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= Student Innovation and & Entrepreneurship<br/> =<div><span id="docs-internal-guid-e3687445-336a-782f-7574-00420f4c83a8"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tennessee Tech Technological University is filled an upbeat campus populated with students who are interested in making the work to make a positive impact on their world a better placedaily. On Numerous on-campus there are many resources implementing exist for students interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as , and these resources offer services and access to students from disciplines across the means to solve these problemscampus.</divspan><div/span><br/p style="text-align: center;"></divspan><divspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It beings with having a place for like-minded students to meet and talk. With two dormitories that are only for Business and Engineering majors an innovative environment naturally emerges. This innovative spirit is then strengthened by the curriculum that involves classes with real world examples[[File:Icubelogo. Classes that show students how to not only work with theoretical models of their designs, but also the economic and marketing side of their workpng|border|Icubelogo. These are upper level classes such as CHE 4410 Process Design and 4930 Business Strategypng]]</divspan><div/span><br/p><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Venues available&nbsp;</divspan><divspan style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interest is further driven by events like Tedx Nashville and for I&Eoriented student interaction </span><span style="font-Week. Tedx Nashville is a yearly event that recently has been supported by the dean’s officesize: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, encouraging students to attend the event by paying for their tickets. E68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-week is a common event across many universities where color: transparent;">include the various engineering majors are brought together and pitted against each other in competitions.b</divspan><divspan style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">usiness and engineering <br/span></divspan style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><div>Even if you are not a Business or Engineering major there is still plenty to take part of such as the living-learning villages, 20+ student organizations fostering I&nbsp;recent &nbsp;ResearchE mindsets, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum the [http://www.ttuicube.com/ iCube] & iMakerspace where speakers from the NSF will give talks to students and faculty imagine, inspire, and students regarding Iinnovate.&E.nbsp;Located on the 3rd floor of the Volpe library, t</divspan><divspan style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">he 6,000 square foot iCube and iMakerspace facility provides students and faculty with access to virtual reality and immersive experience technologies (Oculus Rift and Vis-Box), 3-D printers, and shop tools for innovative design and prototyping. These spaces truly enable all Tech students to bring their dreams to life through hands-on design, experimentation, and interdisciplinary collaboration.<br/></divspan>

<span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">This innovative campus spirit is strengthened within the business and engineering curricula through courses focusing on real world applications. These courses,&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">including CHE 4410 Process Design, CHE 4661 Transport in Biochemical and Biological Processes, and BMGT 4930 Business Strategy, </span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">show students how to work with theoretical design models and develop economic & marketing strategies for their ventures. MKT 4900 provides students interested in I&E with the opportunity to participate in innovative activities through experiential learning as taught by local entrepreneurs. Additionally, this course prepares students for the campus wide Eagle Works business pitch competition held every spring.</span> <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The newest I&E course piloted Fall 2015, [https://www.tntech.edu/news/releases/nursing,-engineering-students-collaborate-on-health-care-problems Clinical Immersion at Disciplinary Interfaces], synergizes the minds of nursing and chemical engineering students to develop solutions for health care innovation. Over the semester, students explore the local hospital and interview health care providers to identify problems and develop solutions which fit the needs expressed through these experiences. At the end of the course, each team composed of nursing and chemical engineering students present their projects and prototypes to a panel of faculty and I&E professionals from the community.</span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-e3687445-336a-782f-7574-00420f4c83a8"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interest is also found at events like [http://tedxnashville.com/ Tedx Nashville] and E-Week. Tedx Nashville is a yearly event recently supported by the Dean’s Office, which promotes student attendance by purchasing student tickets. E-week is a national event in which many universities participate. During the event, various engineering majors are brought together and pitted against each other in competitions.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even if you are not a business or engineering major, there is still plenty to take part in, such as the&nbsp;recent Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum where speakers from the NSF gave talks to faculty and students regarding I&E.</span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">UPDATE 4/18/2016: The Tennessee Board of Regents just recently approved an [https://www.tntech.edu/certificates/innovation-and-entrepreneurship-certificate I&E certificate] to be completed in conjunction with any undergraduate bachelors degree. We are so excited this opportunity has been approved for our students and cannot wait to award these certificates!</span></span></div>= Faculty Innovation and & Entrepreneurship<br/> =

<span id="docs-internal-guid-bc653010-336b-837f-327f-595d1f353465"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The teaching faculty at TN Tech is extremely involved with real world innovation. Many professors are currently doing perform research on something which they plan to turn develop into a product. And many in the future, and others have already started companies through their research.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-bc653010-336b-837f-327f-595d1f353465"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along with this environment of start-ups , there is a movement going on that is pushing forming which promotes innovation directly. With the help of NCIIA VentureWell, faculty members attended a workshop in the month of February 2014. They where they received training similar training to that which the University Innovation Fellows are receiving but on a higher levelreceive.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-bc653010-336b-837f-327f-595d1f353465"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This same group of faculty is also pushing to create promotes the creation of a new major on campus. Something that This pathway of study would combine aspects of the business and engineering curriculum curricula to create a are an area of study for students that are interested in entrepreneurshipspecifically.<br/></span></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span>

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<span id="docs-internal-guid-b6f5b89e-336c-d7ea-7c98-37c39144bedd"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The [http://www.thebizfoundry.org/ Biz Foundry ] is a local business accelerator in Upper Cumberland Tennessee, partnered with [http://launchtn.org/ Launch Tennessee]. We are focused The organization focuses on building a startup community that which nurtures local talent, innovation, and entrepreneurs in order to create a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem. Our The accelerator program pairs startups with mentors and investors in order to help aid with the business modeldevelopment.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-b6f5b89e-336c-d7ea-7c98-37c39144bedd"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Biz Foundry, located across the street from campus, is a place for students and faculty to ask questions related to start-up ventures. To aid in these start-up ventures, the Biz Foundry holds 24 Hour Launch events for students to bring their ideas to the next level of development.</span></span>

The Biz Foundry is found right off campus<span id="docs-internal-guid-b6f5b89e-336c-d7ea-7c98-37c39144bedd"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tech also houses a [https://www.tsbdc. It’s a place org/ Small Business Development Center] for students regional entrepreneurs seeking improve on their innovative ideas. The center provides local business internships to students and host business seminars covering a wide range of topics dealing with innovation and faculty to go for any questions related to startentrepreneurship.</span></span><div><br/></div></div>= University-up ventures.Industry Collaboration =

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0184fd5e-336d-6bdb-d55b-943f1d7f30f8"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the aid of grants, such as the [http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/i-corps/index.jsp National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps] (I-Corps^TM), the amount of research on Tech's campus is expected to grow significantly over the next few years. More and more faculty are partnering with industry to turn their research into marketable products.</span></span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0184fd5e-336d-6bdb-d55b-943f1d7f30f8"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks to these grants, the iCube and iMakerspace, and help from external organizations like the Biz Foundry, local businesses from the near-by cities of Nashville and Knoxville now have a place to discuss the research happening at TN Tech also has .</span></span></span><div><br/></div>= Regional & Local Economic Development Efforts<br/> = <span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b1cb30f3-336e-059c-da11-978c1365dae3"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TN Tech is located in the small town of Cookeville, TN. The campus itself is one of the biggest aspects of the town and is subsequently a Small Business Development Center for students large contributor to go and build up on their innovative ideasthe local economy. It works as Besides the fact huge amounts of money come from students that buy things from the local businesses, there is also a sort lot of community service which takes place.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre meeting area before you go -wrap; background-color: transparent;">Events like the Relay for Life bring in tens of thousands of dollars for cancer research every spring, and university and seek more helproadside clean-ups coordinated by Greek life organizations keep the city clean.</span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b1cb30f3-336e-059c-da11-978c1365dae3"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Due to Cookeville's location in the center of three of Tennessee's major cities (Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga), it is often a meeting ground for innovation. Much work is done between these four cities to bring businesses from across the country to the increasingly innovative state of Tennessee. <br/div><br/></span></span></span>

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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style= Regional "font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Innovation and Local Economic Development EffortsEntrepreneurship Committee also launched the "Rural Reimagined" initiative to challenge students to use their I&E skills to improve rural life. These projects include expanding healthcare access, internet access and other vital resources to the underserved populations of the Upper Cumberland.<br/span></span></span> =

<span style="font-size:medium;">Click [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtoZPD-qrSFkdGpUbW5paXFKNHA0QmZZRGI1TFlYdGc&usp=drive_web#gid=0 https:spreadsheets/d/docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtoZPD1bo9KBoNRYZ5j_cIghmiasZGy2io5BnX7Re-qrSFkdGpUbW5paXFKNHA0QmZZRGI1TFlYdGc&usp=drive_web#gid=0YvkD1Y44 here]to see an up-to-date version of Tennessee Tech University's Landscape Canvas</span>

Tennesse Technological University [http[Tennessee Technological University Student Priorities|Tennessee Technological University Student Priorities]] [https://www.tntech.edu/ innovation Tennessee Tech I&E Program] [http://www.tntechttuicube.com/ TTU iCube] University Innovation Fellows Fall 2019 [[Rachel N. Smith|Rachel N Smith]] [[Courtney Savage|Courtney Savage]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mik_Davis Mik Davis] Fall 2016 [[Justin Medley|Justin Medley]]&nbsp; [[Shelby Williams|Shelby Williams]] [[Alicen long|Alicen Long]] [[Caroline timpson|Caroline Timpson]] Spring 2016: [[Nicholas Russell|Nicholas Russell]] [[Jacqueline Schulz|Jacqueline Schulz]] [[Ashlin Wildun|Ashlin Wildun]] Spring 2015: [[Jonathan Abbotoy|Jonathan Abbotoy]] [[Abigail Collins|Abigail Collins]] Spring 2014: [[Enis Cirak|Enis Cirak]] Other Related Links: [http://thebizfoundry.org/ The Biz Foundry] [http://www.ttuicube.com/ Tennessee Tech iCube] [https://docs.google.educom/spreadsheets/d/18QcxC1oQ4HCPaqHy9nCkWtqF0y1hStNHjX6W1xgyZWI/edit?usp=sharing 2016 Spring Landscape Canvas] [[Category:Universities]][[Category:Schools]][[Category:Tennessee_Technological_University]]{{CatTree|Tennessee_Technological_University}}