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Classes in Entrepreneurship

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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

assessment practices, or describe orillustrate actual or potential student learning activities are provided in appendices. The attachedappendices include these artifacts: 1. The prior course syllabus revised for the new course design. 2. An example of a guest speaker biography ( used in the prior course for the Tuesday night 9:00 pm free pizza talk). Page 23.379.5 3. Rubrics that will be used to judge the quality of the presentations by guest speakers as well as students and to guide the reflections written on guest speakers and student presentations to help students learn to identify and

Conference Session

Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Anne Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

quality of life. These components may help educators create stronglearning scaffolds to help students manage the complexity of designing for people living inpoverty.23 I found engineering design educators24, 25 who used reflection to identify learningneeds of their students developed these stronger scaffolds intrinsically. Furthermore, I wanted tooffer guidance to engineering educators assessing student work that targeted marginalizedcommunities around the world. Design as improving the quality of life has four components. 1. Design activities center on wellbeing objectives. 2. Critical knowledge to understand wellbeing objectives rests in diffuse communities. 3. Designers use social networks to manage design activities. 4. Assessing

Conference Session

Classes in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhang Fenzhi, Aalborg University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

questions were as follows: (1) how learning trajectories were related withconflicts and innovation competency from students’ perspective? (2) how learningtrajectories were related with conflicts and innovation competency from academic staff’sperspectives? (3) how students and academic staff’s perspectives were similar and differentfrom the literatures? Besides providing a brief literature review, we collected empiricaldata by one-year observation and 14 interviews in one engineering master program,Environment Management, at +++ University, Denmark. The empirical findings displaydiverse views on conflicts in relation to innovation competency from both students andacademic staff’s statement, which reminded educators to reflect the use

Conference Session

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

journey.To increase our base of shared moments, another set of stories were collected using this classprompt:Complete strategic storytelling. Write a strategic 5 sentence story that can be told in any order.a) Student reflects on her Chinese past. ● It’s Chinese New Year. Page 23.13.10 ● Red lanterns hang all along the streets, emanating warms and happiness. ● She could not draw herself away from the stall with steaming rice cakes, the ones just like her grandma used to make for her. ● A gust of piercing wind came by, she shivered in cold, tiny hands blue and purple. ● Squeezing tight on a bill of one, all

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

their discipline and someone new. We strongly encouraged them to move tonew seats throughout the semester (if they were sitting at all). Students shared their work ingroups of various sizes and often presented to the entire class. Reflection, self-criticism andconstructive criticism of others were integral to all activities. Passivity was not an option. Theclass met twice per week with two hour sessions. This allowed for flexibility of class activities.Students shared and presented their assignments at each class. All of these various techniquessupported an overall active learning method of Problem-based Learning that incorporated bothCollaborative and Cooperative learning methods19(The course was developed and team taught by Steve Shooter in

Conference Session

Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Chingnam Goh, University of Southern Queensland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

contribution towards effective innovative solutions and practices in SMEs.This research is an exploration and reflection of the innovation experience of a regionalmicro-manufacturer through embedment of the researcher in a specific micro-manufacturing firm as a case-officer from a regional university. The case studyinvolved learning and discovering the obstacles and barriers for innovation, seeking andproposing ways to reduce them, and improving the overall innovation process withinmicro-manufacturers in regional areas. The firm was founded and owned by anindividual based at the regional township located within a 50km radius fromToowoomba in Queensland, Australia. The operation started off as a commercial flowergrowing business focusing on organic and

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

and encourages flexible views of problem scoping and conceptual design, with changesin each causing reflection and potential changes in the other. Alex also showed no link betweenProduction and Opportunity, potentially indicating a view of innovation with finite beginningand end states.Ben’s Markov chain diagram demonstrated a more sequential view of the early process stageswith strong return loops for both Opportunity and Prototyping. His diagram also containedfrequent transition for Testing and Production back to Design, indicating frequent iterationduring later stages of the process. The closed loop from Production back to Opportunity mayindicate a more cyclic view of the innovation process

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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

of existing data6. increased ability to engage in life-long learning (and recognition of the need to do so)7. increased ability to make an effective presentation both in written and oral formatThe course has been required for all engineering students at the University of Detroit Mercy, andis usually taken in their sophomore year. The name of the one-credit-hour semester course hasbeen Professional World of Work (PWOW). It has been meeting once a week for 50 minutes.The course is different from typical instructions in the sense that engineering students had to do alot of non-technical reading, reflect on their own learning and on the world conditions aroundthem, participate in group discussions, integrate their new knowledge and non-technical

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

InnovationIn addition to our discussion of these four factors’ impact on corporate innovation, the secondmajor element of each corporate visit was each industrial partner’s recommendations ofcompetencies, mindsets and knowledge for future engineering innovators, especially those notprovided by today’s engineering education. Both corporate innovation leaders and recentengineering graduates provided over 160 recommendations. The second part of the paperpresents a summary of their answers and reflections of the authors in the section title “The Voiceof Corporate Innovation Leaders.” Page 23.17.4 The Culture of

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

and Ahad Ali EME 3023 Manufacturing Processes 3 Numerical Vernon Fernandez EME 3033 Engr. Numerical Methods 3 MethodsThe KIT training process requires a two-year commitment involving week-long workshops,ACL/PBL implementation, report-back accountability sessions, and closing-the-loop sessions.Because of the commitment, almost all of the faculty members in the KIT program are full-time,although a few trusted adjunct instructors have also been selected to participate. Currently 56faculty members have been trained in PBL and ACL techniques representing approximately 46courses. (Table 3 reflects a lower number of KIT faculty; some faculty are no longer

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

reverse scored to help eliminate selection bias. Responses were collected using a 5- point Likert scale of agreement ranging from Strongly Disagree (1) to Strongly Agree (5) with (3) as neutral. The items had high reliability (Cronbach’s alpha = .80), so the items were averaged to form a single the Case Study/Lab Satisfaction (CSLS) Score.• Student conceptual maps: As a course-concluding exercise, students were asked to draw a map of the concepts included within this entire course experience. After brief instruction on conceptual maps, students were given a list of the topics covered in class and asked to draw a conceptual map linking these ideas together that reflects their understanding of the course. We were interested

Conference Session

Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Alex Kotlarchyk

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

precipitation values calculated by converting radar images to rainfall amount accurately reflected ground truth. If this could not be accomplished, then the project would be a non-starter. Therefore the students matched actual rain collected by rain gauges to our calculated precipitation values from the radar images. They discovered that there are not only “official” governmental weather stations (often located at airports), but also an ad hoc network of rain gauges reported on by volunteers. The students had an opportunity to travel and see the data collection process of the volunteer network first-hand (Fig. 6). They discovered that some municipal sites apply quality control measures to their data

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Teaching Presence (Structure/Process) Fig. 1. Community of Inquiryeducational systems, it is also appropriate for learning environments that are (mostly or entirely)face-to-face. The three principal elements of the CoI model are social presence, cognitive presenceand teaching presence. Social presence may be defined as the degree to which participants in thelearning environment feel affectively connected one to another; cognitive presence represents theextent to which learners are able to, via interactions with each other, construct and refine theirunderstanding of important ideas through reflection and discussion; and teaching presence is the

Conference Session

Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacob Dean Wheadon, Purdue University; Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

further research and analysis within and across GlobalInstructional Objectives to understand the relative importance of topics and how to measurequality. It is also important to study how this may vary across academic disciplines.There are limitations to focusing on business plans as the basis for such analysis. First, is theextent to which a business plan is truly an experiential learning activity versus a traditionalacademic assignment. In the literature, experiential learning has a precise definition and itsmajor characteristics have been well agreed upon (Kolb & Fry, 1975; Kolb, 1984). When donecorrectly, it consists of 4 phases: 1) providing an action for students to experience, 2) havingstudents reflect on the action and experience, 3

Conference Session

Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Gardner promotes what is known aseducation for understanding. Further, one should make sure that the assessment and evaluationis completely holistic (Gardner, 1993). This ensures that student success outcomes are exactlydetermined and is measured accurately (Armstrong, 1994). Many scholars have alsorecommended and supported a value-added concept of education by doing assessments before,during, and after a course (Barr & Tagg, 1995). In his book Learning Paradigm College JohnTagg identifies essential features for generating such a paradigm and provides a flexible guideand a blueprint for implementing specific changes (Tagg 2003). It is important that the aims and objectives of discovery approach are reflected in everyaspect of the

Conference Session

Classes in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

compare to topics in same sections Using puzzles to solve math problems; Self-explanatory or useless tipsActivity: Explain what is wrong with speed limit signs:From the user’s point of view: What’s wrong with speed limit sign/driving/enforcement (forexample, we don’t feel “guilty” by driving above it). Suggest ideas to solve the problem.Students’ responses:Right: Max speed limit required by law Higher speed limits in Highways Safe way not to get a speeding ticket People can agree that the octagonal shape of a stop sign is an unmistakable symbol Reflective properties of signs and reflectors make it easier to drive during the nightWrong: People do not follow the speed limit Speed limit signs are