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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jidong Huang, California State University, Fullerton

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school science, which may stem from science that is not presented in away that is culturally or developmentally interesting to students (Osborne et al., 2003). To improve STEM interest, students must be 1) motivated to pursue STEM studies; 2) havetime, resources and opportunities to learn and practice STEM skills; and 3) see the connectionsbetween STEM knowledge and the real world so they can envision careers for themselves(Thomasian, 2012). The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST,2010) recommends inspiring students to learn STEM subjects by creating opportunities forinspiration through individual and group experiences outside the classroom. Companies in STEM industries also need employees with backgrounds in

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Western Michigan University; Vinit Kishor Agham; Vediya Sitaram Raghuvanshi, R. C. Patel Institute of Technology, Shirpur; Jayantrao Bhaurao Patil, R. C. Patel Institute of Technology, Shirpur; Pramod Jagan Deore

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University, Jalgaon, India. His research interests include Interval arithmetic operations applications in Robust Control, Image Processing, and Bio- medical Signal Processing etc. He has published 40 papers in National/International Conferences/Journals and he has Co-authored two books. He is Member of IEEE and life member of ISTE c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Applying the design thinking approach for establishing an Entrepreneurial Development CenterIntroduction Demographic dividend of a country implies a better share of the working-age populationof the total population and augurs well for healthy growth of the country’s economy [1]. Indiahas a huge

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl Q. Li, University of New Haven; Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven; Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven

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Engineering course. Her profes-sional interests include modeling the transport and fate of contaminants in groundwater and surface watersystems, as well as engineering education reform. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Assessing the Growth in Entrepreneurial Mindset Acquired through Curricular and Extracurricular ComponentsIntroductionToday’s engineering work environment demands much more from employees than solelytechnical engineering knowledge and skills [1-2]. An entrepreneurial mindset and knowledge ofbusiness concepts are highly desired by industry. Many engineering schools are trying to developan entrepreneurial mindset in students. A variety of approaches are being

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan John Washuta P.E., The Citadel; Patrick Bass, The Citadel

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these exercises, while still retaining the benefits of modular implementation. The benefit ofthese individual modules is that they are self-contained and can be easily implemented into anexisting course. In contrast to larger programmatic implementations, these small-scale modulesare lower in cost and complexity, but also tend to focus on fewer aspects of entrepreneurship andare not necessarily reinforced by the surrounding course content.This paper discusses the implementation of a number of engineering entrepreneurship exercisesand activities into a mechanical engineering senior capstone course sequence. These modulestake the form of 1) an e-learning module, 2) a series of guest lectures, and 3) a businesscompetition. These modules were

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Renee M. Desing, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Deborah M. Grzybowski, Ohio State University; Monica Farmer Cox, Ohio State University

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astudent’s education and have subsequently been revising curricula, including adding moreengineering design [1]–[4]. In collaboration with KEEN [5], a network of engineering facultyfocused on enhancing engineering education through the entrepreneurial mindset, a large mid-western university decided to embark on the journey of incorporating entrepreneurial mindedlearning (EML) into an existing first-year course.This paper details the faculty-focused results of the first phase of a four-phase pilot project aimedat understanding the impact of EML on motivation and identity in first-year engineeringclassrooms. In the first phase, we investigated the current practices of select KEEN institutionsthat have already incorporated EML into their first-year

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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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Seyed Mohammad Seyed Ardakani, Ohio Northern University

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bypreparing students with skills such as leadership, team building, critical thinking, and problemsolving [1, 2]. In this methodology, an assignment with multiple tasks is normally used to drivethe students learning activities to produce a final product in the form of a design, model, anddevice or service that can be utilized in real world. PjBL is similar to problem-based learning(PBL) in terms of involving teams of students in open-ended and challenging assignments, whichresemble the real-world situations as well as identifying solutions and reevaluating theirmethodology. The difference between the two approaches is that the PjBL covers a broaderscope and may include several problems. In addition, PjBL focuses on the final product byapplying or

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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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Seyed Mohammad Seyed Ardakani, Ohio Northern University

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. Several studieshave shown the effectiveness of PjBL in terms of increasing understanding, motivating students,taking ownership, and helping to bridge the gap between the classroom and workplace bypreparing students with skills such as leadership, team building, critical thinking, and problemsolving [1, 2]. In this methodology, an assignment with multiple tasks is normally used to drivethe students learning activities to produce a final product in the form of a design, model, anddevice or service that can be utilized in real world. PjBL is similar to problem-based learning(PBL) in terms of involving teams of students in open-ended and challenging assignments, whichresemble the real-world situations as well as identifying solutions and reevaluating

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ENT Division Technical Session: Competitions, Challenges, and Teams

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Sandra Furnbach Clavijo, Stevens Institute of Technology; Matthew Wade, Stevens Institute of Technology; Kishore Pochiraju, Stevens Institute of Technology

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theirlearning.MotivationEngineering students take basic classes in writing and communication. However, recent effortshave focused on communicating with broader audiences [1], including actual users of theproducts/services designed by the engineers, prospective investors who may support theproduct/service development, and marketing professionals who can direct users’ attention to theproducts/services. A recent study by the U.S. Census Bureau found that only 49% of collegeengineering graduates work in STEM fields [2]. Other research showed that engineers are morelikely to become successful entrepreneurs than their colleagues with MBA degrees but withoutengineering degrees [3]. Moreover, even if they remain in technical fields, at various stages oftheir careers engineers must

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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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sophomore level two-coursesequence (required for engineering students in all disciplines) in which the primary learningoutcomes are engineering design and technical communication. These courses are team-taughtby faculty from Engineering and from Communications; specifically, Writing Arts in the fall andPublic Speaking in the spring. Historically, the fall course has featured three major coursedeliverables: (1) a “research sequence” consisting of a rhetorical analysis, an annotatedbibliography, and a literature review, (2) a humanities assignment in which students explore theimpact of technology on societal needs, and (3) laboratory and design reports stemming fromhands-on engineering projects completed in lab.During the summer of 2019, the faculty

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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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Karl D. Schubert, University of Arkansas; Kristie Neff Moergen, University of Arkansas; Carol S. Gattis, University of Arkansas; Wen-Juo Lo, University of Arkansas

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’ retention. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Integrating Innovation Curriculum - Measuring Student Innovation to Assess Course and Program EffectivenessAbstractThe USA is falling behind other nations in innovation, creating serious threat to the health,stability, and influence of our country. Industry is desperate to hire engineers able to innovate,and universities are developing programs to instill the innovative mindset required to improveglobal competitiveness [1].Innovation requires collaboration between engineering, business, and creativity to realisticallyprepare students to be innovators. Researchers at the University of Arkansas's College ofEngineering and Sam M

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ENT Division Technical Session: First-year Experiences

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Deborah M. Grzybowski, Ohio State University; Xiaofeng Tang, Ohio State University; Eunjeong Park, Ohio State University; Alexia Leonard, Ohio State University; Jack DeLano, The Ohio State University; Kai Zhao, Florida State University

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at the Center for Postsecondary Success within Florida State University. He received Ph.D. degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs from the Ohio State University. His re- search His research interests broadly focus on two areas: (1) higher education policy, particularly policies related to college access and success; and (2) internatinalization of higher education, with an emphasis on the global mobility of students and scholars. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Improved Student Performance in a First-Year Engineering Course with Integration of Entrepreneurial Minded LearningAbstractIntroductionIn collaboration with KEEN, a network of thousands of

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ENT Division Technical Session: Competitions, Challenges, and Teams

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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integratetechnical and professional skills and knowledge in their development as an engineer [1]”. Inaddition, engineering students’ involvement in activities outside of the classroom, such asstudent competition teams, contributes to their achievement of numerous other outcomes;according to Simmons, et al, engagement with these activities enhances students’ “career andprofessional development, communication and leadership development, intellectualdevelopment, personal and social development, academic and social engagement, interculturalcompetence, satisfaction with college experiences, and college belonging and persistence inmajor and college [2]”. Working on a competition team, therefore, contributes to thedevelopment of students’ design and build skills

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ENT Division Technical Session: Entrepreneurship and IP

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Ranji K. Vaidyanathan, Oklahoma State University; Mwarumba Mwavita, Oklahoma State University; Kathryn Ann Bartosik, Clarkson University; Pankaj Sarin, Oklahoma State University

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students coming from abroad background. Our objective was to expose undergraduate scholars to a variety of materialsresearch with applications in energy, aerospace, defense, environment and agriculture.Undergraduate scholars were (1) provided hands-on materials research experience inmultidisciplinary engineering projects, (2) introduced to cutting-edge materials characterizationmethods through a 2-day national workshop on Advanced Materials Characterization webcast foreasy access, (3) exposed to entrepreneurial routes to commercializing materials research incollaboration with the School of Entrepreneurship by leveraging the Oklahoma State University'sInnovation Corps site program, and, (4) educated students about graduate programs and careers.This

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ENT Division Technical Session: Entrepreneurship and IP

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Soohyun Yi, Texas Tech University; Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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likelihood that students will create and develop the intellectual property. LITERATURE REVIEW The common scenarios in which undergraduate students are involved in generatingintellectual property include: (1) entrepreneurship education programs and experiential learningactivities; (2) industry-sponsored engineering or product design courses; (3) university-sponsored product design courses; and (4) undergraduate research projects (Duval-Couetil,Running Head: FACULTY VIEWS OF UNDERGRADUATE IP POLICIESPilcher, Weilerstein, & Gotch, 2014). Each context poses unique issues that can result indisputes among university administrators, faculty, and undergraduate students themselves due alack of explicit agreements

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ENT Division Technical Session: First-year Experiences

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Courtney A. Lemasney, Rowan University; Hayley M. Shuster, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University

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KEEN “3Cs” - Curiosity, Connections, and Creating Value.ReflectionIt is a practice of human nature to reflect on experiences of the past and present. However, in thecase of reflection, most people fail to recognize the use of these experiences to aid in the future.True reflection “on experience can be framed as an intentional and dialectical thinking processwhere an individual revisits features of an experience with which he/she is aware and uses one ormore lenses in order to assign meaning(s) to the experience that can guide future action (and thusfuture experience)” [1]. It takes various elements and perspectives to achieve reflective thinking.Schon simplified reflection down to two categories known as “reflection-on-action” and“reflection

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ENT Division Technical Session: Entrepreneurship and IP

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kevin Buffardi, California State University, Chico; David Rahn, California State University, Chico

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. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Fostering Entrepreneurship in Project-Based Software Engineering CoursesIntroduction.The 2013 ASEE report on Transforming Undergraduate Engineering Education identifiedentrepreneurship and intrapreneurship as in-demand skills that require additional attention inengineering curricula for “expanding on business and economics acumen and enabling studentsto learn more than economic capitalization, but also the process of starting a business from anidea” [1]. Meanwhile, the technology sector is growing, led largely by software companies likeApple, Microsoft, Alphabet (parent of Google), and Facebook. Accordingly, many of the leadingsoftware companies emerged from a “tech startup” culture and

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ENT Division Technical Session: First-year Experiences

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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

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Engineering Education, 2020 Student responses to active learning strategies: A comparison between project-based and traditional engineering programsIntroductionOver the past three decades, engineering education has experienced calls for innovation in termsof effective teaching and learning. One of the reformations is to introduce active learning in theclassroom to promote students’ engagement. Different from traditional teacher-centered lectures,active learning [1] focuses on students’ participation, peer-to-peer interaction as well as learningreflection and metacognition [2]. Including a wide range of teaching strategies, such as groupbrainstorming, jigsaw discussion [3], think-pair-share [4], and problem-based

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ENT Division Technical Session: Making and Maker Spaces

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kimberly B. Demoret P.E., Florida Tech

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Undergraduate Education in Engineering (TUUE) [1],[2], and in an Engineering Competency Model developed by the American Association ofEngineering Societies and the US Department of Labor [3]. Many professional skills consideredimportant in today’s rapidly changing environment are also considered important inentrepreneurship. An “Entrepreneurial Mindset” (EM) has been defined as a set of cognitivebehaviors that focus on recognizing opportunities and creating value in any context, not just aspart of a new business; and some have argued that cultivating EM in engineering undergraduatescan benefit individuals, their employers, and the larger society [4]. Entrepreneurially MindedLearning (EML) is an emergent pedagogy that attempts to cultivate this mindset

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ENT Division Technical Session: Assessment Tools and Practices

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University

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MindsetIntroduction and MotivationThe computer science program at Ohio Northern University (ONU) is in the process ofincorporating the entrepreneurial mindset across its curriculum. As described by the KernEntrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN) Framework [1], the outcomes of theentrepreneurial mindset – consisting of Curiosity, Connections, and Creating Value – areexpressed through both Collaboration and Communication, and are founded on Character.Members of ONU’s engineering faculty have previously expanded upon the KEEN Frameworkby developing a list of 52 “specific, authentic learning objectives” that are referred to as the“extended KEEN Student Outcomes” (eKSOs) [2], [3]. Collectively, these learning objectiveswere designed to translate the big picture

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Entrepreneurial Leadership and Non-traditional Ways to Engage Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Paul Rossler, Oklahoma State University; Martin High, Oklahoma State University

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Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University. Professor High earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Penn State, and a J.D. from the University of Tulsa. He is licensed as an attorney in Oklahoma, registered as a Patent Attorney to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and licensed as a professional engineer in Pennsylvania. Page 12.632.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Engineering Entrepreneurship for High School and Early College StudentsAbstractProject Lead the Way, Inc.1 is a national pre-engineering curriculum

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Entrepreneurial Leadership and Non-traditional Ways to Engage Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Coyle, Purdue University; Nancy Clement, Purdue University; Joy Krueger, Purdue University

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their localcommunity.The EPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative (EEI) was created in 2001 to enable EPICS teams to learnabout entrepreneurship in the context of the innovative products and services that they createwith their community partners. The culmination of the EEI’s activities each year is the EPICSIdea-to-Product® (I2P®) Competition.1 In this product-feasibility competition, a panel ofdistinguished entrepreneurs listen to the EPICS e-teams’ presentations about their products anddetermine which of their ideas have the greatest potential for both commercial sustainability andbenefit to society.The educational and commercialization benefits of the EEI and its I2P® Competition have led usto generalize them beyond EPICS to include all areas of

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Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Brandon Moore, Florida Atlantic University; Eiki Martinson, Florida Atlantic University

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thisproject. New designs, more sensors and actuators, better simulation, and enhanced monitoringand control system were put in place. The visitors were invited to be there at 2pm. Despite manyattempts to make the apparatus function nothing worked. At 1:30pm when the first visitorscame…as we were testing a new design... it all worked! Water was boiling violently in theevaporator unit at room temperature, and about one liter of fresh water was produced in less thantwo minutes. What a relief!After the first working experiment In the coming weeks we repeated the experiment and performed additional ones. Weinvited more people and industry representatives to watch the “miracle”. Data were collected

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Engineering Entrepreneurship and K-12 Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David M Feinauer, University of Kentucky; Bruce Walcott, University of Kentucky

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12.824.2execution will be presented.CurriculumThe students that participate in the Engineering Summer Program are thrust into a week-longitinerary that consumes their time from 7 am until 10 pm each day with activities that aredesigned to achieve the objectives previously mentioned in the introduction. A more detaileddescription of the core program objectives is provided in Table 1. A general description of thedaily activities is provided below. Following each description, the outcomes from Table 1 thatrelate to the activity are listed.Team building exercises – The Engineering Summer Program participants represent the top,rising high school seniors from around the state. They have diverse geographic, educational,ethnic, and family backgrounds. The students

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Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Thornton, University of Maryland; Jacqueline Rogers, University of Maryland (Retired); Kristen Waters; Nathan Myers, University of Maryland; Lisa Rawlings, Prince George's Prince Community College

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Creating a Technology Incubator and Creating a Seed Fund

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Duening, Arizona State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2007-824: DEVELOPING AN ANGEL INVESTOR FORUM TO COMPLEMENTAN ENGINEERING SCHOOL'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP INITIATIVESThomas Duening, Arizona State University Page 12.484.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007Developing an Angel Investor Forum to Complement an Engineering School’s Entrepreneurship Initiatives Page 12.484.2BackgroundAfter two years of decline, entrepreneurial activity in the United States increased from 10.5percent in 2002 to 11.9 percent in 2003. This level of activity ranks the U.S. 7th among 31nations surveyed by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor in Total Entrepreneurial Activity(TEA).1

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Product Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley Kramer, Kansas State University; Jeffrey Tucker, Kansas State University; Bret Lanz, Kansas State University; Dale Wunderlich, Kansas State University; Jeffrey Katz, Kansas State University

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entrepreneurs and small businesses to improve theircompetitiveness.1. BackgroundThe Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI) is a multi-disciplinary center that is part of theKansas State University College of Engineering. It is both a Kansas Technology EnterpriseCorporation (KTEC) Center of Excellence and a U.S. Economic Development AdministrationUniversity Center. Its mission is to advance technologies, people, and companies throughcollaborative engineering and business partnerships. Page 12.566.2In 1995, AMI established an operation to enhance the education of engineering students that waspatterned after teaching hospitals. In our model, AMI employs

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Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; Richard Scruggs, Texas A&M University

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current companies or stimulates new start-up ventures in the localregion. Figure 1 contains a conceptual diagram of the Engineering EntrepreneurshipEducational Experience (E4) model that begins with the generation of ideas for use by thestudent teams and continues in a self-sustaining manner through licensing and/orincubation of new technology innovation companies. To date, oneproject has culminated in the development of a working prototype that was then licensedby the Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) to a new venture forcommercialization. Royalties from sales of this new product will be paid to Texas A&M,a portion of which will go to the three former students that are listed as inventors of theintellectual property.With each

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Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Farris, Grand Valley State University; Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University; Shabbir Choudhuri, Grand Valley State University; Christopher Pung, Grand Valley State University

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of GVSU required the formulation of a formal intellectualproperty policy. A committee of faculty and administrators established the policy 20041. One of the guidingprinciples of the policy was the idea that the discoveries made at the university should pushed into the marketto benefit the local economy. The salient points of the policy are summarized below. 1. The university may license or assign intellectual property to external entities for further development and commercialization in exchange for a return on resulting revenues. The university and creator (inventor) shall divide the return on resulting revenues using one of the two formulas as follows: 2. The University and the creator divide the gross revenue 70% to the

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Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phil Weilerstein, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance; Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance

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Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Blessing, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Kristen Mekemson, Kern Family Foundation; David Pistrui, Illinois Institute of Technology

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, represents a new and uniqueentrepreneurial approach to improving undergraduate education in the U.S.This paper shows how building an entrepreneurial ecosystem within and among engineeringschools, as exemplified by KEEN, will provide a strong foundation for graduating engineersentering organizations operating in an innovation-based economy. Ecosystems can be definedas environments with interconnected relationships influenced by a variety of factors. Anentrepreneurial ecosystem links people by vision, commitment, passion, and innovationsurrounding the achievement of a common goal.The paper has five objectives: (1) establish the need for an innovative and entrepreneurial talentpool coming out of U.S. engineering schools; (2) identify critical skills