Paper ID #19683Geographically Distributed Teams in Engineering Design: Best Practices andIssues in Cases of International Teams Working from Different ContinentsDr. Constanza Miranda Mendoza, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile Constanza Miranda holds a PhD in design with a focus in anthropology from North Carolina State Uni- versity. While being a Fulbright grantee, Constanza worked as a visiting researcher at the Center for Design Research, Mechanical Engineering Department, at Stanford. Today she is an assistant professor at P.Universidad Cat´olica de Chile’s Engineering School. There, she directs the DILAB: the
campus and be of financial benefit to the offering institutions.In the context of these guiding principles, considerable effort was spent developing the strategicgoals and objectives for the academic programs offered at RELLIS. Following is a statement ofeach of the strategic goals for academics at RELLIS. Goal 1–State of the Art Campus: Develop a state-of -the-art campus supporting the collaborative mission of the RELLIS Initiative. The RELLIS Campus is envisaged to be a premier high-tech, high-impact innovative research and education campus integrating smart campus and state-of-the-art technologies, practices, and processes to effectively and efficiently manage shared campus resources and assets, and to
Paper ID #20567Setting the Foundations for International and Cross-disciplinary Innovation:The U.S.-Denmark Summer School ”Renewable Energy: In Practice”Dr. Tela Favaloro, University of California, Santa Cruz Tela Favaloro received a B.S. degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Univer- sity of California, Santa Cruz. She is currently working to further the development and dissemination of alternative energy technology; as project manager of a green building design initiative and researcher with the Center for Sustainable Engineering and Power Systems. Her background is in the development of
themes of their learning system and content. Finally, weutilize this process to propose canvases suitable for undergraduate courses from first-year andcapstone design.Opportunities in Design and Entrepreneurship EducationIn today’s design and technical entrepreneurship courses, students are commonly asked toenvision and design a product offering along with a business model. In many cases, the product,device, or system being developed is a complex technical system that is being developed for abusiness setting impacted by competition, regulation, and social complexities. Dym et al., intheir classic work on design teaching and learning, note that “design is hard to learn and harderstill to teach” (Dym et al., 2005). Importantly, they make
Curriculum in Higher Education”.7. Duval-Couetil, N. (2013). “Assessing the impact of entrepreneurship education programs: Challenges and approaches.” Journal of Small Business Management, 51(3): 329-351.8. Gedeon, S.A. (2014). “Application of best practices in university entrepreneurship education.” European Journal of Training and Development, 38(3): 231-253.9. Jones, P., Penaluna, A., and Pittaway, L. (2014). “Entrepreneurship education: A recipe for change?” International Journal of Management Education, 12(3), 304-306.10. Vanevenhoven, J. (2013). “Advances and challenges in entrepreneurship education.” Journal of Small Business Management, 51(3): 466-470.11. Gandhi, S., Jimmy, M.B., and Taghazadeh, S. (2016). “A comprehensive review
engineering education. He is a Research Scientist and Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and teaches the course ME310x Product Management and ME305 Statistics for Design Researchers. Mark has extensive background in consumer products management, having managed more than 50 con- sumer driven businesses over a 25-year career with The Procter & Gamble Company. In 2005, he joined Intuit, Inc. as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer and initiated a number of consumer package goods marketing best practices, introduced the use of competitive response modeling and ”on- the-fly” A|B testing program to qualify software improvements. Mark is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of One
Paper ID #18081Successful Teaming Characteristics Revealed in an Intensive Design Experi-enceMr. Rodney Boehm, Texas A&M University Rodney Boehm is the Director of Engineering Entrpreneurship and an Associate Professor of Practice in the Texas A&M University College of Engineering. He has broad industry experiences, including over 30 years in all aspects of the telecommunications industry (sales, marketing, manufacturing, business de- velopment, and technical design), the creation of a telecommunications standard (SONET - Synchronous Optical Network) for the fiber optics industry that is still in use
extracurricular activities to help hone engineeringstudents’ entrepreneurial skills and encourage ideation. However, there remainfew co-curricular opportunities for students to develop an entrepreneurial skillsetand practice entrepreneurial thinking. In particular, opportunities are rare forstudents to merge entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) with the high-levelsubject-, project- and collaboration-based learning approaches typically seen insenior-level elective courses. Developing the entrepreneurial mindset will serveour students well by preparing them to be more impactful engineers.We have developed, implemented and assessed a framework for integratingEML into senior-level elective courses via an Ideation Project. In the affectedcourse
Paper ID #18557Entrepreneurial Motivations for High-Interest StudentsMr. Benjamin James Call, Utah State University - Engineering Education Benjamin Call graduated with his Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2006 from Utah State University. After eight years with NAVAIR, he has returned to pursue a PhD in Engineering Education. He is funded by the Presidential Doctoral Research Fellowship. His research interests range from spatial ability to sophomore-level engineering curricula and from engineering internships to student entrepreneurship.Dr. Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University Wade Goodridge
Academics in the Center for Entrepreneurship and was responsible for building the Program in Entrepreneurship for UM undergraduates, co-developing the masters level entrepreneur- ship program, and launching the biomedical engineering graduate design program. Aileen has received a number of awards for her teaching, including the Thomas M. Sawyer, Jr. Teaching Award, the UM ASEE Outstanding Professor Award and the Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award. Prior to joining the University of Michigan faculty, she worked in the private sector gaining experience in biotech, defense, and medical device testing at large companies and start-ups. Aileen’s current research areas include en- trepreneurship engineering education, impact
, wheregraduates take jobs in finance (10-17%), consulting (7-11%), law (12-17%), and medicine (12-16%), or go on to graduate school (8-9%)3. If our best and brightest inspire to attend eliteschools and upon graduation take jobs, rather than create businesses, one may ask if ourinstructional approach to teaching entrepreneurship is changing mindsets. Upon reflection, wemust ask ourselves, “Does an educational experience infused with entrepreneurship create moreentrepreneurial minded people?”, and more specifically, “How can we assess if a change inmindset is occurring on our campus?”There are two macroscale approaches to conducting research on the subject of entrepreneurship,with one focusing on the impact of entrepreneurship in the economy and how
related to how students learn chemistry and how that guides the design of instructional materials and teaching strategies as well on efforts related to faculty development and the connection between chemistry education research and the practice of teaching. She is a PI for the Increase the Impact Project, which is developing resources for PIs to improve the propagation of their innovations, as well as a PI for the ELIPSS Project, which is developing resources for STEM instructors to assess professional skills in the classroom. Dr. Cole is also an associate editor for the Journal of Chemical Education.John Lovitt, Wichita State University and Missouri University of Science & Technology Retired Tech Industry
andlarge-scale engineering projects. Table 4 Modules and Contents of ACEE Curriculum Mathematical Modeling, Introduction to Engineering, Systems Science andEngineering Fundamentals Engineering, Principles of EngineeringEngineering Design Computer Graphics and Basic Data StructureEngineering Management Management, etc.Engineering Practice Wheeled Robot Technology, etc.3.1.2 A Professional Model for Engineering Education InnovationZhejiang Polytechnic Institute benefits from ZJU’s traditional strengths in multiple disciplines,engineering research and education, a well-developed framework for government-industry-universitycooperation, as well as a mature
to independently research or work on a project. The professor acts as an advisor forthe project in addition to their course load, so the professors are typically already passionateabout the topic and motivated to make a difference if they are willing to put in the additional effort.While the additional time required typically brings in the most passionate professors, it doesrestrict the ability of professors to advise MIH projects in addition to their regular class schedule.The independent study approach significantly reduces the barrier for students to gain practicalhumanitarian project experience, but it also limits the training that the students can receive in thephilosophy and best practices of humanitarian engineering. In contrast to
increase in mentorship,entrepreneurial workshops and competitions. VII. Future WorkPrevious studies have proposed different methods of assessment for the impact ofentrepreneurship education on engineering students (Upton, Sexton, & Moore, 1995; Wheeler,1993). Some researchers have suggested using the ratio of entrepreneurs among engineeringalumni to entrepreneurs in comparison with business or general alumni population. Others usedthe number of start-ups founded per engineering alumni within x years after graduation incomparison with those by business or general alumni population. Some even suggested using taxdata to compare their household income. While entrepreneurship is important for the economy,these criteria may not be the best way
Paper ID #18562Teaching Entrepreneurial Mindset in a First-Year Introduction to Engineer-ing CourseDr. Chao Wang, Arizona State University Chao Wang received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is currently a senior lecturer in Ira. A Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Teaching Entrepreneurial Mindset in a First Year Introduction to Engineering CourseAbstractWith a mission to graduate engineers who can create personal, economic, and societal valuethrough a lifetime
observations2 , discussion questions, verbal protocols 3, and several multiple choice style instruments 4–6. Theefforts to develop effectuation as education have also included textbooks7 and instructionalmaterials available from the ‘Society for Effectual Action’8. While each of these pieces ofscholarship approaches effectuation education differently, they all provide an increasing body ofknowledge on which to teach effectuation. Most relevant to our work has been the ongoingdevelopment of the survey instruments which seek ways to quantify and measure effectualbehavior for research and teaching.However, the instruments and methods designed to measure effectuation are collectively limitedin two critical ways. First, they perpetuate a problem noted in
, including objects, artifacts, tools, books, andthe communities of which they are a part” (Greeno, Collins, & Resnick, 1996); knowledge issocially reproduced and learning occurs through participation in meaningful activities that arepart of a community of practice (Lave, 1991). From this angle, knowledge of engineering designis constructed under specific social context, and teamwork is essential for designers to completedesign task.Cognitive Process: The information-processing approach is one of the main approaches incontemporary cognitive research field. This approach attempts to explain the process of people’sthoughts and reasoning processes by comparing them to the operating principle of computersystem. Both of which have a process including
and Scandinavian Consortium for Organisational Research as a Fulbright Finland - Technology Industries of Finland Centennial Foundation and Tutkijat Maailmalle - KAUTE Foundation grantee.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers
increase academic persistence and therefore graduation rates[3]. A three-year NSF funded program is supporting the development and delivery of animmersive five-day workshop at each institution. The workshop is offered the week before thefall semester for incoming transfer students in engineering. Howard University and NMSU areworking together to develop the workshops. However, each institution is structuring and shapingthe workshop in a manner that the instructors believe fit best with their respective institutions.The focus of this paper are the workshops offered at NMSU during the first two years, thequalitative effect it has made to date on the students who participated in it, and how NMSU plansto move forward.The first workshop at NMSU was
Entrepreneurial DesignEngineering) and CEED2 (Centre for Entrepreneurship and Engineering Design) initiatives thatwere put in place in 2015.2.5.1 CEED1In 2014, uOttawa Engineering identified the Chair in Design Engineering (CDE) program of theNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada (re. http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/CFS-PCP/CDE-CGC_eng.asp) as an opportunity to betterintegrate its entrepreneurial initiatives with the design engineering components of itsundergraduate and graduate programs of studies. uOttawa Engineering was successful insecuring a financial contribution of $1M over five (5) years from NSERC in support of theuOttawa Engineering NSERC Chair in Entrepreneurial Engineering Design (CEED1) with
of formal engineering entrepreneurship programs is likely to increase inthe near future. To meet the demand of developing entrepreneurially minded engineers,engineering institutions “will need to keep pace by offering opportunities to acquireentrepreneurial knowledge and experience” (Besterfield-Sacre et al., 2012). Considering theemergent state of engineering entrepreneurship education, the assessment of entrepreneurshipprograms is important and necessary to identify best practices for teaching entrepreneurship toengineering students.Although investigation of the impacts of engineering entrepreneurship is a relatively new field ofstudy, investigation of a range of student outcomes has already begun to emerge. Researchershave examined a wide
in the design and execution of strategies to support economic development and innovation in the U.S. economy. He teaches in the School of Engineering Technology at Purdue University and is a frequent guest lecturer at other universities both in the U.S. and abroad. Scott is also the Associate Director of the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab. Prior to his career in academia, Scott worked in both corporate and social change strategy with American Airlines and United Way. He has a Ph.D. in public policy, a masters in public administration, and an undergraduate degree in theatre. His doctoral research was on effective strategy in economic development. c American Society for Engineering Education
with major themes in each student’s academic discipline. Thus,students may be strongly affected by the overarching contexts in which they have come tounderstand engineering.More acute encounters (i.e., specific project characteristics) have also been shown to affectstudents’ innovation-related capabilities, knowledge, and awareness. One key factor seems to bespecific pedagogical interventions. For example, students who have participated inentrepreneurship courses often report greater knowledge, skills, and attitudes related toinnovation17,18. Further, students who received targeted training in empathic design producedmore innovative concepts on a follow-up design task21. Additional project characteristics,including team composition and
[64]. It must be cultivated by designing with the particularindividuals in mind who comprise the membership [64,65].Works in Progress: social mechanism for supporting entrepreneurial projectsAt the University of Virginia, we have been developing an informal experimental initiative thatfocuses on harnessing these peer effects through a community of practice, and have already seensome successes with only a small staff. We noticed the aforementioned gap between the increaseof entrepreneurial education programs on par with other institution’s offerings and the unaffectedoutput of successful founders. Having added to our staff a recent graduate of the Engineeringprogram who had pursued a technology entrepreneurship project after graduation, we had
. To make these objectivesaccessible to K-12 audiences, the IC provides a structured, simplified approach for teachers toguide students through an open-ended design problem within a domain of the students’ choosing.In this paper, we will describe the K-12 InVenture Challenge and the K-16 ecosystem in which itis situated. Then, we will focus on research outcomes related to the following guiding questions:1) To what extent does participation in the IC affect K-12 teachers’ self-efficacy for teachingengineering and entrepreneurship content? 2) What are teachers’ perceptions of the program’simpact on students?Background and OriginsThe IC was originally developed as a high school-level competition with materials created byhigh school science