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<span id="docs-internal-guid-80fcdbe9-2cd2-d402-20f0-f5fa55167bc8"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">President Michael M. Crow has positioned </span>[http://www.asu.edu/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Arizona State University</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">as the model for a New American University. A model that measures success not by who it excludes, but by who it includes; a model that pursues research and discovery that benefit the public good and assumes major responsibility for the economic, social and cultural vitality as well as the health and well-being of the community.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-80fcdbe9-2cd2-d402-20f0-f5fa55167bc8">[http://ui.asu.edu/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Office of University Initiatives</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">(UI)</span>] <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">is a cultural catalyst at ASU. UI helps ASU meet its innovation needs by connecting ideas with people and resources to make an impact. Through collaboration with other offices and departments across the university, in addition to state, national and international leaders, UI helps to shape and realize ASU’s innovation goals. Much of UI’s work falls into five overlapping categories: advancing ASU’s New American University agenda, entrepreneurship, social embeddedness, university innovation, and education. UI is the chief advocate for entrepreneurial thinking and activity across the university.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-80fcdbe9-2cd2-d402-20f0-f5fa55167bc8">[http://studentventures.asu.edu/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Edson Student Entrepreneurship Initiative</span>] <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">is ASU’s premier student start-up competition. This year, students can win up to $20,000 in funding, as well as mentoring and office space to advance their venture ideas. The Initiative offers rolling admissions with two stages for advancement. Students can be placed in an incubator stage or an accelerator stage. Non-profit and for-profit initiatives are both encouraged. And students have responded with a number of innovative ventures. The G3Box project focuses on converting steel shipping containers into medical grade clinics by outfitting them with the basic components of power, ventilation, potable water, and insulation to create sustainable medical clinics that address critical health needs in poor countries.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-80fcdbe9-2cd2-d402-20f0-f5fa55167bc8"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ASU previously had a unique two-distinct Engineering School model. </span>[http://engineering.asu.edu/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering</span>] <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">is the flagship traditional school, while </span>[http://innovation.asu.edu/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">C</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ollege of Technology and Innovation</span>] <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">embodied the values of engaged learning, including a strong connection with industry and entrepreneurship. The hands-on approach model of the latter school requires students to build and design solutions to meet real industry needs; the model appears to be making an economic impact. The College of Technology and Innovation is now part of The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and is known as The Polytechnic School.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-80fcdbe9-2cd2-d402-20f0-f5fa55167bc8"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The engineering firm Honeywell, previously hired all College of Technology and Innovation students who worked on a successful airplane brake system. Separately from that, the city of Chandler, Arizona approved a 50-year lease with the College of Technology and Innovation. The city will retrofit a building to house the College’s teaching and research programs. These programs are estimated to provide a $23.8 million economic impact in the next five years, by providing the intellectual capital for the city’s high tech companies such as Intel.</span></span>
