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= Student Innovation and & Entrepreneurship<br/> =<div><span id="docs-internal-guid-e3687445-336a-782f-7574-00420f4c83a8"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tennessee Tech Technological University is filled an upbeat campus populated with students who are interested in making the work to make a positive impact on their world a better placedaily. On Numerous on-campus there are many resources implementing exist for students interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as , and these resources offer services and access to students from disciplines across the means to solve these problemscampus.</span></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Icubelogo.png|border|Icubelogo.png]]</divspan><div/span><br/p><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Venues available&nbsp;</divspan><divspan style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It beings with having a place for likeI&E oriented student interaction </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">include the b</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">usiness and engineering </span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">living-learning villages, 20+ student organizations fostering I&E mindsets, and the [http://www.ttuicube.com/ iCube] & iMakerspace where students and faculty imagine, inspire, and innovate.&nbsp;Located on the 3rd floor of the Volpe library, t</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-minded wrap;">he 6,000 square foot iCube and iMakerspace facility provides students and faculty with access to meet virtual reality and immersive experience technologies (Oculus Rift and Vis-Box), 3-D printers, and talkshop tools for innovative design and prototyping. With two dormitories that are only for Business These spaces truly enable all Tech students to bring their dreams to life through hands-on design, experimentation, and Engineering majors an innovative environment naturally emergesinterdisciplinary collaboration. </span> <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">This innovative campus spirit is then strengthened by within the curriculum that involves classes with business and engineering curricula through courses focusing on real world examplesapplications. Classes that These courses,&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">including CHE 4410 Process Design, CHE 4661 Transport in Biochemical and Biological Processes, and BMGT 4930 Business Strategy, </span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">show students how to not only work with theoretical design models of their designs, but also the and develop economic and & marketing side of strategies for their workventures. These are upper level classes such MKT 4900 provides students interested in I&E with the opportunity to participate in innovative activities through experiential learning as CHE 4410 Process Design and 4930 Business Strategytaught by local entrepreneurs. Additionally, this course prepares students for the campus wide Eagle Works business pitch competition held every spring.</divspan> <divspan style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The newest I&E course piloted Fall 2015, [https://www.tntech.edu/news/releases/nursing,-engineering-students-collaborate-on-health-care-problems Clinical Immersion at Disciplinary Interfaces], synergizes the minds of nursing and chemical engineering students to develop solutions for health care innovation. Over the semester, students explore the local hospital and interview health care providers to identify problems and develop solutions which fit the needs expressed through these experiences. At the end of the course, each team composed of nursing and chemical engineering students present their projects and prototypes to a panel of faculty and I&E professionals from the community.<br/span> </divspan id="docs-internal-guid-e3687445-336a-782f-7574-00420f4c83a8"><divspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interest is further driven by also found at events like [http://tedxnashville.com/ Tedx Nashville ] and E-Week. Tedx Nashville is a yearly event that recently has been supported by the dean’s officeDean’s Office, encouraging students to attend the event which promotes student attendance by paying for their purchasing student tickets. E-week is a common national event across in which many universities where participate. During the event, various engineering majors are brought together and pitted against each other in competitions.</divspan><div><br/span></div><divspan style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even if you are not a Business business or Engineering engineering major , there is still plenty to take part of in, such as the &nbsp;recent &nbsp;Research, Innovation and & Entrepreneurship Forum where speakers from the NSF will give gave talks to faculty and students regarding I&E.</divspan> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">UPDATE 4/18/2016: The Tennessee Board of Regents just recently approved an [https://www.tntech.edu/certificates/innovation-and-entrepreneurship-certificate I&E certificate] to be completed in conjunction with any undergraduate bachelors degree. We are so excited this opportunity has been approved for our students and cannot wait to award these certificates!<div/span><br/span></div>= Faculty Innovation and & Entrepreneurship<br/> =

<span id="docs-internal-guid-bc653010-336b-837f-327f-595d1f353465"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The teaching faculty at TN Tech is extremely involved with real world innovation. Many professors are currently doing perform research on something which they plan to turn develop into a product. And many in the future, and others have already started companies through their research.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-bc653010-336b-837f-327f-595d1f353465"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along with this environment of start-ups , there is a movement going on that is pushing forming which promotes innovation directly. With the help of NCIIA VentureWell, faculty members attended a workshop in the month of February 2014. They where they received training similar training to that which the University Innovation Fellows are receiving but on a higher levelreceive.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-bc653010-336b-837f-327f-595d1f353465"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This same group of faculty is also pushing to create promotes the creation of a new major on campus. Something that This pathway of study would combine aspects of the business and engineering curriculum curricula to create a are an area of study for students that are interested in entrepreneurshipspecifically.<br/></span></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span>

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<span id="docs-internal-guid-b6f5b89e-336c-d7ea-7c98-37c39144bedd"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The [http://www.thebizfoundry.org/ Biz Foundry ] is a local business accelerator in Upper Cumberland Tennessee, partnered with [http://launchtn.org/ Launch Tennessee]. They are focused The organization focuses on building a startup community that which nurtures local talent, innovation, and entrepreneurs in order to create a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem. The accelerator program pairs startups with mentors and investors in order to help aid with the business modeldevelopment.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-b6f5b89e-336c-d7ea-7c98-37c39144bedd"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Biz Foundry , located across the street from campus, is found right off campus. It’s a place for students and faculty to go for any ask questions related to start-up ventures.To aid in these start-up ventures, the Biz Foundry holds 24 Hour Launch events for students to bring their ideas to the next level of development.</span></span>

TN <span id="docs-internal-guid-b6f5b89e-336c-d7ea-7c98-37c39144bedd"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tech also has houses a [https://www.tsbdc.org/ Small Business Development Center ] for students to go and build up regional entrepreneurs seeking improve on their innovative ideas. It works as The center provides local business internships to students and host business seminars covering a sort wide range of pre meeting area before you go topics dealing with innovation and seek more helpentrepreneurship.</span></span><div><br/></div></div>

<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serifmedium;">At TN Tech the same faculty that have attended NCIIA workshops are now pushing the development of a Innovation and Discovery Center. This will be a space for students from every major to come and work. It will serve as a meeting ground and possibly center for entrepreneurship related clubs and industry leaders interested in the research being held on campus</spanid="docs-internal-guid-0184fd5e-336d-6bdb-d55b-943f1d7f30f8"> <span style="font-sizefamily: 9ptArial; fontcolor: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-familyspace: Arial, sanspre-serifwrap;">Also with With the aid of grants , such as NSFs the [http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/i-corps/index.jsp National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps] (I-core Corps^TM), the amount of research on Tech's campus is expected to grow significantly over the next few years. More and more faculty are partnering with industry to turn their research into a marketable productproducts.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size: 9ptmedium; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-0184fd5e-336d-6bdb-d55b-943f1d7f30f8"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, sans68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-serifalign: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks to these grants, the Innovation iCube and Discovery CenteriMakerspace, and help from places external organizations like the Biz Foundry , local Businesses businesses from the near-by cities of Nashville and Knoxville now have a place to go to discuss the research happening at TN Tech.</span></span></span><div><br/></div>= Regional & Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> =

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id= Regional "docs-internal-guid-b1cb30f3-336e-059c-da11-978c1365dae3"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TN Tech is located in the small town of Cookeville, TN. The campus itself is one of the biggest aspects of the town and Local Economic Development Effortsis subsequently a large contributor to the local economy. Besides the fact huge amounts of money come from students that buy things from the local businesses, there is also a lot of community service which takes place.<br/span> </span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Events like the Relay for Life bring in tens of thousands of dollars for cancer research every spring, and university and roadside clean-ups coordinated by Greek life organizations keep the city clean.</span></span>

<span style="font-size: 9ptmedium; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-b1cb30f3-336e-059c-da11-978c1365dae3"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, sans68); background-serifcolor: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TN Tech is located Due to Cookeville's location in a very small town called Cookeville. The campus itself is one of the biggest aspects center of the town and one three of the biggest economic factorsTennessee's major cities (Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga), it is often a meeting ground for innovation. Besides Much work is done between these four cities to bring businesses from across the fact that huge amounts of money come from students that buy things from country to the local businesses, there is also a lot increasingly innovative state of community service that takes placeTennessee.&nbsp;<br/><br/></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size: 9ptmedium; "><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, sans68, 68); background-serifcolor: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Events like Relay for Life bring in tens of thousands of dollars for cancer research every spring. Campus wide clean ups keep the university clean and roadside clean ups mostly from Greek life organizations keep the city clean.&nbsp;</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size: 9ptmedium; "><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, sans68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-serifwrap;">Due The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Committee also launched the "Rural Reimagined" initiative to challenge students to use their I&E skills to improve rural life. These projects include expanding healthcare access, internet access and other vital resources to Cookeville being in the center of 3 major cities (Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga) It is often a meeting ground for innovation. Much work is done between these 4 cities in terms underserved populations of bringing in Businesses from across to the country to TennesseeUpper Cumberland.</span></span></span>

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