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ENT-1: Innovative Approaches to Student Engagement and Belonging in Engineering

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Lauren H. Logan, Ohio Northern University

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presented their LCA work at conferences like FYEE and EWRI. Active in service, Dr. Logan is a district director for Tau Beta Pi, and advises student groups on campus including the LGBTQ+ group Open Doors. Dr. Logan was recently recognized as a 2024 Engineering Unleashed Fellow for her work developing an engineering museum exhibit classroom project. In her free time, Dr. Logan enjoys visiting theme parks and watching horror movies with her spouse, and cuddling their four furbabies. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Autonomy, Motivation, and Inclusive Teaching: Engineering Museum Exhibit Class Project Lauren H

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ENT-4: Experiential Approaches to Developing Entrepreneurial Mindsets in Engineering

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Dalya Ismael, Old Dominion University

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. She leads projects that embed sustainability and entrepreneurial thinking into engineering education and collaborates with communities to develop climate-resilient infrastructure solutions. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Developing Entrepreneurial Mindsets in Construction Management through Experiential ProjectsEntrepreneurial Minded Learning (EML), a framework supported by the Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN), promotes critical thinking and innovation by encouraging studentsto explore real-world problems through the 3Cs: Curiosity, Creating Value, and Connections. Inconstruction management education, the focus often remains on technical skills and

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ENT-7: Approaches to Fostering Self-Efficacy and Data-Driven Decision Making

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Abigail Tubbs, University of North Dakota; Mercedes Terry, University of North Dakota; Brandon Fugger, University of North Dakota; Blair Dupre, University of North Dakota; Enrique Alvarez Vazquez, University of North Dakota; Ryan Striker P.E., University of North Dakota

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. Ryan earned his BS and PhD in Electrical Engineering and his MS in Systems Engineering. Ryan presently serves as the Director of Systems Engineering and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Dakota. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Boosting Innovation Self-Efficacy: The Role of Learning Coaches and Project Mentors in Innovation-Based LearningAbstractThis study explores the impact of learning coaches on innovation self-efficacy (ISE) inundergraduate and graduate biomedical engineering students within an innovation-based learning(IBL) program. Innovation self-efficacy, or the belief in one’s ability to successfully engage

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ENT-4: Experiential Approaches to Developing Entrepreneurial Mindsets in Engineering

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Amanda Y Bao P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology; Yewande S Abraham, Rochester Institute of Technology

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stakeholders, including clients, end users, suppliers, designers, contractors, andother project team members. The civil engineering body of knowledge identifies four categories(foundational, engineering fundamentals, technical, and professional), including 21 outcomes forcivil engineers to acquire [4]. Many of these outcomes are addressed through the KEENframework. Integrating an entrepreneurial mindset into civil engineering education fosters aculture of critical thinking and collaboration, enabling civil engineers to approach challengesholistically by considering diverse stakeholders and environmental contexts [5]. This broadenedawareness enhances problem-solving capabilities while empowering professionals to createinnovative, sustainable, and value

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ENT-5: Pathways for Developing Entrepreneurial Skills Across Educational Levels

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John Reap, Quinnipiac University

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them and launch the businesses after successfully securing external funding[6]. Efforts to support start-up activities for senior MEs exist on university campuses outside theUS, as Pradeep’s description of entrepreneurial support on APJ Abdul Kalam TechnologicalUniversity in India shows [7]. Entrepreneurial activities also enter the engineering curriculumwith the support of existing businesses. The presence of market identification and business plandevelopment differentiate traditional and entrepreneurial capstone projects in such cases [8].Creed’s two course sequence meant to design prototypes and generate associated business plansfor committed corporate sponsors serves as an example [9]. Efforts in the United Kingdom ledto a multi-year

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ENT-8: Mentorship, Creativity, and Ethics in Academic Entrepreneurship

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Anne K DeChant, Penn State University Hershey College of Medicine; Erika Swift, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine; Alyson Grace Eggleston, Pennsylvania State University; Robert J. Rabb P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Mark Daniel Pacey, Pennsylvania State University

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for translational research development, strategic planning, and implementation of major projects. Ms DeChant is a dynamic leader with 20+ years of experience in higher education, and earned her MBA at Case Western Reserve University, her MS in Cell Biology at Cleveland State University, and her BS at Ohio State University.Prof. Erika Swift, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine Erika Swift is a Professor of Practice and Center for Medical Innovation Director at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. Before joining Penn State University in 2015, she worked in various industry sectors, including medical devices, dental equipment, and consumer goods. She has over 25 years of experience

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ENT-4: Experiential Approaches to Developing Entrepreneurial Mindsets in Engineering

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Sydney Casperson; Heather Dillon, University of Washington; Jeffrey Walters, University of Washington; Chris Sharp, George Fox University; Kayt Frisch, George Fox University

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, students who had an interest in graduate programs were alsoencouraged to take an M-CURE that focused on writing peer reviewed papers and transition to graduateprograms [3,5].The last element of the CURE experiences was tied to development of an entrepreneurial mindset (EM).EM for this project is defined as a set of attitudes, dispositions, habits, and behaviors that shape a uniqueapproach to problem-solving, innovation, and value creation. In the context of research, we are focused onhelping students connect research with value creation. We have defined a research mindset as a broaderidea that includes many facets of an entrepreneurial mindset. These factors in turn are connected to theidea of student-centered research [6].All of the CUREs in the

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ENT-5: Pathways for Developing Entrepreneurial Skills Across Educational Levels

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Irene Reizman, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Maysam Nezafati, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech & Emory University; Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University; Mary Lauren Benton, Baylor University; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Mitchel Daniel, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jonathan Rylander, Baylor University

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Environmental Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology, and her B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla (same school, different name). At Rose-Hulman, Michelle is co-leading a project to infuse an entrepreneurial-mindset in undergraduate students’ learning, and a project to improve teaming by teaching psychological safety in engineering education curricula. Michelle also mentors undergraduate researchers to investigate the removal of stormwater pollutants in engineered wetlands. Michelle was a 2018 ExCEEd Fellow, and was recognized as the 2019 ASCE Daniel V. Terrell Awardee.Dr. Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University Liping Liu serves as the Associate Dean of Graduate

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ENT-5: Pathways for Developing Entrepreneurial Skills Across Educational Levels

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Barbara Munoz-Vallejos, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

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Paper ID #46967Development of Entrepreneurial Competencies in Engineering Students: AComparative Analysis between In-Person and Online EducationProf. Barbara Munoz-Vallejos, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile B´arbara Estefan´ıa Mu˜noz Vallejos, M.Sc., is an Assistant Professor and faculty member at the School of Engineering, Universidad Andr´es Bello (UNAB), Chile. She holds a degree in Psychology and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Universidad del Desarrollo (2008). Additionally, she earned a Master’s degree in Curriculum Development and Educational Projects from Universidad Andr´es Bello (2019–2021). She has also

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Poster Session

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Steven McAlpine, University of Maryland Baltimore County

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Paper ID #49179BOARD #153: Work in Progress: Designing a Role Playing Game for anAstrobiology CourseProf. Steven McAlpine, University of Maryland Baltimore County Steven McAlpine is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Entrepreneurship, Engineering, and Individualized Study programs at UMBC. He has been teaching role playing game design and leading campus wide RPG events for the past ten years. He also leads the multidisciplinary sustainable design course entitled INDS 430: The Kinetic Sculpture Project, which won the grand prize in the 2015 Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture race. ©American Society

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ENT-2: Bridging Faculty and Student Perspectives in Entrepreneurial Education

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M Ajmal Khan, Ohio Northern University; Heath Joseph LeBlanc, Ohio Northern University; Khalid S. Al-Olimat P.E., Ohio Northern University; Ahmed Ammar, Ohio Northern University; Farha Jahan, Ohio Northern University

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Communications course. EML is a pedagogy that aims to inculcate the entrepreneurialmindset (EM) in students, specifically the 3C framework of the EM: curiosity, connections, andcreating value. EML techniques aim to increase student curiosity, improve the student’s ability tomake connections between disparate sources of information, and ultimately equip them to createvalue for themselves and society. Thus, EML is closely related to inquiry-based learning, problem-based learning, and project-based learning. The distinction between EML and these otherpedagogical approaches is the focus on a value-creation mindset.EML is integrated into this course primarily through three frameworks: (1) DevelopingConnections, which employs risk factor consideration when

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Poster Session

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Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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, groups, and teams inenhancing their project efficiency and increasing the novelty and effectiveness of their ideas andimplementation strategies. With the increasing prevalence and accessibility of generative AI, itis worth exploring how these applications might be utilized for idea generation and in thecreative process.This work describes a deliverable that includes the utilization of generative AI assigned tostudents within a graduate-level engineering course in creativity at a large university. Similar tothe journals and sketches of famous creative individuals throughout history, the CreativityPortfolio is an individual assignment designed to facilitate students’ documentation of theirdiscoveries, insights, inspirations, identified problems

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ENT-3: Transforming Engineering Curriculum through Entrepreneurial Approaches

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Anna K. T. Howard, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Katherine Saul, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Nathalie Lavoine, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

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supported the goal of bringing faculty on board.Our presentations included an explicit request: faculty should work to help students buildconnections between the content of their lectures and the real world and the connections betweentheir lectures and other classes. Our contention was that while faculty often had these connections inmind, they needed encouragement to add them explicitly to their lectures and homework. Anothertypical reaction from faculty is the study skills of students, specifically the students' belief thatengineering can be learned by cramming before the exams [5]. We contend that students facing anopen-ended project with real-world implications start to understand that they need to work a bit at atime; offering such projects

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Poster Session

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Blanca Esthela Moscoso; MiguelAndres Andres Guerra P.E., Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ

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Paper ID #46809BOARD #151: WIP: Fostering Collaborative Entrepreneurship Skills in TechnicalDisciplinesBlanca Esthela MoscosoDr. MiguelAndres Andres Guerra P.E., Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ MiguelAndres is an Associate Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering and the Director of the Masters in Management of Construction and Real Estate Companies MDI at Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with emphasis in

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ENT-7: Approaches to Fostering Self-Efficacy and Data-Driven Decision Making

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Juan Sebastián Sánchez-Gómez, Universidad ECCI

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project aims to equip engineering students with essential data analysisskills to prepare them for the modern labor market. The study's specific objectives are as follows:to promote evidence-based decision-making, to improve customer-focused product customization,to generate competitive advantage, to improve decision-making under uncertain conditions, and topromote continuous quality improvement. The curriculum is being updated to meet the demandsof the labor market and technological advances. The methodology includes identifying educationalneeds, setting clear objectives, designing and implementing the curriculum, and continuouslyevaluating its impact for improvement. Research findings have indicated a substantial enhancementin students' capacity

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ENT-1: Innovative Approaches to Student Engagement and Belonging in Engineering

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Andrea T Kwaczala, Western New England University; Andrea Davis, Western New England University; Heidi Ellis, Western New England University

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faculty member using a rubric to scorepitch performance, communication skills, and value creation. Three faculty teaching differentsections of seminar worked collaboratively across disciplines to measure n=19 engineeringstudents, n=14 computer science students, and n=8 communication students. An additional 68students in a different seminar class served as a control group. Additionally, after the completionof the project, the three faculty evaluated the student pitches using a pitch rubric that wasdesigned to assess technical content, communication skills, and articulation of theentrepreneurial mindset, focused on “Creating Value. To identify the interrater reliability of thefaculty feedback, each of the faculty-evaluations were compared to one

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Poster Session

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Mark Blaine, University of Oregon; Nathan Jacobs, University of Oregon

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about time and space allocated for faculty members contributing from different disciplines. • That time and space can be used creatively over time to conceptualize a new framework for delivering content that’s not traditionally incorporated into STEM programs. • Shared group vision and leadership is required to make the most of those spaces. Having a common conceptual framework for problem solving – like design thinking – can help with those connections. • The motivation of key personnel will carry the project for the first few years, but what’s created must translate to new team members, administrators, and faculty who come on board. New champions for the effort should be a constant point of

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Poster Session

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Marcus Melo de Lyra, The Ohio State University; Sherri Youssef, The Ohio State University; Peyton OReilly, The Ohio State University; Shukufe Rahman, The Ohio State University; Benjamin Ahn, The Ohio State University; Adam R Carberry, The Ohio State University

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mental habits that foster curiosity, the ability to make connections, and the ability to createvalue when engaging with engineering problems. To best support the growth of an EM inengineering students, researchers have begun to design and implement teaching practices gearedtowards instilling this mindset in their students. However, there is still a dearth of research onassessing teaching practices that provide support for integrating EM into engineering courses.Thus, this work in progress reports the initial efforts to design an engineering-specific teachingpractices assessment tool to serve in a larger project that addresses engineering teachingpractices that infused EM mindset EM development. We conducted a literature review of STEMteaching

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Poster Session

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Ria Madan, Texas A&M University; Hadear Ibrahim Hassan, Texas A&M University; M Cynthia Hipwell, Texas A&M University; Astrid Layton, Texas A&M University

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participant with the best learning outcomes and RP1 was identified as theparticipant with the worst learning outcomes, defined based on their performance in I-Corps,evaluated by the quality of learning (a qualitative assessment of the participant’s finalpresentation in I-Corps) during the program. Other factors were also considered, such ascontinued engagement of the team in the project, receiving early funding, filing patents,industrial design rights or trademarks, publishing in peer-reviewed journals, or getting mentionedin news articles. Future work will develop a more formal rubric for participant programperformance and entrepreneurial performance to quantitively connect network metrics tosuccess. Figure 3 shows the network graphs for