Self: Diff for "Phase II"

Phase II

The Garage Physics experiment suggests a more ambitious campus Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, focused on multidisciplinary project-oriented learning for UW-Madison undergraduate teams. The themes of the center include exploration and innovative thinking, engagement outside and beyond the university (the Wisconsin Idea), sustainability, and social entrepreneurship.

The center is envisioned to be a physical and virtual hub for project oriented student learning spanning the disciplines and schools of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The physical center itself will contain meeting and breakout rooms along the lines of WISCEL, and additional project workspaces, and tools. The virtual center will connect students to a network of facilities (e.g. student shops, media labs, WID rapid prototyping facility, art loft), resources (e.g. libraries, academic and career advising, international studies, UW Law, WARF, WEN), spaces (e,g, Hybrid Zone X, Physics Garage), and programs (e.g. UW Business School Certificate in Entrepreneurship, biomedical engineering, Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community) with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship.

Scaffolding will include an academic certificate program. It will capitalize upon and motivate FIGs and other small classes in discipline specific innovation (physics, art, business, computer science, biology, engineering...) and entrepreneurship and more general Great Ideas classes for first year students. The core of the program will include project development and project competitions for second and third year students. Capstone activities for fourth year students will include existing and new academic classes, independent research activity, and startups.

Photo credit

The image shows the conceptual design for the NC State Entrepreneurship initiative/Entrepreneur's Garage. (http://ei.ncsu.edu/garage/)