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Fellow:Peter Bachour

2018-10-18T21:01:30Z

Peter.Bachour: Created page with "<div>Peter Bachour is a University Innovation Fellow and an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Saint Joseph University (USJ). During high school, Peter discove..."

<div>Peter Bachour is a University Innovation Fellow and an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Saint Joseph University (USJ). During high school, Peter discovered his passion for programming. That’s why he decided to enroll as a computer science student. During a two-months internship in Switzerland last summer, he worked with a team on a project with a big car manufacturer where he showed great leadership, analytical and critical skills.</div><div><br/></div><div>From Hadath, Lebanon, Peter is known as a Leader in High School, In fact, he was elected class representative for many years by the students. Moreover, at university, students chose Peter to represent them in the students’ union as student body president.</div><div><br/></div><div>On his campus, he is interested in all kind of conferences and events. In addition, Peter loves to help his classmates with problems they face during their academic year.</div>

Priorities:Saint Joseph University of Beirut Student Priorities

2018-10-04T15:33:17Z

Peter.Bachour:

= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Project 1: Inspiring design thinking</span> =

<span style="font-size:small;">Students do not really seem to know much about I&E especially in their first two years at university. This is why we decided to work on promoting design thinking.</span>

== <span style="color:#808080;">Strategy #1: Campus Information Book</span> ==
<div>The above diagram shows how this information book can be helpful to students on campus. Many graduates managed to become successful entrepreneurs or reached very important positions in big companies. Our information book will include these success stories to help students shape their entrepreneurial mindset and follow the example of the alumni who reached success. Another addition to this book is the contact information of these people; thus, students will have the opportunity to contact them to either learn from them or get helpful information.</div><div><br/></div><div>The second part of this book will include the projects that are being worked on by final year students or the serious hobbyist. This way, potential students will get an idea of what to expect from our campus and current students will get an idea of what is going on around them.</div><div><br/></div><div>Many students also join and win competitions. These students develop complete projects on a higher level. This will push other students to know about competitions in campus and will motivate them to join and develop their entrepreneurial mindset.</div><div><br/></div>
== <span style="color:#808080;">Strategy #2: Organizing Competions on Campus</span> ==
<div>Competitions let students learn project management and teamwork, two essential attributes for every entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs love competition; thus, developing the competiton spirit inside the campus is essential as students will work hard on accomplishing the best project they can possibly do in order to try and win. This process will develop the entrepeneurial mindset for students and will teach them to work hard, work smart and organize their projects</div><div><br/></div>
== <span style="color:#808080;">Strategy #3: UIF entrepreneurial programs</span> ==
<div>Our university plans to join the UIF program permanently. Finding potential UIF students is essential for the continuity of our university in this program to pursue the projects we started working on and developing. This way, these students will get the opportunity of learning from our experience with the program and will get an idea of what we are working on.<br/></div><div>Organizing UIF events and conferences on campus is also essential in order to share our experience with the program and the design thinking skills we </div><div>acquired after completing this program. This will motivate students to join entrepreneursip program to learn and grow.</div><div><br/></div><div>
= <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Project 2: Drinkable Water</span> =

Our long term project consists of making the water drinkable inside our campus. Water is essential for the well-being of students during their long university days, but many students overlook it as drinkable water is either expensive on campus or not available.

Below are the steps we might take to accomplish this project.

=== '''Filtering Tap water'''<br/> ===

The inexpensive way is to install filters for taps to make the water drinkable.

=== '''Installing containers'''<br/> ===

''' '''Putting containers in different locations inside the campus will help us store and distribute drinkable water to many areas of the campus.

=== '''Installing Taps in classrooms '''<br/> ===

In order to bring the water closer to students and push them to drink more, taps have to be installed inside classrooms so students can refill their bottles without walking long distances to the cafeteria or to a container in order to drink.

=== '''Mobile Application'''<br/> ===

 Shows the location of drinkable water taps inside the campus. </div>

= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Project 3: Initiative- Bringing Students Together</span><br/> =

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e1bab8e6-f251-04c2-8c8a-e6a58bd1de95"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1</span></span></span><br/> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Development relationship with established business within the Tri-State area and develop company tours filled with students studying in that industry.</span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e1bab8e6-f251-04c2-8c8a-e6a58bd1de95"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 2</span></span></span><br/> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bring campus culture together along with local businesses in a day filled with showcasing students projects and business partnership with the student-led projects.</span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e1bab8e6-f251-04c2-8c8a-e6a58bd1de95"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 3</span></span></span><br/> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to improve the culture and atmosphere among students and local business, we would partner with local food businesses and food trucks to line up at our campus to provide us authentic treats. This would enhance business near our campus and spice up the current and future events.</span></span>

Priorities:Saint Joseph University of Beirut Student Priorities

2018-10-04T15:32:18Z

Peter.Bachour:

= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Project 1: Inspiring design thinking</span> =

<span style="font-size:small;">Students do not really seem to know much about I&E especially in their first two years at university. This is why we decided to work on promoting design thinking.</span>

== <span style="color:#808080;">Strategy #1: Campus Information Book</span> ==
<div>The above diagram shows how this information book can be helpful to students on campus. Many graduates managed to become successful entrepreneurs or reached very important positions in big companies. Our information book will include these success stories to help students shape their entrepreneurial mindset and follow the example of the alumni who reached success. Another addition to this book is the contact information of these people; thus, students will have the opportunity to contact them to either learn from them or get helpful information.</div><div><br/></div><div>The second part of this book will include the projects that are being worked on by final year students or the serious hobbyist. This way, potential students will get an idea of what to expect from our campus and current students will get an idea of what is going on around them.</div><div><br/></div><div>Many students also join and win competitions. These students develop complete projects on a higher level. This will push other students to know about competitions in campus and will motivate them to join and develop their entrepreneurial mindset.</div><div><br/></div>
== <span style="color:#808080;">Strategy #2: Organizing Competions on Campus</span> ==
<div>Competitions let students learn project management and teamwork, two essential attributes for every entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs love competition; thus, developing the competiton spirit inside the campus is essential as students will work hard on accomplishing the best project they can possibly do in order to try and win. This process will develop the entrepeneurial mindset for students and will teach them to work hard, work smart and organize their projects</div><div><br/></div>
== <span style="color:#808080;">Strategy #3: UIF entrepreneurial programs</span> ==
<div>Our university plans to join the UIF program permanently. Finding potential UIF students is essential for the continuity of our university in this program to pursue the projects we started working on and developing. This way, these students will get the opportunity of learning from our experience with the program and will get an idea of what we are working on.<br/></div><div>Organizing UIF events and conferences on campus is also essential in order to share our experience with the program and the design thinking skills we </div><div>acquired after completing this program. This will motivate students to join entrepreneursip program to learn and grow.</div><div><br/></div><div>
= <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Project 2: Drinkable Water</span> =

Our long term project consists of making the water drinkable inside our campus. Water is essential for the well-being of students during their long university days, but many students overlook it as drinkable water is either expensive on campus or not available.

Below are the steps we might take to accomplish this project.

=== '''Filtering Tap water'''<br/> ===

The inexpensive way is to install filters for taps to make the water drinkable.

=== '''Installing containers'''<br/> ===

''' '''Putting containers in different locations inside the campus will help us store and distribute drinkable water to many areas of the campus.

=== '''Installing Taps in classrooms '''<br/> ===

In order to bring the water closer to students and push them to drink more, taps have to be installed inside classrooms so students can refill their bottles without walking long distances to the cafeteria or to a container in order to drink.

=== '''Mobile Application'''<br/> ===

 Shows the location of drinkable water taps inside the campus. </div>

= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Project 3: Initiative- Bringing Students Together</span><br/> =

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e1bab8e6-f251-04c2-8c8a-e6a58bd1de95"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1:</span></span></span><br/> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Development relationship with established business within the Tri-State area and develop company tours filled with students studying in that industry.</span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e1bab8e6-f251-04c2-8c8a-e6a58bd1de95"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 2:</span></span></span><br/> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bring campus culture together along with local businesses in a day filled with showcasing students projects and business partnership with the student-led projects.</span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e1bab8e6-f251-04c2-8c8a-e6a58bd1de95"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 3:</span></span></span><br/> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to improve the culture and atmosphere among students and local business, we would partner with local food businesses and food trucks to line up at our campus to provide us authentic treats. This would enhance business near our campus and spice up the current and future events.</span></span>

School:Saint Joseph University of Beirut

2018-09-27T16:00:27Z

Peter.Bachour:

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= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">OVERVIEW</span></span> =
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<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">In 1875, Saint Joseph University of Beirut (SJUB) opened its doors primarily for doctoral degrees in philosophy and theology. Over the past century, SJU B kept growing and opened several other campuses throughout Lebanon. Today, it consists of 5 main campuses: Campus of Medical Sciences, Campus of Social Sciences, Campus of Sciences and Technlogy, Campus of Human Sciences, Campus of Innovation and Sports as well as 3 study centers in Lebanon and one in Dubai. These campuses enroll approximatively 12000 students in total. The university is considered to be among the top academic institutions in the Middle-East and encourages Trilinguisme (French, English and Arabic). SJUB ranks high for the quality of its publications.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">In 1913, the campus of  Sciences and Technlogy was founded and later became the higher institute of Engineering in 1948. </span></span>

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= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">PROMOTING STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP</span></span> =
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<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-size:smaller;">Saint Joseph University of Beirut offers a very good encouragment to students and forms them to have an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset through courses, extracurricular clubs and competitions.</span></span></span>
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== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Course Programs'''</span></span></span> ==
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*<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#808080;">'''Entrepreneurship course at ESIB:'''</span><span style="color:#696969;">''' '''</span>The last few years it has increasingly proven that entrepreneurship has more to do with traits and attitudes than knowledge. Starting a business requires high level of vision and guts. This course will present new ways of teaching and learning entrepreneurship that can be used in practical life. It shapes the mind of student to push them to innovate.</span></span>
*<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#808080;">'''Communication and Expression:'''</span><span style="color:#696969;">''' '''</span>Teaches the students unique ways of communicating with others and expressing their thoughts and ideas, two main quality of every successful entrepreneur and innovator.</span></span>
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== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Extracurricular clubs and programs offerings'''</span></span></span> ==
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*<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#808080;">'''Consulting: '''</span>Provides students with networking opportunities and speaker series presentations to the members and different types of mentorships.</span></span>
*<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#808080;">'''Junior Consulting Club: '''</span>Helps students grow as leaders and reinvent new ways to motivate people around them.</span></span>
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== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Competitions'''</span></span></span> ==
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*<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#808080;">'''IAAF Awards: '''</span>Participation of the top athletes in our campus in this competition, as sports allow autonomy, good health and self-growth. These caracteristics are essential to make successful entrepreneurs.</span></span>
*<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#808080;">'''USJ Entrepreneurship Awards & AUF Entrepreneurship Awards: '''</span>Allows students willing to make a change to present their ideas, and the people with the best selected ideas will receive a good amount of money in order to execute their ideas and innovate.</span></span>

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= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">ENCOURAGING FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP</span></span> =
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<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Saint Joseph University of Beirut faculty members are critical to the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus, as they have the required skills and strengths. Innovation inside the campus should start by making courses less lecture-based, as students need to be more involved in order to gain interest in a particular subject. The faculty members have been working on it by imposing new methods to replace lecture-based learning and installing interactive screens in a few classes. However, there is still room for improvement.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Most faculty members are people with important roles in different companies, and some do even own their own succesful company. This is crucial as they offer students a great pool of knowledge and experience in order to help them kickstart their own business with the right entrepreunarial mindset.</span></span>

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= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">ACTIVELY SUPPORTING THE UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION</span></span> =
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<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">On campus, a company called '''Berytech '''is supporting entrepreneurs by funding their innovative ideas and offering professional mentorships and advices. It also offers full-time jobs, part-time jobs and internships for student. This company aims to shape the innovative scene in the region.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''INJAZ Innovation Camp '''is also organized in the campus. It consists of splitting the student into teams, and each team will compete for the most innovative and complete business model. A professional mentor from '''Fransabank '''guides the students during this experience.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Saint Joseph University of Beirut has also contributed into funding businesses with seed money. A few of those businesses are '''Circulaire 331 '''by '''Banque du Liban''', '''BADER '''and '''KAFALAT INNOVATIVE '''by '''KAFALAT'''.</span></span>

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= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">FACILITATING UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION</span></span> =
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<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Saint Joseph University of Beirut collaborates with many companies, and one of them is '''Berytech '''as stated in the section above, located on campus. '''MUREX '''holds a conference once a year in the campus in order to meet and invite potential consultants and developers to join them for interships or for a job.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">The university also offers multiple laboratories on campus in order to conduct reseach and experiments. These laboratories also aim to help students acquire the required technical and logical skills by the modern industry. These laboratories are well equipped, but there is always room for growth as the technology industry is growing at a fast rate. Students are also required to complete lab hours during some courses in order to link the theoretical side learned in class to the practical and technical side.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">The University also has a strong ALUMNI network from which students can benefit during their university years or after graduating.</span></span>

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<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">One of SJUB's main goals is to assist in the economic development of the surrounding area. Offering also regional source of capital, the university has also collaborated into funding different companies.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''ZOOMAAL '''was founded in 2012 and is a company looking to help new arab entrepreneurs launch their startup by funding it.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''WAMDA '''was founded in 2014 and aims to help businesses invest more efficiently.</span></span>

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= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">2018 FALL LANDSCAPE CANVAS: SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT</span></span> =
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<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><u>[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KO85_jCi6BGavwDJLicE_BcabK2I5K33_oUfpQiJBOc/edit#gid=0 GoogleDocs]</u></span></span>

= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">'''Related Links'''</span></span> =

<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><u>[https://www.usj.edu.lb/ USJ]</u></span></span>

<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><u>[http://berytech.org/ BERYTECH]</u></span></span>