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<br/><span style="font-size:small;">'''Description:'''</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">'''Makerspaces, clubs, research, and guest speakers are all great things that can add to the&nbsp;Innovative and Entrepreneurial environment on a college campus.''' However, th'''e the major determining factor for the quality of the education a student recieves is the core curriculum taught in every area of the university. By creating a future&nbsp;Design&nbsp;of what Southern Illinois University might look like, if I&E were the inspiration, SIU can begin to&nbsp;Implement&nbsp;changes in the classroom now. This includes two major changes to the current curriculum. #1 We need to go from teaching a tool based approach to teaching from a problem or goal based approach that directly engages students with a challenge. For example to learn about engines under the current model students must learn about all the tools, nuts, and bolts 1st before ever touching an engine. Under a problem based approach students are engaged with the challenge of fixing or building an engine from day 1 and they learn about the tools they need through trial and error. This process more directly engages students in critical thinking. The 2nd change that needs to occur in SIU's curriculm is to begin combining the Arts and Engineering. This does exist in a few areas on campus but the core curriculm doesn't address this need. All the great achievements of human civilization, such as the Pantheon in Rome, were built with Art, Design, and Engineering in total collaboration yet the Industrial model of most universities including SIU doesn't yet reflect this. Instead engineers and scientists are in one building and artists and designers in another, often never crossing eachothers' path inside a classroom. It's time to make a change.'''</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">'''Team Leader:'''</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">'''Dan Bach'''</span>

<span style="font-size:small;">'''Milestones:'''</span> TBD