certifications such as major, minor or concentration,presenting a sequence of engineering or technology focused entrepreneurship courses in currentcurriculum, collaborating with business school to lead in-class trainings and extracurricularactivities such as business competitions, etc5,7,8. Among non-degree, course sequence focusedprograms, although the practices are often engineering theme focused, entrepreneurshipeducation is seldom offered at the first year level as part of a design course where studentsdesign, build and test a tangible product.We report on the practice of integrating a module featuring a series of lectures onentrepreneurship and business plan development into an existing first-year engineering course.This two-quarter Introduction to
include developing an aspects idea to allow better judgments about its suitability. Design and Further development of the design Detailed design, Iterating development from concept to prototype. It build prototype, through idea should be noted that prototypes optimize, generation can take different forms, from sketch/draw/model (opp) physical models to working design, compile products to plans for
is not yet complete.Research on propagation and institutionalization of educational innovations has suggested that aninstitutionalization plan should be constructed in three phases: (i) describe the gap between thecurrent situation and the desired future situation, (ii) prepare a plan for bridging the gap, and (iii)prepare a plan for monitoring progress toward bridging the gap. This paper describes howVentureWell is integrating this three-phase approach to institutionalization, Designing forInstitutionalization (DI), into its Faculty Grants program. The DI approach is an adaptation of thethree-phase Designing for Sustained Adoption Framework, which supports educationaldevelopers to increase the percentage of educational innovations that are
support the fledgling startups http://business.fullerton.edu/centers/cfe/StartupIncubator.htm Jackson is co-principal investigator for a National Science Foundation Grant called I-TEST; this $1,000,000 grant has created an after-school program at Anaheim middle schools which encourages STEM ed- ucation and entrepreneurship. http://bizblogs.fullerton.edu/blog/2014/09/23/mihaylo-entrepreneurship- collaborates-to-win-1-million-nsf-grant/ As Center Director, Jackson conducts two all-college events: The Business Plan Competition and The CSUF Fast Pitch. Both events reach across the campus to engage students from all disciplines to idea- generate new business concepts, test feasibility, and pitch to a panel of real investors
plan toeducate scientists and engineers with a strong and vital humanities and arts component.The WPI Plan reasoned that the humanities and arts would place engineering in an ethicaland humane context, graduating young men and women to develop technology with aneye toward the greater good. More than forty years later, the humanistic values that haveremained so important to WPI’s general education of engineers have been embraced byschools of business and by engineering programs seeking to develop entrepreneurialengineers. Two of the attributes of an entrepreneurial engineer, as defined by the KernFamily Foundation’s Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), are essentiallythe qualities found in a well-educated humanist: First, curiosity
inentrepreneurial endeavors. First, this article presents a theoretical framework about competenciesin engineering education, followed by a description of the study objectives, the sample, the datagathering technique and the data analysis plan. We adopted a qualitative design to interviewentrepreneurship stakeholders from Chile, Colombia, Spain, the U.S. and the U.K. Theinterviewees were entrepreneurship instructors, researchers on entrepreneurship education, andleaders from startup accelerators and business incubators. From their perspectives, we shared adefinition of entrepreneurship, we explored the roles that engineers play in startups andentrepreneurial companies, and we identified critical competencies. Finally, we discuss theimplications of these
activities running specifically in Business Harvard Focused model School and Management School University Cornell Radiant model Instructional activities spreading all over the campus US University Entrepreneurship Education Center taking charge of Magnet model planning and running the whole program using resources MIT from Business School and Management School Specialized education
learning using pre and post surveys, and student and instructor feedback. Weperformed assessment across all institutions where modules were deployed. We also discusslessons learned during development, and internal and external deployment of the e-learningmodules.IntroductionMore and more higher education institutions are trying to develop an entrepreneurial mindset instudents. Approaches for doing this include integrating entrepreneurship into the curriculum,structuring the physical environment to promote entrepreneurial minded learning (e.g., creatingmakerspaces), providing extracurricular activities and programs such as university innovationfellows, business plan and pitch competitions, and fostering student organizations that
eschew methods that predict the likelihood of certain events (i.e., predictiveapproaches), and instead focused on pursuing opportunities where they are able to exert a higherlevel of control on the outcome (i.e., effectual approaches)15.Effectuation builds on work by Simon16 and others17, proposing the bounded rational model ofhuman cognition and identifying heuristics that humans use to make decisions. Sarasvathyproposed five heuristics that represent thinking in the effectual style of logic and situates them inopposition to what are referred to as ‘causal’ heuristics that aid decisions through predictiveapproaches and planning. The two sets of heuristics are reproduced in Table 1 below. Table 1 Table of effectual heuristics adapted from
formulate business plans and execute them perfectly. However, thecommunity has realized that startups are fundamentally different that large companies, leading to theconcept of the “lean startup”[7] which says that new ventures should quickly and cheaply validate orinvalidate hypotheses through delivering the minimum viable product to potential customers well beforecommitting to large investments and long timeframe development efforts. This approach essentiallyamounts to an application of the scientific method in a new venture context[7].The nation’s 160,000 libraries empower the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. Libraries aredigital decentralized networks that empower innovators from all facets of society through access toknowledge
students as they shape their ideas into products and businesses; coordinate internal and external infor- mation and resources to facilitate the growth of a sustainable entrepreneurship ecosystem and maintain communication and support for key stakeholders in the SEAS community. Ms. Pyle is also the founder and President of Pyle & Associates, LLC, an Interim Executive Management firm providing management and business consulting services across diversified industries. Her extensive experience in business development, strategic planning, marketing, operations, and leadership have left a lasting impact on overall business performance from start-up to turn-around situations. Ms. Pyle is recognized for her unusual ability
Need; Pain Point Market Research and Gather Information Investigation Opportunity Identification 2 Define the Problem; Information Ideation and Rapid Generate Alternative Synthesis and Prototyping Concepts Problem Definition 3 Evaluate the Project Management Decision Making and Alternatives; Select the Project Planning Most Promising Concept; Plan the Project 4 Communicate the Design Technical Proposal Presentation
offered the week before classes began in the fall of 2015 andthe second was offered again the week before classes in the fall of 2016. The workshop wasloosely structured around the LLP methodology for creating startups as well as the engineeringdesign process. Students were placed on teams and given a predetermined innovation seedproject that was based on a university related problem. They developed hypotheses of designsolutions, made a test plan, got out of the building to test their hypothesis with customers andstakeholders, and iterated until they validated (or invalidated) their solutions. Along the way,they learned about value propositions, product-market-fit, the scientific method, customer-centricdesign, and teamwork.Just as the first year
projects that would be strategic when making connections for the business. • Key activities refer to the strengths of the entrepreneur and those that add special value to the business. • Key resources include both tangible and intangible resources that the entrepreneur can count on when developing his/her project. • Value propositions present the benefit that the project will provide and the plan behind it that shows the creative aspect of the entrepreneur as this has to novel. • Channels describe the distribution medium of the product and the intermediate participants of this process. • Cost structure describes the costs associated with developing and
Paper ID #19416Sharing Student Learning from Individual Internship ExperiencesDr. Eden Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University Eden Fisher is the Founding Director of the Masters Program in Engineering and Technology Innovation Management (E&TIM) at Carnegie Mellon University. She earned an AB in Chemistry from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon. She worked in industrial technology planning and innovation management for over 20 years. For 2016, she served as the William R. Kenan Jr. Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching in the Department of Civil and Environmental
entrepreneurship and innovation: Activities with a practical component in entrepreneurship and innovation. These activities often teach or support the development of either a distinct plan (e.g. business plan) or lead to the actual founding of any kind of organization (e.g. student group, start-up,…) in order to develop and/or promote a new idea. (3) Non-hands-on activities in entrepreneurship and innovation: Activities that do not include a practical component regarding entrepreneurship and innovation, such as lectures or presentations. (4) Activities outside of engineering & entrepreneurship : Activities that do not explicitly specify an activity in engineering or entrepreneurship such as only referring to engineering
(DTU). Each summer, these* Refer to the webpage for more information on the Summer School: https://pire.soe.ucsc.edu/universities host an intensive, four week course housed in Electrical Engineering (UCSC, DTU),Biological and Agricultural Engineering (UC Davis), and Energy and Environmental Planning(AAU). The program is open to selected senior undergraduates, graduate students and morerecently professionals in any discipline from US and European Institutions; participants areadmitted based on their academic qualifications, creativity and commitment to renewable energyand sustainability assessed through the submission of an essay and interview. The bulk of theactivity takes place in the summer during a three week, in-person workshop preceded
recognizedthat parents influence their children’s plans for study and career (Frome & Eccles, 1998; Wei-Cheng, 2003), particularly for engineering (Dick & Rallis, 1991). Studies on the topic oftenfocus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) studies and careers, but just asFrome and Eccles (1998) include English in their study, we feel that the non-STEM fields wouldprovide benefit if they were also investigated. In fact, a strong link has been demonstratedbetween parents’ entrepreneurial activities and the likelihood of their children pursuingentrepreneurship (Carr & Sequeira, 2007; Solesvik, 2013; Van Auken, Stephens, Fry, & Silva,2006). Our central theme aligns well with the published research on the topic. Of particular
operations and the management and operation of the state’s transportation sys- tem. Mr. Barton held a variety of positions with TxDOT in two TxDOT districts as well as the agency’s central administration during his 30 years of state service including Area Engineer, Director of Trans- portation Planning and Development, District Engineer and Assistant Executive Director for Engineering Operations. Mr. Barton graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1986. To mention a few of his most recent accomplishments, in October 2014 he received the Distinguished Graduate Award of the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering from his alma mater, in February 2015 he was
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 President of Business Management, Senior Vice President of Sales Management, Senior Vice President of Manufacturing, and Senior Vice President of Business Development. Before joining Fujitsu, Rodney worked for Bell
building on the work of others on the field mentioned in previous chapters. Teamswere given methodology inputs from the fields of need finding, prototyping, and businessapproach amongst others. The students were asked to consider three different timeframesregarding their solution: 20 weeks work plan, 20 months startup plan and a 20 years vision.One of the exercises to support their thinking was conducted in a session, where they wereasked to create future utopias and dystopias to extract guidelines for the rest of the project.The IfC projects started with a weeklong field trip to CERN to get an overview of theavailable technologies as an inspiration source for ideation. In addition, the teams hadsessions with their assigned knowledge transfer
constraints as necessary. Anotherimportant early decision was to evaluate proposals for the potential for both studentlearning and innovation. In practice that means the Council might choose to fund aproject that we suspect won’t work as planned, but that will give the student team achance to learn about a technology or process, or that could lead to the solution of arelated problem. The Beta Program aims to inspire and reward innovation in students by helpingthem try out their ideas without immediate concerns for commercialization. The focus ison technology development and application, and the skill and confidence building thatcomes from trying to make an idea work. When evaluating any one proposal, this leads todiscussions about whether an
mechanical engineering machine shop). This was due to anadmitted level of unfamiliarity with the subtleties of the new wave of low-cost commercialtechnology, being concerned about operation of such equipment in uncontrolled andunsupervised environments, being concerned about unattended operation and earthquake safety,etc. Since that time, the Maker Lab remains the single deployment point for the School ofEngineering (apart from more controlled shops); however, other entities in the University aremaking plans for small scale maker-like labs in their areas.Apart from these initial start-up and safety-related issues, it is interesting to note the potential tohave centralized vs. decentralized maker spaces. As maker technologies become even
. [11] assess the impact of technologyentrepreneurship courses and programs on student learning by measuring prior and subsequentknowledge of terms, concepts, and entrepreneurial thinking. Their studies indicate thatprofessional competency can be increased by curricular experiences. Other researchers proposeand study entrepreneurship for engineering/computing students that include writing and pitchingbusiness plans, but none include a rubric for evaluating a pitch [4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12].Klein and Yoder [9] provide rubrics associated with entrepreneurial learning outcomes. Therubric for the KEEN learning outcome “Construct and effectively communicate a customer-appropriate value proposition” overlaps with categories in our rubric (hook/intro and
share with their fellow studentsand employ throughout their professional careers. The proposed curricular project also aimed tofoster entrepreneurial mindset behaviors related to “curiosity” and “creating value.”MethodologyCourse Planning and Project ImplementationThe project ran through the final five weeks of the Fall 2015 semester. Students completed mostof the work out of class – only four lectures (out of 45) were dedicated to in-class time for theproject.To make space in the lecture schedule (compared to prior offerings of the course where there wasno ideation project) some course content was provided offline. Technical content for the courseis roughly 40% anatomy and physiology and 60% mechanics. For the Fall 2015 offering of thecourse
BSc in Electronic Systems Engineering from Tec de Monterrey (2004) a MSc in Space Sci- ence and Technology from Helsinki University of Technology and University of Lule˚a (2009) and is work- ing towards his PhD in Automation, Systems and Control Engineering in Aalto University (planned for 2017). His areas of expertise comprise electronic prototyping, space technology and distributed robotics. His main role in Aalto University lies at Aalto Design factory, where he manages the electronic prototyp- ing facilities that support mostly courses in new product development that usually are ran in partnership with companies such as Audi, Airbus, Kone, Nokia, Sako, Vaisala among others. He also created the Challenge
activities on campus. In fact, several InVenture Challengeparticipants, frequently girls and as young as 6th grade, are already pursuing patentingopportunities. The competition has continued to grow; the 2016-17 cohort has reached morethan 2000 students in 15 counties with 80 teams planning to present their inventions at the statefinals.In the IC, students are free to work on a project of their choosing—there are no required themesor disciplines. We believe that keeping the projects in a currency of the students’ choosing helpsboost student engagement and willingness to see a difficult challenge through to completion9.Different teachers approach project selection or problem finding differently; this is an importantskill for innovation and something
- CollaborateA question may rise on how could it be possible a low-budget place be able to sustain and deployan expensive technology enhancement. The first stage in being able to deploy/scale up is criticaland should be consider in order to be effective. The following suggest guidelines could ease theuncertainty; it can be call as the 3M’s (Model, Method and Material).1. - Models: The first phase comes into play by asking certain subsections such as: scope ofdemand and resources/expenses. The most important objective is to determine the population,demand, how to plan and set a proper structure and the ability to scale up without vast issues.There must be a mindset by having a realistic and guaranteed budget for your project, do not onlytake in
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in identifying product market fit and key activities andresources to develop a scalable and repeatable business model, before launching a venture, thusensuring more success for new start-up companies.Lean Launch operates on the foundation of “evidence-based entrepreneurship.” In the past,business founders wrote a business plans to seek investor funding to launch their business. Underthis model, however, entrepreneurs would need to make assumptions that they can’t necessarilysupport and they may not obtain adequate feedback from potential users until the product is onthe market. Steve Blank, author of the Lean Launch curriculum, argues that this traditionalbusiness plan approach neglected the voice of the customer and these plans fail because