Abstract
Innovation is to gather new ideas to create values, while entrepreneurship is to solve problems with innovative, practical solutions. The project supervisor and his collaborators have promoted design thinking and entrepreneurship. Yet, with the growing interest in entrepreneurship, teaching can be enhanced on campus with the development of prototyping, which brings ideas into practice through model building.
To solve the problems, acquisition of equipment and well utilizing currently established space through training users, integrating lessons, and holding activities, is needed. In this proposal, we propose:
- Additional equipment:
- CNC machine to be purchased in Pi Centre and University Learning Garden
- Related software for the machine
- Trainings on basic machine usage
- Regular support to users
- Toolkit developed to integrate into entrepreneurship/ innovation classes
- Workshops for teaching staff to promote prototyping to different classes
- Competitions / Activities for students to apply the concept of prototyping
After launching the scheme, we will evaluate the effectiveness in the following aspects:
- Usage of machines
- Numbers of classes adoptions
- Students’ satisfaction
- Participating rate of workshops and activities
- Questionnaires for early adopters
We expect prototyping culture to sustain after this project because of:
- Further classes adoption of the concept of prototyping
- After-class usage of machines by students may use the machine and space
- On-going student activities and competitions.
