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Assessing Entrepreneurship Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Blessing, Milwaukee School of Engineering; John D. Gassert, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Lawrence J. Schmedeman, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Larry Fennigkoh, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Education Network(KEEN) and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), with a broadmandate to undertake a first-time effort to instill the ideas of entrepreneurship in the minds of ourfaculty and students. Faced with the challenge of integrating entrepreneurship into an alreadyambitious engineering curriculum, we decided to focus our resources on activities that wouldbring together business and engineering students, two groups that normally do not interact intheir course of study, to work together on a design project.ChallengesWhile there is agreement around campus that a focus on entrepreneurship is both a timely and aworthy undertaking, there are significant obstacles to be overcome in order to achieve our goal.The

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ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum II

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Walter W. Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

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would like to do is to develop a proof of concept system for coaches and trainers. I would like for them to have the peace of mind that they are looking out for their players and are attempting to detect blood sugar problems in the young athletes they are responsible for. That’s where you come. We are working with a software consultant named Heather Heart, and she is reaching out for assistance. Heather is a former MSOE Software Engineering student now working for a biomedical startup here in Cleveland. Heather will briefly explain her needs

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The Student Experience

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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, and then, in general, with demonstrates a passion for everything I work on. I’m somebody who is ... I’m always helping others through their looking at the bigger picture. I want to see where the end engineering work result is. I like to keep that in mind. I like to see how what I’m doing, no matter how tedious it is. If I’m sitting there, trying to learn how to solder as a chemical engineer, that, in the end, this is going to help, that this is going to be

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Exploring the Entrepreneurial and Innovation Mindset

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Ricco, University of Kentucky; Suzann Girtz, Gonzaga University; Stephen E. Silliman, Gonzaga University

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Diversity

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Paper ID #19294Exploring Engineering MindsetDr. George D. Ricco, University of Kentucky George D. Ricco is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Kentucky. He focuses his work between teaching in the first-year engineering program at UK and research in student progression. Previously, he was the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Program Coordinator at Gonzaga University in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He completed his doctorate in engineering education from Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education. He received an M.S. in earth and planetary

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Tactical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University; Richard J. Freuler, Ohio State University

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within acommunity that acknowledges their expertise in a particular craft or discipline and shareinformation competently with those who are not experts."The Kern Family Foundation is helping engineering schools change their pedagogy to developthe entrepreneurial mindset in undergraduate engineers [12]. The Kern EntrepreneurshipEngineering Network (KEEN) consists primarily of small private engineering schools to promotethis change. Attributes of the KEEN entrepreneurially minded engineer are integrity, tenacity, Page 26.1507.5ethics, creativity, intuition, a deep knowledge of engineering fundamentals, the ability toengineer products for

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Sandra Furnbach Clavijo PE P.E., Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Kishore Pochiraju, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

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/Capstone Course,” Jun. 2011, p. 22.632.1-22.632.8, Accessed: Feb. 23, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/entrepreneurial-mindset-development-in-a-senior- design-capstone-course.[2] J. Goldberg, “Teaching entrepreneurship in senior design courses,” IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Mag., vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 17–18, Mar. 2005, doi: 10.1109/MEMB.2005.1411338.[3] M. Archibald, M. Clauss, and J. Dupree, “Entrepreneurship In Capstone Design Using Interdisciplinary Teams And A Business Plan Competition,” in 2005 Annual Conference Proceedings, Portland, Oregon, Jun. 2005, p. 10.577.1-10.577.10, doi: 10.18260/1-2--15567.[4] P. Shekhar and A. Huang-Saad, “Conceptualizing Entrepreneurial Mind-set: Definitions and Usage in Engineering

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The Student Experience

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd M. Fernandez, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Connor Rene Couetil, Purdue University

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Paper ID #18061Engineering Students’ Misuse of Business Concepts: Understanding Prob-lematic Precursors to EntrepreneurshipMr. Todd Mathew Fernandez, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Todd is a PhD Candidate in Engineering Education at Purdue University who’s research is focused on entrepreneurship education as a component of modern engineering education efforts.Dr. Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Nathalie Duval-Couetil is the Director of the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, As- sociate Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Evaluating Student Behaviors and Attitudes

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Magdalini Z Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Rodney Boehm, Engineering Academic and Student Affairs; James L Wilson, Texas A&M University - College of Engineering

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Paper ID #13559Assessment of Innovative Skill Development in Weekend ChallengesMs. Magdalini Z Lagoudas, Texas A&M University Magda Lagoudas, Executive Director for Industry and Nonprofit Partnerships, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University. Mrs. Lagoudas holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering. She worked for the State of New York and industry before joining Texas A&M University in 1992. Since then, she developed and taught courses in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Technology. In 2001, she joined the Spacecraft Technology Center as an Assistant Director

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Teaching and Learning Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Owe G. Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering; R. David Kent, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Christina Howe, University of Evansville; Mary B. Vollaro, Western New England University

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provide innovations that contributecommercial value. For the development of entrepreneurial minded graduates, the educationalcontributions provided by general education are essential for career success.Introducing an entrepreneurial mindset in an engineering curriculum will not be accomplished byadding courses. This challenge must be addressed by making the liberal arts, social science, andbusiness topics relevant to engineering students in a practical sense that allows engineeringgraduates to commit to engaging in a world driven by more than technical facts. Professionalcompetencies and engineering skills/knowledge must be integrated, together in the same course,because that is how the graduates will engage their careers and

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Research Technical Session 7

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Wendy C. Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Eden Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University; Paula Gangopadhyay, The Henry Ford (museums); James Edwin Cawthorne Jr., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sridhar S. Condoor, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology, Saint Louis University; Edward J. Coyle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donald Wroblewski P.E., University of California, Berkeley; Cornelia Huellstrunk, Princeton University

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andentrepreneurship to improve our economy and address the major problems we face as a society.We feel that engineers have both a responsibility and a critical role to play in identifying andhelping to resolve the challenges we face as a society in resource use, technology use or in socio-economic issues. Understanding how engineers contribute to innovations that address theproblems or challenges of our society is, in our minds, an important task which is why we haveparticipated in this journey. We are pleased to share our discussions with you and look for yoursupport in continuing our research and entering into the dialogue with us. Page 24.1217.3

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anthony Ferrar, Temple University; Dustyn Roberts P.E., Temple University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #25712Sustainable Senior Design: MVP EngineDr. Anthony Ferrar, Temple University Tony Ferrar is obsessed with student success. He focuses on preparing students for rewarding careers through pedagogical innovation and incorporating professional development into educational experiences. Anthony received his BS, MS, and PhD in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech, where his research revolved around air-breathing propulsion. As a graduate student he contributed to Virginia Tech’s Gradu- ate Education Development Institute, Faculty Development Institute, and Networked Learning Initiatives. After graduating in

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rodney Boehm, Texas A&M University College of Engineering; Michael Beyerlein, Texas A&M University; Kiersten Potter, Student Engineers' Council; Jiacheng Lu; Lori L. Moore, Texas A&M University

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Paper ID #33391A Virtual Internship ExperienceMr. Rodney Boehm, Texas A&M University College of Engineering Rodney Boehm is the Director of Engineering Entrepreneurship and an Associate Professor of Practice in the Texas A&M University College of Engineering. He has broad industry experiences, including over 35 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 internationally over 30 years

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benedict M. Uzochukwu, Virginia State University; Coray Davis, Virginia State University ; Ben U. Nwoke, Virginia State University

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Paper ID #17176Towards a Sustainable Engineering Entrepreneurship EducationDr. Benedict M. Uzochukwu, Virginia State University Benedict M. Uzochukwu is an Associate Professor of Technology at the Virginia State University. His research interests include Human Factors and Ergonomics, Sustainment, Logistics, Supply Chain Man- agement, Life cycle Systems, Systems Integration and Management of technology systems. He has a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the North Carolina A & T State University, Greensboro and has several peer reviewed publications to his credit. He belongs to a number of professional

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Education Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Pune Innovation Centre

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #8802Developing Creativity Competency of EngineersDr. Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Pune Innovation Centre Pradeep Waychal has close to 30 years of experience in renowned business and academic organizations. He has been the founder and head of Innovation Center of College of Engineering Pune. Prior to that, for over 20 years, he has worked with a multinational corporation, Patni Computer Systems where he has played varied roles in delivery, corporate and sales organizations. He has led large international business relationships and incubated Centre of Excellences for business intelligence, process consulting and

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National and Multi-university Initiatives

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Owe G. Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering; William M. Jordan, Baylor University; R. Radharamanan, Mercer University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

intended manner.It is highly advantageous that the proposed structure aligns and is compatible with the ABETEngineering Criteria, which is well-established and well-understood by engineering programs.This would simplify interpretation of language and could serve to minimize any additionalassessment work.IntroductionThe Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN) educational initiative in engineering hasthe goal to increase the number of entrepreneurially minded engineering graduates in the US.[1][2]To achieve that requires the establishment of curricula content and extracurricular activitieswithin existing engineering programs. Such a process is naturally related to key aspects of theABET accreditation process, as defined by the Engineering

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Design and Entrepreneurship

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A. Karanian A., Stanford University; Ateeq Junaid Suria, Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Jonathan Summers

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-rans.Companies able to leverage the power of many minds working in conjunction to understand theiruser’s story have a vast advantage over those that are unable to do so. Nowhere in the world isthis more evident than in the hotbed of ideas that is Silicon Valley2.One group of students at a Silicon Valley university understands particularly well what goes intofostering effective storytelling. Their course, “Tales to Design Cars By” is offered in the Collegeof Engineering’s mechanical engineering design program. Students and faculty both are carenthusiasts and non-car enthusiasts. The class features a generative storytelling experience withstudents defining and examining their personal car experiences, and using their findings toinform new design. These

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 10

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Brookstein, Temple College of Engineering; David Brookstein, Temple University; Keyanoush Sadeghipour, Temple University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #16243Shaping New Student Identity as ”Creatives” in the 21st Century GlobalEconomyDr. David Brookstein, Temple College of Engineering Dr. David Brookstein is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and has 12 U.S. patents. DEGREES Doctor of Science in Field of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 1976 Master of Science in Textile Technology, MIT, 1973 Bachelor of Textile Engineering, Georgia Tech, 1971Dr. David Brookstein, Temple University David Brookstein is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs and Professor of

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noelle K. Comolli, Villanova University; Jacob James Elmer, Villanova University

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Engineering CoursesAbstract Traditional chemical engineering curriculum focus on the math, science and engineeringfundamentals culminating in a senior year process design course. These courses are excellentpreparation for most chemical engineering jobs, but they typically omit very practical skills suchas curiosity, connections and creating value. The lack of these fundamentals of the entrepreneurialmindset puts chemical engineers at a disadvantage in today’s workplace. The faculty at VillanovaUniversity have made the effort to focus on EML (entrepreneurial minded learning) by creatingmodules that can be implemented in already existing courses. These modules all vary in time,scale, and application, but have the same goal: to introduce chemical

Conference Session

Research and Assessment

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; David Pistrui, Acumen Dynamics, LLC

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

our thinking. Instead of permitting engineering educationto lag technology and society, “Should the engineering profession anticipate needed advancesand prepare for a future where it will provide more benefit to humankind?”[3]So the question becomes, how do we train engineers to be more entrepreneurially minded?What is an Entrepreneurially Minded Engineer? Page 22.244.2According to Dawn Tabat, Chief Operating Officer of Generac Power Systems (and a group ofthe company‟s engineering executives), Entrepreneurially Minded Engineers (EMEs) “act like aproduct manager within their engineering discipline”. In other words, “EMEs are not justworking on

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven

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increasingly complex world, higher educationinstitutions are more and more promoting entrepreneurial mindset and integratingentrepreneurship elements in their programs. Integration of entrepreneurially minded learning inengineering courses, which promotes entrepreneurial mindset and skills, is an approach that isgaining momentum among individual faculty members. This paper presents such effort involvinga junior level engineering statistics course. Given the abundance of data in today’s world and theimportance of extracting meaning out of them, statistics is an important tool for any disciplineincluding engineering. This importance is summed up in the following quote from WalterShewhart, who is known as the father of statistical quality control: “The

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sridhar Condoor, Saint Louis University; Mark McQuilling, Saint Louis University

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., Kisenwether, E., Rzasa, S., and Wise, J., “Developing and Assessing Students’ Entrepreneurial Skillsand Mind-set,” Journal of Engineering Education, April 2005.10. Martin, R.L., and Osberg, S., “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition,” Stanford Social InnovationReview, 2007, 30-39.11. Jansson, D.G., Condoor, S.S., and Brock, H.R., “Cognition in Design: Viewing the Hidden Side of the DesignProcess”, Environment & Planning – B, Planning & Design, Vol. 19, 1993, 257-271.12. Kroll, E, Condoor, S.S., and Jansson, D.G., Innovative Conceptual Design, Cambridge University Press, 2001.13. Watkins, T., Ochs, J., Snyder, D. "Leveraging What Freshman Don't Know: Product Development in anIntegrated Business and Engineering Freshman Workshop

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New Methods and Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Reimer, Lawrence Technological University; Margaret Pierce, Lawrence Tech University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

innovation and its role developing tomorrow’s leaders.The Entrepreneurial Mindset and Engineering EducationThe Entrepreneurial Mindset goes beyond creating a business venture. The foundationalelements of entrepreneurship include creating an awareness of the importance of managing risk, Page 15.487.3experiencing failure and ambiguity. Entrepreneurial thinking is important for individuals whomay create a business as well as for those who will work in larger organization as “CorporateEntrepreneurs” or “Intrapreneurs.” The entrepreneurial mind creates inventive solutions tocomplex problems. It also recognizes the importance of identifying entrepreneurial

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division New Ideas Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Jablonski, Bucknell University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

or delivery, and identification ofnew market share. The culmination of the course is to present the groups’ business ideas toinvestors and judges (in a business pitch competition), and use feedback and knowledge gainedfrom these presentations to make a final report including an analysis of the businesses’ potentialfor success.The guiding principle in designing this course was that modeling the process of ideation, Page 24.624.7research, development and commercialization in a course environment would foster anentrepreneurial spirit in engineering undergraduates; making them less risk-averse and morecreative and open-minded in their approach to

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Opening General Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janna Rodriguez, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Qu Jin, Stanford University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Exploring Entrepreneurial Characteristics and Experiences of Engineering AlumniAbstractIn recent years one of the goals of the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been to encouragenew generations of engineering students to become more entrepreneurially-minded and self-employed in the engineering field. Engineering schools in the United States have specificcurricular requirements that students must fulfill in order to graduate, and some of theserequirements may incorporate a component of entrepreneurship education. As part of theresearch reported here, data from a survey of recent engineering alumni were used to examineand determine which engineering

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Patenting & IP Issues for Commercializing University-Developed Technology and Launching Innovative Technical Entrepreneurship Ventures in Universities

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Schox, Stanford University; David Chesney, University of Michigan

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Page 12.812.2infringement test to a patentability situation, and some applied the patentability test to an Page 1 of 5infringement situation. Despite the fact that enrollment increased from 40+ students to 80+students over one year, the course – in my mind – had failed.As a Lecturer for Stanford University, I taught ME208: Patent Law and Strategy for Innovatorsand Entrepreneurs to engineering students at the graduate and senior undergraduate level duringthe Fall 2005 and 2006 terms. I developed and introduced the course and, although I kept theSocratic Method, I taught from my own text. The class, which still had lively debates, no longertouched upon the detailed intricacies and nuances of the law, but

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Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

population earns less than $2 a day… Figure 1. Summary of Request for Proposals.Entrepreneurial mindset:In evaluating the impact of our interventions we have chosen to look at the mindset of ourstudents toward risk and intelligence and how we might encourage them to be moreentrepreneurial (defined as creative and inventive) in executing their projects and as they developinto engineers. The measure of mindset we are using has been developed by Carol Dweck ofStanford and is based on two key ideas or states of mind. The fixed mindset is a mindset wherethe individual believes that the abilities or intelligence they have is all they will ever possess andcannot be changed, while a growth mindset is one where the individual

Conference Session

The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University; Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

characteristics of engineers that enable themto produce or inhibit them from producing the innovations that U.S. society so urgently desires.We define these characteristics of engineers that enable or inhibit them from creating innovationsas engineering innovativeness or non-innnovativeness.Study participants defined an innovation as: “Simply put, it’s a new way of doing things. It’s breaking tradition and taking a new approach to solving an old problem. I think an innovation is actually only truly innovative if it is delivered to the world and widely adopted, and enjoyably used.” Riley “In my mind innovation is recognizing a need, or a gap, or a circumstance that could be better and then bringing to bear new ways of

Conference Session

Institutionalizing Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude Lague P.Eng., University of Ottawa; Hanan Anis, University of Ottawa; Richard Jean L'Abbé

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students graduate with an entrepreneurial mind set that enable them to play leading roles in existing organizations or create their own jobs.Mr. Richard Jean L’Abb´e Retired past President and CEO of Med-Eng Systems Inc, a world leader in the design and production of protective ensembles and electronic equipment to safeguard against the effects of military and improvised explosive devices. Med-Eng equipment was trusted in over 120 Countries and Territories around the World. Mr. L’Abb´e, graduated from the University of Ottawa (Canada) in Mechanical Engineering (’79). He is a big proponent of Strategic Planning and Human Resource optimization. Constantly creative, and focused on solving the customer’s needs, Med-Eng

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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

AC 2008-1603: DEVELOPING A JOINT ENGINEERING/BUSINESS SCHOOLENTREPRENEURIAL CURRICULUMTimothy Faley, University f MichiganPeter Adriaens, University of Michigan Page 13.384.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 An Approach to Building a Graduate-level Engineering and Business collaborative entrepreneurial curriculum American Society of Engineering Education AC2008-1603 re-submitted March 2008AbstractTechnology-based entrepreneurship, regardless of whether it takes place within a largeorganization or in a startup, requires a mixture of technological and business skills. Our aim indeveloping a joint graduate

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Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Nunnally, University of Missouri - Columbia; James Thompson, University of Missouri; Steve Wyatt, University of Missouri - Columbia

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

wanting to be engineers in the lower grades. Thisvision of the engineering faculty member persists in the minds of most business persons andmany times eliminates the thought of working with faculty members to develop more productsfor business. One note here is that the administration of some engineering universities havedeveloped a negative reputation with the business community, specifically one in which the firstquestion asked by the University is “How can what you propose harm the university?” Thisattitude discourages business people who are interested in economic advantage and companyvalue related to the ownership or control of technology in the market place. As with theengineering faculty member, the business person is focused on the