3. Promote learning-by-doing and provide resources to enable students to transform ideas into products that could be commercialized.
Many of the most forward-thinking companies provide spaces for employees that encourage innovation. Well-designed spaces often serve as catalysts for enhanced collaboration and innovation. We will create collaborative spaces for students that allows allow for greater creativity, design and innovation on campus. By holding events and meetings in the spaces, students across all disciplines will begin to use the spaces to work with others ' projects.
In addition to having a few dedicated spaces, there are several common areas on campus that would make excellent pop-up spaces. We will provide guides and resources to for students to successfully create a temporary collaborative space of their own anywhere on campus.
=== Brown Design Lab (Currently not the official name) ===
In collaboration with Professor Jered Dean of Mechanical Engineering, we will work are working to transform the Brown basement into a collaborative workspace for student projects, meetings, workshops and classes. The space has open hours , allowing students from every major and grade level to collaborate on academic or personal projects.
=== betaversity ===
Bringing a [http://betaversity.com/ betaversity] betaspace or betabox to Mines would provide students with a modern prototyping space , so students can may apply their creativity and knowledge to develop innovative solutions.
betaboxes can be configured in the following ways: