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<li>Resource Consolidation on Website: Valente</li>
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<li>Tatic #1: Organize each resource by category<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Description: Create a user friendly interface for students/faculty/staff to easily access I&E related resources<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Milestones:<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Meet with OVPR administration</li>
<li>Meet with point of contact for each resource</li>
<li>Develop draft for web layout</li>
<li>Relay information to director of communication for web development</li>
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<li>Communication on Resources collaboration with clubs: Ben<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Leadership Circle Representative: Benjamin Simmons</li>
<li>Tactic #1: Establish Contact with TTU Advising Faculty<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Description: Develop a small group of faculty advisors throughout every college to inform their students of coming entrepreneurship. We will follow the steps mentioned below.</li>
<li>Milestones<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Make contact with college advisors. (Accomplished) 1/15</li>
<li>Create a Texas Tech funded entrepreneurship program for students to join. 3/15</li>
<li>Expand group to companies who wish to invest money in Tech student’s ideas  8/15</li>
<li>Grow entrepreneurship program to other colleges. 1/17</li>
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<li>Tactic #2: Obtain Funding for entrepreneurship programs.<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Description: Develop plans to obtain money to start and run Texas Tech entrepreneurship programs.</li>
<li>Milestones<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Make contact with Texas Tech entrepreneurship department. (Accomplished) 1/15</li>
<li>Merge existing entrepreneurship programs to one well funded successful program. 9/15</li>
<li>Continue to promote funding through existing entrepreneurship department as well as alumni funding. 1/16</li>
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<li>Lab Survey Program<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Leadership Circle Representative: Taylor</li>
<li>Tactic #1: Establish Lab Survey Team<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Description: Develop a team under the authority of the Office of the Vice President for Research. This team will carry out the tactics described below.</li>
<li>Milestones:<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Pitch to administration: 2/15</li>
<li>Begin interview process for the Tech Lab Survey team: 3/15</li>
<li>Train selected candidates: 6/15</li>
<li>Add to I&E resources page (priority 1): 8/15</li>
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<li>Tactic #2: Laboratory Landscape Canvas<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Description: Evaluate current laboratory status (needs, unnecessaries, changes) across all colleges.</li>
<li>Milestones:<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Tech Lab Survey Team conducts first round of assessments across campus. This will include inquiries regarding lab course, research and internship space: 8/15</li>
<li>Feedback from faculty, students and affiliated lab personnel on value of lab survey assessments: 11/15</li>
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<li>Tactic #3: Implement Changes<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Description: Determine the most essential and urgent changes within the available budget.</li>
<li>Milestones:<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Change in lab spaces - Meeting for review with involved faculty and/or students, Tech Lab Survey Team and OVPR administration. Assessment of user satisfaction: 3/16</li>
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<li>Tactic #4: Alternatives for improvements without funding<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Description: If lab-affiliated personnel have an idea for improved equipment, research methodology, etc. they are encouraged to use the TTU research park (expected completion 7/15) makerspace area. Approved ideas will likely receive funding for prototype development.</li>
<li>Milestones:<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Use of makerspace: 3/16 and on-</li>
<li>Requests for funding to support innovative ideas: 4/16 and on-</li>
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<li>'''Makers Space:'''</li>
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<li>Leadership Circle Representative(s): Taylor + Victoria</li>
<li>Tactic #1:<ul style="margin: 0pt 0px 0pt 1.6em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">
<li>Allocate space at the TTU Research Park for the use of students, faculty and staff at Texas Tech. Here, they will have the ability to transform an idea into a marketable product.</li>
<li>Milestones:<ol style="margin: 0pt 0px 0pt 3.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">
<li>Space available: 7/15</li>
<li>Requests for funding: 8/15</li>
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<li>Increase Opportunities to Experiment with Innovation and Entrepreneurship Through Practice</li>
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<li>Leadership Circle Representative: Victoria</li>
<li>Tactic #1: Internships<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Description: Consolidate, facilitate, and promote internal and external internship/fellowship opportunities (especially for those outside of the college of engineering)   </li>
<li>Milestones:</li>
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<li>Reach out to current departments to facilitate cross talk: 2/14</li>
<li>Either create a new central department or update existing department: 3/15</li>
<li>Build a web page of information: 3/15</li>
<li>Hold promotional events: 4/15</li>
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<li>Tactic #2: Hands-on Learning Classes<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Description: Promote and create classes that teach the application process of theories learned in a class</li>
<li>Milestones</li>
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<li>Reach out to faculty network for discussion: 3/15</li>
<li>Find either internal or external support sources: 4/15</li>
<li>Class offering: Spring 2016</li>
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<li>Tactic #3: “Dorm Room Fund” of Texas<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Description: Create an organization similar to [http://dormroomfund.com/ http://dormroomfund.com/]in which students run a venture firm that invest in student ideas of this local area.</li>
<li>Milestones:</li>
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<li>Find experienced mentors: 3/15</li>
<li>Find initial funding: 4/15</li>
<li>Call for students: Summer/Early Fall 2015</li>
<li>Invest in student ideas: 10/15</li>
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<li>OTC revamp and collaboration between colleges:</li>
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<li>Leadership Circle Representative: Frank</li>
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<li>Tactic #1: Have interdisciplinary classes that are taught by at least two professors from different departments or colleges<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Description: Train and provide hands on learning on how to design around a problem from conceptual to finished product in a one semester course.  </li>
<li>Milestones:<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Reach out to current departments and colleges to facilitate cross talk and find volunteers: 2/14</li>
<li>Either create an institute for design in the research park or retro fit existing department: 3/15</li>
<li>Obtain funding for the program at $500 per student group and funding for travel to need areas (market) : 4/15</li>
<li>Promote program to undergraduate seniors and graduate students 7/15</li>
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<li>Tactic #2: Internship opportunities in the Office of Technology Commercialization for students<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Description: Gain hands on learning on how to market technology and form a business around a technology</li>
<li>Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Reach out to the office of the VPR on openness to do program: 2/15</li>
<li>Find funding sources for the program and the IP backlog in the OTC: 3/15</li>
<li>Send out student survey for program: 4/15</li>
<li>Promote program to undergraduate and graduate students: 5/15</li>
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<li>Tactic #3: Departmental “Champions” or points of contact for entrepreneurial design and studies<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Description: Be a point of reference for faculty to communicate their current research endeavors and a reference for the OTC to relay market or industry interests to faculty.</li>
<li>Milestones:<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Find experienced and enthusiastic innovators: 3/15</li>
<li>Create a database or knowledge base for faculty to vote on each others ideas or suggestions (before posting, they rank others ideas, but not theirs): 4/15</li>
<li>Discuss funding availability with the OVPR 5/15</li>
<li>Discuss with OTC about employing subject matter experts in the OTC to be counterparts to the departmental champions.9/15</li>
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<li>Transportation improvement</li>
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<li>Leadership Circle Representative: Frank</li>
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<li>Tactic #1: Rental Bikes on Campus<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Description: Have bikes stationed on areas around parking lots and campus perimeter</li>
<li>Milestones:<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Reach out to current departments and colleges to facilitate cross talk and find volunteers: 2/14</li>
<li>Either create an institute for design in the research park or retro fit existing department: 3/15</li>
<li>Obtain funding for the program at $500 per student group and funding for travel to need areas (market) : 4/15</li>
<li>Promote program to undergraduate seniors and graduate students 7/15</li>
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