Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bernd Steffensen, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

for granted and do not come to auser’s mind when market researchers attempt to identify opportunities for future productimprovements and innovations. Companies, i.e., their employees, need empathy to understand thissituation and why certain experiences and performances with products are meaningful to theuser12.McDonagh13 defines empathy as “the intuitive ability to identify with other people’s thoughts andfeelings – their motivations, emotional and mental models, values, priorities, preferences, andinner conflicts”. In an engineering class the theoretical concept of empathy is probably perplexingand will be rated by the students as a very soft skill or as a psychological approach beyond (a) theboundaries of the engineering disciplines and (b

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 10

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melany M. Ciampi, Safety, Health, and Environment Research Organization; Claudio da Rocha Brito, Science and Education Research Council; Rosa Maria Castro Fernandes Vasconcelos, Universidade de Minho; Luis Alfredo Martins Amaral P.E., University of Minho - ALGORITMI; Victor F. A. Barros Ing.-Paed IGIP, Science and Education Research Council

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

register for economics classes. After three weeks ofclasses they take part in a training class in order to learn how to cause a first good impression withtheir future clients. This is followed by a period at ’The Innovative Office’, in the City Hall. Theirwork starts when they register for the project, which is an opportunity of intensive internship,early in the program.The first idea was to offer an extra course and invite students to enroll the course. However, as ithad, in a first moment, a low number of interested students, the coordination of the projectdecided to offer also an internship opportunity. This idea reached the desired goal and a largernumber of students enrolled the course/internship opportunity.There are some “soft” skills that

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David G. Alexander Ph.D., California State University - Chico

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

,” Journal of World Business, (2006) 41(1), 56-65. 11. Pellerin, C., “How NASA Builds Teams: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams”, (2009) John Wiley and Sons.12. Institution of Engineering and Technology, http://businesscasestudies.co.uk/iet, 3/20/2016.