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[http://tamuhack.com/ TAMUHack] is the official [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon hackathon] of the university, where 700 students across the world get together on our campus to build amazing products quickly and intelligently. TAMUHack brings relevant industrial partners such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Rackspace to connect with our students and helps them to meet the needs of a world that is incessantly expanding. This event particularly allows the students to exercise their sense of entrepreneurship and innovation by rapidly developing solutions to modern problems in an efficient manner, and also helps our students to learn to work with a diverse set of team members. Additionally, this event exposes our students to the rapid construction/deployment framework, such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development agile development], that is one of the hallmarks of modernly relevant powerhouses in tech such as Square, Uber, Facebook, AirBnB, and others.

= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

Faculty are allowed to participate in nearly all of the programs run by <u>CNVE</u>&nbsp; which also enables them to be introduced to and educated in entrepreneurship, and there are numerous institutions that provide commercialization of research. For example, the Office of Texas A&M System Technology Commericialization assists faculty in taking their research outside the university in the form of inventions and startups.&nbsp;

= University Technology Transfer Function =

Texas A&M offers a number of offices to encourage quick transfer of research to industry, aided also by some incubators in the surrounding Bryan / College Station area.

[https://engineering.tamu.edu/programs/gcsp <u>The Grand Challenges Scholars Program</u>]&nbsp;(GCSP) is a selective, three-year program that will attract, retain, and graduate future leaders who are equipped to solve engineering grand challenges facing our society today and in the future. The Grand Challenge Scholar (GCS) will achieve in-depth understanding of their technical areas in the context of research related to a Grand Challenge problem while also gaining interdisciplinary, entrepreneurial, global, and service learning expertise and experiences. Grand Challenge Scholars will be prepared to be global leaders, in all sectors: academe, government, and industry. The program assists proactive and dedicated students to hone their academic aptitude into producing solutions to modern engineering problems.

The University has strong ties with big industry leaders to encourage a quick transition from research to industry.

*Relationships with

= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

= Landscape Canvas =

[https://drive.google. F][https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qa6gNU7XoOp4aswj1ZLC_I8Rmc29A5yzMurlh2L4OEE/edit?usp=sharing all 2016 Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1guZPj9TNkbHlm4i9gQLGil3IpHG-RQ6VR6lOVKxDW5M/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 Fall 2016 Landscape Presentation]&nbsp;

= Related Links =

[[Texas A&M University Student Priorities: Part II|Texas A & M University Student Priorities Part II]]

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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Carson_Muscat Carson Muscat]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Momore_Adesanmi Momore Adesanmi]