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= <span style="font-size: 12px;">Encouraging Collaboration Between Engineering and Business Students</span> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-4936-12bf-42dc-a3ba644850cf"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Engineers tend to be interested in innovation, but do not have an interest in entrepreneurship. They would rather pass this responsibility on to someone else. This separation of interests is not inherently problematic, as members of teams typically have different areas of expertise. Engineering and business students can have great success founding companies together. The issue on campus is that there is very little collaboration between these fields. Technical clubs and business clubs do not rarely interact much.</span></span>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A project that can help tackle the issue would be to form an Innovation Council. This council would exist to share opportunities between the many clubs that otherwise do not interact. The council would meet once per month in a setting where members from different registered student organizations (RSOs) could meet each other and make connections. The council could also establish a showcase session, at the beginning of each year, where different groups can present their projects to potential collaborators. </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">While a detailed timeline remains to be established, the project can be implemented over Spring 2015.</span>