Handbook

Practice these in every thought, every action, always.

Our mission is to enable creation through interdisciplinary collaboration.

1. Access
2. Engagement
3. Service

1. Respect
2. Diversity
3. Continued Learning

General Info Founded: January 2017

The Innovation Labs are a set of spaces built for experiential learning, consisting of a fully equipped makerspaces, incubator, and event space open to all DU students, faculty, and staff.

We provide access to tools, knowledge, and mentors to assist with prototyping and creative works.

1. Physical: Tool and consumables are present and functioning.
2. Procedural: Easy to find and use/ figure out how to use.
3. Psychological: Comfort with preforming a(n) (set of) actions, asking for help, finding relevant instructions and information, even if no prior experience.

1. Knowledge Resources: If we don’t provide a physical good, give them references for where to buy.
2. Secondary Resource Referencing
3. If we don’t provide a service, help to check if there are other on-campus providers.

Use of the Innovation Floor equipment is a privilege, not a right. Failure to follow safety and use policies can result in a loss of privileges.

In the Innovation Floor, you can make anything you can imagine- as long as it's NOT:

1. Prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
2. Unsafe, harmful, dangerous or poses an immediate threat to the well-being of others.
3. Obscene or otherwise inappropriate for the DU environment.
4. In violation of another’s intellectual property rights;
5. For commercial manufacturing

• For example, the 3D printers will not be used to reproduce material that is subject to copyright, patent or trademark protection
• The equipment can be used for prototyping new commercial ventures, but not for manufacturing runs

Discrimination of any kind, including but not limited to: age, race/color, religion. pregnancy, disability will not be tolerated.

This is enforceable by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and any breach of this will be handled accordingly.

Safety: You must ensure that the space remains safe, not only for themselves, but for the members within the space. This includes but is not limited to:

• Operation of machinery and tools
• Material usage and storage
• Conduct within the space

Any violations of the safety of the space will be looked at as a violation of contract and will be handled accordingly.

You are required to attend all of the hours you are scheduled to work for. Absences are inexcusable unless adequate reasoning is given.

As an employee, you will be a representative of the space and as such, it is your job to present the space in accordance with the core principals of the space. You must be willing and able to help the needs of members of the space and control any issues that may arise.

When on-hours, you are required to be present in the space and prepared to deal with the needs of the DU community. Because of this there needs to be discretionary use of social media, headphones, and any other form of distraction that could lead to you being unable to adequately handle a situation.

You must have the knowledge or be willing to partake in the training necessary to have an operational understanding of the space. Failing to understand all of the core principles makes you not only a liability, but also a detriment to the space.

Familiarity and confidence are something that must be achieved, even if it requires more hours than allotted for your schedule. ASK FOR HELP.

It is your responsibility to keep the floor safe and accessible.

Any person in the Innovation Floor can be stopped if they are in violation of any policy. This includes but is not limited to employees of the space, staff, faculty, and students. All offense must be reported.

Any Innovation Floor employee has the right to refuse use of the space if a member is attempting to violate any of the rules or the rights of others. This supersedes any school hierarchy, so long as there is adequate reasoning for the refusal. All offense must be reported.

Any behavior that is deemed inappropriate or in violation of any rules is means for removal form the space. Depending of the severity of the violation, this can mean anything from temporary displacement to a permanent ban. All offense must be reported to the Operations Manager. All bans greater than a day require approval from the operations manager