

Faculty at Wichita State University are passionate about ensuring that students know the copyright and intellectual property policies. In some courses, professors have a lecture dedicated specifically for these topics and offer additional help to students seeking it. The Wichita State University library also offers workshops, guides, and other tools to make this information easily accessible for students.

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

With the creation and building of the new Innovation Campus, WSU is partnering up with some big industry names to bring collaboration and innovation to its new campus. The goal of such partnerships will be to encourage and improve collaboration and innovation between students and professionals in the industry.  The new innovation campus will boast multiple Partnership Buildings where companies will be able to lease space and work with WSU students and faculty. These Partnership Buildings will open up a new line of networking between students and industry to provide internship and job opportunities. At the same time, the companies will be able to provide and fund new research and experimental facilities. As a benefit to them, they will be able to recruit and new talent continuously.

Some of the companies and organizations that have already partnered with WSU include Airbus, NetApp, Applied Technology Acceleration Institute, National Institute of Aviation Research, Tech Mahindra, iTalent Corp, Youth Entrepreneurs, ABI Group, Koch Industries, and others. Airbus, for example, will relocate their engineering center in downtown Wichita to the new Innovation campus. Airbus’ presence on campus will allow them to access research, testing labs, student employees, and faculty expertise quickly and easily. With NIAR already present on the campus, Airbus relocating to the new WSU campus will add to the research centers provided to students. 

Wichita State is working to facilitate university-industry collaboration at a much aggressive pace than in past year due to the need to bring advance research and experimental facilities for students and faculty. The goal is to turn Wichita State into an innovation focused university that is partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry.
'''WSU Innovation Campus Master Plan Walkthrough'''{{#Widget:Youtube|id=QWz_nNS99iM}}
== '''Engaging With Regional & Local Economic Development Efforts''' ==

Campus outreach with specific industries is very strong, some of the industries represented more than others are aerospace, manufacturing, and education. In aerospace the university engages in a mass amount of research for advanced materials, coatings, and general controls design. Wichita hosts the number one industry funded Aerospace research firm in the nation named NIAR (National Institute For Aviation Research). In manufacturing the university has many researchers who specialize in advanced manufacturing and prototyping, most of these resources are being used for Aerospace research. In education the department reaches out to the schools in our community to create better teachers and facilities. Unfortunately not all of the industries are represented in the university's outreach but there is room for improvement.

== '''Landscape Canvas''' ==

'''Google Spreadsheet'''

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/]

'''Google Presentation'''

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/]

== '''Related Links''' ==

'''Wichita State University'''

[[Wichita State University Student Priorities|Wichita State University Student Priorities]]

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

Spring 2016:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

Fall 2015:

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Wichita State University

2017-02-16T21:44:16Z

Mmoustafa:

== '''Overview''' ==

[[File:WSU LOGO.png|right]]

Wichita State University is a public research university of 15,000 students located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. In April of 2014, the university established its commitment towards Innovation Campus with the purpose to transform the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship and economic impact. In line with the school’s vision and its multi-disciplinary concept, Wichita State University is starting to offer new avenues to encourage students and faculty to be innovative while attracting industry partners.

Wichita State is committed to break down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results. At the same time, it expects to create an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business, so it could build new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

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

Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is a foundation of Wichita State University’s curriculum and strategic plan. Wichita State holds Kansas’ only entrepreneurship major as well as an entrepreneurship minor for both business and non-business majors, a graduate certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation and an MBA with focus on entrepreneurship. WSU has expanded its degree opportunities by offering an Innovation Design Masters degree, which started Spring 2016. The schools of Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Business, and Engineering are offering courses that incorporate entrepreneurship into the foundations of their curriculum.

Beyond academics, there are several programs encouraging entrepreneurship on campus. Every year students compete in the Shocker New Venture Competition, where winning student groups are awarded startup capital to aid in the launch of their new venture. Students also attend inspirational and informational speaker series focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and design, such as Business Booster Series, Shocker Startup Impact, and Lunch and Learn.

The Wichita State campus is expanding to reflect the innovation and entrepreneurship demands of the economy. In spring of 2017, a new makerspace, located in the Experiential Engineering Building, opened to cater to innovative Wichita State students from all majors and backgrounds. The WSU makerspace has the purpose to be a place where people can meet, collaborate and make things happen – it is part manufacturing plant, part design studio and part garage workshop. It’s a place where creative people of all ages and skill levels have access to sophisticated equipment and training, shared work spaces and a supportive community. 

[[File:EEB Eagle 560.jpg]]

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

Many faculty at Wichita State University identify that the university encourages them to pursue innovation in and out of the classroom.  This is becoming more and more evident through the goals of the university's Strategic Plan. Wichita State University is working towards becoming an innovation university by transforming the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship, and economic impact.

WSU defines the following words as:

'''Innovation''' – Bringing university researchers, students and industry together to share the ideas that will drive change.

'''Applied Learning''' – Breaking down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results.

'''Entrepreneurship '''– Fostering an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business.

'''Economic Impact''' – Creating new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

However, there is a clear sentiment that the incentive system of the university is not in line with promoting innovation through faculty.  Faculty members recognize that the money on campus is in traditional research and building the innovation campus rather than on promoting faculty support of  innovation and entrepreneurship.

An exciting new development is the Brenton Myers Innovation in Engineering Education Award.  The purpose of this award is to provide funds for College of Engineering faculty to introduce new curriculum that is designed to implement innovative and entrepreneurial methods in the classroom.  Although only engineering faculty will have access to these funds, effective strategies that are created by the faculty will be shared with other colleges in the university.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function''' ==

Many faculty and admin feel that the university’s current IP policy generally favors students and promotes innovation. However, a significant portion of the student body and faculty view the IP policy negatively. Wichita State University’s Technology Transfer has been trying to rectify this. For example, they have begun to question the intellectual property agreement and have opened the discussion to students. Some design-based classes lead students to produce academic creations that could easily be patentable. Technology Transfer has made it a point to speak at some of these classes (Senior Design for Engineering). There are even workshops that help students and faculty understand intellectual property and patent law.

Faculty at Wichita State University are passionate about ensuring that students know the copyright and intellectual property policies. In some courses, professors have a lecture dedicated specifically for these topics and offer additional help to students seeking it. The Wichita State University library also offers workshops, guides, and other tools to make this information easily accessible for students.

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

With the creation and building of the new Innovation Campus, WSU is partnering up with some big industry names to bring collaboration and innovation to its new campus. The goal of such partnerships will be to encourage and improve collaboration and innovation between students and professionals in the industry.  The new innovation campus will boast multiple Partnership Buildings where companies will be able to lease space and work with WSU students and faculty. These Partnership Buildings will open up a new line of networking between students and industry to provide internship and job opportunities. At the same time, the companies will be able to provide and fund new research and experimental facilities. As a benefit to them, they will be able to recruit and new talent continuously.

Some of the companies and organizations that have already partnered with WSU include Airbus, NetApp, Applied Technology Acceleration Institute, National Institute of Aviation Research, Tech Mahindra, iTalent Corp, Youth Entrepreneurs, ABI Group, Koch Industries, and others. Airbus, for example, will relocate their engineering center in downtown Wichita to the new Innovation campus. Airbus’ presence on campus will allow them to access research, testing labs, student employees, and faculty expertise quickly and easily. With NIAR already present on the campus, Airbus relocating to the new WSU campus will add to the research centers provided to students. 

Wichita State is working to facilitate university-industry collaboration at a much aggressive pace than in past year due to the need to bring advance research and experimental facilities for students and faculty. The goal is to turn Wichita State into an innovation focused university that is partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry.
'''WSU Innovation Campus Master Plan Walkthrough'''{{#Widget:Youtube|id=QWz_nNS99iM}}
== '''Engaging With Regional & Local Economic Development Efforts''' ==

Campus outreach with specific industries is very strong, some of the industries represented more than others are aerospace, manufacturing, and education. In aerospace the university engages in a mass amount of research for advanced materials, coatings, and general controls design. Wichita hosts the number one industry funded Aerospace research firm in the nation named NIAR (National Institute For Aviation Research). In manufacturing the university has many researchers who specialize in advanced manufacturing and prototyping, most of these resources are being used for Aerospace research. In education the department reaches out to the schools in our community to create better teachers and facilities. Unfortunately not all of the industries are represented in the university's outreach but there is room for improvement.

== '''Landscape Canvas''' ==

'''Google Spreadsheet'''

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/]

'''Google Presentation'''

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/]

== '''Related Links''' ==

'''Wichita State University'''

[[Wichita State University Student Priorities|Wichita State University Student Priorities]]

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

Spring 2016:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

Fall 2015:

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Wichita State University

2017-02-16T21:43:04Z

Mmoustafa:

== '''Overview''' ==

[[File:WSU LOGO.png|thumb|WSU LOGO.png]]

Wichita State University is a public research university of 15,000 students located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. In April of 2014, the university established its commitment towards Innovation Campus with the purpose to transform the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship and economic impact. In line with the school’s vision and its multi-disciplinary concept, Wichita State University is starting to offer new avenues to encourage students and faculty to be innovative while attracting industry partners.

Wichita State is committed to break down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results. At the same time, it expects to create an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business, so it could build new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

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

Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is a foundation of Wichita State University’s curriculum and strategic plan. Wichita State holds Kansas’ only entrepreneurship major as well as an entrepreneurship minor for both business and non-business majors, a graduate certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation and an MBA with focus on entrepreneurship. WSU has expanded its degree opportunities by offering an Innovation Design Masters degree, which started Spring 2016. The schools of Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Business, and Engineering are offering courses that incorporate entrepreneurship into the foundations of their curriculum.

Beyond academics, there are several programs encouraging entrepreneurship on campus. Every year students compete in the Shocker New Venture Competition, where winning student groups are awarded startup capital to aid in the launch of their new venture. Students also attend inspirational and informational speaker series focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and design, such as Business Booster Series, Shocker Startup Impact, and Lunch and Learn.

The Wichita State campus is expanding to reflect the innovation and entrepreneurship demands of the economy. In spring of 2017, a new makerspace, located in the Experiential Engineering Building, opened to cater to innovative Wichita State students from all majors and backgrounds. The WSU makerspace has the purpose to be a place where people can meet, collaborate and make things happen – it is part manufacturing plant, part design studio and part garage workshop. It’s a place where creative people of all ages and skill levels have access to sophisticated equipment and training, shared work spaces and a supportive community. 

[[File:EEB Eagle 560.jpg]]

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

Many faculty at Wichita State University identify that the university encourages them to pursue innovation in and out of the classroom.  This is becoming more and more evident through the goals of the university's Strategic Plan. Wichita State University is working towards becoming an innovation university by transforming the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship, and economic impact.

WSU defines the following words as:

'''Innovation''' – Bringing university researchers, students and industry together to share the ideas that will drive change.

'''Applied Learning''' – Breaking down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results.

'''Entrepreneurship '''– Fostering an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business.

'''Economic Impact''' – Creating new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

However, there is a clear sentiment that the incentive system of the university is not in line with promoting innovation through faculty.  Faculty members recognize that the money on campus is in traditional research and building the innovation campus rather than on promoting faculty support of  innovation and entrepreneurship.

An exciting new development is the Brenton Myers Innovation in Engineering Education Award.  The purpose of this award is to provide funds for College of Engineering faculty to introduce new curriculum that is designed to implement innovative and entrepreneurial methods in the classroom.  Although only engineering faculty will have access to these funds, effective strategies that are created by the faculty will be shared with other colleges in the university.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function''' ==

Many faculty and admin feel that the university’s current IP policy generally favors students and promotes innovation. However, a significant portion of the student body and faculty view the IP policy negatively. Wichita State University’s Technology Transfer has been trying to rectify this. For example, they have begun to question the intellectual property agreement and have opened the discussion to students. Some design-based classes lead students to produce academic creations that could easily be patentable. Technology Transfer has made it a point to speak at some of these classes (Senior Design for Engineering). There are even workshops that help students and faculty understand intellectual property and patent law.

Faculty at Wichita State University are passionate about ensuring that students know the copyright and intellectual property policies. In some courses, professors have a lecture dedicated specifically for these topics and offer additional help to students seeking it. The Wichita State University library also offers workshops, guides, and other tools to make this information easily accessible for students.

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

With the creation and building of the new Innovation Campus, WSU is partnering up with some big industry names to bring collaboration and innovation to its new campus. The goal of such partnerships will be to encourage and improve collaboration and innovation between students and professionals in the industry.  The new innovation campus will boast multiple Partnership Buildings where companies will be able to lease space and work with WSU students and faculty. These Partnership Buildings will open up a new line of networking between students and industry to provide internship and job opportunities. At the same time, the companies will be able to provide and fund new research and experimental facilities. As a benefit to them, they will be able to recruit and new talent continuously.

Some of the companies and organizations that have already partnered with WSU include Airbus, NetApp, Applied Technology Acceleration Institute, National Institute of Aviation Research, Tech Mahindra, iTalent Corp, Youth Entrepreneurs, ABI Group, Koch Industries, and others. Airbus, for example, will relocate their engineering center in downtown Wichita to the new Innovation campus. Airbus’ presence on campus will allow them to access research, testing labs, student employees, and faculty expertise quickly and easily. With NIAR already present on the campus, Airbus relocating to the new WSU campus will add to the research centers provided to students. 

Wichita State is working to facilitate university-industry collaboration at a much aggressive pace than in past year due to the need to bring advance research and experimental facilities for students and faculty. The goal is to turn Wichita State into an innovation focused university that is partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry.
'''WSU Innovation Campus Master Plan Walkthrough'''{{#Widget:Youtube|id=QWz_nNS99iM}}
== '''Engaging With Regional & Local Economic Development Efforts''' ==

Campus outreach with specific industries is very strong, some of the industries represented more than others are aerospace, manufacturing, and education. In aerospace the university engages in a mass amount of research for advanced materials, coatings, and general controls design. Wichita hosts the number one industry funded Aerospace research firm in the nation named NIAR (National Institute For Aviation Research). In manufacturing the university has many researchers who specialize in advanced manufacturing and prototyping, most of these resources are being used for Aerospace research. In education the department reaches out to the schools in our community to create better teachers and facilities. Unfortunately not all of the industries are represented in the university's outreach but there is room for improvement.

== '''Landscape Canvas''' ==

'''Google Spreadsheet'''

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/]

'''Google Presentation'''

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/]

== '''Related Links''' ==

'''Wichita State University'''

[[Wichita State University Student Priorities|Wichita State University Student Priorities]]

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

Spring 2016:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

Fall 2015:

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Universities]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:41:32Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

 Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

 

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015 Fellows

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:40:10Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

 Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

 

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015 Fellows

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:39:51Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

 Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

 

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015 Fellows

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:39:11Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

 Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

 

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:38:53Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

 Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:37:51Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

 Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:37:33Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

 

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

 

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.
 

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

 Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

 

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:36:47Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

 

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

 

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

 

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.
 

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

 Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

 

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:36:23Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

 

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

 

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.
 

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

 Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

 

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:35:59Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

 

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

 

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.
 

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

 Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:35:45Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

 

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

 

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.
 

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

*Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy
*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.
 
Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:35:30Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

 

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

 

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.
 

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

*Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy
*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

 

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:35:01Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

 

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

 

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.
 

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instill a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behind the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 '''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

*Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy
*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:34:00Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

 

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

 

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.
 

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

 
'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

*Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy
*Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.
*Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.
*Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.
*Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:32:25Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

 

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

 

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis'''

 Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.
 

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:31:52Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

 

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

 Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.

 

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:31:02Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

 

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:29:48Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

 

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:28:43Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

 

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:28:26Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

 

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:27:38Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:26:58Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center; width: 700px;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:26:26Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:25:45Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}
{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}
{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:25:01Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
|}

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:24:25Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 800px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-16T21:24:03Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=7HVqbvKhQd0}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-12T22:33:49Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-12T22:33:33Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

*Organize a fair as part of Welcome Fest
*Departments host tables and promote their available majors & minors
*Faculty interact with students and answer questions
*Invite alumni to represent departments and talk about their beyond school experience

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-12T22:23:55Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-12T22:23:34Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and student's awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-12T22:22:45Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence leadingto higher retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and student's awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-12T22:22:02Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. We can achieve this and more through an unconference. Unconferences are events run by participants. Attendees set the agenda for what’s discussed, lead the sessions and workshops that fill the schedule, and create an environment of innovation and productive discussion. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshmen students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence leadingto higher retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and student's awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-12T22:21:13Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshmen students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence leadingto higher retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and student's awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation (Pilot program)
*Include faculty as participants in team building and ice-breaker events
*Run faculty & student focus groups pertaining to engagement
*Add mini-intros to different fields of study throughout orientation
*Include activity introducing WSU major offerings/resources to orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-12T22:11:07Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshmen students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence leadingto higher retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and student's awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-12T22:10:57Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshmen students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence leadingto higher retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and student's awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation

'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-12T22:10:40Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Tactic #1 Unconference'''

'''Project Lead: Levi Lowe'''

There are no limits to individual creativity given a safe space to work and show off projects/hobbies. I believe that given a space to design in, and a group of individuals to support the mission, a mindset geared towards innovation and entreprenurship can be instilled in each and every one of the individuals that step foot on campus here at WSU. By creating open events geared towards showing off projects and hobbies, I believe that we can instilll a sense of community and support among students and faculty.

Some of the key concepts behing the unconference would be:

*Come and go event scheduled by the participants showcasing.
*Anything goes. Students can show off projects they are working on, sell handmade friendship bracelets, or have a Nintendo Smash Brothers tournament.
*Student organizations could host tables showcasing their groups.
*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.
*Possibly invite community business leaders to judge/sponsor entrepreneurship ideas.

'''Tactic #2: TEDx Events'''

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshmen students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence leadingto higher retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and student's awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1: Engaging Faculty in Freshman Student Orientation'''

*Invite introductory course faculty to attend lunch & dinner with students during orientation
'''Initiative #2: Welcome Week Majors Fair'''

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-12T21:51:43Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshmen students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence leadingto higher retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and student's awareness of university offerings.

'''Initiative #1'''

'''Initiative #2'''

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-12T21:44:28Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

'''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates we had the opportunity to interview freshmen students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first year drop off'. Another very useful startegy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is faculty-student engagement outside of class. 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-12T21:22:24Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Many of these students come into college with these doubts and 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-12T21:19:14Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

One of the main problems facing first year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. 

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]

Priorities:Wichita State University Student Priorities

2017-02-12T20:11:01Z

Mmoustafa:

= '''Wichita State University''' =

== '''Project Pitch Videos''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EzvlQpToCYk}}
| style="text-align: center;" | {{#Widget:Youtube|id=KDx7N0bmxls}}
|}

== '''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''  ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Creating a more family friendly campus environment by the addition of drop in daycares and mothers rooms 

With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs. 

'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''

Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Mindset early on. 

Freshman are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to 

1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.

2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and encouragment.

3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)

To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:

*Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.
*Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.
*Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)

Tactic #3: Create More Hangout Spaces for Students to "Lounge" In

Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will 

1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement it

2) Create an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State

To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to

*Start the club and do everything that goes with that process.  
*Find funding/support from companies and the university.
*Fundraise
*Advertise

== '''Strategy 2: Alter the campus culture through curriculum''' ==

'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''

Tactic #1: Design thinking pop up classes. 

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions. 

'''Project Lead: Kevin Kraus'''

Tactic #1: Introduce students to design courses early on.

Selected Topics in Design is an aerospace engineering course that offers sophomore and junior honors students the opportunity to work side-by-side with the aerospace engineering students enrolled in their senior design course.  Creating parallel courses in the other engineering departments would help form a foundation in design earlier on in a student’s academic career.

*Speak with faculty of senior design courses to gauge feasibility 
*Discuss the option of these courses fulfilling Engineer of 2020 requirement 
*Create first revision of curriculum 
*Begin offering these courses

Tactic #2: Offer interdisciplinary design courses.

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of how their majors interact with other majors in the business world.  A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed.  This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

*Find a faculty member interested in teaching the course
*Determine if this course could satisfy senior design requirements
*Identify community businesses interested in a partnership
*Create first revision of curriculum
*Begin offering the course

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez and LaRissa Lawrie'''

Tactic #3: Rethinking Senior Design Courses

*Interdisciplinary Senior Design Teams:

Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design and publicity. The combinations are limitless.

*Involving Employers

Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides benefits to both side. Students have the chance to obtain real world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future. 

*Workshops to help Senior Design students

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester. 

'''Overview:'''

As one fo the the leading contributers to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to their education. 

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereince. 

== '''Strategy 3: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' ==

'''Project Lead: Hannah Hund'''

'''Team: LaRissa Lawrie, Wesley Alexis'''

Tactic #1: Connect ICT

[[File:12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg|thumb|12719342 1651546498441839 7502236181105147750 o.jpg]]

Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

Tactic #2: Shocker Startup Impact

[[File:Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg|thumb|Shocker Startup Logo Cropped.jpg]]

The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living learning community at Wichita State.
<div> </div>
Tactic #3: Pitch and Presentation Competitions

Shocker Startup will host pitch and presentation competitions to give students the experience and practice they need to create startups.  Encouraging community members and industry to be judges will help to further bind the relationship between Wichita State students and the community.

Tactic #4: Partner with Center for Entrepreneurship Forum Series<o:p></o:p>

Shocker Startup will partner with the Wichita State Center for Entrepreneurship to get more students interested in Entrepreneurship. The next series will be part of Shocker Startup to further promote the relationship between the students, community, and university.  <o:p></o:p>

== '''Strategy 4: Develop legal competency and security for designers and creatives''' ==

'''Project Lead: Wesley Alexis''' Tactic 1: Offer courses on patent law.

*Assess student need by survey.                                                                    
*Assess and constructively critique current IP and  legal services at WSU
*Find faculty and department interested in teaching.                                     
*Use student, faculty, and legal feedback to develop the curriculum.                        
*Offer the course.                                                                                            

 Tactic 2: Employ external legal counsel

*Compile a list of law firms not on retainer to WSU.                                       
*Of these firms, seek either probono or funding for a legal counsel.             
*Establish a connection for direct designer/creative-legal counsel.                

 Tactic 3: Offer legal workshops for young entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives.

*Contact Business Booster & Tech Transfer’s directors.                               
*Analyze “customer” perspective and surveys.                                                         
*Develop engaging and informative workshops.                                            
*Offer workshops.

== '''Strategy 5: Innovation Central Network''' ==

'''Project Lead: Austin Crane'''

 Connecting students with students or students with resources is the biggest problem with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

 Short term tactics:

*poll students and see what the need is for resources and founding members
*poll current startups from the community that have found success and failure and see what could have helped them in the early stage of their startup
*create a minimum viable product with a local startup

Long term tactics:

*look at marketing to a global audience
*implement it in other universities
*create an app?
*create a network within ACE or other organizations

The following link directs to the online environment previously mentioned:

[http://thestartuphq.com/ http://thestartuphq.com/]

== '''Strategy 6: Improve and Initiate New Avenues of Inspiration and Innovation''' ==

'''Project Lead: Saad Syed''' 

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Interview students of all discipline to gather data on ideas and topics for TedX event.

-          Research logistics of hosting TedX and similar events.

-          Engage administration to help facilitate event.

Long Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

-          Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting event each year.

-          Develop plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout school year.

== '''Strategy 7: WSU Ignite, an event that will excite students about innovation and familiarize them with the innovation and entrepreneurship resources that surround them''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Jocelyn Galicia'''

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short Term Tactics:

*Gather a minimum of  500 survey responses to demonstrate a need for an event such as this. 
**Survey Link: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EFe1cuAQdntrcnvTi3dU6n_lPSL8wPEgYhI-_JzxCTg/viewform]
*Acquire a minimum of 1000 petition signatures.
*Seek out sponsor support
*Create a presentation for the proposition of the event
*Have the event approved by WSU stakeholders
*Seek out a group of motivated individuals to assist in event planning.
*Sign up volunteers for the event
*Create marketing materials
*Plan out logistics and itinerary

Long Term Tactics:

*Begin planning for the next year
*Gather feedback from attendees to improve event
*Create a committee and assign roles to ensure the event is held for years to come.

== '''Strategy 8: Increasing First Year Student Retention''' ==

 '''Project Lead: Mohamed Moustafa'''

= Related Links =

[[Wichita State University|Wichita State University]]

'''Wichita State University Student Priorities'''

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

Spring 2017

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

Spring 2016

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

Fall 2015

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|W]]