PFI: I SEE: Innovation through Synergistic Educational Engagement

创新伙伴关系（PFI）项目旨在通过与当地小企业、国家实验室和全球教育合作伙伴的协同合作，改变创新教育过程，从而在本科和研究生教育中纳入重要的创新和创业维度。该项目将建立一个与工业相关的本科和研究生课程。该模式使用精心设计的研究生和本科生团队、一名教师导师和高中生与小企业合作。该项目的评估部分将开发一种基于自我效能的新措施，以衡量创造创新者的成功，并可能提供一种衡量创新教育有效性的新方法。项目方法有两个关键的区别，使其可行和可持续。通过拥有研究生和教师组成的创新团队来支持团队的知识相关问题，创新团队将公司合作伙伴的时间/互动需求减少到小型企业可以接受的水平。与实习项目不同的是，团队方法还为端到端创新提供了必要的时间尺度连续性。其次，与创造真正价值的理念保持一致，创新团队将与合作伙伴一起寻求拨款、其他合同资金和其他形式的创新财政支持，以证明公司投入时间的合理性，并最终提供持续的资金。该项目将对K-12教育产生影响，并提出一种创新教育模式，这种模式将在广泛的机构中可持续发展，而不仅仅是在排名前50位的研究型学校。它将提供专题讨论会，向更广泛的受众传播结果。该项目还将鼓励和指导妇女和代表性不足的群体成员，让他们与当地公司合作，在那里，榜样可以帮助他们保持兴奋和承诺。合作伙伴包括科罗拉多大学科罗拉多斯普林斯分校（牵头机构）、Academy School District 20、NAVSYS公司、科罗拉多工程公司、SemQuest公司、Intelligent Payload Solutions公司、Atmel公司和Securics公司。

This Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project seeks to change the innovation education process by synergistically partnering with local small businesses, national laboratories and global educational partners so as to include significant innovative and entrepreneurial dimensions in both undergraduate and graduate education. The project will build a linked undergraduate and graduate program with outreach to industry. The model uses well designed teams of graduate and undergraduate students, a faculty mentor, and high school students to work with small businesses. The evaluation component of the project will develop a new measure, based on self-efficacy, to gage success in creating innovators and to potentially provide a new way to measure innovation education effectiveness. The project approach has two critical differentiators that make it viable and sustainable. By having innovation teams with graduate students and faculty to support the teams' knowledge-related questions, the innovation teams reduce the time/interaction demands on corporate partners to levels that small businesses will consider acceptable. Unlike internship programs, the team approach also provides continuity for the time scales necessary for end-to-end innovation. Secondly, in keeping with the concept of generating real value, the innovation teams will work with the partners to seek grants, other contract funding, and other forms of financial support for innovation to justify investments of time from the companies and to eventually provide sustaining funding. This project will have an impact on K-12 education and propose a model for innovation education that will be sustainable at a wide range of institutions, not just at the top 50 research schools. It will offer symposia to disseminate results to a wider audience. The project will also encourage and mentor women and members of underrepresented groups, engaging them with local companies where role-models can help maintain their excitement and commitment.Partners include the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (lead institution), Academy School District 20, NAVSYS Corporation, Colorado Engineering, Inc., SemQuest, Inc., Intelligent Payload Solutions, Inc., Atmel, and Securics, Inc.