School:Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering

2017-09-26T15:59:19Z

Shruthi co:

= Overview =
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            '''“The best way to predict your future is to create it” ,''' this adage is  heartfully believed by the founders of “'''Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering”. '''Showing best path to the students from darkness towards brightness by providing education was started by SV Colleges since ages. SV Colleges laid its first brick in 1981. The journey in the stream of education since 1981 lead to the establishment of many colleges under the name SV Colleges. Colleges under this  are [[File:SvCOLLEGES.jpg]]

*Sri Venkateswara Degree College (SVDC) , Kadapa (dist.)
*Sri Venkateswara College Engineering (SVCE), Tirupati
*Sri Venkateswara Engineering college for Women (SVEW), Tirupati
*Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering , Kadapa (SVCK), Kadapa(dist)

 

        Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering (SVCE) is in Tirupathi, Chittoor dist. It is located in a 438213.6 square feet. To get the google map location . Chairman of SVCE is '''A.Gangi Reddy '''and principal is '''Dr.N.Sudhakar Reddy'''. SVCE trains students for undergraduate and post graduate for engineering, awarding B.Tech and M..Tech degrees along with it it also offer MBA and MCA courses from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur (JNTUA). It’s aim is - become a leader in providing quality educational services and create value by offering superior educational programs, supported by exceptional service, and delivered with integrity.

= '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' =
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                    The main motto of one of the most famous colleges in Andhra Pradesh state  “Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering”[[File:Svce.jpg|thumb]] is ‘'''EDUCATION FOR A BETTER SOCIETY'''’. To prove this in action, SV colleges has introduced and continuing many number of programs that drive the ideology of students towards Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

                     SV college yearly conducts '''‘AMPLE’ - A National level technical symposium''', for moulding the student’s mindset towards technical aspects and to come up with new ideas. This symposium includes many events like paper presentations on recent trends in technology, Project expo, poster presentations and many more competitions which makes enhancing innovation in students as a fun to learn task. To enhance the talents and students’ knowledge in technical and practical approach over their subject, this college conducts '''NATIONAL LEVEL SYMPOSIUMS''' for both MBA and MCA namely '''M-PULSE''' and''' IGNITIA''' respectively.  

                         This college also consists inter-college departmental associations, which are assigned with the adage of improving students technical and practical knowledge and improve their skills and talents.

PASE - Professional Association for Communication Enthusiasm

MEA   - Mechanical Engineering Association

CMAT - Computers Masters Association Techno

SCEA - Shilanyas Civil Engineering Association

 

                      With the AIM of igniting the student minds to identify the inbuilt potential within them, our college yearly conducts guest lectures, inviting resource persons from all over the world. Few of them in the recent years include

* Awareness program on “Entrepreneurship”                  
* One day Workshop on SWOT Analysis of an Entrepreneur
* Entrepreneurship skills using HDFS
* Genesis of Entrepreneurship development cells  

            The college exposes the students to the practical skills of making things  and achieving the progress by conducting workshops on various aspects.

             The major part of our I&E ecosystem is the '''INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CELL DEVELOPMENT CELL[[File:Iedc.jpg|thumb|Iedc.jpg]]. ''' A total space of 1700 sq. ft has been allocated for IEDC. The space provides houses training facility, lab facility including High end Computers, Laptops, Scanner, Printers, IEDC Faculty rooms and Conference rooms.Dedicated team of faculty with PhD and three advisory faculty members works for IEDC. The main aim of this program is to drive the students towards innovation and entrepreneurship. It conducts workshops and programs to identify the students with special talents and provides effective tools to nurture their talent. It encourages the like minded to form teams and come up with the project ideas. Those ideas that are interesting are funded by the IEDC cell.

         Students are also made part of professional societies like Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) and Computer Society of India (CSI). College management  organizes various events under these professional societies to enhance the technical skills of the students.

        Technical Entrepreneurship Program is also being implemented in this college. Under this program selected set of students are trained in the area of Entrepreneurship and it also nurtures their financial management skills.

                                                                                 

               Some of the startups in progress in the college are

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Security Gadgets for Tirumala Pilgrims.

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= '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' =
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                         The college doesn’t leave any thread untied that unites the bond between students and entrepreneurship. The major thread in this is to train the faculty towards Entrepreneurship, so that they in turn motivate the students towards innovation and creativity. S v college is the nodal centre for APSSDC.  EPICS programme was conducted for teachers in the month of july, 2017 . In this  through online courses, teachers were trained in entrepreneurial skills.  

                                 The recent initiatives in our college to enhance Innovation among teachers is the program called ‘Indraprastha’ conducted every thursday. In this all the faculty are divided into groups and are alloted with some tasks. This is improving a sense of oneness, Team management skills and communication skills among teachers.

= '''University technology transfer function''' =
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                                  To share the knowledge they acquired either by traditional and practical learning on a common platform Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering provides a special cell named Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Cell (IEDC). Management of SVCE provides funds to help the students to the core and encourage students’ creative ideas and promote their budding projects as startups. To boost up the students and their ideas management and faculty provides them the best  upliftment.                     

= '''Facilitating university-industry collaboration''' =
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                          Management of SVCE takes intensive care of building effective relations between institution and industries. For students, to have broader scope of their future workplaces (industries), svce signed up  MoUS’ with esteemed industries. In a course of minimum of 2-3 months all the final year students of SVCE attend industrial visit and internship to enhance their practical knowledge, industrial application and find their desired job. Some of the MoUS’ signed in the recent years includes the following industries:

              '''MoUS’'''        

1.     Sanaris Technologies

2.     EdGate Technologies

3.     Vi Micro Systems Private Limited

4.     SS Lab Equipments

5.     Pantech ProLabs India Pvt Ltd

6.     Andhra Pradesh Information Technology Association, Govt. of AP

7.     Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation, Govt. of AP.

8.     Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Tirupati

9.     Roboquest India Tech Pvt Ltd.

10.   CISCO Solutions

11.   Origin Learning Solutions Private Ltd

12.   Pinnacle Softek India Ltd

13.   CMC Center

14.   Valika Electronics

15.   Amara Raja Batteries Limited

16.   Sun Seas Tech

= '''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts''' =
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                    “ '''We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give'''”. SV colleges follows this principle. The college adopted a village  named Venkatapuram,Venkatapuram Panchayat, Renigunta Mandal, Chittoor District. The volunteers from college yearly conducts many awareness programs in the college.

                  SV colleges also has an NSS unit. Under which the college conducts many awareness programs. Blood donation camps are yearly conducted in the college by SV medical college. Others programs under NSS for the year 2016-2017 includes Shramadhan, books and fruits distribution to students in M.P.P. school students, Azadi 70- Yaad karo Kurbani ( Freedom Fortnight), Swachhta Pakhwada, Eradication of menace of mosquitoes, Awareness program on skin and hair care, Global handwashing day, Cashless transactions, Heartfulness Meditation Workshop, National Women’s parliament rally, NSS special camp for a week which includes environment study, Swachh bharat, literacy awareness program, awareness program on payment modes, health hygiene camp,n Rural Self employment awareness program and play environment for Z.P school students.

                

[[File:BLOOD DONATION DAY SVCE.jpg|thumb|right|BLOOD DONATION DAY SVCE.jpg]]                   

[[File:SRAMADHANAM SVCE.jpg|thumb|left]]    [[File:AWARENESS PROGRAMS TO VILLAGES.jpg|center|AWARENESS PROGRAMS TO VILLAGES.jpg]]                     

= RELATED LINKS:<br/> =

<span style="font-size:medium">'''Student contributors'''</span>:

<span style="font-size:medium">[[Supraja Akkala|Supraja Akkala]], [[Shruthi co|Shruthi CO]], [[Vijay Kanupuri|Vijay Kanupuri]],[[Vinod Kumar Kolla|Vinod Kumar Kolla]]</span>

 

[[Category:Universities]]

2017-09-26T15:49:24Z

Shruthi co:

Fellow:Shruthi Co

2017-09-11T04:04:30Z

Shruthi co:

<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''"Dream is not what you see in sleep......The dream is the thing which doesn't make you sleep "''', </span><br/></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the most inspirational quote of </span>'''<span style="color:#0000ff;">Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam</span>'''<span style="font-size: medium;">born on October 15. Shruthi </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">[[File:Shruthi Challa Obula.jpg|thumb]]Challa Obula loves to follow the foot step of Kalam sir as she born on the same day. The way he does the work, how he integrates real life situations to the technical work inspired her. Shruthi is pursuing graduation in Electronics and Communication Engineering, from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, from the holy city of India, Tirupati. Shruthi possesses very good communication skills which can be better known by the prizes she grabbed in debates, group discussions etc. Her teaching style has an essence which makes everyone learn and understand better the concept whatever she teaches. She encourages her peers to be part of activities and events. To get solutions she analyses the problem from roots and gives out the elucidated answer. She loves to dance, sing, painting, yoga, playing keyboard, tennis.She admires '''<span style="color:#cc3300;">Leonardo da Vinci</span>''' because from his very famous painting Mona Lisa he described the ideology and perceptions of the people differ from their view. She is one among those persons who think that skills and talents are the only things in this world which make our living possible (not the money). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">She participated in '''12 hours''' continuous seminar in Telugu on <span style="color:#333399;">"SRI VAISHNAVA BHAKTHI THATHVAM"</span> and certified with '''WONDER BOOK OF WORLD RECORS.''' She was one among the delegates’ of '''<span style="color:#339900;">ISCA 2017</span>'''(Indian Science Congress Association) presented a paper on '''ELECTRONIC LIFE'''. She is an '''IEEE '''member. She started paving a path towards getting admission in Master of Business Administration at'''IIM''' (Indian Institute of Management), as she wants to become a successful entrepreneur.She is very adaptable and a very active participant.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Shruthi strongly believes that as everything in this world is having a sort of change yesterdays invention is becoming updated and is installed in life but the education system in not being updated it is all the same stuff like in the past. Shruthi truly believes that it's time to change the prior education system friendly to this generation's student environment.      </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Through UIF, being a fellow she wants to drive the education system into a better path. She dreams that awants to witness the India be called as the Developed nation.</span></div>
[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Resource:How to create a design thinking class for incoming first-year students

2017-09-09T04:50:49Z

Shruthi co:

= Need =

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f0-53f6-3a43-120b75390683"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The need identified in this “How To” is to create a design thinking class for the incoming first year students. A popular topic in the UIF exploration of higher education is the incorporation of design thinking; which when incorporated into curriculum is highly beneficial.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f0-53f6-3a43-120b75390683"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through this article we </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">discuss how one might implement an introductory course for first year students with advice from current fellow, Jason Weis.  </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jason is a fourth year student studying Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech (GT). At Georgia Tech, Weis has been involved with many mentorship programs, including being a co-founder of the campus wide KNIT Mentorship and a leader of the BME Mentorship Program.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f0-53f6-3a43-120b75390683"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since becoming a UIF in March of 2017, Jason and the GT Leadership Circle have designed and implemented a class that integrates design thinking and Biomedical Engineering.</span></span>
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= Objectives and Goals =

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f0-e638-8bfa-f87e4a80de00"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The purpose behind the course is to lay a framework of design thinking skills that students will use later in their college careers while simultaneously learning about their major. Design thinking helps make introductory courses more experiential and engaging. This occurs through a series of brainstorming workshops and creative projects that develop ideation and problem solving skills.</span></span>

= Why Design thinking? =

[[File:Design Thinking components.png|thumb|right|Design Thinking components.png]] <span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f1-9693-5755-267da00c3e9d"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A design thinking background helps students explore their majors in a deeper way.  It is a style of learning made famous through Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design as a successful strategy for innovation. Design thinking enables students to explore their ideas and dive deep into their meanings.</span></span>

= Academic Permissions =

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f2-0a72-3d96-b9e2c375629a"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Academic permission may be required to integrate design thinking into a introductory course. In some cases, permission comes from faculty support and committee acceptance. In other cases, it may require a more stringent administrative review. In the past, oppositions have been persuaded after one-day “pop up classes” have gained student interest. This can be a way to show to the administrative staff and faculty that these forms of experiential classes are needed to promote positive growth within the university.</span></span>

= Support =

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f2-83fb-3e01-53c59515bdf0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Academic support is one of the hardest, but most important steps in creating change. There are three major groups to interact with that will enable the support for creating a design thinking course:</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f2-83fb-3e01-53c59515bdf0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f2-83fb-3e01-53c59515bdf0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Getting a large audience on board is an important step. It is the responsibility of the organizers to make sure to evoke interest in students through interactive exercises and fun-filled activities. Word of mouth plays a critical role in these endeavours, so make sure students leave the class with fervor for design thinking and inspire more students to join the class.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f2-83fb-3e01-53c59515bdf0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f2-83fb-3e01-53c59515bdf0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty support is crucial to creating change in the curriculum. Whether the course is taught by fellows or by faculty, both parties must be in communication so to revise the course and continuously prepare students for the major studies. Working with these professors will eventually lead us to the right people and help create change.  </span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f2-83fb-3e01-53c59515bdf0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Administrators</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f2-83fb-3e01-53c59515bdf0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Administration can be difficult to receive support from.  Faculty support and student interests are powerful rhetorics in this instance.  Receiving financial support from the school is also crucial to providing classroom resources and materials.  In previous years, resources for a design thinking course have been conservative and have included low-cost rapid prototyping materials of the likes of post-its, paper, tape, and scissors.</span></span>
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= Faculty =

The faculty or fellows are the instructors who act as facilitators for design thinking, some of their duties include:

*Teaching the students what design thinking is

*Guiding the students through their designs

*Mentoring students throughout their projects

*Inspiring students imagination and creativity

= Students =

[[File:Design Thinking education stationery.jpg|thumb|200px|Design Thinking education stationery.jpg]] <span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62ec-cb6a-1125-4cb4c76159ae"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students who do well in the course could potentially be trained to teach the following year; however, as of now only University Innovation Fellows have been trained to facilitate the course. Georgia Tech Innovation Fellows like Jason Weis are teaching the first iteration of the course specifically for first year Biomedical Engineering students. Students are inspired by the UIF team and their creative lens. Through this design thinking class they are able to show amazing results in the form of prototypes, presentations, and many more.</span></span>

= Timeline =

<span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62ee-269a-89d9-c70e0ceead0a"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The course can be developed as a full semester credit/uncredited course or it could be expressed as a  course of a shorter length. This entirely depends on the time available and student interest. Make sure that the course is a blend of short theoretical lectures and practical hands-on sessions. Start slow and gradually increase the pace of the course as students get a hold of the subject.</span></span>

= Class Structure =

[[File:Design Thinking Course sample classroom.png|thumb|Design Thinking Course sample classroom.png]] <span id="docs-internal-guid-0ad06740-62fd-9539-c718-074da5dd64e3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The class structure can expand to topics of one introductory course for all majors to help first year students decide a major based on their interests in this design thinking class.</span></span>

= Grading System =

<span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62ee-b941-7410-adb18f7876f5"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Depending on whether it would be a credited or uncredited course, adjustments to the grading system can be made. While grades do play a key role in the academic setting, make sure that students do not get obsessed with the grading of this course. Participation must be rewarded by having a certain weightage in the grade. Some of the recommended grading points can be:</span></span>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62ee-b941-7410-adb18f7876f5"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Attendance</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62ee-b941-7410-adb18f7876f5"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Classroom participation</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62ee-b941-7410-adb18f7876f5"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pitchs</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62ee-b941-7410-adb18f7876f5"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Group Discussions</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62ee-b941-7410-adb18f7876f5"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prototype modelling</span></span></li>
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= Cost =

<span id="docs-internal-guid-0ad06740-62ff-d80a-4d1c-a96252594532"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To create this program there is not much funding needed. The main costs come from the prototyping materials needed throughout the class such as post it notes and paper. This class has minimal cost to the school and the students are expected to buy the “Design Your Life” textbook needed for this class.</span></span>

= Recommended Resources & Learning Materials =

''Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You'' - William Burnett, Dave Evans ([https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Your-Life-Well-Lived-Joyful/dp/B01K5UD0H4 Amazon US], [https://www.amazon.in/Designing-Your-Life-Well-Lived-Joyful/dp/1101875321 Amazon India])

= Summary =

[[File:Design Thinking Course summary.png|frame|center|Design Thinking Course summary.png]]

= Contributors =

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| [[Bhavyatha Pandrangi|Bhavyatha Pandrangi]]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jaran_Arroyo Jaran Arroyo]
| [[Lexy Foor|Lexy Foor]]
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| [[Sally_Todd|Sally Todd]]
| [[Savanna Turner|Savanna Turner]]
| [[Shruthi co|Shruthi co]]
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| [[Srikar Kashyap Pulipaka|Srikar Kashyap Pulipaka]]
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[[Category:Guides]]

Resource:How to create a design thinking class for incoming first-year students

2017-09-08T20:23:38Z

Shruthi co:

== Need ==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f0-53f6-3a43-120b75390683"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The need identified in this “How To” is to create a design thinking class for the incoming first year students. A popular topic in the UIF exploration of higher education is the incorporation of design thinking; which when incorporated into curriculum is highly beneficial.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f0-53f6-3a43-120b75390683"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through this article we </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">discuss how one might implement an introductory course for first year students with advice from current fellow, Jason Weis.  </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jason is a fourth year student studying Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech (GT). At Georgia Tech, Weis has been involved with many mentorship programs, including being a co-founder of the campus wide KNIT Mentorship and a leader of the BME Mentorship Program.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f0-53f6-3a43-120b75390683"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since becoming a UIF in March of 2017, Jason and the GT Leadership Circle have designed and implemented a class that integrates design thinking and Biomedical Engineering.</span></span>
<div></div>
== Objectives and Goals ==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f0-e638-8bfa-f87e4a80de00"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The purpose behind the course is to lay a framework of design thinking skills that students will use later in their college careers while simultaneously learning about their major. Design thinking helps make introductory courses more experiential and engaging. This occurs through a series of brainstorming workshops and creative projects that develop ideation and problem solving skills.</span></span>
== Why Design thinking? ==
[[File:Design_Thinking_components.png|thumb|right|Components of Design Thinking]]
<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f1-9693-5755-267da00c3e9d"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A design thinking background helps students explore their majors in a deeper way.  It is a style of learning made famous through Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design as a successful strategy for innovation. Design thinking enables students to explore their ideas and dive deep into their meanings.</span></span>
== Academic Permissions ==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f2-0a72-3d96-b9e2c375629a"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Academic permission may be required to integrate design thinking into a introductory course. In some cases, permission comes from faculty support and committee acceptance. In other cases, it may require a more stringent administrative review. In the past, oppositions have been persuaded after one-day “pop up classes” have gained student interest. This can be a way to show to the administrative staff and faculty that these forms of experiential classes are needed to promote positive growth within the university.</span></span>
== Support ==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f2-83fb-3e01-53c59515bdf0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Academic support is one of the hardest, but most important steps in creating change. There are three major groups to interact with that will enable the support for creating a design thinking course:</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f2-83fb-3e01-53c59515bdf0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f2-83fb-3e01-53c59515bdf0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Getting a large audience on board is an important step. It is the responsibility of the organizers to make sure to evoke interest in students through interactive exercises and fun-filled activities. Word of mouth plays a critical role in these endeavours, so make sure students leave the class with fervor for design thinking and inspire more students to join the class.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f2-83fb-3e01-53c59515bdf0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f2-83fb-3e01-53c59515bdf0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty support is crucial to creating change in the curriculum. Whether the course is taught by fellows or by faculty, both parties must be in communication so to revise the course and continuously prepare students for the major studies. Working with these professors will eventually lead us to the right people and help create change.  </span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f2-83fb-3e01-53c59515bdf0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Administrators</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f830c3c-62f2-83fb-3e01-53c59515bdf0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Administration can be difficult to receive support from.  Faculty support and student interests are powerful rhetorics in this instance.  Receiving financial support from the school is also crucial to providing classroom resources and materials.  In previous years, resources for a design thinking course have been conservative and have included low-cost rapid prototyping materials of the likes of post-its, paper, tape, and scissors.</span></span>
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== Faculty ==
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62eb-e597-e35f-75f9d87a4d02"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The faculty or fellows are the instructors who act as facilitators for design thinking, some of their duties include:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62eb-e597-e35f-75f9d87a4d02"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">·    </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">     Teaching the students what design thinking is</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62eb-e597-e35f-75f9d87a4d02"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">·         Guiding the students through their designs</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62eb-e597-e35f-75f9d87a4d02"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">·         Mentoring students throughout their projects</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62eb-e597-e35f-75f9d87a4d02"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">·         Inspiring students imagination and creativity</span></span></p><div></div>
== Students ==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62ec-cb6a-1125-4cb4c76159ae"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students who do well in the course could potentially be trained to teach the following year; however, as of now only University Innovation Fellows have been trained to facilitate the course. Georgia Tech Innovation Fellows like Jason Weis are teaching the first iteration of the course specifically for first year Biomedical Engineering students. Students are inspired by the UIF team and their creative lens. Through this design thinking class they are able to show amazing results in the form of prototypes, presentations, and many more.</span></span>
== Timeline ==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62ee-269a-89d9-c70e0ceead0a"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The course can be developed as a full semester credit/uncredited course or it could be expressed as a  course of a shorter length. This entirely depends on the time available and student interest. Make sure that the course is a blend of short theoretical lectures and practical hands-on sessions. Start slow and gradually increase the pace of the course as students get a hold of the subject.</span></span>
== Class Structure ==
[[File:Design Thinking Course sample classroom.png|thumbnail|Design Thinking classroom at Georgia Tech ]]
<span id="docs-internal-guid-0ad06740-62fd-9539-c718-074da5dd64e3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The class structure can expand to topics of one introductory course for all majors to help first year students decide a major based on their interests in this design thinking class.</span></span>
== Grading System ==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62ee-b941-7410-adb18f7876f5"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Depending on whether it would be a credited or uncredited course, adjustments to the grading system can be made. While grades do play a key role in the academic setting, make sure that students do not get obsessed with the grading of this course. Participation must be rewarded by having a certain weightage in the grade. Some of the recommended grading points can be</span></span>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62ee-b941-7410-adb18f7876f5"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Attendance</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62ee-b941-7410-adb18f7876f5"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Classroom participation</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62ee-b941-7410-adb18f7876f5"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pitchs</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62ee-b941-7410-adb18f7876f5"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Group Discussions</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e97786d0-62ee-b941-7410-adb18f7876f5"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prototype modelling</span></span></li>
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== Cost ==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-0ad06740-62ff-d80a-4d1c-a96252594532"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To create this program there is not much funding needed. The main costs come from the prototyping materials needed throughout the class such as post it notes and paper. This class has minimal cost to the school and the students are expected to buy the “Design Your Life” textbook needed for this class.</span></span>
== Recommended Resources & Learning Materials ==
''Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You'' - William Burnett, Dave Evans ([https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Your-Life-Well-Lived-Joyful/dp/B01K5UD0H4 Amazon US], [https://www.amazon.in/Designing-Your-Life-Well-Lived-Joyful/dp/1101875321 Amazon India])
== Contributors ==

{| class="wikitable"
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| [[Bhavyatha Pandrangi|Bhavyatha Pandrangi]]
| [[Jaran.arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
| [[Lexy Foor|Lexy Foor]]
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| Sally Todd
| [[Savanna Turner|Savanna Turner]]
| [[Shruthi co|Shruthi co]]
|-
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| [[Srikar Kashyap Pulipaka|Srikar Kashyap Pulipaka]]
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|}

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