Group+2+Proposal

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 Proposal  S. Denke and S. Hernandez

 Mission Statement:  To give the innovators of tomorrow access to the education and tools necessary to implement their ideas.

 Outcomes:
 * Learn to ask questions and learn from them
 * Learn where to find answers to their questions
 * Be able to apply theory to practical applications
 * Be able to teach others and answer questions on topics researched
 * Be able to perform cost/benefit analyses and make reasonable decisions based on their results
 * Be able to fail and learn from their mistakes in a friendly and forgiving environment

 Benefits:
 * Recognition from more student projects
 * Increased business interest from outside investors and entrepreneurial students
 * More active and interested students
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">More students involved in labs and University research projects
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A major for students that want to invent an idea and to use University resources to do it

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Evaluation: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Evaluation of inventioneering students will be heavily project based. They will routinely include proposals including a plan for approach, risks that they foresee, and cost/benefit analyses for the plan. There will also be intermediate evaluations to ensure that progress is made and made in a timely manner. This will also be used to assess work done on projects that are started and eventually are determined to be infeasible and are abandoned. Finally, all of these completed projects and partial projects will be used to evaluate a student’s overall performance. There will also be regular presentations where students will discuss their project and it’s progress as well as where they can get feedback from others. They will learn to how to ask questions to the right people in order to learn what will be necessary for their project and then they will be expected to answer related questions when asked by other students or professors during their presentations and evaluations.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Courses: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> When majoring in inventioneering one will have to choose from a variety of concentrations and will take several general courses in that area to gain a basis as well as several inventioneering specific courses. At ASU, a minor currently consists of taking about 21 credit hours and a major consists of taking at least 45 credit hours directly related to a student’s area of study. The classes that students will take while working on their inventioneering degree will consist of approximately 30-50% core classes and about 50-70% of more general classes that the student can pick. By doing this a student will feel like they have at least some basis for what are they would like to continue to study and work on in the future, but at the same time, they will be able to have a large breadth of different subjects.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For the inventioneering major, the student will be required to pick a certain area of study in which they will have to take about seven classes that directly relate to that area. Once the students have that core area of study that they are focusing on, they will spend the rest of their classes taking the general education requirements for ASU and then also a wide variety of “inventioneering electives”. There will be four different areas (Business/Entrepreneurship, Technology/Design, Communication/Leadership, and Fundamental Knowledge) that will need to be covered with the electives. Each student will be required to take two classes in each different area from a set list of classes and then will be able to take their remaining electives in any of those areas or with any other class that they may be interested in at ASU. Using this method for the major in inventioneering is beneficial for the students because the core area classes make sure that the student at least has some focus in their degree with what they want to do in the future, which employers will want to see; and in case the student decides to drop the inventioneering program, they will at least have something to fall back on. Also, it still allows for the student to take a wide variety of courses in different subjects instead of only focusing on one group of core classes. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> For the inventioneering minor, it will be very similar to the major, however, the student’s major that they are studying will fulfill the requirement of the core classes so that student will only need to take the “inventioneering electives”. Also, instead of having to take two courses from each area, the students only needs to take one from each and then the remaining credits for the minor will have to come from any of those area classes. This makes it so that the student taking the minor will have a very similar experience to a student that is taking the inventioneering major, but will still be different enough that the students won’t feel like it’s pointless to take one over the other. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The most interesting course that the students will have to take is the project/lab class. The students in the major will take it once per semester for all four years and the students in the minor will have to take the class for at least two semesters. The purpose of this class being only one credit is that will help students come up with projects in a friendly and non-threatening environment that will teach them that it is ok to fail and that they can learn from their mistakes without being penalized very heavily. The class can be done in small groups or individually with one professor, and the students can also choose whether to stay on the same project with the same professor for multiple years or they can change professors and/or projects each semester.

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