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Fueling Innovation Campaign

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for the first time as early as the next academic
year.

As the event began to come to a
close, the chair of the 2013 Student Gift come
mittee took to the podium to unveil this year’s
student gift, which is going to be new, modue
lar furniture for Galvin library. The chair also
explained that if 45% of the student body do
nated to the campaign, one of the alumni ore
ganizers of the Fueling Innovation Campaign
was going to donate $20,000 to assist in mak
ing the student gift happen.

Finally, at the end of the event, the
Office of Institutional Advancement unveiled
the Fueling Innovation: the Campaign for IIT
video. A foureminute long video consisting of
a man delivering spokeneword poetry talking
about the past, present, and future of IIT, and
the innovators that helped make IIT what it is
today.

At the end of the day, as students
streamed past the ice sculptures and hot choc,
olate stations that had been set up for the event
on their way to the BOG for a postelaunch
party, there was an excited buzz throughout
the MTCC. Students looked at the proposed
renderings forthe E1 and Life Sciences renovae
tions, talked to alumni about their experiences
at IIT, and talked about their opinions of the
school’s goals. One thing is certain from the
launch of the campaign 7 a lot of time and eff
fort have gone into making this campaign hape
pen and making it exciting for the students and
alumni of IIT. How that excitement is translate
ed into action is to be seen over the next few
years.

Photos by Chandranshu Singh

Engineering Themes
accepting student proposals

Utsav Gandhi
CAM PUS EDITOR

Students looking for a way to see
cure additional funding and administrative
support in organizing or leading a student
activity related to the Engineering Themes
of Water, Health, Energy and Security now
have an additional opportunity.

Following up on the overwhelm,

ing success of the Engineering Themes
Month in September 2012, the Armour
College of Engineering has started invite
ing proposals for studenteled projects to be
supported within the Engineering Themes
distinctive education initiative. Recognized
in a student’s engineering portfolio, these
projects and related activities are expected
to be directly relevant to one or more of the
theme areas, have large impact on student
education and engage a high number of IIT
engineering undergraduates’.
Expecting to be competitive, all meritorie
ous proposals will receive funding and ad,
ministrative support from Armour College
and the Engineering Themes Student Coune
cil.

The Engineering Themes, an Are
mour College of Engineering distinctive
education initiative, was started in 2011 in
order to enhance the undergraduate experie
ence at IIT. The program provides students
with the opportunity to apply their engie

neering education to some of the most ime
portant challenges facing society today via
alumni panels, field trips, IPROs, research
assistance, etc. You can learn more about the
Engineering Themes at iit.edu/engineering/
themes.

Successful proposals will be ex,
pected to identify how the activity directly
addresses one or more of the theme areas,
describe how student participation will be
maximized, as well as establish partnerships
and collaboration between student organie
zations.

Proposals can include, but are
not limited to, team engineering projects,
design projects, engineering competitions,
and even community outreach efforts. Prof
grams that engage the broader community
(e.g. community groups, government, in,
dustry, schools, hospitals, etc.) are encoure
aged but it is not required. Proposals should
be submitted via email to engineering@iit.
edu. The email should include the subject
line “Themes Proposal”.

Proposals for activities for Spring
2013 will be accepted between now and Feb,
ruary 28, 2013. Proposals for activities for
Summer and Fall 2013 are due by April 1,
2013.

Complete information and (forms
available for download) regarding this inie
tiative can be found at http://blogs.iit.edu/
engineeringknewsieventst:822. Please
email engineering@iit.edu with any quese
tionsl

TechNews corrections

Last week, in an article about the
CSL Youtube Competition, we reported
that the College of ience 8: Letters will be
s College of Human ccie

a part of the Le
ences. This informationi ncorrect.

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the College of c ience, containing applied

mathematics, biology, chemistry, computer
science, mathematics and science education,
and physics departments.

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ences will con st of the humanities, psychole
ogy, and politi al science departments.

We apologize for the confusion.

 

 

 

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