Paper ID #9494Assessment of a New University-Wide Entrepreneurship and Innovation Mi-norMr. Philip M Reeves, The Pennsylvania State University Philip Reeves is a graduate student in the Educational Psychology Department at Penn State. He is work- ing with faculty to evaluate a new university-wide entrepreneurship and innovation minor as a graduate assistant for the Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education.Dr. Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Associate and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of
Communication Engineering from India.Dr. Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan Aileen is faculty in Engineering Education and Biomedical Engineering. Previously, Aileen was the Associate Director for Academics in the Center for Entrepreneurship and was responsible for building the Program in Entrepreneurship for UM undergraduates, co-developing the masters level entrepreneur- ship program, and launching the biomedical engineering graduate design program. Aileen has received a number of awards for her teaching, including the Thomas M. Sawyer, Jr. Teaching Award, the UM ASEE Outstanding Professor Award and the Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award. Prior to joining the University of Michigan faculty, she worked in the
and science fields.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2011 Dr. Sheppard was named as co-PI of a national NSF innovation center (Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at
Undergraduate Course as one possibleeffective approach and present the results of a survey to quantitatively measure the effect of thecourse on preparing the students and graduates for this new work environment. We also describethe course design, the hypothesis of effect, the survey design, the data collection, and analysis.Based on the participants’ responses and the quantitative analysis presented in this paper, weconfirmed quantitatively that the course has achieved its goal of preparing our undergraduates forthe ever changing and challenging environment for developing technology applications andservices. Overall, they believe that the impact on their career is worth the “value of contribution”they have exercised and estimated.1. IntroductionDue to
themes of their learning system and content. Finally, weutilize this process to propose canvases suitable for undergraduate courses from first-year andcapstone design.Opportunities in Design and Entrepreneurship EducationIn today’s design and technical entrepreneurship courses, students are commonly asked toenvision and design a product offering along with a business model. In many cases, the product,device, or system being developed is a complex technical system that is being developed for abusiness setting impacted by competition, regulation, and social complexities. Dym et al., intheir classic work on design teaching and learning, note that “design is hard to learn and harderstill to teach” (Dym et al., 2005). Importantly, they make
Entrepreneurial Idea Pitch and Research Proposal Competitions often determine theaward of cash prizes [ e.g. $100,000 at MIT] and scarce resources. The recipients of these awards aredetermined by judging processes. These judging processes are rarely audited or evaluated as to quality orconsistency. We contend that judging processes will be more fair and perceived as less subjective with a highlevel of consensus between judges [interrater agreement], especially for those ranked as best. Our researchcalculates aWG for idea pitch competitions, identifies interventions that improved interrater agreement over timeincluding external factors that may support higher quality judging processes. We seek participation in acollaborative application to continue the
sophisticated tools that engage students in new forms of thinking, supportexperimentation and advocate for a growth mindset that encourages persistence and the seekingof challenges and learning, all of which represent valuable learning opportunities that align withthe learning outcomes aspired to by engineering schools [3].In this paper, we assessed the impact of integrating making activities into two engineering designcourses on one non-cognitive attribute — implicit theories —. The study presented in this paperfocuses on the integration of making activities into two collaborative project-based-learningengineering design courses that offer students an authentic learning environment where theywork with a real-time client to solve an engineering problem
DornerWorks, Ltd., and partner at squishLogic LLC. He obtained the M.S.E.E. from Michigan Technological University and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include appropriate technology, entrepreneurship, Agile software development, and safety-critical embedded systems (particularly digital avionics). He can be contacted by email at Steven.H.VanderLeest@gmail.com. Page 22.632.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Entrepreneurial Mindset Development in a Senior Design Capstone
of Technology Transfer. This support allowed these two teams to designand prototype the product during the fall 2013 and spring 2014 semesters. These two teamsreceived multiple cash awards while competing in the State of North Carolina SocialEntrepreneurship Conference and the Ventureprise business competition. One team built acompany which is still active even after the participants graduated with their Baccalaureatedegrees. Thus far the faculty have supported four entrepreneurial teams in the capstone seniordesign courses.While the entrepreneurship course gives a chance for our students to work with a faculty on thedevelopment of a new product, linking it to the capstone senior design course strengthens thefoundation for our engineering
(TUM) Johann is currently finishing his Masters in Management & Technology at Technical University of Munich (TUM). During his studies he focused on Finance, Entrepreneurship and Mechanical Engineering. In 2018, Johann researched at the Designing Engineering Education (DEL) lab at Stanford University.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie
answer these questions when she teaches some of these methods to engineering, design, business, and law students. Her courses use active storytelling and self-reflective observation as one form to help graduate students and leaders traverse across the iterative stages of a project- from the early, inspirational stages to prototyping, to prototyping some more - and to delivery. Barbara likes to paint pictures.Mr. Ville Mikael Taajamaa, University of Turku Ville M. Taajamaa, MSc (TECH) is in his fourth year of Ph.D studies focusing on engineering education reform. The main focus in the action based research is to create a new model for global interdisciplinary engineering education: O-CDIO where emphasis is more in the
who mentor the civil engineering design projects. The projects expose the civil engineering students to real world design problems. The students gain first hand experi- ence communicating professionally, developing schedules, meeting deadlines and preparing professional quality reports and presentations. Prof. Brunell is the director of the Water Resouces graduate program. She also teaches Fluid Mechanics, Surveying and Water Resources.Dr. Keith G. Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology Dr. Keith G. Sheppard is Senior Advisor to the Dean in the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineer- ing and Science and a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. His research interests have
completed including an inventionthat was recognized as one of the nation’s best in 2005 and a product that is being sold across thenation. Finally, we will reveal ways that K-State is realizing an economic benefit from theseactivities that goes beyond licensing intellectual properties and includes the production and salesof products.The program described in this paper enhances the education of university students whilesimultaneously deriving economic benefits for both university programs and private enterprise.This model increases the readiness of graduates for professional work, increases the likelihood offinancial returns to the university, transforms university intellectual property into market-readyproducts, and provides a resource to
students throughresearch. While conducting basic research is important to developing hypotheses and acquiringknowledge about a phenomena, applied research is required when the goal is technologycommercialization. Applied research is designed to solve practical problems in the real world.Conducting applied research provides value not only to the researcher, but also to the populationwhom the research benefits.In order to motivate faculty to have a focus on applied research that has the potential forcommercialization, the promotion and tenure process must be augmented. A tenure process thatpromotes commercialization should provide incentives for working with industry, starting a
response process validity of tests and instruments.Ms. Kirsten Susan Hochstedt, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Kirsten Hochstedt is a Graduate Assistant at the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education. She received her M.S. in educational psychology, with an emphasis in educational and psy- chological measurement, at Penn State and is currently a doctoral candidate in the same program. The primary focus of her research concerns assessing the response structure of test scores using item response theory methodology.Prof. Elizabeth C. Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
authors,but its presentation and analysis is left for subsequent papers.ConclusionsEmpathy as well as innovation-related self-efficacy and interests are believed to help engineerscreate solutions that better match the needs of their end-users, whether they were designing in thecontext of a larger firm or a startup. However, research on the effect of engineering education onthe development of empathy is virtually nonexistent, and even studies linking empathy toinnovation outcomes are rare. This study takes a first step towards evidence-based practice bydemonstrating that graduate students’ self-reported empathy (as measured by perspective takingtendencies) as well as their innovation self-efficacy (as measured by confidence in design
deliverables:(1) a “research sequence” consisting of a rhetorical analysis, an annotated bibliography, and aliterature review, (2) a humanities assignment in which students explore the impact oftechnology on societal needs, and (3) laboratory and design reports stemming from the projects.In many cases, there are two grades associated with a design project- one for the report and onefor the “technical merit” of the design itself. For example, when a project on wind turbine design[6] was introduced into the course, 20% of the course grade was based upon how muchelectricity a student team’s turbine generated, and another 20% was based upon the final designreport associated with the project. (The other 60% was primarily based upon other major
Curriculum in Higher Education”.7. Duval-Couetil, N. (2013). “Assessing the impact of entrepreneurship education programs: Challenges and approaches.” Journal of Small Business Management, 51(3): 329-351.8. Gedeon, S.A. (2014). “Application of best practices in university entrepreneurship education.” European Journal of Training and Development, 38(3): 231-253.9. Jones, P., Penaluna, A., and Pittaway, L. (2014). “Entrepreneurship education: A recipe for change?” International Journal of Management Education, 12(3), 304-306.10. Vanevenhoven, J. (2013). “Advances and challenges in entrepreneurship education.” Journal of Small Business Management, 51(3): 466-470.11. Gandhi, S., Jimmy, M.B., and Taghazadeh, S. (2016). “A comprehensive review
application, consulting, facilitation and training of such methodologies and business practices as TRIZ, Competitive Opportunity Management, Strategic Planning, Competitive Intelligence, Product / Process Development and Optimization, Business Process Innovation, Design for Manufacture and Assembly, Quality Function Deployment, Technology Research and Organizational Engineering.Donald Reimer, Lawrence Technological University Donald M. Reimer is currently a fulltime senior lecturer and Associate Director of The Lear Entrepreneurial Program in College of Engineering at Lawrence Tech. Mr. Reimer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Lawrence Technological University and
Paper ID #30063To Start or Not: Impact of Engineering Students’ Engagement inEntrepreneurship Competitive Activities on their EntrepreneurialIntentionsMiss Yaxin Huang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Yaxin Huang received a Bachelor’s degree in English language and literature from Hohai University of China (2018), and is studying for a Master’s degree in higher education at SJTU. Her research interest includes engineering students’ international learning experiences, innovation and entrepreneurship edu- cation.Prof. Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jiabin Zhu is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of
engineering education. He is a Research Scientist and Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and teaches the course ME310x Product Management and ME305 Statistics for Design Researchers. Mark has extensive background in consumer products management, having managed more than 50 con- sumer driven businesses over a 25-year career with The Procter & Gamble Company. In 2005, he joined Intuit, Inc. as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer and initiated a number of consumer package goods marketing best practices, introduced the use of competitive response modeling and ”on- the-fly” A|B testing program to qualify software improvements. Mark is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of One
specific courses; therefore, the technical assignments to which the contextual activities are linked differ significantly. However, the module-related tasks students are asked to complete are similar. The students typically complete a personality test to determine what role is best suited to each team member and prepare a team charter. They also write a reflection paper discussing the behaviors and emotions observed at each stage of their team’s development period, any conflicts experienced during the project life cycle, and the approach used to resolve conflicts.Relating Assessment Outcomes to KSOs The AOs are different for each e-learning module. However, all of the e-learning moduleswere designed to
development). These projects have included Robotics Platforms, Planning, Monitoring and Control algorithms, Sensor Interface, User Interfaces, Wireless communication, Signal Processing, etc. All of this involves direction and teaching teams to use the required tools and apply en- gineering skills to transform a concept into a product. She also manages interdisciplinary senior design projects in collaboration with other engineering departments such as Textiles Engineering, mechanical en- gineering, etc. Beyond senior design, she has also created and teaches undergraduate and graduate-level classes in ECE (Python in Engineering, Practical Engineering Prototyping (PrEP). She also has designed and taught ECE Robotics summer
family support services, identifying and disseminating best practices and policies. A graduate of Williams College, she Holds an Ed.M from Harvard University and a PhD in in Educational Psychology from Boston College and has taught courses and workshops in applied research to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates at Boston College and Wheelock College. Page 13.30.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Decade of Technological Innovation: A Retrospective View of the First Decade of the NCIIAAbstractThe role of entrepreneurship in engineering, science
Paper ID #25982Using the KEEN Framework and the System Engineering Approach for De-sign and Development of Affordable Wireless Power Transfer using InductiveCoupling for Application in Earphone ChargingProf. John M. Santiago Jr, Colorado Technical University Professor John Santiago has been a technical engineer, manager, and executive with more than 26 years of leadership positions in technical program management, acquisition development and operation research support while in the United States Air Force. He currently has over 18 years of teaching experience at the university level and taught over 40 different graduate and
universities and colleges, plans to dramaticallyreduce this problem by methodical research and facilitation of best practices for technologytransfer and commercialization leveraging a unique educational program in experientialentrepreneurship and technology commercialization.SCION Objectives:The SCION Partnership objectives are to:1) Develop education and experiential entrepreneurship programs to promote technologycommercialization and entrepreneurship awareness2) Increase the number of technology entrepreneurs and high tech entrepreneurial start-ups in theSpace Coast Region3) Methodically research the effectiveness and organizational impact of the “EngineeringEntrepreneurship” program and workshops on the participants, their organizations, local
Paper ID #18081Successful Teaming Characteristics Revealed in an Intensive Design Experi-enceMr. Rodney Boehm, Texas A&M University Rodney Boehm is the Director of Engineering Entrpreneurship and an Associate Professor of Practice in the Texas A&M University College of Engineering. He has broad industry experiences, including over 30 years in all aspects of the telecommunications industry (sales, marketing, manufacturing, business de- velopment, and technical design), the creation of a telecommunications standard (SONET - Synchronous Optical Network) for the fiber optics industry that is still in use
theapplications of fundamentals. Alternative teaching pedagogies become urgent and important.This paper reviews the experiences and preliminary results of combining the flipped-classroomtechniques and embedding EML in the EE221 course. Traditional lectures have been replaced byflipped-classroom practices, and labs have been modified to integrate EML fundamentals. Thepreliminary results from courses survey and grades show positive feedback.Literature Review of Flipped-classroom and EML in Engineering Education Flipped-classroomIn traditional education, instructors provide lectures in classes, and students play a passive roleand are responsible for listening and note-taking [3]. To maximize their understanding [3]research suggests that students need
extracurricular activities to help hone engineeringstudents’ entrepreneurial skills and encourage ideation. However, there remainfew co-curricular opportunities for students to develop an entrepreneurial skillsetand practice entrepreneurial thinking. In particular, opportunities are rare forstudents to merge entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) with the high-levelsubject-, project- and collaboration-based learning approaches typically seen insenior-level elective courses. Developing the entrepreneurial mindset will serveour students well by preparing them to be more impactful engineers.We have developed, implemented and assessed a framework for integratingEML into senior-level elective courses via an Ideation Project. In the affectedcourse
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