<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">UDM offers More than 100 academic degrees and programs of study through 7 schools and colleges: School of Architecture, College of Business Administration, School of Dentistry, College of Engineering and Science, College of Health Professions, McAuley School of Nursing, School of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Education.</span>
= <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-85d476be-6233-34d0-6543-a5be006d16a1"><span style="font-size: 22.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><br/>Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-85d476be-6233-34d0-6543-a5be006d16a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">UDM does not offer a major in innovation or entrepreneurship however there is an innovation minor available through the engineering school. The engineering school is also trying to introduce more I&E geared classes to the program. There are many classes such as senior design courses, marketing, and organization leadership that all have qualities of I&E presented, but not directly as an I&E course.</span></span>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Students in the engineering and business programs also have the opportunity to join the DTX Launch Detroit Program, a summer program incubator.</span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-85d476be-6233-34d0-6543-a5be006d16a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">OSPRA, the Office for Sponsored Programs and Research Activities, exists to support the research and developments of UDM faculty and staff, as well as students. The mission of OSPRA is to facilitate the procurement of external support through research grants, contracts, and technical assistance agreements, to administer internal support for research, and to document and publicize the scholarly achievements of members of the UDM community. The Research@UDM newsletter features these scholarly achievements and is published once per semester.</span></span>
= <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-85d476be-6233-34d0-6543-a5be006d16a1"><span style="font-size: 22.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><br/>Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration</span></span> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-85d476be-6233-34d0-6543-a5be006d16a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The bridge for students between school and industry is the Co-op education program. Co-ops are available to all undergraduate and graduate students, and are required as part of the Architecture, Engineering, Physician Assistant and 5-Year Business/MBA curriculum. UDM has connections with more than 200 corporate employers each year, so internships and co-op assignments are available in a wide variety of career fields. Located near downtown Detroit, students have many opportunities to interact with companies fairly close to the school.</span></span>
= <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-85d476be-6233-34d0-6543-a5be006d16a1"><span style="font-size: 22.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><br/>Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts</span></span> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-85d476be-6233-34d0-6543-a5be006d16a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The best example of engaging with local economic development efforts is the DCDC, or the Detroit Collaborative Design Center.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-85d476be-6233-34d0-6543-a5be006d16a1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Learn more about the DCDC and its projects at </span>[http://www.dcdc-udm.org/ <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">http://www.dcdc-udm.org/</span>]<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">.</span></span>
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