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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 Technological University is an upbeat campus filled populated with students who are interested in making the world work to make a better place in positive impact on their own form and fashionworld daily. For those Numerous on-campus resources exist for students interested in innovation and entrepreneurship, there are numerous on-and these resources offer services and access to students from disciplines across the campus resources.</span></span>

<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 to like&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-minded students wrap;">for I&E oriented student interaction and creation </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, countless 20+ student organizations which foster fostering I&E mindsets, and the new [http://www.ttuicube.com/ iCube/] & iMakerspace located where students and faculty imagine, inspire, and innovate.&nbsp;Located on the third 3rd floor of the Volpe Library. library, t</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">These new additions open he 6,000 square foot iCube and iMakerspace facility provides students and faculty with access to all Tech students provide a virtual reality roomand immersive experience technologies (Oculus Rift and Vis-Box), 3-D printers, and lots of lab spaceshop tools for innovative design and prototyping. The iCube and iMakerspace These spaces truly enable all Tech students to bring their dreams to life as they take shape and evolve through hands-on design , experimentation, and experimentationinterdisciplinary collaboration.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; 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. Courses show students how work with theoretical models of their designs and develop economic and marketing strategies for the venture. Some of these These courses include ,&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">including CHE 4410 Process Design, CHE 4661 Transport in Biochemical and Biological Processes, and BMGT 4930 Business Strategy, </span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">show students how to work with theoretical design models and develop economic & marketing strategies for their ventures. MKT 4900 provides students interested in I&E with the opportunity to participate in innovative activities through experiential learning as taught by local entrepreneurs. Additionally, this course prepares students for the campus wide Eagle Works business pitch competition held every spring.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The newest I&E course piloted Fall 2015, [https://www.tntech.edu/news/releases/nursing,-engineering-students-collaborate-on-health-care-problems Clinical Immersion at Interdisciplinary Disciplinary Interfaces], is a course which synergizes the minds of nursing and chemical engineering students to develop solutions for health care innovation. Over the semester, students explore the local hospital and interview health care providers to identify problems and develop solutions which fit the needs expressed through these experiences. At the end of the course, each team composed of nursing and chemical engineering students present their projects and prototypes to a pannel panel of faculty and I&E professionals from the community.</span>

<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;">Interest is also found at events like [http://tedxnashville.com/ 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></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even if you are not a business or engineering major, there is still plenty to take part in, such as the&nbsp;recent Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum where speakers from the NSF gave talks to faculty and students regarding I&E.</span> <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>

<span id= Faculty Innovation "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 Tech is extremely involved with real world innovation. Many professors currently perform research which they plan to develop into a product in the future, and Entrepreneurshipothers have already started companies through their research.<br/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;">The faculty at Tech are extremely involved Along with real world this environment of start-ups, there is a movement forming which promotes innovationdirectly. Many professors currently perform research which With the help of VentureWell, faculty members attended a workshop in February 2014 where they plan received training similar to develop into a product in that which the future, and others have already started companies through their researchUniversity Innovation Fellows receive.</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 This same group of start-ups, there is a movement forming which faculty also promotes innovation directly. With the help creation of VentureWell, faculty members were able to attend a workshop in new major on campus. This pathway of study would combine aspects of the month business and engineering curricula to create an area of February 2014. They received similar training to that which the University Innovation Fellows receive but on a higher levelstudy for students interested in entrepreneurship specifically.<br/></span></span><span style="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="fontcaret-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); backgroundfont-colorsize: transparent; vertical-align: baseline15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This same group of faculty is Faculty also pushing to create a new major on campus. Something which would combine aspects of participate in courses provided by the business Center for Innovation in Teaching and engineering curricula Learning, where cross-disciplinary approaches to create an area of study for students interested in entrepreneurshipI&E are discussed and presented.</span></spanfont>

<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]. The organization focuses on building a startup community which nurtures local talent, innovation, and entrepreneurs in order to create a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem. The accelerator program pairs startups with mentors and investors to aid with business model development.</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;">Tech also houses a [https://www.tsbdc.org/ Small Business Development Center ] for students regional entrepreneurs seeking improve on their innovative ideas. The center provides local business internships to students and host business seminars covering a wide range of topics dealing with innovation and entrepreneurship.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0184fd5e-336d-6bdb-d55b-943f1d7f30f8"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At TN Tech With the aid of grants, such as the same faculty that have attended VentureWell 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:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0184fd5e-336d-6bdb-d55b-943f1d7f30f8"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also with Thanks to these grants, the iCube and iMakerspace, and help from external organizations like the Biz Foundry, local businesses from the aid of grants such as NSFs Inear-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:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0184fd5eb1cb30f3-336d336e-6bdb059c-d55bda11-943f1d7f30f8978c1365dae3"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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 near-by cities businesses, there is also a lot of Nashville and Knoxville now have a community service which takes place to go to discuss the research happening at TN Tech.</span></span><divspan style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Events like the Relay for Life bring in tens of thousands of dollars for cancer research every spring, and university and roadside clean-ups coordinated by Greek life organizations keep the city clean.<br/span></div>= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts<br/span> =

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="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;">TN Tech is located Due to Cookeville's location in Cookeville. The campus itself is one of the biggest aspects center of the town and one three of the biggest economic factorsTennessee's major cities (Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga), it is often a meeting ground for innovation. Besides Much work is done between these four cities to bring businesses from across the fact that huge amounts of money come from students that buy things from country to the local businesses, there is also a lot increasingly innovative state of community service that takes placeTennessee.<br/><br/></span></span></span>

<span idstyle="docsfont-internal-guid-b1cb30f3-336e-059c-da11-978c1365dae3size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span>

<span idstyle="docsfont-internal-guid-b1cb30f3-336e-059c-da11-978c1365dae3size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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 underserved populations 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 of bringing in Businesses from across the country to TennesseeUpper Cumberland.</span></span></span>

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= Related Links =Tennesse Technological University [[Tennessee Technological University Student Priorities|Tennessee Technological University Student Priorities]] [https://www.tntech.edu/innovation Tennessee Tech I&E Program] [http://www.ttuicube.com/ TTU iCube] University Innovation Fellows Fall 2019 [[Rachel N. Smith|Rachel N Smith]] [[Courtney Savage|Courtney Savage]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mik_Davis Mik Davis] Fall 2016 [[Justin Medley|Justin Medley]]&nbsp; [[Shelby Williams|Shelby Williams]] [[Alicen long|Alicen Long]] [[Caroline timpson|Caroline Timpson]] Spring 2016:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ashlin_Wildun Ashlin Wildun[Nicholas Russell|Nicholas Russell]]

[[Nicholas_RussellAshlin Wildun|Nicholas RussellAshlin Wildun]] Spring 2015:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Enis_Cirak Enis Cirak[Jonathan Abbotoy|Jonathan Abbotoy]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jonathan_Abbotoy Jonathan Abbotoy[Abigail Collins|Abigail Collins]]

[httpSpring 2014://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Abigail_Collins Abigail Collins]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Tennessee_Technological_University-_Student_Priorities Tennessee Technological University Student Priorities[Enis Cirak|Enis Cirak]]

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