Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Abdullah Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Kathleen Marie Hauser P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Marietta R. Scanlon, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

projects from National Science Foun- dation (NSF) and VentureWell. She is currently an academic member elected to the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE). Previously, she served as the president of the Insti- tute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Forum on Women in Operations Research and Management Science (WORMS), chair of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Mid Atlantic Section, and chair of the Facility Logistics Special Interest Group of the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL). sadan@psu.edu.Mrs. Kathleen Marie Hauser P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus Kathleen Hauser is an Assistant Teaching Professor of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

research-intensive university located in the mid-Atlantic states. The Academy aimed atrecruiting primarily associate or full professors (tenure or non-tenure track) who had not previouslyworked substantially with the teaching and learning center. Individuals were sent e-mailinvitations asking them to send in a short application and a letter of support from their departmenthead. As an incentive to participate in the program, faculty received one week of summer salary.The inaugural EMIT Academy was held in the summer of 2020, with 9 participating faculty. Thesefaculty included 2 women and 7 men, who came from various engineering departments includingelectrical engineering, civil engineering, engineering science and mechanics, chemicalengineering