Competency-Based Education“Competency-based education (CBE) is an outcome-based, student-centered form ofinstruction whereby students progress to more advanced work upon mastering the necessaryprerequisite content and skills [11].” Although CBE is not new, it has increasingly beenreceiving much attention as a method for reaching a more diverse and inclusive studentpopulation. Scholtz and colleagues [12] shared results from an intervention conducted in aninformation systems degree program which incorporated competencies based on enterpriseresource planning (ERP) systems. They found that students perceived satisfaction with thehands-on approach and there was an increase in student self-efficacy related to ERP systemsand concepts. Mojab et al [13
sets.MethodParticipants & ProceduresThe survey was administered to undergraduate students. Three potential innovation styles (as anoutcome, a process, and a mindset) were tested before and after program intervention andcompared with the control group. The intervention group is students who enrolled to the pilotcourse of the Engineering and Business Innovation Experience. In contrast, the control group isthose who had neither took this course before nor had any prior experiences with similar courses.The innovation team began to collect the Wave 1 data in Fall 2019 and plans to collect Wave 2data in late Spring 2020. In addition, students will be surveyed each semester as they progressthrough their studies, and each year new cohorts will join the study. Since
? Page 25.666.2What is often lost in the educational process is that businesses and organizations, at a minimum,must have some essential components. Among such essentials are: • A revenue stream • A business plan for profitability • LeadershipOne can argue about adding one or two more to the list. And, one can argue how best to phrasethe items on the list. But the essence of the list remains. Engineers, because of their criticalposition within companies, are integral to addressing those essentials at some level. How is thatbeing done in the typical engineering curriculum?The important questions presented in life generally have no single correct answer, and fewanswers that are dependent on mathematical
. in Public Policy Studies from Duke University. Her research investigates how extreme events affect overall ecosystem health, productivity, and sustainability using numerical models, geospatial data analysis, and field experiments. She is also passionate about developing and sharing inclusive teaching practices in STEM fields and received a 2020 Engineering Unleashed Fellowship from the Kern Family Foundation to support this work.Dr. Michael D. Gross, Wake Forest University Dr. Michael Gross is a Founding Faculty and Associate Professor of Engineering at Wake Forest Uni- versity and is part of the team that is planning, developing, and delivering the brand new Engineering program. The Engineering department is
and student entrepreneurship. Thompson is also Director of the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center at UWM. He is Co-PI on the Milwaukee I-Corps Site sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and helps lead the program which helps university based innovators explore markets for their technology through lean launch and the customer discovery process. He teaches new ventures as an adjunct instructor in UWM’s College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Lubar School of Business. Thompson was previously Managing Director at TechStar where he helped to launch several companies including MatriLab which won the 2006 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Competition. He previously served on the boards of startup
ecosystem are experiential in nature involving steps towardcommercialization or creating a startup (Duval-Couetil, Shartrand, & Reed, 2016). Theseactivities include the development of a business plan, consulting with practicing entrepreneurs,interviewing potential customers, delivering pitches, applying to grants, and prototyping aphysical product or application. What are not as common, however, are activities that focus oncultivating an entrepreneurial mindset (EM). A mindset can be defined as framework for makingpredications and judging the meanings of events in one’s world (Yeager & Dweck, 2012). Thistrend is changing, however, due to the increasing set of EM focused activities sponsored by theKERN Family Foundation. While the activities
-person it’s easy to seewho is clumped together. That’s how I will choose who to work with on the collaborativeproject.”In engineering education, most universities shifted in a matter of weeks toward digital tools andremote working. Some adjusted to a digital learning requirement by making and sending “kits”for study in technical courses to students in multiple time zones. In many cases, internationalstudents didn’t leave the country, fearing they would have difficulty returning. Students in oneclass informed with a narrative on the international student Covid 19 experience suggesting“disincentivized collaboration made it trickier because working together became something thathad to be actively planned rather than meetups at office hours or in
toprompting for critical incidents in these three types of experiences, the participants wereasked whether they considered their position as innovative, whether their views on innovationhad changed, their future plans and reflections on their education. The questions from theinterview protocol were tested in three pilot interviews with graduate students from a privateuniversity prior to data collection.The interviews were analyzed in three ways. First, the top, and bottom experiences as well asinnovative work efforts reported in the interviews were segmented and coded into fivedifferent dimensions: cognitive, emotional, social, contextual, and action-related dimensionsbased on the types of significant events in transformative learning [1]. The
structures (competitive, production product/process/ design for monopoly, oligopoly) in (CoP) a set period the context of the activity Identified typical behaviors Identified typical behaviors Employed a written plan Proposed approaches to Effective during the team during the team (such as a team charter or resolve conflicts teams development process that development process that team performance plan) to (ET) influenced productivity influenced productivity help the team be effective
specifically, KEEN provides financial and developmental resources to granteeinstitutions for the development of entrepreneurship curricula, modules, and extracurricularactivities like business plan/innovation competitions, speaker series, student entrepreneurshipclubs, and seminars. Over the years, faculty at KEEN institutions have created over one hundredACL and PBL course modules with emphasis on various entrepreneurial aspects.Because of the broadness of entrepreneurship styles, it is difficult to create a definitive list ofskills, attributes, traits, and behaviors associated with the entrepreneurial mindset. However,KEEN has developed a “working” or “living” framework of the entrepreneurial mindset which isbest conveyed through the KEEN Student
studies that can help improve teaching, learning, and educational policy decision makings using both quantitative and qual- itative research methods. Her current research project in National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) focuses on measuring engineering students’ entrepreneurial interests and related individual characteristics. Her Ph.D. dissertation involved using statistical modeling methods to explain and predict engineering students’ success outcomes, such as retention, academic performance, and grad- uation.Mr. Calvin Ling, Stanford UniversityMr. Florian Michael Lintl, Stanford University Florian is studying Environmental Planning and Ecological Engineering at the Technical University
, procedure and content for the analysis and planning.a. Preliminary InvestigationThe particular mode of inquiry used in this study was based on the need for consideringpreliminary results and dedicated to combining retrospective studies of the authors own researchand consulting best practices with plans to build next phases of study. It was aimed to assurethat the methodology captured elements of leadership, gender and teams in the way that wasconceptualized. The preliminary data also included extensive discussions about the meaning ofquestions, interpretations of the preliminary results for the authors and those individuals whoprovided coding information of the results.b. SubjectsThe participants in the study were senior level managers in academia
. The minor, which had been previously housed in theCollege of Engineering, had transitioned to a university-wide minor in the fall of 2013. As a partof the evaluation plan of the newly defined minor, all students enrolled in the core courses wereasked to complete a survey. The survey included an open-ended prompt which asked students todefine entrepreneurship. The survey was distributed during the first two weeks of the semesterto ensure that the students’ responses would not be influenced by the course content. Thesurvey was administered online using Qualtrics, a commercially available software tool. Data was also collected from instructors through the use of an online survey. The datawas collected as part of a larger study on faculty
and innovation among faculty, staff, and students. Thomp- son assists faculty and student start-up companies with developing strategic business and marketing plans. Thompson manages the MSU Business Incubator and the MSU Entrepreneurship Center. Thompson also manages the Jack Hatcher Engineering Entrepreneurship Certificate program in the Bagley College of En- Page 23.955.1 gineering at MSU to enhance business skills in engineering students. Thompson received her Bachelors Degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering and a M.B.A. from Mississippi State University.Ms. Louise C. Dunlap, DunlapBrowder
, shared progress on frugal engineeringmethodology towards the solution, and plan for execution. Figure 2: Social innovation case studies presentation rubric.2.1 Social innovation case studiesThe social innovation case studies for the class were chosen to represent a variety of frugal, inclusive,and accessible approaches taken to address community-specific problems at hand. Following are suchcase studies across the world integrating social innovations with effective social entrepreneurship: (1) Food storage: Zeer, pot-in-pot (innovator entrepreneur- Mohammed Bah Abba), (2) Ice Stupa: efficient water irrigation in Himalayas (innovator entrepreneur- Sonam Wangchuk), (3) Household entrepreneurs: Grameen Bank (innovator
didactic dialogue had to be adapted to student needs and characteristics (first-semesterstudents in higher education without any previous university or online learning experience).Likewise, tools had to be acquired for managing resources and the digital medium (forums,workgroups, virtual whiteboard, student roles). Teachers were trained in Blackboard learning bythe university's online Campus team.The action plan implemented to define the work methodology included: 1. Investigate state of the art. Analyze the possibility of having exercises designed to be taught virtually and synchronously and adapt them. However, we did not find alternatives that met our expectations. The option was to create new activities using the Blackboard
goal; constraints are requirementsfor the design; operators are primitive information processes that modify the design state; andepisodes are operators in a meaningful sequence. The TEAM includes ten operators – select,create, simulate, calculate, compare, accept, reject, suspend, patch, and refine – and six types ofepisodes – assimilate, document, plan, repair, specify, and verify – to create a picture of howmechanical design engineers of varying backgrounds and experience approach and solve designproblems [8]. Another attempt to study ideation processes was the work done by Nagy, Ullman,and Dietterich who developed a data representation for collaborative mechanical designimplemented in a computerized design history tool (DHT). This technique
problems and create value in marketplace through innovation. KEEN’sobjectives can be broadly described as follows 1. To stress on promoting critical skills, capabilities and experiences 2. Making entrepreneurship and innovation education a priority 3. Encouraging cross-curriculum and interdisciplinary collaboration between students and faculty 4. Following curriculum, student, faculty and community centered activities, for example business plan competitions in schools, seminars focused on technology, workshops and conferences. 5. Using situation-based learning environment such as case studies.The above efforts can together be summed up as building of an ꞌentrepreneurial mindsetꞌ.Entrepreneurial mindset, could be
Research or Project Story: WhatMatters for You and Makes Sense to Industry.” (Note: Analysis is in on-going compilation anditeration III is in process, “Telling Design Stories: Do We Design to Create Stories or Do We CreateStories to Design?”)Planning Phase IA three month exploratory phase examined the significance of story for the purpose of considering aseminar as a collaborative group experiment. A discussion of whether or not to move in the directionof hypothesis driven research resulted in three hypotheses from the three co-authors. Work andrework attempted to synthesize the three hypotheses to one hypothesis. Two similar conceptsemerged: balanced connections, and a transfer of energy.Planning for the next phase of the preliminary
, technology management and entrepreneurship. The coursesare open to all enrolled upperclassmen which resulted in a multi-disciplinary student body. Thecurriculum and extra-curricular activities approach innovation and commercial feasibility usingreal-world data, supported by lecturers and mentors from the field. The faculty is primarily madeup of adjunct professors and lecturers who have extensive business and venture experience. Amix of pedagogy is employed, including didactic instruction, guest speakers, entrepreneurshipworkshops, business plan competition, and internship in start-ups and technology enterprises. Page 14.581.2 To assess an
the assumptionthat growth in GDP was the answer to all development and social problems. That report waslargely responsible for initiating public discussion of issues such as global warming, populationgrowth, and energy shortages. The U.S. established the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)in that same year. In 1980, the U.S. government, at the request of then president Jimmy Carter, producedthe Global 2000 Report, a study of the future of the world that drew on all of the availableexpertise in the federal government to make plans for meeting the challenges of the future. Atabout the same time, a series of incidents at Three Mile Island (1979), Bhopal (1984), andChernobyl (1986) revealed that human activities in one place can affect
behaviors during the behaviors during the plan (such as a team to resolve conflicts team development team development charter or team process that process that performance plan) to influenced influenced help the team be productivity productivity effectiveperformance rating provided by the instructors ranged from 1 to 5, with 1=Poor, 2=BelowAverage, 3=Average, 4=Above Average and 5=Outstanding. Not all students included in thisstudy completed all four modules. The assessment was done at the class level and not tracked byindividual students. Each of the four modules was integrated
enterprising andinnovative university vary between the two models [11].MethodologyTo answer our question we adopted a qualitative exploratory approach [12]. The data is based onsemi-structured interviews with actors that are part of the support systems for entrepreneurshipeducation in five engineering schools in Chile: Universidad de Chile (UChile), PontificiaUniversidad Católica de Chile (PUC), Universidad de Santiago (USACH), Universidad AdolfoIbáñez (UAI) and Universidad de of Talca (UTalca). The selection criteria prioritized thevariability of Ingeniería 2030 schools. The sample considers one university from each of theselected projects. Each Ingeniería 2030 project commits to transform engineering in Chilefollowing a different strategic plan, but
. TeamBuilder offers the ability to runmultiple scenarios that do not notify the students until the plan is first formalized and executedby the instructor. Since in many cases there exist multiple solutions sets to the overall criteria,TeamBuilder has incorporated a shuffle feature that allows for shuffling team members throughmultiple permutations of the instructor’s team composition requirements. These features can beused to get control groups for research into the effects of entrepreneurial team composition.Once the instructor has viewed the multiple permutations made available by TeamBuilder andhas come up with a set of teams they would like to implement, the last step for the instructor is tofinalize the teams. Finalizing the teams initiates email
as many of the 2015-2016 ECS Faculty Development Seminars as possible • Attend the ECS Faculty Half-day Teaching Workshop on December 8, 2015 • Attend a luncheon on December 8, 2015, with past KEEN Innovators to discuss lessons learned/best practices • Design an implementation plan to design, develop, and deploy the module(s) produced in the award timeframe • Assess the initial results of the module(s) • Make the module and all related teaching materials available for use throughout the KEEN network • Results of implementation and assessment will be published in a discipline-appropriate venue in the 2016-2017academic year. One faculty member has already published his results in the spring 2016
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Paper ID #12600Starter or Joiner, Market or Socially-Oriented: Predicting Career Choiceamong Undergraduate Engineering and Business StudentsMr. Florian Michael Lintl, Stanford University Florian is studying Environmental Planning and Ecological Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). His majors are Sustainable City Development, Renewable Energy, International Land Use Planning and Environmental Economics. He is also participant in the Entrepreneurial Qualification Program ”Manage&More”. This is a program of the Center for Innovation and Business Creation at the TU Munich (”UnternehmerTUM”) which
following sections.Implementations to Realize the Overall StrategyThe development of the Freshman Engineering Program Honors Innovation classes is the basisfor two prongs of the three-pronged approach we have taken to provide an authentic STEMexperience to the Engineering Curriculum.CoE Freshman Engineering Program Honors Innovation ClassesThe Freshman Engineering Program (FEP) was established by the College of Engineering at theUniversity of Arkansas during the fall of 2007 for the purpose of increasing student retentionfrom the first year to the second year. FEP provides proactive support to FEP students throughorientation, academic advising, peer mentoring, and professional development workshops. Allincoming freshman students that plan to major
is unexpected. 2. Generate hypotheses - Once the unexpected finding is recognized and documented, a team with diverse perspectives and expertise meets to discuss the finding and ideate potential explanations for why the unexpected finding might have been observed. This involves discussing potential theories (often from other fields or disciplines) that could resolve on the unexpected finding. This stage should be treated like ideation in design processes; variety and volume are desired. 3. Test a promising hypothesis with extant data or plan a follow-up study - Once one or more promising hypotheses (i.e., adaptation of current theory) have been identified, the team develops a plan to test these
MBAonly but now I want to get an advanced degree in Materials Science and Engineering and anMBA and work for a start-up.Student #3: It gave me an idea of what I should do before I go to graduate school and what skillsI need to make my research fruitful before I graduate.Student #4: Taught me how to define a research objective and understand how to look forinformation.Student #5: Helped me realize the importance of the teaming of business and research. I will goto graduate school to earn an MBA and Masters in Material Science and work full time.Student #6: I plan to transfer to the undergraduate program at this university to continue workingon my research project from thus summer.Significant results from the REU programApproximately 28% of the