Paper ID #10735An Implementation of Innovative Thinking in The Entrepreneurship Cur-riculum for EngineersDr. S. Jimmy Gandhi, California State University, Northridge Dr.S. Jimmy Gandhi is an assistant professor at California State University, Northridge and is also The Director of The Ernie Schaffer Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Dr.Gandhi teaches classes and has research interests in entrepreneurship, lean thinking, quality management, six sigma, project management and sustainability. Prior to coming to Cal State University, Northridge, Dr. Gandhi taught at The City University of New York and also at The Stevens
Paper ID #10011Biassociation for the Entrepreneurial Engineering CurriculumMr. Federico Garcia Lorca, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation & Technology Federico Garcia Lorca currently pursues a PhD. degree in aerospace engineering. Originally from Spain, he started his B.S. in aerospace engineering in Spain to later transfer to the USA. His current research focuses on entrepreneurial development and engineering education.Dr. Sridhar S. Condoor, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng
, engineering economy, electromagnetics, and system design. His research interests include cooperative control of networked multi-agent systems, resilient and fault-tolerant control, and networked control systems. He received the Best Student Paper Award in the area of Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization at the 2010 International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, and he received an Honorable Mention Award at the 2012 International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation & Control.Dr. Khalid S. Al-Olimat P.E., Ohio Northern University Dr. Khalid S. Al-Olimat is professor and chair of the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department at Ohio Northern
Paper ID #10312Mobile App Development: A Cross-Discipline Team-Based Approach to Stu-dent and Faculty LearningDr. Sarvesh S Kulkarni, Villanova University Sarvesh Kulkarni received a B.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Bombay in 1994, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Prior to 2002, he has worked in various industry positions in India and the US. He joined the ECE department at Villanova University in 2002, and is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering. His teaching and research interests are: adaptive
of America, the 2014 Michigan Informal Educator of the Year from the Science Teacher’s Association and 2014 Faraday Communicator Award from the National Science Teacher’s Association.Mr. James Edwin Cawthorne Jr., Purdue University, West LafayetteDr. Sridhar S. Condoor, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology, Saint Louis University Dr. Sridhar Condoor is Professor. He is a KEEN fellow, a Coleman Fellow, and the editor of the Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship. Condoor teaches sustainability, product design, and entrepreneurship. His research interests are in the areas of design theory and methodology, technology entrepreneurship, and sustainability. He is spear- heading Technology Entrepreneurship
and helpedthem interpret its results. Overall ILS profiles of the students were found to be comparablewith the Felder and Spurlin7 study indicating that the sample under study was representative.Table 1 shows category-wise percentage division of Learning Style Preferences and Table 2shows average score on all four dimensions. The average was computed by mapping thepreferences to -11 to 11. For example, in case of S/N dimensions the S preference was taken Page 24.395.7as positive and N was taken as negative. So 11(S) became +11 and 11(N) became -11. Wefound that the cohort was reasonably balanced on active-reflective and sequential
contributions of Philipp Müller and Adam Probst of the TechnicalUniversity of Munich, Shanon Gilmartin, and the support of all of our colleagues in theDesigning Education Lab at Stanford University. This work was supported by the NationalScience Foundation as a collaborative research grant (NSF-DUE-1020678, 1021893, 1022024,1022090, and 1022644). Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressedin this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.Bibliography1. Byers, T., Seelig, T., Sheppard, S., & Weilerstein, P. (2013). Entrepreneurship: Its Role in Engineering Education. Summer Issue of The Bridge on Undergraduate Engineering Education, 43(2), 35-40.2. Bonnett, C., &
Page 24.1144.3 1 Giersch, S., & McMartin, F. (2014). Promising Models and Practices to Support Change in Entrepreneurship Education. Epicenter TechnicalBrief 2. Stanford, CA and Hadley, MA: National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation. http://epicenter.stanford.edu/documents/1912.1 Selecting Resources through an Iterative Search and Review ProcessBbK team members employed an iterative search process using the web and reference databases(see Bibliography) from the library systems of New York University and the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley during June-July 2013. During the first phase of assessing the searchresults
Engineering and Applied Sciences medical engineering initiative. Page 24.411.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Development and Implementation of the Industrial and Entrepreneurial Engineering Program at Western Michigan UniversityIntroductionThe industrial engineering (IE) degree was first offered at Western Michigan University in 1959.It was the only engineering program at the university until mechanical engineering and electricalengineering were added in the mid 1970’s. The IE program obtained EAC accreditation in 1979and has maintained
-course mod- ule focused on creativity and problem solving leadership and is currently developing a new methodology for cognition-based design. She is one of three instructors for Penn State’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Creativity, Innovation, and Change, and she is the founding director of the Problem Solving Research Group, whose 50+ collaborating members include faculty and students from several universities, as well as industrial representatives, military leaders, and corporate consultants.Dr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette S¸enay Purzer an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education and is the Director of As- sessment Research for the Institute for P-12 Engineering
between having a family member who is an entrepreneur and intent tominor in entrepreneurship [X2(1, n=694)=6.77, p=0.009].An independent t-test was conducted to examine the second part of this hypothesis, which wasexamining the differences on the Entrepreneurship as Career variable for those with a familymember as an entrepreneur versus those without. The average score for students with a familymember as an entrepreneur was M=11.28 with a standard deviation of s=4.15. The averagescore for students without a family member as an entrepreneur was M=9.64 with a standarddeviation of s=3.73. Students with a family member as an entrepreneur score had significantlyhigher scores on the Entrepreneurship as Career [t(692)=4.672, p<0.000].Table 5: Cross
was measured on a five-point Likert scale with responses rangingfrom 1 (not at all important) to 5 (extremely important). On the survey instrument, participants self-reported their “sex” (female and male), whichiidenotes biological and physical differences between the two groups. However, we refer to“gender” (women and men) in our discussion of results, as we propose that the characteristics Page 24.295.5measured in this study are more related to the social roles of the two groups 9 Scutt, H. I.,Gilmartin, S. K., Sheppard, S. & Brunhaver, S. in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition..Career ValuesCareer values are defined as the
. IntroductionResearch in engineering education over the past 15 years has shown that US undergraduateengineering student enrollment in decline while the demand for qualified engineering graduatesis expected to increase1. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicts a 22% growth injobs for fields related to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) between2004 and 2014 (U. S. Department of Labor, 2005)2. It revealed that fewer than 40 % of studentswho enter college intending to major in a STEM field complete college with a STEM degreetoday3. The engineering graduation rate is even lower for Texas Higher Education institutions4.Research by ACT indicates that fewer than one in five 12th graders have both high interest inSTEM and high
course structure from the perspective of the meeting requirements. Faculty pre-course meeting (face-to-face) Customer discovery Purpose: Decide on strategy, teams and projects Importance: Very high S e m e s t e r Student kickoff meeting (face-to-face) Purpose: Team building and meet the client
how understanding systems and their interaction influence solving complex global problems.Dr. Susan Kubic Barnes, James Madison University Dr. Susan Barnes has over twenty years of experience in education, assessment, and evaluation. She is an assistant professor in the College of Education at James Madison University, where she serves as an educational program coordinator, University Honors Program Liaison, and Faculty Liaison for Au- gusta County Public Schools. She taught preschool and elementary education in both public and private schools. Dr. Barnes has served as a third-party evaluator for numerous projects funded by the U. S. De- partment of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Education
modified to include recently developed and publicized concepts ofLean Startup13,14 and Business Model Canvas15 (BMC). As a result instead of a full-blownBusiness Plan students were asked to develop an abridged business model using BMC approachand then verify its assumptions by performing multiple interviews with potential customers. Anexample business model in BMC format is shown in Fig. 4. • Internet provider(s) o Affordability o Design o Design o Manufacturing o Students living • Component o Manufacturing o Durability manufacturers o Space
. Page 24.1053.9 Figure 5. Impact vs. Time of Breakthrough, Enabling, and Progressive Innovations Table 2. Historical Cases on Innovation ImpactBreakthrough(s) Enabling Innovation Progressive Innovations1 Cumulative Impact1Discovery of an ether- Use of first gas-based • Airway anesthesia • Reduction in surgicalbased gas that forms of anesthesia • Local anesthetics death ratesproduces insensibility based on nitrous oxide, • Intravenous • Creation of a new professionby inhalation ether, and chloroform anesthetics • Creation of new
was developed by a Russianscientist, G. S. Altshuller and his colleagues. TRIZ hypothesized that the solution of any givenproblem or one similar to it has already be done. Creativity is how to find that solution and adaptit to the specific problem. After reviewing 2.5 million patents from 1946 to 1985, Altshuller andhis colleagues found patterns that led to the breakthrough solutions to given problems. Thesepatterns were summarized into 40 inventive principles for problem solving, the separationprinciples, laws of technical evolution and technology forecasting and 76 standard solutions.Advanced Systematic Inventive Thinking (ASIT) is a creative thinking method derived fromTRIZ by R. Horowitz in 1999.17 ASIT simplified TRIZ’s principles into
experiencedentrepreneurs are less likely to fail.”12 In addition, size does not define the level ofentrepreneurialism within a company – an entrepreneurial company could be a large corporationor a reasonably small business. In fact, since the 1990’s, larger corporations in the U. S. seekingto gain a competitive edge have been downsizing while small businesses have been creating newjobs – a net of over 80%12. However, only “[a] small number of innovative start-ups account fora disproportionately large number of new jobs” 13. Contemporaneously, many companies are Page 24.1177.4laying off high-paid older workers with dated skills for those with current skills
technology commercialization, including the first technology licenses, faculty start-ups, student patent filings, student start-ups, on campus incubation of start-ups and partner companies, and a Commercialization Council that bridges the gap between university research and the broader technology commercialization community in San Antonio. Mr. Hallam was a recipient of the MIT Course 16 Sixteen award, the SABJ 40 under 40 award, the Richard S. Howe Undergraduate Teaching Excellence award, and currently holds the Jacobson Distinguished Professorship in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UTSA.Prof. Dorie Jewel GilbertProf. Olivier Wenker MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Dr. Wenker is a Professor of
Knowledge for the 21 st Century: Preparing the Civil Engineer for the Future. ASCE: 2nd edition. 2. ASME. (2010). Creating the Future of Mechanical Engineering Education: Phase 1 Report. ASME Center for Education Task Force: December 15. 3. Besterfield-Sacre M., Ozaltin N. O., Shartrand A., Shuman L. J. (2011). Understanding the technical entrepreneurship landscape in engineering education. Annual Conference and Exposition of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). 4. Brush, C. (2013). Does Entrepreneurship Education Matter? Forbes. June 24, 2013. 5. Byers, T., Seelig, T., Sheppard, S., and Weilerstein, P. (2013). Entrepreneurship: Its Role in Engineering Education. The Bridge on Undergraduate
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in the breakthrough EDI/EFT payment system implemented by General Motors. Dr. Ferguson is a graduate of Notre Dame, Stanford and Purdue Universities and a member of Tau Beta Pi.Dr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette S¸enay Purzer an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. In 2011, she received a NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students approach innovation. She is also a NAE/CASEE New Faculty Fellow. Purzer conducts research on aspects of design education such as innovativeness and information literacy.Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University Matthew W. Ohland is Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue
thinking skills during the activity, as well asgive feedback about the activity to provide insight on how to improve design activities in thefuture. As demonstrated by the results of the assessment described, design-based activitiesprovide students with the opportunity to develop and demonstrate their innovative thinkingskills.References1. Atkinson, R. and S. Andes. The Atlantic Century: Benchmarking EU and US Innovation Competitiveness. 2009 [cited 2013; Available from: http://www.itif.org/publications/atlantic-century-benchmarking-eu-and-us- innovation-and-competitiveness.2. Lechletier, J., America's Growing Innovation Gap, in Wall Street Journal. 2009, Dow Jones and Company: New York, NY.3. Pappas, E. Cognitive Processes Instruction in
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smart mobile devices). The course relies heavily on open source software such as Linux, Python, Java, Android, cross-platform Mobile Development PhoneGap (Cordova), Web Development Technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CCS, php, for example), MySQL, and Apache Web ServerCourse Design ObjectivesThe course goal is to prepare the students to create value, innovate, and roll out creativeapplication prototypes in a small, nimble and entrepreneurial work environment. The course hasbeen designed to meet the following objectives: • to expose under-skilled students to basic networking, computing and software development technologies and tools and important trending; • to form highly motivated and diverse team(s) that are effective
development r. Fulfill commitments in a timely manner s. Discern and pursue ethical practices t. Contribute to society as an active citizenThese outcomes form an excellent basis for gauging how well the entrepreneurial mindset isbeing incorporated into student activities within a course, and will therefore be referred tothroughout later sections of this paper.As of January 2013, KEEN includes nineteen institutions across the U.S. The KEEN programprovides access to vital resources for building quality entrepreneurship education programs thatengage engineering and technical students including grants, faculty fellowships, capacitybuilding workshops, networking opportunities, and resources. More specifically, KEENprovides financial and developmental