Priorities:Florida Institute of Technology Student Priorities

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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.

Strategy # 1: Increase interdisciplinary collabration for student capstone projects

Tactic # 1: Create a pilot capstone design program incorporating college of engineering and college of business students

Tactic # 2: Amalgamize all individual departmental capstone courses into one overarching, univesity-wide capstone course

Tactic # 3: Get industry members to advise and sponsor the univeristy-wide capstone projects

Stategy # 2: Create awareness about existing facilities for Innovation and Entreprenuership

Tactic # 1: Hold an innovative desgin challenge with emphasis on using indicated facilities

Tactic # 2: Conduct a rapid design comptetion using articles acquired from a scavenger hunt

Tactic # 3: Hold an Innovation and Entreprenuership Fair