Scaling I-Corps Training curriculum: Developing Scientific and Engineering Discoveries into Useful Technologies, Products and Processes

全国大学生发明家和创新者联盟(NCIIA)建议通过在美国各地的校园支持i-Corps计划来扩大i-Corps计划的规模。NCIIA将与i-Corps教学团队的原始成员合作，实施另外两个研讨会。评估过程的反馈将为教师培训计划和i-Corps课程的改进提供信息。NCIIA课程和项目补助金支持开发和实施体验式教育项目，教授工程和理科学生将创新和创业思维应用于他们的课程工作。I-Corps计划的目标是确定从NSF资助的研究中获得的技术的商业可行性。参与者将带着扩展的技能集离开该项目，这将为他们提供必要的工具，以评估他们的研究并将其转化为造福社会的应用程序。该方案将支持一个初步的讲师网络，当方案模式传播到新的机构和地区时，他们可以改进和调整方案模式。

The National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) proposes to scale the I-Corps program by supporting the program at campuses in geographically-diverse locations across the U.S. NCIIA will work with original members of the I-Corps teaching team to implement two additional workshops. Feedback from the evaluation process will inform improvements in both the instructor-training program and the I-Corps curriculum. NCIIA Course and Program grants support the development and implementation of experiential education programs that teach engineering and science students to apply innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to their coursework. The goal of the I-Corps program is to determine the commercial feasibility of technology derived from NSF-funded research. Participants will leave the program with an expanded skill-set that will give them the tools necessary to evaluate and translate their research into applications that can benefit society. This program will support an initial a network of instructors who can improve and adapt the program model as it is disseminated to new institutions and regions.