Engineering and Applied Sciences medical engineering initiative. Page 24.411.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Development and Implementation of the Industrial and Entrepreneurial Engineering Program at Western Michigan UniversityIntroductionThe industrial engineering (IE) degree was first offered at Western Michigan University in 1959.It was the only engineering program at the university until mechanical engineering and electricalengineering were added in the mid 1970’s. The IE program obtained EAC accreditation in 1979and has maintained
include an attitude theory based instrument forcollecting information entrepreneurship orientation, a multi-part socio economic statusinstrument, and several additional questions developed by the authors to collect information toexplore ties between demographic and attitude measures of entrepreneurship.Instrument – Entrepreneurship ComponentThe attitude theory component, consisting of 75 Likert-type items, is a modified version of theEntrepreneurial Attitudes and Orientation (EAO) instrument originally developed by Robinson etal16. This instrument, developed in the early 1990’s, used two discrete populations: a populationof entrepreneurs and a population of non-entrepreneurs. The goal of the instrument is toestablish an attitude theory based
literature, and the media.Yet, once past the title and initial discussion, the focus invariably is on entrepreneurship – notinnovation. This focus on entrepreneurship is fueled by the excitement of “the start-upexperience,” the aura of its founders as entrepreneurs, and the community for economicdevelopment. “Entrepreneurship leverages innovation to create value” [10] and “entrepreneursneed to search purposely for the sources of innovation” [11] to be successful. Whereas“[i]nnovation – or practical creativity – is mainly about making new ideas useful [and] aninnovator…solve[s] old problems with new ideas…or solve[s] new problems with old ideas usedin radically different ways.” [12] Innovation is possible without entrepreneurship
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starting acompany in their assessment process. Such assessment results will help practitionersbetter design course content and pedagogy to meet the desired learning outcomes, andalso simultaneously provide the research community with data to identify whichconceptualizations or constituent constructs of EM are most frequently targeted in currentengineering entrepreneurship programs.AcknowledgementsThis work is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation through grant number1531533. The opinions are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent theNational Science Foundation. 8References[1] N. Duval-Couetil, M. Ladisch, and S. Yi, “Discovery to
. The Behavior latent variable is defined by the DISC instrument as a measurement model,where the four manifest variables Dominance (D), Influence (I), Steadiness (S), and Compliance(C) are depicted in Figure 3 [18] [19]. D I BEHAVIOR S C Figure 3. Hypothesized KEEN-TTI DISC Measurement ModelIn a similar fashion the Motivation and Skills latent variables are described by specific manifestvariables derived from TTI questionnaire items. The Motivation latent model is described by sixmanifest variables: Theoretical (TH), Aesthetic (AE
enhance theseintrinsic motivators.2.2 Resiliency5Globalization, competition and existing dynamic market conditions require engineers toconstantly innovate, to work and adapt under uncertain conditions and to quickly learn andrecover from mistakes and fails. This requires a high level of “resiliency” defined as theability to overcome and rise above adversity and difficult situations. Page 26.89.3Resiliency describes one´s ability to move forward with optimism and self-confidence evenwhen we are immersed in adversity. It is a mental state motivated by our thoughts, which arein part formulated by our success and our interpretations of past and current
-course mod- ule focused on creativity and problem solving leadership and is currently developing a new methodology for cognition-based design. She is one of three instructors for Penn State’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Creativity, Innovation, and Change, and she is the founding director of the Problem Solving Research Group, whose 50+ collaborating members include faculty and students from several universities, as well as industrial representatives, military leaders, and corporate consultants.Dr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette S¸enay Purzer an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education and is the Director of As- sessment Research for the Institute for P-12 Engineering
reliability; and further work that needs to be undertaken to create aninstrument able to guide and inform the teaching of effectuation in the classroom.Theoretical frameworkThe theory of effectuation was first proposed by Sarasvathy in the early 2000’s as an explanationfor how expert entrepreneurs act when faced with decisions at the early stage of venture creation1,15 . The work takes a grounded theory approach to unpacking the entrepreneurial behaviortermed ‘intuitive’ by Knight13 in 1921. The intuition that Knight names, and which Sarasvathyexplains, describes the behavior of individuals when faced with highly uncertain situations whereit is impossible to make meaningful calculations of risk 13. Sarasvathy proposed that expertentrepreneurs
security challenge. This group deeply elaborated on privacy concernsalready in their first report and used the privacy aspect as a starting point for ideatingsolutions for their challenge: “It is important to find a solution for our challenge as IoT devices are getting more common everyday and it is very likely that soon everyone is an IoT user. Because of this privacy will be an issue, since IoT is important as it guarantees equality and freedom. If IoT devices are not secured, soon everyone will have spying devices at home and the data these devices collect can be used against their users.” (group E, first report)A further four groups (L, N, R, S) increasingly raised privacy concerns. Their reports
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learned in their studies, altered theirview of other disciplines, and gave them the confidence to work on business ideas (new and old)after the event. While many graduates from fields considered a part of the creative class won’tstart their own businesses, the development of an entrepreneurship mindset and use of theassociated tools will be essential as they solve the grand challenges of society. Page 26.504.24ReferencesAkker, J. Van den, Koeno, G., Mckenney, S., & Nieveen, N. (2006). Educational design research. London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.Barab, S., & Duffy, T. (2012). From Practice Fields to Communities of Practice. In
engineers. After interviewing 53 engineering innovators abouttheir experiences as an innovator and qualitatively analyzing the interview data, weidentified twenty unique characteristics of engineers who had demonstratedextraordinary innovative behavior (Ferguson D., 2013). This finding was corroborated bya separate focus group study (Ferguson D. et al., 2014). We then initiated a modifiedDelphi study with 150 engineering innovators drawn from academic, corporate, andentrepreneurial organizations to examine the complex constructs associated withengineering (Ferguson D, Purzer S, Ohland M, Jablokow K, & Menold J, 2014). Delphistudy participants were nominated as extraordinary engineering innovators from large,medium and small firms; from many
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, journals and funded projects. Engineering curricula are crowded, however, and leave little room for new courses. Beginning with the “writing across the curriculum” movement in the 1980’s, the literature reveals that many disciplines have mounted “across the curriculum” movements. These include writing, mathematics, critical thinking, citizenship, ethics and other fields. Given crowded engineering curricula, an “across the curriculum” approach is a logical means to address the need to add entrepreneurial thinking without adding additional courses. Measurement tools are a critical requirement to assess the efficacy or any curriculum intervention. This is especially true when dealing with a new and
from different operating divisions that have technical or businessissues. They are brought together to develop new or innovative products to make their divisionssustainable and profitable. It is very important to establish the entrepreneurial mindset by theCEO/professor (CEO/P) that fosters teamwork with a free spirit of brainstorming. This structureprovides real-world situations as in industry. The CEO/P acts as a mentor who providesencouragement and instills confidence that the employees/students (E/S) can deliver the producton time while meeting the project objectives.4BrainstormingThe E/S brainstorm as a group over several meetings and their ideas are recorded. To helpdevelop creativity, the CEO/P uses several methods such as asking E/S to
learningmathematics and English on the cost effective 25 USD ‘Akash’ tablets. We explained the following four principles of developing innovative entrepreneurialcompetencies [13]; (a) The competencies can be developed, b) Diversity is the key, c) Start bychoosing a challenge, d) RBIS (Research-Based Instructional Strategies) catalyze development ofthe competencies. In the rest of the document, entrepreneurship would mean innovative entrepreneurship,wherein one solves problem(s) in an innovative way and makes cost-effective and ethicalsolutions available to people who are facing the problem(s). We then identified broad challenge areas such as education, health, energy, security,efficient enterprises, urban infrastructure, environment, and
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entrepreneurs' definitions, but mentioned only afew times throughout student interviews, for example, Participant 42 stated; "Entrepreneurialmindset is really just creating a new form of mental habits that will allow you to see the biggerpicture of things to make connections and values through what your work is." However, it seemsthat some of the more frequent codes such as Innovation and Business Skills were nothighlighted by entrepreneurs in previous studies. This could be due to students' lack ofexperience in the field and the fact that students are only learning about entrepreneurial mindsetin the classroom, as opposed to entrepreneurs who have real world experience with the benefitsof EM.Faculty in Zappe et al.’s study said that they believe that
partnered with The Henry Ford, both of which are located in the Detroitmetro area. As a result, Lawrence Tech‟s camp was focused on exploring creativity, innovation,and ingenuity as it relates to the American experience and manufacturing. In subsequentsummers, Boston University and St. Louis University will host summer enrichment opportunities Page 25.364.3in their respective metro areas. (Themes, details, and objectives for the Boston and St. Louiscamps had not been finalized by the time of publication of this paper.)2. Lawrence Tech Summer Enrichment ProgramThe Detroit metro area is well known as being the world‟s automotive industry capital and
collection. Through GORP, the observer can select codes forobserved classroom activity for both the instructor(s) and students. Observations are coded in 2-minute intervals until the class session is over. If the observer makes a mistake, they can note itduring the next interval, and adjust the data accordingly by hand, after class. Data isautomatically analyzed in GORP and can be exported to a spreadsheet for further analysis.The COPUS evaluation process was also part of the development of this Work-in-Progress. Wefollowed the clustering convention put forth by Stains et al. [86] in order to better capture thebroader types of instructor and student behaviors that we were interested in at this stage in thestudy -- who's talking, who's working, who's
, theprograms available to students clearly developed the skills and knowledge necessary for venturecreation. There seemed to be a gap between the cultivation of skills and knowledge for newventure creation and the engagement of students in actual new venture creation.Looking more broadly, this phenomenon does not seem to be limited to the University ofVirginia. According to data, the number of entrepreneurship programs offered at institutions ofhigher education has been skyrocketing since the 1970’s [1–3]. However, there has beeninsufficient evidence to support that an increase in traditional curricular entrepreneurshipeducation leads to an increase in venture creation [4,5]. As of 2012, approximately 2,100colleges and universities in the United
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collaboration, and (v) the following steps if they want to participate. Once interestedEEP teams approach the instructors, and then the teams are selected as potential sponsors basedon three primary criteria:(1) Need of the ECE skills to create the product for the EEP team’s product idea.(2) Scope of work and technical feasibility for ECE SD team to finish in one year,(3) Quality of EEP team’s market & customer study and business plan.Selecting the ECE team as design and implementation engineers (Second semester)Selected EEP team/s are invited to participate in the “pitch your project” event with all otherexternal sponsors in the following spring semester to the ECE SD class. ECE SD team membersare provided information about the EEP team (but not
, undergraduate design canvas can improve both student learningand successful product design.Another objective of the work is to develop a “meta-canvas” approach that is comprehensive andrigorous, yet customizable, such that faculty can develop a canvas to suit their specific course(s).Customizability for different faculty approaches is vital, but an underlying metamodel used alsohelps make it clear where the boundaries to customizability lie. Existing canvases, with theirinherent complexity, may be better suited to more advanced courses, and a customizable canvasapproach may broaden the impact of the canvas concept from first-year design through capstonedesign and beyond. Faculty may utilize different approaches or have different learning
plan(s) and elevations of their building as well as the framing plan. Appendix 5 shows an example of the building layout. The evaluation rubric for the layout is shown in Table 2. 72% of students scored at least 90%, 16% between 75% and 90%, and 6% between 60% and 75% as well as below 60%.3- Design Handbook- 60%: Each member must submit a design handbook that includes hand calculations and/or software results of their building. The evaluation rubrics for the design handbook is shown in Table 2. 26% scored at least 90%, 42% scored 75% to 90%, 26% between 60% and 75%, and 6% below 60%.4- Written proposal- 5%: problem description, constraints, alternative solutions, analysis and design of each solution including hand calculations or
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