STEM Education with Innovation and Entrepreneurship

We offer a compelling vision for bringing together like-minded faculty members across our several university campuses and colleges, to develop smart phone/ mobile applications in domains that are underrepresented but have substantial potential to succeed, with social, economic, or technological impact.A university is uniquely qualified to address such Apps given the close proximity of experts in non-overlapping and distinct fields.However, the close proximity is offset by silos built for administrative purposes.A group of faculty members and/or students drawn from the colleges of arts, business, education, and engineering have worked together over the past two years, not only to build bridges, but also to chalk up several positive outcomes.Our model has potential to be self-sustaining so it can be used to expand/scale up our model to include other groups and colleges in the ensuing years.The infrastructure built will benefit the university, partnering colleges, faculty, & students, while strengthening the social fabric of the university and lowering technology barrier so one can continue to focus on their passion, while benefitting from the rapid advances in science and engineering.