Conference Session

Innovative Techniques in Structural Engineering Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Angela Marie Jones, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Michael K. Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

students ex-pressed appreciation for how well-organized the instructor was and they indicated that the waythe course was organized made it easy to determine the important concepts.Using these findings from the focus group, a survey was developed and administered to bothclasses (CEE 3110 and CEE 3150). The survey explored the following questions: 1. Were the students in CEE 3110 more uncertain about their class grade than the compari- son group (CEE 3150)? 2. Were expectations for exams more clear for students in CEE 3110 as compared to the comparison group? 3. Did CEE 3110 students find the material to be more useful to their future career than stu- dents in the comparison group? (This question was included to assess the

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Hooper Sanders, East Carolina University; Mark Angolia, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

real-world problem solving and consulting projects. Throughexternal, off-campus projects, faculty members gain experience and continuously develop theirexpertise, providing personal and institutional benefits.According to a 2006 study by Anderson and Olsen, there are four factors that influence anindividual faculty member’s perspective on personal professional development, including:1) their development stage in the career cycle, 2) the institutional framework of their employer,3) the need to access collaborative opportunities, and 4) the willingness to assume newresponsibility. Faculty’s focus on professional development is typically formed into threeprimary objectives: 1) gaining experience in their own discipline, 2) teaching skills, and 3

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Pearl Chen, California State University, Los Angeles

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

4.26 1.52 1.80 4.43 2.63 OPNET to explore and learn new network protocols*9. I am confident that someone like me can 4.48 4.74 0.26 3.60 4.57 0.97 succeed in an engineering career.10. I think that engineering is the best (most 4.65 4.59 -0.06 3.60 4.14 0.54 fitting) major for me.11. I feel at home when working with other 4.22 4.30 0.08 4.20 4.43 0.23 engineers.To better visualize how different student groups responded to CPBL, group difference is definedin equation 1 to represent the difference in reported growth in domain-specific efficacy betweenLatino students and the class average

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Whalin, Jackson State University; Thomas William Richardson, Coastal Hazards Center of Excellence; Himangshu Shekhar Das, Jackson State University; Donald L Hendon

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

and Environmental Engineering in Delft, The Netherlands. His career has focused on managing and performing applied research in coastal and hydraulic engineering. In 2009, he retired as Director of the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory of the Engineer Research and Development Center and began work at his current position.Dr. Himangshu Shekhar Das, Jackson State University Dr. Himangshu Das has 15 years experience in conducting coastal and oceanographic hydrodynamic, sediment transport and water quality studies, feasibility studies and design analysis. His modeling expe- rience includes surge modeling, sediment transport, coastal zone transport including inlet and surf zone dynamics, TMDL development, groundwater

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron Denson, North Carolina State University; Matthew D. Lammi, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Conceptual Framework for Engineering Design Experiences in High SchoolAbstractThe infusion of engineering design into high school settings can help develop students’ criticalthinking skills and expose them to engineering careers at an early age. However, since theadvent of engineering design in pre-college milieus, researchers, educators, and curriculumdevelopers alike have been brooding over ways to introduce this equivocal subject into the k-12realm. Due to its interdisciplinary nature engineering design has also struggled to find a home inclassroom settings moving between technology education, to science classrooms and eveninformal learning environments. These factors considered it is our belief that the science

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessment Methodologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan Song, Alamo College

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

production area. Now on thedate of hire the student is a viable contributing member of the team, as shown in Figure 7. Page 24.77.9 Figure 7. Student career development pathwayActivity HighlightsAs we discussed earlier, in addition to working on their daily academic schedules, students alsowork three days on the floor at Toyota to get the first-hand experience. This experience reiteratesthe theories taught in the classroom and brings up many class discussions on subject matterallowing a big picture view of the course work. For example Figure 8(a) illustrates studentactivities in learning fluid power principles through a classroom lab

Conference Session

Student Learning, Problem Solving, and Critical Thinking 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia B. Paschal, Vanderbilt University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Employer _________________________________ Position Title ___________________ Location (City, State) _________________________________ Annual Salary $_______________________Bonus $______________________ *Did you receive any offers from employers that recruited through the [institutional career center] via listings in [institutional online service], info sessions, career fairs, or on-campus interviews?  yes  noIf you selected graduate or professional school, full OR part time as your primary activity, which of thefollowing BEST describes your current plans?  Admitted, planning to attend ____________________________________________ (institution)  Considering admission offer(s) from

Conference Session

Summer and Cohort Programs for Minorities: Student Success

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Whalin, Jackson State University; Qing Pang, Jackson State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

(1985-1998; Vicksburg, MS). He has authored/co-authored over a hundred technical papers and reports during his career in private industry, government and academia. His current research interests are nearshore wave transformations, coastal structures, tsunami inundation, hurricane surges, high performance computing, and engineering education.Ms. Qing Pang, Jackson State University Qing Pang, Instructor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Science, Engi- neering and Technology, Jackson State University. Page 24.475.1 c American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach and Out-of-School Time Engineering Programming and Research

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Jablonski, Bucknell University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engineering. Page 24.493.3There is a wealth of literature related to the need to draw diverse talent into STEM fields, and toinspire interest early in students‟ academic careers. If we are to build the capacity of pre-collegestudents to be leaders and innovators in the global technological workforce of the future, asarticulated in the National Action Plan for Addressing the Critical Needs of the U.S. Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education System, and re-iterated in Preparing theNext Generation of STEM Innovators: Identifying and Developing Our Nation’s Human Capital,“the Nation must enhance its „ability to produce a numerate and

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

incorporating one ormore community-based engineering projects as the core theme of the course. Service learning is 3of vital importance in the engineering profession and must be integrated into the engineeringcurriculum at an early stage of career development. Engineering projects with aspects of servicelearning are both challenging and motivating to students entering the engineering profession afterSTEM studies at the high school level. In addition to teaching the students engineering design 4and practice in the context of society and values, and instilling the recognition of engineeringissues and concerns, engineering project activity with service learning components

Conference Session

Student Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Patsavas; Barrett S. Caldwell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Student

even tacitskills (increased self-efficacy to develop and share innovations and contributions) are results ofthe lab’s activity. This is due to both the demonstrated learning outcomes by students, and theirinternalized awareness and structuring of their learning as distinct but linked products of thesystem.ConclusionMy initial experience with the research lab was intended to develop very specific pieces ofexplicit content knowledge to support career development goals. However, the process ofbecoming exposed to both the context of research, and the collaborative knowledge sharingactivities of a specific research lab, became an unexpectedly rich source of grounded learning.The goal of simulating student learning in explicit, implicit, and tacit

Conference Session

WIED: Medley

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith J. Bowman, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

males. For ECE, which comprises about twenty-three percent oftenure and tenure-track engineering faculty and may have a slightly lower fraction of US bornfaculty due to a historically high fraction of foreign doctorates, about one hundred-twentydomestic engineering assistant professors are hired every year with about twenty-five per year Page 24.604.3being female. The electrical engineering devices most similar in scaling to this pathway to anengineering academic career are probably filters and not pipelines.This paper is focused on the connection between BS and PhD degree production in the context ofgender equity and domestic versus international

Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

“paradigmaticcognition” which he defines as “classifying a particular instance as belonging to a category orconcept” (p. 9); and “narrative cognition [that] configures the diverse elements of a particularaction into a unified whole in which each element is connected to the central purpose of theaction,” (p. 11). These two types of knowledge can be treated as analytic processes, where aparadigmatic analysis “seeks to locate common themes or conceptual manifestations among thestories collected as data” (p. 14; grounded theory is a type of paradigmatic analysis) while anarrative analysis “synthesizes or configures events into an explanation of, for example […] howan individual made a career choice.” (p. 16) So narrative analysis “is the procedure throughwhich the

Conference Session

Robotics and Automation

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Rosen, Drexel University (Eng.); Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Engineering Tech); M. Eric Carr, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

career, Dr. Ertekin published papers in referred journals and in conference proceedings in his area of research interest. He has also been PI for various NSF research projects including NSF-TUES and MRI programs. Dr. Ertekin is an active member in the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and currently serves as a chair of Philadelphia SME Chapter-15.Mr. M. Eric Carr, Drexel University Mr. Eric Carr is a full-time Laboratory Manager and part-time adjunct instructor with Drexel University’s Engineering Technology program. Eric assists faculty members with the development and implementa- tion of various Engineering Technology courses. A graduate of Old Dominion University’s Computer Engineering Technology

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Engineering. Her M.S. and Ph.D. are from Stanford University, and her B.S. is from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She directed the graduate program in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech for 18 months before accepting a 2010 Sci- ence and Technology Policy Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is an Associate Editor for Journal of Engineering Education (2012-2014). Dr. Borrego has earned NSF CAREER and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) awards for her engineering education research. Her results are published in 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Engineering Education and Review of Higher Education. She is the recipient of

Conference Session

Best Practices in K-12 and University Partnerships

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mindy Hart, EPICS; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; J. Jill Rogers, University of Arizona; Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University; Jeffrey B. Goldberg, College of Engineering, University of Arizona

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #8949planning and inventory control (with Ron Askin - Joint Publishers Book of the Year Award - 2003, Insti-tute for Industrial Engineering), and a set of case studies used in introductory operations research classes.He did early work in web based education and has had classes on-line since 1997. His teaching awards in-clude the Andersen Consulting Teaching Award, 1992; a sabbatical appointment to the United States Mil-itary Academy, Department of Systems Engineering, 1995-1996 (awarded the Department of the Army,Commander’s Award for Civilian Service); the UA University-Wide Teaching Award for Meritorious De-partmental Achievement in Undergraduate Education, 1997; and the EL-Paso Natural Gas FoundationFaculty Career Teaching/Research

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University; Jessica Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #9372Collaborative Research: Identifying and Assessing Key Factors of Engineer-ing InnovativenessDr. 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 innovation and information literacy.Dr. Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Kathryn Jablokow is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Programs and Courses Session 5

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heath Joseph LeBlanc, Ohio Northern University; Khalid S. Al-Olimat P.E., Ohio Northern University; Firas Hassan, Ohio Northern University; Nesreen Alsbou, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

ECCS Department Ohio Northern University Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810 Ada, OH 45810 f-hassan@onu.edu n-alsbou@onu.eduAbstractEducators should always seek opportunities to enhance their course material and equip studentswith skills to help them achieve success in their career after graduation. One skill that has drawnmuch attention recently is the entrepreneurial mindset. This paper presents a project-basedlearning approach that infuses some of the soft skills associated with the entrepreneurial mindsetwith the technical skills of electric circuit analysis and design through a specific multi-phase

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seyed Mousavinezhad, Idaho State University; R. Eugene Stuffle, Idaho State University; Wei Pan, Idaho State University; Steven Grant Maclure, Idaho State University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

), 20133-2014. He is IEEE Education Society Membership Development Chair and Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award Chair. Professor Mousavinezhad received Michigan State University ECE Department’s Distinguished Alumni Award, May 2009, ASEE ECE Division’s 2007 Meritorious Service Award, ASEE/NCS Distinguished Service Award, April 6, 2002, for significant and sustained leadership. In 1994 he received ASEE Zone II Outstanding Campus Representative Award. He is also a Senior Mem- ber of IEEE, has been a reviewer for IEEE Transactions including the Transactions on Education. His teaching and research interests include digital signal processing (DSP) and Bioelectromagnetics. He has been a reviewer for engineering

Conference Session

Miscellaneous Topics in Energy Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Keith L. Coogler, Sam Houston State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

collaboration, coordinate joint activities,and address issues related to solar trainings, etc. [1-3].The central objective of the SITN/South-Central Region is to enable a rapid increase in theamount of solar installation workforce in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico,Missouri, and Texas. SITN establishes and maintains a network of educational, industry, andstate partners to ensure the availability, effectiveness, and standardization of solar installationtraining throughout the South-Central region at secondary and post-secondary training programs(vocational technical high schools and programs as well as community college programs).Standardized solar training of instructors will, in turn, provide a seamless career pathway forsolar installation

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Education 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim Mohedas, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

frugal innovations to address healthcare challenges in resource-limited settings. Prof. Sienko has led efforts at the University of Michigan to incorporate the constraints of global health technologies within engineering design at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is the recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Sci- ence Foundation, a Teaching Innovation Prize from the UM Provost, and a UM Undergraduate Teaching Award. While at MIT, she was a winner of the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. Page 24.639.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ralph Alan Dusseau P.E., Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

was incorporated into our database.Initial MEM ProgramThe MEM program both initially and in its current form requires students to complete 10 three-credit courses (30 credits total). The proposals for the MEM program initially included threecore courses – Human Relations and Team Building (which was to be taught by the College ofBusiness at Rowan), Introduction to Engineering Management, and Engineering Economics.The proposals for the initial MEM program included four areas of specialization: the ProjectManagement specialization, the Construction Management specialization, the EngineeringEntrepreneurship specialization, and the Career-Based specialization. Each specializationincluded four proposed courses. The evolution of each specialization

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirk D. Dolan, Michigan State University; Yinjie J. Tang, Washington University; Wei Liao, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

Keasling). Since moving to Washington University in St. Louis, my research focuses on characterizing and engineering environmental microorganisms. Milestones reached include 13C-metabolic pathway analysis, metabolic flux modeling, and systems genetic engineering of E.coli and cyanobacteria for chemical productions. I have received NSF CAREER Award (2010) and Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2010). I teach Process Dynamics and Control, Fluid Mechanics, Bioprocess Engineering, and Metabolic Engineering at Washington University. I also co-taught Advanced Energy Laboratory (2011) and Interna- tional Experience in Bioenergy (2012). I received a Department Chair’s Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2013.Dr

Conference Session

Innovative Graphics Instruction

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lulu Sun, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

skills, and toteach the fundamentals of a computer aided design. The students meet the instructor twice aweek in the laboratory during this three-credit-hour semester-long course with each class lastingtwo hours. The course is taught using traditional teaching methods with the introduction tographics concepts and examples in the first hour, and tutoring the homework in the second hour.Students passively absorb the information and work individually to solve the problems. Thelimited class time means that not all students get the immediate help they need. In addition,many of them do not follow up during office or tutoring hours for additional assistance. Since itis early in their university career, they often are not mature enough to admit they are

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadir Yilmaz P.E., New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Kyle Jeffrey Benalil, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Francisco Martín Vigil, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

Experience seminar for incoming freshmen. He also tutored students in engineering science, physics, math, and mechanical engineering courses. Also throughout his college career, he has become the president of the soccer club, and president of the SAE Collegiate Student Chapter at New Mexico Tech. He has become an active member of different professional societies including SAE, ASME, ASEE and AIAA. Awards presented to him include Standout Techie, the President’s Honor Roll, and New Mexico Tech Scholar.Mr. Francisco Mart´ın Vigil, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology Francisco Vigil is from Espa˜nola, NM. He graduated from NMT in December 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and plans to

Conference Session

Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Capstone Design Projects

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Tech.); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Joshua Konstantinos

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

and enhancement, non-invasive surgical tool design and bio-materials applications. During his career, Dr. Ertekin published papers in referred journals and in conference proceedings in his area of research interest. He has also been PI for various NSF research projects including NSF-TUES and MRI programs. Dr. Ertekin is an active member in the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and currently serves as a chair of Philadelphia SME Chapter-15.Dr. Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.)Dr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng.)Mr. joshua Konstantinos Page 24.800.1

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division New Ideas Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James V. Green, University of Maryland, College Park; Alyssa E. Cohen Sherman, University of Maryland

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

intelligence-led security), and NetMentors.Org (the first national online career development eMentoring community). Dr. Green earned a Doctor of Man- agement and an MS in Technology Management from the University of Maryland University College, an MBA from the University of Michigan, and a BS in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.Alyssa E. Cohen Sherman, University of Maryland Alyssa Cohen Sherman is the manager for entrepreneurship education at the Maryland Technology Enter- prise Institute (Mtech) at the University of Maryland. In this role, Alyssa manages a wide range of Mtech educational initiatives, including the Minor in Technology Entrepreneurship and the Hinman CEOs Pro- gram. In

Conference Session

Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wade R. Marcum, Oregon State University; Steve Reese, Oregon State University; Robert A. Schickler

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

engineering studentsprovides an additional hands-on experience in a practical working environment that is intendedto give these individuals a significant ‘leg-up’ as they begin their careers. The staff and facultythat interact with these select students have observed significant improvement in students’synthesis of information from a practical perspective. It is these traits that make studentscompetitive when applying for jobs upon graduation and begin to professionally contribute tosociety.1 INTRODUCTIONThe Radiation Center (RC) building, located on the Oregon State University campus, houses theOregon State TRIGA® Reactor (OSTR). The OSTR is a TRIGA® Mark II Reactor pool-typeresearch reactor designed by General Atomics. The primary mission of the

Conference Session

Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #8628Machining Experience in a Mechanical Engineering CurriculumDr. Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania Scott Kiefer has spent the past thirteen years teaching mechanical engineering at four institutions. As an exemplary teaching specialist in mechanical engineering at Michigan State University, Scott received the Withrow Award for Teaching Excellence, given to one faculty member in the College in Engineering for outstanding instructional performance. Scott specializes in machine design, vibrations and controls, and mechatronics. He started his career at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez in the

Conference Session

The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Christina Seimetz Wade, Virginia Tech; Bevlee A. Watford, Virginia Tech; Joseph Ariel Cuadrado-Medina, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Juan Carlos Folgar-Lopez; Stephanie Nicole Lewis, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

3.55 4.38 3.96 commercialize the ideas, processes, or solutions generated.Responses from open-ended questions indicate that students enjoyed the activities but alsoenjoyed learning about consulting as a career in an engineering field through interaction withcurrent company employees. For both Innovation Challenges, participants reported that theyliked being able to work on a real-world problem through a hands-on activity. Studentsparticularly enjoyed working in groups for the activity sponsored by Company 1. Those thatparticipated in the activity sponsored by Company 2 liked that the activity encompassed morethan just the design aspect of consulting. One student stated, “It was great to have a simulationthat encompassed the