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Priorities:University of Maryland College Park Student Priorities

2015-10-20T01:23:31Z

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= The UMD Manifesto =

<span id="docs-internal-guid-61dfc40c-46d7-98cb-5b99-4009dddbf355"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Innovation and entrepreneurship start with empowered students. How might we create this “culture” of innovation and entrepreneurship?</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-61dfc40c-46d7-98cb-5b99-4009dddbf355"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Make it about passion, not start-ups.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-61dfc40c-46d7-98cb-5b99-4009dddbf355"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Starting a venture is a result of an entrepreneur having the passion and initiative to create something out of nothing. The key to having people start companies is not having the push to start them, but to have passionate people pursue their interest and starting a company may just be an outlet for that passion.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-61dfc40c-46d7-98cb-5b99-4009dddbf355"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Make it accessible to all majors, all backgrounds, etc.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-61dfc40c-46d7-98cb-5b99-4009dddbf355"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is imperative to make I&E initiatives as completely interdisciplinary as possible. While traditionally resources are directed to business or engineering students, there is a great sacrifice is the exclusion of other majors. The true breadth of innovation can never be known unless the resources and mentorship is available for people from backgrounds as diverse as their ideas.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-61dfc40c-46d7-98cb-5b99-4009dddbf355"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Make I&E sexy.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-61dfc40c-46d7-98cb-5b99-4009dddbf355"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Something we noticed from comparing I&E programs and taking a more comprehensive at the Stanford d.school innovation programs, we noticed the true feat in getting students into I&E is getting them excited about it. In a world of quick fads with increasingly greater focus on aesthetics, in order for a movement to catch on, it must be appealing in a greater sense. There has to be a brand. People want to follow, join, and create the movement. We don’t want to have to build the entire movement on campus, we want to empower others to create their own. In order to do this, we we need to I&E appealing to college students. At the moment we are thinking of accomplishing this task through creativity and spontaneity. Students will follow something new and different. We will create videos documenting college entrepreneurs, Fearless ideas courses and other resources on campus. If you can live it through your computer, you will be more likely to be a part of it in real life.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-61dfc40c-46d7-98cb-5b99-4009dddbf355"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Make it real-world.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-61dfc40c-46d7-98cb-5b99-4009dddbf355"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Too often students fall prey, as we all do, to going through the motions of life. School, class, and most importantly learning may be routine for many students. There are certain checkboxes you have to check off to get to the next step. In order to combat this redundant feeling when doing schoolwork, we need to have real world applications of the lessons learned in the classroom. When students see what they’re doing in class can actually be applied to something in order to create a real-world effect, they will be able to change the way they think about education. Instead of having class be about passing tests, it can be about learning skills and tools to help take on the world at large.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-61dfc40c-46d7-98cb-5b99-4009dddbf355"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. Make it student-driven.</span></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students must drive the movement. Without having the target market at the center of the programs and initiatives created, we will run the risk of having misplaced resources which would be worse because the people putting the initiatives on would be seen as disconnected.</span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-61dfc40c-46d7-98cb-5b99-4009dddbf355"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. Make it clear why this is important.</span></span>

''<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why do people want I&E to be as big as it is? Why should students care?</span></span>'''''<i><span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></i>'''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There must be a clear dialogue between the university and students. Clarifying intentions will allow people to be more open to the idea and make it their own.</span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We plan on tracking the history of the I&E movement here at Maryland, dating back to Kevin Plank, Sergey Brin, and beyond. It's important we are able to keep the pulse of campus, but also, it's important that we allow student to show off their work. We can do this by creating a "Terpfolio" that showcases all of the great projects (big, and small) that make UMD students proud to be in this environment.</span>

'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-61dfc40c-46df-45f7-2b2d-ab1c9da5a5c0"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. Make it fun! (But seriously, make it fun)</span></span>'''
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I&E can be scary, sometimes. It's daunting to consider the complexities associated with a campus of innovators, but at the end of the day, we feel I&E is a great way to make higher education more engaging and fun. It's not about getting students to create start-ups;''it's about getting students to create.''</span>
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;">How to make UMD I&E:</span><br/> =

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">1. About passion, not start-ups.</span> ==

<u>''' Tactic: TEDx Talks'''</u>

*Raise awareness among students that they, too, can be involved with I & E than by INSPIRING! “Ideas worth spreading”

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">2. Accessible to all.</span> ==

'''Strategy: Raising Perception On-Campus for I & E Opportunities for All'''

'''<u>4-year plan for Entrepreneurship & Innovation</u>'''

<span style="font-size:13px; font-family:Arial; color:#333333; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">This will highlight what we already have and what classes should be offered. We will work to identify and create more interdisciplinary, project-based courses on campus. This is the groundwork for the creation of an interdisciplinary, project-focused major in Entrepreneurship & Innovation.</span>

<u><span style="font-size:13px; font-family:Arial; color:#333333; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline" id="docs-internal-guid-6bbaab3b-ae38-865e-86ab-342348c24ddc">Identify/create more public makerspaces on campus</span></u>

<span style="font-size:13px; font-family:Arial; color:#333333; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Open to students of all majors, lowering the barrier to entry for prototyping an idea</span>. Recent developments include the TAP Building's Rapid Prototyping Lab, the Mckeldin Library's Makerspace, and an initiative on LAUNCH UMD to build more accessible prototyping labs, regardless of level of ability or field of interest.

<u><span style="font-size:13px; font-family:Arial; color:#333333; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline" id="docs-internal-guid-6bbaab3b-ae39-83fd-c009-25ea0c73e732">Central place to get all resources for entrepreneurship/innovation</span></u>

We are currently adapting the Landscape Canvas, as well as working with key university officials from campus, to build a comprehensive entrepreneurship "map" that is interactive and intuitive. This will break down opportunities and resources on campus by type, topic, stage of your idea, etc.

'''<u>Tactic: Design “Tent"</u>'''

ACTIVATING CREATIVITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP THROUGH DESIGN 

*Design Tent events are a chance for students to come together to “play under the same tent” and exchange ideas. Through collaboration that is dynamic, active, and fun, these events aim to generate new interests, raise awareness and energize participants to cross-pollinate ideas. The focus of the January 2014 Design Tent was to re-think our perception of garbage and use materials from local waste streams to design and build prototypes to test entrepreneurial ideas. The value of waste was repurposed into both a process and product that brought together (STEAM) students and exposed them to the innovation process through iterative making and fabrication.  

Team Leader(s):

*Valerie Sherry and Natalya Dikanov with the help of mDIL and Linear Gallery members

Open Positions:

*Contact design.impact.lab@gmail.com if interested in helping to sponsor, coordinate or participate in next Design tent event!

Milestones:

*The first Design Tent event was co-hosted by [mDIL] Maryland Design Impact Lab and the Linear Gallery
*The event was held as a two-day workshop January 22-23, 2014
*Visiting Professionals and Facilitators included International firm, [http://refunc.nl/ REFUNC] and local firm [http://salvagingcreativity.com/ Salvaging Creativity]
*Participants included: 50+ students
*Disciplines involved: Over 16 different disciplines
*A tremendous thank you to our Event Sponsors: Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, the Architecture Department, The Kibel Gallery
*A stopmotion video of some of the event work can be seen at the following link:
*This first Design Tent and REFUNC Workshop was also featured in a student curated Linear Gallery exhibition called ''Transforming Waste''
*''''Upcoming Events:
*<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)">Next Design Tent will be co hosted by the [mDIL] Maryland Design Impact Lab, Rawlings Undergraduate Leadership Program and Books Breaking Borders Innovation Team. </span>
*<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34)">I</span>'''NTERDISCIPLINARY PLAY THROUGH MAKING.'''''''''

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| About Passion, Not Start ups
| <span style="color:#ff0000"><u>'''Yes'''</u></span>
| No
|-
| Accessible to All
| <u style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">'''Yes'''</u>
| No
|-
| Sexy
| Yes
| <u style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">'''No'''</u>
|-
| Real World
| <u style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">'''Yes'''</u>
| No
|-
| Student Driven
| <u style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">'''Yes'''</u>
| No
|-
| Relevant and Important to students
| <u style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">'''Yes'''</u>
| No
|-
| Fun
| <u style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">'''Yes'''</u>
| No<br/>
|}

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">3. Sexy.</span><br/> ==

<u>'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Demo Day</span>'''</u>

This would be an annual Demo Day for all student startups and projects, similar to Y Combinator's Demo Day.

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Real world.</span><br/> ==

'''<span style="font-size: 12px;">Strategy: Create the Platform for Applied Learning & ACTION</span>'''

<u style="font-size: 12px;">'''Tactic: maryland Design Impact Lab [mDIL]'''</u>

Maryland Design Impact Lab [mDIL] is a cross-disciplinary collaborative focused on leveraging the diverse expertise of students and using design-thinking methods to create social change at multiple scales. This student led organization was founded in Fall 2013 and hosted the first “Design Tent” in January 2014. Moving forward, mDIL will host Design Tents throughout each semester at the University of Maryland, College Park. 

School is a time to test, create, experiment and take initiative. [mDIL] attracts students interested in social change facilitated by designing, making, building, prototyping, and entrepreneurship. The organization strives for an environment that fosters creative thinking through design and is open to undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines and years ranging from freshman to Doctoral candidates. 

*'''Who can qualify for membership:''' ANY University of Maryland student.
*'''Member candidate qualities: '''Commitment, curiosity, and critical thinking! It is not only exciting to be activated, as students, to generate ideas, now you have a chance to put those ideas into action, to implement and thereby create impact by following through with an idea and by working with local and global communities to design for users in mind.
*'''Team Leader:''' Valerie Sherry
*'''Contact Information:''' design.impact.lab@gmail.com
*'''Milestones:'''
**Held first "Design Tent" event in January 2014
**Working local communities and organizations such as Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington DC and Strive DC to design for positive social impact. 

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
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| About Passion, Not Start Ups
| <span style="color:#ff0000;">'''<u>Yes</u>'''</span><br/>
| No
|-
| Accessible for All
| <span style="color:#ff0000;">'''<u>Yes</u>'''</span>
| No
|-
| Sexy
| <span style="color:#ff0000;">'''<u>Yes</u>'''</span>
| No
|-
| Real World
| <span style="color:#ff0000;">'''<u>Yes</u>'''</span>
| No
|-
| Student Driven
| <span style="color:#ff0000;">'''<u>Yes</u>'''</span>
| No
|-
| Relevant and Important for Students
| <span style="color:#ff0000;">'''<u>Yes</u>'''</span>
| No
|-
| Fun
| <span style="color:#ff0000;">'''<u>Yes</u>'''</span>
| No
|}

<br/><u>'''Tactic: Winter Term Interdisciplinary EdxIE Applied Course (Engineering, Design Thinking x Innovation Entrepreneurship)'''</u>

*For-credit course and program sparks interest amongst students who may not have the time to “be involved” with entrepreneurship and design thinking during their regular semester.
*Allows students opportunity to gain a design thinking and entrepreneurial mindset and skillset through applied learning.
*Structure of the 15 day course oriented towards design idea incubation, prototypingfabrication and pitching your idea to experienced entrepreneurs for guidance.
*'''Team Leader:''' Open Position

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">5. Student-driven.</span><br/> ==

<u>'''Startup Shell'''</u>

Startup Shell is a student-driven and student-run nonprofit. It's a startup incubator and coworking space - students run the incubator, maintain the space and membership, design its expansion plan, and more.

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">6. Relevant and important to students.</span> ==

<u>'''Tactic: Space Finder/Creater'''</u>

*Maker spaces should and could be available for ALL students! Think of the invention and spark that could happen if we as students knew physical spaces where we could go to test our new ideas.
*Program leverages existing resources and spaces, provide assistance for finding or making physical space for new startups.
*Students search through online platform and mobile app that connects individual students and student groups with available immediate, temporary, short and long-term spaces.
*Program task team would document network of spaces on campus and their availability
*Interface: map interface on the system. If no space exists, students can contact mDIL (Maryland Design Impact Lab) and request a task team to design a temporary flex-space.
*'''Team Leader:''' Open Position
*'''Milestones:'''
**Reach out to University leaders to form a faculty advisory team for this effort
**Create strategic plan for implementation
**Map and categorize existing resources as well as potential physical spaces on campus
**Tie resource data to website and mobile app interface
**Raise Awareness among student body about the tool and its inclusivity!

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">7. Fun!</span> ==

= Resource Synopsis =

*'''Institutional Look: '''The University of Maryland, College Park has a wealth of Innovation and Entrepreneurship resources for students and faculty. The University promotes I&E on campus primarily through course and program offerings in the Smith School of Business, the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, M.TECH within the Clark School of Engineering and most recently with the launch of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 
*'''Lifestyle Look: '''Living Learning Communities offer University of Maryland undergraduates the opportunity to live and surround themselves with academically like-minded faculty and students.
*'''Regional Look:''' University of Maryland, College Park is a regional force for innovation. Our proximity to federal agencies and the nation’s capital allow for strategic partnerships to be formed and high level facilities to be accessible for research and incubation purposes. If you have a start up or a venture and you are in need of funding, tech transfer, high level incubation space or business mentors, the University can bolster your process through its resources, partnerships and connection to the region.
*'''Current Gaps: '''A gap exists in the access for students of all disciplines to apply their skills as entrepreneurs and innovators regardless of whether they come from STEM backgrounds. We hope to increase the cross pollination of ideas and expertise from different disciplines and to empower all students to be innovators.
*'''The UMD future: '''the TIME IS NOW. Let’s get started on building a better I&E Ecosystem at the University of Maryland.
*'''Student Charge:''' Use the resources at hand or create the ones that don’t exist. Be a part of this movement and let the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship ignite inspiration in you as your ideas collide with others at the university to create change!
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== Overview of University of Maryland, College Park Campus Ecosystem ==
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= Other =

The future is bright for the University of Maryland as a leader in Technology, Entrepreneurship, Design and Innovation. Be a catalyst for this movement and push it forward. Maximize your use of the resources available at your university today and create the resources that it lacks!

For questions, comments or suggestions, please email:

atin707@gmail.com

meenuksingh92@gmail.com

valeriesherry3@gmail.com

= Related Links =

[[Valerie Sherry]]

[[Atin Mittra|Atin Mittra]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meenu_Singh Meenu Singh]

[[University of Maryland College Park]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

School:University of Maryland College Park

2015-10-08T22:24:22Z

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= Introduction =

The University of Maryland was founded in 1856 as a land grant institution and the state’s flagship public research university. The University of Maryland, College Park is the largest institution in the University System of Maryland. As of Fall 2013, the University’s undergraduate enrollment was 26,487 and its graduate enrollment totaled 10,500 students. The university offers over 100 undergraduate majors and 120 graduate degrees. The University has strong ties to its region in the greater Washington Metropolitan area, including strong research partnerships with the federal government.

In Princeton Review’s 2014 rankings for the Top 50 Entrepreneurship colleges and business schools, University of Maryland ranked #15 for undergraduate and #16 for graduate schools.

President Wallace D. Loh has committed to support the growth of S.T.E.M. majors, and Innovation and Entrepreneurship. There is clearly momentum to increase the number of start-up companies that emerge from the support of the University’s educational and research-oriented atmosphere. As this process unfolds, the University of Maryland’s entrepreneurial ecosystem provides a myriad of programs to expose students to the skill sets needed to create and pursue innovative and entrepreneurial ventures.

= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

== Centers ==

Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship (R.H. Smith School of Business)

Center for Social Value Creation (R.H. Smith School of Business)

MTECH - Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (A.J. Clark School of Engineering)

National Center for Smart Growth (School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation)

== Formal programs ==

Certificate in Innovation Management

Graduate Certificate in Engineering-Technology Ventures and Innovation

Minor in Technology Entrepreneurship

"Fearless Founders" program (The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship) 

== Courses ==

Courses in Entrepreneurship and Innovation are mainly offered in the college of Engineering and the school of business, though some introductory courses are also available for undergraduates in their freshman or sophomore year. In early 2013, President Loh announced the start of the new Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship which has worked to create mores courses in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for students of all majors.

As of Fall 2014, The University of Maryland, College Park offers the following courses in entrepreneurship to undergraduate students:

'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ANSC236: Equine Business Management</span>'''

'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">AREC306: Farm Management and Sustainable Food Production</span>'''
<div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ARHU439J: Social Activism and Popular Culture</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ENGL398B: Writing for Social Entrepreneurship</span>'''<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ENGL398N: Writing for Non-Profit Organizations</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">CMSC498E: Technology for CS Start-ups</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">CHEM498E: Entrepreneurship in Chemical and Life Sciences</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ENES140: Foundations in Entrepreneurship </span>'''<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ENES141: Introduction to High-Tech Product Development & Marketing  </span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ENES142: Introduction to Innovative Thinking & Creativity</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ENES143: Communication Essentials for Entrepreneurs</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">HEIP100: Entrepreneurship & Innovation Colloquium</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">HEIP143: Foundations in Entrepreneurship & Innovation</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">HEIP144: Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship & Innovation </span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ENES210: Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis & Decision-Making</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">HEIP240: Exploring International Entrepreneurship & Innovation </span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">HEIP241: Social Entrepreneurship Practicum </span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ENES460: Fundamentals of Technology Start-Up Ventures</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ENES461: Advanced Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis in Technology Ventures</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ENES462: Marketing High-Technology Products & Innovations</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ENES463: Strategies for Managing Innovation</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ENES464: International Entrepreneurship & Innovation</span>'''</div></div></div></div><div><br/></div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ENES465: Entrepreneurial Design Thinking</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ENES498: Special Topics in Entrepreneurship </span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">CHEM498E:  Entrepreneurship in Chemical and Life Sciences </span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ENES498P: Corporate Technology Ventures </span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">JOUR455: Media Entrepreneurship</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">PUAF359I: Investing and Leading Social Change: The Art and Science of Philanthropy</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">AGNR301: Sustainability</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">LARC471: Capstone Studio: Community Design</span>'''</div><div><br/></div><div>'''<span style="font-size:smaller;">ARCH403: Architecture Studio IV</span>'''</div><div><br/></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
== Living Learning Programs ==

These programs provide undergraduates with a linked residential and academic experience. It allows students to make connections with faculty and students with similar academic interests outside of the classroom while engaging them in applied learning opportunities.

The nation’s first living learning entrepreneurship program is the Hinman CEOs. Other living learning programs pertaining to innovation and/or entrepreneurship include: Digital Cultures and Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EIP), Integrated Life Sciences, ACES Cybersecurity, Flexus: Women in Engineering, Virtus: Men in Engineering, Gemstone, and CIVICUS.

== Extra Curricular Programs ==

*<u>Innovation Fridays</u> are open to all students regardless of their field of study and are an opportunity to share their ideas with and receive valuable feedback from experienced entrepreneurs.
*[[Www.bootcamp.umd.edu|<u>University of Maryland Technology Startup Bootcamp</u>]] Annual intensive, one-day workshop and networking event on how to launch tech ventures
*[[Www.eoh.umd.edu|<u>Entrepreneur Office Hours</u>]] Free, open office hours for UM students, faculty, staff, and regional entrepreneurs with tech-based startups or ideas
*<u>30 Days of EnTERPreneurship</u> – Within the past few years, the month of April at the University of Maryland has become a month to highlight the innovation that has occurred throughout the campus. The campus becomes filled with examples of ideation and implementation through a series of workshops, competitions and showcases.
*<u>Mpact Week</u>

== Competitions ==

*[http://www.bpc.umd.edu/ University of Maryland $75K Business Plan Competition]: Annual competition for Faculty, Students, and Recent Alumni to vet new tech venture ideas. 
*[http://www.cupidscup.com/ Cupid’s Cup] 
*Pitch Dingman
*Do Good Challenge
*AdVENTURE Challenge: China 
*[http://www.accnrg.org/ ACC Clean Energy Challenge]
*[http://www.bsos.umd.edu/news-events/2013-be-solution-competition Be the Solution Business Plan Challenge]
*[http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/centers-excellence/dingman-center-entrepreneurship China Business Plan Competition]
*[http://bioscienceday.umd.edu/schedule-events/professor-venture-fair Faculty Venture Fair]
*[https://sites.google.com/site/healthcontestumd/ Heal the Turtle]
*[http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/centers-excellence/center-health-information-decision-systems/initiatives-programs/innovate-4 Innovate 4 Healthcare]
*[http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/mobilitycontest/ Mobility Contest]
*[http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/student-life-resources/signature-events/social-enterprise-symposium No Limits Social Impact Pitch Competition]
*[http://www.arch.umd.edu/planning/cfc/CfCteam.html Code for Community Challenge]

== Student-led Groups ==

*mDIL – Maryland Design Impact Lab is a trans-disciplinary student collaborative which leverages the power of diverse expertise colliding in innovative settings to use design-thinking to take ideas to implementation in order to create impact at multiple scales.
*[http://startupshell.org/ Startup Shell] - student-run nonprofit, startup incubator and coworking space for students of any level (undergraduate through PhD).
*[http://bitca.mp Bitcamp] - 750+ student hackathon (part of Major League Hacking)
*[[Entrepreneurship Connector]]- student group that promotes "hands on" entrepreneurship through networking events, an internship program, and by providing free consulting services to undergraduate student start-ups

== Innovation Spaces ==

*Tech Entrepreneur Research and Prototyping (TERP) Startup Laboratory
*Startup Shell fabrication lab and hackerspace
*Terrapin Hackers (Collider is their makerspace)
*"The Garage" (Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
*"The Ideation Room" (Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

== Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

*[[Www.mips.umd.edu|Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program ]]
*[http://www.mtech.umd.edu/faculty.html#sthash.f4y728PN.dpuf Research Funding for Technology Product Development]
*[[Www.va.umd.edu|Venture Accelerator Program]]: Intense, hands-on venture creation assistance for faculty and students
*[[Www.brep.umd.edu|Biotechnology Research and Education Program ]]
*[[Www.tap.umd.edu|Technology Advancement Program ]]
*A Scholars Program for Industry-oriented Research in Engineering ([[Www.aspire.umd.edu|ASPIRE]]) 
*[[Www.mtech.umd.edu/funding/index.html|Funding]]: Numerous sources of funding exist to bolster both faculty and student ventures at various stages of their development

== Research Centers ==

University of Maryland is home to over [http://www.umd.edu/directories/centers.cfm 250 research centers]. 

= University Technology Transfer Function =

The University of Maryland has recently integrated their technology commercialization operations with the University of Maryland, Baltimore in order to combine resources and expertise to yield more startups.

*[http://www.otc.umd.edu/ Office of Tecnology Commercialization]
*[http://www.law.umaryland.edu/programs/iplaw/miplrc/ Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center]: The University of Maryland School of Law assists students and faculty with legal advice and services pertaining to patenting and intellectual property rights. 
*See [http://www.president.umd.edu/policies/docs/IV-320A.pdf this link] for the University of Maryland Intellectual Property Policy

= University-Industry Collaboration =

*SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) Entrepreneurial Consulting Practicum
*[http://bio.maryland.gov/Pages/default.aspx BioMaryland Center]

<br/>'''Incubators, with Wet Lab Space'''

*Association For Entrepreneurial Science (AES)
*Bio Innovation Center - UM Biopark
*Frederick Innovative Technology Center @ Hood
*Frederick Innovative Technology Center @ Monocracy
*Germantown Innovation Center
*Shady Grove Innovation Center
*Technical Innovation Center
*Technology Advancement Program (University of Maryland)

<br/>'''Incubators, No Wet Lab Space'''

*Business and Technology Growth Center at University Town Center
*Chesapeake Innovation Center
*Embassy Business Complex
*Emerging Technology Center - Canton
*Emerging Technology Center - Johns Hopkins Eastern Baltimore
*Garrett Information Enterprise Center
*Higher Education and Applied Technology (HEAT) Center
*Neotech Incubator • Prince George's County Technical Assistance Center
*Rockville Innovation Center
*Salisbury Airport Incubator
*Silver Spring Innovation Center
*Tawes Science/Technology Business Incubator
*Towson University Business Globalization Center
*Wheaton Business Innovation Center
*White Oak Innovation Center

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= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> =

The University of Maryland leverage’s its unique location and proximity to the nation’s capital by forming strategic partnerships with the government as well as regional business networks in order to support the research and ventures of students and faculty.

*DC I-Corps
*Maryland Small Business & Technology Development Center (SBTDC Network)
*Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development
*Greater Baltimore Technology Council
*Technology Council of Maryland
*TEDCO
*Maryland Entrepreneurs Resource List (MERL)
*Maryland Business Incubation Association (MBIA)
*National Business Incubation Association (NBIA)

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= Entrepreneurship Atmosphere  =

We currently rate the University of Maryland as a 9 out of 10 in reference the culture of I&E. The momentum is quickly spreading throughout the campus, however few student-run initiatives currently exist. Otherwise the University is on the fast track to creating widespread regional impact through its venture creation efforts.

= Related Links =

[[University of Maryland College Park Student Priorities]]

[[Valerie Sherry]]

[[Atin Mittra|Atin Mittra]]

[[Meenu Singh|Meenu Singh]]

[[Jordan Greenwald|Jordan Greenwald]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mackenzie_Burnett Mackenzie Burnett]

[[Category:Universities]]

Fellow:Nick Aversano

2015-09-04T01:40:55Z

Nja23:

'''[[File:Nick Aversano.jpg|right|Nick Aversano.jpg]][http://nickaversano.com/ Nick Aversano] '''has always been passionate about education and learning since his public schooling never quite matched up to his independent learning adventures.

He is from northern New Jersey and currently a senior Computer Science major at the University of Maryland. At the University of Maryland, he coaches Design Thinking at the Academy for Innovation and Entrepenurship and is the Director of Mentorship at the Startup Shell, an on-campus student-run non-profit incubator/co-working space. He also ran a few learn-to-code workshops ([http://makesomething.cool/ http://makesomething.cool/]) and created an open-source API for his universities data ([http://umd.io/ http://umd.io/]). He thinks that learning to program is really awesome and is always excited when new people want to give it a whirl.

<div>He started programming in the 4th grade because wanted to make games. He's been playing guitar since 6th grade and has recently started learning piano. While working, he typically jams out to Alternative Rock and Classic Rock. He likes to maintain a beginner's mindset, knowing that if he's not good at something he can work at it to get better.</div><div><br/></div>

Fellow:Nick Aversano

2015-09-04T01:39:49Z

Nja23:

'''[[File:Nick Aversano.jpg|right|Nick Aversano.jpg]][http://nickaversano.com/ Nick Aversano] '''has always been passionate about education and learning since his public schooling never quite matched up to his independent learning adventures.

He is from northern New Jersey and currently a senior Computer Science major at the University of Maryland. At the University of Maryland, he coaches design thinking at the Academy for Innovation and Entrepenurship and is the Director of Mentorship at the Startup Shell, an on-campus student-run non-profit incubator/co-working space. He also ran a few learn-to-code workshops ([http://makesomething.cool/ http://makesomething.cool/]) and created an open-source API for his universities data ([http://umd.io/ http://umd.io/]). He thinks that learning to program is really awesome and is always excited when new people want to give it a whirl.

<div>He started programming in the 4th grade because wanted to make games. He's been playing guitar since 6th grade and has recently started learning piano. While working, he typically jams out to Alternative Rock and Classic Rock. He likes to maintain a beginner's mindset, knowing that if he's not good at something he can work at it to get better.</div><div><br/></div>

Fellow:Nick Aversano

2015-09-04T01:39:25Z

Nja23:

'''[[File:Nick Aversano.jpg|right|Nick Aversano.jpg]]Nick Aversano '''has always been passionate about education and learning since his public schooling never quite matched up to his independent learning adventures.

He is from northern New Jersey and currently a senior Computer Science major at the University of Maryland. At the University of Maryland, he coaches design thinking at the Academy for Innovation and Entrepenurship and is the Director of Mentorship at the Startup Shell, an on-campus student-run non-profit incubator/co-working space. He also ran a few learn-to-code workshops (http://makesomething.cool/) and created an open-source API for his universities data (http://umd.io/). He thinks that learning to program is really awesome and is always excited when new people want to give it a whirl.

<div>He started programming in the 4th grade because wanted to make games. He's been playing guitar since 6th grade and has recently started learning piano. While working, he typically jams out to Alternative Rock and Classic Rock. He likes to maintain a beginner's mindset, knowing that if he's not good at something he can work at it to get better.</div><div><br/></div>

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2015-09-04T01:32:25Z

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