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Entrepreneurship Education - A 10,000' View

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wade Shaw, Florida Tech; Muzaffar Shaikh, Florida Tech; Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

program (SATOP), Technology Research and Development Authority ofthe State of Florida (TRDA), the Alumni Entrepreneur Alliance, The Space Coast EDC and otherlocal organizations, have seen increasing attendance and have become an increasingly importantnetworking and discussion forum for local entrepreneurs, inventors, business service providers,investors, students and faculty.Two NCIIA grants, totaling about $40K for Florida Tech have been central to the rapid increasein entrepreneurial participation by undergraduates in the College of Engineering. One of thegrants funded entrepreneurial multi-university wireless senior design projects, while the othersupported a series of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department senior design teams

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Capstone Design and Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Ochs, Lehigh University; Gerard Lennon, Lehigh University; Todd Watkins, Lehigh University; Graham Mitchell, Lehigh University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

teaching entrepreneurship.According to a Cornell University study by Debra Streeter1 Lehigh’s entrepreneurshipmodel is classified as a magnet program centered in the business school and primarilyMBA-oriented. Lehigh has made a substantial commitment to our entrepreneurship-oriented graduate MBA program, including an entrepreneurial option and a Ventureseries certificate program.Recently Lehigh has invested heavily in several new programs that promote campus-wideteaching, research and outreach in technical entrepreneurship at the undergraduate level,including a year-long experiential capstone course for majors in Integrated Business andEngineering, Computer Science and Business, Bio Engineering, Design Arts and a catchall campus wide program in

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Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidi Neck, Babson College; John Bourne, Olin College; Stephen Schiffman, Olin College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Management, the Babson Entrepreneurship Research conference, and the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and has several refereed publications and book chapters. Dr. Neck is the Faculty Coordinator of REFLECT, a reunion program for alumni of the Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators and is currently designing a NSF-funded education program to help engineering educators infuse entrepreneurship into schools of engineering. At Babson, she teaches Entrepreneurship & New Venture Creation and the Foundation Management Experience, an introductory course that requires students to create, start, manage and liquidate a business.John Bourne, Olin

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Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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W. Andrew Clark, East Tennessee State University; J. Paul Sims, East Tennessee State University; Craig A. Turner, East Tennessee State University; Jon L. Smith, East Tennessee State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

environment”. As part ofthe course, student teams are required to engage in a project involving companies,governmental agencies or individuals outside of the university. The team meets withtheir “client” and works to develop solutions for relevant problems. Student teams havedeveloped business plans, conducted market research and have engaged in impact studiesamong other projects. The teams are usually interdisciplinary and have in the pastincluded both M.B.A. students and Engineering Technology students. Recently, a team of business graduate students traveled to Germany to meet with thefounder of a firm that has acquired the license to produce products using an innovativenew material. Using a process developed by the Fraunhofer Institut

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Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Ports, QTS, Inc.; Dennis Kulonda, Florida Tech; Clifford Bragdon, Florida Tech; Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

(Florida NASA Business Incubation Center), SATOP (Space AllianceTechnology Outreach Program), Small Business Development Center (SBDC), EconomicDevelopment Commission of the Space Coast, NASA Office of Technology Commercializationat KSC, and other local partners, neighboring universities and colleges, plans to dramaticallyreduce this problem by methodical research and facilitation of best practices for technologytransfer and commercialization leveraging a unique educational program in experientialentrepreneurship and technology commercialization.SCION Objectives:The SCION Partnership objectives are to:1) Develop education and experiential entrepreneurship programs to promote technologycommercialization and entrepreneurship awareness

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Course-based Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Doug Abbott, MT Tech of the U of MT; Lance Edwards, MT Tech of the U of MT; John Evans, MT Tech of the U of MT; Leo Heath, MT Tech of the U of MT; Mike Johnson, MT Tech of the U of MT; Timothy Kober, MT Tech of the U of MT; Mary North-Abbott, MT Tech of the U of MT; Roger Oldenkamp, MT Tech of the U of MT

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

products to market hasbeen hindered by a lack of business expertise5. The PET 4460 class developed at the MontanaTech of the University of Montana was designed to emphasize this crucial relationship ofengineering and entrepreneurship.Webster's dictionary defines an entrepreneur as "one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risk of abusiness or enterprise." Traditional engineering curricula are typically weak in entrepreneurshipstudies. Instruction in engineering theory and practice is present in all engineering classes, buttoo often the links between engineering methods and business and entrepreneurial needs are notaddressed. Although few students go to work, immediately after graduation, for a smallcompany (or start one themselves) [any

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Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Karanian, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

harder because they are trusted to produce winning results.• For effective entrepreneurship education, a medium that employs concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization and active experimentation should be present34. However, when compared to reflective observation, it is suggested that active experimentation is more natural for stimulating entrepreneurial behavior23, 35. Best practices in engineering programs that graduate young entrepreneurs include multiple opportunities for creative, inventive, and successful collaborative design projects36.Entrepreneurial behavior is described as the processes, practices, and decision-making activitiesthat lead to entrepreneurship37. According to Lumpkin and

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Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Evans, University of Texas-Austin

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

funding organizations are also moving toward a greaterconsideration of the future impact of research activity forcing those in the academy to promotetheir work in a broader and more application driven light. The careers of engineers often grow toincorporate managerial and strategic responsibilities which are almost impossible without anability to consider business and legal issues and to communicate effectively to many differentaudiences. 1, 2, 3, 4 And, as Meier et al., suggest even those who remain squarely within atechnical arena, “are being asked to take responsibility for the overall system.”5 One subject thatneatly encompasses the concepts of innovation (implying new markets and new products),opportunities, creating networks, management

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Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Minnie Patel, San Jose State University; Anuradha Basu, San Jose State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

further incentive to participants, prizeswere secured from local companies like Apple, Adobe, and Microsoft. Prizes were awarded forthe best exhibits, the best elevator pitch, the best written summary, and for the People’s Choice Page 11.703.4of the best displayed idea.The Fair was organized by SJSU’s Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship (SVCE), auniversity-wide organized research and teaching unit housed within the College of Business.When the idea was first floated in Spring 2004, it was greeted with enthusiasm by all the facultymembers contacted in Engineering, Industrial Design, and Sciences and the organizingcommittee for the Fair

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Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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June Ferrill, Rice University; Lisa Getzler-Linn, Lehigh University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

decision-making, necessary for their future successes.Bibliography1. Ferrill, June, and George P. Jones, (2005) Seven Layers of Integrity, AuthorHouse.2.. Longenecker, J. G. and J. A. McKinney and C.W. Moore (1988). Egoism and Independence: Entrepreneurial Ethics. Organizational Dynamics 16: 64-72.3. Dees, J. G. and J. A. Starr. (1992). Entrepreneurship through an Ethical Lens: Dilemmas and Issues for Research and Practice. The State of the Art of Entrepreneurship. D.L. Sexton and J. D. Kasarda (eds.) Boston: PWS- Kent. 89-116.4. Bucar, Branko and Robert D. Hisrich. (2001). Ethics of Business Managers vs. Entrepreneurs (Electronic