Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Faley, University f Michigan; Peter Adriaens, University of Michigan

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

innovation) in the context of identifying market opportunities. Since this course immersesthe engineering students in the language and thought-processes of business, it also serves as aprerequisite for later-stage joint-enrollment courses. These courses, in the later Phases ofbusiness development continuum, include business assessment and business plan development.Modifying existing experiential entrepreneurial programsThe creation of these two new courses and their integration with the existing courses (productdesign, business assessment, and business plan writing) gives us a set of courses that cover thecontinuum of product design and new business development. While each of these individualcourses incorporates hands-on projects, we wanted to

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart Kellogg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

issues and proposedattributes for successful engineers of 2020, these attributes and issues may almost alwaysbe couched within the following pedagogical concerns: There is a need to construct engineering curriculum so as to serve more diverse learners. There is a need to help students develop better complex thinking skills. There is a need to provide learning environments that more actively engage students on multi-disciplinary team projects. There is a need to create an opportunity for value added curriculum, particularly in the areas business, management, and leadership skills.To do this is going to require more active and engaged pedagogies that usually providesome opportunity for experiential

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

La Verne Abe Harris, Arizona State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

turning 50 on a daily basis.3 Thiscalculates to over four million each year.These 40- and 50-year olds can boast about being the best-educated generation in history.4 Thefocus team members were no different. Over half had a 4-year university degree, with just underhalf having graduate degrees. Almost 20 percent had doctoral degrees.The participants who responded to the income survey question made over $100,000 annually.Over half were employed in the technology business, with a few employed in engineering firms,and one employed as a defense contractor. Almost half were engineers. The rest had thefollowing job titles: program manager, project manager, chief engineer, or quality and missionassurance director. They represented companies such as

Conference Session

New Tools for Teaching Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Christe, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Jay J. Bhatt, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Douglas G. McGee, University of Pennsylvania; Ruth Wolfish, IEEE

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

ventures, and establishedcompanies should equip themselves to adopt new technology and business models. University librarysubscriptions to discovery platforms are the ideal vehicle to access deep technical knowledge, as itemerges and evolves. Unsurprisingly, entrepreneurs who display learning initiative have higherlikelihoods of enhancing new startup performance than those whose do not [5]. Entrepreneurship (andSTEM fields) are undoubtedly best learned through doing (e.g. experiential learning, project-basedlearning), as opposed to passively reading or attending lectures[6]. Research and entrepreneurshipmindsets are excellent pairings. Legacy thinking has been that startups are simply smaller versions oflarge companies, and should therefore

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Jane Grigg, Clemson University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

groups to uncover their own thought and biases before discussing difficult orcontroversial topics surrounding engineering innovation with the class as a whole. While thecourse is taught specifically with engineering design in mind, the course has attracted studentsfrom varying majors which has fostered collaboration and creativity in idea generation. Thecombination of critical thinking methodology with innovation concepts has led students to notonly expand their knowledge of potential applications of engineering, but has lead severalstudents to initiate communication with faculty members regarding their ideas for researchopportunities, innovation competitions, and initiated their own projects via applying forUniversity Innovation Fellows

Conference Session

Programs in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James V Green, University of Maryland, College Park; Alyssa E. Cohen Sherman, University of Maryland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

applied, hands-on analysis based on analyses, workshops, and projects. The four steps usedto design the course include: (1) defining the topics and deliverables, (2) establishing theschedule and budget for student teams, (3) determining a strategy and timeline for team selectionand advancement, and (4) developing a format for customer validation and business modeldevelopment.Topics and deliverablesThe first step to designing the course was to define the topics and deliverables. In order to definethe topics and deliverables we performed a university and private sector assessment of Page 23.386.2innovative courses and training programs in this area

Conference Session

New Methods and Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duncan Moore, University of Rochester

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Engineering• Chemical Engineering• Electrical & Computer Engineering• Mechanical Engineering• Materials Science• Optics• Computer Science• Energy & the EnvironmentAll students are also required to participate in a semester long practicum experience. Under thedirection of an advisor, students will work with the Office of Technology Transfer. Students willutilize the office’s intellectual property to develop technology and business cases around varioustechnology patents. Students will participate in the strategy, design, and technology validationprocess. Students will also be required to write a business plan and present an accompanying oralpresentation. During this project students must work in teams to create a professional, well-written

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division New Ideas Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James V. Green, University of Maryland, College Park; Alyssa E. Cohen Sherman, University of Maryland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

5% Strategic Analysis 5% Value Curve 5% Team Projects Business Model Canvas 15% Business Plan Evaluation 15% Peer Evaluation 10% Contributions and Discussions 10% The ten weekly individual assignments are a mix of true – false, multiple choice, and numericsolutions that are automatically graded. One or more short answer questions are included withineach individual assignment. These are human graded.The team projects include the “Business Model Canvas” and the

Conference Session

Faculty Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Robert E. Kleine III, Ohio Northern University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Collaborate in a Team Setting Learning Outcome Learning Outcome: Effectively collaborate in a team setting Student is able to contribute to team meetings in ways that advances the group’s work, facilitates the contributions of other team members, contributes to the project effort outside of team meetings, fosters a constructive team climate and responds effectively to conflict that may arise within the team effort. Does Not Meet Meets Expectations Developing Expectations Proficient Contributes to Team Meetings

Conference Session

The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Christina Seimetz Wade, Virginia Tech; Bevlee A. Watford, Virginia Tech; Joseph Ariel Cuadrado-Medina, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Juan Carlos Folgar-Lopez; Stephanie Nicole Lewis, Virginia Tech

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whichstudents learn about real-world applications of innovation and entrepreneurship through thecompletion of small, hands-on design challenges. Company representatives often lead theInnovation Challenges, in which they provide information about their company and jobs andthen facilitate a design challenge that is typically based on a company product or project in athree to four hour workshop setting. In the Fall semester of 2013, two consulting companiessponsored Innovation Challenges for program participants.Company 1Representatives from Company 1 split the event into an introductory portion and then the maindesign competition. The introduction allowed participants to become acquainted with each otherthrough a small-scale construction activity

Conference Session

ENT Division Technical Session: Assessment Tools and Practices

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven; Aadityasinh Rana; Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

: 2 • Thinking Creatively: Students are asked to implement one of the techniques for brainstorming related to their final course project in which they design a puzzle, and submit a reflection paper in which they discuss whether they think their creativity was enhanced by what they learned from the module, and how they were creative in designing the puzzle based on what they learning in the module about creativity. • Learning from Failure: Students work in teams to complete a design project in which they control the movements of a robot which delivers parts from one platform to another in a workcell layout that the teams create collectively. They are asked to write reflections at the end of the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Integrated e-Learning Modules for Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset: Direct Assessment of Student Learning AbstractIn an effort to develop an entrepreneurial mindset in all our engineering and computer sciencestudents, the University of New Haven is embedding entrepreneurial concepts throughout the 4-year curricula in their majors. This is done with the use of several short e-learning modulesdeveloped by content experts. The modules are integrated into engineering and computer sciencecourses by faculty who reinforce concepts through a related activity, project, or assignment. Thee-learning modules, available online through course

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

approach aims to provideappropriate guidance and relevant training, not only to the instructor, but also the student learner.These ideas lead us to the design and development of innovative instructional techniques asdescribed below.Assessment Implementation & Methodology Assessment was carried out by utilizing sample quizzes, homework assignments,examinations, written essays, laboratory reports and project binders. All these documents weregraded on a holistic basis using likert scale principles. Later the data collected were recorded ina tabular form using an excel spreadsheet. A matrix was generated to document grading andanalysis. A sample excel table for one student’s single homework assignment report is shown inAppendix E

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A. Karanian Ph.D., Stanford University; Mona Eskandari, Stanford University; Jackie Liao, Stanford University; Zubair Ahmed

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

—what engages and captivates the audience?This paper explores motivational, attitudinal, and influential aspects of storytelling with anentrepreneurial streak and specific focus on the vulnerable introductory phase of studentresponses during classroom design challenges. What motivates students and the way they begintheir projects or start-ups are considered during the opening phases of each class, duringclassroom dynamics and during the introduction of an entrepreneuring story. Stories areexamined and informed by previous work. Storytelling is defined and measured by fourconcepts: self-motivated, ambiguity readiness level, passionate social connections, and empathy.A series of planned prompts alongside classroom work geared towards student

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Education Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Jon Down, University of Portland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

skills to compete in the globalbusiness environment when they meet with international business leaders on their travels abroad.They interact with America’s best entrepreneurs to learn business strategies. They design,implement, and lead a business project that aims to be the best of its kind in the world. They aretreated to guest lectures in the classroom and a year-long series of business workshops held bysome of the Northwest’s most successful business leaders. See Appendix 2 for descriptions ofthe three courses in the E-Scholars program.E-Scholars travel both domestically and abroad to meet business leaders across the globe. Allstudents travel to New York, where they meet with companies, consultants, non-profits andgovernment agencies, to

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Weed Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Neeraj Sonalkar, Stanford University; Ilya Avdeev, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Brian D. Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Mohamed M. Megahed, Pennsylvania State University; Pratik Subhash Pachpute, Pennsylvania State University,Great Valley

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

companies MatriLab and NovaScan. Mr. Thompson was part of the corporate new ventures group at Hughes Electronics where he worked with early stage companies in consumer electronics, broadband services and entertainment. His technology background includes managing software development projects and designing and launching communica- tions satellites as a system engineer at Hughes Space and Communications. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #21674 Mr. Thompson serves on the board of the Wisconsin Technology Council and has been active in fostering entrepreneurship in the Milwaukee

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University; Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

with original product ideas need the resources to evaluate the practicalityof their ideas, develop their products, and perform thorough tests to realize robust marketableproducts. Researchers working in labs and research centers use lab automation tools, such asNational Instruments’ LabVIEW7, to automate experiments. Connecting different types ofinstruments to computers to control experiments and acquire/analyze data is crucial toperforming some experiments. In other cases, it speeds up the experiment significantly, resultingin increased productivity. A large number of engineering and science students involved inprofessional project-based organizations like Network of Entrepreneurs, Engineers for aSustainable World, Student Space Programs Lab

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #14907Neuroscience 101: Might Your Teaching and Their Learning Benefit?Dr. Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting Stuart G. Walesh, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, and F.NSPE (stuwalesh@comcast.net, www.helpingyouengineeryourfuture.com) is an author; teacher; and an independent consultant providing leadership, management, and engineering services. Prior to beginning his consultancy, he worked in the public, private, and academic sectors serving as a project engineer and manager, department head, discipline manager, marketer, legal expert, professor, and dean of an engineering college. Walesh’s technical

Conference Session

Leadership and Strategic Planning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten Hochstedt, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1981) and The Johns Hopkins University (1988). She worked in industry for 11 years with a defense contractor (HRB Systems/Raytheon), and then co-founded and worked for five years with a high-tech startup (Paragon Technology), which developed digital video add-in cards/modules for laptop and rugged portable computers. Since joining Penn State in 1999, Liz has taught design courses in the Mechanical, Electrical, and Civil and Environmental Engineering Departments, and in SEDTAPP. In 2001, she became director of the Problem-Based Learning in Entrepreneurship project (underwritten by the GE Fund), and in 2002 was named Director of the

Conference Session

The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William D. Schindel, ICTT System Sciences

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

innovator’s colleagues(be they teachers, coaches, stakeholders, or other colleagues) likewise interact with the modelwhile interacting with each other—the model becomes a literal catalyst for enabling improvedteam interactions10,13,14.Throughout this paper, by “system” we mean a set of physically interacting components, asillustrated in Figure 2. System Component Figure 2: The System PerspectiveThere are three different modeled systems involved in this framework:• System 1--The Innovated System: The object of an innovation is a new or modified system (commercial product or service, student project

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

project management, product to market, technology roadmapping, and strategic planning. He was corporate director of University Relations, and his duties included overseeing the research pipeline. He has over 40 publications and papers, numerous company-private handbooks and documents, and 11 patents. He has a B.S. in Physics from Penn State and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Purdue University. Page 11.373.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation Carmo D’Cruz, Clifford Bragdon, Dennis Kulonda

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Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Karanian, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

of leadership in changingorganizations.The assumptions that we see as central to our ideas about leadership are:a. Leadership definitions and practices are similar across different organizational settings (e.g.,academic, political and sport). The exploration of leadership practice will include considerationand suggestions for the use of quantitative, qualitative, projective and action research tools.b. Subtle but dramatic forms of distinction exist between the definitions of leadership andentrepreneurial leadership. Page 11.591.2c. An important challenge exists in the way the research is designed and reported when theconcept of gender is

Conference Session

Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Santarelli, Cal State Fresno

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

annually.Research Question 2: What are the available resources to support development of aregional learning center for engineering? Inspection of the Phase I survey data showed that organizations prefer supporting students(see Figure 2). Sixteen of 21 respondents to the question of providing support to the localengineering program indicated that they would participate in design projects while only 1 of 21 Page 15.381.9respondents indicated that they would finance facility construction or fund infrastructuredevelopment. There were no responses to the choice of endowing faculty. Phase II results;however, clarified that organizations believe that tangible

Conference Session

ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum I

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Matthew Garett Young, Arkansas Tech University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

have even proposed shifts in pedagogy such as ageometrical approach with measured increases in class performance [1]. Another attempt attransforming electromagnetics came from augmenting the course with a team-based project-based learning approach where it was found that student attitudes about relevance improved, butknowledge gain remained like traditional lecture topics. [6]. All these methods from theliterature point to an increase in student motivation, but do not show a discernable change inknowledge gain as proven by a rigorously developed exam.Ideally, one can apply a nationally standardized exam to measure such knowledge gain. There issome evidence of the existence of such exams within engineering disciplines [7], but the authoris not

Conference Session

Creating a Technology Incubator and Creating a Seed Fund

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Wierman, Johns Hopkins University; Lawrence Aronhime, Johns Hopkins University; Marybeth Camerer, Johns Hopkins University; Benjamin Gibbs, Johns Hopkins University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

several ideas about how to operatemore efficiently the following year. They planned to recruit between five and ten employeesduring projected times of peak demand, find storage facility closer to campus, require the use ofsmaller boxes, and get approval from the Residential Life Office to advertise in the dormitories. Page 12.415.4During 2005 the business enjoyed more success, but experienced unanticipated difficulties.Seeing the success of the moving and storage business, another student decided to start acompeting business. The competitor tore down the advertising posters and replaced them withits own. The competitor put flyers unsanctioned by

Conference Session

The Challenges of Tech Transfer

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael McCorquodale, Mobius Microsystems, Inc.; Richard Brown, University of Utah

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

at the University of Utah in 2004. He has conducted major research projects in the areas of solid-state sensors, mixed-signal circuits, GaAs and silicon-on-insulator circuits, and high-performance and low-power microprocessors. Prof. Brown serves as chairman of the MOSIS Advisory Council for Education. He was Chair of the 1997 Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI and the 2001 Microelectronic System Education Conference. He has served as Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and Proceedings of the IEEE and as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) Systems

Conference Session

Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Programs and Program Assessment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Mason, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

or Steve Jobs than the best music schools can create another Mozart. However,entrepreneurship courses and other activities can increase awareness of the opportunitiesand provide knowledge on what it takes to increase the chances for success in innovation.Like other education, we need to look at works best in doing this. It appears thatexperiential education is embraced as a most powerful way to instill entrepreneurialattributes and even Birch, the critic cited above, said learning could occur inapprenticeships, but projects and internships are not the only ways. Moreover, theexperiential approaches can be costly.Background on entrepreneurship centersAccording to the Kauffman Foundation, about two thirds of the colleges and universitiesin the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Borchers, Kettering University; Sung Hee Park, Kettering University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

these events show significant interest in topics including engineeringand scientific innovation and projects in the developing world and environmental sustainability. Page 14.1289.2 This article explores entrepreneurship in the context of Kettering University, a small,private engineering focused university in Flint, MI. A large corporation originally owned theinstitution before it became private in 1982. The institution employs a co-operative model ofengineering education with students completing alternate terms of work and study. Currently,the university works with over 600 co-operative employers that employ its students. During thistime

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Experiential Learning and Economic Development I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Nelson, Mississippi State University; Byron Williams, Mississippi State University; Gary Butler, Mississippi State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2009-239: A MODEL FOR TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION:MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITYGerald Nelson, Mississippi State University Gerald Nelson, an industrial engineering graduate (1974) with an MBA (1985) from Mississippi State University, began his career with a co-op experience at Rockwell International. Nelson worked five semesters with Rockwell before joining them full time after graduation as a Project Engineer and Program Manager. Nelson’s career includes former positions as Plant Manager, Trinity Industries; President and Chief Operating Officer of the Wear Resistance Group of Thermadyne Industries, Inc.; Executive Vice President of Operations, Viasystems Group, Inc.; and Chief

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gunther Rameseder, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Maximilian Reithmann MR, Celonis; Eric Reynolds Brubaker, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #19539The Roots of Entrepreneurial Career Goals among Today’s Engineering Un-dergraduate StudentsMr. Gunther Rameseder, Stanford University Gunther Rameseder, MSc., studied Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Universidad de Barcelona (UB). His majors were Mathematical Finance, Statistics and Operations Re- search with a minor in Economics. During his studies, Gunther gained loads of industry experience at Allianz, Roland Berger, UnternehmerTUM and Finleap where he was involved in projects regarding the digital transformation of organizations as well as corporate venturing. Gunther