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Utilizing On-Line Technology in Entrepreneurship Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Larry Richards, University of Virginia

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

traditional course has continued to evolve, and it has beenadapted to different audiences and contexts. There are now three versions of Creativityand New Product Development, but they all share common goals and objectives.Class objectivesWe have three general goals for this course: (1) to provide an overview of the basicprocesses in new product development in a competitive marketplace by simulating themin class, (2) to acquire the skills for successfully creating and developing a new productthrough hands-on, team-based projects, and (3) to become more creative individuals andmore effective team members.The topics covered in this class fall into four categories: technical skills, creativethinking, business strategies, and people skills. Technical

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Systems Engineering and Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech; Balbir Singh, NIS-Punjab; Muzaffar Shaikh, Florida Tech; Ashok Pandit, Florida Tech

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

arelated concept of systems engineering was used to get India back to the top of worldhockey.IntroductionOur goal for this research is very clear: To use systems engineering principles torevitalize Indian hockey and get India back to the top of world hockey rankings.Our objectives are: To help India win the 2008 Beijing Olympics gold medal and the2010 World Cup by big margins (greater than 2-0) in the pool matches, semi-final or finalfor these major tournaments.We will play attacking hockey. We will stick to our 5-3-2-1 attacking formation. We willhave a psychological advantage over all the countries whenever we step on the field andthis will mean that the game is already won psychologically before it has started.However, we will use the

Conference Session

Utilizing On-Line Technology in Entrepreneurship Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Arrasmith, Florida Tech; Jihan Dinally, Florida Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

maintainers, business personnel such as contracting, intellectual property, marketing,entrepreneurs and of course the VGKM users. We used a Quality Functional Deployment (QFD)approach to capture our stakeholder’s requirements3. A concept of operations was thendeveloped based on the stakeholder requirements to provide a scope and focus for the VGKMdevelopment.3.0 Concept of OperationsThe Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for VGKM describes operational aspects of our project4.Based on the stakeholder requirements, the CONOPS provides a focus for the development effortand is useful in setting the scope for the project. Figure 1 shows the VGKM CONOPS.The CONOPS shows key features of our VGKM such as development of an interesting,independent story line shown

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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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Russell Dinardi, Lafayette College; Sharon Jones, Lafayette College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2007-3112: IMPLEMENTING ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEURSHIPEDUCATION AT LAFAYETTE COLLEGERussell Dinardi, Lafayette CollegeSharon Jones, Lafayette College Page 12.843.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Implementing Engineering Entrepreneurship Education at Lafayette CollegeIntroductionEntrepreneurship is growing in relation to the fields of technology as well as theeconomy. As a result, the definition of entrepreneurship is evolving. According tosome sources, entrepreneurship is a very broad field and can simply be defined asinnovation.1 The National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship defines entrepreneurshipspecifically in terms of the economy and

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Utilizing On-Line Technology in Entrepreneurship Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. Figure 1. AutoTune. Page 12.631.3This new process has since generated several successful projects achieved through themotivation and support of the undergraduate teams, including products for the consumer andindustry markets as well as systems to be used by the private and public sectors. An example ofthis success is Project Autotune where a student team designed and implemented a genericretrofit system that uses motors and a microcontroller to automatically tune an electric guitar.Upon graduation, the students briefed several companies on their prototype and found interest incommercializing their idea. While all of the students involved have since

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Tuesday Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Marc Lockard, Lockard and White, Inc

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

industry executive can be seen in Figure 1. Seated around this central area were theother teams that listened to the discussions and evaluated the educational benefit they receivedthrough the students’ questions. Figure 1. ELE Seminar Roundtable Discussion.The guest was encouraged not to use a lecture approach, but rather to interact with the studentteam in a question/answer/discussion process. It was the responsibility of the team to ensure thatthe speaker stayed on topic and that relevant questions were asked. During the one-hourseminar, other student teams observed the discussion and then provided peer evaluations basedon the overall quality of the seminar and the learning they extract from the discussions.Following the

Conference Session

Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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W. Andrew Clark, East Tennessee State University; Peter Hriso, East Tennessee State University; Craig A. Turner, East Tennessee State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

andentrepreneurship. Carolyn O’Grady in her text, “Integrating Service Learning andMulticultural Education in Colleges and University”1 described the National Service Actof 1993 as a method: • “Under which students learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized service experiences that meet actual community needs and that are coordinated in collaboration with the school and the community; • That is integrated into the students’ academic curriculum or provides a structured time for a student to think, talk or write about what the student did and saw during the actual service activity; • That provides students with opportunities to use newly acquired skills and knowledge in real-life

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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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Jim Subach, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University; John Magrane, Microchip Technology Inc.; Carol Popovich, Microchip Technology Inc.

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

of a product; then developbusiness and marketing plans for the product, while gaining an understanding of thepatent process. All of these activities are part of a capstone project that is alreadyincluded in the curriculum at ASU‘s Polytechnic campus, Department of ElectronicSystems.Introduction ASU defines entrepreneurship as “the spirit and process of creative risk takingand innovation that leverages university knowledge to spur social development andeconomic competitiveness.”1 Additionally, in a contributed article to Mechanical Engineering Magazine,Ephraim Suhir, President and CEO of ERS/Siloptix Co. in Los Altos, CA, wrote that “atechnological professional with entrepreneurial skills has a better chance than a

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Product Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Fry, Brigham Young University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

solution within a narrow range. They then workquickly to achieve, test, and validate that solution. These two mind-sets often clash as one seeksto broaden the scope of the problem, while the other is working to achieve closure. This contrastis illustrated in FIG. 1 FIG.1 Page 12.405.5 Contrast of divergent/convergent processesApplying characteristics of creative thinking, and accommodating the different flavors ofcreativity, successful projects focusing on the collaboration between multi-disciplinary studentgroups should require students to be flexible, fluent, original, and have

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Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kari Clase, Purdue University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

of the 21st century, creativity will grow in importance.1, 2”Skills identified by the National Academies are in agreement with desirable skillsidentified by recent workforce reports. In the meeting summary for the Pan-Organizational Summit on the U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce, technical skillscombined with a strong math and science background and integrated with problem-solving, critical-thinking, and teamwork skills are sorely needed by modernmanufacturing as well as by other sectors.3 This is also true as science and technology areintegrated within the industry of biotechnology. Page 12.505.2Biotechnology refers to harnessing the

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IP and Supporting Student Startups

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan Moore, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; David Shepard, Engenius Solutions

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)[http://www.nciia.org/] are two such conferences. The rapid growth of the ASEEEntrepreneurship Division provides another indication of the number of institutions, faculty, andentrepreneurs actively involved in entrepreneurship program development. In the past,traditional engineering education has prepared the student for traditional career pathwaysprimarily within traditional corporate entities. However, according to the Small BusinessAdministration (SBA) website (1), small businesses, those with fewer than 500 employees,create 60 – 80 % of the net new jobs annually and produce 13 – 14 times more patents peremployee than large patenting firms. Because of generally limited resources, smaller firmstypically

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IP and Supporting Student Startups

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Swamidass, Auburn University; Brian Wright, Auburn University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Auburn University Office of Technology Transfer.AbstractThis paper addresses several major issues of interest to ASEE’s Entrepreneurship Division. Itcovers (1) university technology transfer; (2) introducing technology IP protocol management tostudents; and (3) a model of working relationship with university technology transfer officers forthe mutual benefit of university technology transfer and the training of university graduates withreal-life technology transfer problems. Student reported benefits are included.IntroductionThe Office of Technology Transfer of our university processes dozens of new inventions fromthe university laboratories each year. They need assistance in evaluating particularly engineeringinventions for prompt processing

Conference Session

IP and Supporting Student Startups

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

patent statute states that“[w]hoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, orcomposition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor,subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.”1 We must resort to case law to be moredefinitive about what makes an invention useful. An inventor will not get a patent if the invention was 1) known or used 2) by others 3) inthe U.S., 4) before the inventor conceived the invention. However, we also know from previouscase law that to “be known” that knowledge must be publicly available.2 Public use by someoneother than the inventor, even someone that the inventor disclosed the invention to in confidence,will void the patent by

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University; Jennifer Finelli, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

types ofdesign projects for the last three years in two courses: Engineering Design Principles (QMM492), and Entrepreneurial Leadership (ENGR 310). In this paper, we review our experienceregarding the implementation of these projects in the Entrepreneurship curriculum, and providean assessment encompassing student learning, motivation, and entrepreneurial achievement. Wehave implemented and studied the effectiveness of the following types of projects: 1) need basedconceptual design projects, 2) design and build projects, and 3) build and sell projects. Overall,preliminary results indicate that while all the included project types were perceived to beeffective, the most effective one is identified to be the build and sell type, which

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Ochs, Lehigh University; Gerard Lennon, Lehigh University; Todd Watkins, Lehigh University; Graham Mitchell, Lehigh University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

11.32.2an 11:1 undergraduate student to faculty ratio. The University is a class R2 researchschool with annual research funding of ~$40M with 24 research centers or researchinstitutes. Lehigh has an active and engaged alumni serving in various capacities, such asindustry liaisons, department and program advisors and members of the University Boardof Trustees. Lehigh has consistently ranked in the top 10 nationally among researchinstitutions in the Standard and Poor’s survey of Fortune 500 companies in thepercentage of Lehigh Alumni in corporate leadership positions.Entrepreneurship at LehighLehigh University offers regular courses and full-time regular faculty as well as adjunctfaculty (Lehigh calls them Professors of Practice) dedicated to

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education - A 10,000' View

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Lane, Grand Valley State University; John Farris, Grand Valley State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

project. Fewstudents have adequate knowledge in all of the required fields. Engineering students with a newsports product know little about the business skills required. This is made even more difficultwhen students outside of the business or engineering fields have ideas for new product.Unfortunately recent research suggests that students outside of business and engineering have theideas and tolerance of risk associated with entrepreneurship.1 The authors have witnessed manypromising projects end because of these issues. Sometimes the idea originator can not enticepeople with the required skills to join the development team. The idea generator does notusually posses the financial resources to pay up front for the required expertise. Nor does

Conference Session

Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidi Neck, Babson College; John Bourne, Olin College; Stephen Schiffman, Olin College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

innovation andis a leading source of technological progress. The collision of engineering and entrepreneurshipis a value enhancing process that stimulates venture formation, economic growth, and socialvalue. The NSF partnership between Babson College and Olin College of Engineering is logicaland both colleges have an institutional commitment to engineering entrepreneurship education.Such a commitment is marked by many shared activities and outreach development such asSyE3. Babson College, a business school founded in 1919 by entrepreneur and financier RogerBabson, is an AACSB (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) accreditedinstitution and has been ranked #1 in entrepreneurship for the past twelve years according to

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Entrepreneurship Education - A 10,000' View

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Clifton Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College; John Farris, Grand Valley State University; Jana Goodrich, Pennsylvania State University-Erie; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Robert Weissbach, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

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Temporal ModelsAbstractThis paper presents efforts to document best practices and develop resources to facilitate andstrengthen entrepreneurship at primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) nationwide. Theefforts include a multi-dimensional framework involving simultaneous functional, temporal, anddevelopmental perspectives in entrepreneurship education. Current areas of emphasis focus on abody of knowledge and core competencies; a stage gate model for developing products andservices; ways to foster heterogeneous teams; and guidelines for staffing and staff professionaldevelopment. This paper focuses on (1) a functional model, which focuses on what studentsshould know and what they should be able to do, and (2) a temporal model, which focuses

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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W. Andrew Clark, East Tennessee State University; J. Paul Sims, East Tennessee State University; Craig A. Turner, East Tennessee State University; Jon L. Smith, East Tennessee State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

1990, even after 20years of remarkable growth, U.S. companies accounted for only 33 percent of the world’stotal”1. A 1996 U.S. Department of Commerce report indicated that 90 percent of all newproducts fail within four years and less than 10 percent of the U.S. companies introduceda new product within the past ten years2. Several of the authors of this manuscript havespeculated that the Research and Development focus of numerous U.S. corporationsappear to be centered on continuous improvement projects where the probability ofsuccess is predictable and definable. Unfortunately, continuous improvement projectsresult in diminishing returns as the low hanging fruit is harvested and identification ofhigh yielding improvement projects becomes more

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Weissbach, Pennsylvania State University-Erie; Jana Goodrich, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Activities: Making Course/Classroom Teams Work,” Journal of Education for Business, Washington: Nov/Dec 2000. Vol 76, Iss. 2; pg. 98.7. Jeffrey A. Ketelhut, “Managing Team Activities Toward Success,” Hospital Material Management Quarterly, Rockville: Aug. 1999. Vol. 21, Iss. 1; pg. 27. Page 11.445.9

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Course-based Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anthony Joseph, Pace University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, entrepreneurship,and project management instruction once per week. Moreover, computer science studentsreceived introductory instruction in finance and project management in their additional classhour. The teaching was supported by nine mentors/advisors from computer-related and financeindustries that facilitated the entrepreneurial component of the course. These mentors/advisorssometimes served as guest lecturers. The 28 students (twenty-six were registered) in the coursewere grouped into seven E-teams labeled E-team #’s 1-7. Five of the E-teams (E-team #’s 1-5)were deliberately designed by the professors within the first two weeks of the semester usingstudent information obtained from a professor designed questionnaire and a multipleintelligences

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Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Ports, QTS, Inc.; Dennis Kulonda, Florida Tech; Clifford Bragdon, Florida Tech; Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

programming linking academic / continuing education programs with experientialentrepreneurship and community outreach activities is emphasized. Critical Success Factors forTechnopolis creation are identified.IntroductionToday’s global economy can be characterized by increasing globalization, heightenedinterdependency and the emergence of a new paradigm of regional, institutional andtechnological clusters, which facilitate innovation and its commercialization, called the“Technopolis Phenomenon”.A Technopolis (plural Technopoleis) is a region trying to build and maintain a healthy,technology-driven economy. 1Dr. Fred Phillips (ex Austin, Texas) of the Maastrict School of Management ((Netherlands),1 an

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Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arnold Lumsdaine, University of Tennessee; Frank Speckhart, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Geoff Robson, Technology 2020; Kenneth Kahn, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Majid Keyhani, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Dan Fant, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Rapinder Sawhney, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

process are represented by thepartner personnel – entrepreneurs, engineering, project managers, CEO’s, intellectual propertylawyers, state economic development officials, and venture capital representatives. Thesepartners are involved in the following activities: 1) evaluating the dual degree program as a whole; 2) evaluating student projects and advising the student teams; 3) offering student teams technical and business expertise; 4) advising dual degree program in development and curricular issues; 5) contributing intellectual property (ORNL alone has a portfolio of over 1000 patents) and project ideas; 6) serving as guest lecturers in graduate product development courses;Advising student teams involves attending

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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

. Page 11.591.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Entrepreneurial Leadership, Gender and Teams in the Engineering and Science Context: Men and Women Tell Stories About LeadershipAbstractInterviews and small focus groups were the methodological tools used for distinguishingleadership and entrepreneurial leadership in an engineering and science context for thispreliminary investigation. Emphasis was placed on the gender elements in leadership by usingconceptual frameworks from the research on organizational decision-making, socio-psychological fundamentals, and workplace performance. Forces that influence leadership andteam behavior were considered through five framing questions: 1) do males and females

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Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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June Ferrill, Rice University; Lisa Getzler-Linn, Lehigh University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

andDunfee’s four measures of the bounds within which one’s moral rationality should exist: 1. Local economic communities may specify ethical norms for their members through microsocial contracts. 2. Norm-specifying microsocial contracts must be grounded in informed consent buttressed by a right of exit. 3. In order to be obligatory, a microsocial contract norm must be compatible with hypernorms. 4. In case of conflicts among norms satisfying Principles 1-3, priority must be established through the application of rules consistent with the spirit and letter of the macrosocial contract. 9Finally, we address the prospect of actually creating a vehicle that embodies these theories.There are as many ways to build a

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Evans, University of Texas-Austin

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

startup formation. The ultimate goal with regard toentrepreneurship is to create an appropriate culture at the university level, in engineeringeducation and in engineering practice more generally. The story of these students and theircompany sheds light on the current culture and provides guidance for future development ofengineering education.Entrepreneurship Assets and University Technology CommercializationFor the majority of doctoral students whose careers will be in industry, “even those who work onthe bench need to understand what motivates market-driven (as opposed to curiosity-driven) Page 11.495.2research.”1 The trends within research

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Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Minnie Patel, San Jose State University; Anuradha Basu, San Jose State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

30,000 strong, is diversified ethnically. SJSU’sbusiness and engineering colleges have among the nation’s highest levels of minorityundergraduates8, particularly Asian-Americans (32% of all students). In addition, over half of thestudents overall are women. The percentages of women and minorities in the University aregiven in Table 1 below:Table 1: Percentages of Minority and Women Students at Various Colleges at SJSU College Percentage women of total Percentage minority of total College of Business 53% 68% College of Science 40% 66% College of Engineering 25% 74% Total SJSU

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Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Evans, University of Texas-Austin; Jennifer Parks, University of Texas-Austin; Steven Nichols, University of Texas-Austin

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

to the community at large, which resonates with the desireto connect engineering practice to engineering education, and especially the area ofentrepreneurship. It can also be connected to university trends incorporating technologycommercialization into their missions. There is an opportunity within academia to addressengineering entrepreneurship, university technology commercialization and the mission ofuniversities to engage the community at large simultaneously.While several business plans have stemmed from the work of several student teams, I2P® is not abusiness plan competition. As illustrated by Figure 1, the competition focuses more on theissues associated with the ‘Imagine’ and ‘Incubate’ stages of technology commercialization

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Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Nunnally, University of Missouri - Columbia; James Thompson, University of Missouri; Steve Wyatt, University of Missouri - Columbia

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the advanced electronics research group. In 1985, he joined the electrical engineering department at the University of Texas at Arlington where he was Director of the Applied Physical Electronics Research Center. During his 11-year tenure at UT Arlington as a principal investigator, Dr. Nunnally was responsible for external research funding of over 11 million dollars or approximately 1 million dollars per year. After 11 years at the University of Texas at Arlington, Dr. Nunnally moved to the University of Missouri - Columbia where he is currently the C. W. LaPierre Professor and interim chair of the electrical and computer engineering department. He is the author of over

Conference Session

Programs in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology; Steven H. Billis, New York Institute of Technology; Marta Alicia Panero, New York Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

compete in the regional and global marketplaces."ETIC is structured to support:1. Collaborative Regional Innovation. The ETIC represents a clear example of an innovationcluster that creates synergies among existing regional competitive strengths. This initiativeengages a diverse base of stakeholders and facilitates collaboration among urban and suburbanareas – New York City (including the South Bronx) and Long Island. The Center reinforces andsupports economic development through long-term public/private partnerships, includingthrough by fostering the growth of emerging industries, startups, and supporting local existingbusinesses’ innovation, so that may remain competitive and dynamic players in the regionaleconomy.2. Public/Private Partnerships