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== <span style="font-size:larger;">'''Strategy 1: Alter Campus Culture by gaining more student involvement'''<span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp;</span> ==

<span style="font-size:small;">'''Project Lead: Kelsey Hanna'''</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">Tactic #1: Creating a more family -friendly campus environment by the addition of drop -in daycares and mothers rooms&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">With a campus high in nontraditional and returning students , it is hard at times to keep adults with families on campus. The idea is that with the addition of a few key resources targeted towards students with families we could create an environment that allows for them to spend more time on campus while also catering to their family's needs.&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">'''Project Lead: Isaac Carrillo'''</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">Tactic #2: Introduce Students to an Entrepreunerial Entrepreneurial Mindset early on.&nbsp;</span>

Freshman <span style="font-size:small;">Freshmen are often eager to apply themselves but lack direction. They feel the doubts and uncertainty of the work load workload ahead bearing down on their shoulders and this causes them to let go of their dreams for beginning something. Starting a club/organization has many similar characteristics to starting up a business and thus would be very beneficial for students to due. By encouraging these start-ups, we begin to empower students to overcome their fear which in turn will grant them success. The end goal is to develop a system by which it is easy to&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">1) Educate the students on the simplicity of the process of starting a club on campus.</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">2) Assist them to nurture their ideas by providing them with substantial aid through: faculty, resources, and <font face="Arial, sans-serif">encouragmentencouragement</font>.</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">3) Guide them through the process of sustaining an organization. (Teaching and handing down leadership)</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">To do this we will need to gain much knowledge in the area by:</span>

*<span style="font-size:small;">Forming a database of Faculty willing to help start student organizations/clubs.</span>*<span style="font-size:small;">Educating ourselves in the process of starting clubs and familiarizing ourselves with important advisors.</span>*<span style="font-size:small;">Developing a way to become easily accessible to the student body. (A link on the WSU homepage?)</span>

Tactic #3<span style="font-size: Create More Hangout Spaces small;">Some of the best ideas and greatest of memories are made in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air, it only makes sense to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for Students one to "Loungehang" Inwith friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will&nbsp;</span>

Some of the best ideas <span style="font-size:small;">1) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and greatest of memories are made gain knowledge in the outdoors. Something about the sunshine sparks some great conversation. With our innate love of fresh air it only makes sense how to create more spaces to hang around outside. What better than a hammock for one to "hang" with friends? This idea has two bases. The first being Rock Hurst University in Kansas City which hosts several large hammocks all around campus that students are always in. The second base was a senior UIF member from a college in North Dakota. He started his club with 10 members and ended with nearly 300 participants. This culture of leisure is something that may combat the commuter culture at Wichita State. By starting a Hammocking Club we will&nbsp;implement it</span>

1<span style="font-size:small;">2) Effectively Prototype Tactic #2 and gain knowledge in how to better implement itCreate an outdoors-focused culture at Wichita State</span>

2) Create an outdoors<span style="font-focused culture at Wichita Statesize:small;">To create this "Hammocking Culture" we will have to</span>

To create this *<span style="Hammocking Culturefont-size:small;" we will have to *>Start the club and do everything that goes with that process. &nbsp;</span>*<span style="font-size:small;">Find funding/support from companies and the university.</span>*<span style="font-size:small;">Fundraise</span>*<span style="font-size:small;">Advertise</span>

One of the main problems facing first -year students is uncertainty choosing a field of study or a major to pursue, this applies directly to undecided students but also impacts a great population of freshman students who are decided yet dubious. Through our journey as UIF candidates , we had the opportunity to interview freshman students and we found that they are mostly unaware of the wide range of university major offerings. Making students more aware of majors available and career opportunities in each field can make them more likely to commit to finishing their degree and counteract 'first -year drop off'. Another very useful startegy strategy for freshman retention that we uncovered through our discussion with several faculty and staff leaders is student-faculty engagement outside of class. Increasing this engagement helps create a home-away-from-home feeling for students which increases their attachment to the university and improves their academic performance, hence increasing retention. Following these discoveries, we developed two intiatives initiatives that focus on increasing student-faculty collisions and students' awareness of university offerings.

== '''Strategy 3: Alter the campus culture Campus Culture through curriculumCurriculum''' ==

Pop-Up series classes offered across majors and disciplines led by UIF members to teach design thinking concepts to both student and faculty with the ultimate goal of having design thinking concepts integrated across campus. This would boulster bolster the campus innovation and entrepreneurial mindsight while simultaneously allowing a new approach to education that is both exciting and useful in industry positions.&nbsp;

Interdisciplinary work allows students the opportunity to gain new perspectives of on how their majors interact with other majors in the business world. &nbsp;A design course that involved business and engineering majors and emphasized product lifecycle management would expose the students to different mindsets and a more holistic understanding of how an idea or solution is created out of an initial design and eventually marketed. &nbsp;This course could also facilitate community business partners that offer real -world problems for the students to undertake as their design project.

'''Project Lead: Michael Schlesinger, Caylin Wiley, Jesus Gomez , and LaRissa Lawrie'''

<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through our stakeholder meeting, we have understood that some departments won't give up their requirements when dealing with Senior Design, specially especially the engineering departments. However, we talked about the possibility of creating indepedent independent teams in different colleges when students start their senior year or project. Then, the goal was to create a link or collaboration between those groups and develop a company model between them. For example, we talked about the possibility about creating a group of aerospace engineers who will be in charge of the airplane design, electrical engineers about the circuits required, mechanical engineers dealing with engines, business to create a business model or marketing to investigate if there will be a profit, art and communication majors to create the brand, visual design , and publicity. The combinations are limitless.</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Many students strive to network with employers early on in their college careers. However, lack of opportunities often leaves students wanting more interactions than they get. One way we can change this is by allowing students the opportunity to involve employers in their senior design project. While some colleges already incorporate this idea, it is limited to specific colleges and few employers. Connecting employers with students provides to provide benefits to both sidesides. Students have the chance to obtain real -world experience with employers and the problems they face. Employers then have the opportunity to utilize a senior design team to help them resolve an issue within their company. Allowing students and employers to work side by side in senior design projects would help prepare students for their future.&nbsp;</span></span>

Some students have the drive to turn their senior design projects into something more. The students we interviewed where were looking for resources on how to take a research project and turn it into a viable business or patentable product. The first step to accomplishing this and changing curriculum is to empower students. Part of this tactic is giving students the equivalent of a pop class workshop on senior design classes. Talks are occurring with the research institutes on campus about funding and structural support. The workshops will be designed to take students through the stages of design thinking and prepare students with the lean startup model. The current plan is to hold the workshops three times a semester.&nbsp;

As one fo the of the leading contributers contributors to the Tech Transfer and Research Development schools in the State of Kansas , it is important for Wichita State University to continue to push for new methods of encourageing encouraging students and to provide opportunities to broaden their intellectual development. By setting in place initiatives that would help facilitate more innovative business models, students could then begin to explore the potentials of their academic course material and truly begin understanding the implecations to implications of their education.&nbsp;

It is through the social interactions between student to student contributors, faculty to student advisement, and business to student relationships that as a Univesity the cultural development will shift from faculty -driven research and development to that of the entire University body working in cotangent towards a more dynamic expereinceexperience.&nbsp;

== <span style="font-size:larger;">'''Strategy 4: Shocker Startup, a student organization to promote entrepreneurship across the campus and community''' </span> ==

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Students want to collaborate on projects with people from different disciplines, but do not have a venue to interact with students from other programs or interested community members. Connect ICT is a networking event hosted by Shocker Startup designed to create meaningful collisions between students from different disciplines and the community. Students will share their project idea to a student and community member audience stating what they want to do and what they need to accomplish their goals. Members of the audience with a different backgrounds and access to resources are encouraged to approach presenting students and form teams or partnerships.

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The Impact Speaker Series will host speakers that provide information and inspiration to encourage entrepreneurship in the student population and Wichita community. This event will contribute to the living -learning community at Wichita State.

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&nbsp;Connecting students with students or students with resources is are the biggest problem problems with starting a startup at a university, the solution is to create an online environment of like -minded students with other students and the universities resources. Students value their time more than they value anything and creating an online environment that they can search and post their needs will help save them time and give them multiple options to choose from.

Long -term tactics:

*General areas of interest such as: Hobbies, Projects, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship concepts.

To inspire students with new ideas is a challenge that will always be ever evolving. At the same time , there will always be resources available to organizations to help spark inspiration and innovation. We have identified one such event to be as evolving as the challenge itself. We believe starting a tradition of hosting a TedX TEDx event every year for all students will help create that culture of inspiration and innovation.

Short -Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

<br/>Long -Term Tactics to Implement Strategy

*Develop a plan for future fellows to take ownership of organizing and hosting the event each year.*Develop a plan to host smaller similar inspiration events throughout the school year.

WSU Ignite is an event that will be held on campus over a span of two days. There are four main components to the event; a small -scale music festival, film festival, startup competition, and a technology trade and demo show. The music and film components offer a choice of entertainment for students and encourage students that have no interest in innovation to attend. The other two components serve to transform the local and regional perception of WSU and create a campus culture shift that inspires students to think more innovatively. This will be done by showcasing and celebrating the amazing talents, resources, and current innovation occuring occurring at WSU and all around the Wichita area. Overall, the event will serve as a flagship event for the new innovation campus.

Short -Term Tactics:

Long -Term Tactics:

*Gather feedback from attendees to improve the event

== Strategy 9: Increasing about the plethora Plethora of I&E resources Resources on campusCampus<br/> ==

<span style="font-size: 12px;">A single app that brings together various silos of innovation and entreprenuership entrepreneurship across campus in one cohesive space. Attending classes on the "Innovation Campus" at WSU, students have the desire to work across disciplines to create and innovate their every day lives. However, most are not aware of the vast resources that are at their disposal. Wu-Invent is a single app that will bring together the resources from every department across campus including engineering, business, the library, and more to increase student awareness and subsequently increase involvement in I&E.</span>

As WSU promotes the current additions to the university as the "Innovation Campus," students deserve to be involved in innovation culture from the moment they step on campus. During the mandatory orientation , students would participate in Wu-Shocks Innovation Nation Design Experience. Students from every college are grouped together and tasked with helping Wu travel across campus, using all of the resources at their disposal along the way. After completion of the challenge, students would tour the campus and have the chance to se use the resources first hand, tying their experience to the physical location of the resource.

Maker Faires are popular across the country, allowing individuals of all ages to come together to share I&E ideas with like-minded individuals.To ou our knowledge, an event like this has never been done in Wichita or the surrounding areas. Hosting this event on campus would bring students and community members together in a unique space to share and collaborate on ideas. Strategy 11: Community Engagement and Involvement = Strategy 11: Community Engagement and Involvement.

<span id="docs-internal-guid-93f5ad23-537d-cecd-1d1a-97f8a36c5e3b" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">Many of the engineering degrees at WSU require a senior design or capstone course that allows students to create an innovative product or process to meet needs within their field of study. However, outside of these courses, students in other disciplines do not have the same opportunity. By implementing an innovation -centered curriculum, students across campus would be encouraged/required to participate in an Innovation Project. Multidisciplinary teams would work with mentors (faculty and industry professionals) on developing an innovative idea that would be presented at the Shocker New Venture Competition, or other similar events on campus. Outside of this, the teams would be judged/graded by their mentors and would receive course credit for the work. </span</span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-93f5ad23-537d-cecd-1d1a-97f8a36c5e3b" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-93f5ad23-536e-9c53-20d8-b15e6ea62058" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; orphans: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent;">For students to embrace a culture and truly feel like they are a part of something, you have to set a precedent from day 1. As potential new shockers visit WSU they have the opportunity to experience campus and the future that may lie ahead for them. [IN]nnovation is an initiative focused on potential new students and giving them a taste of what WSU is really about. During their campus visit, students will receive a 1in by 1in plastic square. On that square, they are asked to write their biggest hope for college on one side, and their biggest fear on the other. After their visit, the “token” is collected and stored until the beginning of the semester. Students who are admitted and enrolled at WSU will have their “token” given to a student artist who will be charged with the responsibility of creating a work of art showcasing the hopes of all of the tokens combined. The fears will be to the inside of the work, with the idea in mind that as one part of a greater whole, the students can overcome any adversity and accomplish their biggest hopes and dreams.</span></span></span> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: smaller;">Strategy 13: Outreach for Underserved Local Communities</span>