USC is home to many centers of innovation, including the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, the USC Lloyd Grief Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, the USC Viterbi Student Innovation Institute, the USC Annenberg Digital Innovation Lab, and more. With the inception of the latest USC Jimmy Iovine & Young Academy, USC is pushing the boundary of innovation in the arts, business, and technology industries. We hope this can extend to all the other USC schools as well.
= Student Priorities<br/>= == '''Project Pitch VideoFocus #1 - Strengthen the relationship between USC alumni and students, especially in careers of entrepreneurship and innovation'''<br/> ==
[insert YouTube link]USC prides itself on having a strong alumni network, and as students, we’ve all been told that reaching out to alumni is a great way to network and build relationships. Especially in the world of entrepreneurship and innovation, having a support system and mentors is crucial for success. Thus, we want to help bridge the gap between alumni and students and work with the Alumni Network (Alumni Society / Society53) on campus.
Alumni also will have the opportunity to listen to aspiring entrepreneurs and support in their ideas. We envision either a panel of alumni speaking to students on campus or coming to judge potential design springs and conferences held on campus.
== '''Focus #2 - Improve USC spring admit and transfer student university integration.''' ==
= Student Priorities<br/> =From speaking with fellow classmates who are either spring admit students or transfer students, their one comment on how USC can improve often resolves to their own welcoming experience (or lack thereof). Fall admitted students go through a series of activities and special welcoming events that best integrate them into the student body and onto campus. The later admitted students however experience prejudice as to their time of admission, and are not readily provided for or accommodated in onboarding to USC.
== '''Focus #1 We should create a series of USC student-led mini- Create a product thinking major, minor, families or “pods” with new students from all over the university meeting other new students and visiting LA together or course relying on each other for advice. These could be organized each semester for transfer students that come in the fall and spring, and will definitely accommodate spring admits in the spring. Being able to learn morebond with other students in similar situations as themselves can already alleviate the pressure of entering college alone and with the challenge of making new friends.''' ==This could be easily introduced during transfer student orientations, where we can develop a tailored orientation program facilitated by peers that cover important aspects of their new school such as:
USC has so many resources in innovation, design, engineering, business, and entrepreneurship, but it lacks a centralized program of thought for students interested in pursuing product design or product development as a whole. Product design should not be limited to mechanical engineering design principles. In fact, I think that product design has a much more anthropological aspect that we tend to forget about. The mixture of understanding how to design for a user and what to design for a user would make a Product Design major, minor, or at least a new course at USC highly beneficial to students.<br/>This program could be modeled after existing Product Design courses in the US, such as Stanford’s, but take a more business and human-centric approach to the process of product conception. Maybe it could even be called Product Conception.<br/>I expect the major path to draw knowledge from the following schools at USC, and Introduction to provide students with the relative skills mentioned below:campus culture
*Roski School of Art**Visual design, 3D modeling, art theory for aesthetic product design*Annenberg School of Communication**How we perceive products in the media and what cultural backstory influences their success. The role of communication in influencing a product’s development.*Viterbi School of Engineering**Engineering and CS fundamentals for structural systems design and essential software architecture principles, object-oriented design*Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences**Anthropology lessons and insights on human reasoning and human value**Cognitive science to understand human cognition and reasoning*Marshall School of Business**How to design a product for the market and assess feasibility*Lloyd Grief Center for Entrpreneurial Studies**Understanding what makes a product successful entrepreneurially*USC School of Architecture**Maybe some indication of product through architecture*Visual arts components**USC School of Cinematic Arts**USC Thornton School of Music**USC Kaufman School of Dance**What makes art or the entertainment industries essential to product design and vice versa?Transfer Credits
<br/>I’m sure we could incorporate more schools, and have this major be as interdisciplinary as possible. It’s important to emphasize Human-centric design and how the typical user in each industry is different and has different values.Work opportunities
== '''Focus #2 - Improve USC spring admit and transfer student university integration.''' ==Financial aid
From speaking with fellow classmates who are either spring admit students or transfer == '''Focus #3 - Spread entrepreneurial thought across campus to different students, their one comment on how USC can improve often resolves to their own welcoming experience (or lack thereoffrom varying backgrounds and majors). Fall admitted students go through a series of activities and special welcoming events that best integrate them into the student body and onto campus. The later admitted students however experience prejudice as to their time of admission, and are not readily provided for or accommodated in onboarding to USC.''' ==
We should create a series Our goal is to break down the idea of USC student-led mini-families or “pods” with new entrepreneurship to be more approachable and accessible, especially for students from all over outside of the university meeting other new students and visiting LA together or relying on each other for adviceMarshall School of Business. These could be organized each semester for transfer As students that who come in the fall from diverse backgrounds and springschools, our hope is more individuals realize that design thinking and will definitely accommodate spring admits in the springproblem solving can be applied to any field of students. Being able We want to bond with other empower students in similar situations as themselves can already alleviate the pressure of entering college alone to take want they are passionate about and with the challenge of making new friendsbecome “entrepreneurs”.
== '''Focus #3 We realize that not every person at USC has the resources and support they need to actually fully ideate, prototype, and execute their ideas and that leads into another focus of ours - Foster better entertainment entrepreneurship activities''' ==- the educate students. This will be in succession to us being able to outreach and speak to these diverse groups.
USC has so many entertainment industry resources, but lacks in entertainment entrepreneurship. The introduction of the new SCA Entertainment Industry minor, == '''Focus #4 - Educate students and the existence of the Business Administration (Cinematic Arts) major here at USC are stepping stones in the right direction (also the Game Entrepreneurism minor in SCA), but there lacks similar provide resources in the USC Thornton School of Music and about the USC Kaufman School of Dance.design thinking process''' ==
I’ve reached out Design thinking is a human-centered approach to initiate learning, collaboration, and problem solving that begins with developing empathy for those facing a partnership between USC and The Black Listparticular challenge. In practice, design thinking serves as a prominent script database exclusively open structured framework that helps us to industry members define problems, empathize with others to gather information, develop prototypes of possible solutions, and screenwritershone those prototypes through multiple iterations until they have generated a viable solution to the challenge at hand.
I will continue Design thinking can be flexibly implemented; encouraging a bias towards action and, because of its nature regarding rapid prototyping, frees up practitioners to better understand what types embrace the notion of student organizations or industry partnership or events could help USC entertainment students become more entrepreneurially activefailing forward as it is alright to make mistakes - that’s where breakthrough ideas are born.
=Related Links= '''Focus #4 - Organize another TEDx USC experience that highlights our school’s strengths and partners with local startups[http://universityinnovation.''' ==org/wiki/University_of_Southern_California University of Southern California Page]
We need to organize another TEDx event for USC that brings the best of USC’s schools and students and introduces them to the brilliant industry members leading change in our local LA startups, companies, and research centers[http://universityinnovation. By bridging the gap between academia and industry, we could hopefully inspire students to invest in thinking about the application org/wiki/University_of_Southern_California_Student_Priorities University of their studies to the future of our industry and workforce.Southern California Student Priorities Page]
I’m excited to start working on this and to start interacting with University officials to better understand how we can organize our existing resources into a more relevant and coherent major for product-focused individuals in various disciplines.[[Laura Gouillon]]
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