Welcome to the Fotsch Innovation and Engineering Leadership Development (FIELD) Center

Innovation: companies need it, products claim it, and everyone seems to want it.

Saying you’re innovative does not make it so, and technology and processes alone do not drive innovation. People drive innovation. Innovation requires leadership from people who can see a different future - a better way - and are driven to make that vision a reality.

Innovation is driven by leaders with a mindset to see beyond the status quo, to identify problems worth solving, and the courage to go do it; a heart set that is grounded in strong values that commits them to the service of others and the world; and the skill set to bring others along with them, harnessing the strengths of a diverse team of people in their pursuit of the best idea and outcome possible.

The FIELD Center develops leaders who use their talents in the service of and with others, to think creatively, act boldly and deliver value by addressing the world's most significant challenges. We challenge conventional thinking about innovation by creating a platform to uncover and share new ideas that push boundaries and embrace the Jesuit idea that we are best served learning how to think, instead of what to think.

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Undergraduate Students

Lifelong Learners

Corporate and Community Partners

 

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