19
edits
Changes
no edit summary
== '''Overview'''==
WPI is a campus fostered around project based learning, and experiencing how to apply these learnt skills in the real world. Although the school is based on applying skills to solve problems, there has been a lack of knowledge about activities that are available on campus outside of the classroom. The programs and activities listed below outline some of the resources that students have both in and out of the classroom that make the most of their learning experience.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6vIsnLmb6I&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6vIsnLmb6I&feature=youtu.be]
== '''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''==
=== '''CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS'''<br/> === '''1. Collaborative for Entrepreneurship and Innovation'''
The CEI aids members of the WPI community in creating new products, companies, services and technologies by providing specifically targeted services, mentors, and other resources. “The CEI was recognized in 2005 by Entrepreneur Magazine's TechknowledgePoint survey of entrepreneurial schools as a Top Ten entrepreneurship program among the nation's schools with an Entrepreneurship Emphasis.”
The Kern Family has awarded WPI with $488,500 to facilitate the development of new programs aimed at enhancing the impact of WPI’s project-based approach to undergraduate education. The aim of the award is to help WPI “realize a strategic goal of infusing the undergraduate program with an entrepreneurial mindset, according to WPI president Laurie Leshin.
'''3. GPS'''
The Great Problem Seminar (GPS) is an introductory course to university-level research and project work, and focuses on themes of current global importance. They help first-year students develop the skills they’ll need to be successful in project work at WPI and in their future careers.
'''4. IQP'''
The Interactive Qualifying Project is not organized as a course, nor is it related to the major. Instead, small teams of students work under the guidance of faculty members from all disciplines to conduct research, using social science methods, directed at a specific problem or need. Students deliver findings and recommendations through formal reports and oral presentations to project sponsors (often nonprofit, municipal, or government agencies) and faculty advisors. Sourced from WPI
The IQP allows students from different backgrounds to overcome challenges together. They are given a situation, many times in a foreign country, and together they must develop a solution that best fits the needs of the time. '''5. MQP''' The Major Qualifying Project (MQP) is WPI’s senior-year capstone project where students gain real-world design or research experience within their major field. Students have the guidance and support of faculty advisors and mentors while pursuing their own project. The project, once completed, is then presented for the whole WPI community to see. These projects often have the potential to continue to develop into potential business plans or '''6. Tech Entrepreneurship Club''' The Tech Entrepreneurs is WPI’s undergraduate entrepreneurship club which focuses on innovation and startups. They host a bi-weekly guest entrepreneur speaker series as well as workshops and other events. '''7. LaunchPad'''
== '''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''==
1. The WPI KEEN Program
4. IQP
== '''Actively supporting the University Technology Transferfunction'''==
1. The Office of Intellectual Property and Innovation (IPI)
##The Office of Intellectual Property and Innovation maintains a portfolio of patents currently available for license and actively tries to find a company to license the available technologies.
== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''==
1. National Grid
== '''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''==
1. Technicopia
'''The Landscape Canvas'''
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nmKc1Llmvuw7_f9At6VgA1C9_9gUgKeumppByRZBjz8/edit#gid=741918377 [2016]] [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nmKc1Llmvuw7_f9At6VgA1C9_9gUgKeumppByRZBjz81pBo6DdLTWMh4yF9Cti4hb2ykUo02LKhECbMdpdJQwWk/edit#gid=7419183771 [2017]]
= Related Links =
University Innovation Fellows
Spring 2017:
[[Erin Esco|Erin_Esco]]
Spring 2016: