= <span style="font-size: large;">STUDENT PRIORITY #3: NICK RUSSELL</span> =
== <span style="font-sizecolor:medium#b22222;"><span style="colorfont-size:#808080medium;">'''FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE UNIVERSITY CONNECTIONS "DESIGN THINKING COLLEGE" COURSE''' </span></span> ==
Through our investigation of the I&E ecosystem on our campus, a dichotomy began to emerge in which I saw a divergence between those who viewed the design thinking process as valuable in itself and those who viewed it as a means to developing technology. Tennessee Tech has done an admirable job building out the infrastructure which could support creating technology or a company, but has room to grow in terms of developing an I&E culture.