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Since student awareness has been a persistent issue addressed by UIF fellows in the past, we decided to take an approach that centers less on the distribution of specific information regarding E&I resources and instead focused on building cross-departmental student relationships. As outlined below, our primary strategy seeks to create a community of students that come from different disciplines, backgrounds, and approaches to innovation. These students would form the core of a community of practice that would not be tethered to one particular competition, club, hackathon, or class--instead, it would transcend these individual offerings and support a consistent culture of innovation.
=== Tactic 1: Create a Student Innovation Corp ===
<span id="docs-internal-guid-f8c03b15-7fff-2576-8255-72c7aeb3961d">The Student Innovation Corp (SIC) would be a core group of student workers/interns who help define, cultivate, and spread a student driven, ASU-specific culture of innovation. </span>Each corp member would liaison with an E&I-related department (ex. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Office of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Department of Arts, Media, and Engineering, etc.)
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== Strategy #2: Facilitate the development of E&I Culture in non-traditional departments spaces tailored for diverse users ==
While engineering, business, art, and design students are actively recruited to participate in E&I-related activties, opportunities geared towards humanities, social science, and other non-technical majors are harder to find at ASU. In this vein, we hope propose that we research and design a basic set of needs for a prototyping and innovation space that would work for everyone, then create a set of guidelines that can be used to help both specialize that space for the group that will be using it.
=== Tactic: Cross-departmental Innovation Space Consulting ===
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*User-friendly layouts
**An obvious flow to the space that draws you in and leads through the areas
One of the biggest assets to ASU--the size and diversity of its many programs and resources-- also works to keep students and faculty isolated. This unintended consequence needs to be intentionally addressed through "unsilo-ing" activities. As such, one of our tactics is to create events and opportunities that bring different disciplinary groups into conversation with each other. Our primary tactic, an annual conference, would just be a first step towards establishing a more permament institutional habit of cross-disciplinary collaborations and socialization.
=== Tactic 1: University Symposium on Innovation through Leadership, Openness and Education (UnSILOEd ) ===
<span id="docs-internal-guid-71334e9b-7fff-f8a8-d420-75dd6298e9b6">A 2-day conference that helps realize ASU President Michael Crow’s vision of a truly transdisciplinary university, but with a foundation in student-driven innovation. </span>
== Strategy #4: Make existing makerspaces more welcoming, inclusive, and human-centered ==
=== Tactic 1: Consider space layout in design (maybe collaborate with HSE students on this?)<br/> ===
Improve access to machine training?
