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= <span style="font-size:large;">STUDENT PRIORITY #1OUR VISION: ASHLIN WILDUNINNOVATION - THE STANDARD, NOT THE EXCEPTION</span><br/> =

<span style="font-size:small;">With the addition of the iCube and iMakerspace to As a UIF leadership circle for Tennessee Technological University's campus, a key resource for innovation we hope to increase and expand innovative and entrepreneurship is available for all students entrepreneurial mindsets across campus. In 5 to 10 years we want to come back to utilize. The iCube hosts a virtual reality labsee engineers working with artists, brainstorming area and classroomchemists creating alongside social scientists, and an iMakerspace loaded business professionals collaborating with machines like 3-D printers and lab spacehuman ecologists.&nbsp;Currently the space is primarily used by engineering students, as well as a small proportion of business students. To introduce students of all majors We hope to entrepreneurship see greater and innovation both on campus and within this new resourcestronger student-faculty relationships, specialized pop-ups should be held which represent the interests students pursuing their innovative ideas from day 1 of various underrepresented majors in the iCube. For examplefreshman year, and a pop-up class which showed wildlife greater use of campus and fisheries regional resources to help students how to 3-D print fish hooks would and faculty bring studenst of other majors into the space and increase exposure their ambitions to interdisciplinary work with engineering studentslife. Specialized pop-up classes will be open to Above all students, increasing we hope to see innovative thinking become the likelihood of involving more majors in standard, not the iCube and iMakerspaceexception.&nbsp;</span>

= <span style="font-size:smalllarge;">In order to identify these unique topics of interest, various surveys will be sent out to students' emails requesting ideas and ranking those ideas based on interest. In order to ensure the success of this strategic priority, a strong partnership between the facultySTUDENT PRIORITY #1: ASHLIN WILDUN</staff of the iCube and iMakerspace and students must be formed. In the beginning stages, specialized pop-ups can be hosted by faculty members across campus, and eventually student-facilitated pop-ups introduced.&nbsp;span><br/span>=

== <span style="color:#b22222;">'''<span style="font-size:smallmedium;">The materials for the popSPECIALIZED POP-ups will form the bulk of required funding for this strategic priority. Meetings with the stakeholders within each college will be held to identify funding sources for material costs. A pop-up funding grant would be a wonderful future addition to this initiative.UPS TO INCREASE MAKERSPACE USE OUTSIDE OF BUSINESS AND ENGINEERING</span>'''</span>==

<span style="font-size: small;">With the addition of the iCube and iMakerspace to Tennessee Technological University's campus, a key resource for innovation and entrepreneurship is available for all students to utilize. The iCube hosts a virtual reality lab, brainstorming area and classroom, and an iMakerspace loaded with machines like 3-D printers and lab space.&nbsp;Currently, the space is primarily used by engineering students, as well as a small proportion of business students. To introduce students of all majors to entrepreneurship and innovation both on campus and within this new resource, specialized pop-ups should be held which represent the interests of various underrepresented majors in the iCube. For example, a pop-up class which showed wildlife and fisheries students how to 3-D print fish hooks would bring students of other majors into the space and increase exposure to interdisciplinary work with engineering students. Specialized pop-up classes will be open to all students, increasing the likelihood of involving more majors in the iCube and iMakerspace.&nbsp;</span> <span style="font-size: small;">In order to identify these unique topics of interest, various surveys will be sent out to students' emails requesting ideas and ranking those ideas based on interest. The success of this strategic priority requires the formation of a strong partnership between the faculty/staff of the iCube & iMakerspace and students. In the beginning stages, specialized pop-ups can be hosted by faculty members across campus with the eventual introduction of student-facilitated pop-ups.&nbsp;</span> <span style="font-size: small;">Materials for the pop-ups will form the bulk of required funding for this strategic priority. Meetings with the stakeholders within each college will be held to identify funding sources for material costs. A pop-up funding grant would be a wonderful future addition to this initiative.</span> <span style="font-size:small;">Everyone has a need for innovation in their degreesdegree, and these specialized pop-ups are a way to introduce more students to invaluable resources on campus.</span>

== '''<span style="color:#808080b22222;">'''<span style="font-size:medium;">INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION & LONG-TERM AVENUES FOR I&E PURSUIT</span>'''</span>'''<br/> ==

=== <span style="color:#696969;">'''<span style="font-size:small;">AVAILABLE RESOURCES</span>''' </span> ===

<span style="font-size: small;">One such course, involving students from nursing and chemical engineering (open to biomolecular concentration as well as general chemical engineering students), is called [https://www.tntech.edu/news/releases/nursing,-engineering-students-collaborate-on-health-care-problems Clinical Immersion at Interdisciplinary Disciplinary Interfaces] and was piloted during the Fall 2015 Semester. This course teaches students to apply field experience/observation and personal interviews to a process very similar to the design thinking process called the [http://eecs.vanderbilt.edu/courses/ee235/STAR_Legacy_model.htm Legacy cycleCycle]. Students then use this creative process to generate innovative solutions to problems noted during clinical experiences in the hospital and/or identified by health care workers (mostly staff nurses). One solution presented at the end of the course included plans and theoretical proof of concept for a non-lead [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1O6338JsdW6i947bSGWkvvVF9RupCshBwd_pyG-UXELo/edit?usp=sharing radiation-shielding sterile drape] which would be reusable, sterilizable, light-weight, and flexible.</span>

=== <span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size: small;">AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT</span></span><br/> ===

<span style="font-size: small;">Though Clinical Immersion at Interdisciplinary Disciplinary Interfaces is an interdisciplinary focusing course focused on a process similar to design thinking, there are a few improvements which would make the experience more effective:</span>

#<span style="font-size: small;">'''Increase time period''': The one One semester course was proved too short for any of the four Fall 2015 groups to fully develop a prototype or MVP (minimum viable product).</span>

#<span style="font-size: small;">'''Greater introduction to available resources''': While the class briefly introduces a brief introduction to the resources available for prototyping on campus was provided (specifically, the iMakerspace within the iCube) , no in-depth instruction was provided occurred on the use of these resources due to time constraints for the students of Fall 2015.</span>

=== <span style="color:#696969;"><font size="2">PROPOSED SOLUTION</font></span> ===

#<span style="font-size: small;">'''First year cohorts will focus on learning the design thinking process, the business model canvas, and other vital resources which facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship from concept generation to production & sales'''. The program will integrate into the curriculim curriculum critical & creative thinking exercises challenging students to apply these concepts to the world around them.</span>#<span style="font-size: small;">'''Second year cohorts will be assigned projects for solution development and execution'''. This year Students will focus on design thinking solutions to the assigned problem, developing prototypes/minimum viable products (MVPs) from data collected through research, and working to bring the solution to production using resources available on campus and in the regional I&E ecosystem.</span>#<span style="font-size: small;">'''Third year cohorts will self-identify problems and develop design solutions with the end goal of achieving student liscensure licensure of the product, venture start-up status, and/or commercialization of the product by an outside entity'''. This project will serve as As the capstone of the program, challenging this project will challenge students to work together effectively while pooling knowledge not only from the previous two years in the program, but also knowledge gained within each student's respective discipline.</span>

=== <span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size: small;">STRATEGIES FOR EXECUTION</span></span><br/> ===

#<span style="font-size: small;">'''Partner with the iCubepartnership (Spring 2016)''': In order to establish increased program credibility, developing a close partnership with the directors and administrators of the iCube is essential in to gaining the support of individual college Deans deans and department heads. Partnership with the iCube also provides the program with a home-base and increased access to resources required for prototyping and design. development.</span>#<span style="font-size: small;">'''Develop teaser Teaser course/workshop(Spring 2016)''': Development of this program requires further Further research of student interest and attitudes toward I&E and a program of this typeis required before development can truly begin. Holding a teaser design thinking workshop for students within UNIV 1010 Freshman Connections courses gives will give students a taste of the principles concepts to be taught within the program and provides provide an opportunity for gauging student interest in I&E and interdisciplinary collaboration.</span>#<span style="font-size: small;">'''Gain support of colleges and departments(Spring & Summer 2016)''': Gaining the support of Support from the individual colleges and departments on campuswould aid in pushing the program through various curriculum committees and also help to promote the program and I&nbsp;E to faculty and students across campus.</span>#<span style="font-size: small;">'''Spark interest early</span>''': Targeting students during freshman year is a tactic universities deploy across the country to increase student discovery of I&E and promote its continued pursuit. If we can teach students to look for the I&E opportunities around them in their UNIV 1010 Freshman Connections course (see Strategic Priority #<span style="font3) the proposed program will provide a guided opportunity to pursue these ideas long-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;">Partner with local problemterm.</span>

== <span style="font-sizecolor:medium#b22222;"><span style="colorfont-size:#808080medium;">'''FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE UNIVERSITY CONNECTIONS "DESIGN THINKING COLLEGE" COURSE'''&nbsp;</span></span> ==

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