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Entrepreneurship Education: Innovation, International Cooperation, and Social Entrepreneurship

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Gregory Leman, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

BaylorUniversity addresses this gap in part by seeking project sponsors for the on-campusoffering of Technology Entrepreneurship capstone course whose ventures are in fact“born global.” Examples include two assessments completed in Spring 2008 for ExousiaCorporation from Houston with partnerships and operations in several China cities, andone performed in Fall 2007 for a US owned company located in Suzhou, China. But theexperience of performing a project with Chinese teammates while living in China for sixweeks as a participant in the i5 Program is, of course, a much more immersive andimpacting experience in global technology entrepreneurship.The final presentations being delivered to a team of executives from the sponsoringcompany composed of not only

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Johnson, Valparaiso University; Mark Budnik, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

with relativelysimple experiences in the first semester and leading up to a significant entrepreneurialcomponent as part of the capstone design project. In between those extremes, students will learnmore about entrepreneurship and complete entrepreneurial design projects in a sophomore-levelcourse on Advanced Digital Logic Design and in a junior-level course in EmbeddedMicrocontrollers. These two courses were chosen because of their heavy design content andtheir emphasis on a final design project. By trimming less than 10% of the material in these twocourses, we were able to add a few lessons on entrepreneurship that then allowed students toselect and complete an entrepreneurial design project in each of the courses.Illustrating the importance

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Cases and Models

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jane Laux, Arizona State University; Anshuman Razdan, Arizona State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

century and beyond. From a university’s perspective the fundamental set of issues are: 1. Promote university-industry collaboration between its faculty (and students) and industry with projects funded by industry. 2. Do so in an environment of academic freedom, i.e. with as few constraints as possible on publishing, IP rights, technology transfer, etc. 3. Fit collaborations in the academic setting such as the calendar when faculty and students are available to work on projects or Capstone type projects which might be one or more semesters long. 4. The bottom line is that the projects must contribute to the educational mission of the university, rather than be seen as the university just

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Entrepreneurship Town Hall Meeting: Supporting University Priorities

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Martin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

weeks)10 IDEO vs stage-gate Batill19 Capstone course (several weeks)11 Innovative thinking Raviv20 Several exercises and projects (hours to weeks)1. Candy Airplane ExerciseThe authors behind the Candy Airplane Exercise discuss the conflict between traditional studentviews on engineering as very mathematical and rigorous with the proposed view of engineeringas a creative field of study. They argue that the amount of creativity necessary to solve industrialproblems is highly underestimated21. Referencing Higly and Marianno22 the

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Entrepreneurship Education: Innovation, International Cooperation, and Social Entrepreneurship

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nassif Rayess, University of Detroit, Mercy; Darrell Kleinke, University of Detroit, Mercy

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the near future. Theentrepreneurship program at the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) involves aninterdisciplinary design course12 that will serve as the model. The students could be engagedeither in the senior capstone course or in the context of co- and extracurricular activities.Examples of both are presented later in this article. The students are generally very interested inthis kind of experience, and even in a small university like UDM, the ability to carry on thesetypes of projects is not limited by the availability or willingness of students.The client is a person with a special need, generally a form of disability. One of the principalconstituencies is that of parents with disabilities. For these people, the joy of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Innovation, International Cooperation, and Social Entrepreneurship

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Jordan, Baylor University; Ryan McGhee, Baylor University; Brian Thomas, Baylor University; Elizabeth Lemus, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

annual conference dealing with engineering service learning. William Oakes andMarybeth Lima have written an excellent book on engineering service learning17 that is based inpart on what they have learned through the EPICS program.Several papers were presented at the 2007 EPICS national conference that attempt to alleviatesome faculty concerns about the real engineering content of engineering service learning courses.Hefzy from the University of Toledo18 and Zoltowski from Purdue19 made presentations abouthow to do service learning based capstone design courses. Budny and Lund20 from theUniversity of Pittsburgh have written about how to use engineering service projects in first yearengineering courses.Most of the engineering service learning

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Experiential Learning and Economic Development I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Olsen, Washington State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

in a number of exercises designed to help themvet the ideas they have developed and to form teams around the ideas deemed most likely toresult in successful companies. Academic Year ProgramDuring the following academic year, students participate in a year long course taught jointly byfaculty from the Colleges of Business and Engineering. Students work on interdisciplinary teamsto prepare both prototypes and business plans for their own entrepreneurial ideas. At the end ofthe year each team participates in the Business Plan Competition sponsored by the College ofBusiness and judged by external referees. The first course, “Capstone Projects in Innovation andEntrepreneurship” (Entr 496) is a three credit, one

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sridhar Condoor, Saint Louis University; Mark McQuilling, Saint Louis University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

technical competence, customerawareness, business acumen, and social values. In addition, engineering students exposed toentrepreneurship early in their education have shown higher retention rates3-6, higher GPAs6, andimproved soft professional skills, which are components of engineering entrepreneurship, evenwhile their understanding of engineering as a technical field does not change3,7. A recent study8revealed how engineering juniors and seniors believe they should receive education aboutbusiness and entrepreneurship throughout their college careers, even though their major is in atechnical field. Traditionally, the capstone senior design projects in undergraduate engineeringprograms come close to exposing the students to the business aspects

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Entrepreneurship Education: Experiential Learning and Economic Development I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claude D'Amours, University of Ottawa; Claude Laguë, University of Ottawa; Frank Mellor, University of Ottawa

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

). Page 14.580.2As it has been the case in the United States of America (re. Standish-Kuon and Rice 2002; Ochset al. 2001), Canadian engineering schools have responded to this call for action coming from theprofession that they serve in a variety of ways that include academic and/or extra-curricularcomponents: ≠ The Xerox Centre for Engineering Entrepreneurship & Innovation at McMaster University offers a Master of Engineering Entrepreneurship & Innovation degree (McMaster University 2009). That program allows students to develop their own start-up project at the same time that they complete the academic requirements associated to this degree. In 2007, two technology projects from the Xerox Centre were selected

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Melissa Grunow, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

motivation for being a leader.Again, comparison yields a shift in perception. Upon completion of the course, the studentscompleted a course evaluation survey to aid the course developer in determining if the course ismeeting the university’s leadership education goals. In addition, the students completed a peerassessment of leadership skills and characteristics near the beginning and at the conclusion of thecourse. The peer assessment yields some shifts in leadership development. Finally, as a finalassessment at the conclusion of the final team course project, the students completed a peerperformance evaluation, and the results are reported.1. IntroductionEntrepreneurshipLawrence Technological University (LTU) has offered students entrepreneurial

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Borchers, Kettering University; Sung Hee Park, Kettering University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

these events show significant interest in topics including engineeringand scientific innovation and projects in the developing world and environmental sustainability. Page 14.1289.2 This article explores entrepreneurship in the context of Kettering University, a small,private engineering focused university in Flint, MI. A large corporation originally owned theinstitution before it became private in 1982. The institution employs a co-operative model ofengineering education with students completing alternate terms of work and study. Currently,the university works with over 600 co-operative employers that employ its students. During thistime