projects

YOUR IMPACT (SO FAR!)

here are just a few of your projects, learnings and accomplishments as of February 2020. we realize that the coronavirus pandemic may have put some of these on hold until the next academic year, but we’re so proud of all of you for getting started!

Brigham Young University

We will be redesigning a massive study area in our business school and creating an innovation space. This space will be designed to provide more vibrance at our school and encourage collaboration and creativity within student groups. We are also working on Cougars Blue Crew. This is a program we are developing in which faculty mentorship on campus is celebrated. Faculty members will join the Blue Crew and will learn and encourage more faculty mentorship on campus. This program will encourage professors to bond and empower each other to be good mentors/ aides to their students. - Kyle MacDonald

Bucknell University

Bucknell TV will be a club on campus that releases biweekly news reports on campus activities, clubs, and student opportunities. At Bucknell, there is not enough participation from the student body despite having many options for them to choose from. This program will be shown on campus TVs, on Instagram TV for Bucknell’s social media page, and on Bucknell’s YouTube page. It will function as a way for students to find opportunities they are interested in, an advertisement for prospective students, a recap for athletics, recognition for clubs on campus, and a reward for featured students. - Emily Goldman

Milwaukee School of Engineering

We’re working on the Zen Zone, an area where students can go to de-stress. We met with the Wellness Center to get their perspectives on our project and obtain information about what type of mood meter(s) we need to

understand the success of our project. We were able to better understand the actions the Wellness Center was taking to help students relax on campus (and past ventures into such projects). We learned that we may need to intertwine the Zen Zone into the various study spaces across campus; that we had the opportunity to have a person from Wellness Center monitor our area; and that due to the introverted nature of our student body, we may need to simply put materials out with no one hovering in the area. - Muskan Kanungo

University of Technology Sydney

We’re creating a Summer Studio Subject called Innovation in Sustainability; a project-based learning approach in collaboration with Engineers Without Borders; a student society at UTS. Students have the opportunity to solve real-world Humanitarian Engineering problems for six weeks in the summer. Here, they will be exposed to industry professionals running workshops on their experiences as well as understanding innovative practices of finding appropriate solutions. This subject is set to be implemented in Jan-Feb 2021. - Jasmina Dang

Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering

We are implementing a Research Assistant project which focuses on providing opportunities for college students to work as a research assistant with a professor. The students can benefit from gaining experience and knowledge by working with a professor. - Nimesh Mohankrishnan

Yale University

Our Class-to-Creation pilot has been secured for Spring 2020 with a Yale College professor and a Yale School of Management professor. In this program, students in one of two classes can apply for a short “fellowship” with the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) and access space and resources to create something inspired by their coursework. We chose one humanities class and one entrepreneurship class in Spring 2020, and we have received buy-in from the professors of these courses to proceed. We are currently developing the application form and developing our resource toolkit that students will receive as part of this program, and we have support from Tsai CITY to offer the level of mentorship to participating students that we believe will be necessary. The goal of this program is to give students who would normally not self-select as entrepreneurs a low-stakes but meaningful opportunity to problem-solve and innovate. - Kira Sze, Nitya Kanuri, Sarah Graf and Ayushi Shrivastava