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= Taking Tennessee Tech to the Next Level '''<span style= Tennessee Tech has the potential to become a top school for innovation. Its campus is filled with students who care about and want to solve real problems. Its also filled with a faculty that is doing a variety of research"font-size:large">OUR VISION</span>'''<br/> = == '''<span style="color:#b22222"><span style="font-size:medium">INNOVATION: THE STANDARD, some faculty members are even taking their research to market. Below are some goals that should be implemented in order to take NOT THE EXCEPTION</span></span>''' == <span style="font-size:small">As the Spring 2016 UIF leadership circle for Tennessee Tech Technological University, we hope to the next level in regard to innovation increase and expand innovative and entrepreneurshipentrepreneurial mindsets across campus. It is split up into two main tasks that are made up of 3 partsIn 5 to 10 years we want to come back to see engineers working with artists, chemists creating alongside social scientists, and business professionals collaborating with human ecologists. The previous tasks We hope to see greater and stronger student-faculty relationships, students pursuing their innovative ideas from day 1 of TTU's Spring freshman year, and a greater use of 2014 Fellow have been successful but are still being completed. Enis was able to start an entrepreneurship society on campus that has gained members and recognition across all disciplines regional resources to help students and colleges on campusfaculty bring their ambitions to life. The Maker Space that was supposed Above all, we hope to be completed by Fall of 2014 is still under construction but will hopefully be completed by see innovative thinking become the end of standard, not the Spring of 2015 semesterexception. </span> = Strategy #1'''<span style="font-size: More Cox-Curricular Opportunities for Students to Spread Innovation and Entrepreneurship large;">Fall 2019 PRIORITIES</span>''' = Description [https: This would allow students to focus on the fourteen grand global challenges presented by the NAE and develop their own solutions to these challenges as they are receiving their education from the university. Now that the student body is being educated about innovation and entrepreneurship, it is time to focus on the freshman students as well as the incoming freshman of classes to come. I feel this can be achieved by starting a chapter of the NAE//www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u6oo2HFwLM <b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size:large;">Fall 2019 Video</span></span></b>] <span style="font-size: Grand Challenge Scholars Program. large;">STUDENT PRIORITY #1: Chad Wilson</span> == Milestones == 1. Ask university faculty Financial Education & Accountibilty for their support to gain traction. The university will need to define its requirements for students that will participate Students<br/> ==== If you asked any college student, "why are you in this programcollege" they would tell you they are chasing a career. 2Of course, Once the university has defined its goal for the program it should educate its student body they wouldn't be handing over their parents life savings if they didn't believe they wouldn't get a return on their tuition. So many students today find themselves in financial crisis both in and outside of school. They struggle with the required curriculum that the university has outlined almighty student loan debt crisis, credit cards, car loans and personal spending all while expected to complete buy a home and live the programAmerican Dream. Completing steps one and two may take anywhere My proposal is to implement a student run organization or club that brings students from a few weeks Tennessee Tech together to a monthdiscuss these important topics. 3Students should be able to create lofty, financial goals for themselves and their legacy yet, After defining nobody has told them that they can achieve a set curriculum the university must now find a way to draw students to participate in the programhigh level of financial success. Students I will be the first need of their peers to know of tell them that anything they can conceive, they can achieve. We will discuss the program and see what the benefits of participating steps necessary in the program will be. This could also take about a month to complete. 4creating wealth, create goals, live by those goals, Send the defined curriculum to the NAE and inspire financial change for review and approvalour generation. This should take about six weeks. During this time == STUDENT PRIORITY #2: Rachel Smith == ==== Team Building & Leadership Skills for Students ==== Many students should be spreading the word of the program face issues when it comes to all colleges on campus working with a team for class projects or in their work and meeting home lives. Many students don’t know how to discuss what focus area they wish to participate face these issues, which makes working in. 5a team, Once approvedfor any reason, frustrating. Students also have been vocal about the university needs to utilize spaces on campus lack of leadership skills they have. Several students that I have talked with have mentioned that leadership is something that promote innovation and entrepreneurship such as they are never really taught; all throughout high school, they are taught to follow, but never how to be the IDLI Maker Space and the College of Business’ Media Centerone that is followed. Educating freshman and other new students of the location of For my project, I want to offer these areas is paramount. New skills to students will most likely not go there if in a way that can be fun and stress-free, but also provide them with what they are not first informed of the opportunities set up for them thereneed to succeed. My idea is to offer a 1 credit hour course that offers team building and leadership skills to all students in an outdoor setting. This will go along with the promotion of course would be a 4-5-week course offered in the programspring. Participating students would meet once a week for an outdoor activity that involves either teamwork, leadership from each student, or both. 6After course completion, Start the program each student would have skills on campus. The university should document how to effectively work as a team member in a functional group, and promote how to take the inaugural scholars leadership role in the programa situation. Their successes This will draw other help students to the program and help it gain traction across all colleges and disciplines with class projects as well as in any entrepreneurial role they may take on campus. This whole process should take about three to four months. Hopefully, this task will be completed by Fall of 2015. == Strategy 2STUDENT PRIORITY #3:<br/> Mik Davis ==<pre>Development of ==== Integrating Student Lead Interdisciplinary Think TankInformation Networks ==== </prespan style="font-size:small;"> <span id="docs-internal-guid-c1c8e31e-7fff-a514-38c4-05b908845040" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;The second task is to create an interdisciplinary student think tank. The purpose of this group would be to capitalize on the members’ combined expertise-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, consistent with the design-thinking model0, and to utilize their knowledge in innovation and entrepreneurship through consulting0); color: rgb(0, ideating0, and analyzing in various projects for Tennessee Technological University and local businesses in the upper Cumberland region. 0);"><span style== Tactic 1"font-family: Faculty Awareness == The first tactic will be Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the most confusing and challenging aspects of adjusting to create faculty awarenesscollege life is learning how to access resources. During our first interactions with campus life, starting with the Entrepreneurship Task Force within the college of students are often given many businesscards, phone numbers and pamphlets about campus resources that are quickly lost or forgotten about. The CoB has already shown considerable interest in the idea of a From health services to student lead consult group. Some faculty members have already begun organizations, there are information networks across campus that are available to help in the developmental stage of this projectstudents but not interconnected. After gaining the support of the CoB the goal is This can make it difficult for students to take the idea find out what is going on across campus wide and in an attempt how to access resources available to get other colleges across campus involvedthem. Timeframe</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Spring 2015: 2Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; caret-3 months == Tactic 2color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: Student Awareness == The Second tactic is to create general awareness for I&E by capitalizing on many of the resources that already exist rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: small;">This strategic priority is focused on campusintegrating those information networks for student access. The Small Business Development Center hosts seminars This includes fostering cooperation between academic and other various events administrative units that teach students many disseminate information, creating new networks of information and new distribution and reviving old networks that are underutilized. This will be accomplished through revitalizing and reopening the basic elements of entrepreneurshiptelevision broadcasting studio on campus and making it available for student use. The University also has credited course in entrepreneurship that help aid in students’ discovery studio will serve as the new hub for information dissemination across campus, from academics to administration to student life; there will be one source to fuel and connect many networks.</span> == STUDENT PRIORITY #4: Courtney Savage == ==== Spreading Knowledge of I&E. The objective is to further utilize these seminars and course offerings to reach beyond Available Resources Through Collaboration ==== While our campus offers diverse opportunities and resources in the colleges field of engineering and business and involve the entire campus in innovation and Entrepreneurship. Timeframe: Fall , many students are unaware of 2015the possibilities. == Tactic 3: Focusing In == The third tactic will be to reach addition, several opportunities are reserved for students from specific departments. My idea is to introduce the student body (specifically those who have taken advantage various aspects of the I&E opportunities mentioned in tactic 2) to attract by building a club of students from different majors and excite them backgrounds who will learn about I&E through a hands-on approach. The re-establishment of iCARE, a social entrepreneurship club, will make this introduction possible. The goals of iCARE are to introduce and explain the possibilities concepts of a student lead think tank.<br/><br/>Timeframe: Fall 2014 == Tactic 4: Credibility<br/> == <span style="font-size:small;">The fourth tactic will be innovation and entrepreneurship, inspire students to establish credibility with take an active role in the University through well-being of their community, and integrate the successes ideas and skills of tactics 1-3students across campus. iCARE will work to complete these goals in several different ways.</span> <span style="font-size:small;">We will invite speakers who have mixed innovation with social entrepreneurship to build interest in I Timeframe: Fall 2015</span> == Tactic 5: University Support<br/> == <span style="font-size:small;">The fifth tactic E. The first project of iCARE will be a collaboration with a local Senior Center. Students will learn about the design process throughout this project. They will be to gain communicate with the support of older adults at the university. The current objective is center to work with the school determine any difficulties they may face on providing funds for the program or offering scholarships for a day-to-day basis. The older adults and students who are accepted into the student think tankwill work together to brainstorm possible solutions and develop a prototype.<This will serve as an introduction to the I&E resources (such as the iMakerSpace) available on campus. By collaborating with the outside community we hope to introduce and promote I&E on a larger scale. <div><br/span> <span style=/div><div><br/></div> = <span style="font-size:small;x-large">Timeframe: Spring 2016SPRING 2017 PRIORITIES</span><br/> == Tactic 6 [https: Implementation of Student Think Tank //www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAkAHf1uqUk&feature= The sixth tactic is the implement the student think tankyoutu. With backing from the university the student think tank would be launched as a viable program. The first members would be the three TTU University Innovation Fellows and any other exceptional students who have proved to be Innovative and Entrepreneurial (tactics 2 and 3). Student members in this think tank would begin working with Tennessee Tech University and surrounding businesses. This program would reach 100s of <span style="font-size:x-large">Pitch Video</span>] = '''<span style="font-size:large">STUDENT PRIORITY #1: Alicen Long</span>'''<br/> = = <span style="color:#b22222"><span style="font-size:medium">BRIDGING THE CURRENT GAP BETWEEN INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL RESOURCES OFFERED AT TTU & TTU'S PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS</span></span> = One way I will help bridge this gap will be by exposing psychology students while benefitting to virtual reality and explaining the new presence it has taken in the school and surrounding communityfield of psychology. It would provide an opportunityAfter talking with several students, I found that not one was aware of this new method of therapy using virtual reality for members patients of the think tank, to gain unmatched (by other near by universities) experience and knowledge all kinds. Students did find it very interesting and I feel this is a great way to get psychology student's foot in innovation and entrepreneurship. While simultaneously stimulating the door of I&E ecosystem . Virtual reality has been used for exposure therapy to help patients conquer fears of TTU. Timeframe: Fall 2016 = Strategy 3. = The final strategy is to make the student body more interested in I&E through organizationsflying, test-taking anxiety, clubspanic attacks, and courses. === Tactic 1arachnophobia, anxiety disorders, and even ADHD, but is not limited to this list. === The first step is gathering the A lot of students together. This will be done by creating an organization , including myself, didn't know or club that will serve as only knew about a few I&E resources our campus offers at a place for innovative people to meet and discusssurface level. This will be what brings everyone together I believe opening up this opportunity to work on the same goal. It will also serve psychology students to create an atmosphere of entrepreneurship so that students will have a place where they can talk learn about their ideas this subfield and find people to join their teams. virtual reality will spark the flame of I&E awareness and involvement for my target population, psychology st<span style=== Tactic 2. === The next step is "font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">udents</span> who currently have little to make no involvement with the students stick around by making it valuableI&E community. This will be done by hosting more events Whereas, we are obviously not certified counselors or psychologists and speakerscannot actually perform these kinds of therapies. Things like Tedx can really inspire the I do believe making students in ways that just bringing aware of this subfield within psychology and giving them together in the same room can't. With more experiences like this, students direct opportunities to interact with virtual reality will decide to take be a bigger part in the organization big step toward our leadership circle's goals of breaking down academic silos and connecting passion and be more inspired as welleducation with career through innovation and entrepreneurship. ='''<span style="font-size:large">STUDENT PRIORITY #2: Caroline Timpson</span>'''<br/> = Tactic 3. =<font color== The next step is to give the students more personal skills in I&E. This will make the picture clearer and give them a better understanding "#b22222" size="3">CREATING A CODING CLASS FOR ENTREPRENEURS</font> = <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of what I&E the huge hurdles students face when trying to build their own business, or change the conversation about something, isnot having the right tools or knowledge. That inspired my goal. We will host workshops that give So What I want to change in I&E for students the skills they need , is creating a class to go from having an idea to making it a realityhelp teach coding to non-computer science majors. === Tactic 4. === The next tactic needs to class would focus more on giving students the ability to pursue I&Eapp development and html. Once they are interestedYou may be thinking, Why this will give them the opportunity specific class, when you could easily just take an intro to really go after it. === Tactic 5. === The fifth tactic will be Computer science? By focusing on specific entrepreneurial hurdles that students run into such as building a website for their product, this class becomes a channel to create more classes that focus on I&empower students in the I&Ecommunity. This will eventually lead It introduces students to a “scary thing” through an I&E concentrationelective, something like fostering a minor. We are already offering a brand new class this summer low pressure atmosphere to encourage failure, and mistakes, so that will put students in teams can get a deeper understanding and offer them the chance to learn about designing a product for a marketmore. As more classes like this are integrated into the curriculum</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, I hope to be the first student 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learning to graduate with code is great practice for precise, disciplined, and abstract thinking. Programming transforms a Chemical Engineering degree with computer from something you use to do basic tasks into a minor in I&Epower tool. === Tactic 6. === The next step is to introduce students to It allows students to take what the Biz Foundry on campus. This is a local accelerator they have and is a great place for people take it to go if they have a business idea their job or if they just need business advice. Not many people on campus know about this place, so it will be an important project to get the word out so student can take advantage of the opportunityeven create their own path. </span></span> = '''<span style="font-size:large">STUDENT PRIORITY #3: Justin Medley</span>'''<br/> = '''INTERDISCIPLINARY FINANCIAL LITERACY''' <span id="docs-internal-guid-d8a24ad9-429e-7392-f6ac-c9fa79884750"><span style= Tactic 7. === The final step is to create a maker "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space. Something similar : pre-wrap;">I have chosen to deploy knowledge and access to Bloomberg Terminals across campus and across disciplines. The Bloomberg Terminal has been called the dmost powerful machine in business. The terminal has over 50% of the market share among financial data services.school we visited The College of Business at StanfordTennessee Technological University has recently acquired approximately 10 of these machines. Students need a place to go and work on their ideas, ideally while surrounded My vision is to see other Colleges within the University take advantage of this incredible technology by students who are doing utilizing the terminal in the samecontext of their discipline. My initiative is to hold trainings for different academic groups. We are breaking ground this summerFor instance, and the faculty Bloomberg Terminals have mapping functions that use file formats only used within the GIST community. Bloomberg has stated that we should have this space constructed by Fall Semester 2014a team dedicated to GIST training. The first student group I would like to train is the Graduate Students from our distinguished Water Research Center. This Future trainings will at first be a room filled with materials, 3D printersbased on interest, which has been shown from the Department of Earth Sciences and high-end software that any student can usethe Department of Chemistry. </span></span> = Conclusion '''STUDENT PRIORITY #4: Shelby Williams'''<br/> = The most important part of advancing the campus is to uplift the students first. By making them interested '''<span style="font-size: medium"><span style="color: rgb(178, 34, and then giving them the opportunity to act on that interest, Tennessee Tech will become an amazing place for innovation. = Related links = 34)">INCREASING AWARENESS OF I[[Enis Cirak|Enis Cirak]] [http:E CONCEPTS AND RESOURCES WITHIN THE WHITSON-HESTER SCHOOL OF NURSING AT TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY</span></universityinnovation.org/wiki/Userspan>''' '''<span style="font-size:Jabbot91 Jonathan Abbotoy] medium">Situation (About Tech’s Nursing Program and Connection with I[[Abigail Collins|Abigail Collins]] [[Tennessee Technological University|Tennessee Technological University]]E)</span>''' <divspan style="font-size:small"><brThe nursing program at TTU is divided into Upper Division and Lower Division. Upper division consists of about 60 students per class and is typically applied for at the end of freshman year. Upper Division nursing students are placed in clinical settings throughout Middle and East TN in focus areas including Mental Health, Medical/>Surgical Nursing, Pediatrics and a few other areas<br/span> </divspan style="font-size:small"><br/>[[Category:Student PrioritiesAt the heart of the TTU nursing program lies the constant teaching of improving patient care and health care outcomes. In the clinical setting, many students see a need for innovation or an area for improvement. They empathize with current nurses and healthcare workers on the problems they face every day, but they lack the basic understanding of I&E concepts and resources to help improve the identified problems.</span> '''<span style="font-size:medium">Background and Assessment (Resources)</span>''' <span style="font-size:small">The I&E Ecosystem Landscape Canvas of Tennessee Technological University and the Cookeville community looks promising when it comes to the number of student organizations (45+) capable of fostering I&E. Yet, when focused in on nursing students, when it comes to the basic question, “Do you know about I&E at Tech?” The most common answer is no. This overwhelming lack of awareness of I&E needs to be addressed in order to further innovation. If this level of awareness remains the same, the equipment will remain unimproved, and innovation will not be reaching the fullest potential within healthcare. This is why my primary goal is to increase awareness of I&E within the Nursing School at TTU, specifically with those nursing students that experience and recognize areas of improvement in the clinical setting every day.</span> '''<span style="font-size:medium">Recommendations (The Plan)</span>''' '''1. Introduce I&E early on to all nursing majors: Upper and Lower Division''' '''Each nursing class will receive a survey at the beginning of the semester. Starting with Spring 2017''' (January 2017) '''2. “Health Make-a-thons”''' (March 2017, May 2017) '''3. “How To: Bedside Innovation” Sessions''' (February 2017, April 2017) '''4. Accessibility to Resources and Awareness of Existing Resources''' (Implementation Spring 2017) '''Flyers, Posters about the iCube and iMakerspace''' '''Supply carts of supplies in the Nursing building for easy access to prototype ideas''' '''5. Involve Faculty''' '''6. Incorporate I&E within existing courses''' '''Promote/Expand nursing courses that already focus on I&E (i.e. “Clinical Immersion at Disciplinary Interfaces”)''' = <span style="font-size:x-large">SPRING 2016 PRIORITIES</span><br/> = = '''<span style="font-size:large">STUDENT PRIORITY #1: ASHLIN WILDUN</span>'''<br/> = == '''<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="color:#b22222">SPECIALIZED POP-UPS TO INCREASE MAKERSPACE USE OUTSIDE OF BUSINESS AND ENGINEERING</span></span>''' == <span style="font-size: small">With the addition of the iCube and iMakerspace to Tennessee Technological University's campus, a key resource for innovation and entrepreneurship is available for all students to utilize. The iCube hosts a virtual reality lab, brainstorming area and classroom, and an iMakerspace loaded with machines like 3-D printers and lab space. Currently, the space is primarily used by engineering students, as well as a small proportion of business students. To introduce students of all majors to entrepreneurship and innovation both on campus and within this new resource, specialized pop-ups should be held which represent the interests of various underrepresented majors in the iCube. For example, a pop-up class which showed wildlife and fisheries students how to 3-D print fish hooks would bring students of other majors into the space and increase exposure to interdisciplinary work with engineering students. Specialized pop-up classes will be open to all students, increasing the likelihood of involving more majors in the iCube and iMakerspace. </span> <span style="font-size: small">In order to identify these unique topics of interest, various surveys will be sent out to students' emails requesting ideas and ranking those ideas based on interest. The success of this strategic priority requires the formation of a strong partnership between the faculty/staff of the iCube & iMakerspace and students. In the beginning stages, specialized pop-ups can be hosted by faculty members across campus with the eventual introduction of student-facilitated pop-ups. </span> <span style="font-size: small">Materials for the pop-ups will form the bulk of required funding for this strategic priority. Meetings with the stakeholders within each college will be held to identify funding sources for material costs. A pop-up funding grant would be a wonderful future addition to this initiative.</span> <span style="font-size: small">Everyone has a need for innovation in their degree, and these specialized pop-ups are a way to introduce more students to invaluable resources on campus.</span> = <span style="font-size: large">STUDENT PRIORITY #2A: JACQUELINE SCHULZ (REPLACED, SEE #2B)</span><br/> = == '''<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34); font-size: medium">INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION & LONG-TERM AVENUES FOR I&E PURSUIT</span>''' == === <span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:medium">AVAILABLE RESOURCES</span></span> === <span style="font-size: small">Research completed regarding the I&E ecosystem at Tennessee Technological University uncovered a large base of I&E-capable student organizations (40+) with an overwhelming lack of courses either based on or integrating I&E principles into the curriculum (~9 + Senior capstone projects). Courses containing these concepts are clustered within the engineering and business disciplines, with few outliers among other majors such as agriculture and nursing.</span> <span style="font-size: small">One such course, involving students from nursing and chemical engineering (open to biomolecular concentration as well as general chemical engineering students), is called [https://www.tntech.edu/news/releases/nursing,-engineering-students-collaborate-on-health-care-problems Clinical Immersion at Disciplinary Interfaces] and was piloted during the Fall 2015 Semester. This course teaches students to apply field experience/observation and personal interviews to a process very similar to the design thinking process called the [http://eecs.vanderbilt.edu/courses/ee235/STAR_Legacy_model.htm Legacy Cycle]. Students then use this creative process to generate innovative solutions to problems noted during clinical experiences in the hospital and/or identified by health care workers (mostly staff nurses). One solution presented at the end of the course included plans and theoretical proof of concept for a non-lead radiation-shielding sterile drape which would be reusable, sterilizable, light-weight, and flexible.</span> === <span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:medium">AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT</span></span> === <span style="font-size: small">Though Clinical Immersion at Disciplinary Interfaces is an interdisciplinary course focused on a process similar to design thinking, there are a few improvements which would make the experience more effective:</span> #<span style="font-size: small">'''Increase time period''': One semester proved too short for any of the four Fall 2015 groups to fully develop a prototype or MVP (minimum viable product).</span>#<span style="font-size: small">'''Increase interdisciplinary aspect''': The course only includes students from nursing and chemical engineering disciplines, leaving large knowledge deficits when developing business plans and/or other aspects of prototype development which cannot be solely applied to chemical engineering and/or nursing.</span>#<span style="font-size: small">'''Greater introduction to available resources''': While a brief introduction to the resources available for prototyping on campus was provided (specifically, the iMakerspace within the iCube), no in-depth instruction occurred on the use of these resources due to time constraints for the students of Fall 2015.</span> === <span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:medium">PROPOSED SOLUTION</span></span> === <span style="font-size: small">In order to remedy the areas for improvement outlined above, a long-term 3 year program has been proposed for participation of students from every major offered through Tech (not all will be represented, but all will be eligible). This program will offer extensive exposure to I&E concepts and interdisciplinary collaboration while promoting the use of available resources for student innovative and entrepreneurial ventures. Divided into yearly cohorts, the program will give students the opportunity to form long-term interdisciplinary relationships for collaboration in solution development to problems found in the surrounding area and/or on mission trips to more distant locations.</span> #<span style="font-size: small">'''First year cohorts will focus on learning the design thinking process, the business model canvas, and other vital resources which facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship from concept generation to production & sales'''. The program will integrate into the curriculum critical & creative thinking exercises challenging students to apply these concepts to the world around them.</span>#<span style="font-size: small">'''Second year cohorts will be assigned projects for solution development and execution'''. Students will focus on design thinking solutions to the assigned problem, developing prototypes/minimum viable products (MVPs) from data collected through research, and working to bring the solution to production using resources available on campus and in the regional I&E ecosystem.</span>#<span style="font-size: small">'''Third year cohorts will self-identify problems and develop design solutions with the end goal of achieving student licensure of the product, venture start-up status, and/or commercialization of the product by an outside entity'''. As the capstone of the program, this project will challenge students to work together effectively while pooling knowledge not only from the previous two years in the program, but also knowledge gained within each student's respective discipline.</span> === <span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:medium">STRATEGIES FOR EXECUTION</span></span> === #<span style="font-size: small">'''iCube partnership (Spring 2016)''': In order to establish increased program credibility, developing a close partnership with the directors and administrators of the iCube is essential to gaining the support of individual college deans and department heads. Partnership with the iCube also provides the program with a home-base and increased access to resources required for prototyping and design development.</span>#<span style="font-size: small">'''Teaser course/workshop (Spring 2016)''': Further research of student interest and attitudes toward I&E and a program of this type is required before development can truly begin. Holding a teaser design thinking workshop for students within UNIV 1010 Freshman Connections courses will give students a taste of the concepts to be taught within the program and provide an opportunity for gauging student interest in I&E and interdisciplinary collaboration.</span>#<span style="font-size: small">'''Gain support of colleges and departments (Spring & Summer 2016)''': Support from the individual colleges and departments on campus would aid in pushing the program through various curriculum committees and also help to promote the program and I&E to faculty and students across campus.</span>#<span style="font-size: small">'''Spark interest early''': Targeting students during freshman year is a tactic universities deploy across the country to increase student discovery of I&E and promote its continued pursuit. If we can teach students to look for the I&E opportunities around them in their UNIV 1010 Freshman Connections course (see Strategic Priority #3) the proposed program will provide a guided opportunity to pursue these ideas long-term.</span> === <span style="color:#2f4f4f"><span style="font-size:medium">UPDATE 9/6/2016</span></span><br/> === <span style="font-size:small">Due to limited time for priority implementation, this priority has been replaced with another short term priority which was exceuted August 29th, 2016 - September 1st, 2016 (RUSH UIF event series). The UIFellows are working to promote the newly approved Tennessee Tech Innovation & Entrepreneurship Certificate open to all undergraduate students. This is the first step in achieving establishment of an Innovation & Entrepreneurship program of study at Tennessee Tech.</span> = <span style="font-size:large">STUDENT PRIORITY #2B: JACQUELINE SCHULZ</span><br/> = == <span style="color:#800000">'''<span style="font-size:large">RUSH UIF BEGINNING OF THE YEAR EVENT SERIES[[File:RushUIFlogo Purple.png|frame]]</span>'''</span> == <span style="font-size:small">RUSH UIF is a four part event series which seeks to expose students to Innovation & Entrepreneurship in fun and exciting ways and increase student awareness of the underlying prevalence of Innovation & Entrepreneurship in our culture today. Each event is very different from the last, targeting a different reason or avenue for I&E involvement. This year's series took place August 29th, 2016 - September 1st, 2016.</span> #<span style="font-size:small">DAY ONE - Movie Night: We chose to show the motion picture "Joy" to illustrate the grit and perseverance required when experiencing setbacks in a venture</span>#<span style="font-size:small">DAY TWO - Pop-up Mixer: This event was comprised of a three station pop-up at which students learned about a different facet of I&E including innovation, entrepreneurship, and human-centered thinking</span>#<span style="font-size:small">DAY THREE - Happy Hour Unconference: Students were able to meet off campus at a local hot spot for drinks, good conversation, and a chance to try out the HTC Vive and the Microsoft Hololens</span>#<span style="font-size:small">DAY FOUR - Makeathon: Students were tasked with creating items which would help them survive in a desert island scenario. We provided rapid prototyping supplies and a creative atmosphere, the rest was up to the students! Each participant really enjoyed the event and expressed interest in attending similar events in the future</span> = <span style="font-size:large">STUDENT PRIORITY #3: NICK RUSSELL</span><br/> = == '''<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34); font-size: medium">FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE UNIVERSITY CONNECTIONS 'DESIGN THINKING COLLEGE' COURSE</span>''' == <span style="font-size:small">Through our investigation of the I&E ecosystem on our campus, a dichotomy began to emerge in which I saw a divergence between those who viewed the design thinking process as valuable in itself and those who viewed it as a means to developing technology. Tennessee Tech has done an admirable job building out the infrastructure which could support creating technology or a company, but has room to grow in terms of developing an I&E culture.</span> <span style="font-size:small">Design thinking as a methodology has value when applied to a person’s life, college experience, or career. I&E can provide value to every Tech student regardless of what they do after graduation. My goal is to blend I&E into the freshman curriculum through the University Connections class. I want every freshman to begin his/her time at Tech with an I&E boot camp.</span> <span style="font-size:small">I will run a pilot “Design Thinking College” course. The class will meet in the maker space and feature key I&E faculty and leadership as guest speakers and lecturers. The class will involve a hands on I&E project from day one and will conclude with an idea pitch competition. This class aims to introduce students to the I&E framework so early in their college careers it becomes their default, and they can engage in the community and culture we are trying to build at Tennessee Tech. </span> = <span style="font-size: large">SPRING 2016 PROJECT PITCH VIDEO</span><br/> = {{#Widget:Youtube|id=EHPJE27N3Gc}} = <span style="font-size:x-large">SPRING 2015 PRIORITIES</span><br/> = <span style="font-size:small">Tennessee Tech has the potential to become a top school for innovation. Its campus is filled with students who care about and want to solve real problems. It's also filled with a faculty that is doing a variety of research, some faculty members are even taking their research to market. Below are some goals that should be implemented in order to take Tennessee Tech to the next level in regard to innovation and entrepreneurship. It is split up into three main tasks that are then subdivided. The previous tasks of TTU's Spring of 2014 Fellow have been successful but are still being completed. Enis was able to start an entrepreneurship society on campus that has gained members and recognition across all disciplines and colleges on campus. The Maker Space that was supposed to be completed by Fall of 2014 is still under construction but will hopefully be completed by the end of the Spring of 2015 semester.</span> = <span style="font-size:large">STUDENT PRIORITY #1:</span><br/> = == <span style="color:#b22222"><span style="font-size:medium">'''MORE CO-CURRICULAR OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO SPREAD INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP'''</span></span> == <span style="font-size:small">Description: This would allow students to focus on the fourteen grand global challenges presented by the NAE and develop their own solutions to these challenges as they are receiving their education from the university. Now that the student body is being educated about innovation and entrepreneurship, it is time to focus on the freshman students as well as the incoming freshman of classes to come. I feel this can be achieved by starting a chapter of the NAE: Grand Challenge Scholars Program.</span> === <span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:medium">MILESTONES</span></span> === #<span style="font-size:small">Ask university faculty for their support to gain traction. The university will need to define its requirements for students that will participate in this program.</span>#<span style="font-size:small">Once the university has defined its goal for the program it should educate its student body on the required curriculum that the university has outlined to complete the program. Completing steps one and two may take anywhere from a few weeks to a month. </span>#<span style="font-size:small">After defining a set curriculum the university must now find a way to draw students to participate in the program. Students will first need to know of the program and see what the benefits of participating in the program will be. This could also take about a month to complete. </span>#<span style="font-size:small">Send the defined curriculum to the NAE for review and approval. This should take about six weeks. During this time students should be spreading the word of the program to all colleges on campus and meeting to discuss what focus area they wish to participate in. </span>#<span style="font-size:small">Once approved, the university needs to utilize spaces on campus that promote innovation and entrepreneurship such as the IDLI Maker Space and the College of Business’ Media Center. Educating freshman and other new students of the location of these areas is paramount. New students will most likely not go there if they are not first informed of the opportunities set up for them there. This will go along with the promotion of the program. </span>#<span style="font-size:small">Start the program on campus. The university should document and promote the inaugural scholars in the program. Their successes will draw other students to the program and help it gain traction across all colleges and disciplines on campus. </span> <span style="font-size:small">This whole process should take about three to four months. Hopefully, this task will be completed by Fall of 2015. </span> = <span style="font-size:large">STUDENT PRIORITY #2:</span><br/> = == <span style="font-size:medium">'''<span style="color:#b22222">DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENT LEAD INTERDISCIPLINARY THINK TANK</span>'''</span> == <span style="font-size:small">The second task is to create an interdisciplinary student think tank. The purpose of this group would be to capitalize on the members’ combined expertise, consistent with the design-thinking model, and to utilize their knowledge in innovation and entrepreneurship through consulting, ideating, and analyzing in various projects for Tennessee Technological University and local businesses in the upper Cumberland region.</span> === <span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:medium">TACTICS</span></span> === #<div><span style="font-size:small">Faculty Awareness. The first tactic will be to create faculty awareness, starting with the Entrepreneurship Task Force within the college of business. The CoB has already shown considerable interest in the idea of a student lead consult group. Some faculty members have already begun to help in the developmental stage of this project. After gaining the support of the CoB the goal is to take the idea campus wide and in an attempt to get other colleges across campus involved. Timeframe: Spring 2015: 2-3 months</span></div>#<div><span style="font-size:small">Student Awareness. The Second tactic is to create general awareness for I&E by capitalizing on many of the resources that already exist on campus. The Small Business Development Center hosts seminars and other various events that teach students many of the basic elements of entrepreneurship. The University also has credited course in entrepreneurship that help aid in students’ discovery of I&E. The objective is to further utilize these seminars and course offerings to reach beyond the colleges of engineering and business and involve the entire campus in innovation and Entrepreneurship. Timeframe: Fall of 2015.</span></div>#<div><span style="font-size:small">Focusing In. The third tactic will be to reach to the student body (specifically those who have taken advantage of the I&E opportunities mentioned in tactic 2) to attract and excite them to the possibilities of a student lead think tank. Timeframe: Fall 2014</span></div>#<div><span style="font-size:small">Credibility. The fourth tactic will be to establish credibility with the University through the successes of tactics 1-3. Timeframe: Fall 2015</span></div>#<div><span style="font-size:small">University Support. The fifth tactic will be to gain the support of the university. The current objective is to work with the school on providing funds for the program or offering scholarships for students who are accepted into the student think tank. Timeframe: Spring 2016</span></div>#<div><span style="font-size:small">Implementation of Student Think Tank. The sixth tactic is the implement the student think tank. With backing from the university the student think tank would be launched as a viable program. The first members would be the three TTU University Innovation Fellows and any other exceptional students who have proved to be Innovative and Entrepreneurial (tactics 2 and 3). Student members in this think tank would begin working with Tennessee Tech University and surrounding businesses. This program would reach 100s of students while benefitting the school and surrounding community. It would provide an opportunity, for members of the think tank, to gain unmatched (by other near by universities) experience and knowledge in innovation and entrepreneurship. While simultaneously stimulating the I&E ecosystem of TTU. Timeframe: Fall 2016</span></div> = <span style="font-size: large">STUDENT PRIORITY #3:</span><br/> = == <span style="font-size:medium">'''<span style="color:#b22222">MAKE THE STUDENT BODY MORE INTERESTED IN I&E THROUGH ORGANIZATIONS, CLUBS, & COURSES</span>'''</span> == === <span style="font-size:medium">'''<span style="color:#696969">TACTICS</span>'''</span> === #<span style="font-size:small">The first step is gathering the students together. This will be done by creating an organization or club that will serve as a place for innovative people to meet and discuss. This will be what brings everyone together to work on the same goal. It will also serve to create an atmosphere of entrepreneurship so that students will have a place where they can talk about their ideas and find people to join their teams.</span>#<span style="font-size:small">The next step is to make the students stick around by making it valuable. This will be done by hosting more events and speakers. Things like Tedx can really inspire the students in ways that just bringing them together in the same room can't. With more experiences like this, students will decide to take a bigger part in the organization and be more inspired as well.</span>#<span style="font-size:small">The next step is to give the students more personal skills in I&E. This will make the picture clearer and give them a better understanding of what I&E is. We will host workshops that give students the skills they need to go from having an idea to making it a reality.</span>#<span style="font-size:small">The next tactic needs to focus more on giving students the ability to pursue I&E. Once they are interested, this will give them the opportunity to really go after it.</span>#<span style="font-size:small">The fifth tactic will be to create more classes that focus on I&E. This will eventually lead to an I&E concentration, something like a minor. We are already offering a brand new class this summer that will put students in teams and offer them the chance to learn about designing a product for a market. As more classes like this are integrated into the curriculum, I hope to be the first student to graduate with a Chemical Engineering degree with a minor in I&E.</span>#<span style="font-size:small">The next step is to introduce students to the Biz Foundry on campus. This is a local accelerator and is a great place for people to go if they have a business idea or if they just need business advice. Not many people on campus know about this place, so it will be an important project to get the word out so student can take advantage of the opportunity.</span>#<span style="font-size:small">The final step is to create a maker space. Something similar to the d.school we visited at Stanford. Students need a place to go and work on their ideas, ideally while surrounded by students who are doing the same. We are breaking ground this summer, and the faculty has stated that we should have this space constructed by Fall Semester 2014. This will be a room filled with materials, 3D printers, and high-end software that any student can use. </span> = <span style="font-size: large">SPRING 2015 PROJECT PITCH VIDEO</span> = {{#Widget:Youtube|id=vG_HsA-eXbI}} = Related Links = [[Tennessee Technological University]] '''Tennessee Technological University Student Priorities''' [https://www.tntech.edu/innovation Tennessee Tech I&E Program] [http://www.ttuicube.com/ TTU iCube] <br/>'''University Innovation Fellows''' Fall 2019: [[Courtney Savage|Courtney Savage]] [[Mik Davis|Mik Davis]] [[Rachel N. Smith|Rachel N. 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