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== Strategy I: I&E Opportunities for all majors ==

=== Campus Change Vision: https://youtu.be/WSWOEnUE3uE  ===

=== Description: ===

=== Project: ===

To create a university-wide interdisciplinary certificate program where all students from all schools and majors have the ability to take courses towards completing an I&E certificate. Also create an inclusive innovation class to be offered to all majors as an intro course to the certificate program.

Tactic A: Developing a fully complete I&E certificate with administration to be offered to all undergraduate students

Get approval and financial support from stakeholders to create an offical course registration number for this certificate program will provide students with trust that this program is strong and worthwhile.

~~===~~ UIF Candidate progressing this project: Katelyn Morrison ~~===~~

~~~~Tactic B:Inclusive I&E Course

Milestone 1: ~~[TITLE]~~Interview students who currently are enrolled in the certificate programs

~~[Description]~~By interviewing both students from CBA and SSoE, who are already commited to their I&E certicicates, we will be able to see the flaws within their respective programs and classes and introduce our new inclusive course. By seeing what is lacking in their I&E classes, we will be able to further improve our extensive introduction class prototype.

Milestone 2:Discuss the class with current professors~~[TITLE]~~

~~~~~~[Description]~~Ask the opinions of professors on the idea of the class and their personal input on how to make the class possible. Specifcally talk with professors who teach for the existing I&E certificates and see if they agree or disagree with our attempts at combining engineering and business core teaching into one class.

~~~~Milestone 3: ~~[TITLE]~~Finalize course description

~~~~~~[DESCRIPTION]~~Make sure the course description reflects the findings from both students and professors, while conveying our ideas of combining the engineering and business core teachings.</span~~></font~~>

=== Implementation===

=== Working with ~~...~~Dean of CBA and SSoE and President ===

==== Steps: ====<ol style="~~#000000~~margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" ~~face~~><li>Present the course syllabus and description to the board of education.</li><li>~~[DESCIPTION]~~Find preferably two professors to work together on this class to incorporate the engineering and business aspects into the class.</li><li>Advertise the class to students and offer it to students currently taking the I&E certificate course</li></ol>

~~===~~ UIF Candidate progressing this project: Claudia Jester ~~===~~

== Strategy II: Create an energizing I&E ecosystem for incoming students ==

=== Project: ===

~~[Liz: I&E festival idea, orientaiton activites, or idea blitz booth in freshmen quadrangle?]~~

Tactic A: I&E Fall Festival

Milestone 1: ~~[TITLE]~~ ~~[Description]~~ Milestone 2:[TITLE]Surverying the student population

~~[Description]~~This milstone will be useful in gauging the interest among the general student population and finding out whether or not they are actually interested in this idea. This will help us determine if creating a festival is a productive use of time.

Milestone 32: ~~[TITLE]~~Securing a budget and setting a time and date for the festival

~~~~~~[Description]~~This milestone will help us transform the idea of the festival into a tangible and solid project for us to implement on campus. Having both a budget and a place to host the festival will allow us to plan it and put the final touches on getting it ready.</span~~></font~~>

Milestone 3: Having the festival

Having the festival is the culmination of the planning and budgeting that has taken place so far. This is important as it is what actually allows us to expose the student body to innovation and entrepreneurship and get them excited about these topics!

=== Implementation ===

=== Working with ~~First Year Experience Office~~the Outside the Classroom Curriculum (OCC) Coordinator ===

[Description]Working with the OCC Coordinator will be a good starting point as she will be well versed in forming festivals and activities such as these ones. She will also be able to provide plenty of resources that we will be able to reach out to and discuss our plans with.

~~===~~ UIF Candidate progressing this project: Liz Petley ~~===~~

== Strategy III: Multidisciplinary Collaboration of I&E Students ==

=== Description: ===

In order to encourage students from different schools within the University to work collaboratively within I&E, I propose that we facilitate an extracurricular group project system, wherein several projects run each semester with an overarching theme. Teams will be composed of 4 students from at least 3 different schools and projects will run for 6 weekswith the goals of building prototyping and design thinking skills, improving teamwork and communication, and I&E certificate credit.  

=== Project: I&E Projects (will need to come up with a catchy name) === Tactic A: 6 week interdisciplinary group projects Milestone 1: MEET WITH STAKEHOLDERS We will first need to meet with our stakeholders to discuss the feasibility and funding for these projects. One idea for a theme I have is campus and/or Oakland community improvements, but rules surrounding regulations and funding might be difficult to work around and will need to be well understood before we can launch any projects. We will also need to determine project budgets. Milestone 2: SURVEY INTEREST THROUGH FLYERS, EMAILS, SURVEY LINKS

~~Tactic A: 6 week group projects~~As I did in my prototype, the first step is to gather student interest across schools by promoting the program through flyering, emails, and distribution from departments within the school. Interested students will fill out a Google Forms survey to tell us key information like their year, major, availability, and existing skills.

Milestone 13: ~~[TITLE]~~INTEREST MEETING

~~[Description]~~Next we will hold an interest meeting to better explain the projects to interested students, who will then complete a brief application survey.

Milestone 25:~~[TITLE]~~PILOT TEAMS LAUNCH

~~[Description]~~Based on the application results, we will form interdisciplinary student teams of 4. Depending on the freedome we have as agreed upon with the stakeholders, groups will then meet individually with us to propose a project idea or we will let them choose from a predetermined list. For campus/community improvements, projects might include things like creating an art display, an interactive exhibit for a specific building, or something to promote recycling. At the launch meetings, we will explain how the next six weeks will look for the teams and what we expect of them.

~~~~<span style="~~font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;~~ color: rgb(67, 67, 67); ~~background~~font-~~color~~family: ~~transparent~~Arial; ~~vertical~~font-~~align~~size: ~~baseline~~14pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Milestone 36: ~~[TITLE]~~SPEED BOOTCAMP

~~[Description]~~To kick off the projects, the teams will all go through a brief but intensive bootcamp to expose them to all the resources they have at hand as well as critical skills such as design-thinking and rapid prototyping.

Milestone 7: WEEKLY CHECK-INS

Each week, each team will meet with us individually to share their progress in the previous week and their goals for the next week. During this time we will also review and course-correct their design plans if need be.

Milestone 7: PROJECT LAUNCHES

<div>As the projects come to a close, they will officially launch in whatever way that means for them. E.g. An interactive piece opens for use</div>

=== Implementation ===

=== Working with ~~...~~Big Idea Center, Brandon Barber ===

[Description]

~~===~~ UIF Candidate progressing this project:Sara Kron ~~===~~

== Strategy IV:Creating a social atmosphere for I&E on campus ==

=== Description:  ===

~~University~~ There are a lot of ~~Pittsburgh currently has a seperate innovation andentrepreneurship certificate~~and activities that are offered to students to expose and encourage innovation and entrepeneurship. However, ~~which seperates possible connections between students~~ there is no social atmosphere for for encouraging and exposing innovation and ~~depletes psosible productivity on projects~~entrepeneurship.</font~~></span~~>

=== Project: ===

<~~font color~~span style="~~#000000" face="Arial~~font-size:larger;">~~[PROJECT DESCRIPTION]~~To startup an innovation fraternity on campus to gather like-minded students from a diversity of majors. This fraternity will be promote students gathering socially together in support of innovation. </~~font~~span>

Tactic A: ~~[TITLE]~~Implement an Innovation Fraternity on campus

Milestone 1: ~~[TITLE]~~Gather input from students who rushed for fraternities/sororities

~~[DECRIPTION]~~This step is vital to creating the fraternity becuase it will determine the success of the fraternity in the short run. It is important to gain inpuit frmo students who rushed for fraternities and sororities becuase they would be apart of the population data being collected. Since they rushed, gathering input if they would have chosen to rush for an innovation fraternity would provide a secure dataset to show interest and success in the creation of the frat.

Milestone 2:~~[TITLE]~~Create a mission and philanthroy

<~~span></span[DECRIPTION]~~ ~~Milestone 3: [TITLE]~~ ~~<span~~>~~[DECRIPTION]~~To finalize the proposal of the creation of this fraternity, the four UIF candidates need to sit down and finalize the mission, purpose, and goals of the creation of this fraternity.</~~span~~font>

Milestone 3: Open up the frat for rushing season

Once there is enough momentum for the fraternity to be successful, the next step is to make the fraternity a part of the options for students to rush to.

=== Implementation ===

=== Working with ~~...~~Panhellenic Association === ~~[DESCRIPTION]~~ ~~=== UIF Candidate progressing this project: ===~~ == Strategy I: I&E Opportunities for all majors == ~~=== Description: ===~~ Currently there is only an I&E Certificate offered to students in the business school or engineering school. This limited offering excludes a huge population of students at Pitt that have potential interest in the I&E career. ~~=== Project: ===~~ To create a university-wide interdisciplinary certificate program where all students from all schools and majors have the ability to take courses towards completing an I&E certificate Tactic A: Developing a fully complete I&E certificate with administration to be offered to all undergraduate students Milestone 1: Surveying a wide range of students Use the Idea Blitz Booth ideas to gather data from a wide variety of students on how they would react to this opportunity presented to them by their school.

<~~span id~~font color="~~docs-internal-guid-fcfce87a-fb33-4db4-17fa-09d5afd45def~~#000000"~~>Milestone 2:</span~~>~~Prototype Course Offerings~~Working with the Panhellenic Association will be vital in trying to add this fratenity to the overall interfraternial council.

From our Landscape Canvas, we can easily see which courses are already being offered that can allow a variety of majors to participate in this certificate program while still taking I&E classes that relate to their major. Create a final list of these course offerings (especially for students that are in the Arts and Sciences School). ==== Steps: ====~~<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">~~<li>Search the landscape canvas for potential courses that already exist.</li><li>Gather support: Reach out to each individually to discuss the nature of the class and try to determine whether the course will satisfy what the I&E certificate's mission is.</li>~~</ol>~~ Milestone 3: Finding a Home for the Certificate Talk to Deans of the various schools to determine whether this certificate program would be home to the Honors College, Arts and Sciences, etc... Bringing in Dean's of different departments (such as Biology, Philosphy, etc.) from these schools would be valuable as well. === Implementation === === Working with Administration === Get approval and financial support from stakeholders to create an offical course registration number for this certificate program will provide students with trust that this program is strong and worthwhile. ~~===~~ UIF Candidate progressing this project: Liz, Petley, Sara Kron, Claudia Jester, Katelyn Morrison ~~===~~

= Spring 2017 Strategies =

University Innovation Fellows

Fall 2019:

[[Claudia Jester|Claudia Jester]]

[[Sara Kron|Sara Kron]]

[[Liz Petley|Liz Petley]]

[[Katelyn Morrison|Katelyn Morrison]]

Spring 2017:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Brian%20Rhindress Brian Rhindress]

[[Nathan Smialek]]Fall 2012: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Karuna_Relwani Karuna Relwani]</div><</div>>

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