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The Design as an Immersive ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Experience (DIVE) Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) is a critical part of the university's ten-year reaffirmation of accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), and constitutes a new and focused effort to enhance student learning. DIVE was created within the context of Immersion ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in support of the Academic Strategic Plan. The goal of DIVE is to teach human-centered design thinking to students so that they may solve complex, real-world problems, develop critical thinking skills, and work in multidisciplinary teams during an immersive, faculty-guided project. 

About DIVE

DIVE (Design as an Immersive ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Experience) will create an additional outlet for pursuing immersion experiences, as part of the Immersion ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø initiative. DIVE will bring together small-interdisciplinary teams to learn human-centered design methodology to facilitate problem solving. Each team will be led by a faculty or staff member and will address broad ranging questions such as:

-"how do we increase usage of public transportation in Nashville,"

-"how can we make the cafeteria experience better for ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø students,"

-"how do we make public data sets readily available to the public?," or

-"how do we improve the patient comfort experience before surgery?"  

Topic Selection & Implementation Process

On September 4, 2015, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente issued a call to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø community to submit program ideas for the Immersion ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø QEP. Students, faculty, staff, and alumni submitted a total of 44 program ideas, of which three were chosen by the Immersion QEP Committee to be developed into formal ten-page proposals by broadly representative subcommittees of students, faculty, and staff.

The three finalist proposals