analyze a design, construction, and testing. We put considerable effortbusiness problem or opportunity and consider current and into up-front planning, and the various life cycle phases arefuture states to determine an optimal solution that will provide typically not revisited when complete. For example, if productvalue and address the business need; the results from this design is completed and product construction begins, it is notpreliminary analysis will provide decision-makers with desirable to review the design phase again. At the otherrelevant information to determine whether an investment in extreme is the adaptive development approach. It
experiences (CURE) into the curriculum. After theworkshop, participants join a year-long coaching process with a faculty mentor to develop and executetheir projects with students.In this paper, we report on the key elements of the workshop design and insights from past participantsacross multiple years. We surveyed all past participants of the workshops, and respondents indicated thatthey had received several benefits from the workshop experience including better planning andorganization of research experiences for undergraduates. Faculty reported significant benefits to thestudents such as more attending graduate school but also to their own research practices includingbuilding a capacity for more readily identifying the value of their work.We hope
participating in the workshops. We initially distributed our post-experience survey to a baseline cohort of students who participated in UGR but did not completethe EM-focused workshops. To improve workshop content and better understand studentmotivations, we will collect the corresponding data from workshop participants in the future.This paper describes our project goals, planned workshop content, and baseline survey resultsavailable on undergraduate student attitudes and motivations related to participating in research.Eventually, by piloting workshops and collecting data collaboratively across five institutions thatvary in size and culture, this project will deliver a flexible set of training modules and a menu ofintervention options that other
curiosity 12. Ability to assess financial value 13. Data driven decision making 14. Career plan There is no single definition of an entrepreneurial mindset (EM) but there is commonalityin the attributes and skills associated with an EM by various sources. Among the mostemphasized elements are creativity, curiosity, critical thinking, flexibility, adaptability,communication, collaboration, comfort with risk, resilience, initiative, future focus, opportunityrecognition, innovation, reflection, independence, and value focus [20-24]. The factors identifiedby the survey questions used in our study align with these elements. As explained earlier, a two-sample t-test was selected for analysis
- Incubating Student Startups in GhanaAbstractThis paper describes the Palm GreenLab and its first GreenLab Startup Weekend to encourageand support entrepreneurial student teams. Palm Institute is a 10-year-old liberal artsuniversity-college in Ghana, whose mission is to educate ethical and excellent leaders in Africa.The Palm GreenLab is an innovation and incubation lab that seeks to “unearth and supporttalents that solve wicked problems with creative ideas, and to nurture and scale the growth ofambitious entrepreneurial projects”. The GreenLab plans to provide an array of offerings andsupport for student entrepreneurship. In Fall 2022, the GreenLab ran its first Startup Weekend -a two day intensive experience in which students pitched and evaluated
students the opportunityto practice communication and team working skills. ABET requires soft (professional) skillssuch as “an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership,create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meetobjectives” [criteria 3 (5)] and “an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences”[criteria 3 (3)], to be assessed once during the curriculum [5]. However, engineering graduatesfrequently face the challenge of acquiring or perfecting these skills in their first year ofemployment. Consequently, to prepare students to compete in a highly competitive job market,engineering programs must incorporate critical thinking and soft-skills training
Associate Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department. Collage of Engineering, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.Asma M. AlTurki, University of Tabuk ASMA M. ALTURKI, A chemist with knowledge in the preparation and study of nanomaterials with experience in scientific research, training and the use of many technologies. She works in a team spirit, she has a PhD and Master’s degree in physical chemistry. She strives to achieve the goals of the enterprise, with experience in developing and implementing a quality assurance system and continuous improvement in addition to strategic planning skills to achieve the strategic goals of the enterprise through effective participation with stakeholders. Now, She an
underrepresented high school students. Amanda plans to pursue a higher education teaching career and research strategies to promote active learning and improve self-efficacy amongst engineering students.Dr. Ishita Tandon, University of Arkansas Ishita Tandon is an SEC Emerging Scholars Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Her research involves developing multiscale in vitro and in vivo models of heart valves aimed at studying the early detection and monitoring of calcific aortic valve disease. She has received the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship and the University of Arkansas Doctoral Academy Fellowship along with multiple other honors and travel grants. She has
first of three primary assessments is a team project, segmented intoa project proposal, final team pitch, and final team report. Prior to beginning work on thisproject, students are given opportunities to work with a variety of peers during class activitiesand then given structured time during class to form a team of two or three total members. Thisproject provides students a framework for exploring problem spaces of which they share mutualcuriosity, developing multiple ideas to address this problem, discuss their ideas with experts,develop and deliver an inspiring pitch, and write a brief implementation plan and complete abusiness model outline.The second assessment is an active learning, peer teaching activity [7]. Students prepare a 15
modules, and make faculty-led trainingactivities more scalable and transferable. For this portion of the project, the plan is to develop aseries of self-contained EM training workshops (~1 hour each) for students. These workshopswill be designed for flexible deployment at various universities within their existingundergraduate research programs (e.g., summer research fellowship programs, honors thesiscourses, undergraduate research opportunity programs). In contrast to the activities developed forearly awareness and exposure, these workshops would focus on having students apply EMconcepts directly to their own research projects. Proposed workshop topics (among others)include framing research questions with EM, resilience and thriving in a
time management. I used to be very bad at procrastinating and would always wait to the last minute to complete my homework, which created a lot of unnecessary anxiety. By starting this project with the right mindset, I was able to plan out little pieces of the project to complete each day until it was finished.” ii. “Another skill gained is time management. While it still could be improved, this project did force me to start early and keep at it. I did not have the choice to do it in a day and am glad I didn’t.” iii. “Through solving the different iterations and working with the constraints I got better at being able to see how the mechanism
general understanding of how these individualsbehave and act.Individual innovative behavior is characterized as all actions performed by an individual that areaimed at generating, developing and or implementing beneficial novelty as part of the innovationprocess ([4], [7], [35]). For example, [36] identified ten discovery and delivery skills (which wewill also interpret as being behaviors) key to being innovative, namely: Analyzing, AssociationalThinking, Challenging the Status Quo, Experimenting, Networking, Observing, Planning,Questioning, Self-disciplined Executing, and Taking Risks. More recently [37] conducted aDelphi Study to identify 20 Innovator Characteristics, 11 of which mapped directly to Dyer’sdiscovery and delivery skills [36
make plans, I am certain I can make them work.If I can’t do a job the first time, I keep trying until I can.When I have something unpleasant to do, I stick to it until I finish it.When I decide to do something, I go right to work on it.Failure just makes me try harder.When I set important goals for myself, I rarely achieve them.I do not seem to be capable of dealing with most problems that come up in my life.When unexpected problems occur, I don’t handle them very well.I feel insecure about my ability to do things. Table 4: Need for Achievement (nAch) PromptsI get my biggest thrills when my work is among the best there is.I never put important matters off until a more convenient time.I believe it is important to analyze
entrepreneurial skills, and to collaborate with other students.However, the authors also identified several challenges that students faced, such as difficulties indefining the problem, lack of resources, and insufficient communication and coordination withinthe project teams. Entrepreneurship-based projects in manufacturing courses can increasestudents' engagement and motivation. The study found that students who participated in suchprojects were more likely to continue their studies and pursue a career in manufacturingcompared to those who didn’t. In a study by Cudney and Elberfeld (2014) the authors describe acase study conducted at a US university, where manufacturing students were tasked withdeveloping a product and business plan for an
and leading the internationalization of SIT and its partner universities throughout the Southeast Asian region. Under his initiatives, various short-term mobility programs and student exchanges have been started. He is also Chair of the Mobility Special Interest Group of Asia Technological University Net- work (ATU-Net) and initiated a COIL program called Virtual Asia Exploration (VAx) by orchestrating the collaboration of six Asian universities. He is also an entrepreneur through his consulting company established in 2004, and has been rendering management consultation services to both small-medium size companies and multi-national enterprises such as global strategy planning, cross-border business entry, middle
, especially, the importance of communication and planning with my peers. The collaborationand participation among my group had to be structured, planned, and dynamic when we researched aboutbio-inspired professional reports. I learned the importance of proactive planning ahead of deadlines andconsistently communicating what my progress was on my research.”“Another skilled learned was teamwork. Teamwork in the project was needed to collaborate all of onesideas to make the best possible outcome. Overall this class taught us all the skills needed to perform bestas an engineer in the field.”“It helped me engage in critical thinking and learn more about how to effectively write summaries afterreading various articles. My approach to problems have changed
intrapreneurial skills and activities within the context of Engineering, andthe Engineering discipline is still very much a focus. While TEKS standards and ABETstandards do not really conflict, they are different. Thus, it has become important to develop ashared language and understanding around what each program must accomplish. This has beenthe backbone of the collaborative activities that are planned for the future. Additionally, the university and the high school have begun to collaborate on project-based learning ideas. Here, too, there have been some tensions around how to create projects thatwould allow students to develop intrapreneurial competencies while also gaining and leveragingEngineering-specific knowledge while completing the
togetherprovide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks,and meet objectives (3) ABET Outcome 7: an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge asneeded, using appropriate learning strategies.ABET Outcome 1 - an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineeringproblems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematicsStudent #1 - "Inspired design features and processes has always intrigued my mind tounderstand and also motivated my thinking on how nature can be used to design a well-suitedobject or building for a specific area or item that is needed such as prosthetics"Student #2 - "After the planning process I needed to do my research and see what materials anddesign would be most
, and welfare, aswell as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors, (#3) an ability tocommunicate effectively with a range of audiences, and (#5) an ability to function effectively ona team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusiveenvironment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives [7].Having standard qualifications for engineering programs is a wonderful concept, however,ABET requires programs to meet the learning outcomes only once throughout the bachelor’sdegree program. This is a major gap as many programs will stick to the bare minimum asresources continue to be limited for engineering programs.The experiential learning approach is a pedagogical method to create value in
time, including (1) how basic academic and careerinterests develop; (2) how educational and career choices are made; and (3) how academic andcareer success is achieved. This involves self-efficacy beliefs (Bandura 1986) - people’s beliefsabout their own capabilities and plans to attain personal goals; outcome expectations - the degreeto which they perceive positive or negative outcomes of certain behaviors; and goals - how muchand how well a person wants to do something. SCCT examines links between individuals andtheir career-related contexts to account for the entire environment in which they make career-related decisions. It posits that individuals are products of their surroundings, and thesesurroundings are the result of individuals
identifying areas ofimprovement within a given system and suggesting opportunities for innovation. Thepromise of many programs is to use ST to evaluate existing knowledge and resourcesrelevant to a particular health systems issue, plan and execute an innovative solution toaddress the issue at hand, evaluate the outcomes of the implementation, and present thesolution to key stakeholders in the host organization engaged in personal self-evaluationand critical reflection [30]. More importantly, the programs promise to deliver“applications of ethical theory to health reform, systems approach to health programmingplanning and evaluation, international comparison of health systems, and an in-depthinvestigation of health sector subsystems or building blocks
entrepreneurship education has developed beyond creating a businesstowards building entrepreneurial skills and business planning [5]. Therefore, there is a need toreview fields closely tied to entrepreneurship, such as leadership and innovation as well.Furthermore, a more holistic review is needed to examine various aspects of entrepreneurshipeducation beyond the delivery of courses, but with the inclusion of teaching methods,extracurricular activities, and curriculum design.More work is being done in the field of entrepreneurship in Canada, with the development ofcourses that focus on specific aspects of entrepreneurship beyond technical skills.Entrepreneurship education also now focuses on equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). Forexample, as part of
-12 engineering education and offers more than 1,800 lessons and hands-on activities contributed by 57 contributors (including 40 National Science Foundation (NSF) funded GK-12 and Research Experience for Teachers (RET) engineering education grants) and with over 3.5 million users annually (TeachEngineering, 2023). The students had the opportunity to pursue classroom testing of their designed activities and lesson-plan publication with TeachEngineering after the intervention (after the post-survey) unless they notified the course instructor to object to this pursuit. 6. Presenting their design to the class by utilizing PowerPoint slides with or without a physical model and voting for the top three
ventures where the entrepreneur takes on risk, comes up with abusiness plan, and attempts to meet a gap in an industry. Start-ups tend to be created with theplan for them to grow very quickly, solve a problem with an innovative solution, and meet theneeds of a wide market [5]. The initial group of people that create a start-up are called a productteam. A product team at a start-up, made up of around three to fifteen people, tends to be madeup of at least a product manager, a product designer, and a few engineers [5]. This group isneeded to begin a start-up, figure out the design of the product, build the product, test theproduct, improve the product, and work to understand if the product is meeting customer needs.Jing [5] points out that, though
their academic careers.Students who engage with this content in the classroom will be surveyed to assess theeffectiveness of the modules. There is a plan to conduct student surveys at the end of each courseand one-year post exposure to evaluate both the immediate and long-term impact of thematerials. The project team hypothesizes that students who engage early with the videos andpaired curriculum will be more likely to participate in research and remain engaged for longer.Preliminary survey results support this hypothesis, showing students self-report learning gainsand an increased interest in research and research-related careers.This project is part of a Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) initiative to infuseEM into UGR
super great to see and rewarding of all the hard work that went into it. This was mainly evident in the Mars Project, but was also great to work with in the assignments leading up to that which refined those skills even more.” “The most fun I had during the semester in FSE 100 was my experience with the 3D printer and laser cutter! While I was never able to use the laser cutter, learning how to use the Inkscape software was really fun and informative, and I already plan on using what I learned in the near future when I cut the fins for my project rocket for my club! This was also the first time I was able to use a 3D printer, and I still have the object I made for the assignment as I loved it so much
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