Priorities:CSM Strategic Priorities
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- 1 Enable students by creating a collaborative spaces for creativity, design, and innovation.
- 2 Establish monthly design, innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship (DICE) events
- 3 Update design classes to incorporate design-thinking
- 4 Grow and expand the entrepreneurship course offerings
- 5 Establish a speaker series for design, innovation and entrepreneurship
- 6 Create a multidiciplinary design and innovation institute
- 7 Links
Enable students by creating a collaborative spaces for creativity, design, and innovation.
Many of the most forward thinking companies provide spaces for employees that encourage innovation. Well designed spaces often serve as catalysts for enhanced collaboration and innovation. We will create collaborative spaces for students that allows for greater creativity, design and innovation on campus. By holding events and meetings in the spaces, students across all disciplines will begin to use the spaces to work with others projects.
In addition to having a few dedicated spaces, there are many common areas that would make excellent pop-up spaces. We will provide guides and resources to students to successfully create a temporary collaborative space of their own anywhere on campus.
Establish monthly design, innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship (DICE) events
By collaborating with organizations and faculty across campus, we will hold events that expose students to proven concepts and priciples that lead to truly innovative solutions. Having regular events will help foster a community of innovation and entrepreneurship that doesn't occur in traditional lecture setting.
Update design classes to incorporate design-thinking
Most students at mines are exposed to design in EPICS I, EPICS II (including department specific EPICS II) and Senior Design. Only a few of the cirriculums Most students at mines are exposed to design in EPICS I, EPICS II (including department specific EPICS II) and Senior Design. Only a few of the curriculums incorporate the following ideas/processes widely practiced in industry: design-thinking, problem focused design, rapid & low resolution prototyping, fast failure, and lean principles. Incorporating all of these practices into the curriculum would properly prepare students to develop truly innovative solutions to real problems. The design courses can allow for more creativity and innovation by shifting from constraining projects to open-ended problem based projects.
Grow and expand the entrepreneurship course offerings
Establish a speaker series for design, innovation and entrepreneurship
Create a multidiciplinary design and innovation institute
Links
Colorado School of Mines wiki Page
Colorado School of Mines University Innovation Fellow - Corey Brugh
