Office of Human Resources - Employee Recognition
President's Award for Innovation
The President's Award for Innovation recognizes ASU individuals or teams for innovations that improve the educational, administrative or other organizational processes through creative approaches.
2007-2008 Award Recipient:
InnovationSpace
InnovationSpace is an entrepreneurial joint venture among the College of Design, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, and W.P. Carey School of Business. The goal of this transdisciplinary education and research lab is to teach students how to develop products that create market value while serving real societal needs and minimizing the effect on the environment. Put simply, InnovationSpace seeks to create products that are progressive, possible and profitable. At the same time, they must have a meaningful effect on the daily lives of ordinary people.
InnovationSpace has worked with such corporations as Intel Corp., Herman Miller Inc. and Procter and Gamble, as well as a number of ASU sponsors, including the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing, Flexible Display Center and Center for Nanotechnology in Society. Together these partners have helped InnovationSpace students develop product concepts that improve the daily lives of aging baby boomers; expand access to printed materials for people who are blind; enhance the freedom, privacy and security of citizens and communities using the emerging field of nanotechnology; increase the safety and efficiency of emergency medical responders; and improve acute-care and ambulatory-care environments for patients and healthcare providers.
PAST WINNERS 2003 - 2004 2002 - 2003 2001-2002 1990-2000 1998-99 1997-98 1996-97 NOTE: There were no recipients in 2005-2006
and 2000-2001 |
ASU Team Members
Kate Benjamin, College of Design
Prasad Boradkar, Industrial Design
Emily Callaghan, College of Design
Tamara Christensen, College of Design
Thomas Duening, Entrepreneurial Programs Office
Adelheid Fischer, College of Design
Mark Henderson, Polytechnic Department of Engineering
James Hershauer, Department of Management
Mookesh Patel, Visual Communication Design
Paul Rothstein, Industrial Design
Philip White, Industrial Design
2006-2007 Award Recipient:
ASU Unlimited Access Bus Pass
Since July 2005, ASU Parking and Transit Services has offered all ASU students, faculty and staff a free ASU U-Pass –an unlimited access bus pass valid on all Valley Metro routes. In step with ASU’s effort to make sustainability a key part of campus life, the program helps reduce air pollution, reduce traffic and parking congestion, and attracts new interest in public transportation. ASU regional mass transit ridership more than doubled in the program’s first year and increased an additional 19.2% in the first half of fiscal year 2007. ASU participants now comprise the largest component of mass transit riders in the region and are responsible for preventing 176 tons of air pollution.
While other universities offer conditional fare-free transit cards, the ASU U-Pass is unique as a program fully funded by parking revenue, with no restrictions on usage or access, and no additional cost to ASU students, employees or Valley Metro. As a result of the ASU U-Pass, the university was one of only 1,279 companies nationwide designated as a Best Workplace for Commuters in 2005.
ASU Team Members
Theresa Fletcher, Parking and Transit Services
Judi Nelson, Parking and Transit Services
Linda Riegel, Parking and Transit Services
Sam Wheeler, Auxiliary Business Services
Patricia White, Sandra Day O'Conner College of Law
Community Partners
Carlos de Leon, City of Tempe
Jim Dickie, ADOT, Public Transportation
Eric Iwersen, City of Tempe
Marc Soronson, HDR/S.R. Beard & Associates
Sue Taaffe, City of Tempe
Robert Yabes, City of Tempe