Conference Session

Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Schar, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University; Mark Cuson; Michelle Marie Grau, Stanford University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #6565Bending Moments to Business Models: Integrating an Entrepreneurship CaseStudy as Part of Core Mechanical Engineering CurriculumDr. Mark Schar, Stanford University MARK SCHAR works in the Center for Design Research - Designing Education Lab at Stanford Univer- sity. He is also a member of the Symbiotic Project of Affective Neuroscience Lab at Stanford University and a Lecturer in the School of Engineering. Dr. Schar’s area of research is ”pivot thinking” which is the intersection of design thinking and the neuroscience of choice where he has several research projects underway. He has a 30 year career in

Conference Session

Programs in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monique Fuchs, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Frederick F. Driscoll, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

impact on the world. Inorder to foster a higher order of innovation and entrepreneurship on campus and to prepare ourgraduates to build successful personal and professional careers, the authors introduced a programcalled Accelerate in May 2012 for students to turn their ideas into reality. This paper andpresentation describes an innovation and entrepreneurship initiative at Wentworth.II. IntroductionThe Partnership for 21st Century Skills emphasizes […] innovation skills […]” among others asessential to prepare students for the complex and fast-paced environment of the 21st century1. Arecent global leadership forecast conducted by Development Dimensions International of over14,000 leaders from 74 countries, lists innovative and creative thinking

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Panel: Opportunities & Methods to Encourage More Women Toward Research Commercialization

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Babs Carryer, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Abby Thompson, Mississippi State University ; Louise C. Dunlap, DunlapBrowder

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation, Women in Engineering

Paper ID #8192Panel: Opportunities & Methods to Encourage more Women Toward Re-search CommercializationDr. Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University Adrienne Minerick received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 and B.S. from Michigan Technological University in 1998. Adrienne’s research interests include electrokinetics, predominantly dielectrophoretic characterizations of cells, and the development of biomedical microde- vices. She earned a 2007 NSF CAREER award, has published research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (2006), Lab on a Chip, and had an AIChE

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #7007Indicators of Creative and Entrepreneurial Thinking Among Engineeringand Technology StudentsDr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette Senay Purzer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education and is the Director of Assessment Research for the Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning (INSPIRE) at Purdue University. Dr. Purzer is a NAE/CASEE New Faculty Fellow. She is also the recipient of a 2012 NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students approach innovation. Her expertise is on assessment and mixed-methods research.Mr. Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University

Conference Session

Classes in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nihad Dukhan PhD, University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif E Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. As a result of taking this course, you have acquired some familiarity with the prevalent business models within social entrepreneurship, and how it can be a career path. 8. Knowing oneself (strengths, the way one works, and one's values) are critical to the success of engineers in today's economy. 9. Some of the assignments in this course helped you realize the value of these important issues. 10. Very few people work by themselves. Most people work with others, and are effective with others. To be effective working with other people, you need to know their performance modes, their strengths and their values.It should be noted that the course included other activities targeting the other stated outcomes

Conference Session

Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zbigniew J Pasek, University of Windsor

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

practical situations and settings.Feature films can offer a trove of ideas that can be very impactful, if used selectively andjudiciously.Portrayal of certain professions in the popular media has a deep and lasting effect not only ongeneral public's understanding of these professions (with all potential misconceptions andattitudes), but also has an impact on future career choices. While movie screens and televisionshows put a spotlight on lawyers, doctors and policemen (and occasionally also on forensicscientists), they only occasionally pick entrepreneurs as the characters of interest.This paper has identifies and reviews a number of known and available portrayals ofentrepreneurs in feature films. A brief selection of titles is included. A few

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Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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R. Radharamanan, Mercer University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. Page 23.191.2Given this great loss of potential engineers, the Kern Family Foundation (KFF) has partneredwith several engineering institutions to implement means by which to raise the success rate ofstudents throughout the course of their engineering career starting at the educational level first byevaluating students with a trimetric analysis tool developed by TTI. As one of the KEEN (KernEntrepreneurship Education Network) institutions embracing this challenge, MUSE has alreadybegun to make a step forward towards optimizing its level of undergraduate academicachievement by providing 104 enrolled students with TTI’s trimetric survey tool in the academicyear 2011-2012.BackgroundGenerally speaking, most institutions only address subject-matter

Conference Session

Programs in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology; Steven H. Billis, New York Institute of Technology; Marta Alicia Panero, New York Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

manager, technical staff, and six mid-career facultymembers with industry experience, who will work alongside six current faculty members to staffthe three labs. In order to infuse NYIT’s academic programs with practical applications, faculty willhave the opportunity to have summer residencies in industry and conversely, industry practitionerswill have the opportunity to spend time in shared-use collaborative work spaces at the Center. Onepartnership with IBM is leading to the integration of Enterprise Systems computing in thecurriculum and the participation of faculty in several workshops and conferences on EnterpriseSystems. Another alliance with Juniper Networks will result in innovations in NYIT’s MS inNetwork Security curriculum.Every year

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Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Alex Kotlarchyk

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

academic background in biology and the environment, as well as computer science andengineering experience. The project included both graduate and undergraduate students so thatall could benefit at an early stage in their careers. The photo (Fig. 2) shows participants at anearly stage of the project gathered at the inventor’s residence for early experimentation. Figure 2. Early project participants Academic vs. Business Environment Michael Levine brings his entrepreneurial background to the project. As such, he isaccustomed to being surrounded by people devoting their full attention to his projects. In anacademic environment such single-mindedness is unrealistic to expect. Student participants

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Neelam Soundarajan, Ohio State University; Rajiv Ramnath, Ohio State University; Bruce W. Weide, Ohio State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. This is notsurprising given the potential rewards of a successful entrepreneurial career both with respect toallowing entrepreneurs the freedom to pursue their own ideas and visions as well as with respect tothe potential for large material rewards. But how do we nurture students to become successful en-trepreneurs? In this paper, we report on an innovative program at the authors’ institution, designedto nurture students to become IT entrepreneurs. While the program builds on the experiences ofother programs, it includes a number of novel components that are integrated together in an un-usual manner to interlock and complement each other.1. IntroductionIt is widely accepted that entrepreneurship is the engine that drives the American economy

Conference Session

Programs in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew L Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald D. Carpenter P.E., Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

resistance to incorporating these techniques to their full potential, Page 23.266.7especially from those faculty that have spent their entire careers using a traditional lecture style.For this reason, it is critical that the workshop allots time to discuss and solve the potentialdifficulties (for students and faculty alike) of incorporating a new pedagogical technique. It isimportant to remind the faculty that there is still a place for lecture; a wholesale coursemodification is not necessary or practical. Another crucial element of the theme workshops isfor the participants to experience a variety of PBLs and ACLs (wherein the KIT faculty

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leo E. Hanifin, University of Detroit Mercy; Ross A. Lee, Villanova University; Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Kenneth F Bloemer, University of Dayton; Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Conference Session

Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Geoff Wright, Brigham Young University; Paul T Skaggs, Brigham Young University; Jacob Dean Wheadon, Purdue University; Clifton B. Farnsworth, Brigham Young University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Conference Session

Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Chingnam Goh, University of Southern Queensland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

number of boards; including the QLD Division committee of Engineers Australia and its sub-committee on Educa- tion Linkage (input into K12 and Tertiary Education). His research interests are in engineering education, engineering management, and renewable energy. He is a recipient of a USQ Faculty Award for Excellence in teaching (Early Career) 2008, USQ Associate Fellow 2009, and USQ Senior Fellow 2010. He served as the 2012 QLD President of Engineers Australia. Page 23.95.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013A qualitative study into the innovation and technology

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Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara A. Karanian Ph.D., Stanford University; Mona Eskandari, Stanford University; Jackie Liao, Stanford University; Zubair Ahmed

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

emotions andsensations and details of events that they have previously encountered within the frame of acurrent goal. The construct of episodic memory is informative12. Consider the following storyexample that came to us from one participating graduate student: “Aren’t first moments really just moments? Maybe they set off a new chain of events, and in a sense they are the first in a series of events that form a chapter or short story in a collection of short stories that make-up life? Well here are two memorable moments in my story: Al Wathba Prison, August 2011. Almost ten years after deciding to make my career in security and terrorism, I spent a short stint in Al Wathba Prison - a notorious prison in the middle of

Conference Session

Classes in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Edwin Cawthorne Jr., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ruth Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Conference Session

Programs in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Seth Orsborn, Bucknell University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

realize an innovation and a focus onthe value proposition. We helped them develop the necessary skills such as communication andteamwork. We promoted the importance of persistence through failure and regular criticalreflection. We helped prepare the students for success in their careers and personal lives so thatthey can make an Impact.AcknowledgmentsWe are grateful to all of the faculty, staff and outside guests who helped

Conference Session

Classes in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

productsImproper use: In Innovative: an office supply company name Innovative mounts: web company that sells motor mount partsActivity: Find irrelevant information in a middle school mathematics bookLook at middle school book find 5 irrelevant pieces of infoStudents’ ideas: An explanation how to use a basic calculator Page 23.1302.9 Career choice mentions which are non-math related Chapters that depict photos that are irrelevant to the material (photo of a child skating) Irrelevant stories to make certain points (ex: a long story about dogs in order to introducean example of percentage graphics) Homework does not