Changes

<span style="font-size: small;">In order to remedy the areas for improve ment 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 give students exposure to I&E concepts, and interdisciplinary collaboration, and will also promote the use of the many resources available to students for their innovative and entrepreneurial ventures. Divided into yearly cohorts, students from each year in the program will have the opportunity to network form long-term relationships and form teams for solution development to problems presented 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, 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 activites and exercises for students to apply the concepts these to the world around</span>#<span style="font-size: small;">'''Second year cohorts will be assigned projects for solution development and execution'''. This year will focus on using the design thinking process to brainstorm solutions for the ideaproblem, develop prototypes/minimum viable products (MVPs) using data collected through research, and working to bring the solution to production using their resources available on campus/in the regionregional I&E ecosystem.</span>#<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;">Third year cohorts will self-identify problems and design solutions&nbsp;</span>