Conference Session

Preparing for Practice

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Edwin Cawthorne Jr., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Corey T Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

presentation skills 6-9. There are no prerequisites forthe redesigned course (nor were there for the predecessor course) and students will engage inseveral individual and group learning activities throughout the term. Our motivation for writingthis paper about the redesign of Principles was to investigate how through a better designedcourse we can potentially influence more students, particularly engineers, toward developing orenhancing their entrepreneurial mindset and becoming more entrepreneurial in whatever theychose to do. Better design was assumed to mean a course more aligned with curriculum designmodels known to produce superior learning results in undergraduate students. Entrepreneurialmindset was assumed to be a set of individual factors

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junaid A. Siddiqui, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

beliefsabout certain assumptions based on our life experiences and through the influence of socialnorms and culture. As our beliefs get reinforced we use them unconsciously for makingdecisions while we are consumed in our day-to-day life. A transformative change is a changewhich requires examining some of our fundamental assumptions that form the basis of how wethink, how we act and how we think about ourselves for who we are and what we want to be.The process of transformation involves a significant change in our mindsets, our worldviews andour sense of self. Transformation is a form of learning that is distinguished from learning newknowledge or skills31. For example, Piaget’s cognitive constructivist theory provides a model forlearning according to