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== Tactic #1: Engineering Lab Boot Camp ==

*It’s a shame to see beautiful lab space not be fully taken advantage of by students.  The state of the art engineering lab spaces were completed in 2011 and have been open to students since.  An extensive amount of research and class work goes on inside the labs however they are not being used by students to innovate, fabricate and prototype student ideas that aren’t connected to their existing studies.  It poses the question of how much the students realize their labs can do and if their knowledge of the equipment is deep enough to work on their own.  A good amount of the available equipment is equal in quality and purpose to equipment used in engineering careers and a head start on use can only be beneficial.  An '''Engineering Lab Bootcamp''' would engage students through a series of workshops on how best to make use of the resources they have available.  It could offer the possibility of student interaction and collaboration to explore special topics and specific applications of their labs.  It would help students realize the potential of entrepreneurship by providing the tools to innovate something new to benefit the world they occupy.  Similar workshops have been adopted in the Creative Media and Digital Culture program and in the Fine Arts program.  Guest speakers are brought in and students are provided with a one on one experience with the opportunity to make something of their own.  When applied to the engineering department it would open up the student body to a new set of skills and opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship.