= An Area for Rapid Prototyping (Kettering Entrepreneur Society & T-space) Space Community Engagement and Impact =
== Description Background == Kettering Entrepreneur Society, or KES as we like to call it, is essentially an incubator space where students, faculty, and even anyone outside the University can come and develop their ideas, host brainstorm sessions, work together, and improve I&E mindsets. Its purpose is "to promote an entrepreneurial culture at Kettering University based on innovation and social values." KES is a great place for mentoring, networking, and funding opportunities. If a member so chooses, he may present proposals for further research or advertisement/marketing of his idea. If the Society accepts the proposals, the member will receive funding to pursue his project further. The Tinkering Space or "T-Space," was created with the purpose of providing students an area on campus to make their ideas come to life. = Project Pitch Video = UIF Fellow Candidates 2016 {{#Widget:Youtube|id= Gt2TZoxDTno}} UIF Fellow Candidates 2017 {{#Widget:Youtube|id= 3D1_nXhY4co}} == Our Priority == We would like to pursue expanding KES' and T-Space's engagement from mostly Kettering Students to more of the community. We are located in Flint, Michigan, and only a few miles away are two other college campuses. We are interested in trying to engage these campuses and involve them in any way whatsoever. Additionally, we are interested in expanding involvement to others in the community. We have found that there are many entrepreneurial minded people in Flint's community, and combining this with some I&E minded students at the other campuses, we could tap into an incredible resource and all collaborate together. We would also like to effect the mindset of the Kettering students to empower them to see their capabilities in innovation and understand that they could be entrepreneurs.
Kettering University is an engineering-focused school that prides itself on taking what is learned in the classroom and being able to utilize the same concepts literally through cooperative education. However, design projects largely take place outside the university where students work. An area where students can quickly piece together what they have in mind is needed here at Kettering. Having what we call a “Tinkering = Open Labs/Maker Space (T-space)” would create an environment for students not only to have access to the tools they need to produce prototypes, but also have access to an environment where other students have a similar mindset. This new approach may start a movement here at Kettering, creating a space where students feel that they finally have a place were they can bring to life ideas that have been generated for work purposes, or even personal ideas.<br/> =
== Background ==
The T-Space is an idea that has been generated within the last 6 monthsAside from designated lab time alloted with each accompanying course, and has really begun gaining traction within most if not all labs on Kettering University's campus are locked when the last monthlab is not in session. The Kettering Entrepreneur Society has been interested Once in an area where ideas can be brought lab, students are often rushing to life, and we feel this may do just that. In complete the Kettering Mott Building, at lab assignment within the alloted lab time in order to end of the hallway on the second floorwith a satisfactory grade. However, there is this creates an empty space issue where an organization known TechWorks used to be - this the student's experience and scope of understanding is where we aim limited to have the Tinkering Spacelab assignment. Some Thus for many students, full comprehension of the tools we would like course is difficult to add include: soldering ironsachieve, a laser cutting machine, a 3D printer, computers with high-cost software, and many other tools for quick idea-generation, such as whiteboards, sticky notes, etcespecially if the lab assignment was not designed to simulate different scenarios.
== Leaders Our Priority ==
2014: [http://universityinnovationLike a makerspace, we would like to open labs to students.org/wiki/Hunter_Casbeer Hunter Casbeer]We believe that by offering open labs, [http://universityinnovationwe can allow for students to experiment on their own time, allowing for more "bulbs to click" and thus helping them understand the course better.org/wiki/Saheb_Kapoor Saheb Kapoor]This translates to different perspectives, Massoud Tavakoli, Alexander Barathand individual ideas. It's like giving a child a box of Legos for a Saturday afternoon. Once they understand how to use the equipment, Eddie Scholdolski; Garreth Brazilthey will then have the opportunity to experiment on their own.
2015: Alan Xia, Cheyne Westerman, Hunter Casbeer, Massoud Tavakoli.= Kettering Entrepreneur Society We also want to keep this open to the Kettering community, with the hope that anyone can get involved with this project.T-Space Infrastructure Improvements =
= Research Tying in with I&E = Description ==
== Background ==Our idea is to try to expand upon current KES & T-Space involvement and to improve upon the current involvement by bettering the current infrastructure. By students using both these resources (KES & T-Space), I&E would largely increase around campus. One aspect we are interested in is how many students in KES use the T-Space and vice versa; how many T-Space users are active in KES. If we find that there is a large overlap, then we would be interested in investigating the idea of hosting KES meetings in the T-Space. This would allow for us to "tinker" with projects and show them off at the same time. If there is not a large overlap, then we are interested in sponsoring students to create an LED advertisement board for KES that we can display in a window for the students and public to view. The purpose of this would be to show off a student's project (a flashy LED advertisement via programming) and to try to engage more people to actively participate in KES who may not have already been participating. Additionally, we are interested in surveying active students in KES and who use the T-Space to see what improvements in infrastructure they believe would be beneficial to their development of an I&E mindset. Tailoring the two resources to the people who actually use them could be largely beneficial for more fluid thought and I&E mindset.
While every professor at = Kettering does research, in large part, it is unknown what type of research each professor is working on and where their research goes. At least in the Electrical Computer Engineering department, when we have our term get-together for a review of the term and what next term will look like, there is some advertisement regarding the research achievements the department has experienced, but it is new to nearly everyone in attendence. Transparency of research projects throughout the university can lead to many benefits, especially when students know what exists so that they may be able to help.BIN / Maker Fair =
== Proposal Description ==
In order Our idea is to get research create a functioning club that will support students in project like works and give them an area to connect with innovation showcase their projects and entrepreneurshipinitiatives to other students, faculty, and community. With this we, first of all, must gain awareness of plan to kick it off with a Maker Faire in which teams are formed and compete to solve the challenge. Allowing for multiple degree type input and work. Creating a more interdisciplinary collaboration environment for the research happening on our campusstudents. This could These Challenges would be accomplished through the development either of a web page listing all research going on that is not confidential, as well as each department sending out an email to open nature where the students associated. Once awareness is achieved, we can begin looking at get to pick the broader spectrum, and decide challenge they want to solve or a goal like challenge where each research project may lead tothere is a desired end goal. The National Science Foundation (NSF) awards thousands of dollars Our first Maker Fair was a 24 hour challenge were 20 students had to bring research out of the labs design something for collony living on a planet with different species and into a start-upconditions.
== Leaders =Crowd Funding Site =
TBD== Description ==
Our idea is to create a website allowing for alumni, parents, and the community to invest in student ideas. Our university routinely reaches out to alumni for donations to the school. We think we have the opportunity for our university's investors to directly invest in the amazing ideas of our fellow students.
This site then would allow students to post ideas and have the community view them. KES would be able to help guide and provide mentorship to help their ideas thrive.
= Tedx Event =
The proposal is to bring the event back. As TED talks gain popularity both inside and outside the classroom, the event will give members of the Flint, Michigan and Kettering University communities a chance to share their stories and their problems. Many Kettering students pride themselves as problem-solvers, and this event will help them focus their energies in order to solve problems in their neighborhoods.
= Maker Fair =
== Description ==
Once successful implementation of the T= Campus Life App<br/> = == Proposal == <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-space serif">Provide access to all Kettering University resorces in one place. This will allow students and attempts at mixing research faculty to get conected to others on campus who can help with Iclasses, projects, reaserch, and much more. This app will allow students to see upcoming events they can sign up for and download the information to their Kettering google calendar. After surveying a range of students and faculty to provide useful information and effective results. This will allow students to be more active on campus and help us get connected.</font> = Leaders = 2014: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hunter_Casbeer Hunter Casbeer], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Saheb_Kapoor Saheb Kapoor], Massoud Tavakoli<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">, Alexander Barath, E are completed</span>ddie Scholdolski; Garreth Brazil. 2015: [[Alan Xia|Alan Xia]], projects should be displayed to give recognition to the students involved[[Cheyne Westerman|Cheyne Westerman]], Hunter Casbeer, as well as spread awarenessMassoud Tavakoli. In general, we would like We also want to keep this to be similar open to the Maker Faire in Detroit where many other tinkerers come together and showcase their projects. The event could happen during Orientation WeekKettering community, when there is with the largest amount of student traffichope that anyone can get involved with this project.
= Bulldog Demo Days =2016: [[Jace C. Stokes|Jace C. Stokes]] and [[Moe Ghias|Moe Ghias]] both worked to become UIFellows and want to keep exposing Kettering students to innovation.
== Description ==2017: [[Eric Rickabaugh|Eric Rickabaugh]], [[Chelsea Carter|Chelsea Carter]], [[Shane Thiedes|Shane Thiede]], and [[Ashley Switalski|Ashley Switalski]] are working to continue and bolster the projects of our other UIF members and to increase the entrepreneurial mindset in A and B Sections.
Over the years2018: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Julia_Rickabaugh Julia Rickabaugh], Cody Brock, Kettering University students have performed various projects both in school and Rebecca Abbott-McCune are working towards increasing awarness in the industry. Demo Days is an event that'd be hosted simply for the student resorces to help students to learn on their path from each other's projects innovation and talents. The concept is to bring in and share anything that a student has created. It could be a piece of art, a complex Excel document, a new product design or anything of the sort. Students often enjoy talking about their projects, and this will give them a way to share their creative energiesentrepreneurship.
= Related Links =
[[Kettering University]]
[[Saheb Kapoor]]University Innovation Fellows
{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px"|-| '''UIF Launch Term'''| '''Student Name and Bio'''| '''Kettering Academic Section'''|-| Spring 2018| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Julia_Rickabaugh Julia Rickabaugh]| A-Section|-| Spring 2018| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rebecca_Abbott-McCune Rebecca Abbott-McCune]| A-Section|-| Spring 2018| Cody Brock| B-Section|-| Spring 2017| [[Chelsea Carter|Chelsea Carter]]| A-Section|-| Spring 2017| [[Eric Rickabaugh|Eric Rickabaugh]]| A-Section|-| Spring 2017| [[Ashley Switalski|Ashley Switalski]]| B-Section|-| Spring 2017| [[Shane Thiede|Shane Thiede]]| B-Section|-| Spring 2016| [[Moe Ghias|Moe Ghias]]| A-Section|-| Spring 2016| [[Jace C. Stokes|Jace C. Stokes]]| A-Section|-| Spring 2015| [[Cheyne Westerman|Cheyne Westerman]]| A-Section|-| Spring 2015| [[Alan Xia|Alan Xia]]| A-Section|-| Spring 2014| [[Hunter Casbeer|Hunter Casbeer]]| A-Section|-| Spring 2014| [[Saheb Kapoor|Saheb Kapoor]]| A-Section|}
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