SCI Development Phases

Phase I

Go through the entire design-to-market process with one or more low cost, marketable products.

Use product revenues to support the organization.

Phase II

Refine the integration and cooperative relationships of resources and various departments, organizations, and the community with the Students Center for Innovations.

Phase III

Provide opportunities for professionals to volunteer to guide and mentor students in research and development, design and patenting, and business and marketing.

Phase IV

Create an independent business entity to facilitate and sponsor the Students Center for Innovations.

Phase V

Create an innovation lab and facility for the Students Center for Innovations, which will be a place to give students an opportunity to work together in developing their technological and entrepreneurial ideas.

The success of SCI will be measured by the quantity of technologies developed and implemented by SCI or by others assisted by SCI.

Success begins with a vision, is maintained with focus, determination and diligence, and will be realized through the combined efforts of students, faculty, and the community.

SCI Guidelines:

Share and develop ideas in good faith while properly documenting ideas, honoring and respecting their originators, and honoring and abiding by agreements of non-disclosure, written or implied, to protect those ideas and their originators.

We, at SCI, desire to hold to a high standard of ethics to maintain the integrity of the organization. As members of SCI involved in the development of ideas which include the development of technological innovations, we desire to abide by the IEEE Code of Ethics .

IEEE Code of Ethics

We, the members of the IEEE, in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the quality of life throughout the world, and in accepting a personal obligation to our profession, its members and the communities we serve, do hereby commit ourselves to the highest ethical and professional conduct and agree:

1. to accept responsibility in making decisions consistent with the safety, health and welfare of the public, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment;

2. to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest whenever possible, and to disclose them to affected parties when they do exist;

3. to be honest and realistic in stating claims or estimates based on available data;

4. to reject bribery in all its forms;

5. to improve the understanding of technology, its appropriate application, and potential consequences;

6. to maintain and improve our technical competence and to undertake technological tasks for others only if qualified by training or experience, or after full disclosure of pertinent limitations;

7. to seek, accept, and offer honest criticism of technical work, to acknowledge and correct errors, and to credit properly the contributions of others;

8. to treat fairly all persons regardless of such factors as race, religion, gender, disability, age, or national origin;

9. to avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious action;

10. to assist colleagues and co-workers in their professional development and to support them in following this code of ethics.

In addition we desire to abide by additional guidelines regarding intellectual property rights and protection, GMU regulations, and local, national and international law.