Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Design Sequence Weeks Project Topic Entrepreneurial Topic 0 Project Proposals Brainstorming 1 Team Definitions Customer Needs 2-4 Specifications Project Management 5 Design Constraints Ethics 6 Alternate Solution Analysis Patents 7-8 Design Proposal Business Plans 9 - 12 Critical Design Business Practices 13 - 26 Project Implementation Professionalism 27 - 28 Project Evaluation Starting Your Own Business 29 Project

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Crossdisciplinary Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Mutter, Bluefield State College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

steel bridge design. Winning and placing second inconference competitions qualified two of BSC teams to compete in national ASCE competitionsin Denver, CO and San Diego, CA in recent years.Competitions described above enhance the Institutional Mission by recognizing that the missionof the college is to provide students an affordable, geographically and electronically accessibleopportunity for public higher education. The School demonstrates its commitment to thisundergraduate education mission by providing an experienced, dedicated faculty and staffdelivering quality Engineering Technology programs. The SET programs are designed andoperated to promote BSC students’ intellectual, personal, ethical, and cultural development.The School and its

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Leadership Skills and Incorporation of a New Leadership CourseAbstractAs one part of a larger required leadership curriculum, a new course covering leadership modelsand practices was developed and administered. The course addresses many of the aspects of theentrepreneurial mindset including communication, teamwork, leadership, ethics and ethicaldecision-making, opportunity recognition, persistence, creativity, innovation, creative problemsolving, and critical thinking. Through in-class activities and games, as well as assignedcollaborative work, the course explores the various theories on leadership including relational,shared, global, and organizational models. Along with these models, integrity, character,diversity

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

effects ofglobal warming and fostered the understanding that every society must look beyond short-termeconomic considerations to work toward energy models that will shrink its carbon foot print. AlGore’s recent documentary An Inconvenient Truth and UN reports on global warming havemoved the debate from the simple question “Is global warming real?” to the proactive question,“What can we do to reduce our (human) impact on the environment?” Page 14.716.5The team concluded that the stage is therefore set at a societal level for the acceptance ofinnovative solutions that will combine efficiency with environmental ethics. Experts agree thatno one

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Innovation, International Cooperation, and Social Entrepreneurship

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

sake of completeness, these two educational outcomes arean understanding of professional and ethical responsibility and the broad education necessary tounderstand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, andsocietal context.Service learning is a beneficial educational practice in all fields of study, in particular when it isa part of a professional education program (law, health professions, etc…). The preponderanceof free law and health clinics3,4 that are staffed primarily by students are very telling examples.In their creation, they draw on the paradigm that if one needs to practice his/her profession in thecourse of professional training, that practice should yield economic and societal benefits,especially

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Experiential Learning and Economic Development I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Olsen, Washington State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

projects selected by students and started a longdiscussion about what constitutes an acceptable project for entrepreneurship students. They alsosuggested that an activity with a corporate attorney in the Silicon Valley program be included(and they provided one for the students to interview). Finally, and perhaps somewhatsurprisingly, Advisory Board members stressed the need for a discussion of ethics and pointedout how leadership can easily be compromised if company leaders do not treat their employeeswith respect or are less than forthcoming with data about company performance.An alumni group of Frank Fellows has been formed and a program has begun to solicitsuggestions from these people because they have been able to reexamine the Frank

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Experiential Learning and Economic Development II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Moshe Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Timothy VanEpps, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

with non engineering disciplines. ≠ Personal skills, such as persistence, curiosity, risk taking, reading and comprehension, humor, Page 14.1141.5 teamwork, communication, the cultivation of a positive can-do attitude, as well as life-long, lateral learning and artistic abilities. ≠ Social skills, such as economic, political, cultural, ethical, and environmental awareness. 4 Figure 2 shows the ten Module types currently represented in the program prototype that will be designed to stimulate innovative thinking. They will provide the basis for the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Innovation, International Cooperation, and Social Entrepreneurship

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2009-1680: CREATING A SUSTAINABLE-ENERGY BUSINESS IN RURALHONDURASWilliam Jordan, Baylor University WILLIAM JORDAN is the Mechanical Engineering Department Chair at Baylor University. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, an M.A. degree in Theology from Denver Seminary, and a Ph.D. in mechanics and materials from Texas A & M University. He teaches materials related courses and does research concerning appropriate technology in developing countries. He also writes and does research in the areas of engineering ethics and engineering education.Ryan McGhee, Baylor University Ryan McGhee graduated from Baylor University in