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<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 involving students of 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 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 [http://eecs.vanderbilt.edu/courses/ee235/STAR_Legacy_model.htm 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 [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1O6338JsdW6i947bSGWkvvVF9RupCshBwd_pyG-UXELo/edit?usp=sharing radiation-shielding sterile drape] which would be reusable, sterilizable, light-weight and flexible.</span>
=== <span style="font-size: small;">Areas for improvement</span><br/> ===
#<span style="font-size: small;">'''Increase interdisciplinary aspect''': The course only included students from nursing and chemical engineering disciplines, leaving large knowledge deficits when developing business plans and/or other aspects of prototype development which could not be solely applied to chemical engineering and/or nursing.</span>
#<span style="font-size: small;">'''Greater introduction to available resources''': While the class was briefly introduced to resources available for prototyping on campus including the iMakerspace within the iCube, no in-depth instruction was provided on use of these resources due to time constraints.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>
=== <span style="font-size: small;">The Solution</span><span style="font-size: small;"></span> ===
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