, PI of the ASPIRE grant, and is the coordinator for the first-year Intro to Engineering course. Her profes- sional interests include modeling the transport and fate of contaminants in groundwater and surface water systems, as well as engineering education reform.Dr. Cheryl Q. Li, University of New Haven Cheryl Qing Li joined University of New Haven in the fall of 2011, where she is Associate Professor of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department. Li earned her first Ph.D. in mechanical engineer- ing from National University of Singapore in 1997. She served as Assistant Professor and subsequently Associate Professor in mechatronics engineering at University of Adelaide, Australia, and Nanyang Tech
Paper ID #21777Investigating the Entrepreneurial Mindset of Engineering and Computer Sci-ence StudentsDr. Cheryl Q. Li, University of New Haven Cheryl Qing Li joined University of New Haven in the fall of 2011, where she is Associate Professor of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department. Li earned her first Ph.D. in mechanical engineer- ing from National University of Singapore in 1997. She served as Assistant Professor and subsequently Associate Professor in mechatronics engineering at University of Adelaide, Australia, and Nanyang Tech- nological University, Singapore, respectively. In 2006, she resigned from
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prototypes, startingwith a “minimum viable prototype.” Compared to traditional approach, lean start-up favorsexperimentation over elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition and iterative designover traditional “big design up front” development (Blank, 2013).Student DemographicsStudent participants for the STEM-Inc project were recruited through multiple efforts (Huang,2017). Recruiting flyers were created and distributed to the classes at the four participatingschools via STEM-Inc teacher participants when the school year started. Additionally, a STEM-Inc open house and live engineering/computer science project demonstration with Q&A sessionwas held at each one of the four schools, mostly during the lunch hours in September