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Corey Brugh is junior Chemical and Biochemical Engineering student at graduated from the Colorado School of Mines. Born and raised in Austin, Texas, Corey has always shown with a strong interest in technology and businessB. After graduating from LC Anderson High School in 2004, Corey began his career in the restaurant industryS. For almost a decade, Corey managed restaurants in Austin, Kansas City, Waco, Raleigh and San AntonioChemical Engineering. In the final year of his restaurant career, Corey was While a full time engineering student at the Alamo Colleges in San AntonioMines, Texas. Corey spent one more year in San Antonio at the Alamo Colleges jumpstarted a campus culture change to embrace innovation and entrepreneurship through strong partnerships with faculty/administration and the University of Texas at San Antonio prior he created numerous opportunities for students to transferring to the Colorado School of Minesexperience design thinking.

Corey chose to finish his BS in Chemical Engineering is now an R&D engineer at Mines because P&G where he was planning on simultaneously opening his own restaurantis the franchise leader for global packaging initiatives for P&G’s hand dishwashing liquids business (Dawn, Gain, Ivory & Joy). Corey is a strong advocate for design thinking and lean start-up/wine bar with his father whom lives in Denver. As innovation within the plans to start his own Home Care business were put on hold, unit. Corey aggressively pursued his goals is a founding member of academic excellencethe North American Home Care Culture Team where he is driving organizational culture change to embrace diversity, obtaining inclusion and enabling an internship with an industry leader, and obtaining a position on campus performing independent researchorganization to deliver new innovative solutions to consumers across the globe.

== Work as a University Innovation Fellow == === Creation of NAE Grand Challenges Themed Learning Community === In partnership with Residence Life and campus faculty, Corey is currently researching proposed a new themed learning community based on the rheological effects NAE's Engineering Grand Challenges. This themed learning community will expose freshmen to new ways of ionic liquids on polyelectrolyte solutionsthinking and help build a foundation that will prepare them to address the grand challenges. The 5 core components of the community are entrepreneurship, research, global awareness, service learning and interdisciplinary understanding. During  === Rebooting the summer of 2014Mines Entrepreneurship Club === Corey has actively worked to help relaunch the [http://inside.mines.edu/EBGN-Student-Clubs entrepreneurship club]. As a founder and officer, Corey is helping create a vibrant and active campus organization that promotes entrepreneurship. === Pathways to Innovation === With help from faculty partners, Corey will be assembled a team of Mines faculty to apply for Epicenter's Pathways to Innovation program. [http://www.minesnewsroom.com/press-releases/mines-selected-pathways-innovation-program-nsf-funded-epicenter Accepted in Cincinnatithe Spring 2015 cohort], the pathways team is currently hard at work to improve I&E at Mines by curriculum changes, OH for an engineering research new systems/programs and development position with P&Gholding events to address the needs of the campus. For  === TEDxMines === Corey has assembled a team of students to organize a TEDx in the spring of 2016 for the 2014-15 school yearMines community. === Fighting for Student IP Rights === At a state and national level, Corey will be is a part of a Resident Assistant in Weaver Towersgroup of fellows that is working to remove unfair and often ambiguous university IP policies. These policies threaten to stymie the culture of student innovation and entrepreneurship sweeping the nation and already taking hold at leading institutions around the country. [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Students-for-IP-Rights/785534908153491 Students for IP Rights Facebook Page] [http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/students-for-intellectual-1?source=c.em&r_by=10921012 Petition for Students for IP Rights] [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/students-for-intellectual-property-rights Fundraising page for Students for IP Rights]

After a semester === Improving Engineering Ed at Mines, Corey looked for his own unique way of making a meaningful contribution which led him to applying to become the first University Innovation Fellow for the Colorado School National Academy of Mines.Engineering ===

== Work as a University Innovation Fellow ==Corey's direct appeal for support to 50+ engineering deans from the nation's top engineering schools at a National Academy of Engineering workshop on improving to improve engineering education.

Email: corey.brugh@universityinnovationgmail.org<brcom [https:/>Twitter: @cbrugh/www.linkedin.com/in/coreybrugh LinkedIn]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Colorado_School_of_Mines <b>Colorado School of Mines </b>] '''University Innovation Fellows''' Spring 2018: *[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Adam_Marcinkowski Adam Marcinkowski]*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Curtis_Harrison Curtis Harrison]*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Michael_Thuis Michael Thuis]*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Torin_Johnson Torin Johnson] Spring 2017: *[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emma_May Emma May]*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Tanner_McAdoo Tanner McAdoo]*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sarah_Ingram Sarah Ingram]*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Samuel_Warfield Samuel Warfield] Spring 2016: *[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mallory_Britz Mallory Britz]*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Daniel_Dickason Daniel Dickason]*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Trevor_Clevenger Trevor Clevenger]*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Tara_Maestas Tara Maestas]*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Asya_Sergoyan Asya Sergoyan]*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Yuan Nicholas Yuan] Spring 2014: *[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki Page/Corey_Brugh Corey Brugh] 

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