Shoemaker Innovation Center

The Shoemaker Innovation Center is a campus-wide, student-focused source of creative and effective approaches to supporting innovation and entrepreneurship at Indiana University. In addition to housing the Cheng Wu Build Clinic, which is focused on product development support, the center regularly hosts talks by experienced technology inventors and entrepreneurs as well as workshops to facilitate the development of the technical skills students need for the successful implementation of their startup concepts.

• Student inventors and entrepreneurs benefit from the following resources:
• Mentoring by experienced professionals
• Networking and educational events
• A creative, collaborative working environment
• Co-working space Shared conference rooms

The clinic facilitates the Luddy School's support of student startups and relationship with industry partners through the following services:

• Assist student startups with system analysis, design, and implementation of a minimum viable prototype.
• Develop business and technical content to enable student growth in areas related to project management, product development, and related technical areas.

The following services are provided through the clinic:

• Concept Design: Assist startups in developing the engineering details of their idea, which includes working from the problem statement through design ideation and developing design alternatives, resulting in a concept design report.
• Detailed Design: Work from the concept report to develop a detailed design for the system to produce a detailed design report which would enable a detailed cost and sourcing analysis.
• Prototype Fabrication: Assist startups with the development of a minimum viable prototype.
• Workshops: Train skills in different technical areas such as PCB development, 3D modeling and implementation, and embedded software development.

Pitch your innovative idea for a slice of $30,000 in funding. The competition is open to all IU Bloomington students.

Learn about the Cheng Wu Innovation Challenge