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#Provide an incubator space (applied/realized value)
#*Allow such teams to function effectively and provide the necessary inspiration/motivation to get undergraduates interested in I&E.
#Increase awareness of I&E on campus
#*TEDx Event
#*Creativity Wall
#*1000 Pitches
#*Club of Clubs
#Change Curriculum to Allow Design Thinking Across Disciplines and Early On
#*First Year Classes
#*Provide an interdisciplinary entrepreneurship class
#*Give credit to entrepreneurs
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Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:
= <span style="font-size:large;">Tactic #1: Find and Create a Space </span> =
• Description: If students are now coming up with ideas or being given projects, they will need a space to work in. Also, a design room provides inspiration and success stories to work with. With UC-Berkeley and other successful UI incubator spaces as a model, this design room would serve as a hub for students interested in getting involved with projects and competitions.
• Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]
== <span style="font-size:large;">Tactic #2: Technical Skills Sessions </span> ==
• Description: Often, young students need to learn some basic skills before they are ready to take on a design project. One way to do this would be skills seminars in the design room that include 3D CAD drawing, arduinos, etc. Also, it may be conducive to get students to apply for machine room certification so that they can work safely in the shop when their design has reached that stage.
Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]
= Strategy #3: Increase awareness of I&E on campus =
== Tactic #1: TEDx Event ==
• Description: University of Pittsburgh currently has lectures about various subjects with key speakers through Pitt Program Council. Most of these events are sold out and students have to line up to get tickets. Adding a TEDx events will connect students to interdisciplinary opportunities and start them in design thinking. • Team Leader: TBD
Milestones: Apply for TEDx event license, Invite speakers, Reserve event space, Advertise the event on campus, and Hold the TEDx event
== Tactic #2: Creativity Wall ==
• Description: In the engineering building, there are already many white boards on the wall to increase innovation, talk about upcoming events, and have challenges or problems presented. If they could use one of the walls that gets the most traffic and pose an open ended question, students could add to the ideas and come up with new ways to solve it. This could also be put on the outside of classrooms so that students write on it before entering a class. If they also added more whiteboards in the Business and Arts and Sciences buildings, they could pose the same question that week that was posed in the Engineering building and see how other students approach this. Team Leader: Student TBD
== Tactic #3: 1000 Pitches ==
• Description: Currently, Pitt students are starting 1000 pitches on campus. They are using this platform to encourage innovation and design thinking, and allowing everyone to feel creative and innovative. This should continue on campus to add to awareness on campus.
= Strategy #4: Change Curriculum to Allow Design Thinking Across Disciplines and Early On =
== Tactic #1: First Year Classes ==
• Description: Students at each of the schools at University of Pittsburgh are required to take an introductory class their freshman year. We could incorporate design thinking or innovation and entrepreneurship into the curriculum.
== Tactic #2: Provide an Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Class ==
• Description: Currently, Pitt has entrepreneurship and design thinking classes in all three schools. However, each class is only allowed to be taken by students from their respective schools. Pitt should add a course that allows students to take a class about innovation, design thinking and entrepreneurship that is open to all disciplines. That would allow students to see how to approach these problems from various viewpoints and will lead them to more creative thinking due to the interdisciplinary collaboration.
== Tactic #3: Give credit to entrepreneurs ==
• Description: Pitt offers credit to students with internships and research on campus. Pitt could apply the same thing to entrepreneurial ventures which would allow students to manage their time more effectively because their projects would go back to school credit.
= Impact =
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