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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Justin Reginato

establishing a business incubator on campus. The workshop will involve facultyfrom across the University, such as those in business, law, and engineering. Longer term, theUniversity will sponsor a business plan competition where student teams will be encouraged tocompete. Currently, faculty members are working to form a student entrepreneurship club.For engineering students, the long-term plan is that they will take the Advanced Topics inEngineering Management course that will satisfy needs within their respective engineeringcurricula and get exposed to entrepreneurship. For those students interested in pursuingentrepreneurial endeavors, they will join the entrepreneurial club to find like-minded teammatesor form a team on their own. For additional

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Mariappan Jawaharlal; Cesar Larriva; Jill Nemiro

School Robotics Initiative - An Outreach Initiative to Prepare Teachers and Inspire Students to Choose a Career in Engineering and Science Mariappan Jawaharlal, César Larriva, Jill Nemiro California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAbstractDeclining enrollment in science, engineering and technology at college level is a serious problemfacing this nation. Experience indicates choosing engineering as a career is made as early as inmiddle school. Students behind in math and lacking interest in science and technology atelementary and middle school level perform poorly in high school and are unlikely to choosecareers in engineering and science. Even if they do choose engineering in

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Wolf-Dieter Otte

. Robert Lee Moore1 about 1932, and since then, it has been applied mostly inMathematics, mainly for proofing theorems2. Even though there are many parallels in thinkingamong engineers and mathematicians, and despite the fact that engineering disciplines employmathematical knowledge and methodologies all the time, Moore’s method unfortunately neverreally found its way into Engineering.But how does this method work? Professor Moore summarized his method in these words: “Thatstudent is taught the best who is told the least.” The method is a “commitment to teaching byletting students discover the power their own minds have.”3 In a "classical lecture", we depriveour students of the chance to advance in any other field outside of mere "knowledge in