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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Evaluating Student Behaviors and Attitudes

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Magdalini Z Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Rodney Boehm, Engineering Academic and Student Affairs; James L Wilson, Texas A&M University - College of Engineering

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and data products developed by Fujitsu. Along with Yau Chow Ching, Rodney conceived (and wrote the standards for), the SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) architecture, which served as the base for today’s North American telephone network. Rodney was Chairman of the T1X1 Technical Sub- Committee (the organization responsible for SONET standardization) from 1990 through 1994. He has been active in SONET’s National and International Standardization since 1985. In addition, Rodney has published numerous papers and presentations on SONET. Rodney began his career with Fujitsu Network Communications in 1989 as the Director of Strategic Plan- ning. He also held the positions of Director of Transport Product Planning, Vice

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Entrepreneurship Education in New Contexts

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Ronald S Harichandran P.E., University of New Haven; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven; Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven; Cheryl Q Li, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Samuel D. Daniels, University of New Haven

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Project Planning and Development 4. Learning from failure* 5. Establishing the cost of production or delivery of a service, including scaling strategies* Project Management and Engineering Economics 6. Determining market risks* Applied Engineering Statistics Transport Operations II Mechanics and Structures Lab 7. Designing innovatively under constraints Software Project Analysis and Design Junior Design Laboratory Fundamentals of Mechanical

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Design and Entrepreneurship

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Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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wereencouraged to continue to work together in the College of Engineering Senior Design I andSenior Design II courses with the intent of them being able to commercialize the design.Part of the faculty effort was to build and promote a culture of innovation among engineeringstudents; therefore as a follow up from the course offering in the spring 2013 the facultysupported two projects during their capstone senior design courses for the fall 2013-spring 2014semesters with a strong plan for commercialization of the product. These students weremotivated, self-driven and excited about their projects and the possibility of launching a businesssuccessfully by using our program, and taking advantage of the resources available to them fromour University’s Office

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Epicenter Session

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Janna Rodriguez, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Larry Leifer, Stanford University; Qu Jin, Stanford University

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Page 26.738.2business are likely to result in efforts toward acting upon those intentions.3 In this study we  investigated to what degree entrepreneurial intentions held by engineering alumni result in actualentrepreneurial activity. Intentions are a critical predictor of any planned behavior, includingentrepreneurship6. Intentions can explain and predict how alumni see opportunities that may leadto business ideas that may eventually be brought to market. Entrepreneurial intention, incombination with both situational and individual variables, possibly can explain and predictentrepreneurial patterns among engineering alumni. In the current study, intentions were used toidentify which characteristics of engineering alumni might predict future

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Epicenter Session

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Victoria Matthew, VentureWell; Thema Monroe-White, SageFox Consulting Group; Ari Turrentine, VentureWell; Angela Shartrand, VentureWell; Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology

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retention.Their longitudinal study revealed that those engineering students that participated inentrepreneurship education were more likely to be retained (70% vs. 51%) and claimed theywere more confident in their decision to pursue an engineering degree.1 Some of theentrepreneurship programs reviewed as part of their research revealed that while the programsdiffered, they also shared several features. Programs were generally available to seniors and wereproject based. Programs incorporated teams of students, sometimes across disciplines, workingon projects supplied by industry or by the students themselves. Project outcomes typicallyincluded working prototypes and business plans. Industry, practitioners, and experiencedentrepreneurs were often

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Program Development & Desired Outcomes

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Elizabeth Nilsen, VentureWell; Victoria Matthew, VentureWell/Epicenter; Angela Shartrand, VentureWell; Thema Monroe-White, SageFox Consulting Group

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Innovation and Regional incubators, venture capital Entrepreneurship Activity availability Based on Graham, R. Creating university-based entrepreneurial ecosystems evidence from emerging world leaders. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)A month later, four to five members of each team bring results from their landscapeanalyses to a multi-day workshop. Presenters from a wide variety of universitiesintroduce Pathways teams to model programs in innovation and entrepreneurship. Thesesessions are interspersed with an introduction to a specific planning and change processcalled “strategic doing.” Based on “lean” principles,7 strategic doing emphasizes rapid,iterative activities based on well-defined

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Tactical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

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Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University; Richard J. Freuler, Ohio State University

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three years of engineering or business courses supplemented with a year of IBE cohort courses spread over the four years. The program requires a fifth year for students wishing to earn a BS in engineering or a BA in a business specialization. Some additional characteristics include: o Students acquire proficiency in a foreign language and encouraged to study abroad o Summer industrial internships are mandatory o Program culminates with a comprehensive senior capstone design project focused on entrepreneurship that incorporates marketing, strategic planning, and competitive analysis, along with product, process, and system design issues

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Evaluating Student Behaviors and Attitudes

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Philip Reid Brown, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon M. Sipes, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #12796Assessment of the Rose-Hulman Leadership AcademyMr. Philip Reid Brown, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education Philip Brown is a PhD candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, and was part of the Rising Engineering Education Faculty Fellowship program at Rose-Hulman in the Fall of 2014.Dr. Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Julia M. Williams is Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assess- ment & Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her research areas include technical

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

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assumptions, measurement instruments, and methodological approaches used byresearchers will also vary substantially based on their position in this debate.The other great debate in recent years is an outgrowth of new methods that have been introduced inentrepreneurship education and practice. These methods, although existing in some form in businessliterature for decades (Mintzberg & Waters, 1985), have been popularized more recently as “LeanStartup” or “Lean Launchpad” methods (Blank & Dorf, 2012; Ries, 2011). The advent of these newapproaches has created turbulence among educators and researchers. Many have been quick to “golean” and discard methods that favor a more traditional planning approach, while others have arguedfor the need to

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Tactical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

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Edward Pines, New Mexico State University; Patricia A. Sullivan, New Mexico State University; Luke Nogales, New Mexico State University

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monthsthe space has been active. Planning such a space is a traditional activity. Visions of its use may, however, beoptimistic and pessimistic at the same time. How students use the space has surprised bothfaculty and college administration. Our goal has been to use the space as an organizing conceptfor a diverse array of activities ranging from high school robotics competitions to senior capstoneprojects. Subsequent to its introduction in February of this year, a study was conducted ofstudent awareness. This study informed us of the increased challenges in marketing the use of thespace. We have evolved a mentorship program to support students working in the space. Thepast six months have seen overuse by classes, exciting design

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Robert A Heard, Carnegie Mellon University; J F Whitacre, Carnegie Mellon Univerisity

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materials producers. Because these materials find themselves as partof a product they are dependent on product cycles and market conditions of a downstreamcompany. While students learn that the basics of product planning and the innovation cycle thatestablishes incumbent and emerging companies in the marketplace, the intent is to have studentunderstand that these downstream market influences greatly influence the upstream materialsupply and value chains of a materials producer.Factors and Policies Influencing Materials InnovationMaterials do not move easily from invention to the marketplace and thus can take severaldecades.1 Furthermore, once in use, a technological innovation is subject to diffusion pressuresas copies or similar competing products

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Federico Garcia Lorca, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.; Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sridhar S. Condoor, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.

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26.1327.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Reinforcing Communication Skills through Participation in a Team-based Weekly Innovation ChallengeIntroduction The Weekly Innovation Challenge (WIC) is an opportunity for students, staff andfaculty to engage in competition while honing their ability to think, act and pitch new ideas.WIC leaders plan and run the competition to help participants learn important lessons in teamcollaboration, communication, innovation and opportunity recognition. These four themesconstitute the fundamental learning objectives envisioned for WICs. This team-based competition has been an ongoing event at the engineering school of aprivate

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Sergio Celis, Universidad de Chile; Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan

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. Entrepreneurship education has evolved since it was first taught in business schools in themid-1940s. As it continues to be incorporated across disciplines, entrepreneurship education hasseen a number of innovations and has benefited from advances in student learning6.Entrepreneurship education has expanded well beyond single business plan classes. Recently,engineering colleges have been the most aggressive at incorporating entrepreneurship at differentlevels, from individual course development, certificate creation, to program development3,4,7. In2010, over 50% of ASEE engineering programs offered entrepreneurship opportunities to theirstudents and approximately 25% had a more structured opportunity, such as a minor7. While thecurriculum and delivery

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Sergio William Sedas, Tecnológico de Monterrey

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. The possibility that children have a nurturing space toplay and learn through football went from possibility to an afternoon soccer camp forchildren. Page 26.89.6The next step to make possibility happen is to enroll people into possibility and together workon a project. The newly declared possibility is shared with others in a way that inspires themand enrolls them into this possibility. Inspired by this possibility, people gather to brainstorma project, event, program or initiative. Teams are formed, a plan is laid out, and people getinto action driven and motivated by possibility.2.3.3 The steps to create possibilityThere are six steps to

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Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Paula Gangopadhyay, The Henry Ford (museums)

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visitors a year, and has a mammoth collection of 26 million artifacts. Gangopadhyay is responsible for a vast array of onsite, online and offsite programs, products and experiences for a diverse set of audiences including students, educators, youth, families, adults as well as for higher education and organizational leadership. Gangopadhyay led the visioning of a dynamic education strategic plan at The Henry Ford as well as the conceptualization and development of many paradigm-shifting educational products and programs. She spearheaded and developed game-changing curricula, Innovation 101 and Be an Innovator series which are currently being enthusiastically adopted and implemented by educators nationwide. This

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Rolfe Josef Sassenfeld, New Mexico State University; Luke Nogales, New Mexico State University

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entrepreneur searches for a business model, rather thanexecute a business plan.Prior to the lean LaunchPad, the business plan was the key to creating a startup. Entrepreneurswould use “the decades-old formula, you write a business plan, pitch it to investors, assemble ateam, introduce a product, and start selling as hard as you can.”3 While this approach was widelyadopted, it was inefficient, with 75% of startups failing according to Harvard Business Schoolprofessor, Shikhar Ghosh. The majority of professors and textbooks preached this approach.The Lean LaunchPad has had quite a bit of success. It is the primary method used at upperechelon university’s like Stanford University, Columbia University, University of California –Berkley, as well as quickly

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Tactical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

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Ikhlaq Sidhu, University of California, Berkeley; Ken Singer, CET, College of Engineering UC Berkeley; Charlotta Johnsson, Lund University, Sweden; Mari Suoranta, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

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, and pay it forward.” 2 Story Telling “Realize a something new by induction, and then learn to communicate the story with a new language.” 3 Friend or Foe “If you can’t tell: Learn to trust others without expecting anything in return.” Page 26.1030.5 4 Seek Fairness “Make deals that seek fairness (in positive sum transactions), not advantage (in zero sum transactions).” 5 Plan to Fail “It is necessary to be Wrong sometimes. Plan to Experiment. Plan to Fail. (Fail Fast) Analyze, adapt and repeat. The smarter you think you are, the harder this is going to be.” 6 Diversify

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Design and Entrepreneurship

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Bryan O'Neil Boulanger, Ohio Northern University; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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 ‘customer’ concept strengthens the ‘model’ theme. It is also important to note that the word ‘model’ is serving two purposes. First it is the name of a theme (a group of words). Second it is a concept (a single word or merged group of words). It is because the word ‘model’ is the most connected word in the theme that makes it the name of that theme.  Likewise, the ‘business’ theme in the entrepreneurship texts include the concepts ‘opportunity’, ‘planning’, ‘idea’ and ‘action’.  Although each of the three bodies of text are distinct, there are some important commonalities. Each contains as a key theme ‘product’ at approximately the same high level of importance. Both

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Gregory Wilson II, University of Georgia

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%) enjoyed collaborating with students from differentdisciplines, and wished there were more opportunities on campus to do so (93%). The eventsucceeded at attracting a wide variety of students. One of the goals of the event was to attractstudents who had not previously participated in a make-a-thon or hack-a-thon and were notinterested in starting a business and expose these students to design activities. I accomplishedthis goal: 87% of participants were attending this type of event for the first time, and only 10%of the participants planned to start a business after graduation. Most of the students attended theevent because they were interested in the topic (87%), wanted to practice design (57%), and/orwanted to collaborate with others (70

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Mona Eskandari, Stanford University; Barbara A. Karanian A., Stanford University; Ville Mikael Taajamaa, University of Turku

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studentwork. Preliminary results show that four core “rules” (also known as emotional andcommunication messages for success) may in fact lead to misinterpretations and can sidetrackproductive engagement for creation and collaboration: a) Repeating for perfection: in fact,people report that they do not find flawless storytelling believable; b) Interacting one-on-onewithin a large audience: the opposite may be true when you apply a “planned spontaneous” andpersonally unique leadership approach in storytelling; c) Applying a template to tell andmemorize one story: in contrast, there are reasons to start in the middle of the story to find a newand powerful beginning; d) Describing a generic user story so as to only present a stereotype of apersona: both

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Robert Gettens, Western New England University; Harlan E Spotts Jr., Western New England University; José Antonio Riofrío, Western New England University

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engineering students can benefit from thismindset. In fact, everyone needs to think about becoming an entrepreneur.The module 1 lesson plan incorporates a case study while introducing several specificentrepreneurial skills that students can later apply to an ongoing project (Figure 1). The mindsetcharacteristics sought in the module are to instill a sense of “Brimming with Curiosity”,“Courting Serendipity” and “Cultivating Randomness” [2]. The module begins with anoverview of the entrepreneurial mindset followed by lessons on specific skills including clientpain points, the use of the 5 whys [3] and the P.O.V. mad-lib [4]. Following the presentation ofthese techniques a clip from the television show SharkTank is shown and students practice

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Design and Entrepreneurship

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Barbara A. Karanian A., Stanford University; Ateeq Junaid Suria, Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Jonathan Summers

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design.Certainly, techniques in conceptual design have traditionally included the act of sketching, andoutlining key characteristics of a product, service or experience early on in the design processwith the goal of initiating creative reflection and planning subsequent phases16. Storytelling is anatural extension. It facilitates every aspect of the design process. The history of entrepreneurialopportunity and research show formal applications amongst other design activities in theevolution of engineering design from Boston to Silicon Valley ---- due to the way companiesperceive innovation phases17.The power of first moments in entrepreneurial storytelling18 show how a degree of ambiguity inthe study and teaching approach adds anticipation and preserves

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José Antonio Riofrío, Western New England University; Robert Gettens, Western New England University; Anthony D. Santamaria, Western New England University; Thomas K Keyser, Western New England University; Ronald E. Musiak, Western New England University; Harlan E Spotts Jr., Western New England University

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of the other courses.Introduction to Engineering: InnovationInnovation at Western New England University starts for students on the first day in theIntroduction to Engineering course. Four person teams compete in a series of four autonomous‘bot challenges. The ‘bot platform used is the Parallax BOE-BOT [2] controlled with an Arduinomicrocontroller. This platform was chosen after seeing the success of the “living with the lab”program at Louisiana Tech University [2]. The ‘bot challenges parallel lesson plans in computeraided design (CAD), programming (C in the Arduino IDE environment), the design process,fabrication methods and electronics which the students require to complete the designprojects. Active and Collaborative Learning (ACL

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Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Shannon Gilmartin, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Angela Shartrand, VentureWell; Laurie Moore, National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter); Emanuel Costache, SageFox Consulting Group; Andreea Mihaela Fintoc; Qu Jin, Stanford University; Calvin Ling, Stanford University; Florian Michael Lintl, Stanford University; Leticia C. Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University; Humera Fasihuddin, VentureWell; Anna K Breed

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studies that can help improve teaching, learning, and educational policy decision makings using both quantitative and qual- itative research methods. Her current research project in National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) focuses on measuring engineering students’ entrepreneurial interests and related individual characteristics. Her Ph.D. dissertation involved using statistical modeling methods to explain and predict engineering students’ success outcomes, such as retention, academic performance, and grad- uation.Mr. Calvin Ling, Stanford UniversityMr. Florian Michael Lintl, Stanford University Florian is studying Environmental Planning and Ecological Engineering at the Technical University

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Eric G Meyer, Lawrence Technological University; Mansoor Nasir, Lawrence Technological University

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Nike+ Sports and exercise community (http://www.fitbit.com/one) (https://secure-nikeplus.nike.com/plus/) Weight Watchers Online Dieting community Withings Smart body analyzer (https://www.weightwatchers.com/plan/www/online (http://www.withings.com/bodyanalyzer/) _01.aspx) W/Me Life spectrum analyzer Fitocracy Exercise community (http://www.phyode.com/products.html) (https://www.fitocracy.com/) Fuelband Sportwatch GPS Google+ Fitness community (http://nikeplus.nike.com/plus/products/sport_w (https

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Florian Michael Lintl, Stanford University; Qu Jin, Stanford University; Shannon Gilmartin, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Mark Schar, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Paper ID #12600Starter or Joiner, Market or Socially-Oriented: Predicting Career Choiceamong Undergraduate Engineering and Business StudentsMr. Florian Michael Lintl, Stanford University Florian is studying Environmental Planning and Ecological Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). His majors are Sustainable City Development, Renewable Energy, International Land Use Planning and Environmental Economics. He is also participant in the Entrepreneurial Qualification Program ”Manage&More”. This is a program of the Center for Innovation and Business Creation at the TU Munich (”UnternehmerTUM”) which

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David R Mikesell, Ohio Northern University; Tailian Chen, Gonzaga University; Jianfeng Ma, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Saint Louis University; Ahad Ali, Lawrence Technological University

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for “conducting a market analysis.” Theengineering students started out unsure of their ability to conduct a market analysis, probablyeven inflating their confidence beyond what they should have reported. But the project forcedthem to plan and execute such a market analysis, attempting them to think beyond what theythought was a good idea, and consider what their prospective customers would think – indeed, ifthe product would sell, or if their customers would pay more for the proposed improvements indesign and sustainability.Students also grew in their confidence to creatively solve problems. They saw that, when theyforced themselves to contemplate a problem for an extended time and from a number of different

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Jennifer A. Mallory, Western New England University

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beneficial;  The project helped students understand the importance of financial considerations in design.5. Conclusions and Future WorkThis paper described the author’s early efforts to develop a course module for integrating theentrepreneurial mindset into thermodynamics. This course module provides students not onlywith the understanding of how to apply electric-generating power plant theory, but also howdesign is integrated with, and influenced by, economic, socio-political, and environmentalfactors. All factors which are important to an entrepreneurially-minded engineer.To date the author has implemented the project into her course twice and plans to conduct a morein-depth study in the future. Future work will consist of administering a

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Ikhlaq Sidhu, University of California, Berkeley; Paris Deletraz, IE Business School

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Press.Ibarra, H. (2003). Working Identity. Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press.Little, B. R. (2011). Personal Projects and Free Traits: Personality and Motivation Reconsidered. ThousandOaks, CA: Sage.Mauer, René et. al. (2009). Self-Efficacy: Conditioning the Entrepreneurial Mindset. International Studies inEntrepreneurship, 24, 233-257.Shepherd, Dean A. et. al. (2010). Entrepreneurial Spirals: Deviation-Amplifying Loops of an EntrepreneurialMindset and Organizational Culture. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 34, 59-82.Suchman, L. (1987). Plans and Situated Actions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Page 26.575.10Weick, K

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David G. Novick, University of Texas, El Paso

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, and to provide apreview of law school for students considering legal study. The course primarily covered the IPfields of trade secret protection, patents, and copyright. The course emphasized critical thinking,with the expectation that these skills would transfer to the students’ future learning and work,regardless of major or of career plans. In its current form (the course is being taught for a fourthtime in the spring of 2015), the course’s expected learning outcomes are • Knowledge and comprehension: Explain the purpose and scope of the U.S. Constitution patent and copyright clause, federal statutes on patent, copyright and trademark, and judicial decisions on intellectual property; explain the key concepts of non