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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Andrea T. Kwaczala, Western New England University; Robert Gettens, Western New England University; Denine A Northrup, Western New England University
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Paper ID #34692Using Rapid Prototyping to Realize Design: Mindset and EngineeringSelf-EfficacyDr. Andrea T. Kwaczala, Western New England University Andrea Kwaczala is an assistant professor at Western New England University in the biomedical engineer- ing department. She teaches Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering Laboratory Courses, Senior Design and Prosthetic and Orthotic Design. She focuses on hands-on labs centered on student engagement and project based learning. She works in collaboration with Shriners Hospitals for Children where her re- search focuses in the design of assistive technologies to help people with
Conference Session
Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Peter Golding P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas at El Paso; Diane Elisa Golding, University of Texas at El Paso; Hector Erick Lugo Nevarez, University of Texas at El Paso; Helen Elizabeth Geller; Fernando Monroy Faudoa
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sessions, and grant development meetings. Given the recent whole scale move to online learning platforms, this platform has broadapplication for university coursework and laboratory programs. There is a real need to innovateand adapt to serve our students, who are thirsty for tech tools that are more like the traditionalclassrooms that they are all used to using. The innovative platform is much more akin to theirregular classroom environment. It enables students to discuss active learning within a table ofstudents and move freely between tables of students in a virtual classroom setting. Thearrangement has the overarching comfort of seeming like a regular classroom of sorts, whichstudents see to be a distinct advantage. The
Conference Session
Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Douglas E. Melton, Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network; Heather Dillon, University of Washington Tacoma; Mark L. Nagurka, Marquette University; Mary Murphy
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University in Flint, Michigan. There, he also served as the program director for Entrepreneurship Across the University. Prior, Doug was the Director of Research & Development for Digisonix Incorporated. His disciplinary specializations include signal processing, acoustics, and wireless communications.Dr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington Tacoma Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining academia, Heather Dillon worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer.Dr. Mark L
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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Ajay P. Malshe, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Salil T. Bapat, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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Paper ID #34800Learning Social Innovations and Social Entrepreneurship During COVID-19Pandemic: Lessons LearnedDr. Ajay P. Malshe, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Malshe is a R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Materials and Manufacturing Research Laboratory (MMRL), Purdue University. His fields of academic and industrial interest are advanced manufacturing, food-shelter-clothing and re- lated life insecurities, bio-inspired materials and designing and system integration. He has overlapping 24 years of academic plus overlapping 15 years of
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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Rachana Ashok Gupta, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Marshall Brain, North Carolina State University at Raleigh
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skills required are advertised to the relevantdepartments to seek students with the right skills to be part of the EEP ECE collaboration team.Other ECE SD sponsors are also encouraged to identify skills needed beyond ECE to recruitstudents with the right skills from other departments. Since fall 2018, the authors havesuccessfully formed need-based multi-disciplinary design teams, including mechanical andaerospace engineering, textile engineering, industrial engineering, biological and agriculturalengineering, and computer science. Many of these teams have worked with other non-engineering groups and students such as phonetics laboratory, College of Natural Resources:Department of Forest Biomaterials, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and