{"id":26,"date":"2011-08-08T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2024-02-02T14:46:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:46:25","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"title-block w-100\"><div class=\"container-fluid page-title-container\"><div class=\"title-wrapper\"><h1 class=\"font-heading\">About<\/h1><hr \/><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<nav class=\"section-navigation\"><div class=\"section-navigation-inner\"><div class=\"section-menu\"><a class=\"section-navigation-back\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"#\" style=\"display:none;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/plugins\/section-nav\/includes\/section-nav-back.svg\" \/> Back<\/a><ul class=\"\" id=\"section-nav-ul\"><li class=\"current-page\"><a class=\"menu-parent-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/about\/\">About<span class=\"caret\"><\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"page_item page-item-3808 page_item_has_children dropdown\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/about\/meet-the-team\/\" class=\"dropdown-toggle\" data-bs-toggle=\"dropdown\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Meet the team <span class=\"caret\"><\/span><\/a>\n<ul class='dropdown-menu' role='menu'>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-1184\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/about\/meet-the-team\/director\/\">Director<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-1536\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/about\/meet-the-team\/assistant-director\/\">Assistant Director<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-4306\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/about\/meet-the-team\/melissa-white\/\">Melissa White, PhD<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-4334\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/about\/meet-the-team\/sierra-pollard\/\">Sierra Pollard, PhD<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-5873\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/about\/meet-the-team\/ron-stein\/\">Ron Stein<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-5537\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/about\/meet-the-team\/elif-akcali\/\">Elif Ak\u00e7al\u0131, PhD<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-146\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/about\/faculty-innovation-council\/\">Faculty Innovation Council<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-5905\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/about\/annual-activities-summary\/\">Annual Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-170\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/about\/partners\/\">Partners and Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-6039\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/about\/engineering-innovation-institute-logo\/\">Engineering Innovation Institute Logo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><a class=\"section-menu-btn section-navigation-toggler\" href=\"#\" type=\"button\" aria-controls=\"sectionNavigation\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"open-btn\">Menu<\/span><span class=\"close-btn\" style=\"display:none;\">Close<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/nav>\n\n\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\"><div class=\"container px-0\"><div class=\"row align-items-start\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/179\/2011\/08\/Overall1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/179\/2011\/08\/Overall1-300x226.png\" alt=\"Overall\" class=\"wp-image-714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/179\/2011\/08\/Overall1-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/179\/2011\/08\/Overall1.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"some\">The mission of the University of Florida Engineering Innovation Institute is to foster a culture of innovation among Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering faculty, students, and staff. The Institute serves as a nexus of engineering innovation education and experiential programs extending across the spectrum of creative discovery and invention to the transition of UF engineering technologies and innovative students to the marketplace. The Institute produces leaders with engineering and innovation skills to attack the world\u2019s most daunting problems and change the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Institute\u2019s primary program elements are <strong>Creativity<\/strong> and <strong>Entrepreneurship,<\/strong> built on the foundation of the College\u2019s research programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <strong>Creativity<\/strong> element, delivered through the Engineering Innovation class, develops innovative thinking in our constituents, providing invaluable skill sets when combined with the analytical and problem-solving skills inherent in our engineering education and research programs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>Entrepreneurship<\/strong> element, delivered through the Engineering Entrepreneurship class, focuses on dovetailing technology with entrepreneurial education programs and is designed to bring commercialization focus and direction directly to the breadth and depth of the College\u2019s research programs, ingraining entrepreneurial thought processes in engineering students and faculty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Institute is focused on high-value outcomes and is designing programs to assure students, faculty, staff, the university, and external stakeholders are impacted in a real and deep manner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6453,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/6453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}