Florida Tech has also recently been names as one of the '''''Top 50 Entrepreneurial Universities by Forbes''''', which is a testament to the purpose efforts undertaken in recent years to create a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. As a private institution, Florida Tech has a history of high-quality undergraduate engineering education. However, Florida Tech has yet to realize its entrepreneurial potential due to a lack of formal training and education in entrepreneurship of faculty, the administration, and students. Largely, only a few faculty initially spearheaded the entrepreneurial endeavors, but as with many culture-changing endeavors, the current champions seek to create a critical mass of followers, adopters, and co-implementers.
<div>= Strategy '''STRATEGY # 2: CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT EXISTING FACILITIES FOR INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENUERSHIP''' =</div>== '''Tactic # 1: Increase interdisciplinary collabration for student capstone projects Support Weekly Innovation Challenges''' ==
== Tactic # 1'''Description: Create a pilot capstone design program incorporating college of engineering ''' Weekly Innovation Challenges are supported by Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN). Each week students will practice and college of business students ==develop an entrepreneurial mindset.
Currently, students spend an entire year at FIT developing an almost industry-ready designs. Many times, these designs go on display at the university, but unfortunately, do not go much further than Why does this. We are trying to incorporate business students into these projects to create successful businesses out of these projects that students work long hours developing.mindset matter?
== Tactic # 2Find out here http://engineeringunleashed.com/ or watch this video https: Amalgamize all individual departmental capstone courses into one overarching, univesity-wide capstone course =//www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZHvRpuemgk
Senior Design is currently run by each individual major. Multidisciplinary projects exist far and few between, which is a disservice to the students as well as the universityQuestions or Suggestions for Challenges. We wish to eradicate the current major-specific senior design program and make cross-major projects more commonplace, if not required. This gives a more in-depth experience of a real industry project.
== Tactic # 3: Get industry members to advise and sponsor the univeristy-wide capstone projects ==Contact Jennifer Schlegel jschlegel@fit.edu
We wish '''Milestones:''' · Ask organizations on campus to see advertise this event with their members · Share the following details about the innovation challenge with more industrystudents: Challenges are worked in teams of three. ALL students are welcomed but teams are encouraged to have at least one engineering student. Students are free to form their teams ahead of time. No need to have a team of three to participate — just show up. Judging Guest judges will determine the winning team. Prizes Winning team participants are awarded $100 gift cards. Team picture posted to innovation gallery of champions<div>== Tactic # 2: Conduct a rapid design comptetion using articles acquired from a scavenger hunt ==</div>The competition will be such that all students have the ability to participate in as well as staff and faculty to create a campus wide day of fun. It will be challenging and thought-sponsored projects provoking, but no major will have an advantage. This is good to reach out to the community as capstone projects well as wellthe students and their professors. <div>== Tactic # 3: Hold an Innovation and Entreprenuership Fair ==</div>We wish to hold an event to showcase all of the innovation that students have had many successful projects sponsored by companies like Northrop Grumman, Harris Corporation, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and morebeen involved with. This interaction not only helps Some students feel the real experience may have been a part of being a big project during an engineer internship or maybe some students invented something in these companiestheir dorm. If it is innovative, but they often are offered jobs as we want to see it! This is a resultgreat event to hold to encourage collaboration on projects going forward. AdditionallyIf you have a good design, with but you do not have the funding provided by the sponsor, these projects are of minimal cost skills to the universitycode a stellar User Interface, enabling other unsponsored projects you may attract a fellow student to receive help you out at such an event and more funding.
= Strategy # 2: Create awareness about existing facilities for Innovation and Entreprenuership =