= Regional and Local Economic Development Dfforts =
The [http://www.wmich.edu/ime/iee.html Industrial and Entrepreneur Engineering] student organization is currently a Gold Member of the Institute for Industrial Engineering which they are currently planning of a large conference for the Midwest region. The group is composed of mostly industrial engineers but they are able to show the region what kind of innovation ways that are taking place at Western Michigan University in the paper competition where some of the projects from the Entrepreneur engineering courses have been submitted.
[http://www.wmich.edu/startinggate Starting Gate] is a new project started by the "B-School" to help with startups to present students with the resources to help build and grow their small startups. By helping with the Business Model Canvas to reaching customer segments. This is only starting gates second semester but they have a diverse group of students from freshman with innovations from high school trying to further their knowledge to MBA students.