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== '''<span style="color:#808080;"><span style="font-size:medium;">INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION & LONG-TERM AVENUES FOR I&E PURSUIT</span></span>''' <br/> == == '''<span style="color:#808080;"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span>'''<span style="font-size: 12px;">Currently Available Resources</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 nursing.</span>
<span style="font-size: small;">One such course, including students of nursing and chemical engineering (open to biomolecular concentration as well as general chemical engineering students), is called Clinical Immersion at Interdisciplinary Interfaces and was piloted during the Fall 2015 Semester. This course taught students to apply field experience/observation and personal interviews to a process very similar to the design thinking process called the Legacy cycle. Then students used this creative process to generate innovative solutions to problems noted during clinical experiences in the hospital and/or identified by health care workers (mostly staff nurses). One solution presented at the end of the course included plans and theoretical proof of concept for a non-lead radiation-shielding sterile drape which would be reusable, sterilizable, light-weight and flexible.</span>
=== <span style="font-size: small;">Areas for improvement</span><br/> === <span style="font-size: small;">Though this course was interdisciplinary and focused on a process similar to design thinking, there were a few improvements which would make the experience more effective:</span>
#<span style="font-size: small;">Increased time: The one semester course was too short for any of the four groups to fully develop a prototype or MVP (minimum viable product).</span>
#<span style="font-size: small;">Increased interdisciplinary aspect: The course only included students from nursing and chemical engineering disciplines, leaving large knowledge deficits when developing business plans and/or other aspects of prototype development which could not be solely applied to chemical engineering and/or nursing.</span>
#<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;">Greater introduction to available resources: While the class was briefly introduced to resources available for prototyping on campus including the iMakerspace within the iCube, no in-depth instruction was provided on use of these resources due to time constraints.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>
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