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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-01eeb406-7fff-c2ed-b902-fac9b3e8e04f"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Two: Encouraging engineering/business major collaboration</span></span> = = <ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-01eeb406-7fff-c2ed-b902-fac9b3e8e04f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why: Some business students don't understand the technical side of product development and many engineering students don't understand the business side of idea development. While many students have amazing ideas, they don't know how to reach out to the other discipline to understand their perspective/knowledge.</span></span></li></ul> = ==== <span id="docs-internal-guid-01eeb406-7fff-c2ed-b902-fac9b3e8e04f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possible solutions:</span></span> ==== = <ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-01eeb406-7fff-c2ed-b902-fac9b3e8e04f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Startup Fair</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-01eeb406-7fff-c2ed-b902-fac9b3e8e04f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mirroring the BioE Reverse Career Fair that occurs at MSOE, students with an idea would set up booths around a public area (such as our Campus Center) to "pitch" their ideas and obtain feedback, mentors, partners, funding etc. Students looking for projects to work on would walk around the fair and could possibly discover a project to work on, be inspired to develop their own ideas, or be able to network with other like-minded individuals. Industry professionals could also be invited.</span></span></li></ul></li><br/ul> =
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