The CoE Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative (CEIEI) is an interdisciplinary initiative of the College of Engineering at the University of Miami, and will work in partnership with students, faculty, staff, and alumni to turn ideas into action that can impact lives. Traditionally, innovation and entrepreneurship ideas and concepts have been uncoordinated and diffused throughout the college. Departments have embraced their individual interpretations and the efforts at leveraging the collective wisdom of the departments have been largely unsuccessful. Additionally, the involvement of alumni in this effort has been spotty at best.
CEIEI will serve as a hub and resource center for the College’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. It seeks to connect innovators to education, mentoring, resources, community, and intellectual leadership. Over the years, the CoE has produced several innovators and entrepreneurs who have made significant contributions to society. One of the aims of CEIEI is to help entrepreneurial leaders and scholars turn knowledge into action while pursuing innovative solutions to the world’s pressing problems. It seeks to build programs and collaborations with colleges, institutes, centers, and initiatives across the University of Miami.
The formalization of this area as a thrust within the College of Engineering is vital to the success of this initiative. Each field of engineering reflects the capacity and appetite for integrating the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship in its educational research and curriculum. With this initiative, the opportunity exists for a bridge between the Innovation and Entrepreneurship thrust and all the other thrusts in the College of Engineering.
