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On this page you will find five strategies to create a presence of I&E on our MSOE campus that will help students, faculty, staff, the community, and all other people where our outreach extends to learn and get excited about brainstorming, entrepreneurship, innovative thinking, forming creative solutions, thinking future-forward, prototyping, design thinking, and implementation.

= ~~Strategies for Expansion of Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus~~'''Cohort 3: 2019''' =

'''Strategy One: Bringing student ideas to life''' *==== '''Why: Many students on campus have ideas about side projects, businesses, etc. but they don't know how to move forward with an idea, who to connect with, where to obtain funding, etc.''' ==== Possible solutions: *Idea Consulting**Students ("Ideators") with ideas sit down with a consultant (either UIFellows or students trained by UIFellows) to develop their ideas into action items they can actually walk away with and work on to bring their idea to life. Ideators work through the following activities with a consultant:<ol style="margin-left: 40px;"><li>Developing a HMW statement </li><li>Brainstorming ideas for the HMW statement </li><li>Identifying stakeholders</li></ol>**This idea was prototyped and produced positive results. = '''Strategy Two: Encouraging engineering/business major collaboration''' = ==== *Why: Some business students don't understand the technical side of product development and many engineering students don't understand the business side of idea development. While many students have amazing ideas, they don't know how to reach out to the other discipline to understand their perspective/knowledge. ==== ==== Possible solutions: *Startup Fair**Mirroring the BioE Reverse Career Fair that occurs at MSOE, students with an idea would set up booths around a public area (such as our Campus Center) to "pitch" their ideas and obtain feedback, mentors, partners, funding etc. Students looking for projects to work on would walk around the fair and could possibly discover a project to work on, be inspired to develop their own ideas, or be able to network with other like-minded individuals. Industry professionals could also be invited. ==== = '''Strategy Three: Continously exposing students to I & E early in their careers''' = ==== ==== ==== *Why: Students do not understand the value of I & E in MSOE, in Milwaukee, or even in the whole world. We want to help them develop as I & E leaders, as this knowledge can help them in any future path they decide to take. Early exposure will help students better apply their knowledge to their classes, internships, etc. ==== ==== ==== ==== Possible solutions: *=== Introducing freshmen to I & E early on in their higher education journey === **Holding d.thinking workshops in PBL classes**Helping develop lab procedures through d.thinking*=== Training student organizations about how to conduct and leverage the power of d.thinking workshops === **Holding d.thinking workshops to foster growth in student organizations**=== Help develop/brainstorm new project ideas (suited for newer organizations) === **=== Conduct landscape canvas in order to help organizations identify key resources available to them (campus, local commuinty, etc.) === *=== Have a freshman design lab === **=== This would mirror the senior design labs, but it would only be a trimester long and it would be a smaller-scale project. This could be implemented during the introductory class for each major. === ==== = '''Strategy Four: Strengthening on-campus I & E culture''' = ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== *Why: Students do not understand the value of I & E in MSOE, in Milwaukee, or even in the whole world. We want to help them develop as I & E leaders, as this knowledge can help them in any future path they decide to take. By developing a culture, we can leave an I & E legacy that can be carried throughout generations even when we don't attend MSOE as students. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Possible solutions: ==== ==== <ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre;"><li>Having a student I & E council*This could be an offshoot of UIF, where students take ideas developed by us and continue them when we can't (as we continuously undertake new projects).*This could be unassociated with UIF. Currently, we have a Investment and Entrepreneurship Club on campus, but it isn't well recognized. We could work with them to develop events and a culture of I & E on campus.</li> ==== = =

= 2018: Cohort 2 =

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