thecompetitive position of the School for applied research opportunities in the current environmentfor research and development; helps promote the general economic development of the region;expedites and simplifies the acquisition and utilization of research contracts; improvestechnology transfer; and links applied scientific research and technological advancements togrowth in the industries that employ graduates of the School.Examples:SET and its Center enhance Institutional Outreach through ongoing efforts to connect its mostcreative ideas and share its best practices with the industries it serves, the professional societies itsupports, the competitions it enters, and the region it respects in an engaging partnership formutual improvement. There have
considers whether entrepreneurshipcan be learned and the specific skills and traits that are associated with successfulentrepreneurship. It examines the activities of entrepreneurship centers and otherprograms for engineering students and concludes that there are a lot of resourcesavailable to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. The problems are that we need to reachfar more students, continually learn more about what works to make them effectiveentrepreneurs and innovators and develop more champions within the engineeringfaculties to get our students what they will need.The importance of entrepreneurial thinking for engineersThe National Academy of Engineering has pointed out that engineers will need to bemuch more entrepreneurial in the 21st
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
potentially provide a model for innovation and creativity in otherScience, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Currentresearch supports the connection between scientific inquiry and technological design andits effectiveness when integrated in curriculum design.5, 6 In addition, other researchershave shown that scientific inquiry and technological design can be successfully integratedwithin the classroom. 7,8,9,10The objective of the biotechnology program is to engage undergraduate students frommultiple disciplines in authentic research and create a learning environment thatencourages creativity and design by integrating knowledge from biology and technologyand applying it to develop new experimental analyses.Specific
- als in businesses, academia and institutes nationally and internationally. Most recently he was a visiting professor at the University of Maryland (at Mtech, Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute) and at Johns Hopkins University (at the Center for Leadership Education) where he researched and delivered processes for creative & innovative problem solving. For his unique contributions he received the prestigious Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, the Faculty Talon Award, the University Researcher of the Year AEA Abacus Award, and the President’s Leadership Award. Dr. Raviv has published in the areas of vision-based driverless cars, green innovation, and innovative thinking. He is a co-holder of a
School for Social Research with a concentration in economic development and environmental economics. She graduated Summa cum Laude from Fordham University with a B.A. in Social Studies. Panero grew up in Latin America and is fluent in both English and Spanish. Page 23.543.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center: Bringing Together Industry, Faculty, and StudentsAbstractThe School of Engineering and Computing Sciences (SoECS) of New York Institute ofTechnology (NYIT) is launching a new Entrepreneurship and
establishing the revolutionary EDI/EFT payment system implemented by General Motors. He is a two-time award winner of the Best Paper in Cash Management awarded by the Bank Administration Institute.Mr. James Edwin Cawthorne Jr., Purdue University, West LafayetteMr. Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University, West Lafayette Benjamin Ahn is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests relate to higher education reform, graduate teaching assistants’ roles in engineering classes, undergraduate engineering syllabus and curriculum development, and professional engineering practices in universities and industries.Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette Matthew W. Ohland
’ self-confidence. Infact, without self-confidence, it is difficult for a person to do any of these things.While there are all of these positive impacts of a high level of self-confidence, it is also possible tobecome over-confident, or to have a false confidence or bravado that is not based on truecompetence or mastery of one’s profession. If self-confidence becomes over-confidence, theengineer may lose the ability to accept criticism that improves the design or product. Thisbehavior may occur in design team meetings when engineers, in their zeal to promote and selltheir innovation, blind themselves to valid concerns or valuable modifications regarding theconcept or product that could make it even better. For recent engineering graduates, who
position, Ms. Rawlings worked at the University of Maryland Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs where she was did financial/policy analysis and research. At the Robert H. Smith School where she pursued a PhD degree, Ms. Rawlings taught both introductory and advanced finance courses. She was nominated for the 2001 Parents' Association Teaching Award. Prior to her return to academia, Ms. Rawlings was a financial manager for Procter & Gamble for eight years. Ms. Rawlings received a BSE in Systems Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Michigan where she was a Consortium for the Graduate Study of
nexus of entrepreneurial programs, activities and thinking, a placefor all students from across campus to learn and experience entrepreneurship.An interdisciplinary and independent organization, the Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship,and Innovation reports to the Provost and helps undergraduate and graduate students developentrepreneurial skills by offering experiential learning opportunities and fostering relationshipsbetween the University and the global business community. Students have opportunities toengage in classroom activity; interact with business owners, corporate executives, professionals,university faculty, and entrepreneurs; and travel domestically and abroad to gain a globalperspective and ignite ideas for creative
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
withentrepreneurial commitment. Additionally, Florida Tech has been an active partner of the NSF-funded Partnership for Innovation - Center for Entrepreneurship and TechnologyCommercialization (CENTECOM) along with UCF, USF and Florida A&M University. Theresponse to these grants has been extremely positive, with 7 of 13 entrepreneurial senior designteams in 2005 intending to launch businesses around their senior projects. Additionally, therewere twelve graduate E-teams presenting their business ideas at the EngineeringEntrepreneurship Business Idea Pitching competition. In 2005, Florida Tech was awarded aAdvanced E-Team Grant for an innovative student project, emanating from the “Florida TechSenior Design Project Commercialization and Entrepreneurship
will bedeveloped from practicing innovation stage development projects and observing and recordingbest practices from successful outcomes.Rose-Hulman Ventures, a technology commercialization program, is described where corporatepartners bring concepts, research results, and intellectual property and teams of faculty, staff, andstudents develop designs, models, and prototypes as part of the commercialization process. Overten years of operation, the program has worked with hundreds of industrial clients in a broadrange of industry segments. These projects come after the research stage and fall in the criticalinnovation stage of development where technologies are prepared for success in the marketplace.Through these projects, several guiding
strategies.Dr. Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University Thomas A. Litzinger is Director of the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State. His work in engineering education involves curricular reform, teaching and learning innovations, assessment, and faculty development. Dr. Litzinger has more than 50 publications related to engineering education including lead authorship of an invited article in the 100th Anniversary issue of JEE and for an invited chapter on translation of research to practice for the first edition of the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research. He serves as an Associate Editor for Advances in Engineering
AC 2011-740: CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION: A COMPARATIVE ANAL-YSIS OF DEFINITIONS AND ASSESSMENT MEASURESGeoff Wright, Brigham Young UniversityTyler Lewis, Brigham Young UniversityPaul Skaggs, Brigham Young University Paul Skaggs is an associate professor and program chair of industrial design at Brigham Young University. He joined the faculty at BYU after twenty-two years experience in industry. Fourteen years of which he operated his own full-service design consulting firm. Clients included Kodak, Fisher-Price, Federal Ex- press, Motorola, AT&T, Xerox and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few. Paul also taught conducted creativity seminars for in house engineering groups. Paul received his BFA from Brigham Young University
higher education. She has designed, developed and managed degree, and certificate programs, and has experience as an online instructor, and mentor and trainer of other online instructors.Dr. Thema Monroe-White, SageFox Consulting Group Thema Monroe-White is a senior evaluation and research consultant at SageFox Consulting Group. Prior to joining SageFox, Thema worked as a researcher and evaluator in the areas of mental health, STEM education and commercialization. She has taught in the K-12 environment, served as an instructor and invited guest lecturer for courses in leadership, statistics and cross-cultural psychology at the undergradu- ate and graduate levels. Thema completed her Master’s Degree in Developmental
Paper ID #9031A Critical Review of Measures of InnovativenessMs. Jessica Menold Jessica Menold is a doctoral student in mechanical engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. As an undergraduate at Penn State she was heavily involved with a STEM outreach program called the engineering ambassadors. She currently works as a graduate mentor for entrepreneurial student groups on campus as a part of Penn State’s Lion Launch Pad team. Her interests in entrepreneurs, as well as engineering education, has led her to the study of innovation in engineers, working with Dr. Kathryn Jablokow. Her current research focuses on
engineering graduateprograms. The course is now being promoted in two departments as a valid substitution for onetechnical content course in their M.S. curricula, and the College of Engineering has requestedthat the course be modified and recorded for use in its distance education M.S. Engineering andM.S. Operations Management graduate programs. Unfortunately, interest in the course by thescience graduate programs’ administrations has not yet appeared.The impact of the course in µEP students has been difficult to quantify, but anecdotal evidencefrom µEP alumni provide illustrative examples of how the course content has affected theirprofessional decisions: • One Ph.D. student started his own company based on his Ph.D. research upon
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
StateUniversity’s Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (TEC) Institute, which isdescribed as a Proof of Concept Center that provides coursework and consulting services totriage early stage technologies and develop commercialization strategies. Other educationmodels include graduate certificates in technology commercialization for PhD students inscience, engineering, and business, which require the completion of a sequence of severalcourses to be completed in addition to doctoral program requirements.Federal funding agencies have developed programming to increase the commercial impact oftheir considerable investments in fundamental research. This is being incentivized throughprograms such as NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) and NIH REACH, which
copyrighted products orprocesses of others, and also how to best protect the results of their own innovations and creativeefforts.The Content of a Course on Intellectual Property Rights At the College of Engineering of the University of Illinois at Chicago, we have developedIntellectual Property Law for Engineers course content and an updated text that we recommendbe offered to STEM students. Prior to development of an Intellectual Property Law for Engineers course, two avenuesof research should be explored. First, the course developer will determine those intellectualproperty subjects that an engineer or science student will most likely encounter during theirprofessional careers. Second, a brief survey will be conducted among alumni of
Paper ID #10437Measuring Innovative Thinking Skills in Innovation Challenge ActivitiesDr. Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech Dr. Amelink is Director of Graduate Programs and Assessment in the College of Engineering, Virginia Tech.Ms. Christina Nocon Seimetz, Virginia Tech Christina Seimetz is a PhD student in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She also serves as program support staff for the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity where she is involved with recruitment, outreach, and retention programs specifically targeted towards females interested in engineering. Ms. Seimetz earned
Paper ID #9494Assessment of a New University-Wide Entrepreneurship and Innovation Mi-norMr. Philip M Reeves, The Pennsylvania State University Philip Reeves is a graduate student in the Educational Psychology Department at Penn State. He is work- ing with faculty to evaluate a new university-wide entrepreneurship and innovation minor as a graduate assistant for the Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education.Dr. Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Associate and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of
teaching entrepreneurship.According to a Cornell University study by Debra Streeter1 Lehigh’s entrepreneurshipmodel is classified as a magnet program centered in the business school and primarilyMBA-oriented. Lehigh has made a substantial commitment to our entrepreneurship-oriented graduate MBA program, including an entrepreneurial option and a Ventureseries certificate program.Recently Lehigh has invested heavily in several new programs that promote campus-wideteaching, research and outreach in technical entrepreneurship at the undergraduate level,including a year-long experiential capstone course for majors in Integrated Business andEngineering, Computer Science and Business, Bio Engineering, Design Arts and a catchall campus wide program in
Program, Associate Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center, and a Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University. She is responsible for the launch and development of the university’s multidisciplinary undergraduate entrepreneurship program, which involves 1800 students from all majors per year. She has established entrepreneurship capstone, global entrepreneurship, and women and leadership courses and initiatives at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to her work in academia, Nathalie spent several years in the field of market research and business strategy consulting in Europe and the United States with Booz Allen and Hamilton and Data and Strategies Group
range of skills and knowledge above and beyond a strong science and engineeringbackground.”3 Companies around the world are actively seeking innovators who can solvebusiness problems and assess risks, in addition to being technically proficient.4 It is no longersufficient for engineers to perform in isolation, excluded from the decision making processes ofthe organizations in which they work. One technology company CEO stated, “If an engineer isnot an entrepreneur, he is just a tool.”5In recognition of the need to include entrepreneurial and other skills in the formal training ofengineers, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) requires thatengineering students have the following abilities:6 • Designing to
she conducted research in transportation and sustainability as part of the Infrastruc- ture Research Group (IRG). In addition to the Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Dr. Barrella holds a Master of City and Regional Planning (Transportation) from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Civil En- gineering from Bucknell University. Dr. Barrella has investigated best practices in engineering education since 2003 (at Bucknell University) and began collaborating on sustainable engineering design research while at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining the WFU faculty, she led the junior capstone design sequence at James Madison University, was the inaugural director of the NAE Grand Challenges Program at JMU, and developed
experiences. In this context, the term ‘critical’ experienceswas defined as the most memorable or important entrepreneurship-related experiencesengineering students identified within the constraints of a one hour interview. These ‘critical’experiences, also synonymous with critical events or critical incidents, are likely to have had aprofound impact on the storyteller (Bohl, 1995; Webster & Mertova, 2007) and often contributeto personal development, accelerated learning, (Woods, 1993) or radical changes within a person(Webster & Mertova, 2007). The overall research study methods were thus centered onextracting these entrepreneurship-related critical experiences and their impacts from theparticipants. These critical experiences were then
. Breakthrough: Stories and Strategiesof RadicalInnovation: MIT press.[18] Leifer, L. 2005. Center for Design Research at Stanford University, Design Process Improvement—A Review of Current Practice. Clarkson, P. Eckert, C. (Eds). 522-526.[19] Taylor, S. & Karanian, B. Working Connection: The Relational Art of Leadership. Aesthesis. 2008.[20] Karanian, B., Taylor, S. & Skogstad, P. 2008. Engineer as entrepreneurial leader: an artistic balancing act. National ASEE Meeting and Proceedings, Pittsburgh, PA.[21] Barry, M. Innovation as a Learning Process: Embedding Design Thinking. CA Mgt. Review, 2007[22] Karanian, B., & Kress, G. (2010). “Tell/Make/Engage: Actions for Innovation.” InProceedings of the 40th anniversary
Pochiraju is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at Stevens Institute of Technology. He recently served as the Founding Director of the Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Program at Stevens ( IDEaS) and prior to that, as the Director of the Design and Manufacturing Institute, a research center at Stevens. Prof. Pochiraju received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Drexel University and joined Stevens after working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Delaware. His expertise spans product design, advanced manufacturing, materials insertion, and knowledge-based systems integration. His current externally-funded research is on the design of real-time