Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education - A 10,000' View

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

: study skills, writing, information literacy, time management, learning styles, etc. to promote students’ learning and skill developmentStudent • Work with the ES program to • Develop and provide training, courses orAffairs provide credit courses for programs for peer mentoring, leadership mentor training and leadership development, character development, and development programs. mentoring programs. • Help the ES program develop, • Provide leadership and assistance in organizing

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education - A 10,000' View

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

’ educational experience, broadened their perspectives, served as community outreachforums and integrated experiential learning with academic programs. Students work in E-teamsand write NCIIA proposals to commercialize innovative product or university/research labdeveloped technology.This paper describes a unique course series in Systems Engineering (SE) Entrepreneurship.Innovation in product/service design and commercialization that enables entrepreneurship can besuccessfully leveraged by applying SE principles/ techniques which parallel entrepreneurshipsteps such as Customer Requirements Engineering and opportunity recognition; Project/QualityEngineering, Decision/Risk Analysis, Systems Modeling, Engineering Economics and businessplanning, Systems

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

54% 59%It is important, therefore, for SJSU faculty to make a conscious effort to develop and deliverteaching material to reach an ethnically diversified student population.Description of SJSU’s Neat Ideas FairThe Silicon Valley Neat Ideas Fair (www.cob.sjsu.edu/svnif) was first held in November 2004 asa forum to promote creativity and innovation at SJSU by generating and highlighting NeatBusiness Ideas. It was conceived as an opportunity for students from different disciplines topresent their creative ideas to their peers across campus and to industry professionals, to interactand build entrepreneurial teams, and secure feedback from many sources on their ideas.The main aims of the Fair were to encourage students

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

La Verne Abe Harris, Arizona State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. Before she became an assistant professor in the fall of 2004, she was a lecturer in the College of Technology and Applied Sciences, an appointment she held for five years. As a tenure-track professor, Dr. Harris has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Harris is the 2005 recipient of the Electronic Document Systems Foundation (EDSF) grant, and her paper "The Personalization of Data for Print and e-Commerce" is nationally and internationally published for industry professionals and academics in higher education. Her paper, "The Leap from Teacher to Teacher-Scholar: the Quest for Research in Non-Traditional Fields," was awarded the 2004 Chair Award for

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Thornton, University of Maryland-College Park; Anik Singal, Affiliate Classroom, Inc.; David Barbe, University of Maryland-College Park; James Green, University of Maryland-College Park

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

affiliate marketing as an interesting and low-cost niche to enter. But working for myself was the end goal.” Anik Singal4.1.5. Confidence levelFor an undergraduate university student, the decision to be an entrepreneur requires a confidencethat is resilient and resolute. Anik says his parents viewed entrepreneurship as a synonym forunemployed. They did not initially see ignoring high paying jobs with benefits at established,respected firms in lieu of starting a new venture as a smart choice. Particularly for a youngperson, going against the norm of peers, the university, and even family are difficult decisions.Anik leveraged this risk by investing as much time as

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

from theirexternal group (management, procurement, accounting, or marketing) to their peers toprovide a more efficient use of their efforts to reach the ultimate goal. This would beindicative of a Level 4 (Scale of 1-4 with 4 being the highest degree) integration asdefined by Klien3 or the “Networked” integration (Highest Level) as described byFogarty4.Students are required to read the book by Eliyahu Goldratt called “The Goal”5. Theythen write a term paper discussing their experience in the class as compared to thecharacters in the book and their coursework to date (senior level for undergraduatestudents). This provides the students with a basis from which they can evaluate theirexperience6. While the instructors are primarily used as