Implementing and Evaluating I-Corps Training Curriculum

国家大学生发明家创新者联盟（NCIA）建议通过在美国各地地理位置不同的校园支持该计划来扩大I-Corps计划，NCIA将与I-Corps教学团队的成员合作，实施I-Corps课程研讨会。评估过程中的反馈将为改进飞行员培训方案和I-Corps课程提供信息。NCIIA课程和计划赠款支持开发和实施体验式教育计划，教导工程和科学学生将创新和创业思维应用到他们的课程中。I-Corps计划的目标是确定来自NSF资助研究的技术的商业可行性。参与者将离开一个扩展的技能集，这将给他们必要的工具，以评估和转化为应用程序，可以造福社会的研究计划。该计划将支持一个教师网络，他们可以在向新的机构和地区传播时改进和调整计划模式。

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 members of the I-Corps teaching team to implement a I-Corps curriculum workshop. 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 a network of instructors who can improve and adapt the program model as it is disseminated to new institutions and regions.