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<span id="docs-internal-guid-0735f658-7fff-baeb-ec69-5f278f242a32"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Encouraging Innovative Cross-Collaboration Among the Schools at SCU (2018-2019)</span></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">While many I&E opportunities exist at SCU, there is currently a problem in getting students to be aware of them. The Engineering School has sent out emails, created an online calendar, and even put up physical fliers advertising events that students can get involved on, but an overload of information has led to most engineering students neglecting it. Typically, the same group of students is attending these events, and the challenge is in expanding this group to a wider breadth of diverse engineers. Our team intends to have a large quarterly event where organizers and professors can pitch their events to students, which would restrict advertising to a few hours as opposed to lengthy, weekly emails. Additionally, our team members will act as liasons between the administration/event organizers and the students by raising awareness through fliers, social media advertising, and outreach to clubs.</span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-6d577956-7fff-5553-a1c1-d625ad2e440c"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to create demand for the abundant I&E resources on campus, we must first understand students' expectations and ambitions for their college careers. If they expect a large emphasis on entrepreneurship in a classroom setting, we can meet them there with new courses and revamped lab guidelines. If we find students want more freedom and are interested in entrepreneurship outside of the classroom, we will provide access to community-sourced projects and resources. We would like to find out where these expectations and desires lie through extensive market research. We hope to properly gain the perspective of students and professors by explicitly speaking to these individuals, as well as implicitly analyzing which resources, approaches, and courses are popular and why others need work.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c45692d3-29dc-89dc-f72a-a43bcbf7598c"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Santa Clara encourages students to aid in regional and local economic efforts. An example of this is the collaboration with NASA and the SCU Robotics Systems Lab, where students run missions with cutely named satellites "K</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">etchup and Mustard".&nbsp;The school also encourages its students to be socially responsible in all things including promoting charitable programs in dorms, and even requiring an (experiential learning and social justice) core curriculum requirement which gets students out volunteering in the community. &nbsp;All in all, Santa Clara takes advantage of the surrouding area in a way that is beneficial to its students.</span>

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