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University Innovation Fellow Candidates: Spring 2014 - Alex Francis, Carlton Reeves, Rob Salamon<br/><br/>At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee there has been a steady build in what we call the “Innovation Engine”. About four or five years ago, senior leadership at UWM set a plan in motion to ignite this innovation engine and since then it has been steadily burning while gaining momentum and attracting the masses. This movement began when the current Chancellor of UWM, Dr. Michael Lovell, then the Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS), who began forging industry partnerships with such local companies as Ansys, General Electric Healthcare, Rockwell Automation, and Johnson Controls. As a result of these partnerships, new research opportunities began to flourish and the engineering faculty as a whole acted as first followers as they began collaborating in redesigned laboratories, state-of-the-art technical facilities, and through revolutionary classroom instruction. This garnered much interest and support throughout the school and the effects reverberate through the senior leadership and the then Dean of CEAS, now became the Chancellor of the university.