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I<span style="font-size: 12px;">nnovation & Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community (IE-LLC) The Living Learning Communities are the epitome of experiential education and can serve as a catalyst for I&E implementation efforts. &nbsp;The Innovation & Entrepreneurship LLC (IE-LLC) will help students in all majors and disciplines who want to extend collaboration outside of the classroom and into a residential setting. Specifically, the IE-LLC will develop and strengthen innovation and entrepreneurship skills throughout the course of the academic year for students. Additionally, it will provide incentive and enhancement for upperclassmen residential life. The University of New Haven serves as a leader in experiential education. &nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size: 12px;">Entrepreneurial Engineering Living Learning Community Efforts are continuing to develop and maintain the Entrepreneurial Engineering Living Learning Community. The E</span>²<span style="font-size: 12px;">-LLC offers a variety of enriching activities, including monthly discussion dinners, 24 Hour Imagination Quests, and weekly meetings with the E</span>²<span style="font-size: 12px;">-LLC student coordinator. The E</span>²<span style="font-size: 12px;">-LLC provides its’ members the opportunity to pursue feasible projects outside of their academic work. The E</span>²<span style="font-size: 12px;">-</span>^&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12px;">LLC also provides its members the chance to participate in a threshold level of activities over their four years in order to earn a certificate. The Entrepreneurial Thinkers Certificate will give students an edge in today's competitive job marketplace. E</span>²<span style="font-size: 12px;">-</span>^&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12px;">LLC does not require separate housing or fees, but it does require membership in the Engineering LLC. Think of it as a supplement to the Engineering LLC. University of New Haven is proudly a member of KEEN, a collaboration of universities that strive to instill an entrepreneurial mindset in undergraduate engineering and technology students. KEEN’s mission is to graduate engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset so they can create personal, economic, and societal value through a lifetime of meaningful work. Graduates of KEEN schools will be prepared to identify new technology-based business opportunities in their engineering disciplines. This network of colleges creates synergy between member institutions that takes advantage of the network’s collective faculty in a manner that transcends an individual university’s status. &nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size: 12px;">EMpwr</span>

<span style="font-size: 12px;">EMpwr (Entrepreneurial Mindset Power) is a new recognized student organization that promotes I&E and involves all majors. The five pillars of EMpwr are:&nbsp;</span><br/>#Leadership: Identify and pursue opportunities to develop the mindset, skillset, and world view related to being entrepreneurial.&nbsp;<br/>#Service: Address the local needs and apply the mindset to serve the community.&nbsp;<br/>#Outreach: Influence the future leaders, inspire innovators, and participate in enterprise.&nbsp;<br/>#Mentorship: Create meaningful peer to peer and professional relationships critical for networking and development of the individual mindset.&nbsp; #Competition: Innovate ideas and create novel solutions to real-world problems… Front-end of design with emphasis on the mindset.

University Innovation Fellows Spring 2017:<br/>[http://universityinnovation.org/Jillian%20Jacques Jillian Jacques<br />] <br/>[http://universityinnovation.org/Matthew%20Sheehy Matthew Sheehy]<br/>[http://universityinnovation.org/Austin%20Thomas Austin Thomas]<br/>[http://universityinnovation.org/Daniel%20Woronick Daniel Woronick]

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