Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Bruce D. Oestreich, Rowan University; Scott Duplicate Streiner, Rowan University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

University, a mid-size Mid-Atlantic public university, we set out to foster anEntrepreneurial Mindset in our first-year engineering students by modifying the ProductArchaeology framework that was first developed by K. Lewis, et al. [1]. In our implementation,we allowed student teams to choose from a bank of products and guided them through the fourphases of product archaeology (preparation, excavation, evaluation, and explanation). For theevaluation phase, each team developed and executed three or more qualitative experiments fortheir product. At the conclusion of the project, students wrote a report that addressed the fourphases of product archaeology, including the results of their quantitative experiments. Eachreport was graded using an

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marissa Mary Martine, Rowan University; Lia X. Mahoney, Rowan University; Christina M. Sunbury, Rowan University; John Austin Schneider, Rowan University; Cory Hixson, Colorado Christian University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

provide value to the engineering innovation andentrepreneurship education fields.ConclusionThe development of the entrepreneurial mindset in both engineering and business undergraduatesis beneficial for their future career prospects. Entrepreneurial mindset can provide students withthe necessary knowledge and skills that will help them in their professional careers including theability to recognize opportunity, manage ambiguity, and persist through failure. To measureundergraduate students’ knowledge and perception of entrepreneurial mindset, a concept mapstudy was performed at a mid-size Atlantic University. The maps were graded independently byresearchers using both the holistic and traditional scoring methods.When the grading methods were