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= Overview Project Pitch Video =

New Mexico State University at Las Cruces is the second largest university in the state of New Mexico, and currently has more than 19,000 students. NMSU currently has a vision{{#Widget: the expansion of its entrepreneuship and innovation activities on campus. Therefore, NMSU, as of Spring 2014, contacted the University Innovation Fellowship Program for the sole purpose of training students on matters related to the I&E ecosystem. Youtube|id=BvxDPB2tWjo}}

= - Overview - =<p style="text-align: center;">{{#widget[[File:Back to School ADS.png]]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Founded in 1888 as a Land Grant institution New Mexico State University (NMSU) has a long history of entrepreneurship and business development in the community. &nbsp;As the second largest university in the state NMSU has a student population of nearly 18,000 students. Through the university discovery mission started by Dr. Carruthers, the Colleges of Business and Engineering have begun an initiative to integrate multidisciplinary learning across campus. This collaboration has encouraged students to take ownership of their learning, and has led to the creation of several dedicated innovation and design centers: The Aggie Innovation Space, Studio G, and Arrowhead Center.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[https:Youtube|id//www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJStVYEjawo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJStVYEjawo]</p><p style=VVM2aUFlT2A}}"text-align: center;"></p>= - Strategies for Innovation & Entrepreneurship - =

= Top Strategies Studio G, the student incubator located in the Arrowhead Research park, has been looking for ways to engage students in a more proactive manner. With the recent completion of renovations to the Corbett Student Union, there is the potential for available space to be occupied for entrepreneurship and innovation. This space would allow university student mentors and Innovation Fellows the Expansion ability to meet with students in a central location directly on campus. Services to be provided would include a continuation of current operations underway at the Arrowhead Entrepreneurship Institute and Aggie Innovation Space: business model development, rapid prototyping, concept design, manufacturing assistance, and team development training.& Entrepreneurship =nbsp;

== <span style="color:#0000cd;">1. Bi-Monthly Workshops</span>Multidisciplinary Senior Design Classes (Capstone)<br/> ==

<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arialRecognizing the global impact of education,helvetica,sans-serif;">The implementation of workshops related to Innovation and Entrepreneurship it is one of the greatest key ideas essential for getting the students involved to work on these mattersmultidisciplinary projects throughout their student tenure.&nbsp;As of today, many workshops are held on Through the Aggie Innovation Space, although engineering students have begun collaborating and working in a more promotion open and supportive environment where experiences have allowed for mentors to emerge. Over the past year, these events should be givenmentors, as well as from different majors, have worked together to guide a higher level number of student projects through the design phase. Having seen the early success of handsthis initiative, we are hoping to implement a university wide senior design course that will enable students from every college to work together to solve industry-on experience, probably by bringing people specialized on these topicsbased problems.</span></span>

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<span style="font-size:larger10pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helveticaArial,sans-serif;">NMSU Capstone projects are one of the most important parts of an engineer’s education. Recognizing that capstone can be used to learn, use and refine skills related to I&E, it must be made better. Baja SAE is hosting a 3DS (3 Day Startup) starting design challenge that is put on Sundayby Society of Automotive Engineers and to compete in this series take a great amount of engineering, April 13marketing, 2014and teamwork. This will definitely pull students interested on developing ideas, Most importantly this design challenge is created out of the idea of each college being considered a startup firm that is to design and put them to work by making them participate on online-based workshopsmarket their vehicle. By having at least This creates a bi-monthly event like these, great deal of I&E thinking. My hope is that integration of Baja SAE into a high number capstone project with raise the level of I&E in capstone while also providing students would be exposed to the intent of this strategic planwith a useful engineering project/start up.</span></span>

== <br/><span style="colorfont-family:#0000cdArial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2. Required courses on entrepreneurship and innovation that allows the student to develop hands-on experience&nbsp;Milestones:</span> ==

#<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size:larger10pt;">Talk to admins about proposal and</span><span style="font-family:arialArial,helveticasans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;any problems</span>#<font face="Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">CurrentlyIntroduce Baja for a single group (both ME and Business students)</span></font>#<font face="Arial, there are no specific courses targeting students innovation and entrepreneurshipsans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13. There are courses related to some kind 3333330154419px;">Fix any problems that arise from first semester of business entrepreneurshipintegration</span></font>#<span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; font-family: Arial, but they are merely theoretical and lack handssans-serif;">Introduce baja in a greater manner the next semester</span>#<span style="font-on experiencesize: 13.3333330154419px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Full integrate Baja SAE as a capstone project</span>#<span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Based on successful integration other similar projects will be introduced to other departments capstone projects&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="fontPop-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">By requiring all students or at least some majors (for seeing how it actually works) to take at least 2 or 3 entrepreneurship courses with a higher level of difficulty, they could learn how to set their ideas into the ground. I would also suggest that students that are taking these classes, should be required to form part of an Entrepreneuship & Innovation Student Organization and come up with a team project by the end of one of their courses.Classes<br/span></span>==

== <span style="color:#0000cdThere are a large number of students who compete in very innovative STEM competitions on campus, but are unaware that what they are doing is innovative. &nbsp;">3A solution to this problem is to create a semester long Innovation Challenge that has teams develop innovative solutions to a real world problem and then present it to a panel of judges and receive awards and prizes. Expansion &nbsp;Part of the current Aggie Innovation Space challenge is creating a prototype of their solution, but also creating a business model canvas and trying to find a way to successfully market their product. &nbsp;This approach focuses on improving students' design-thinking, entrepreneurial and creation communication skills while defining for them what the real meaning of more Innovation Spaces</span> ==innovation is. &nbsp;It is crucial that we develop students interest in innovation and entrepreneurship at a young age in order to create a strong I&E culture on our college campus. &nbsp;

<span style="font-size:larger;">The University has taken the first steps on launching an Innovation Space on NMSU College of Engineering, but more input on this space is needed, as well as more spaces like this on campus.</span>= Increasing Awareness and Engagement ==

[[File:AggieThere is a wide array of resources available throughout the New Mexico State University Ecosystem that are unknown and underutilized.png|border|left|AggieThese resources are already established and continue to improve organically but are invisible in the eyes of most students on campus.png]]The solution identified is to create a Marketing Blitz that will increase awareness of the resources but also push students to interact with these resources. Through large volume outreach to classes, faculty, and other organizations; awareness will increase and long term engagement will begin to develop.&nbsp;

<span style="font-size: larger;">Seeking for future funding for Innovation Spaces like these, and for making them more technologically up-to-date is a vital action.</span>         == <span style="color:#0000cd;">4. Think and Act BIG!</span> =Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/NMSU <span style="font-size:larger;">-Organization of local TedX eventsNew Mexico State University</span>]

<span style="font-size[http: larger;">-Bringing recognized speakers to school</span>/universityinnovation.org/Mauricio%20Garcia Mauricio Garcia]

<span style="font-size[http: larger;">-Get funding for Innovation Spaces from partnered companies//universityinnovation.<org/span>wiki/Brendan#New_Mexico_State_University.2C_UIF_Fellowship Brendan P. Sullivan]

== <span style="color[http: rgb(0, 0, 205);">5. Student and Faculty Coordination</span> == <span style="font-size:larger;">A partnership between I&E Student Organization and faculty such as the Arrowhead Center for working out some of the possible strategic plans such as bi-monthly workshops would make events and workshops be of greater quality, and would definitely attract more students.</span> <span style="font-size: larger;">A coordination between students and faculty would allow I&E to be a bigger deal on campus, since both groups could input a greater value to these matters.</span>     == <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);">6universityinnovation. Networking with other Universities<org/span> == <span style="font-size:larger;">Networking is the single most powerful tool marketing strategie to accelerate and sustain success for any individual or organization. By working with other Fellow Universities to implement and work on ideas together would make them be feasible, and not let them to reamin just as mere plans.</span> <span style="font-size: larger;">Getting and providing advise from/to others can make projects be of a greater value than just sticking to your own ideas. As they say, two heads are better than one.<wiki/span>   = Related Links =Joel_Cazares Joel Cazares]

<span style="font-size[http:larger;">[[Mauricio Garcia|Mauricio_Garcia]//universityinnovation.org/wiki/CJ_Gershon CJ Gershon]</span>

[[NMSU|<span style="font-sizehttp:larger;">NMSU</span>]/universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ryan_Giblin Ryan Giblin]

<span style="color[http: rgb(0, 0, 205);">&nbsp;</span>/universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sahar_Qavi Sahar Qavi]