and manufacturing. In subsequent summers, two of thepartner universities will host summer enrichment opportunities in Boston and St. Louis.Throughout the week, the camp participants explored the core competencies of creativity andinnovation through activities and games. In addition, the students studied and implementedvarious methodologies of creative problem solving through teamwork on various problems andproduct development projects/tasks. To further emphasize innovation as it relates to Americanhistory, two of the five days were spent visiting The Henry Ford which includes the Henry FordMuseum, Greenfield Village, a Ford F-150 truck assembly plant, and the Benson Ford ResearchCenter where they participated in a pilot version of the new
AC 2011-819: ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: LEARNING BYDOINGErik Sander, University of Florida Erik Sander began his career as a Project Manager and Senior Engineer analyzing advanced fighter aircraft engines and the Space Shuttle Main Engine for NASA, Lockheed Martin, General Electric, and Pratt & Whitney. He was also a Technology Transfer Officer for Lockheed Martin and the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. Starting in 1995, Erik joined the faculty of the University of Florida College of Engineer as Director of the University Center, Associate Director for the Engineering Research Center and the Florida Energy Systems Consortium, and Director of Industry Programs - all directed at fostering industrial
training at the National Collegiate Inventors and In- novators Alliance (NCIIA). Babs is a serial entrepreneur and active in multiple entrepreneurial activities. She blogs about entrepreneurship on New Venturist. Babs taught entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for 15 years, where she maintains an adjunct position. Formerly, Babs was embedded entrepreneur for CMU’s Project Olympus and innovation advisor for CMU’s Institute for Social Innova- tion. For seven years at the University of Pittsburgh, Babs taught the Benchtop to Bedside new technology commercialization course. Babs is President of Carryer Consulting and co-founder of LaunchCyte, which has a portfolio of five companies. Babs has a Masters in
University of Toledo, and Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the Bangladesh Institute of© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Technology, Khulna. He has published journal and conference papers. Dr Ali has done research projects with Delphi Automotive System, GE Medical Systems, Harley-Davidson Motor Company, International Truck and Engine Corporation (ITEC), National/Panasonic Electronics, and Rockwell Automation. His research interests include manufacturing systems modeling, simulation and optimization, intelligent scheduling and planning, artificial intelligence, predictive maintenance, e-manufacturing, and lean manufacturing. He is member of IIE, INFORMS, SME
products and what is seenas safe or environmental friendly enough in the process of innovation. The recognition ofdiffering values and the expectations of customers become important aspects of productdevelopment and of engineering work in the early stages of a project. Regardless of whether a TTIP partnership is ever actually established, the research andanalysis that have been produced in connection with those negotiations are relevant forunderstanding the challenges of establishing technology assessment and risk managementsystems that function effectively across polities. One of the most interesting implications of thisliterature is that the most important differences between the EU and U.S systems lie inassumptions, priorities, and
apply logical thinking to designing and solving 4.38 4.38 0/0 0.00 0.50 PS problems16 I am confident in leading a team to work on a project 3.79 4.42 0/0 0.63 0.00 TB17 I always maintain a good interpersonal relationship in a 4.13 4.46 0/0 0.33 0.01 TB team18 I am able to identify potential stakeholders for a new 2.83 3.78 6/0 0.95 0.00 ES product or service19 I am able to address stakeholder interests in a business 2.69 3.83 8/0 1.15 0.00 ES plan20 I am able to communicate an engineering solution in 3.19 3.92 3/0 0.73 0.01 AF economic terms21 I am able to substantiate claims
also designated severalsubgroups ideal for various scenarios in the engineering academic environment at any institution;a few consistent with Mercer engineering students analyzed are outlined in Table 2. Table 2. Professional competencies for students3 TTI Description Effectively collaborate in a Applying critical and Persist through and learn team setting creative thinking to from failure ambiguous problems Mercer Equivalent Group projects/assignments Design phase of senior Student’s overall (PDR, CDR) design, R&D projects
Henry Ford’s Innovation Education Incubator project. Prior to joining The Henry Ford, Gangopadhyay served as executive director for the Plymouth Community Page 24.1217.1 Arts Council, curator of education, public programs and visitor services at the Public Museum of Grand Rapids, executive director of the Great Lakes Center for Education, Research and Practice and executive director of the Commission for Lansing Schools Success (CLASS). Gangopadhyay is heavily involved in several professional organizations. She serves as a reviewer on state and federal grant panels as well as a c
presentation and selecting their course project topics more individualskills and best 2. read text: Winning Presentations in a Day attention through peerpractices in 3. Provide script drafts and practice in/out of class their feedback.presentations are two minutes and 10 minute pitches 7. Video tape and postcovered in the text 4. Review and critique videos of previous classes and idea pitch and finaland in readings. winning 2 minute Idea Pitches exam presentations. 5. Reflect on and assess their idea pitch performance 8 Arrange external
. In order to make an impact onstudent understanding of certain topics, it is vital that their perspectives are understood and takeninto consideration [15]. When the voices of students are heard, professors and teachers can usethat to design their courses and projects in such a way that the students will be able to gleanvalue of the topics being discussed [16].Exploring how students understand the EM interventions they have had throughout their collegeexperience will be extremely beneficial in refining the teaching of EM. In this study, engineeringstudents' perceptions of EM are explored, taking into consideration the value that students placeon EM and their feelings toward its importance in their futures. This study will help faculty to
key attribute insituation specific motivation. Parallel to work that reinforce the presence and impact of vision asa motivational factor 53 the current study suggests that the attributes of the dreamer and the tasksof communicating the dream are direct predictors of entrepreneurial leadership success.Vision has been well established as a projected image of what a leader desires to achieve.Entrepreneurial leaders continuously learn and utilize new technologies and the relationships ofart and design to their interest to motivate internally and have the external competitive edge.They recognize the power of “firsts” and calculate growth around what is authentic and new.The author proposes that there is a parallel to and extension of ground
anarrow academic concentration outside their primary degree area, and for the general citizenryeasy access to graduate level instruction. In this paper, two universities that have been active ininternal entrepreneurial engineering activities at both the undergraduate and graduate level willreport on a cooperative survey of existing entrepreneurship and project management-focusedGraduate Certificate programs made in preparation to creating their own programs.These Graduate Certificate programs were examined for program ownership, number of hoursrequired, internal or external student focus, classes required or offered as electives, time limits ondegree completion, as well as several other program attributes of interest to the academiccommunity
core competencies of creativity through in-class activities and games, as well as assignedwork. In addition, the students study and implement various methodologies of creative problemsolving through various problems and product development assignments. Teamwork isemphasized and each student is given at least two opportunities to act as a team leader during aproblem solving or product development project. All students’ leadership skills are both self-assessed and assessed by each team member.On the first day of the course, the students were surveyed on their general perceptions ofcreativity, problem solving, teamwork , leadership, the role of creativity in engineering, and theirpersonal view on their own creativity. After the course, the same
- novator training, and network building. She has also collaborated on many NSF-funded projects that are advancing entrepreneurship education in STEM fields, including Epicenter and I-Corps(tm). She and her team are currently examining the experiences of innovators commercializing and scaling-up new tech- nologies, products, and services, and are developing ways to assess the venture and product development status of innovation teams. She received her B.A. from Williams College, an Ed.M. from Harvard Uni- versity and a Ph.D. in Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology from Boston College.Ms. Laurie Moore, National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) Laurie Moore is the communications manager for
behavior. Implications of these findings for improvingengineering students’ innovative behaviors are explored. Page 26.338.2IntroductionWithin the context of engineering, innovation is the process of developing novel and functionalproducts, processes, or systems that appropriately address key user needs. Innovation has beendescribed as the “lifeblood of all organizations”1 and as the central factor contributing to thesuccess of the United States in an increasingly global marketplace.2 The innovation process isdriven by people, and innovative solutions lead to projects or processes that are linked totangible, real-world outcomes.1 These outcomes of
. Prior to his academic career, has worked for three Fortune 500 companies and has owned and operated two small businesses.Kristen Mekemson, Kern Family Foundation Kristen Mekemson joined the Kern Family Foundation in April 2007. She works with senior program staff to oversee, monitor, and evaluate grants and projects. She also conducts program research, site visits, and other investigative activities in support of program development, program exploration, and grant making. Kristen received a B.A. in Writing-Intensive English and French and M.A. in British and American Literature from Marquette University. She was on the development staff at Lawrence University for two years. Prior to her
the local community in developing technology programs that highlight student skills development in ways that engage and attract individuals towards STEAM and STEM fields by showcasing how those skills impact the current project in real-world ways that people can understand and be involved in. As part of a university that is focused on supporting the 21st century student demographic he continues to innovate and research on how we can design new methods of learning to educate both our students and communities on how STEM and STEAM make up a large part of that vision and our future.Dr. Diane Elisa Golding, University of Texas at El Paso Diane is a passionate educator and proponent for K-12 engineering education and
Paper ID #32452Work in Progress: Impact of the Entrepreneurial Mindset for InnovativeTeaching (EMIT) AcademyDr. Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Professor and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement and testing. In her position, Sarah is responsible for developing instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and projects, and working with faculty to publish
which they respondedpreviously. The same pre- and post-activities were used for each iteration of the course. Foriteration six, only data from the pre-activity are included in this study. Table III. Examples of Coded Design Elements from Participants Code Definition Examples Business Procurement and production costs, How many laborers will be involved in the project; target market segments, external find a way to expand outside North America; look at stakeholders, and training for testing and competitors; find a knowledgeable team. manufacturing Customer Target users’ experience and needs
conductedat both the start and end of the session, which provided evidence of its success. The details ofthe faculty seminar on entrepreneurship and a reporting of the results are addressed in anotherpaper submitted to this conference1.Pilot Program (addresses challenges #1 through #4)Realizing that it would be too large an undertaking to introduce entrepreneurship across allprograms, we decided to focus on one engineering program in order to develop a template for theothers. Biomedical Engineering (BE) was chosen as the pilot program because of the strongemphasis on integrating engineering design projects into multiple years of the curriculum.Virtually each term of the BE program has at least one design course that emphasizes innovationand design in
AC 2008-1519: MITIGATION OF BARRIERS TO COMMERCIALIZATION OFNANOTECHNOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW OF TWO SUCCESSFULUNIVERSITY-BASED INITIATIVESHarpal Dhillon, Excelsior College Dr.Harpal Dhillon is currently the Dean of the School of Business and Technology at Excelsior College. In the past, he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Information Systems, Software Engineering, and Project Management at University of Maryland, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, and George Washington University. Dr.Dhillon worked as owner/senior executive in three systems engineering companies over a period of 20 years. His research interests are in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Quality Assurance, and
13.1.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 “…A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk”AbstractThe engineering workplace is placing more emphasis on teamwork in interdisciplinaryenvironments, out-of-the-box thinking, creative engineering, and brainstorming. These skills aretaught to varying degrees in standard engineering curriculums, and often the most fruitfulopportunities exist for students to learn in venues outside of the classroom.This paper will show how building Rube Goldberg machines is a fantastic way for learners fromvarious disciplines to get hands-on project experience in a team environment. Intensebrainstorming and work sessions result in inventive and unique machines that are fascinating forboth
learning, and support them in developing an intellectual identity”[12]. Students are also introduced to the biomedical engineering field and encouraged early on tobecome part of the BME community at Georgia Tech. Students complete nine focused reflectionassignments as part of our work toward teaching reflection as an engineering skill andscaffolding the students ability to reach the levels of reflection/critical reflection described byKember et al. [13]. Additionally, reflection is incorporated into the design projects anddiscussions throughout the course. BMED1000 was designed and piloted during the 2018-19academic year and is now running at full scale as a required course for entering biomedicalengineering majors. At the end of BMED1000
Paper ID #21859Engineering Deans’ Perspectives on the Value of Entrepreneurial Thinkingin Engineering EducationMr. Mark V. Huerta, Arizona State University Mark Huerta is a second year PhD student in the Engineering Education Systems & Design (EESD) program at Arizona State University. Mark is also the Chairman and Director of Projects of a non-profit called 33 Buckets, which empowers rural communities in developing countries to develop solutions for their drinking water problems. Before enrolling in the EESD program, Mark obtained a BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering at ASU.Dr. Jeremi S. London, Arizona State University
mindset (EM). Although EM has increasingly becoming a commonlyused term to describe the developmental goals of entrepreneurship education forundergraduate engineering programs, the conceptualization of the EM is still broad andvaried. This is primarily because entrepreneurship education in engineering has utilized awide variety of approaches such as standalone seminars introducing practicingentrepreneurs; project-based courses exposing students to the opportunity identificationand customer discovery aspects of entrepreneurship; or student accelerators/incubatorsand other co-curricular programming for fostering student ventures [14], [15]. 2In other words
scaling to launch. There is plenty of support in place to nurture thestudents and projects as they move from one stage to another – mentors, community knowledge,resources/deals, and online tools. Our entrepreneurship program seems to fall in between theapproaches of Rice and Cornell. Perhaps more importantly, our situation allows us to viewentrepreneurship and engineering business from a distinctive perspective and to recognizepotential problems that are emerging (and from which we are certainly not immune).Good Intentions Gone Astray? How Entrepreneurship Gets Reduced to Composite SkillsAn article published in The Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship in 2015 by Duval-Couetil,Kisenwether, Tranquillo, and Wheadon illustrates one path by which
NationalCenter for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter). Epicenter is funded by the NationalScience Foundation and directed by Stanford University and VentureWell (formerly NCIIA). Oneof the elements of participation involves redesigning the capstone senior design curriculum tomake it more innovation and entrepreneurship oriented and as such have a positive impact onstudent satisfaction. This paper details the expectations of students beginning a two-coursesequence in the capstone curriculum. The student survey data led to a rebalancing of the curriculumto one that was solely based on “how-to-do” senior design projects to one that still includes “how-to-do" lecture themes but now includes lecture themes in innovation and entrepreneurship
Paper ID #22500Maintaining Excellence in Undergraduate Education: The Faculty Develop-ment Seminars of the Baylor University School of Engineering & ComputerScience (ECS) Over the Last Six YearsMs. Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University CYNTHIA C. FRY is currently a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science at Baylor University. She worked at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as a Senior Project Engineer, a Crew Training Manager, and the Science Operations Director for STS-46. She was an Engineering Duty Officer in the U.S. Navy (IRR), and worked with the Naval Maritime Intelligence Center as a Scientific/Technical Intelligence
provide motivation for this challenge. Use thearticles (URL footnotes at the bottom of the document) as support to justify and identifyopportunities for improvement within each area of the system.Module 2: Design thinking is a solution-focused method incorporating different perspectivesand is often used by interdisciplinary teams. The iterative approach promotes a focus oninnovation through experimentation. In addition, the human-centered nature of the processintegrates continuous sharing of knowledge, feedback, and collaboration, as exemplified inthis Empathy-based assignment. The artifact directions are as follows: Use the worksheets[modified version of dSchool Wallet Project] and associated notes taken during class to (1)provide an overview of
Paper ID #6565Bending Moments to Business Models: Integrating an Entrepreneurship CaseStudy as Part of Core Mechanical Engineering CurriculumDr. Mark Schar, Stanford University MARK SCHAR works in the Center for Design Research - Designing Education Lab at Stanford Univer- sity. He is also a member of the Symbiotic Project of Affective Neuroscience Lab at Stanford University and a Lecturer in the School of Engineering. Dr. Schar’s area of research is ”pivot thinking” which is the intersection of design thinking and the neuroscience of choice where he has several research projects underway. He has a 30 year career in