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Lean LaunchPad for
Undergrads
Implementations and
Strategies
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Empower U.S. undergraduate engineering
students to bring their ideas to life for the
benefit of our economy and society
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Mary BesterfieldSacre
University of
Pittsburgh
Yash Risbud
Cooper Union
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Grant Warner
Howard University
Lee Burge
Howard University
Patricia Sullivan
New Mexico State
University
Mary Raber
Ed Pines
Michigan Technological New Mexico State
University
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5 x 5 mins. presentations
1 x 5 mins. opening reflection
2 x 5 mins. conversations
2 x 5 mins. closing reflection
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LLP and Other Influences on
Our Undergraduate
Programming
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Mary Besterfield-Sacre
University of Pittsburgh
Swanson School of Engineering
6 departments
 13 programs

Joined Pathways
 Invested in the
UIF program
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Who and What We Are
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Co-Curricular
University Innovation Fellows
Student Catalysts
EpiCenter/VentureWell
7 total (5 SSoE)
EERC Activities
• Bootcamp (NCIIA funded)
• 2013 – 8
• 2014 – 23
• 2015 – expansion
• Academic Year Challenges
Engr Clubs
• Design Hub
• ESW/EWB
Communication
• Facebook
• Twitter
Contests
Encouraging international design
competitions
Hack @ Pitt
1000 pitches
Big Idea
Innovation Week
Etc.
SSOE
Pathways
IP for Students
Coursework
Non-sponsored
Undergrad and MS
Industry/Mentors
• Design Expo!
• Build a network
• Chancellor’s directive
Curricular
Courses/Curriculum
• Product Development
• Engr 1050 (3x/yr)
• IE 1089 (?/yr)
• Entrepreneurship
• IE 1039 (spring)
• Design Thinking/Creativity
• Engr 716 (Fr spring)
• MEMS 24 (So fall)
• Music Engineering (2x/yr)
• Engr 1716 (So-Sr fall)
• Integrated
• ChE 214, 314, 414
• BioE 1160, 1161
• Other – Sanchez workshops
Expand /Revitalize Certificates
• Product Realization
• Engineering for Humanity
Spaces
• Workshop with Stanford
• 3rd Floor Hallway
• Design Rooms
• Staircase
• 24/7 Lab – Buddy/Schohn Inventory;
ideas to expand
• G34
• Living Learning Community
• Incubator in WPU?
• New classrooms in DLH
Collaboration with CBA
EERC Professional Development
• 2013-14 Seminar series
• 2013-15 LLP Beckman, Gartner, Clark,
Bodnar (MOOC), Wosu, Sejdic, Winter
Innovation Institute
Co-Curricular
Required
Elective
The Art of Making
Boot Camp
Minority Grant International Social
Entrepreneurship
Senior
Junior
Sophomore
Freshman
The Art of Making
Honors
Intro Mechanical
Engr Design
Intro Chemical
Product Design
Music Engineering
Taking Products to
Market ChE
Rapid Prototyping
& Reverse Engr
Chemical Product
Prototyping
Entrepreneurship
for Engineers
Product Realization
Bio Engr Design 1
Bio Engr Design 2
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LLP is a philosophy & suggested
set of tools – we don’t ram it down
their throats
Send a few more faculty to LLP
across the disciplines
 Focus on developing one or two
more technical electives
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Still to do…
Our LLP Challenges
 Few “entrepreneurial
-minded” students
 Rural area with
limited access to
mentors, businesses
and customers
Our Approach
1-credit module offered through
the Enterprise Program
Open to students of all majors
I-Corps format
Emphasize relevance to intraand entre-preneurs
Start with a
creativity/brainstorming session
Encourage ideas relevant to our
community
Enlist help of I-Corps
participants as mentors
36 students
6 project teams
Udacity lectures
2 customer
interviews/
student/week
• Bi-weekly BMC
presentations
• MVP’s
• Meetings w/
Instructors
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2 module series - LLP
Intro and LLP Advanced
Enlist help of alumni
and SmartZone for
mentors
Customer Discovery!
Connect LLP Advanced
to participation in
Business Model
Competition
Launchpad Central
I-Corps Site Grant!!
Agenda
◦ SHORT Intro
◦ HowU Innovate
◦ Bison Startup
◦ How do you sign up
◦ Business Model Canvas
◦ Q&A
◦ Pitch
◦ Mix
◦ Sign up to the email list
◦ If team is forming identify team
This is….HowU Innovate.
Proposition:
HowU Innovate is a statement
describing the Lab’s mantra
and mission. The HowU
Innovate Lab will employ and
enhance best practices for
developing innovative
thought. The Lab will expose
Howard Engineering students,
and the community at-large,
to the tools and methods
employed by the most
successful multi-national
corporations and start-up
ventures. The Lab, which will
be housed in the College of
Engineering, Architecture and
Computer Sciences, will
function as the breeding
ground for developing
solution-based thinkers and will
attract innovators from across
Howard’s campus.
The HowU Innovate Lab
Philosophy:
The principles of the HowU
Innovate Lab are largely
based on “Design Thinking”.
Design Thinking incorporates
the relentless inquiry and
disruptive solution generation
that are core to a designer’s
job. The premise of the Lab is
that exposing individuals to the
processes and methods that
designers use to ideate and
problem solve will better
enable them to innovate.
Function:
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Co-working space
Maker Space
Incubation Space
Classroom Space
Event Space
• Entrepreneurship challenges
• Hack-a-thons
• Start-up Weekends
• Fireside Chats
Innovative Thinking
Tenets:
• Questioning: Clearly define
problem
• Networking: Encourage
broad engagement
• Observing: Embrace
“proudly found elsewhere”
• Experimenting: Develop
educated risk-taking skills
and tolerate failure
For more information, contact:
Grant M. Warner, Ph.D.
Director of Innovation and
Entrepreneurship
CEACS
[email protected]
202-806-6607
This is….HowU Innovate.
Details
WHAT: Bison Startup
Audience (All Majors Welcome)
Bison Startup is a new, interdisciplinary course for ALL MAJORS.
This course will introduce you to the successful process used by
Silicon Valley startups and connect you with Washington, DC’s
entrepreneurship eco-system. BUT to get in you need to form an
interdisciplinary team of Hipsters, Hackers, and Hustlers and then
pitch your idea.
The Hipster: Brings the creative design and cool factor.
The Hacker: Brings their utility belt of engineering and
technology solutions
The Hustler: Packages it all up and takes it to the masses
Faculty:
Legand Burge (SCS), Micah Crump (Bus.), Grant Warner (Eng.)
Mixers (sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank)
1st Mixer: TODAY @ School of Business
2nd Mixer: October 9 @ CEACS
3rd Mixer: October 23 @ School of Communications
Team Selection Event: October 30
GET ON MAILING LIST
To Join the Course
◦ You must pitch your way in
◦ Pitch event is Thursday, October 30
◦ Sign up on the website to list your team: bisonstartup.tumblr.com
◦ Pitch includes:
◦ 3 slides outlining your business
◦ Must include your Business Model Canvas
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Canvanizer.com
Value Proposition
Customer Segments
Customer Relationships
Channels
Partners
Revenue
About the Business Model
Canvas
◦ Pre-businessplan strategy
tool that
captures how
you intend to
make money
◦ Write out all of
your GUESSES
◦ Fill out on:
◦ www.cava
nizer.com
◦ Description of
BMC:
◦ Overview of
the Canvas
Q&A
QUESTIONS?
Pitch – Who wants to form a
team (60 secs)
◦ Intro
◦ Specify College/Major
◦ Your idea
◦ Problem
◦ Solution
◦ What team elements
are you looking for
◦ Do you need a
programmer, marketing
expertise, CFO?
Pitch – Who wants to join a
team (30 secs)
◦Intro
◦ Background
◦ Specific Interests for
work
◦ Did anything
presented catch
our interest?