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= <span style="font-familysize:verdana,geneva,sansx-seriflarge;"><span style="font-sizefamily:xxverdana,geneva,sans-largeserif;">Overview</span></span><br/> =
<span style= "font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Established in 1932, Lawrence Technological University (LTU) has built a reputation for excellence. Our most recent awards and recognitions include a Top 30% ranking of universities nationwide by </span><span style="font-size: xx14px; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Bloomberg Businessweek</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, a “Best in the Midwest” designation from the </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Princeton Review</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, and for the past 20 years we have been highly ranked by </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">U.S. News & World Report</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">.</span></span> <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b55ce3ff-d36c-1396-37e7-957315cffd72"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">We are proud of our rigorous academic programs and began to offer some of our most sought-after degree programs online in 2006. Embracing innovation and entrepreneurship as a mode of education exemplifies the same forward thinking philosophies that you’ll encounter in our programs.</span></span></span> = <span style="font-size:x-large; "><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Student Innovation and Entreprenuership</span></span><br/> =
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Freshman Engineering students at Lawrence Tech are required to take a course called Fundamentals of Engineering Design. The course is held in a newly renovated space in the engineering building that promotes team collaboration and student-professor interaction. As it is funded by KEEN, the course promotes the keys to the entrepreneurial mindset; Curiosity, Creativity, Creating Value. </span></span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Through a new program led by the three LTU fellows, EMPwr, students are engaging in different projects, seminars, workshops, weekend startup challenges, and weekly challenges to enhance their entrepreneurial and innovation skills.</span></span>
= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;">Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneuership</span></span><br/> =
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Faculty at LTU are encouraged to be innovative and entrepreneurial in the classroom, and in their personal lives. LTU utilizes two professors on campus to teach staff ways to incorporate innovation and entrepreneurship into their curriculum.</span></span>
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">All faculty members are updated during meetings about the new and exciting innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities. They are also given information, usually fliers, to hand out to their classes.</span></span>
= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;">Facilitating University-Industry Collboration</span></span> =
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; background-color: transparent;">There are various labs many industry-sponsoredlabs:</span></span>
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<li><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b55ce3ff-d360-89d7-066f-212d03d11b28"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ARC (Applied Research Center)</span></span></span></li>
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;">Engaging With Economic Development Efforts </span></span> =
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">This is not currently applicable to LTU, however, it will eventually be implemented in the near future.</span></span>
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