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= Strategy #4: Leadership Seminars and Conferences Required by Course Instructors and Engineering Departments =

Strategy Leader: Syeda Fatima

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology, there are various and some what random leadership seminars held throughout  the year on campus. Most of these leadership events are hosted by The Leadership Academy whose main target audience are its own Leadership Scholars, and the rest of the student population is forgotten. Even though these seminars are open to everywhere, most of the students who attend are the Leadership Scholars themselves, since it is a required component for remaining a scholar. After much research, I found that the speakers come from entrepreneurial backgrounds and can help in better IIT’s overall ecosystem. Therefore, the best way to get all students to attend these is by making them apart of the major curriculum. Students will be required to attend these seminars and in return receive a grade for them in their design related major courses.  Furthermore, engineering curriculums should also require their students to attend a conference or lecture during their undergraduate career which will help them gain a better grasp on entrepreneurship and innovation.

== Tactic #1: IPRO 397 and 497 Make Attending at Least One of the Leadership Academy’s Monthly Seminars a Required Component of the Course. ==

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IPROs at IIT are designed to introduce students to concepts of design thinking and product design. However, these courses don’t provide any guidance for launching their product or concept on the course ends. This is where the Leadership Academy’s seminars come in. The speakers are these seminar are usually entrepreneurs themselves and their lectures cover topics such as ethics and  how-to-lectures on launching good leadership in your work/university place. Making this a required course component will help students in taking the first step to becoming entrepreneurs

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Investigation of target courses who will be required to integrate these seminars into their curriculums-April 2015

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Provide course instructors with specific seminars which will prove useful to their students-May 2015

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Work with Leadership Academy to coordinate with IPRO curriculum-June 2015

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Assist is tailoring speakers to fit the needs to the university Ecosystem- July 2015

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Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015

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See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015

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== Tactic # 2: All Engineering Departments Should Make it Required for Students to Attend at Least Both One Entrepreneurial/ Innovation Themed Conference and Lecture Their Undergraduate Years. ==

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IIT engineering programs offer various levels of design classes during a student’s senior year of college. However, the students just speed through these classes in order to finish the requirement and graduate, there isn’t much learning going on. Therefore, departments should make it required for students to attend one conference and lecture related to their major. These conferences (such as the RSNA for biomedical engineers) offer tons of knowledge and learning experiences for students which they won’t receive in the classroom. For example, the RSNA features the newest in MRI and Ultrasound machines as well as innovation opportunities for undergrads, to assist these companies through internships.

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Progressive Milestones

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Investigation of target lectures/ conferences that engineering professor  will be required to integrate into their course curriculums-April 2015

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Provide course instructors with specific conferences or lectures  which will prove useful to their students-May 2015

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Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum-June 2015

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Assist department in  tailoring conferences and lectures  to fit the needs of the students - July 2015

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Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015

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See how student feel about this integrated curriculum during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015

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== Tactic # 3: Each Engineering Department Should Create at Least One Entrepreneurial and Innovation Based Course specific to Their Department. ==

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For example, biomedical engineering will have an entrepreneurial course which will teach students how to patent, launch and design their ideas. Since the goal of engineering is to innovate and design a better world, engineering graduates will most likely at least once in their careers encounter a situation in which they will need to design something. Thus, these engineers should have some prior knowledge as to how to go about launching and implementing their product. Taking a course doing their undergraduate years which teaches them just that will be extremely useful.

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Work with department heads  to coordinate  curriculum- April 2015

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Assist department in  tailoring an entrepreneurial course to fit the needs of the students -May to July 2015

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Launch the integrated curriculum- August 2015

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See how student feel about this new course during midterm course evaluations- October to November 2015

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