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Post BS Entrepreneurship Education Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Barbe, University of Maryland; James Green, University of Maryland; Dean Chang, University of Maryland

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AC 2010-44: 25 YEARS OF TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIPDavid Barbe, University of Maryland Dr. Barbe received B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University in 1962 and 1964, respectively and the Ph.D. degree from The Johns Hopkins University in Electrical Engineering in 1969. After positions at Westinghouse and the Naval Research Laboratory, and the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, he joined the University of Maryland in 1985 as Executive Director of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Barbe was awarded the rank of Fellow of the IEEE in 1978 for his pioneering work on charge coupled

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Entrepreneurship and Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Hornfeck, Lafayette College

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Students as Consultants: A Project Course Combining Entrepreneurship and Green Technology AbstractThis paper describes an independent study course at an undergraduate college thatimmerses an interdisciplinary team of six students in a consulting role. Two professorsguide the direction taken by the students, a third professor coordinates students’involvement in a related research project, and an outside “client” directs the team towardlocal economic development. Students come from backgrounds in engineering, socialsciences, natural sciences, and the humanities. The consulting “contract” specifies theeconomic incentives for the work, and also steers the class toward the technological areasthat

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Post BS Entrepreneurship Education Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance; Phil Weilerstein, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Katharine Golding, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance

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University, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.Katharine Golding, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance Kate Golding is an Associate for Research and Evaluation at the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. She has worked as a consultant to small startups, as well as being office manager and project coordinator to established small businesses. She earned her B.F.A in painting at the University of Delaware. Page 15.1198.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMS IN U.S. ENGINEERING

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New Methods and Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Melissa Grunow, Lawrence Technological University; Katie Hayes, Lawrence Technological University

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AC 2010-1119: DEVELOPMENT OF A LEADERSHIP AND ENTREPRENEURSHIPSKILLS ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTAndrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University Andrew Gerhart is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He is actively involved in ASEE, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. He serves as Faculty Advisor for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Chapter at LTU, and serves as chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee.Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University Donald Carpenter is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He is

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New Methods and Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Reimer, Lawrence Technological University; Margaret Pierce, Lawrence Tech University

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AC 2010-589: ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEURIAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS:PLANNING, OPERATING AND GROWINGDonald Reimer, Lawrence Technological University Donald Reimer is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Engineering and Associate Director of the Lear Entrepreneurial Program at Lawrence Technological University. He teaches Corporate Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Structured Approaches to Innovation in the Lear Entrepreneurial Program. Don is the faculty advisor for the Lawrence Tech Chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. He serves as a Kern Fellow in the Kern Entrepreneurial Education Network. Don also serves as the Program Director for the Coleman Foundation Faculty

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Post BS Entrepreneurship Education Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerome Schaufeld, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretar Tryggvason, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; McRae Banks, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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fundingfrom the Kern Family Foundation’s KEEN program. The goal of the course is twofold: First, weseek to introduce students to the broader context of engineering that installs a mindset acceptingcommercialization as a natural part of the introduction of new technologies. Secondly, we seek toprovide the students with a “toolbox” of skills to understand the business world and to assess thecommercial context and viability of new technologies.1.0 IntroductionIt is agreed by those pondering the future of engineering education1-4 that innovation andentrepreneurship (I & E) must be part of the experience that graduates entering the moderncompetitive and global workplace must possess. At our institution, and many other educationalinstitutions

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Entrepreneurship and Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Wells, North Dakota State University

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board process engineering, printed electronics, applications of RFID technologies and manufacturing engineering pedagogy. Through his research, Dr. Wells has supervised the completion of twelve graduate degrees in the past six years. His publication history includes nearly seventy print publications and over forty invited presentations. He has addressed professional audiences in Ukraine, Japan, India, Brazil, Peru, Mexico and Canada, as well as in many United States venues. For many years, he has been active in the national leadership of Society of Manufacturing Engineers, American Society for Engineering Education, and ABET. Over the past twenty-six years, he has been a

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Entrepreneurship and Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Cook, Lawrence Tech University; Jerry Cuper, Lawrence Tech University

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AC 2010-952: BUILDING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET IN SENIORPROJECTSKenneth Cook, Lawrence Tech University Ken Cook is the chair of the Department of Engineering Technology in the College of Engineering. Mr. Cook is a registered professional engineer, a certified clinical engineer, and holds some 28 patents of his own. He holds degrees from or attended DeVry Technical Institute, Lawrence Technological University, Wayne State University, and Oakland University. Cook has many years of experience in engineering management and sales. His was most recently executive vice president and chief engineer for Vultron/Trans Industries. His earlier positions included General Manager of R&D in machine

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New Methods and Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Duncan Moore, University of Rochester

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ofEngineering.The core of the TEAM program consists of three entrepreneurially focused business coursesdeveloped and offered by the Simon Graduate School of Business, three graduate levelengineering courses offered by the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, andeither an additional technical or entrepreneurship elective. A required practicum accompanied bya written business plan and oral presentation ensures students have practical experience, whilegraduate level technical courses of the student's choosing serve to extend the student’s scienceand engineering background.Technical Entrepreneurship and Management students have the unique option to choose anexisting patented technology from the University’s Offices of Technology Transfer (OTT

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New Methods and Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Ernest, Western Kentucky University; Jana Fattic, Western Kentucky University; Ni-Bin Chang, University of Central Florida; Shalini Chitrapu, Western Kentucky University; Paige Davenport, Western Kentucky University

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AC 2010-1879: WRMT CASE STUDY: GIS WITH RULE-BASED EXPERT SYSTEMAndrew Ernest, Western Kentucky UniversityJana Fattic, Western Kentucky UniversityNi-Bin Chang, University of Central FloridaShalini Chitrapu, Western Kentucky UniversityPaige Davenport, Western Kentucky University Page 15.1386.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 WRMT Case Study: GIS with Rule-based Expert System for Optimal Planning of Sensor Network in Drinking Water SystemsAbstractThis paper provides a case study in the application of the concepts of the WaterResource Management Technologies technology transfer concept presented at the2009 conference.The Technology Transfer Model[1

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Post BS Entrepreneurship Education Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Green, University of Maryland

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Technology Ventures and Innovation Program for graduate engineering students. Dr. Green leads Mtech's international entrepreneurship education initiatives to include establishing and managing partnerships with the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, UAE and the China Training Services Center in Shanghai, China. Dr. Green's research interests include entrepreneurship education and the psychology of entrepreneurship. He is a national presenter on entrepreneurship education with refereed papers and presentations at conferences for the Academy of Management (AOM), the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and the

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Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Keynton, University of Louisville; James Fiet, University of Louisville; Pankaj Patel, Ball State University

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create new wealth, build stronglocal, regional, and national economies and enhance the national well-being; and (2) catalyze andenhance an enabling infrastructure necessary to foster and sustain innovation in the long-termthrough the training of entrepreneurially-oriented PhD engineering and physiology students asthe drivers of bioengineering and new business development in the city. The intellectual merit ofthe program was the development of a new paradigm for creating and establishing successfulentrepreneurial ventures in emerging technologies. The intellectual basis for the partnership is amodel derived from a constrained, systematic search of a series of studies and experiments onrepeat entrepreneurs, including interviews with 15 repeat

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Entrepreneurship and Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University; Tom Merrill, Rowan University; Leigh Weiss, Rowan University

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AC 2010-1215: FOSTERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP WHILE TEACHING DESIGNKevin Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1992 and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998. He has published in the areas of engineering design, pedagogically sound uses for simulation and computing, assessment of student learning, and teaching engineering economy. He has received four ASEE awards: the 2002 PIC-III award, the 2003 Joseph J. Martin Award, the 2004 Raymond W. Fahien Award and the 2005 Corcoran Award.William Riddell, Rowan University William Riddell is an

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Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Gregory Leman, Baylor University; William Jordan, Baylor University; Brian Garner, Baylor University; Brian Thomas, Baylor University

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outlined the challenges facing engineering and computer science educators.2 He states that Page 15.241.2the challenges are enormous because we are preparing students for future jobs that may notcurrently exist that use technologies that have not been invented to solve problems that we don’teven know exist. Peterson also says that “institutions must design degree programs – withrelevant content, condensed time investment, and modified requirements – to meet the changingneeds of non-traditional students”. He also points out that the employers of our students willexpect them not only to be “well prepared in the discipline, but also to possess ingenuity

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Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phil Schlosser, Ohio State University; John Merrill, The Ohio State University

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patents for inventing various electronic devices and systems.John Merrill, The Ohio State University John A. Merrill is the Director for the First-Year Engineering Program at The Ohio State University College of Engineering. His responsibilities include operations, faculty and graduate student recruiting, curriculum management, student retention, and program assessment. Dr. Merrill received his Ph.D. in Instructional Design and Technology from The Ohio State University in 1985, and is a two-time recipient of the College of Engineering’s Boyer Award for Excellence in Teaching. Page 15.590.1

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Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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McRae Banks, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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construction of the syllabus, but thelessons learned from delivering the initial offering of the course and expectations for changing itgoing forward.BackgroundA strategic initiative of the entrepreneurship program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) isthe education of students and business practitioners in technology commercialization. For us,that may be licensing technology to existing organizations, whether large or small, or to start-ups, whether internal or external to WPI. As one way to deliver on this, we created a four coursegraduate certificate program in Innovation Commercialization and Entrepreneurship, referred toas ICE. The component courses are Business Basics for Engineers and Scientists; TechnologyCommercialization Theory

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Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; David Barbe, University of Maryland

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is a unified approach thatbuilds on comprehensive problem solving knowledge from industry, business, marketing, math,science, engineering, technology, arts, and daily life. The methodology approaches problemssystematically, and stimulates innovation by quickly generating unique “out-of-the-box”unexpected and high-quality solutions. The combination of people’s knowledge and experiencewith this new thinking tool is a very promising one. The methodology provides top leaders,managers, and problem solvers with new insights and thinking strategies to solve everydayproblems they face in the workplace.An example-based pictorial presentation of the methodology is shown below:The eight dimensions’ questions:Uniqueness: What is unique about the

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Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Santarelli, Cal State Fresno

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

number of artifacts in the form of meetingminutes, documents, field notes, and observations; influenced by experiences accumulated overthe period of this study to develop a vision of what the Engineering Program should look like inorder to meet the needs of the industry in the region. Meeting minutes include participation insuch regional organizations as the Math, Science, Engineering, and Technology Consortium, theLocal Board of Trade Education Committee, attendance at various economic outlookconferences, and at the Competitive Crisis Council. This phase culminated with a gap analysisthat determined the difference between what is and what should be in order to draw conclusionsand develop recommendations to guide planning and decision making

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Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kirsten Hochstedt, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance

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. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1981) and The Johns Hopkins University (1988). She worked in industry for 11 years with a defense contractor (HRB Systems/Raytheon), and then co-founded and worked for five years with a high-tech startup (Paragon Technology), which developed digital video add-in cards/modules for laptop and rugged portable computers. Since joining Penn State in 1999, Liz has taught design courses in the Mechanical, Electrical, and Civil and Environmental Engineering Departments, and in SEDTAPP. In 2001, she became director of the Problem-Based Learning in Entrepreneurship project (underwritten by the GE Fund), and in 2002 was named Director of the

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Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Ferguson, Ohio Northern University; Michele Govekar, Ohio Northern University; Amanda Stype, Ohio Northern University

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AC 2010-1665: QUALTIY AND CONSISTENCY IN IDEA PITCH, RESEARCHPROPOSAL AND BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION JUDGINGDaniel Ferguson, Ohio Northern University Daniel Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Prior to coming to Ohio Northern University he was Associate Director of the Inter-professional Studies Program at Illinois Institute of Technology and Co-PI on multiple National Science Foundation grants relating to assessment processes and interventions aimed at improving learning objective attainment. Prior to his University assignments he was the Founder and CEO of the The EDI Group, Ltd., an independent professional services company specializing in B2B