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== '''<span style="font-size:small;">Currently Available Resources</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 I&E based or worked to integrate I&E principles into the curriculum(~9 + Senior Capstone Projects). Courses containing these principles were clustered within the engineering and business disciplines, with few outliers in agriculture and nursing.</span>
<span style="font-size: small;">One such course, including students of nursing and chemical engineering (open to biomolecular concentration as well as general chemical engineering students), is called Clinical Immersion at Interdisciplinary Interfaces and was piloted during the Fall 2015 Semester. This course taught students to apply field experience/observation and personal interviews to a process very similar to the design thinking process called the Legacy cycle. Then students used 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>
