Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The Student Experience

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

phenomenon in a particular way based on his or her unique experiences,perceptions, and mindsets (which may highlight or marginalize specific aspects of thephenomenon), and the aspects of the phenomenon that are present during his or her encounterswith the phenomenon11,12. Thus, an individuals’ way of experiencing a phenomenon will bedefined by a unique intersection of individual and environmental characteristics, and will alwaysbe incomplete.To illustrate this concept, we present the hypothetical, and much simplified, case of twoengineering students. The first engineering student, Philip, a senior in biomedical engineering,likes working across disciplinary boundaries and wants to change the world through human-centered design. The second engineering

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University

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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

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Evaluating Student Behaviors and Attitudes

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Atkins, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Julian Ernesto Martinez-Moreno, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Lalit Patil, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Kimber J Andrews, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign ; Maryalice S. Wu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Debasish Dutta, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Barbara Hug, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Liora Bresler

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

to a certificate (not a degree) in innovation. Case Western Reserve University, for example, offers a certificate program in innovation and strategy11, and Georgia Institute of Technology offers a graduate certificate program called “Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results” (TI:GER) 12.3. Innovation “minor” in degree programs: Some degree programs at the graduate level enable students to receive a minor in innovation. Typically, such minors require a three-course sequence that may also include industry internships. For example, the engineering school at Dartmouth offers an innovation program that provides doctoral students with entrepreneurial training to turn discoveries into marketable applied technologies.134

Conference Session

ENT Division Technical Session: Creativity and Innovation

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

educators.Our quantitative study is based on a dataset of 559 early-career engineering graduates whoparticipated in the Engineering Majors Survey (EMS). EMS is a longitudinal U.S. nationwidesurvey designed to explore engineering students’ and then later graduates’ technical,innovation, and entrepreneurial interests and experiences. Innovative behavior outcomes areanalyzed considering socio-demographic characteristics such as gender and underrepresentedracial/ethnic minority (URM) status, and characteristics of the workplace such as industryand company size. Furthermore, we elaborate on the interrelation of innovative behavior andleadership responsibility.We find no significant differences in innovative behavior of female and male engineeringgraduates

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Radharamanan, Mercer University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

helping those individuals to lower their levels of DI by improving their study habits to increase the retention rate of freshmen engineering students; Developing and implementing methods to lower the levels of DI among the incoming freshmen in order to achieve the ideal DISC balance of lower DI and higher SC; Conducting longitudinal study of individuals who experience engineering education at MUSE to identify real changes in personal attributes and skills of individual students; Developing and offering courses and course modules on innovation and entrepreneurship throughout the engineering curriculum (freshman through senior years) and promoting extra- curricular activities to instill entrepreneurial mindset and improve the needed

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William D. Schindel, ICTT System Sciences; Samuel N. Peffers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jameel Ahmed, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

innovativeness in a variety of contexts. Thevolume of material that continues to be generated in scholarly, professional, and popular outletsis indicative of the emphasis the topics are receiving. Engineers, scientists, and other technicalexperts have long been at the forefront of technological and entrepreneurial innovation. In thecontemporary innovation environment, a “quality,” Engineering, scientific, or technicalundergraduate education, by definition, must be one that prepares the graduate to functioneffectively in that environment.Viewing innovation in three dimensions, bounded by three mutually supporting and reinforcingaxes is important because the lack of effective application along any one axis leads to less thaneffective innovation practice

Conference Session

Classes in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

them. Forsome, the concept of design with the user in mind was an “eye opening” experience. Theyenjoyed prototyping activities (and asked for more) and hands-on experiences that led to Page 23.1302.2prototyping. Open environment and openness to new, simple and absurd ideas were highlyappreciated. They have asked for smaller scale projects and for more class time to work on them.Introduction This paper details engaging activities in an introductory multidisciplinary course titledInnovative Product Design at Florida Atlantic University. The main goal of this course is toenhance the student’s mindset and awareness as it relates to product