reviewed journals related to his research in biomechanical systems. Prior to joining academia, he worked for over a decade in the consumer products industry, most recently as Senior Vice President of Global Engineering at Techtronic Industries, headquartered in Hong Kong, where he lived with his family for several years. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Employer Perceptions of Undergraduate Student Entrepreneurial ExperienceAbstractPromotion of the entrepreneurial mindset has been said to enhance engineering educationaloutcomes. Cultivating curiosity, integrating disparate ideas and opportunities, and persistingthrough failure to create value are key characteristics of the entrepreneurial
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 and engaged learning. Aileen has a Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, a Doctorate of Philosophy from The Johns Hop- kins University School of Medicine, and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Aileen is also a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Sigma Gamma. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Conceptualizing the Entrepreneurial Mindset: Definitions and Usage in Engineering
American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Modifying the VALUE Rubrics to Assess the Entrepreneurial Mindset J. Blake Hylton and Brock Hays, Ohio Northern UniversityIntroduction In an educational setting it is vital that we as educators are able to assess our learningoutcomes and effectively measure student progress towards those objectives. With that beingsaid, what can educators do when they trying to instill a characteristic that they don’t know howto asses? The engineering entrepreneurship community is tackling this issue head on, as theincreasing popularity of injecting an entrepreneurial mindset into the engineering curriculum hasbrought some of these “hard-to-assess” traits into the spotlight. A
”), which supports Innovation and Start-Up projects. The focus is on practical, en- trepreneurial skill development: Working in interdisciplinary teams on projects, the participants develop and implement business concepts to create innovative, marketable products and services. Each semester, 20 highly motivated students from all universities in Munich are selected for this 18-month program, which runs simultaneously to the studies. For the last ten months Christian worked in the Open Inno- vation department of BMW, where he applied knowledge in the field of autonomous driving with his innovative mindset from the entrepreneurial program ”Manage&More”.Mr. Johann Elmar Nordhus gen Westarp, Technical University of Munich
instructional design, facilitation and evaluation. She was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Fron- tiers of Engineering Education Symposium in 2013 and awarded the American Society for Engineering Education Educational Research Methods Faculty Apprentice Award in 2014. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019AbstractWith today’s growing competitive economic market, having an entrepreneurial mindset can beinstrumental for success. An entrepreneurial mindset encompasses the way a person thinks abouta new idea, product, or innovation [1]. It can include elements such as approaches to productdevelopment, the ability to mitigate risk, creating new professional networks
Dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering and is the PI of four grants related to the development of an entrepreneurial mindset in students by utilizing integrated e-learning modules and experiential learning opportunities. Through these grant entrepreneurial thinking is being integrated into courses spanning all four years in seven ABET accredited engineering and computer science BS programs.Dr. Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven Nadiye O. Erdil, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering and engineering and oper- ations management at the University of New Haven. She has over eleven years of experience in higher education and has held several academic positions including administrative
embed these throughout the programs.In this way, students are introduced to an entrepreneurial mindset early and integrate these skillsinto the students’ problem solving in later courses. The sophomore-level course (EE221) in DCCircuit Analysis is the first circuit-analyses course in the Electrical and Computer EngineeringPrograms. The CoE has embedded EML in this course, using the flipped classroom, to supportthe development of an entrepreneurial mindset.EE221 is a calculus-based circuit-analysis course developing proficiency with complexcombinations of series and parallel circuits by applying of Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law(KVL), Kirchhoff’s Current Laws (KCL) and network theorems. Practical circuits are designedusing industry-relevant
, computer-aided design, kinematics and dynamics of machinery, and manufacturing science. He received his BSME from Ohio Northern University and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Notre Dame. Current interests include bone tissue mechanics, engineering pedagogy, and robotic football. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Integrating Entrepreneurial Mindset into First-Year Engineering Curriculum through Active Learning ExercisesAbstractEntrepreneurial principles have been an increasing focus of undergraduate engineering curriculaat multiple levels of integration. Here, the Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) has been integratedinto a first-year, general engineering
” and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance.” He has also published papers on effective use of simulation in engineer- ing, teaching design and engineering economics, and assessment of student learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: Integrating Entrepreneurial Mindset within Undergraduate Engineering Course ProjectsAbstractEntrepreneurial mindset is important for maintaining a competitive edge in this dynamic and changing engineeringworld. The Kern Family Foundation through its Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) has made it itsmission to equip engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset with the hope that this
Attrition rates in engineering and other STEM disciplines as a whole hover around 50%nationally. Numerous initiatives have tried to improve those numbers while better preparingSTEM graduates for the workforce. One initiative in particular is the Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN), which strives to complement the technical skills of engineeringstudents with an Entrepreneurial Mindset to create more well-rounded engineering students.Saint Louis University (SLU) is a member of KEEN and has spent several years implementingthe Entrepreneurial Mindset across its Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology,specifically in its engineering programs. SLU recently began a new initiative in partnership withKEEN to work with other STEM
substantial workload forprofessors, and require additional training for adjunct instructors. At Stevens, we are unable toallow students to choose a project in either of our multi-section, multi-instructor first-yearengineering design courses.However, entrepreneurial thinking is a more flexible topic that can enable students to select theirproject and also learn to apply these valuable skills. We propose that students will have a moresatisfying team experience in an entrepreneurial thinking course, than a design course, since theconcepts can be taught to almost any project. There is a push for incorporating entrepreneurialthinking and an entrepreneurial mindset in freshman engineering courses [10] as employers findthese skills desirable in
some point later on in their careers, and also a generalquestion as to whether or not successful venture creation should be the primary metric by whichthe success of entrepreneurial education is judged. The Kern Entrepreneurial EngineeringNetwork (KEEN) model suggests that venture creation is just one potential aspect of successfulentrepreneurship education, and that the development of an ‘entrepreneurial mindset’, in whicheducators work to foster creativity and opportunity identification, results in graduates that arebetter prepared to solve meaningful problems within existing workplaces, in addition to startingnew ventures to address challenges [7], [8].A more recent review by Nabi, Liñan, Fayolle, Krueger, and Walmsley [9
retention initiatives, as well as public policy. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Analysis of the Entrepreneurial Mindset Elements in Established First-year Engineering Labs: Analysis Process and Lessons Learned and Changes for the FutureAbstractDeveloping an Entrepreneurial Mindset in engineering students is important to developingstudents ready to embrace innovation and engineering in this ever-changing world. Developingthis mindset must begin during the first-year of engineering. At The Ohio State University, aninvestigation was conducted to explore adding a formal Entrepreneurial Mindset curriculum intoits existing curriculum for the first year, first semester
engineering education continuum. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 A Multi-Institution Investigation into Faculty Approaches for Incorporating the Entrepreneurial Mindset in First-year Engineering ClassroomsAbstractThe traditional engineering design process taught in universities across the country focuses onseveral common design steps, although often placing little emphasis on creating value. Incollaboration with KEEN, a network of thousands of engineering faculty working to unleashundergraduate engineers so that they can create personal, economic, and societal value throughthe entrepreneurial mindset, a large mid-western university is adding multiple
Paper ID #26195Humanitarian Entrepreneurial Multi-Year Interdisciplinary BmE CapstoneDesign Course to Enable the Continued Supported Employment of PersonsWith DisabilityDr. Charles J. Robinson, Clarkson University Director, Center for Rehabilitation Engineering, Science, and Technology (CREST), and Shulman Pro- fessor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY. Adjunct Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Humanitarian Entrepreneurial Multi-Year
framework is desired to give students more direction and structure sothat their capstone projects (or senior design projects) can be expanded to have more relevantmarket value. The intent of the entrepreneurial approach is not to graduate students who willstart their own businesses (although some of the engineering alumni have already done so), butto motivate and create value for themselves and their employer that benefits society bydeveloping their entrepreneurial mindset [1] [2] [3] [4].Based on the authors’ experience, some students have a hard time coming up with a project thatmeets the requirements for the capstone course. This paper describes attempts to introduceentrepreneurial concepts integrated into a capstone course, given in this paper
Creativity and CuriosityAbstractThe nature of student mindset has been often probed in the recent engineering education literature. In thispaper, we revisit a multi-year study to provide updated on a particular facet of mindset in engineeringeducation we find particularly revealing – the misunderstood link between creativity and other mindsetfactors such as creatvity. This entrepreneurial mindset instrument used to investigate mindset ofengineering and computer science students was utilized at a private liberal arts university in the UnitedStates and first reported as a study on Dweck mindset among first through fourth year students.In this brief work in progress paper, we revisit this survey to determine the link between creativity andcuriosity
Development Professional (CTDP) from the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) in 2010, providing her with a solid background in instructional design, facilitation and evaluation. She was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Fron- tiers of Engineering Education Symposium in 2013 and awarded the American Society for Engineering Education Educational Research Methods Faculty Apprentice Award in 2014. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Fostering Curiosity, Creating Value, and Making Connections in First-Year Students Through Product ArchaeologyAbstractIntegration of entrepreneurial mindset (EM) into the engineering
Paper ID #26654The Impact of Integrating Making Activities to Cornerstone Design Courseson Students’ Implicit Theories of Making AbilityMr. Mohamed Galaleldin, University of Ottawa Mohamed Galaleldin is a Professional Engineer and a PhD candidate - at the University of Ottawa, On- tario, CA. He is interested in investigating the impact of integrating a maker curriculum to engineering design education.Dr. Hanan Anis, University of Ottawa Hanan Anis holds an NSERC Chair in Entrepreneurial Engineering Design and is a professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Ottawa. Prior to Joining the
and pedagogical reforms to create learning environments that are conducivefor the attainment of 21st century skills such as innovativeness, teamwork, communication,problem-solving and creativity. In engineering, among other initiatives, colleges and schoolshave leveraged entrepreneurship education programs (EEPs) to instill some of these needed skillsin graduates. Although these EEPs differ in size, structure, pedagogical approaches, andcurriculum, they generally focus on fostering entrepreneurial mindsets and behaviors, as well asteaching fundamental business content.The development of EEPs in engineering colleges and universities has led to the creation ofengineering entrepreneurship as a new area of inquiry in engineering education
EntrepreneurshipIntroduction:The University of Mount Union is a small, private, liberal arts institution located in the MidwesternUnited States. At the time of this work, The Engineering Department offered ABET-accreditedundergraduate degree programs in mechanical and civil engineering, with approximately 130students majoring in one of these disciplines. Based on alumni surveys, approximately 85% ofengineering graduates from Mount Union are hired into industry positions. For this reason, “thedevelopment of essential business skills” was established as one of the program’s Four Pillars ofExceptional Engineering Education (Fig. 1). Further, entrepreneurship was identified as animportant business skill, because the benefits of integrating the entrepreneurial mindset into
skills.Regarding practice of customer discovery skills through interviews, students identified four areasin which they desired additional improvement: (a) formulating the right question, (b) contactidentification within the market, (c) guiding discussion for useful customer feedback, and (d)interview presence. This paper provides valuable information for institutions interested inpursuing an I-Corps Site grant and to those who already have a grant but are looking foradditional ways to further enhance program impact on their campus.I. IntroductionIn today’s global market economy, equipping engineering students with a broader set of skillsassociated with an entrepreneurial mindset will empower them to create value for the companiesthey join or their own
), entrepreneurial mindset, and evidence-based entrepreneurshippractices.To address sustainability, a teaching module was created that demonstrates the use of severalsustainability tools (ex. whole system design and life cycle thinking) and reasons to considerthem. These were introduced in the context of the engineering design process. Part of the ABETdefinition [2] of engineering design includes “... examples of possible constraints include …sustainability…”. The goal of this approach is to include sustainability as a constraint right nextto manufacturability, usability, cost, etc. so students see it as just another thing they need toconsider and not an extra requirement of sorts. This module was initially delivered inEngineering Seminar in fall 2018 as a
embody a shift in an entrepreneurial mindset, revealing how studentsultimately move forward with what they want to change in themselves and in the world. Theimportance of this shift is underlined by the fact that the next 10 years will bring more than abillion new young people to the global work force and their working lives are estimated to beeven more entrepreneurial than previous generations [5]. Personal characterizations (emotions and motivation) of the modern engineeringstudent have received limited research attention. Regardless of whether a student makesinnovation or entrepreneurial career their primary goal, this paper introduces discussion topreserve a path of sustainable well-being and fairness for men and women entering
Paper ID #25207A Scaffold and Competency-Based Learning Approach to Innovation-RelatedThinking FrameworksDr. Lisa Bosman, Purdue University Dr. Bosman is an Assistant Professor in Technology Leadership and Innovation and the Program Co- ordinator for Transdisciplinary Studies in Technology. Her STEM education research interests include entrepreneurial mindset, renewable energy, competency-based learning, self-regulated learning, transdis- ciplinary education, civic engagement, and faculty professional development. She spent the first part of her career working as a manufacturing engineer for world-class companies including
Paper ID #24668EML Indices to Assess Student Learning through Integrated e-Learning Mod-ulesDr. Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven Ron Harichandran is Dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering and is the PI of four grants related to the development of an entrepreneurial mindset in students by utilizing integrated e-learning modules and experiential learning opportunities. Through these grant entrepreneurial thinking is being integrated into courses spanning all four years in seven ABET accredited engineering and computer science BS programs, and 75 engineering and computer science faculty at 53 other
, isn’t that what engineering is all about? VIII. Assessment of the Innovation Challenge Module1. Assessment using KEEN framework In order to assess the impact the module had on the students, the students were given the KEENframework on skillset and mindsets and were asked to circle the skillset they thought they acquired throughthe innovation challenge. In most design courses, majority of the focus is on the objectives listed under the“Design” in Figure 8 and rarely any thought goes into the objectives shown under “Opportunity” and“Impact” category. Figure 8 KEEN’s framework for entrepreneurial minded
realities; integrating business concepts and entrepreneurship using case studies; multi-scale approaches and innovation into various engineering discipline’s projects; creative problemsolving; reviews of learning models; developing a culture of experimentation; social innovationnetworks; designing for an unknown future; improved teaching-learning process; collaborativeteaching; developing an entrepreneurial mind-set; business engineering programs; and,vertically-integrated teams.For integrating innovation into “Academic / University / Industry Partnership” focused literature[109 – 121], topics and coverage includes: Europe vs. other geographies; integrating atechnology ventures program; makerspaces; research and commercialization collaboration
system that not only has a significant effect on studentacademic and career success but also the Gross Domestic Product of the community.Many universities already have programs in place where ‘Learn By Doing’ principles can beleveraged to assist students entering entrepreneurial endeavors. A few of these are: • Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo, CA) – “The Cal Poly Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) helps students and community members acquire the tools, develop the skills, and cultivate the mindset of an entrepreneur so that they may create economic and social value throughout the world.” 27 • Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) – The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship has a Certificate
survey representatives from bothindustry and education on the strengths and weaknesses of mechanical engineering graduates,lists entrepreneurship and business processes among the most commonly cited missingcomponents in ME curricula [2]. The ability of mechanical engineering graduates to meet thechanging needs of employers depends heavily on the ability of these engineers to understandtheir customer in terms of economics, customer needs, and value proposition. Incorporatingengineering entrepreneurship into the ME curriculum provides students with these skills and withthe mindset necessary to better prepare them to enter the workforce [3].One important reason to incorporate engineering entrepreneurship into the engineeringcurriculum is to spur