SVTL 2011- 5 - Hal
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Integrating Minerva Fellows Into Student Projects in Developing
Countries or
The Ahh Haa Moment
Harold O. FriedDavid A. Hodgson
Union CollegeSchenectady, NY 12308
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ALOHA
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The Context
• Union College is a liberal arts institution (2,300 students) with engineering, without business and no graduate programs.
• Every engineering student does a two term senior project.
• Union College is situated in the Capital Region of NYS which is pursuing a high tech development strategy.
• UC Strategic plan: “UC will be a leader in educating students to be engaged, innovative, and ethical contributors to an increasingly diverse, global and technologically complex society.”
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WINTER TERM COURSE FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE – ARTISTS, WRITERS, POETS, ENTREPRENEURS, ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS…
SENIOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP SEMINAR FOR ENGINEERS AND LIBERAL ARTS STUDENTS. IDM 325No Prereqs
Interdisciplinary teams produce a business/marketing plan for an engineer’s senior project. Emphasize senior projects that are commerciallyviable and socially responsible. Email Hal Fried ([email protected]) for more info.
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The VISION
• Implement a program for Union students to work with poor communities on beneficial projects.
• Involve students from all disciplines.• Make Paul Polak proud and involve the
community in the process.
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A Key Resource: Minerva Fellows
• Nine scholarships to graduating seniors to work with NGOs in developing countries.
• Take Hal’s social entrepreneurship course in the spring term, graduate in June, depart in July, return to Union for the month of May.
• Countries: Cambodia, India, Ecuador, South Africa, Uganda, and Ghana.
• Leverage this resource to implement student projects in developing countries and do it right.
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Course 1
• Objective: Work with Minerva Fellows to identify problems in communities.
• Enroll engineers and liberal arts students.• Generate a preliminary set of solutions.• Select one (or more) project(s) to implement.
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Course 2
• Refine the project.• Identify the materials and the costs.• In depth study of the community, the country
and the culture.• Raise the funds for travel and execution of the
project.
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Make it Happen!
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Gaps and Challenges
• Timing of the two courses and the travel.• Tight schedule for engineers.• Students commit to two courses + travel.• Faculty resources.• Administrative approval.• College “risk management”• We are just an undergraduate college.
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A Potential Partnership
• Work with Arizona State University. • Joint teams• Provide vetted projects.• And more …
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Three Key Ingredients for a Course that will Never Fail
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• So What? Who Cares? Why You? The Inventors Commercialization Tool Kit, Wendy Kennedy.
• Business Model Generation, Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur and an amazing crowd of 470 practitioners from 45 countries.
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Thank you
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ALOHA