Institutionalizing Campus Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programming by Optimizing a Faculty Grantmaking Process: A Case Study

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Victoria Matthew is Senior Program Officer for Faculty Development at VentureWell, where she plays a lead role in the Pathways to Innovation Program, Epicenter's faculty development and engagement strategy. She designs in-person and online convenings, engages experts, and curates content that fosters the Pathways faculty goals of integrating entrepreneurship and innovation into undergraduate engineering. Prior to joining VentureWell, Victoria worked for over a decade in higher education. She has designed, developed and managed degree, and certificate programs, and has experience as an online instructor, and mentor and trainer of other online instructors. Prior to this position she was Sr. Director, Strategic Technology Deployment and Mechanical Technology for Flextronics International and managed design and development teams in Italy, China and the US. She also had profit-loss responsibility for a 600-person tool making operation in South China. Bonnie was previously employed by Motorola, where she was Director of Emerging Technologies. Her team was involved in wireless product design and engineering, discovery of new technologies for bio-monitoring, and exploring the arena of wearable computer systems. During her 10 years at AT&T Bell Labs, Bonnie was involved with polymer research and development, materials characterization and testing, and plastics processing.Bonnie has 4 patents, 1 provisional patent, and over 125 publications and presentations.Bonnie received a BS in Physics from Benedictine University (Lisle, IL), a MS in Mechanics and Materials Science, and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering (both from Rutgers University, College of Engineering -New Brunswick, NJ). Bonnie holds Distinguished, Fellow, and Honored Service memberships in Society of Plastics Engineering (SPE). She was also President of SPE in 1994. She is a senior member of IEEE and a life member of the Creative Education Foundation. She holds membership in Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society and Phi Sigma Pi honor fraternity. Prof. Renee Cole, University of IowaDr. Renée Cole is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Iowa. Dr. Cole earned a B.A. in chemistry from Hendrix College, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physical chemistry from the University of Oklahoma. Her research focuses on issues related to how students learn chemistry and how that guides the design of instructional materials and teaching strategies as well on efforts related to faculty development and the connection between chemistry education research and the practice of teaching. She is a PI for the Increase the Impact Project, which is developing resources for PIs to improve the propagation of their innovations, as well as a PI for the ELIPSS Project, which is developing resources for STEM instructors to assess professional skills in the classroom. Dr. Cole is also an associate editor for the Journal of Chemical Education. she developed and implemented Legacy Cycles as part of curricular reformation in Biomedical Engineering aimed at increasing fle...

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