Conference Session

ENT Division Technical Session: First-year Experiences

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Yuezhou Wang, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation, First-Year Programs

grading in the activities at the beginning and gradually withdrawfacilitation [20] as the students become more self-directed.Research MotivationWhile the current research done with the StRIP instrument has covered a number of specificengineering classes, we are interested in evaluating the students’ potential resistance across anentire engineering program that is dedicated to providing students with active learning experiences.Founded in 2010, the Iron Range Engineering (IRE) program transforms the landscape ofengineering education with its philosophy of integrated engineering, project-based learningcombined with an entrepreneurial mindset. Project-based learning (PBL) is inherently active innature, as students work with industry clients on a

Conference Session

ENT Division Technical Session: Creativity and Innovation

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mona Eskandari, University of California, Riverside; Ville Mikael Taajamaa, City of Espoo; Barbara A. Karanian, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

and entrepreneurialleader research [17, 22, 23, 28]. The storytelling cue methodology comes from the 1943 TAToriginally designed by Murray to diagnostically categorize unconscious images with a picturetest [10, 14, 15]. Notably, the TAT has been demonstrated as a valuable method for captur-ing underlying motives [10]. Applications for the workplace began when Atkinson [13] suc-cessfully used it to measure achievement motives. More recently, the TAT has been ac-claimed for validly testing compatibility and employee-workplace fit, productivity and lead-ership in the workplace [18, 20].The “cue storytelling line” prompt offers interpretations of actions, styles, narrative expres-sions, and symbols that provide useful data. Analysis of the story