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Product Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Street, Rochester Institute of Technology; jack danziger, Rochester Institute of Technology; William Leonard, Rochester Institute of Technology

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of thedesign errors before capital is invested in manufacturing. The new process allows for a shorteriterative cycle as compared to the old build-test-fix model. Figure 1 is an evaluation of the designcycle (Ullman, p 180) 1. Page 12.1219.2 Design Iterate Iterate Build Test Figure 1 Design evaluation cycleKnowing the strategic advantages of RP machines and seeing industrial growth, RIT’sMechanical Engineering Technology (MET

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Systems Engineering and Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech; Shoaib Shaikh, Northrop Grumman Corporation

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combining technical prowess withentrepreneurship.1 A survey of business executives and managers indicated that highly successfulengineers are not only academically astute, but also possess entrepreneurial skills.2 TheEngineers of 2020 will need to be educated as innovators, with more direct exposure to cross-disciplinary topics and the workings of an entrepreneurial economy.3 However, engineeringschools have been slow to incorporate entrepreneurship courses into the technical programs.A common complaint heard from most high tech entrepreneurs is that their entrepreneurialprojects always take more than 2X the time, 2X the money and 2X the resources than what theyplanned for at the outset.4 It has been observed that most successful high tech and

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Entrepreneurial Leadership and Non-traditional Ways to Engage Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida; Ted Astleford, University of Florida

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consultants, university inventors,and business, engineering, and law school faculty mentors.The ITV program has been in operation since fall 2003. Since that time nine Page 12.853.2virtual companies have been formed and over 70 students have participated. Afterthe pilot offering, it was recognized that several issues were limiting the overall “Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2007, American Society for Engineering Education”success of the ITV program and diminishing the educational value for the studentstakeholders. Chief among these issues were the following: 1. The

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Systems Engineering and Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Karanian, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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calms everyone down, does the entrepreneurial leader balance both?This research explores the construct of entrepreneurial leadership using the followingindependent elements as a guide: gender as a social experience, past parental relationships,cultural roots, real time strategic risk taking behavior, capacity to predict and create cross-functional teams, and a character type that thrives on the challenge of change. Specificconsideration is given to emerging dimensions and attributes influencing survival. Discussionincludes: 1) ways that the entrepreneurial leader assesses the audience with precision, 2) acts onthe belief that various sectors of technology drives leadership, 3) calculates the growth towardswhat is authentic and new, 4)expects

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Assessing Entrepreneurship Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Akash Choudhary, University of Missouri; Donald Myers, University of Missouri; Halvard Nystrom, University of Missouri; Mihir Gokhale, University of Missouri

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interested in entrepreneurship after takingthe course and many perceive to have become successful entrepreneurs.Introduction “Entrepreneurship is a dynamic process of vision, change, and creation. It requiresan application of energy and passion towards the creation and implementation of new ideas andcreative solutions. Essential ingredients include the willingness to take calculated risks in termsof time, equity, or career; the ability to formulate an effective venture team; the creative skill tomarshal needed resources; and fundamental skill of building a solid business plan; and finally,the vision to recognize opportunity where others see chaos, contradiction, and confusion” 1.Entrepreneurship is more than the mere creation of business. The

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Assessing Entrepreneurship Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Martin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

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and creates products andbusinesses from student projects. PIEp Education is nourished from the activities in InnovationExperience, Innovation Knowledge and Innovation Experience provides information for coursesin innovation etc.Activities in PIEp Education involves new courses in innovation, a network for doctoralstudents, exchange programs for students, rotational programs for faculty and better utilization ofall existing mechanisms for bringing an idea to the market. Figure 1 shows an illustration of the‘learning cycle’ of PIEp together with some keywords and key activities of the respectiveactivity fields. Innovation Knowledge Research in innovation

Conference Session

Creating a Technology Incubator and Creating a Seed Fund

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Laughlin, University of Maryland; Scott Magids, University of Maryland; David Barbe, University of Maryland

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from industry and the remaining $14B from state and localgovernment, institutional and other sources.1 This funding provides an exceptional foundationfor new scientific discovery, as well as for the advancement of applied technologies.Unfortunately, a relatively small percentage of these new discoveries ever translate into long-term commercial successes. Several impediments, both institutional and market-driven, conspireto keep inventions from finding their way into, or better yet becoming the foundation of,commercial ventures. Examples of institutional impediments include: (a) lack of marketacceptance for university licensing practices, (b) conflict of interest concerns for faculty,particularly within public universities, (c) lack of

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Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Birmingham, Grove City College; Blair Allison, Grove City College; James Dupree, Grove City College

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Page 12.681.3acceptance by the customer. Both multidisciplinary teams and prototyping foster a broader viewof product development that is essential to the success of an entrepreneurial venture.The productPine Instrument designs and builds a wide variety of industrial equipment and electronicassemblies. The company has a reputation for working closely with its customers over manyyears, and understands customer needs and product applications.Pine Instrument produces a line of asphalt and aggregate testing equipment for field andlaboratory quality control and assurance. One product for laboratory use measures the form,angularity, and texture of aggregates used in the construction industry (see Figure 1). Thismachine has a bed on which rock

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Creating a Technology Incubator and Creating a Seed Fund

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Wierman, Johns Hopkins University; Lawrence Aronhime, Johns Hopkins University; Marybeth Camerer, Johns Hopkins University; Benjamin Gibbs, Johns Hopkins University

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Patenting & IP Issues for Commercializing University-Developed Technology and Launching Innovative Technical Entrepreneurship Ventures in Universities

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Baker, Michigan Technological University; Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Richard Berkey, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Entrepreneurship and K-12 Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Gregory Feierfeil, Lawrence Technological University

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,Entrepreneurial Program Growth and Increased Student Participation, Foster EnterpriseOpportunities, and Program Sustainability. Those goals (further described in thefollowing paragraphs) are supported by the individual program components as indicatedin Figure 1 in the Appendix.Goal 1: To coordinate entrepreneurial efforts across all disciplines and class levels toensure opportunities for entrepreneurial mindset development for all students.The University seeks to establish a culture, which fosters an entrepreneurial mindset forall graduates. This will be accomplished by re-inventing our pedagogical approaches toinclude problem based learning, rich media, student team projects throughout thecurriculum, and by introducing entrepreneurial skills in freshman

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Patenting & IP Issues for Commercializing University-Developed Technology and Launching Innovative Technical Entrepreneurship Ventures in Universities

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Schox, Stanford University; David Chesney, University of Michigan

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truth is that the patentability of an invention, and the right to sell and make the inventionwithout infringement of another patent, are completely unrelated. By misunderstanding thisconcept, engineers may eventually lose patent rights or infringe the patent rights of a competitor.More importantly, engineers may fail to gain adequate funding for their technology and mayconsequently fail to introduce, sell, and make an impact with their technology.Attempts to Educate EngineersPatent law courses are offered to engineering students at many of the top engineering schools,including: • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (6.901: Inventions and Patents)1, • Stanford University (ME208: Patent Law and Strategy)2, • University of Illinois

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The Challenges of Tech Transfer

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruce Mutter, Bluefield State College; Frank Hart, Bluefield State College

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Conference Session

Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Zidek, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Cindy Orndoff; Susan Blanchard

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is an increasingconcern in the United States that high school students are lacking in math and science skillsleaving them ill-prepared for college programs in the sciences, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM).1 According to a recent report form the US Department of Education, theUnited States ranks 27th in the world in mathematics problem solving,2 reiterating the point thatUS high school students are not well prepared for college after completing high school mathclasses. At one Southwest Florida university, more than 60% of the first year students were notacademically prepared for college calculus, prolonging their entry into the engineering programand increasing the time the students will spend in college. These deficiencies

Conference Session

Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech; Frank Kinney, Florida Tech; Vaidy Vaidyanathan; Tom O'Neal, University of Central Florida; Clifford Bragdon, Florida Tech; Dennis Kulonda, Florida Tech; Grisselle Centeno, University of South Florida; Jose Zayas-Castro, University of South Florida; Lynda Weatherman, Space Caost EDC

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its commercialization, called the“Technopolis Phenomenon”.A Technopolis (plural Technopoleis) is a region trying to build and maintain a healthy,technology-driven economy. 1Dr. Fred Phillips (ex Austin, Texas) of the Maastrict School of Management ((Netherlands),1 anacknowledged authority and experienced expert on the Technopolis phenomenon in the US andEurope, has postulated that Technopolis regions grow by: 1. Attracting new companies 2. Nurturing existing indigenous firms 3. Encouraging entrepreneurial start-ups Page 12.423.2 4. Providing a supportive educational, social, tax, quality-of-life and cultural context for research

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Patenting & IP Issues for Commercializing University-Developed Technology and Launching Innovative Technical Entrepreneurship Ventures in Universities

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ken Vickers, University of Arkansas; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University

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education through training and developmental grants to support technology entrepreneurship courses, programs and E-teams. Page 12.790.2 • ASME is establishing the Center for Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEEI) which will initially provide collegiate-level entrepreneurship support. This effort 1 will be followed by support of entrepreneurism and innovation for both professional (post-baccalaureate) engineers and high school youth. ASME plans to teams with its sister organizations (IEEE, ASCE

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Assessing Entrepreneurship Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denny Davis, Washington State University; Jerman Rose, Washington State University

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recognize that learningassociated with these courses is different than occurs in many other engineering classes, butmany disagree on appropriate learning outcomes for the course. Critical questions are: (1) What should and have students learned and demonstrated through their capstone design courses? (2) Do these abilities match the public’s expectations for graduates who will be leading technical and business innovation for our nation in coming years?As demonstrated by these questions, capstone design course instructors must give properattention to defining, accomplishing, and measuring achievements of targeted student learningoutcomes. ABET accreditation requirements reinforce the importance of these measures3.GoalThe goal of this

Conference Session

The Challenges of Tech Transfer

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael McCorquodale, Mobius Microsystems, Inc.; Richard Brown, University of Utah

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. Page 12.1074.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Mobius Microsystems: A Case Study in the Commercialization of Graduate Research in Electrical Engineering AbstractMobius Microsystems is a fabless and intellectual property (IP) semiconductor company foundedby a graduate student (McCorquodale) and his faculty advisor (Brown) and based upon the disser-tation research conducted by the student. The company is presented by the founding researchersas a case study in the commercialization of graduate research in electrical engineering. While aprevious paper by the authors [1] has discussed the internal resources required at the researchinstitution to facilitate

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Entrepreneurial Leadership and Non-traditional Ways to Engage Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wilburn Clouse, Vanderbilt University

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world recognition and redevelop a value system of business ethicsand respect for life and the world environment. The guiding questions will be centered on thefollowing questions: 1. Can Entrepreneurship thinking be infused into on-going courses? 2. Canauthentic cases be developed that will encourage creative and entrepreneurial thinking? 3. Canseveral schools from different backgrounds work together to develop a creative learningenvironment? 4. Will the current learning pedagogy used in colleges and public schools producethe next way of entrepreneurial thinkers? 5. What changes in world events (political,environmental, technological, and social) are likely to occur that will affect worldwide business?IntroductionWe live in a changing world. The

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Tuesday Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alice Agogino, UC Berkeley; Sara Beckman, University of California at Berkeley; Leslie Speer, San Jose State University

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Conference Session

Assessing Entrepreneurship Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Blessing, Milwaukee School of Engineering; John D. Gassert, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Lawrence J. Schmedeman, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Larry Fennigkoh, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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entrepreneurshipeducation. In contrast, we are just getting started on our endeavor to introduce entrepreneurshipeducation and to ultimately make it a permanent part of our curriculum. Page 12.917.3In summary, here are the main challenges to our efforts: CHALLENGES TO INSTILLING ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AT MSOE 1. How to achieve our main goal of getting the schools of business and engineering to work together as peers in an effort to promote entrepreneurship. 2. How to encourage faculty to take on the new task of teaching entrepreneurship when they are already handling a heavy workload. 3. How to get students excited about

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Entrepreneurial Leadership and Non-traditional Ways to Engage Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Paul Rossler, Oklahoma State University; Martin High, Oklahoma State University

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Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University. Professor High earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Penn State, and a J.D. from the University of Tulsa. He is licensed as an attorney in Oklahoma, registered as a Patent Attorney to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and licensed as a professional engineer in Pennsylvania. Page 12.632.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Engineering Entrepreneurship for High School and Early College StudentsAbstractProject Lead the Way, Inc.1 is a national pre-engineering curriculum

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Entrepreneurial Leadership and Non-traditional Ways to Engage Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Coyle, Purdue University; Nancy Clement, Purdue University; Joy Krueger, Purdue University

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their localcommunity.The EPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative (EEI) was created in 2001 to enable EPICS teams to learnabout entrepreneurship in the context of the innovative products and services that they createwith their community partners. The culmination of the EEI’s activities each year is the EPICSIdea-to-Product® (I2P®) Competition.1 In this product-feasibility competition, a panel ofdistinguished entrepreneurs listen to the EPICS e-teams’ presentations about their products anddetermine which of their ideas have the greatest potential for both commercial sustainability andbenefit to society.The educational and commercialization benefits of the EEI and its I2P® Competition have led usto generalize them beyond EPICS to include all areas of

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Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Brandon Moore, Florida Atlantic University; Eiki Martinson, Florida Atlantic University

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thisproject. New designs, more sensors and actuators, better simulation, and enhanced monitoringand control system were put in place. The visitors were invited to be there at 2pm. Despite manyattempts to make the apparatus function nothing worked. At 1:30pm when the first visitorscame…as we were testing a new design... it all worked! Water was boiling violently in theevaporator unit at room temperature, and about one liter of fresh water was produced in less thantwo minutes. What a relief!After the first working experiment In the coming weeks we repeated the experiment and performed additional ones. Weinvited more people and industry representatives to watch the “miracle”. Data were collected

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Engineering Entrepreneurship and K-12 Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David M Feinauer, University of Kentucky; Bruce Walcott, University of Kentucky

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12.824.2execution will be presented.CurriculumThe students that participate in the Engineering Summer Program are thrust into a week-longitinerary that consumes their time from 7 am until 10 pm each day with activities that aredesigned to achieve the objectives previously mentioned in the introduction. A more detaileddescription of the core program objectives is provided in Table 1. A general description of thedaily activities is provided below. Following each description, the outcomes from Table 1 thatrelate to the activity are listed.Team building exercises – The Engineering Summer Program participants represent the top,rising high school seniors from around the state. They have diverse geographic, educational,ethnic, and family backgrounds. The students

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Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Thornton, University of Maryland; Jacqueline Rogers, University of Maryland (Retired); Kristen Waters; Nathan Myers, University of Maryland; Lisa Rawlings, Prince George's Prince Community College

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Creating a Technology Incubator and Creating a Seed Fund

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Duening, Arizona State University

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AC 2007-824: DEVELOPING AN ANGEL INVESTOR FORUM TO COMPLEMENTAN ENGINEERING SCHOOL'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP INITIATIVESThomas Duening, Arizona State University Page 12.484.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007Developing an Angel Investor Forum to Complement an Engineering School’s Entrepreneurship Initiatives Page 12.484.2BackgroundAfter two years of decline, entrepreneurial activity in the United States increased from 10.5percent in 2002 to 11.9 percent in 2003. This level of activity ranks the U.S. 7th among 31nations surveyed by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor in Total Entrepreneurial Activity(TEA).1

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Product Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley Kramer, Kansas State University; Jeffrey Tucker, Kansas State University; Bret Lanz, Kansas State University; Dale Wunderlich, Kansas State University; Jeffrey Katz, Kansas State University

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entrepreneurs and small businesses to improve theircompetitiveness.1. BackgroundThe Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI) is a multi-disciplinary center that is part of theKansas State University College of Engineering. It is both a Kansas Technology EnterpriseCorporation (KTEC) Center of Excellence and a U.S. Economic Development AdministrationUniversity Center. Its mission is to advance technologies, people, and companies throughcollaborative engineering and business partnerships. Page 12.566.2In 1995, AMI established an operation to enhance the education of engineering students that waspatterned after teaching hospitals. In our model, AMI employs

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Utilizing On-Line Technology in Entrepreneurship Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Larry Richards, University of Virginia

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traditional course has continued to evolve, and it has beenadapted to different audiences and contexts. There are now three versions of Creativityand New Product Development, but they all share common goals and objectives.Class objectivesWe have three general goals for this course: (1) to provide an overview of the basicprocesses in new product development in a competitive marketplace by simulating themin class, (2) to acquire the skills for successfully creating and developing a new productthrough hands-on, team-based projects, and (3) to become more creative individuals andmore effective team members.The topics covered in this class fall into four categories: technical skills, creativethinking, business strategies, and people skills. Technical

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Systems Engineering and Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech; Balbir Singh, NIS-Punjab; Muzaffar Shaikh, Florida Tech; Ashok Pandit, Florida Tech

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arelated concept of systems engineering was used to get India back to the top of worldhockey.IntroductionOur goal for this research is very clear: To use systems engineering principles torevitalize Indian hockey and get India back to the top of world hockey rankings.Our objectives are: To help India win the 2008 Beijing Olympics gold medal and the2010 World Cup by big margins (greater than 2-0) in the pool matches, semi-final or finalfor these major tournaments.We will play attacking hockey. We will stick to our 5-3-2-1 attacking formation. We willhave a psychological advantage over all the countries whenever we step on the field andthis will mean that the game is already won psychologically before it has started.However, we will use the