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= Overview =

~~University Innovation Fellow Candidates: Spring 2014 - Alex Francis, Carlton Reeves, Rob Salamon ~~At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee there has been a steady build in what we call the “Innovation Engine”. About four or five years ago, senior leadership at UWM set a plan in motion to ignite this innovation engine and since then it has been steadily burning while gaining momentum and attracting the masses. This movement began when the current Chancellor of UWM, Dr. Michael Lovell, then the Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS), who began forging industry partnerships with such local companies as Ansys, General Electric Healthcare, Rockwell Automation, and Johnson Controls. As a result of these partnerships, new research opportunities began to flourish and the engineering faculty as a whole acted as first followers as they began collaborating in redesigned laboratories, state-of-the-art technical facilities, and through revolutionary classroom instruction. This garnered much interest and support throughout the school and the effects reverberate through the senior leadership and the then Dean of CEAS, now became the Chancellor of the university.

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There are new classes each semester catering towards entrepreneurship and student participation is at an all time high with three widely active student organizations Collegiate Entrepreneur’s Organization (CEO), Student Entrepreneur Startup Organization (SESO), and American Marketing Association (AMA). Additionally, there are many smaller more niche student organizations that are entrepreneurially focused such as the video game design organization or Society of American Engineers (SAE). The UWM Research Foundation has expanded its entrepreneurial initiatives by hiring their first ever Entrepreneur-in-Residence and UWM has been named as a Pathway School with three Innovation Fellow candidates. The innovation engine does not stop here, UWM is determined to ensure ever lasting change by committing to collaboration and innovation by opening a brand new innovation campus about 15 miles west of the main campus that focuses on developing a world-class, public-private research park that spurs strong and enduring partnerships between academia and industry leading to new products, spin off businesses, workforce development and jobs in the fields of healthcare informatics, biomedical engineering, and advanced manufacturing & energy. I am proud to work with both Alex and Rob, as University Innovation Fellows Candidates to continue this event and progress it into the future with new and novel student initiatives

University Innovation Fellow Candidates: Spring 2014 - Alex Francis, Carlton Reeves, Rob Salamon

= Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus =

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