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Conference Session
Entrepreneurship Education: Unique Approaches
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Shawn S Jordan, Purdue Univeristy; Robin Adams, Purdue University
Tagged Divisions
Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
participants and spectators to watch. In addition, students have opportunities to apply thetechnical skills they have learned in the classroom in an application where creativity is king butreliability is key.This paper takes the reader on a journey through the author’s experiences leading a RubeGoldberg team through winning the national championship in 2006. This paper is the result of adeep iterative reflection, assisted by a collaborator in order to pull out the aspects of thisexperience that illuminate lessons related to design knowledge and learning. The aim of thispaper is to identify important areas for future research and build a foundation for a future bookintended to engage young learners in innovation and creative problem solving in a
Conference Session
Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Stuart Kellogg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Tagged Divisions
Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
reliable and has both internal and external validity. Thesecond, and more important reason, is that the model lends itself to a more holisticapproach to open ended problem solving, which, in turn should help to promote morecomplex thinking skills.A second objective of the program is increase creative and complex problem solvingskills as measured through gains in cognitive development. The department has had over70 hours of training on the steps for better thinking model. Student work is scored usingthe Steps for Better Thinking Rubric12 and preliminary data suggests that students aregradually making cognitive gains. Baseline data utilizing the Reflections on CurrentIssues16 (RCI) instrument was collected in 2006 as a means of supporting these
Conference Session
Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy
Tagged Divisions
Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
two microphone system similar to what Clarity experimented Page 13.1360.6with early in its history.This case study went a bit longer than the planned 30-45 minutes intended, so other institutionsusing this case may wish to eliminate either the Somanetics or the Clarity portions of the case.To convey the nature of the case study presentation as much as possible without being able toinclude the video clips or detailed slides for size considerations, a rough content outline isprovided below: • Video: Ray Gunn defines entrepreneurship • Reflection on that definition and traits of an entrepreneur per NCIIA/KEEN • Video: Ray Gunn discusses
Conference Session
Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Khanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University; Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University
Tagged Divisions
Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
Venture CDR 12 P3 Week Patents & Intellectual Quest 5 13 Property Issues Week POC to Product Reflection on Course, POC to Product 14 Technical issues Ventures, Ideas Non-technical Issues Week Course Quality Control Final Prototype Demos Final Presentations 15 P4 Exam Final Report Due Week
Conference Session
Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University
Tagged Divisions
Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
. Standard Average deviation Typically for every one credit hour, 3 to 4 hours per week of student time in and out of the classroom is expected. With this in mind, the one credit hour was 4.00 0.63 properly reflected in the time I spent on this course. How would you rate your experience for the course? 4.17 0.41 I got what I wanted out of this course (the course met my expectations). 4.33 0.52 Table 9. Student ratings of statements about the Creative Problem Solving course. On a scale of 1 to
Conference Session
Entrepreneurship Education
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University
Tagged Divisions
Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
students’ innovation-related skills as well as students’ reflections on the class. Themain idea is to develop a student-centered environment that helps students to develop a can-do,proactive, innovative mindset; an environment that will light their spark of innovation, and providethem with resources to translate their ideas from paper to prototype. We have identified four majorgroups of relevant skills, namely, problem solving, “big picture”, personal and social skills, and usedseveral different activities to try to boost them. A variety of projects and challenges, and multi-sensory activities were synthesized to create an empirical, authentic, and multi-disciplinaryexperience. This effort is in line with our college longer term goal to infuse