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=== Overview Background ===
Undergraduate Degrees
*Industrial and System Engineering
*Mechanical Engineering
*Cyber Security Engineering
=== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship === <span style="font-size:small;">Changemaker Hub</span> <span style="font-size:small;">The Changemaker Hub is a resource for students on campus to actively learn and engage with social justice and social innovation on both a global and local scale. The Changemaker Hub is a central location on campus that facilitates students getting involved within their communities as well as on and off campus. The Hub is also an Ashoka U certified organization on our campus and is dedicated to teaching students the method and importance of design-thinking. Every semester, there are a number of workshops put on centered around design-thinking, entrepreneurship, and innovation. One example of a design-thinking workshop is the LAUNCH program. LAUNCH is a six-week design thinking bootcamp put on by the Changemaker Hub every semester. </span> <span style="font-size:small;">Initiatives on Campus </span> <span style="font-size:small;">Because the Changemaker Hub is so central to campus, there are a myriad of events that take place within it. Not only this, but the Hub is working to collaborate with other clubs on campus to reach the student body even more. Pancake Peeps just recently merged with the Changemaker Hub in 2019. Pancake Peeps is a club that was started by a dedicated student who was involved with the Changemaker Hub, and is now an extremely popular program. Every Saturday, students carpool to Downtown, San Diego, to cook pancakes for the local homeless population. </span> <span style="font-size: small;">Furthermore, Outdoor Adventures is a wide-reaching program on campus. Many students resonate with the love of being outdoors. Outdoor Adventures goes on frequent trips, as well as a retreat before the school year even starts. A lot of students begin to feel really at home with the Outdoor Adventures community, and are able to bond with new friends in the outdoors!</span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Other organizations such as the Math Learning Center are really crucial to campus. The Changemaker Hub peer-to-peer tutoring is a resource for especially helpful as students on campus to actively learn and engage with social justice and social innovation on a global scale can more effectively help others when they have literally had the same professors and local scale. This is an Ashoka U certified organization on our campus that allows us to actively network with other universities around sat in the globe passionate about social innovation. This resource provides education and experience human-centered design, user testing, community engagement, and much more. same desks!</span>
<span style="font-size: small;">USD provides many opportunities for Entreprenuership through the Entrepreneurship Club and their events, as well as "Torero Treks" where students visit real, large companies and learn about what goes on there. </span>
=== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ===
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size== Initiatives on Campus ==="2">Due to the nature of small class sizes, faculty and students are very closely connected. Most teachers know all or at least a majority of their students names. The smaller environment makes many students feel more comfortable and feel like they can approach their professors. In comparison, professors also feel closer to their students becuase they have such small class sizes. Professors make sure to offer their time in office hours regularly.</font>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span styleface="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Current initiatives on our campus include a variety of events across multiple departments. Our Changemaker Hub promotes social innovation and entrepreneurship through Social Change Corps, Changemaker Student Committee, hosting a social innovation lab and promoting social innovation to incoming students. <span stylesize="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;2">Our Career Development Center encourages Furthermore, because students to go and teachers are so close, many faculty on a “Torero Trek” which is an opportunity for students to travel across the country to learn campus are passionate about career opportunities from innovative and diverse businesses. In addition to departmental initiatives, helping students who have created with their own organizations on campus also promote and take part in social innovation and entrepreneurshipendeavours, whether these endeavours are academic or not. Some Student run organizations include: Net Impact ClubFor example, TEDx, and pancake peeps. These Organization along work study students are given the opportunity to work closely with many others go above faculty members and beyond learn what it is like to take action and hold events throughout the year.</span></span></span><div><br/></div><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In addition, USD is currently implementing a strategic plan "Envisioning 2024". This strategic <span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">plan has been put be in place to capitalizes on the university’s recent progress and aligns new strategic goals with current strengths to help shape a vision for the future as the university looks ahead to its 75th anniversary in the year 2024business. Through this process we are analyzing how we can enhance student successFor instance, strengthen diversity, inclusion, and social justice, and improve other aspects of our campusstudents may participate in staff meetings. </span> </span></spanfont>
=== Areas We Can Improve<br/> Actively Supporting The University Technology Transfer Function ===
Students at USD offers a wide range could be more closely integrated during Freshman Year. Due to the spread out locations of events on-campus dorms, many poeple struggle to meet others outside of their living area on campus. The freshman orientation includes many activities and opportunities for field trips where students from diverse backgrounds but we can still improve some aspects of our campusare randomly paired together, no matter where they live. We feel that we can re-imagine parts would love to facilitate more of the Freshmen Orientation experience so as these trips to accommodate bring opportunities for students all students better and ensure we are offering the most engaging and innovative opportunities our over campus has to offermeet each other.
=== <br/> Facilitating University Innovation Industry Collaborations ===
-My Story
-What I Be Project
-Changemaker Challenge
-LAUNCH
-Social Change Corps
-Ashoka U Exchange Conference === Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts === Feedback from Students ===
When we interviewed some students on campus we found that there were a few common concerns among the students. Many voiced concerns about the lack of transportation from and around campus. When interviewing students it was also made apparent that we can do a better job publicizing some opportunities better to students such as grants offered and opportunities for students to use what they learned in the classroom in real life. Students also shared that they enjoyed our events that were linked to the community such as My Story and Dinner with Strangers and they would appreciate working more with the local USD community.
Active students who hold leadership positions and who take initiative are more aware of various opportunities for innovation, but the general student body and alumni often lack a way of connecting to our Changemaker identity. We consider this a big problem that we want to explore and further research. In addition, in the "spin out" section USD lacked a long-term support system of students interested in innovation and entrepreneurship after graduation. While USD offers a variety of ways to get involved while attending the college, it lacks a connect to alumni and supporting students after they graduate.
=== Related Links ===
<u>University of San Diego Strategic Priorities</u>
2019 Cohort: Strategic priorities described in: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_San_Diego_Student_Priorities Session 4 Strategic Priorities]
2018 Cohort: Strategic priorities video: [https://youtu.be/6y2aofmyf-M https://youtu.be/6y2aofmyf-M]
<u>Members of UIF team:</u>
''2019 Cohort''
[[Erica buyalos|Erica Buyalos]]
[[Sophia_Austin|Sophia Austin]]
[[Tanya_Keval|Tanya Keval]]
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Linnea_Leidy Linnea Leidy]
''2018 Cohort''
[[User:Isabelle Ashraf|Isabelle Ashraf]]
[[User:Jheaton|Julia Heaton]]
[[User:Reijer Den Dulk|Reijer Den Dulk]]
[[User:Riley Dean|Riley Dean]]
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