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The projects and attitudes regarding Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the different colleges in the University reflect mutual goals. However, although the Haworth College of Business and the Parkview Campus of Engineering are only separated by 5 miles, there is very little information being shared regarding the direction of I&E within their respective colleges. The primary reason preventing this communication is taking place on the student level. Business students with ideas confer with other business students while Engineers tend to work with other engineers.
In terms of Innovation, the college has a great group of professors in the Engineering department that try to push the students to the envelope of coming up with new ideas. The '''Endowed Chairs for Innovation''', Dr. Steven Butt(Chair of Department), Dr. Tycho Fredericks, Dr. Bob White, and Dr. Azim Houshyar, have a series of classes called Entrepreneur Engineering (I, II, and III) where their students come up with an innovative solution to a pain point in the form of a product, and learn how to model or produce a working prototype of it using the various labs on Parkview's Campus.
Entrepreneurship seems to go hand in hand with the Haworth College of Business where they have a great group of mentors and professors that help their students grow and become more mindful of entrepreneurship in their school. The push for Entrepreneurship has come from the Dean of the college, Kay Palan. She has put a team together, along with the head of the Management department, creating the '''Endowed Chairs for Entrepreneurship '''which consist of Dr. Robert Landeros and his team of entrepreneurs in residence (John Mueller, Barcley Johnson, and Laurel Ofstein) who all come from a background of impressive entrepreneurship experience.