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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Abdullah Konak

participants were able todevise innovative ideas for the creation of a business. Students collectively worked on a seriesof creative problem solving activities and found innovative solutions for the problems in theircommunities. The feedback obtained from the participants noted that the workshop waseffective in teaching them how to develop and expand their entrepreneurial mindset throughcreativity and creative problem solving activities.I. IntroductionA variety of complex issues, such as reducing poverty both locally and globally, sustainingnatural and economic resources, and dealing with climate change, are facing today’s collegegraduates. Solving these complex problems requires technological and social innovations.Therefore, many traditional

Collection

2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

George Tremberger; Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala; Rex Taibu; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

. IntroductionAn Intelligence test result analysis had identified test motivation as an important factor in lowstake intelligence testing condition and also as a strong predictor for test scores in college 1, 2.Recently personal qualities such as self- control, grit and growth mindset has been studied inrelationship to the more explicit cognitive skills such as intelligence and knowledge, and thereport recommended more measurements on personal qualities for education purposes 3. It wasreported last year that learning motivation could be traceable to a genetic origin 4, and thatSTEM attrition among college students when compared with other majors such as business is aconsiderably large 48% 5. Faced with an open admission policy in a community college