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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">In order for students to work together on interdisciplinary projects there needs to be a pipeline for building and supporting those connections. You need to have faculty and administrators invested in supporting classes or regular projects that students know will exist regularly. Regularity is important because it helps build a reputation and a community around that pipeline, providing new students more support.</span>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introducing potential and new students to interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial programs, classes, and clubs during campus visits and orientations is important for informing students with such interests. University Innovation Fellows should tap into existing programs and strive to grow their imporantance on campus.</span>
<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-033dc7a0-600c-cdc2-b6a3-992e897bc4f5"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students of every major can benefit from interdisciplinary work. Classes that blend various majors together have the potential to create, innovate, and problem-solve areas that are overlooked when only one type of mindset is in the classroom. For example, the Chemical Engineering and Nursing class at Tennessee Tech uses students strengths in their different fields to create medical devices. These students must present their product and work to ensure that a built prototype would work. Entrepreneurial skills are laced throughout the coursework and strengthen students’ skills. Setting the bar for campus’ interdisciplinary work is imperative to the effective collaboration of students and their preparedness for future work.</span></span>
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