*<span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1"> </span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1">[https://www.vip.gatech.edu/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP)</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- A program that engages undergraduate and graduate students in multidisciplinary project teams that are led by faculty in many areas of scholarship. Undergraduate students earn credit for their efforts, and have the opportunity to work with teams on different projects.</span></span>
[http= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8b6b12f0-7fff-4cfa-ce6a-051a5ded6dca"><span style="font-size: 21pt; font-family: Arial; background-color://www.invention.gatech.edu/about/ GT 2803 transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east- “Your Idea, Your Invention" ] asian: normal; vertical- This course provides practicealign: baseline; white-based fundamentals to students interested in inventionspace: ideas and actions that create value and lead to positive change. In this course, invention is considered in the broadest sense. Examples include not only technologies, but the U.S. Constitution, games, manifestos, economic theories, symphonies, and systems like the cloverleaf for traffic control.pre-wrap;">FACULTY ENTREPRENEURSHIP</span></span> =
[https<span id="docs-internal-guid-8b6b12f0-7fff-4cfa-ce6a-051a5ded6dca"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Georgia Tech has several awards and programs to incentivize faculty to mentor graduate students, or themselves, to pursue innovative research and entrepreneurial ideas. These include:</span></grandchallenges.gatech.eduspan><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-8b6b12f0-7fff-4cfa-ce6a-051a5ded6dca"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bio-impact Commercialization Team (BCT)</content/coursespan><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-information PUBP 1142 align: baseline; white- Teams and Collaboration] space: pre- This course works wrap;">— An initiative focusing on developing research in biomedicine whereby faculty members and the interpersonal, team, venture capital community work closely with experts in the biomedical device space to facilitate translational research and commercialization. The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation will fund the BCT’s translational research and design thinking skills necessary for making progress against wicked problemsdevelopment projects.</span></span></li></ul>
<span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-8b6b12f0-7fff-4cfa-ce6a-051a5ded6dca"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I Corps </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- The </span>[https://grandchallengesinnovate.gatech.edu/contentprograms-old/innovation-corps-icorps/course<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-information GT 1201 wrap;">Innovation Corps (I- Exploring Grand ChallengesCorps)</span>] <span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">teaches National Science Foundation (NSF) grantees to identify valuable product opportunities that can emerge from academic research and offers entrepreneurship training to student participants. I- The course Corps is comprised a public-private partnership that prepares students to extend your focus beyond the laboratory by broadening the impact of a series select, NSF-funded basic-research projects. The primary goal of problems I-Corps is to foster entrepreneurship that are issued throughout will lead to the semester instead commercialization of a traditional lecture or labtechnology that has been supported by NSF-funded research.</span></span></li></ul>
<span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-8b6b12f0-7fff-4cfa-ce6a-051a5ded6dca"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Humanitarian Design and Engineering Studio</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span>[httphttps://enrichmentdesign.gatech.edu/gt1000news/schedule GT 1000 georgia-techs-new-humanitarian-design-studio-tackles-water-energy-public-health <span style="Startupfont-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" >The Rehabilitation Engineering and "Applied Research Innovation(REAR) Lab</span>] <span style="] font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre- This class is for any freshman at GT wrap;">undertakes applied research and device development targeting the increased health and function of persons with an disabilities. Specific areas of interest in include: wheeled mobility and seating, pressure ulcer prevention and treatment; design of diagnostic tissue interrogation devices; design thinkingof assistive technology.</span></span></li></ul>
<span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-8b6b12f0-7fff-4cfa-ce6a-051a5ded6dca"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enterprise Innovation Institute - </span>[https://2110.meinnovate.gatech.edu/ ME 2110<span style="font-size: Creative Decisions and Design11pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enterprise Innovation Institute</span>] <span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre- wrap;"This class >is Georgia Tech’s chief business outreach and economic development organization. The core mission is specifically more Mechanical Engineering majors with an interest in design thinkingto help business, industry, entrepreneurs, and economic developers across Georgia grow and remain competitive.</span></span></li></ul> <span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span>
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