Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonie J. Jetter, Portland State University; Gerald W. Recktenwald, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

ofcreative students, community members, or faculty inventors. In 2010, we began an experiment at Portland State University to encourage studentsto engage in self-directed innovative projects outside of their engineering course work.The “we” was a group of faculty convened by our Dean, who had secured donations tospur innovation in the College. The Dean called this group of faculty the “InnovationCouncil” and gave us the task “to create an environment and culture that will inspireyoung engineers to become true innovators.” The Council created a process to offer smallgrants that we hoped would encourage and enable student innovators to try out their ideas.Initially we called this program the Innovation Program. A couple of years after the start

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen C. Davis, University of Cincinnati; Fred Richard Beyette Jr., University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

/enterpreneurship/docs/2016 docs/Elevator%20Pitch%20Evaluation%20Sheet.pdf 3 author: jabowen http://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?code=W5CCX7&sp=true 4 University of Cincinnati -- EECS created by the authors, used in previous academic terms 5 VentureWell (previously National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance) http://nciia.org/sites/default/files/u7/suhr.pdf 6 Wichita State University http://webs.wichita.edu/depttools/depttoolsmemberfiles/ace/ACE%20Epitch%20 Score%20Sheet.pdf 7 University of Wisconsin–Platteville https://www.uwplatt.edu/files/entrepreneurship/Elevator%20Pitch_Guidelines%2 0&%20Rubric.pdf 8 Baker College Business