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= <span style="font-size: 12pxlarge;">Student Priority #1:&nbsp;</span> =

<span style="font-size:small;">With the addition of the iCube and iMakerspace to Tennessee Technological University's campus, a key resource for innovation and entrepreneurship is available for all students to utilize. The iCube hosts a virtual reality lab, brainstorming area and classroom, and the an iMakerspace is loaded with machines like 3-D printers and lab space.&nbsp;Currently the space is primarily used by engineering students, with as well as a small proportion of business students. To introduce students of all majors to entrepreneurship and innovation both on campus and within this new resource, specialized pop-ups should be held that interest which represent the interests of various underrepresented majors in the iCube. For example, a pop-up class that which showed wildlife and fishery majors fisheries students how to 3-D print fish hooks would bring studenst of other majors into the space and increase their exposure to interdisciplinary work with engineering students. Specialized pop-up classes will be open to all students to increase , increasing the likelihood of involving more majors in the iCube and iMakerspace.&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">In order to identify these unique topics of interest, various surveys will be sent out to students' emails to ask for requesting ideas and ranking of those ideasbased on interest. In order to ensure the success of this strategic priority, a strong partnership with between the faculty /staff of the iCube and iMakerspace and students must be formed with students. In the beginning stages, specialized pop-ups can be hosted by faculty members across campus, and eventually student-facilitated pop-ups will be student runintroduced.&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">The materials for the pop-ups will be form the bulk of required funding for this strategic priority. In order to fund these pop-ups, meetings Meetings with the stakeholders within each college will be held to identify funding sources for material costs. A pop-up funding grant would be a wonderful future addition to this initiative.</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">Everyone has a need for innovation in their degrees, and these specialized pop-ups are a way to inroduce introduce more students to invaulable invaluable resources on campus.</span> <span style="font-size:small;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">Student Priority #2: Interdisciplinary Collaboration & Long-term Avenues for I&E Pursuit</span> <span style="font-size: small;">Research completed regarding the I&E ecosystem at Tennessee Technological University uncovered a large base of I&E capable student organizations (40+) with an overwhelming lack of courses either I&E based or worked to integrate I&E principles into the curriculum. Courses containing these principles were clustered within the engineering and business disciplines, with few outliers in agriculture and business.&nbsp;</span>

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