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<h2> == Tactic #2: An Entrepreneurship-Driven Biomedical Engineering Design Curriculum </h2>== <ul><li>*Description: Diversity of backgrounds, ideas, and expertise is essential to the success of a team. &#160nbsp;This is especially true when that team is launching a venture. &#160nbsp;The department of Biomedical Engineering has a series of three design courses that culminates in a Senior Design Project&#160nbsp;in which teams of biomedical engineering students work to develop products that address medical challenges. &#160nbsp;Currently, these teams consist of 3-4 undergraduate biomedical engineering students; these teams lack the diversity in knowledge and skillset to fully develop and launch their ventures. &#160nbsp;To facilitate the creation of more diverse teams, we will work with the Department of Biomedical Engineering to redesign the design courses in the department. &#160nbsp;This redesign will:</li></ul><ol><li>#make the courses interdisciplinary by opening them to business and computer science students</li><li>#provide students with access to entrepreneurial resources</li><li>#integrate more entrepreneurship concepts into the curriculum</li><li>#establish a seed fund to provide students with capital to file for intellectual property protection or develop a proof-of-concept before seeking external investment</li></ol><ul><li>*Team Leader(s): Mihir Pershad</li><li>*Milestones:<ul><li>**Get approval of Chair of Biomedical Engineering and External Advisory Committee</li><li>**Acquire grants or institutional funding for curriculum redevelopment</li><li>**Create programming and curriculum</li><li>**Find faculty and staff support</li><li>**Contact alumni and community partners to establish seed fund</li><li>**Work with community partners and faculty to develop final pitch event that puts student teams in front of potential mentors, investors, and advisors</li></ul></li></ul><h2> == Tactic #3: An Innovation and Entrepreneurship Living-Learning Community<br /> </h2>== <ul><li>*Description: Creative ideas are best faciliated when in the right mindset. Being in a creative mindset means being surrounded by support, encouragement and often just an open ear for feedback. UNC has living and learning communities geared towards everything from sustainable living to immersive-language adaption programs. Yet there are 32 residence halls at UNC and only 9 living-learning communities. There is certainly the room and precedent for an LLC for innovation and entrepreneurship to come to Carolina. There is undoubtedly a need for a program like this where incoming students can live an immersive environment with creative, like-minded (yet diverse!) minds. The movement around innovation and entrepreneurship on campus is fastly growing, so the time is prefect to bring this program to life and equip the next class of entreprenurial students with the tools to pursue big ideas right at the beginning of their college careers.</li></ul><ul><li>*Team Leader(s): Shannon Coy</li><li>*Milestones:<ul><li>**Bring UNC's Department of Residence Hall Education on board</li><li>**Gain financial backing for the program</li><li>**Create programming and curriculum</li><li>**Find faculty and staff support</li><li>**Find the approriate location</li><li>**Pilot the program in a residence hall</li></ul></li></ul>

<div>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Teerth_Brahmbhatt UI Fellow - Teerth Brahmbhatt]</div><div><br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alex_Sherman UI Fellow - Alex Sherman]<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Shannon_Coy UI Fellow-Shannon Coy]<br/></div></div> [[Category:Student Priorities]]