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Dr. Charles Wood is a Fulbright Scholar and the faculty advisor for TU's NOVA Fellowship (www.novafellowship.org), which is a multidisicplinary student group whose motto is "Dream and do," and who organizes the annual campus TEDx event (www.tedxuniversityoftulsa.com), the Oklahoma Young Entrepreneur Awards (www.oyea.co), and other competitions, design challenges, and creative collaborations.
<span style="font-size:small;">TU's Engineers Without Borders chapter ([http://www.ewb.oneofakind.ws/ http://www.ewb.oneofakind.ws/]) and Make A Difference Engineering (MADE at TU, [https://engineering.utulsa.edu/academics/mechanical-engineering/make-a-difference-engineering/ https://engineering.utulsa.edu/academics/mechanical-engineering/make-a-difference-engineering/]) give , and Sustainable Engineering for Needy and Emerging Areas ([https://engineering.utulsa.edu/senea-waterheater-mongolia/ https://engineering.utulsa.edu/senea-waterheater-mongolia/]) gives engineering students opportunities to collaborate towards goals which improve lives in the community and abroad.</span>
Students can learn about I&E opportunities such as the NOVA Fellowship and the I&E Minor and Certificate at a bi-annual Activities Fair, or through stories in the college newspaper, The Collegian. They can meet up to work on projects and think creatively at TU's "Creative Greenhouse," Studio Blue in Helmerich Hall, or fabricate and iterate prototypes in the Mechanical Engineering Student Projects Lab, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Robotics Lab, or off campus less than 1 mile away at Fab Lab Tulsa (www.fablabtulsa.org), a maker space open to paid membership for the entire community.