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Capstone Design and Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University; Jennifer Finelli, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

2006-2137: ENTREPRENEURIAL DESIGN PROJECTS: WHAT TYPE OFPROJECTS ARE EFFECTIVE IN IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING &ENTHUSIASM?Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University Gül E. Okudan is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Design at The Pennsylvania State University. She received her Ph.D. from University of Missouri-Rolla. Her research interests include intelligent shop floor control, manufacturing strategy modeling and measurement, solid modeling, product design, and product design teams. Her published work appears in journals such as Journal of Engineering Design, Design Studies, Journal of Engineering Education, European Journal of Engineering Education and Technovation. She is a member of ASEE

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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

2006-1330: A COMPREHENSIVE MODEL FOR INTEGRATINGENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND CAPSTONE PROJECTS WHILEEXCEEDING ABET REQUIREMENTSJohn Ochs, Lehigh University John B Ochs is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh and Director of the Integrated Product Development Program (IPD), which he co-founded with Dr. Watkins in 1994. He is the past chairman the Entrepreneurship division of the American Society for Engineering Education. From 1985-95 Dr. Ochs did extensive industry consulting and was involved in the start up of three companies. In 1996 the pilot courses IPD won the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ curriculum innovation award and in 1997 IPD won the Newcomen Society award for

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Capstone Design and Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Miller, North Carolina State University; Stephen Walsh, North Carolina State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

11.1284.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 The Engineering Entrepreneurs Program Portal: A New Tool for Improving Entrepreneurship PedagogyAbstract:The Engineering Entrepreneurs Program Portal (EEP Portal) is a web-based tool designed for useby students who are participating in the EEP to manage their E-Teams.For background, the EEP is an undergraduate program centered in the College of Engineering,but open to students from all academic disciplines. The program’s methodology providesstudents a more in-depth exposure to entrepreneurship and new product development. E-Teamsare lead by engineering seniors who are fulfilling their senior capstone design projectrequirements. They organize E-Teams

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Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rose Marie Lynch, Illinois Valley Community College; Dorene Perez, Illinois Valley Community College; James Gibson, Illinois Valley Community College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

company structure.Entitled Making Industry Meaningful In College (MIMIC), the project was pioneered atIVCC as a one-semester multi-disciplinary project with students from engineering design andbusiness teamed into “companies” to select, design, prototype, manufacture, market and sellproducts. Later, electronics students were added, and MIMIC became a capstone for studentsin several business fields. Now, with the support of a National Science Foundation Grant1,elements of the entrepreneurial project are being incorporated throughout the technicalstudents’ two-year programs.Engineering design and electronics students are being introduced to continuous qualityimprovement in their first, introductory courses, and they are designing and

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Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Rufe, Eastern Michigan University; Gary Rodak, Eastern Michigan University; Scott Pollock, Eastern Michigan University; Mary Finkel, Eastern Michigan University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

exerciseproblem solving skills. The teamwork and weekly meetings requires students to demonstrateeffective communication skills, make cohesive presentations, and listen to criticism from fellowteam members. Essentially by forming a small business and manufacturing a product, thestudents in the capstone sequence realize the significance of their contributions to their businessand learn to view the “big picture”. In the future, the capstone courses will work more closely with entrepreneurs. In aneffort to manage the projects the University is currently considering developing an EnterpriseCenter (EC) to be housed in the School of Engineering Technology. The EC will serve as aninterface between the Manufacturing capstone courses and entrepreneurs

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IP and Supporting Student Startups

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Silvernagel, University of North Dakota; Richard Schultz, University of North Dakota

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

great interest within academia is the ownership of student-generated intellectualproperty (IP), particularly in an era when entrepreneurship and innovation are being stressedacross academic disciplines. Students involved in engineering capstone design projects, businessplan courses and competitions, and research activities have immense potential to conceive andprototype product, process, system, and service concepts within the university classroom andlaboratory environment. Faculty members serving as mentors and liaisons to industry partnersgenerally facilitate the innovation process in the context of their employment as universityprofessionals. The research questions addressed in this project focus on who actually owns theintellectual property

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Entrepreneurship Education - A 10,000' View

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Clifton Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College; John Farris, Grand Valley State University; Jana Goodrich, Pennsylvania State University-Erie; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Robert Weissbach, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

IBM, as well as owning a management consulting firm, Executive Education Services. Her research interests are in electronic marketing, multidisciplinary education, and entrepreneurial ventures.Susannah Howe, Smith College Susannah Howe is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. She coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course and serves as co-faculty advisor for entrepreneurial activity at Smith. Her interests include innovations in engineering design education, entrepreneurship education across disciplines at the undergraduate level, and durability and structural performance of cementitious and natural building materials.Robert Weissbach

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Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arnold Lumsdaine, University of Tennessee; Frank Speckhart, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Geoff Robson, Technology 2020; Kenneth Kahn, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Majid Keyhani, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Dan Fant, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Rapinder Sawhney, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

process are represented by thepartner personnel – entrepreneurs, engineering, project managers, CEO’s, intellectual propertylawyers, state economic development officials, and venture capital representatives. Thesepartners are involved in the following activities: 1) evaluating the dual degree program as a whole; 2) evaluating student projects and advising the student teams; 3) offering student teams technical and business expertise; 4) advising dual degree program in development and curricular issues; 5) contributing intellectual property (ORNL alone has a portfolio of over 1000 patents) and project ideas; 6) serving as guest lecturers in graduate product development courses;Advising student teams involves attending

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Course-based Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anthony Warren, Pennsylvania State University; Ralph Hanke, Bowling Green University; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

to get out of thetraditional “teaching mode” as it was for the students to get out of the “passive learning” mode.Nevertheless, the students’ final projects and presentations suggest that the learning experiencesucceeded and students developed a realistic understanding of what it takes to be an entrepreneur.Further, the experience resulted in a plan of improvements to the method, three of them key. First,given the natural ambiguity of PBL to develop entrepreneurial skills, it is imperative that structuralaspects of the course are as unambiguous as possible. Second, the grading and support structure ofthe course need to reward student self-sufficiency. Third, in-class activities must be structured sothat teams are forced to be fully prepared

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Entrepreneurship Education - A 10,000' View

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Secor, Institute to Promote Learning; Douglas Arion, Carthage College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

information7. A successful program, cognizant of thissituation, could implement interdisciplinary studies programs that combined, forexample, technology development and ecology, to help students make connections andsee relevancy and meaning in what they are studying, while fulfilling general educationor distribution requirements. Similarly, capstone experiences can be tailored to bothallow synthesis of learning across the four years as well as providing professional skills(i.e., resumes, interviewing, financial planning skills, etc.) that will help them succeedpost-graduation. Page 11.365.7 As discussed below, both the instructional format for each

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Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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La Verne Abe Harris, Arizona State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

turning 50 on a daily basis.3 Thiscalculates to over four million each year.These 40- and 50-year olds can boast about being the best-educated generation in history.4 Thefocus team members were no different. Over half had a 4-year university degree, with just underhalf having graduate degrees. Almost 20 percent had doctoral degrees.The participants who responded to the income survey question made over $100,000 annually.Over half were employed in the technology business, with a few employed in engineering firms,and one employed as a defense contractor. Almost half were engineers. The rest had thefollowing job titles: program manager, project manager, chief engineer, or quality and missionassurance director. They represented companies such as