2023 Cohort
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= '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' <br/> Overview=
George Fox University promotes many opportunites for students has a community that is ready to discover innovation and entrepreneurship. This is mainly done through classes that encourage an innovative thinking through projectsand entrepreneurial mindset. These are classes like Engineering PrinciplesThe physical resources and infrastructure have been heavily improved, which and hands-on learning is two parts, each part consisting of a end of semester project with an open ended way to solve a problempriority among the faculty. Where it is lacking is in implementation; Microprocessors, where students are allowed to design face a completely custom circuit board that does whatever they want as long as they meet a few requirements; lack of resources and Cost Accounting, where _________. George Fox University also has the abilty to easily promote any innovation and entrepreneur miindedness through their many communication channels such as the "Daily Bruin" or the "George Fox Journal"mentoring which makes spinout difficult.
= '''Encouraging faculty Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' =
Another avenue for student entrepreneurship is through the newly built Maker's space. The impressive 16,000 sq. ft engineering playground boasts a full machine shop, surveying shop, woodworking equipment, an additive manufacturing and prototype lab, an extensive tool room, and several computer labs. It is here that every freshman engineer learns to build a wobbler engine and compete their engine against the other engineering freshmen in the infamous Wobble Off. Here students have the opportunity to work on their own projects, from arcade machines to popsicle stick bridges to anything they can think of. A new modification since 2020 allows all majors at George Fox to take the access quiz to the MakerHub, and utilize the different facilities within. This creates room for innovation to be bridged across disciplines beyond engineering, if executed in a proper manner that teaches all users of the space the full capabilities of being in there. ='''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship'''= George Fox faculty focus is on teaching, though some research does happen throughout the school year and is more common in the summer. To advance at George Fox as a faculty member, you need to show quality teaching and some form of continuing scholarship, however scholarship is not required to be research with students, it can be an article in a peer-reviewed journal or a speech at a conference. The faculty do have diverse industrial backgrounds and passion projects, and they are beginning to share those with the students. For instance, a few years ago several faculty members with experience in the developing world have invited students to join them in Peru for a summer service project. The faculty's passion for service has the potential to foster a positive I&E culture on campus. = '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function''' =
Unfortunately, George Fox University has no technology transfer office or any means of aiding students in connecting with industry to share new ideas.
= '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' = George Fox has connections with many local businesses such as A-dec, Legacy Health, and Nike, to name a few. Employees of these companies serve on advisory boards and attend regular career fairs. Many are also George Fox alums. Classes in manufacturing and start-up style business make trips to see companies practicing the principles they are learning about in class. The engineering program also has close relations with local industry through Senior Design, a capstone class in which senior students develop a product in conjunction with an industry partner. ='''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts'''= Despite our close ties with local industries, George Fox University makes a minimal effort to benefit the community economically. At the beginning of the year, students receive a 'coupon card' with various discounts that students can use at local shops and restaurants, but the focus of this is to plug students into the community, and not necessarily to benefit the local economic development efforts. Some outside contracting is done through the maker's space, print shop, ceramics labs, sporting events, or other resources on campus but very little advertising goes into these functions and they are not widely encouraged. =The Landscape Canvas = [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gS0HifBvrTsDgTbvJIh7xWPmFyMyOg3sYAz_e1nLSYg/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas Spreadsheet] [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cKbj5UO0-vGz5J5_gsvwWwzi0ABnsNCdHh4nme1bj6g/edit?pli=1#gid=0 Landscape Canvas Spreadsheet 2023] =Related Links= '''George Fox University''' [[George Fox University Student Priorities|George Fox University Strategic Priorities]] University Innovation Fellows Fall 2023 [[Fellow:Hailey McCollum|Hailey McCollum]] [[Fellow:Sara Wytsma|Sara Wystma]] [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Liz_Wood Liz Wood] Fall 2019: [[Bret Henkel|Bret Henkel]] [[Emily Holder|Emily Holder]] [[Emily Erickson|Emily Erickson]] [[Dylan Hughes|Dylan Hughes]] Fall 2018: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Clark Gabriel Clark] [[David Bacher|David Bacher]] [[Venedict Matveev|Venedict Matveev]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Hull Matthew Hull] Fall 2017: [[Gabriel Gutierrez|Gabriel Gutierrez]]
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