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<span style="font-size: small;">As a UIF leadership circle for Tennessee Technological University, we hope to increase and expand innovative and entrepreneurial mindsets across campus. In 5 to 10 years we want to come back to see engineers working with artists, chemists creating alongside social scientists, and business professionals collaborating with human ecologists. We hope to see greater and stronger student-faculty relationships, students pursuing their innovative ideas from day 1 of freshman year, and a greater use of campus and regional resources to help students and faculty bring their ambitions to life. Above all, we hope to see innovative thinking become the standard, not the exception.</span> == <span style="font-size:large;">STUDENT PRIORITY #1: ASHLIN WILDUN</span><br/> == == <span style="color:#b22222;">'''<span style="font-size: medium;">, SPECIALIZED POP-UPS TO INCREASE MAKERSPACE USE OUTSIDE OF BUSINESS AND ENGINEERING</span>'''</span> ==
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= Spring 2016 VISION: INNOVATION - THE STANDARD, NOT THE EXCEPTION</span><br/> =As a UIF leadership circle for Tennessee Technological University, we hope to increase and expand innovative and entrepreneurial mindsets across campus. In 5 to 10 years we want to come back to see engineers working with artists, chemists creating alongside social scientists, and business professionals collaborating with human ecologists. We hope to see greater and stronger student-faculty relationships, students pursuing their innovative ideas from day 1 of freshman year, and a greater use of campus and regional resources to help students and faculty bring their ambitions to life. Above all, we hope to see innovative thinking become the standard, not the exception.
<span style="font-size: small;">With the addition of the iCube and iMakerspace to Tennessee Technological University's campus, a key resource for innovation and entrepreneurship is available for all students to utilize. The iCube hosts a virtual reality lab, brainstorming area and classroom, and an iMakerspace loaded with machines like 3-D printers and lab space. Currently, the space is primarily used by engineering students, as well as a small proportion of business students. To introduce students of all majors to entrepreneurship and innovation both on campus and within this new resource, specialized pop-ups should be held which represent the interests of various underrepresented majors in the iCube. For example, a pop-up class which showed wildlife and fisheries students how to 3-D print fish hooks would bring students of other majors into the space and increase exposure to interdisciplinary work with engineering students. Specialized pop-up classes will be open to all students, increasing the likelihood of involving more majors in the iCube and iMakerspace. </span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Everyone has a need for innovation in their degree, and these specialized pop-ups are a way to introduce more students to invaluable resources on campus.</span>
== <span style="font-size: large;">STUDENT PRIORITY #2: JACQUELINE SCHULZ</span><br/> == == <span style="color:#b22222;">'''<span style="font-size:medium;">, INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION & LONG-TERM AVENUES FOR I&E PURSUIT</span>'''</span><br/> ==
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#<span style="font-size: small;">'''Spark interest early''': Targeting students during freshman year is a tactic universities deploy across the country to increase student discovery of I&E and promote its continued pursuit. If we can teach students to look for the I&E opportunities around them in their UNIV 1010 Freshman Connections course (see Strategic Priority #3) the proposed program will provide a guided opportunity to pursue these ideas long-term.</span>
== <span style="font-size: large;">STUDENT PRIORITY #3: NICK RUSSELL</span> == == <span style="color:#b22222;"><span style="font-size:medium;">''', 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.
