Conference Session

Industry Sponsored Research and Project Initiatives in Industrial Technology & Industrial Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Cook, Lawrence Tech University; Donald Reimer, Lawrence Technological University; Sabah Abro, Lawrence Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Engineering Education, 2010 Entrepreneurial Experiences and Intellectual Property: A Student PerspectiveAbstractThis paper analyzes engineering student experiences in an interdisciplinary entrepreneurialsenior project course. The paper will study and discuss how the outcome of the search forintellectual property is utilized to develop and enhance the fostering and building of theentrepreneurial mindset and experience.This Academic Model allows each student to participate in a process that embraces theimportance of documenting and validating product ideas using real world techniques and tools.The student’s entrepreneurial learning experience is well grounded and always begins with apatent search using the