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Entrepreneurship Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University-Pueblo

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2011-2326: S-FIELD ANALYSIS INNOVATION METHOD EXERCISEIN A COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING COURSENebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University-Pueblo Nebojsa I. Jaksic received the Dipl. Ing. degree in electrical engineering from Belgrade University in 1984, the M.S. in electrical engineering, the M.S. in industrial engineering, and the Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the Ohio State University in 1988, 1992, and 2000, respectively. From 1992 to 2000 he was with DeVry University in Columbus, OH. In 2000, he joined Colorado State University-Pueblo, where he is currently a professor and the mechatronics program director. Dr. Jaksic’s interests include innovation methods, manufacturing processes, automation

Conference Session

Novel Entrepreneurship Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert S. Crockett, California Polytechnic State University; Daniel W. Walsh, California Polytechnic State University

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AC 2011-1672: PROOF OF CONCEPT, LLC: A PRIVATE COMPANY FA-CILITATING UNIVERSITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INDUSTRY IN-TERACTIONRobert S Crockett, California Polytechnic State University Robert Crockett received his Ph.D. from University of Arizona in Materials Science and Engineering. He holds an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley. He is currently Professor and Director of the General Engineering Program at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Dr. Crockett is a specialist in technology development and commercialization of advanced materials and manufacturing processes. Prior to joining Cal Poly, he was founder and President

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerald Nelson, Mississippi State University; Melissa L Moore, American Society of Agricultural Engineers; Rodney A. Pearson, Mississippi State University; Robert S. Moore, Mississippi State University; Allison Pearson, Mississippi State University; Abby Lammons Thompson, Mississippi State University

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nurtures new business entities involving MSU technology, with student and faculty involvement. Nelson is also the director of Jack Hatcher Engineering Entrepreneurship Program which provides an entrepreneurship certificate to engineering students. Both programs fit hand and glove with other efforts at MSU for the creation of a culture of entrepreneurship.Dr. Melissa L MooreRodney A. Pearson, Mississippi State UniversityRobert S. Moore, Mississippi State University Dr. Robert S. Moore (PhD, University of Connecticut) is a Professor of Marketing at Mississippi State University. He is a MSU Grisham Master Teacher Award recipient and has been recognized as the ”Paul B. Murphy” Notable Scholar (2008 -2010) & the ”Richard C

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

students, which are included among necessary entrepreneurial skill sets, andunderstand how and why these skill sets change over their undergraduate matriculation.Our research will report on an initial study of the impact of first-year engineering courses on thechanges in entrepreneurial mindsets of first year engineering students. Entrepreneurial mindset inour study is operationally defined as a more growth orientated mindset versus a fixed orientatedmindset. This operational definition and the accompanying mindset measurement instrument wasdeveloped and validated by Carol Dweck of Stanford University. Based on Dweck‟s researchresults we assume a growth mindset is a reasonable surrogate for a student engineer‟s creativeand innovative or

Conference Session

Research and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; David Pistrui, Acumen Dynamics, LLC

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

our thinking. Instead of permitting engineering educationto lag technology and society, “Should the engineering profession anticipate needed advancesand prepare for a future where it will provide more benefit to humankind?”[3]So the question becomes, how do we train engineers to be more entrepreneurially minded?What is an Entrepreneurially Minded Engineer? Page 22.244.2According to Dawn Tabat, Chief Operating Officer of Generac Power Systems (and a group ofthe company‟s engineering executives), Entrepreneurially Minded Engineers (EMEs) “act like aproduct manager within their engineering discipline”. In other words, “EMEs are not justworking on

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Novel Entrepreneurship Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James V. Green, University of Maryland, College Park

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best practices for planning, launching, and managing new ventures. This multidisciplinary course will draw on management, business, legal, financial, as well as technical, concepts.Further courses at the undergraduate and graduate level are currently under evaluation for onlinedelivery.Alignment of the University of Maryland’s approach to student s’ expectationsFor course design, priority for introducing online technology entrepreneurship course is placedon existing face-to-face on campus. This provides a tested syllabus with proven deliverables andexisting pedagogy that can be modified for the online environment. Technologies used are thosealready familiar to students and faculty, where possible. Details of the variables

Conference Session

Research and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Geoff Wright, Brigham Young University; Tyler Lewis, Brigham Young University; Paul T Skaggs, Brigham Young University; Bryan Howell, Brigham Young University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, ability to deferjudgment, intrinsic motivation, ability and willingness to prototype and iterate, willingness toflexibility to change roles and grow a diversity of ideas, and collaborative autonomy (ability towork both collectively and as an individual. Being able to bring individual ideas and connectthem with the ideas of others). Finally, the process can be viewed as both linear and non-linearbecause although there should be movement from divergent ideas to a convergent solution, theinnovation process steps can (and should) often be revisited to ensure the best solution(s) arebeing developed. Figure 1.3 diagrams the flow. Although the diagram is presented in linearformat, the process needs to be interpreted as being cyclical – in that idea

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Novel Entrepreneurship Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan Ewert, Iron Range Engineering; Ronald R. Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering; Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College; Jeff Wandler, Iron Range Engineering; Andrew Lillesve, Iron Range Engineering

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. Mustar, P.,‖ Technology Management Education: Innovation and Entrepreneurship at MINES ParisTech, Page 22.633.6 a Leading French Engineering School‖, The Academy of Management Learning and Education (AMLE), 8:3, 2009, pp418—4255. Luryi, S. and Tang, W. and Lifshitz, N. and Wolf, G. and Doboli, S. and Betz, J.A. and Maritato, P. and Shamash, Y.,‖ Entrepreneurship in engineering education‖, Frontiers In Education Conference-Global Engineering: Knowledge Without Borders, Opportunities Without Passports, 2007. FIE'07. 37th Annual‖ IEEE, 2008.6. Chang, J.C. and Sung, H.Y.,‖Planning and implementation

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Research and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Multi-level Multi-dimensional Perspective with Mental ModelsAbstractEntrepreneurship education programs typically include a large range of student outcomesincluding knowledge, skills, and attitudes as well as outcomes that go beyond the classroom.Because of the extent of inclusions and the broad range of effects, assessing the effectiveness ofentrepreneurship education programs is frequently challenged. Based upon Block and Stumpf[1]’s idea of “hierarchy of criteria” for evaluation, the main purpose of this research is to providea multi-level multi-dimensional perspective that systematically investigates factors related to thesuccess of entrepreneurship education programs. Such programs, in turn, can stimulate and bringsuccess to new

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica R. McCormick, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Beverly Radloff, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Nancy Lamm, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Terri L. Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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they are not in a traditional engineering program nor in the EDDP.Appendix A contains a comprehensive listing of the month and year each survey participantgraduated and Appendix B shows the distribution of responses by engineering discipline.Research QuestionsResearch questions were developed to gather a large amount of data that can be evaluated toanswer the research problems. The questions were compiled using an if/then system in thesurvey tool. The employment questions (3-10) were given based upon the previous question’sresponse. Each participant was asked questions 10-14. The questions are: 1. Month and year of graduation 2. Major(s) 3. When did you receive your first job offer (related to your major)? Month and year 4. Did

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anthony Marchese, Colorado State University

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, environmental and health problems in the developing worldthrough the formation of innovative business structures that disseminate these products on thewidest appropriate scale. The GIC has played a central role in facilitating the spinoff of a varietyof CSU-related business ventures such as Envirofit [9] and Solix Biofuels [10]. Figure 1 showsan example of the GIC approach wherein research on clean cookstoves at the EECL (Fig. 1a)was transformed into a viable product (Fig. 1b) by the non-profit corporation Envirofit, whichrecently partnered with the Shell Foundation to produce and sell 10 million clean-burning stovesover the next 5 years. Figure 1 (a) Cookstove research at CSU and (b) the Envirofit S-2100 cookstove in use in India.Putting it All

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William D. Schindel, ICTT System Sciences; Samuel N. Peffers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jameel Ahmed, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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new way is related to the observation.Potential Artifacts: persuasive essay, blog, journal, presentationAdditional Information: 1. Observations may be made of customers, clients, co-workers, suppliers, companies, etc. 2. For example, “Students check their text messages more frequently than their email, so faculty could send course emails as text messages to the class.”--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Discovery Competency D4: Develop new insights by provoking unexpected responses in anexperiment or series of experiments.Primary Traits: A passing submission for this criterion must: 1. Describe the experiment(s): what/who is the subject of the experiment(s

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Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Judith Giordan, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Joseph Steig, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) and VentureWell; Phil Weilerstein, VentureWell

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, Page 22.1547.14 Sep. 2001.[18] D. Champion and N. Carr, “Starting up in high gear: An interview with venture capitalist Vinod Khosla,” Harvard Business Review, vol. 78, 2000, p. 99.[19] D. Stangler and R. Litan, Where will the jobs come from?, Kansas City, MO: Kauffman Foundation, 2009.[20] M. Horrell and R. Litan, After inception: How enduring is job creation by startups?, Kansas City, MO: Kauffman Foundation, 2010.[21] S. Jain, G. George, and M. Maltarich, “Academics or entrepreneurs? Investigating role identity modification of university scientists involved in commercialization activity,” Research Policy, vol. 38, 2009, pp. 922–935.[22] F. Murray, “Innovation as co-evolution of scientific and technological networks

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Entrepreneurship Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; William M. Jordan, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Baylor University is one of themany approaches we are taking to accomplish this objective.References1 P.C. Wankat, et al., eds. “The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Engineering.” Disciplinary Styles in theScholarship of Teaching and Learning: Exploring Common Ground, ed. Huber and S. Morreale, 2002,AAHE/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: Washington, D.C.2 M.S. Gupta, “Is Industrial Experience Necessary for Teaching Engineering?” IEEE Transactions on Education,Vol. 31, No. 1, February 1988.3 T.A. Friedman, The World is Flat, New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2005.4 D.H. Pink, A Whole New Mind, New York: Riverhead Books, 2005.5 R.M. Felder, “A Whole New Mind for a Flat World,” Chemical Engineering Education, 40

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Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ken Vickers, University of Arkansas; Carol Reeves, University of Arkansas

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the late 1990’s. The current central administration continues to support these programs, most of which are now among the graduate programs with the highest enrollment of students on our campus. • Aggressive pursuit of entrepreneurial resources by the µEP grad program, including an NCIIA class development grant, two NSF Partnership for Innovation grants, and inclusion of research commercialization support in major research grants such as NSF MRSEC. • Active promotion of entrepreneurial education in Engineering PhD curricula by Dean Ashok Saxena and Dr. Ajay Malshe in partnership with the Walton College of Business. • A central administration change in mission emphasis of the UA Technology

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Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erik Sander, University of Florida

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Randall Brouwer, Calvin College; Aubrey Sykes, Calvin College; Steven H. VanderLeest, Calvin College

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Mindset in Senior Projects,‖ Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Conference, June 2010.6. Kriewall, T. and Mekemson, K., ―Instilling the Entrepreneurial Mindset into Engineering Undergraduates,‖ The Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 5-19.7. Hochstedt, K., Zappe, S., Kisenwether, E., and Shartrand, A., ―A Qualitative Examination of Faculty Beliefs Related to Entrepreneurship Education,‖ Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Conference, June 2010. Page 22.632.8

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Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Calvin C. Jen, Calvin College; Tyler Scott Helmus, Calvin College; Steven H. VanderLeest, Calvin College

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not for profit boards. His interests include the integration of faith in all types and aspects of business including engineering and architecture, and the use of business in international community development.Tyler Scott Helmus, Calvin College TYLER S. HELMUS is a student currently enrolled in Calvin College’s engineering program. He expects to graduate in 2012 and hopes to attend graduate school after. research interests include robotics and control systems.Steven H. VanderLeest, Calvin College STEVEN H. VANDERLEEST is a Professor of Engineering at Calvin College, Vice-President of Re- search & Development at DornerWorks, Ltd., and partner at squishLogic LLC. He obtained the M.S.E.E. from Michigan

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Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory W. Davis, Kettering University; Craig J. Hoff, Kettering University; William J. Riffe, Kettering University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

value can bemade. Page 22.845.10References1 Carlson, C., and Wilmot, W. “Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want,” CrownBusiness, ISBN 13:978-0-307-33669-9, 2006.2 Thursby, M., Fuller, A., and Thursby, J., “An Integrated Approach to Educating Professionals for Careers inInnovation,” Academy of Management Learning & Education, Vol. 8, No. 3, 389–405, 2009.3 Sager, B., Fernandez, M., and Thursby, M., “Implications of a Multidisciplinary Educational and ResearchEnvironment,” Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 18, pp. 57-69, 2006.4 Kingon, A. I., Thomas, R., Markham, S. K., Aiman-Smith, L., Debo, R.. “An