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The projects WMU professors have been the driving force behind the greater emphasis on innovation and attitudes regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the different colleges in entrepreneurship within the University reflect mutual goalsclassroom. However, although From designing the Haworth College of Business and the Parkview Campus of only ABET-Accredited Industrial & Entrepreneurial Engineering are only separated by 5 miles(IEE) program, there is very little information being shared regarding to forming the direction of newly classified Entrepreneurship major, they are dedicated to bringing I&E within their respective colleges. The primary reason preventing this communication is taking place on the student level. Business to university students with ideas confer with other business students while Engineers tend to work with other engineers.

In terms of InnovationWithin IEE, the college has a great group of professors in the Engineering department that try collaborate to push the students to the envelope bring a set of coming up with new ideas. The '''Endowed Chairs for Innovation''', Dr. Steven Butt courses (Chair of Department), Dr. Tycho Fredericks, Dr. Bob White, and Dr. Azim Houshyar, have a series of classes called Entrepreneur Entrepreneurial Engineering (I, II, and & III) where their to guide students come up with an innovative solution to a pain point in through the form different stages of a the product, design and development cycle. Other focuses of the courses include the business canvas and learn how the hypothetical layout of the manufacturing facility needed to model or produce build that product. Even within the Engineering Economics course, the professor assigns a working prototype case study regarding the initial costs of it using the various labs on Parkview's Campusstarting a new business. 

Entrepreneurship seems to go hand in hand with This is the same within the Haworth College of Business where they have a great group of mentors and Management Department, as professors that help seek out entrepreneurship projects for their students grow and become more mindful of . These projects typically stem from the engineering college; the management students are to apply their business expertise to help expand these entrepreneurship efforts. Generally, the professors are also the first ones to encourage students to participate in their schoolcompetitions and workshops, such as the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition and the Michigan Collegiate Innovation Prize.  The main push for Entrepreneurship entrepreneurship within the Haworth College of Business has come from the Dean of the college, Kay Palan. She has put a team together, along with the head of the Management department, creating created the '''Endowed Chairs for Entrepreneurship '''which consist team, consisting of Dr. Robert Landeros (department chair) and his team of three entrepreneurs in residence (John Mueller, Barcley Barclay Johnson, and Laurel Ofstein) who all . All three come from a an impressive background of impressive entrepreneurship experience. Similarly, the '''Endowed Chairs for Innovation '''are leading the push for innovation at the College of Engineering & Applied Sciences. Making up this group are Dr. Steve Butt (department chair), Dr. Tycho Fredericks, Dr. Bob White, and Dr. Azim Houshyar.