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Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kari Clase, Purdue University

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continuing to develop and refine curriculumfor “option” and “capstone” courses in cooperation with colleges across campus.The Biotechnology Laboratory I (IT226) course within the Biotechnology program wasoffered as an option course for the Entrepreneurial program for the first time in fall 2006.Biotechnology Lab for Entrepreneurs (IT226E) provided hands-on experience with thelatest biotechnology equipment at ---- Bioscience Center. The course also incorporatedguest speakers from biotechnology industries and academia that shared their experiencewith the students. For students interested in entrepreneurship, the biotechnology courseprovided the experiences that enabled the students to • understand the current trends and emerging technology within

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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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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

factors that have influenced the business-centricity ofentrepreneurship education on most American campuses. In addition to the overlap ofcurriculum between standard business education and entrepreneurship education, the businessschool also offers the path of least resistance from an evaluation perspective. Business schoolsdo not have large research expenditures and investments in laboratories and equipment. Theyalso don’t have large research expenditure requirements for faculty. Despite the ostensiblebusiness school focus on commercial success, most faculty have no interest in nor are theyrequired to “pay their way”. They don’t have to be concerned with the commercial or grantwinning potential of their research or of their intellectual activity

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Utilizing On-Line Technology in Entrepreneurship Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

established the Mobile Integrated Solutions Laboratory (MISL)in 2002 to enhance the senior project design experience for the undergraduate students. Thesingle semester, “works once” project model typically employed in academia was expanded to atwo-semester sequence for project planning1 and project execution.2, 3 This resulted in three keybenefits to the curriculum. First, because the students were given an additional semester tocomplete their project, the faculty noticed a significant increase in the quantity and quality of Page 12.631.2effort by the students. Second, this increase in quality has resulted in more interest in the designand innovation

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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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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

development financing through programssuch as SBIR – federal grant funding is greatly enhanced when incubator clients submit a jointproposal with a university or federal laboratory (6) Additional services and resources includingpatent knowledge, alumni who may act as advisors, business contacts and strategic alliancefacilitators or investors, access to a far-flung network of laboratories and technical expertise, andaccess to investment by university foundations.All the above mentioned research findings and other issues and environmental factors wereconsidered when designing the engineering entrepreneurship programs at Florida Tech.Additionally, leading entrepreneurship programs in the country were benchmarked and the bestpractices were adopted.25, 26

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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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officers in the Whiting School of Engineering, BloombergSchool of Public Health, as well as university laboratories and outside federal laboratories.Several students were hired full-time upon graduation by a technology commercializationassessment firm. They prepared studies, prepared business plans, found investors, andnegotiated deals, and recruited several other students as interns. Both the technology transferofficers and this firm have expressed interest in sub-contracting technology assessments to anHSE business. To further explore the possibility, we arranged summer internships for thestudents with the School of Engineering and a university laboratory, who were very happy withtheir contributions. In fall 2006, with a pledge from the Whiting

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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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presentation on career opportunities afforded by a degree in the specialty, followedby brief instruction on the principles in the field that will be demonstrated in later activities.Following the brief introduction and instruction, the students complete a number of hands-ondemonstrations, laboratory experiments, or competitions. (B, C, G) Page 12.824.3Networking opportunities – Throughout the week, students are given numerous opportunities tonetwork with university faculty, staff, and students as well as prominent community leaders,established business owners, budding entrepreneurs, and career engineers. They are introduced tothe importance of

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Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Nunnally, University of Missouri - Columbia; James Thompson, University of Missouri; Steve Wyatt, University of Missouri - Columbia

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2007-443: ENTREPRENEURSHIP, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND THEENGINEERING FACULTY MEMBERWilliam Nunnally, University of Missouri - Columbia William Charles Nunnally W. C. Nunnally received the B.S degree, the M.S. degree and the PH.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas in 1969, 1971, and 1974 respectively. After serving in the US Army, he joined the magnetic fusion engineering group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1974. Dr. Nunnally's eleven year tenure at Los Alamos included assignments in the laser fusion group, the laser isotope separation group, the plasma physics group, the proton storage ring -accelerator group, and

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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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://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/; Purdue University EPICS Program.5 http://ipro.iit.edu/home/main.php; Illinois Institute of Technology Interprofessional Projects Program (IPRO).6 http://www.news.uiuc.edu/ii/06/0316/englab.html; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign InterdisciplinaryDesign Program and Engineering Student Projects Laboratory.7 http://www.engin.umich.edu/class/me450/requirements.shtml; University of Michigan Mechanical EngineeringCapstone Design and Manufacturing ME 450.8 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/mdl/becomesponsor_project_form.cfm; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute O.T. SwansonMultidisciplinary Design Laboratory.9 http://www.eng.rpi.edu/mdl/images/pdf/IntlEngProdConf_Paper_Sept04.pdf; Steiner, M. Using Real-WorldMultidisciplinary Design Experiences

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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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Innovation Laboratory where students involved inindustry sponsored projects and entrepreneurial projects will develop and prototype theirinventions.Program Evaluation PlanTo assess the success of the proposed project, the team has devised a comprehensiveassessment and program evaluation plan that includes periodic collection of quantitativeand qualitative data. The evaluation plan consists of two primary components; 1) overallevaluation of the program and individual program components by various constituents(students, faculty, alumni, and industry), and 2) assessment of student learning andgraduate capability to perform published program learning outcomes.Program EvaluationThe proposed program has five goals for enacting our vision for

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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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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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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Press, Geneva, 2005).4. Sandia National Laboratories, Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap (National Technical Information Service, Virginia, 2003). Page 12.769.125. Semiat, Raphael, “Desalination: Present and Future”, Water International 25, 54 (2000).Appendix A: Prior Art The following is a summary of the main prior art for our invention. It should be notedthat none of the previous inventors have addressed the problems of low pressure desalination inthe same way, or as successfully, as we have. For this reason, patents on our invention have beenapplied for and we expect they will be issued soon.1. Solar Heated

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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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curriculum.The two engineering entrepreneurship sections each met for 15 hours during thesemester, and extra time was provided for meetings with success coaches and peermentors. The six main areas covered in the sections are detailed below: • Academic Success- study skills, time management, finding help for classroom material, test-taking skills, and college survival skills. • Professional Success – career planning and effective presentations. • Engineering Information – career and advisement information and research presentations/laboratory tours. • Engineering Design and Problem Solving – creativity, effective teams, brainstorming, process design, and product design. • Societal Issues of Engineers – ethics

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

through with meaningful execution, namely a set of initial relationships andsome form of initial financing and (c) has recruited and hired at least the beginning of a well-balanced management team capable of delivering the vision.Ultimately, VA’s objective is the formation and acceleration of scalable companies based onresearch and discoveries conducted by faculty and students. At all stages, therefore, VAprovides hands-on consultation and mentorship, guiding the development of new companiesfrom the laboratory to the “Series A” financing, or equivalent level of company development.The program is designed to proceed through all of the steps in the above process in 12 to 18months.4. Case StudiesSince its official launch in early 2005, VA has