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= Student Innovation and & Entrepreneurship<br/> =

<span id="docs-internal-guid-e3687445-336a-782f-7574-00420f4c83a8"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tennessee Tech Technological University is filled an upbeat campus populated with students who are interested in making the work to make a positive impact on their world a better placedaily. On Numerous on-campus there are many resources implementing exist for students interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as , and these resources offer services and access to students from disciplines across the means to solve these problemscampus.</span></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Icubelogo.png|border|Icubelogo.png]]</span></span></p><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Venues available&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">for I&E oriented student interaction </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">include the b</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">usiness and engineering </span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">living-learning villages, 20+ student organizations fostering I&E mindsets, and the [http://www.ttuicube.com/ iCube] & iMakerspace where students and faculty imagine, inspire, and innovate.&nbsp;Located on the 3rd floor of the Volpe library, t</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">he 6,000 square foot iCube and iMakerspace facility provides students and faculty with access to virtual reality and immersive experience technologies (Oculus Rift and Vis-Box), 3-D printers, and shop tools for innovative design and prototyping. These spaces truly enable all Tech students to bring their dreams to life through hands-on design, experimentation, and interdisciplinary collaboration.</span>

<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); backgroundfont-colorfamily: transparentArial; verticalfont-alignsize: baseline15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">This innovative campus spirit is strengthened within the business and engineering curricula through courses focusing on real world applications. These courses,&nbsp;</span></span><br/><span idstyle="docscolor: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-internalfamily: Arial; font-guidsize: 15px; white-e3687445space: pre-336a-782f-7574-00420f4c83a8wrap;">including CHE 4410 Process Design, CHE 4661 Transport in Biochemical and Biological Processes, and BMGT 4930 Business Strategy, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); backgroundfont-colorfamily: transparentArial; verticalfont-alignsize: baseline15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">It beings with having a place for like-minded students to meet and talk. With two dormitories that are only for Business and Engineering majors an innovative environment naturally emerges. This innovative spirit is then strengthened by the curriculum that involves classes with real world examples. Classes that show students how to not only work with theoretical design models of their designs, but also the and develop economic and & marketing side of strategies for their work. These are upper level classes such as CHE 4410 Process Design and 4930 Business Strategyventures. MKT 4900 is a new course as of Spring 2015 that provides all students interested in I&E with the opportunity to participate in innovative activities through experiential learning as taught by local entrepreneurs. Additionally, this course helps prepare prepares students for the campus wide Eagle Works business pitch competition with $8,500 in prizesheld every spring.</span></span>

<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); backgroundfont-colorfamily: transparentArial; verticalfont-alignsize: baseline15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><The newest I&E course piloted Fall 2015, [https://www.tntech.edu/span><news/span><brreleases/><span id="docsnursing,-internalengineering-guid-e3687445-336astudents-782fcollaborate-7574on-00420f4c83a8"><span style="fonthealth-size: 15px; fontcare-family: Arial; color: rgb(68problems Clinical Immersion at Disciplinary Interfaces], 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interest is further driven by events like Tedx Nashville synergizes the minds of nursing and E-Weekchemical engineering students to develop solutions for health care innovation. Tedx Nashville is a yearly event that recently has been supported by Over the dean’s officesemester, encouraging students explore the local hospital and interview health care providers to attend identify problems and develop solutions which fit the event by paying for their ticketsneeds expressed through these experiences. E-week is a common event across many universities where At the end of the various course, each team composed of nursing and chemical engineering majors are brought together students present their projects and prototypes to a panel of faculty and pitted against each other in competitionsI&E professionals from the community.</span></span>

<spanid="docs-internal-guid-e3687445-336a-782f-7574-00420f4c83a8"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><Interest is also found at events like [http://tedxnashville.com/span>Tedx Nashville] and E-Week. Tedx Nashville is a yearly event recently supported by the Dean’s Office, which promotes student attendance by purchasing student tickets. E-week is a national event in which many universities participate. During the event, various engineering majors are brought together and pitted against each other in competitions.</span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-e3687445-336a-782f-7574-00420f4c83a8"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); backgroundfont-colorfamily: transparentArial; verticalfont-alignsize: baseline15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even if you are not a Business business or Engineering engineering major , there is still plenty to take part of in, such as the &nbsp;recent &nbsp;Research, Innovation and & Entrepreneurship Forum where speakers from the NSF will give gave talks to faculty and students regarding I&E.</span></span><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">UPDATE 4/18/2016: The Tennessee Board of Regents just recently approved an [https://www.tntech.edu/certificates/innovation-and-entrepreneurship-certificate I&E certificate] to be completed in conjunction with any undergraduate bachelors degree. We are so excited this opportunity has been approved for our students and cannot wait to award these certificates!</span></span></div>= Faculty Innovation and & Entrepreneurship<br/> =

<span id="docs-internal-guid-bc653010-336b-837f-327f-595d1f353465"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The teaching faculty at TN Tech is extremely involved with real world innovation. Many professors are currently doing perform research on something which they plan to turn develop into a product. And many in the future, and others have already started companies through their research.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-bc653010-336b-837f-327f-595d1f353465"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along with this environment of start-ups , there is a movement going on that is pushing forming which promotes innovation directly. With the help of VentureWell, faculty members were able to attend attended a workshop in the month of February 2014. They where they received training similar training to that which the University Innovation Fellows are receiving but on a higher levelreceive.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-bc653010-336b-837f-327f-595d1f353465"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This same group of faculty is also pushing to create promotes the creation of a new major on campus. Something that This pathway of study would combine aspects of the business and engineering curriculum curricula to create a are an area of study for students that are interested in entrepreneurshipspecifically.<br/></span></span><spanstyle="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span>

<span idfont color="#444444" face="docs-internal-guid-bc653010-336b-837f-327f-595d1f353465Arial"><span style="font-size: 15px; fontcaret-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); backgroundfont-colorsize: transparent; vertical-align: baseline15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Currently under construction on Tennessee Tech’s campus is a Maker Space made possible through Faculty also participate in courses provided by the collaborative efforts of faculty from both the College of Business and the College of Engineering. The vision Center for the Maker Space is to provide a space for students from all colleges to work together on projects Innovation in an innovative environment. The space will be equipped with a 3D printer, media roomTeaching and Learning, where cross-disciplinary approaches to I&E are discussed and workspace for Maker activitiespresented.</span></spanfont>

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<span id="docs-internal-guid-b6f5b89e-336c-d7ea-7c98-37c39144bedd"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The [http://www.thebizfoundry.org/ Biz Foundry ] is a local business accelerator in Upper Cumberland Tennessee, partnered with [http://launchtn.org/ Launch Tennessee]. They are focused The organization focuses on building a startup community that which nurtures local talent, innovation, and entrepreneurs in order to create a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem. The accelerator program pairs startups with mentors and investors in order to help aid with the business modeldevelopment.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-b6f5b89e-336c-d7ea-7c98-37c39144bedd"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Biz Foundry , located across the street from campus, is found right off campus. It’s a place for students and faculty to go for any ask questions related to start-up ventures.To aid in these start-up ventures, the Biz Foundry holds 24 Hour Launch events for students to bring their ideas to the next level of development.</span></span>

TN <span id="docs-internal-guid-b6f5b89e-336c-d7ea-7c98-37c39144bedd"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tech also has houses a [https://www.tsbdc.org/ Small Business Development Center ] for students to go and build up regional entrepreneurs seeking improve on their innovative ideas. It works as The center provides local business internships to students and host business seminars covering a sort wide range of pre meeting area before you go topics dealing with innovation and seek more helpentrepreneurship.</span></span><div><br/></div></div>

<span style="font-size: 9ptmedium; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-0184fd5e-336d-6bdb-d55b-943f1d7f30f8"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, sans68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-serifwrap;">At TN Tech With the aid of grants, such as the same faculty that have attended NCIIA workshops are now pushing [http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/i-corps/index.jsp National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps] (I-Corps^TM), the development amount of a Innovation and Discovery Center. This will be a space for students from every major research on Tech's campus is expected to come and workgrow significantly over the next few years. It will serve as a meeting ground and possibly center for entrepreneurship related clubs More and more faculty are partnering with industry leaders interested in the to turn their research being held on campusinto marketable products.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size: 9ptmedium; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-0184fd5e-336d-6bdb-d55b-943f1d7f30f8"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, sans68, 68); background-serifcolor: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also with Thanks to these grants, the aid of grants such as NSFs IiCube and iMakerspace, and help from external organizations like the Biz Foundry, local businesses from the near-core the amount by cities of research on campus is expected Nashville and Knoxville now have a place to grow over discuss the next few years. More and more faculty are partnering with industry to turn their research into a marketable producthappening at TN Tech.</span></span></span><div><br/></div>= Regional & Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> =

<span style="font-size: 9ptmedium; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-b1cb30f3-336e-059c-da11-978c1365dae3"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, sans68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-serifwrap;">Thanks to these grantsTN Tech is located in the small town of Cookeville, TN. The campus itself is one of the biggest aspects of the Innovation town and Discovery Center, and help is subsequently a large contributor to the local economy. Besides the fact huge amounts of money come from students that buy things from places like the Biz Foundry local Businesses from nearbusinesses, there is also a lot of community service which takes place.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-by cities color: transparent;">Events like the Relay for Life bring in tens of thousands of Nashville dollars for cancer research every spring, and Knoxville now have a place to go to discuss university and roadside clean-ups coordinated by Greek life organizations keep the research happening at TN Techcity clean.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts"docs-internal-guid-b1cb30f3-336e-059c-da11-978c1365dae3"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Due to Cookeville's location in the center of three of Tennessee's major cities (Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga), it is often a meeting ground for innovation. Much work is done between these four cities to bring businesses from across the country to the increasingly innovative state of Tennessee. <br/><br/> =</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size: 9ptmedium; "><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, sans68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-serifwrap;">TN Tech is located in a very small town called Cookeville. The campus itself is one of the biggest aspects of the town and one of the biggest economic factors. Besides the fact that huge amounts of money come from students that buy things from the local businesses, there is also a lot of community service that takes place.&nbsp;</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serifmedium;">Events like Relay for Life bring in tens of thousands of dollars for cancer research every spring. Campus wide clean ups keep the university clean and roadside clean ups mostly from Greek life organizations keep the city clean.&nbsp;</span> <span style="font-sizefamily: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: 9ptbaseline; fontwhite-familyspace: Arial, sanspre-serifwrap;">Due The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Committee also launched the "Rural Reimagined" initiative to challenge students to use their I&E skills to improve rural life. These projects include expanding healthcare access, internet access and other vital resources to Cookeville being in the center of 3 major cities (Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga) It is often a meeting ground for innovation. Much work is done between these 4 cities in terms underserved populations of bringing in Businesses from across to the country to TennesseeUpper Cumberland.</span></span></span>

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