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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bernd Steffensen, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt

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Head of the Graduate School Darmstadt.Head of Research Center Electric Mobility c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Taking the Role of Others to Increase the Success Rates of Innovations1. IntroductionTraditionally it is the disciplinary knowledge that is the main focus of education in academicinstitutions1. In a recent publication Hart Research Associates2 present a surprising result: “Nearlyall employers (96%) agreed that, regardless of their chosen field of study, all students should haveexperience in college that teach them how to solve problems with people whose views aredifferent from their own, …”. Of the 400 employers participating in the research, 59% stronglyagreed. To cope with

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Rodney Boehm, Texas A&M University College of Engineering; Michael Beyerlein, Texas A&M University; Kiersten Potter, Student Engineers' Council; Jiacheng Lu; Lori L. Moore, Texas A&M University

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implementation. Surveys were conducted pre-and post-training to assess the effectiveness of individual skill development and determine whatelements of the program should be continued. A final survey was conducted of students andmentors to assess the effectiveness of teamwork development. Participants reported increases indevelopment of individual skill areas over the course of the program. When rating their teamperformance, participants ratings were between somewhat agree and agree on the majority of theaspects of team performance assessed. Overall, participants had a positive view of theirexperience in the program. IntroductionEach generation of new engineering graduates has entered a workplace with roles

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Program Development & Desired Outcomes

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leo E. Hanifin, University of Detroit Mercy; Ross A. Lee, Villanova University

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aretrying to find or establish their place in the organization, such reactions to critiques of their designmay be derived from defensiveness. This is especially so if they believe that the design critiquereflects any lack of confidence (real or perceived) by more senior engineers or managers.All of this points to a key linkage between confidence and mastery of the capabilities(competence) that are central to the engineering profession. If one’s confidence is based on truemastery, then the engineer will view questions and critiques regarding his/her design as valuablecontributions towards excellence in the outcome. It becomes a contribution toward the successof the innovation, rather than a personal challenge to one’s capability. It is this balance

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ENT Division Technical Session: Creativity and Innovation

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Simon Jakob Barth, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University

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-Career Engineering GraduatesAbstractIt is widely acknowledged that engineers “are foundational to technological innovation anddevelopment that drive long-term economic growth and help solve societal challenges” [1].Consequently, it is a major goal in engineering education to ensure and further improve thedevelopment of innovation skills among its students. While many studies focus on currentengineering students and their innovation goals and skills, it is also informative to see howthese goals and skills are translated into realized innovative behavior in the workplace. Bystudying the characteristics of innovative behavior of engineering graduates we revealvaluable insights and draw conclusions for engineering

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Heydi L. Dominguez, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Vibhavari Vempala, University of Michigan; Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University; Jacob Frederick Fuher, University of Michigan

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% 43% 21% Business Oriented (N=15) Content Knowledge (N=19) General Personal Attributes (N=276) Professional Skills (N=134) Specific Entrepreneurial Attributes (N=197) Figure 1: Frequency of Students’ Reported Entrepreneurial CharacteristicsConclusion and DiscussionEngineering as a field is constantly evolving, and so are expectations of duties and roles thatengineering students should be capable of performing upon graduation [14]. Driven by changingneeds, entrepreneurship education has been implemented in engineering curriculums by multipleinstitutions to

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark V. Huerta, Arizona State University

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Student describes an experience Encountering legal issues, difficulty experience in which they encountered a balancing entrepreneurial project with challenge or problem while school, project development stagnates, working on their entrepreneurial etc. project Failure Student describes an experience Failure in the design or solution, experience in which they failed unsuccessful attempt to obtain funding, entrepreneurial project discontinues, etc. Class- Student describes the general Entrepreneurship classes and project

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University; Justin L. Hess, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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). Students describeddistinctions between engineering innovation and other engineering work (e.g.., “routine” courseprojects, internships, research experiences). They did so primarily by identifying characteristicsof innovative solutions and, in some cases, features or outcomes of the processes that led to thosesolutions. The learning related to this theme often involved moving from a self-identified naïveunderstanding to a more informed understanding. The more informed understanding generallyconnected to features of projects that students had personally led or participated in.Table 2. Elements Comprising the Definition Theme Element Description Balances needs of many Recognizing that innovation involves many stakeholders

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Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Calvin C. Jen, Calvin College; Tyler Scott Helmus, Calvin College; Steven H. VanderLeest, Calvin College

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not for profit boards. His interests include the integration of faith in all types and aspects of business including engineering and architecture, and the use of business in international community development.Tyler Scott Helmus, Calvin College TYLER S. HELMUS is a student currently enrolled in Calvin College’s engineering program. He expects to graduate in 2012 and hopes to attend graduate school after. research interests include robotics and control systems.Steven H. VanderLeest, Calvin College STEVEN H. VANDERLEEST is a Professor of Engineering at Calvin College, Vice-President of Re- search & Development at DornerWorks, Ltd., and partner at squishLogic LLC. He obtained the M.S.E.E. from Michigan

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ENT Division Technical Session: Creativity and Innovation

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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

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often rivals reality. We tend to express our expectations of in-dividuals in entrepreneurial action with contentment, anger, frustration, confusion, and grati-tude in different ways. In seeing how men and women respond to a CEO/founder's behavior,we discover how interpersonal perceptions matter. Recent engineering graduates tell us thatthey learn about themselves by observing and listening to all sides of the story, and then theyfill in the blanks. One student, after interning as an innovation development lead explains, “Isee conflicts that I would never had expected to arise among co-workers, and some internalconflicts in my attempt to reconcile the rulebook and my own conscience. I struggle withpeople I work with in ways that may harm our

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A. Karanian, Stanford University; Ville Mikael Taajamaa, University of Turku; Christopher Andrew Parlier, Stanford University; Mona Eskandari, University of California, Riverside

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. College students tell stories about the engineer who decided to step down as CEOwith vivid action shots of emotion and stunning motivational characterizations. The story ofthe leader is brimming with both the need for achievement, including images about thechallenge to make/do great engineering work and themes of innovation, and with a desire todo it over and over again. The tension is that obstacles emerge along the way in studentstories when there is a collision between needs – like the need to achieve with the need foraffiliation or high need for performance with a pessimistic inclination as they struggle to finda system for repeatable success. One example of the tension is in a story a woman wroteabout Jessica: “After graduating

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Design and Entrepreneurship

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mona Eskandari, Stanford University; Barbara A. Karanian A., Stanford University; Ville Mikael Taajamaa, University of Turku

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Internet Marketing and Advertising, 2012.21. Karanian B.“Entrepreneurial Leadership: A Balancing Act in Engineering and Science,” ASEE Global Colloquia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007.22. Karanian, B. et al., “Open Process Team Collaboration: Story Parallels from an Academic Team to theStudied Start-Up,” ASEE, San Antonio, TX, 2012.23. Kelley D. and Kelley T. “Creative Confidence,” Crown Publishing Group, 2013.24. Kolmos A. "Future Engineering Skills, Knowledge, and Identity,” Engineering Science, Skills, andBuilding, 165-185, 2006.25. Langer E. J. “Mindfulness,” Merloyd-Lawrence, 1990.26. Leifer L. J. and Steinert M. “Dancing with Ambiguity: Causality Behavior, Design Thinking, and Triple-Loop-Learning,” Information Knowledge Systems Management, 10

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ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum I

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Scott Duplicate Streiner, Rowan University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Bruce Oestreich, Rowan University; Ted Howell, Rowan University; Jennifer Tole, Rowan University

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read and understood in isolation. The purposeof the literature review was to discuss the current state of knowledge regarding the topic, andhow the individual sources related to each other and each informed the current state ofknowledge. Students were expected to make substantial use of at least 8-10 sources in theliterature review. Most of these sources were the same as those cited in the annotatedbibliography, though it wasn’t unusual for a student to discard one or two sources and find newones between the annotated bibliography and the literature review.Structurally, the revised Research Sequence is identical to the old in terms of the goals of thethree assignments. The primary modification is the selection of the topic and a new linkage to

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Education Session 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Jon Down, University of Portland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara A. Karanian, Stanford University; Mona Eskandari, Stanford University; Ville Taajamaa, University of Turku

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students. Barbara uses applied psychology and art in her storytelling methods, to help students and leaders traverse across the iterative stages of a projects - from the early, inspirational stages to reality. Founder of the Design Entrepreneuring Studio, she is the author of,”Working Connection: The Relational Art of Leadership;” ”Entrepreneurial Leadership: A Balancing Act in Engineering and Science;” and ”Designing for Social Participation in the Virtual Universe.” With her students in ME 378, she co-authored, ”The Power of First Moments in Entrepreneurial Storytelling.” Barbara makes productive partnerships with industry and creates collaborative teams with members from the areas of engineering, design, psychology

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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

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-ObservationAn impressive strength of character is revealed by students responding to a time when theirlearning world is thrown out of balance. Instructors might include practice exercises and designchallenges in their curriculum that identifies compassion and defines ways it will encouragecollaboration. There exists the potential to add learning goals with a focus on care, compassion,and make useful distinctions between compassion (feeling for) and empathy (feeling with).Stress for Achieving Goals is Amplified in a Virtual Environment“I wouldn’t be as outgoing as I would be in a regular class,” is the way one respondent frameshis response to a virtual attempt at collaboration. While his response is not representative of allstudents participating in

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Entrepreneurship Teaming and Collaboration

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara A. Karanian, Stanford University; Mona Eskandari, Stanford University; Akshit Aggarwal, Stanford University; Felipe Pincheira, Stanford University; Rebecca Rose Krauthamer; Gregory Kress, Stanford University

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AC 2012-4303: OPEN PROCESS FOR ENTREPRENEURING TEAM COL-LABORATION: PARALLELS FROM AN ACADEMIC RESEARCH TEAMTO THE START UP THEY STUDIEDProf. Barbara A. Karanian, Stanford University Barbara A. Karanian, Ph.D. teaches graduate design methods and a new REVS class on the car experi- ence in the College of Engineering at Stanford University, using applied psychology and art for story- telling to facilitate student progress from the idea and prototyping phases to delivery. With a focus on entrepreneurial leadership, Karanian makes productive partnerships with industry and forms collaborative teams from the areas of engineering, design, psychology, and communication. She was the Michael T. Anthony Professor at Wentworth

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Beyond the Classroom

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexander Joseph Zorychta, University of Virginia; Elizabeth P. Pyle MBA, University of Virginia

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other to take slightly greater risksthat ultimately accelerated their company; a commitment to helping younger studententrepreneurs. We also saw them collaborate on each other’s projects using complementary skillsets, and even take steps to found new ventures together. Most importantly, as these studentshave graduated, they have influenced one another to stay in Charlottesville, VA, the relativelysmall city surrounding the University, to build their businesses alongside one another.But it is not just about bringing students with project ideas together. The second attempt to start agroup, in February 2016, failed spectacularly, as they could not find the time to meet regularly.The major differences between this first and second group is that the

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Systems Engineering and Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Karanian, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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: 1) What are the coreattributes that illustrate the unique entrepreneurial leader? 2) How does the entrepreneurialleader balance the effective role of entrepreneur and leader?2. Theory and AssertionsSubtle but dramatic forms of distinction exist between the definitions of leadership,entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial leadership. What form does entrepreneurial leadershiptake? On the basis of a review of the literature indicating both the importance and lack of clarityon defining entrepreneurial leadership and extending the revival of a personality andcharacteristic approach, the author reviewed both “lab study” and “field study” researchapproaches 35, 36, 37 and selected traits and concepts for study that emerged from intuitions

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Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Karanian, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

theLeader, and 5) Emotional Balancing Act of Leader. All five pictures include a summarized setof emerging themes and suggestions for best practice during next research steps.A. Gender Distinctions in Leader or Entrepreneur ConstructsFirst, while men and women may differ in pre-dominance as senior level managers, they tend toagree in their definitions of leader and entrepreneur. Participants’ use of intriguing words andword phrase definitions of leader and entrepreneur were often similar to today’s definition ofbusiness or academic leader. While men and women have similar conceptions of productiveleader behavior, distinctions and similarities between leader and entrepreneur constructs, there ishesitation and confusion about making sense out of some

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Program Development & Desired Outcomes

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Nilsen, VentureWell; Victoria Matthew, VentureWell/Epicenter; Angela Shartrand, VentureWell; Thema Monroe-White, SageFox Consulting Group

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example.The overarching purpose of the landscape analysis process is to have teams consider thestrengths and gaps on their campuses. This process provides team members with a sharedunderstanding of the unique opportunities and challenges on their campus, and forms afoundation on which to develop plans for growing their entrepreneurial ecosystem.The tool was originally designed as a spreadsheet for teams to document “assets” on theircampus (e.g., courses, extra-curricular offerings, spaces, champions). The tool alsodefined the terms “innovation”* and “entrepreneurship”† to support shared understanding.Finally, the tool guided teams in reflecting on various dimensions of their schools’ecosystem as a whole – the balance between electives and required

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Entrepreneurship Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas E. Allen, Bucknell University; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, there had not been an university-wide discussion. Amajor impetus behind the initiative described in this paper was to intentionally unite theserelated elements through creating an innovation ecosystem. An innovation ecosystem isthe result of interactions between diverse stakeholders in a community with a vision ofachieving goals through innovation or targeted creativity. Toward this end, facultyleaders in innovation from diverse disciplines gathered in a workshop to explore tactics tonurture, support and promote these activities and new initiatives. Specifically, this groupof faculty from engineering, management, arts, humanities and social sciences met to: 1. Build an awareness of all of the diverse activities and identify how they tie into

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karl D. Schubert FIET, University of Arkansas; Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas; Alan E. Ellstrand, University of Arkansas

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

CoE and the WCOB chose to address these needs by recruiting a team tointegrate innovation for engineering and business students, partnered, into pedagogy, curriculum,and real-world experiences with other-than-your-own professions. Creating a program thatincludes opportunities for those who need to be able to work together to allow them to do so andto understand each other and their roles in successful innovation better prepares them forpersonal and professional success post-graduation. [5]Literature ReviewIn a recent survey of the needs for aligning education systems for 21st century skills [16], threekey skills were frequently identified by national education systems: collaboration, criticalthinking, and problem solving. These are

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Institutionalizing Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Nilsen, Purdue University; Edward F. Morrison, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Raquel Asencio, Purdue University; Scott Hutcheson, Purdue University, School of Engineering Technology

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Paper ID #18624Getting ”There”: Understanding How Innovation and Entrepreneurship Be-come Part of Engineering EducationMrs. Elizabeth Nilsen, Purdue University Liz Nilsen is a Senior Program Director at the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab, helping nurture change efforts in engineering education, innovation, and beyond. Previously, she was a Senior Program Officer at Ven- tureWell, where she co-developed and co-led the Epicenter Pathways to Innovation initiative, an effort to engage with a cohort of colleges and universities to fully embed innovation and entrepreneurship in under- graduate engineering education. Her experience