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Entrepreneurship Tuesday Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Marc Lockard, Lockard and White, Inc

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AC 2007-1971: THE ETHICS, LEADERSHIP AND ENTREPRENEURSHIPSEMINAR: HELPING STUDENTS TO BECOME LEADERSJoseph Morgan, Texas A&M University JOSEPH MORGAN joined the Department of Engineering Technology at Texas A&M University in 1989 and is currently the Associate Department Head. His current areas of interest included radar systems, data acquisition, and control systems. He received the MS degree in industrial engineering, and the D.E. in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University.Jay Porter, Texas A&M University JAY PORTER joined the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University in 1998 and is currently the Program Coordinator for

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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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campus.Goal 5: To partner with academic, professional, and governmental organizations tosecure long term viability of the program.The key strategies for sustaining the program are curricular integration ofentrepreneurship, institutional budgeted support, endowed faculty, a broad and expandedstudent base through cross listed courses, multidiscipline capstone experiences, fundedstudent and faculty activities, and an established passionate community of entrepreneursand university constituents.Program Student Learning OutcomesThe student learning outcomes are the measurable skills for students involved in theprogram. Those skills are communication, teamwork, leadership, ethics and ethicaldecision-making, opportunity recognition, persistence, creativity

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Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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W. Andrew Clark, East Tennessee State University; Peter Hriso, East Tennessee State University; Craig A. Turner, East Tennessee State University

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interests while publicly owned firms will tend to give tosocial entities that act as a clearinghouse for many social entities. The service learning in SIFE is designed to incorporate the students’ educational trainingwith a passion for their community and complementing these with proper facultyoversight and resources. One excellent example of this is the Monster’s Inc. project thatis designed to provide a forum for discussion of corporate ethics at various levels ofprimary and secondary education. This particular project exemplifies the characteristicsof a sound service learning environment as recommended by Giles & Eyler3.The initial stage of the project requires the students (team of three) to meet with the hostteacher (K-12th grade) 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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Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Paul Rossler, Oklahoma State University; Martin High, Oklahoma State University

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enrolled as college freshman—as well as other freshman engineering students.Engineering and business faculty members, along with a focus group of entrepreneurs,were involved in the course’s development. At the beginning of the course, the designcycle for product and process innovation, as well as problem definition, was described.A number of outside business speakers provided insight into the world ofentrepreneurship, including teamwork, intellectual property, business and marketingplans, international and social entrepreneurship, and ethics. The students engaged incritical thinking exercises and worked on projects to develop marketing and businessplans for projects based on inventions. Examples of course curriculum, and retention andrecruitment

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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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the project work. Examples of class activities included developing ascoring model to evaluate alternative solutions related to the entrepreneurial project, analyzingthe market potential of the chosen product or service identified by the team and preliminaryfinancial analysis.The third phase of the course incorporated guest speakers regarding funding opportunities suchas debt financing, equity financing including angel investors, and intellectual property. Thisphase also included discussions on ethics, building teams and teamwork, change management,elevator pitches and presentation techniques. The elevator pitch class period consisted of eachteam developing an elevator pitch, selecting one team member to present the pitch, and receivingpeer

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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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performance of managers or employees.• Illegal conduct.• Violations of university policy by student managers or employees.• Alienation of students whose new business proposals were not approved.• Alienation of customers and the campus community due to poor service or products.Since these risks will never go away, they must instead be managed. Strategies for mitigatingthe major risks include:• Building support in different administrative offices throughout the University. • Establishing clear policies governing conduct. • Hiring capable and ethical students. • Dealing with disciplinary problems immediately. • Establishing procedures for removing managers who violate policies. • Removing temptation by minimizing use of cash. • Closely supervising

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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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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

noted for each assessment exercise. Page 12.679.7Table 3: Summary of Assessment Exercises by Outcome and Recommended UsageExercise (Area) ABET Outcomes Recommended UsagePersonal Growth (PC) o 3g Communication (written) o Formative: midway in project o 3i Lifelong learning o Summative: end of projectProfessional Practices o 3f Professional & ethical o Formative: midway in project(PC) o 3g Communication (written) o Summative: end of projectTeam Member o 3d Teamwork o Formative: (2x) early in projectCitizenship (TP

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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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Russell Dinardi, Lafayette College; Sharon Jones, Lafayette College

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at the college studyliberal arts in addition to the technical courses required. The expectation is thatLafayette’s engineers have a better sense of the social, political, ethical, economic,and environmental consequences of technology. Due to the strict requirements ofABET accreditation, the intended values of a liberal arts education are not alwaysinstilled in the courses within the engineering curriculum. Extending its education Page 12.843.3beyond coursework, the college prides itself as a national leader in self-directedintensive research with faculty monitoring. Upon graduation, Lafayette’sengineering students occupy leadership positions in many of

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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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effectiveness 61 butrarely discusses the impact of character on survival. A characterological shift in the 21stCentury leader has often been reduced to detailed discussions about ethics and morality. Whileprevious work sets the stage for the difficult to define and even more difficult to measure conceptof character, the author proposes that the leader of today, like the 21st Century college student isa different individual from the leader of the past62. The current work extends on previous workconcerning a character shift in society and proposes that unique character type has an impact onthe emerging survival for the entrepreneurial leader. Therefore

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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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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

mechanicalengineering majors, and junior entrepreneurship majors. The students were all chosen by thefaculty based on their high competence in their respective major, creative spark, work ethic, andthe ability to work in teams. Thus, the students were uniformly good to excellent.We used these criteria for selecting students for several reasons. Firstly, we did not want tospend time on material that was domain specific (there was an exception to this, as noted later),and we wanted students who could complete reasonable tasks in their discipline. Secondly, wewanted to concentrate on design in the context of product development to encourage creative,entrepreneurial thinking. This is possible only when students have acquired reasonablecompetence in their field of

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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

realized that while the programs did an excellent job preparingstudents technically, they were not receiving either adequate business/marketing/entrepreneurialeducation or support. This is now being address through several mechanisms. First, a seminarseries has been created to expose students to the real-life experiences of regional entrepreneurs.30The Ethics, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship Seminar is mandatory for all senior students intheir first semester of the capstone design sequence. Student teams are tasked with identifyingand inviting a regional entrepreneur to deliver a seminar session, working with the guest todevelop a topic/focus for their session, coordinating the actual seminar, and then taking theirguest to dinner to develop a

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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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Industrial Areas Development Board. The aim ofthis park is to create a “one stop solution” for the high-tech needs of knowledge-based MNCs inIndia. The park already accommodates major industrial conglomerates in IT-related services liketelecommunications, R&D, financial services, biotechnology, and electronics. Such public-private co-operative initiatives have resulted in the explosion of high tech firms in Bangalorefrom 29 in 1992 to over 800 in 2000 with exports exceeding $1 Billion. The Indian ethic ofdedicated hard work is a societal asset that the managers of large MNCs value greatly. TheBangalore success story can be attributed to the combined support of government leadership ineducation and industry, and an actively involved world wide

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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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problems facing the United States at this time is the threatof terrorist attacks, both on the homeland and on foreign soil. This case provides a scenario forstudents to develop Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) to help protect the security ofthe homeland.Case 10 – Fashion, Fashion Everywhere and Nothing To Wear (Fashion, Design andInternational Development Case) – This case is designed to investigate the impact of fashion Page 12.1010.5on creativity, ethics, culture and international development. It is currently being tested in a publicrelations course at Western Kentucky University.Case 11 – Night of Celebration (Wealth Distribution Case

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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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negotiation; she lectures on ethics, leadership, marketing and other business topics. She is a frequent presenter at conferences and has co-authored several papers on entrepreneurship education. Karen has earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Florida State University, ARCM from the Royal College of Music, London, and an MBA from the University of Maryland. She taught at Jacksonville University (FL), and Towson University for a total of fifteen years before coming to the University of Maryland. Her international experience includes a Fulbright Fellowship to London where she studied and performed for nearly three years as well as an appointment as artist in