Changes

← Older edit

Priorities:Tennessee Technological University Student Priorities

8,435 bytes added, 5 years ago

no edit summary

As the Spring 2016 UIF leadership circle for Tennessee Technological University, we hope to increase and expand innovative and entrepreneurial mindsets across campus. In 5 to 10 years we want to come back to see engineers working with artists, chemists creating alongside social scientists, and business professionals collaborating with human ecologists. We hope to see greater and stronger student-faculty relationships, students pursuing their innovative ideas from day 1 of freshman year, and a greater use of campus and regional resources to help students and faculty bring their ambitions to life. Above all, we hope to see innovative thinking become the standard, not the exception.

= '''Fall 2019 PRIORITIES''' =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u6oo2HFwLM Fall 2019 Video]

STUDENT PRIORITY #1: Chad Wilson

==== Financial Education & Accountibilty for Students ====

If you asked any college student, "why are you in college" they would tell you they are chasing a career. Of course, they wouldn't be handing over their parents life savings if they didn't believe they wouldn't get a return on their tuition. So many students today find themselves in financial crisis both in and outside of school. They struggle with the almighty student loan debt crisis, credit cards, car loans and personal spending all while expected to buy a home and live the American Dream. My proposal is to implement a student run organization or club that brings students from Tennessee Tech together to discuss these important topics. Students should be able to create lofty, financial goals for themselves and their legacy yet, nobody has told them that they can achieve a high level of financial success. I will be the first of their peers to tell them that anything they can conceive, they can achieve. We will discuss the steps necessary in creating wealth, create goals, live by those goals, and inspire financial change for our generation. 

== STUDENT PRIORITY #2: Rachel Smith ==

==== Team Building & Leadership Skills for Students ====

Many students face issues when it comes to working with a team for class projects or in their work and home lives. Many students don’t know how to face these issues, which makes working in a team, for any reason, frustrating. Students also have been vocal about the lack of leadership skills they have. Several students that I have talked with have mentioned that leadership is something that they are never really taught; all throughout high school, they are taught to follow, but never how to be the one that is followed. For my project, I want to offer these skills to students in a way that can be fun and stress-free, but also provide them with what they need to succeed. My idea is to offer a 1 credit hour course that offers team building and leadership skills to all students in an outdoor setting. This course would be a 4-5-week course offered in the spring. Participating students would meet once a week for an outdoor activity that involves either teamwork, leadership from each student, or both. After course completion, each student would have skills on how to effectively work as a team member in a functional group, and how to take the leadership role in a situation. This will help students with class projects as well as in any entrepreneurial role they may take on. 

== STUDENT PRIORITY #3: Mik Davis ==

==== Integrating Student Information Networks  ====

<span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the most confusing and challenging aspects of adjusting to college life is learning how to access resources. During our first interactions with campus life, students are often given many business cards, phone numbers and pamphlets about campus resources that are quickly lost or forgotten about. From health services to student organizations, there are information networks across campus that are available to students but not interconnected. This can make it difficult for students to find out what is going on across campus and how to access resources available to them. This strategic priority is focused on integrating those information networks for student access. This includes fostering cooperation between academic and administrative units that disseminate information, creating new networks of information and new distribution and reviving old networks that are underutilized. This will be accomplished through revitalizing and reopening the television broadcasting studio on campus and making it available for student use. The studio will serve as the new hub for information dissemination across campus, from academics to administration to student life; there will be one source to fuel and connect many networks.

== STUDENT PRIORITY #4: Courtney Savage ==

==== Spreading Knowledge of I&E and Available Resources Through Collaboration ====

While our campus offers diverse opportunities and resources in the field of innovation, many students are unaware of the possibilities. In addition, several opportunities are reserved for students from specific departments. My idea is to introduce the various aspects of I&E by building a club of students from different majors and backgrounds who will learn about I&E through a hands-on approach. The re-establishment of iCARE, a social entrepreneurship club, will make this introduction possible. The goals of iCARE are to introduce and explain the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship, inspire students to take an active role in the well-being of their community, and integrate the ideas and skills of students across campus. iCARE will work to complete these goals in several different ways. We will invite speakers who have mixed innovation with social entrepreneurship to build interest in I&E. The first project of iCARE will be a collaboration with a local Senior Center. Students will learn about the design process throughout this project. They will communicate with the older adults at the center to determine any difficulties they may face on a day-to-day basis. The older adults and students will work together to brainstorm possible solutions and develop a prototype. This will serve as an introduction to the I&E resources (such as the iMakerSpace) available on campus. By collaborating with the outside community we hope to introduce and promote I&E on a larger scale. 

= SPRING 2017 PRIORITIES =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAkAHf1uqUk&feature=youtu.be Pitch Video]

= '''STUDENT PRIORITY #1: Alicen Long''' =

= BRIDGING THE CURRENT GAP BETWEEN INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL RESOURCES OFFERED AT TTU & TTU'S PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS =

One way I will help bridge this gap will be by exposing psychology students to virtual reality and explaining the new presence it has taken in the field of psychology. After talking with several students, I found that not one was aware of this new method of therapy using virtual reality for patients of all kinds. Students did find it very interesting and I feel this is a great way to get psychology student's foot in the door of I&E. Virtual reality has been used for exposure therapy to help patients conquer fears of flying, test-taking anxiety, panic attacks, arachnophobia, anxiety disorders, and even ADHD, but is not limited to this list. A lot of students, including myself, didn't know or only knew about a few I&E resources our campus offers at a surface level. I believe opening up this opportunity to psychology students to learn about this subfield and virtual reality will spark the flame of I&E awareness and involvement for my target population, psychology ~~students~~ students who currently have little to no involvement with the I&E community.

Whereas, we are obviously not certified counselors or psychologists and cannot actually perform these kinds of therapies. I do believe making students aware of this subfield within psychology and giving them direct opportunities to interact with virtual reality will be a big step toward our leadership circle's goals of breaking down academic silos and connecting passion and education with career through innovation and entrepreneurship.

= '''STUDENT PRIORITY #2: Caroline Timpson''' =

= CREATING A CODING CLASS FOR ENTREPRENEURS =

One of the huge hurdles students face when trying to build their own business, or change the conversation about something, is not having the right tools or knowledge. That inspired my goal. So What I want to change in I&E for students, is creating a class to help teach coding to non-computer science majors. The class would focus on app development and html. You may be thinking, Why this specific class, when you could easily just take an intro to Computer science? By focusing on specific entrepreneurial hurdles that students run into such as building a website for their product, this class becomes a channel to empower students in the I&E community. It introduces students to a “scary thing” through an elective, fostering a low pressure atmosphere to encourage failure, and mistakes, so that students can get a deeper understanding and learn more. Learning to code is great practice for precise, disciplined, and abstract thinking. Programming transforms a computer from something you use to do basic tasks into a power tool. It allows students to take what the they have and take it to their job or even create their own path.

= '''STUDENT PRIORITY #3: Justin Medley''' =

'''~~SPEAKERS AND EXCURSIONS TO BRIDGE THE I&E DEVIDE BETWEEN ACADEMICS AND INDUSTRY~~INTERDISCIPLINARY FINANCIAL LITERACY''' While much attention is given to the concept of an ‘Academic Silo’, there exists a similar effect between Industry and the Academic world as a whole. Tennessee Technological University has a Career Services department that facilitates Co-operative Education (Co-op), and internship experiences. I believe these are excellent avenues for students to gain real experience and learning. However, great benefit could be provided with shorter term opportunities.

~~Excursions / Field Trips will be set up with different companies, for students~~ I have chosen to deploy knowledge and access to Bloomberg Terminals across campus and across disciplines. The Bloomberg Terminal has been called the most powerful machine in business. The terminal has over 50% of the market share among financial data services. The College of Business at Tennessee Technological University has recently acquired approximately 10 of ~~all majors~~these machines. ~~Organizations from all areas will be considered~~My vision is to see other Colleges within the University take advantage of this incredible technology by utilizing the terminal in the context of their discipline. ~~Trips will be organized~~ My initiative is to hold trainings for ~~classes~~different academic groups. For instance, ~~departments, and colleges, with overlap between each~~the Bloomberg Terminals have mapping functions that use file formats only used within the GIST community. ~~Various companies will be chosen by departmental interest~~Bloomberg has a team dedicated to GIST training. The ~~students will get~~ first student group I would like to train is the ~~chance to job shadow people from their area of study, and~~ Graduate Students from ~~other disciplines~~our distinguished Water Research Center.~~  As a prelude to this experiential learning~~Future trainings will at first be based on interest, ~~employees~~ which has been shown from ~~such a company will come to~~ the ~~University~~ Department of Earth Sciences and ~~talk to student groups~~the Department of Chemistry.

= '''STUDENT PRIORITY #4: Shelby Williams''' =

= STUDENT PRIORITY #2B: JACQUELINE SCHULZ =

== '''RUSH UIF BEGINNING OF THE YEAR EVENT SERIES[[File:RushUIFlogo Purple.png|frame~~|RushUIFlogo Purple.png~~]]''' ==

RUSH UIF is a four part event series which seeks to expose students to Innovation & Entrepreneurship in fun and exciting ways and increase student awareness of the underlying prevalence of Innovation & Entrepreneurship in our culture today. Each event is very different from the last, targeting a different reason or avenue for I&E involvement. This year's series took place August 29th, 2016 - September 1st, 2016.

I will run a pilot “Design Thinking College” course. The class will meet in the maker space and feature key I&E faculty and leadership as guest speakers and lecturers. The class will involve a hands on I&E project from day one and will conclude with an idea pitch competition. This class aims to introduce students to the I&E framework so early in their college careers it becomes their default, and they can engage in the community and culture we are trying to build at Tennessee Tech.

= SPRING 2016 PROJECT PITCH VIDEO =

~~= RELATED LINKS =~~

~~= Related Links =~~

= Related Links =

[[Tennessee Technological University]]

'''~~Tennesse~~ 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: [[Courtney Savage|Courtney Savage]]

[~~https://www.tntech.edu/innovation Tennessee Tech I&E Program~~[Mik Davis|Mik Davis]]

~~University Innovation Fellows~~[[Rachel N. Smith|Rachel N. Smith]]

~~Spring 2017~~Fall 2016:

[[Justin Medley|Justin Medley]]

[[~~Shelby_Williams~~Shelby Williams|Shelby Williams]]

[[Alicen long|Alicen Long]]

[[Caroline timpson|Caroline Timpson]]

Spring 2016:

[[Category:Student Priorities|t]]

[[Category:Student Priorities]]

[[Category:Tennessee_Technological_University]]

[[Category:Student_Priorities]]

JayBot

2,143

edits