Conference Session

Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Ethics Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University; Rajesh Ganithi, UAE University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

resources with essential characteristics that they are (i) rare (ii) valuable (iii) hard tocopy and (iv) difficult to substitute. It helps the students to understand that entrepreneurship isfundamentally a gathering and application of existing resources in new ways. Drucker [2] saysthat this application in the new way can make something worthless upto this point, into avaluable resource and thus entrepreneurship can create resources. This approach is more close tothe engineering students.The entrepreneurial mindset approach is designed to develop a way of seeing opportunity that is Page 24.464.3resident within a market. It is assumed that the

Conference Session

Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Ethics Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald J. Bennett F.ASEE, F.ABET P.E., University of St. Thomas; Niaz Latif, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology); Aco Sikoski, Ivy Tech Community College; Steven Wendel, Sinclair Community College; Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology)

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Paper ID #9189LEADERSHIP for Manufacturing and Manufacturing-related ProgramsDr. Ronald J. Bennett, University of St. Thomas Dr. Ronald J. Bennett is Founding Dean and Professor Emeritus of the School of Engineering at the University of St. Thomas. Prior to entering academia, Bennett held leadership positions for three decades in the appliance, electronics, medical device and knowledge engineering industries, as well as in several entrepreneurial organizations. His responsibilities ranged from R&D, engineering and manufacturing to sales, marketing and general management. He founded the School of Engineering at the