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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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Andrea T. Kwaczala, Western New England University

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, calculus and a strongunderstanding of anatomy and physiology. Most critically, is to develop a concrete knowledge of jointmovement, kinesiology and gait, as well as current technologies used to analyze human body motion [1].Students then must combine this knowledge with the comprehension of applied forces and musclemechanics to understand how the body generates power to create locomotion [2]. The literature issignificantly lacking opportunities to teach this content while also considering entrepreneurial mindset andapplied applications of biomechanics. Educators should move towards a course structure that requiresstudents to apply concepts to project-based learning and think innovatively in the field of biomechanics.Students will greatly benefit

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ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum I

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Heidi Morano, Lawrence Technological University; Susan Henson, Lawrence Technological University; Matthew L. Cole, Lawrence Technological University

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[1].Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) and the Entrepreneurial MindsetDedication to preparing future leaders and innovators in engineering who have an EM wassubstantiated through Lawrence Tech’s partnership with the Kern Family Foundation. The KernFamily Foundation was founded with the belief that, to meet the needs of an ever-changingglobal marketplace, engineering education must evolve to develop entrepreneurial-mindedengineers that possess the requisite technical skills but also leverage those skills to bothrecognize and fulfill unmet customer needs. In 2004, LTU became a KEEN partner with otheruniversities having the shared mission of transforming undergraduate engineering education.Through granting financial support

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ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum I

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Matthew Garett Young, Arkansas Tech University

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activities.A Brief Overview of Engineering Electromagnetics Education ResearchSeveral authors have reported the difficulty students face when studying electromagneticsincluding the abstraction of concepts and the trouble with vector calculus [1]-[3]. A surveyconducted in 2005 of electromagnetics curricula around the world directly identified thatstudents feel that electromagnetics is very challenging and demanding [4]. Due to the difficulty,student motivation is low which does not encourage passion for the course topic [5].The literature shows that students need help in visualizing the abstract concepts embedded inelectromagnetics and have suggested transformations involving computer software packages andnumerical simulation [2],[3],[5]. Some authors

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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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Jennifer Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Michael Scott Richards

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c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Entrepreneurially Minded Learning in a Physiological Signals Analysis Lab: Work in ProgressIntroductionLab courses are often designed with a specific objective that may or may not have a connectionto the real-world problems. In addition, labs often offer a rigid, previously tested protocol, givinglittle to no room for flexibility by the students. These lab exercises do not allow for curiosity orcreativity by the students and do not challenge their ability to reach beyond what is directly infront of them [1], [2]. The goal of this work is to change that pattern for application-oriented labactivities in the junior level Quantitative Physiological Signal Analysis

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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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project, andprovide student observations on the success of this approach.Introduction “The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build. No other part of the conceptual work is as difficult as establishing the detailed technical requirements, including all the interfaces to people, to machines, and to other software systems. No other part of the work so cripples the resulting system if done wrong. No other part is more difficult to rectify later.” [1]Teaching software requirements represents a fundamental aspect of any software engineeringprogram. Students enrolled in a software engineering program are generally very savvy from atechnical standpoint and have a good ability to solve problems

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ENT Division Technical Session: Creativity and Innovation

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Tess Hartog, University of Oklahoma; Megan Marshall, University of Oklahoma; Amin G. Alhashim, University of Oklahoma; Md Tanvir Ahad, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma

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creative ideageneration and creativity studies in engineering. In this paper, a survey is provided of theliterature for the different neurological approaches that have been used to study the engineeringdesign process and creative processes. Also presented are proposed strategies to apply theseneurological approaches to engineering design to understand the creative process in greaterdetail. Furthermore, results from a pilot study investigating neuro-responses of engineers arepresented.1 IntroductionIntelligence, measured by IQ and SAT, has been in a steady increase in America since 1990 [1,2]. On the other hand, creativity, measured by Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT), awidely used and validated measure [3-5] proposed by Ellis Paul

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jackson Otto, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Greg J. Strimel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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. However, to continue to harness the nation'sgreat technological potential, universities must seek to better prepare undergraduates foraddressing complex, contemporary challenges in both innovative and transdisciplinary ways. Tobest meet society’s needs, undergraduates should embrace the ability to build upon new ideas,processes, and ways of seeing things that add value to the world in a manner that emphasizessocial and personal responsibility across fields of study. As the National Academy ofEngineering [1] states, “innovative thinking should be an expectation of the universitycommunity and all students should be exposed to it early” (p. 6). Accordingly, multiple strategieshave been enacted to attempt to engage students in innovation-focused

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Assessing Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abigail Jane Kulhanek, University of Pittsburgh; Matthew Raymond Markovetz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Zachari Lucius Swiecki, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Naomi C. Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison; David Williamson Shaffer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University

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creativity with technical skills whenapproaching design problems [1]. The design process requires creativity and innovative thought.These qualities cannot be standardized which is why classes that prepare students just to succeedon exams are not the best route to enhance these skills [2]. Innovation is the act or process ofintroducing a new idea, device, or method that creates value [3]. Creativity is harder to define.Creative products are not universally judged as such by all experts, and creativity is different fordifferent people across domains [4]. A consensual blueprint or formula for producing creative,innovative products does not exist, making creativity a difficult subject to teach students.However, there are aspects of creativity and

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Assessing Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Prateek Shekhar, University of Michigan; Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan; Julie Libarkin, Michigan State University; Ricardo Cummings, University of Michigan; Valentina Tafurt, University of Michigan

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students. Especially in engineering, entrepreneurship hasreceived significant attention in the last decade. As reported by Shartrand, Weilerstein,Besterfield-Sacre, & Golding (2010), in 2010, more than 50% of universities affiliated to ASEEwere offering entrepreneurship through formal courses and informal programs such as pitchcompetitions. This urgency has been fueled by recurrent national calls for fostering an   1  entrepreneurial and innovate economy and the need to develop innovative engineering graduatesto compete successfully in a global economy (National Academy of Engineering, 2005).Advances in Entrepreneurship EducationRecent initiatives

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The Student Experience

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sophia Lerner Pink, Stanford University; Beth Rieken, Stanford University; Tua A. Björklund; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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you be able to contributeas much to your organization?As engineers spend more of their time working in large teams to solve complex problems, theymust ask their coworkers, clients and bosses questions. The design process evolves throughasking questions, and questions help design teams structure their work [1]. Questions help teamswith divergent thinking – building upon other team members’ ideas to come up with manycreative solutions. Questioning also facilitates convergent thinking – analyzing many ideas tofocus on the best solution or to diagnose problems in an existing solution. The process of askingquestions at work helps employees contribute more to the organization.In addition, seeking help and advice through asking questions can have a

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New Tools for Teaching Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hector Erick Lugo Nevarez, University of Texas, El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso; Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso; Randy Hazael Anaya, University of Texas, El Paso; Herminia Hemmitt, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso

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technology. The idea of rapid prototyping came to be from the need for quicker andcost-efficient design testing for product development within the manufacturing industry. It wasn’tuntil 2009, however, that 3D printers became commercially available. By 2012 several3D printer companies began to offer their products on the market either as an open or licensedsource [1].3D printing is also commonly known as additive manufacturing. There are couple of processingmethods for 3D printing, the printers that we currently are using would be Fused DepositionMaterial, trademarked by Stratasys (FDM); also commonly known as Fused Filament Fabrication,by RepRap (FFF). It consists of extruding thin layers of melted material, mostly plastic, onto alevel building

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sidaard Gunasekaran, University of Dayton

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present all along from ideationto execution every step of the way? There might not be a right answer to all these questions but if this entitycalled “creativity” is removed from the process, there is a strong belief that these ingenious designs mightnot exist. Philosophers such as V.S. Bibler and V.M. Rosin [1] considered cognition as an act of creativity,whereas N.M Berdyaev [2] considered creativity as freedom. The concept of creativity itself has beenwidely studied in psychology and in engineering education ([3], [4], [5], [6]) but it has not beensatisfactorily defined [7]. Without a clear definition of creativity, it is hard to make a tangible connectionthe creativity plays in engineering. However, Kazerounian and Foley [8

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John M. Santiago Jr, Colorado Technical University; Jing Guo, Colorado Technical University

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framework is desired to give students more direction and structure sothat their capstone projects (or senior design projects) can be expanded to have more relevantmarket value. The intent of the entrepreneurial approach is not to graduate students who willstart their own businesses (although some of the engineering alumni have already done so), butto motivate and create value for themselves and their employer that benefits society bydeveloping their entrepreneurial mindset [1] [2] [3] [4].Based on the authors’ experience, some students have a hard time coming up with a project thatmeets the requirements for the capstone course. This paper describes attempts to introduceentrepreneurial concepts integrated into a capstone course, given in this paper

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University; Justin L. Hess, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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[10,11].The purpose of this study is to unpack the elements that engineering students attribute to theirunderstanding of innovation. In addition, we utilize these understandings to provide a typologyfor educators and researchers interested in identifying how to prepare or teach students to learnabout innovation. More specifically, we ask: 1. What distinct aspects of innovation do engineering students report learning about during substantial innovation project experiences? 2. How do these aspects of innovation map to a typology of innovation understanding among engineering students?Literature ReviewInnovation is a complex phenomenon that has been described in a variety of ways across avariety of contexts [2–4,12–14]. In part, this

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David G. Novick, University of Texas, El Paso

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the course, reflection on factors that would encourage ordiscourage students from pursuing their projects, and employment status during and after thecourse. The results of the interviews were assessed through thematic content analysis. Theinterviews suggest that (1) that students do not continue with their projects because they cannottake time away from the paying jobs that are supporting their education, (2) that studentscompleting their junior year do not want to take time away from their senior-year studies, and(3) that students completing their senior year do not want to take the risk of pursuing a startupwhen they could instead obtain a “real” job. Additionally, student startups appear to have beendiscouraged by their expectation in the

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anu Osta, Rowan University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

21st Century [1, 2].These were 14 game-changing goals for improving life on the planet, spanning four cross-cuttingthemes, namely sustainability, health, security, and joy of living. Following this several USuniversities adopted the Grand Challenges Scholars Programs (GCSP), a comprehensive researchimmersive program for the ambitious undergraduate students who wish to participate in solvingthe grand challenges to humanity. The GCSP identified five competencies to be achieved by astudent in order to prepare them to address the Grand Challenges for engineering one of thembeing entrepreneurship. These competencies are Talent Competency, MultidisciplinaryCompetency, Viable Business/Entrepreneurship Competency, Multicultural Competency, andSocial

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Product Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Street, Rochester Institute of Technology; jack danziger, Rochester Institute of Technology; William Leonard, Rochester Institute of Technology

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of thedesign errors before capital is invested in manufacturing. The new process allows for a shorteriterative cycle as compared to the old build-test-fix model. Figure 1 is an evaluation of the designcycle (Ullman, p 180) 1. Page 12.1219.2 Design Iterate Iterate Build Test Figure 1 Design evaluation cycleKnowing the strategic advantages of RP machines and seeing industrial growth, RIT’sMechanical Engineering Technology (MET

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Systems Engineering and Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech; Shoaib Shaikh, Northrop Grumman Corporation

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combining technical prowess withentrepreneurship.1 A survey of business executives and managers indicated that highly successfulengineers are not only academically astute, but also possess entrepreneurial skills.2 TheEngineers of 2020 will need to be educated as innovators, with more direct exposure to cross-disciplinary topics and the workings of an entrepreneurial economy.3 However, engineeringschools have been slow to incorporate entrepreneurship courses into the technical programs.A common complaint heard from most high tech entrepreneurs is that their entrepreneurialprojects always take more than 2X the time, 2X the money and 2X the resources than what theyplanned for at the outset.4 It has been observed that most successful high tech and

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Entrepreneurial Leadership and Non-traditional Ways to Engage Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida; Ted Astleford, University of Florida

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consultants, university inventors,and business, engineering, and law school faculty mentors.The ITV program has been in operation since fall 2003. Since that time nine Page 12.853.2virtual companies have been formed and over 70 students have participated. Afterthe pilot offering, it was recognized that several issues were limiting the overall “Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2007, American Society for Engineering Education”success of the ITV program and diminishing the educational value for the studentstakeholders. Chief among these issues were the following: 1. The

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Systems Engineering and Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Karanian, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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calms everyone down, does the entrepreneurial leader balance both?This research explores the construct of entrepreneurial leadership using the followingindependent elements as a guide: gender as a social experience, past parental relationships,cultural roots, real time strategic risk taking behavior, capacity to predict and create cross-functional teams, and a character type that thrives on the challenge of change. Specificconsideration is given to emerging dimensions and attributes influencing survival. Discussionincludes: 1) ways that the entrepreneurial leader assesses the audience with precision, 2) acts onthe belief that various sectors of technology drives leadership, 3) calculates the growth towardswhat is authentic and new, 4)expects

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Assessing Entrepreneurship Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Akash Choudhary, University of Missouri; Donald Myers, University of Missouri; Halvard Nystrom, University of Missouri; Mihir Gokhale, University of Missouri

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interested in entrepreneurship after takingthe course and many perceive to have become successful entrepreneurs.Introduction “Entrepreneurship is a dynamic process of vision, change, and creation. It requiresan application of energy and passion towards the creation and implementation of new ideas andcreative solutions. Essential ingredients include the willingness to take calculated risks in termsof time, equity, or career; the ability to formulate an effective venture team; the creative skill tomarshal needed resources; and fundamental skill of building a solid business plan; and finally,the vision to recognize opportunity where others see chaos, contradiction, and confusion” 1.Entrepreneurship is more than the mere creation of business. The

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Assessing Entrepreneurship Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Martin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

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and creates products andbusinesses from student projects. PIEp Education is nourished from the activities in InnovationExperience, Innovation Knowledge and Innovation Experience provides information for coursesin innovation etc.Activities in PIEp Education involves new courses in innovation, a network for doctoralstudents, exchange programs for students, rotational programs for faculty and better utilization ofall existing mechanisms for bringing an idea to the market. Figure 1 shows an illustration of the‘learning cycle’ of PIEp together with some keywords and key activities of the respectiveactivity fields. Innovation Knowledge Research in innovation

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Creating a Technology Incubator and Creating a Seed Fund

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Laughlin, University of Maryland; Scott Magids, University of Maryland; David Barbe, University of Maryland

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from industry and the remaining $14B from state and localgovernment, institutional and other sources.1 This funding provides an exceptional foundationfor new scientific discovery, as well as for the advancement of applied technologies.Unfortunately, a relatively small percentage of these new discoveries ever translate into long-term commercial successes. Several impediments, both institutional and market-driven, conspireto keep inventions from finding their way into, or better yet becoming the foundation of,commercial ventures. Examples of institutional impediments include: (a) lack of marketacceptance for university licensing practices, (b) conflict of interest concerns for faculty,particularly within public universities, (c) lack of

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Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Birmingham, Grove City College; Blair Allison, Grove City College; James Dupree, Grove City College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Page 12.681.3acceptance by the customer. Both multidisciplinary teams and prototyping foster a broader viewof product development that is essential to the success of an entrepreneurial venture.The productPine Instrument designs and builds a wide variety of industrial equipment and electronicassemblies. The company has a reputation for working closely with its customers over manyyears, and understands customer needs and product applications.Pine Instrument produces a line of asphalt and aggregate testing equipment for field andlaboratory quality control and assurance. One product for laboratory use measures the form,angularity, and texture of aggregates used in the construction industry (see Figure 1). Thismachine has a bed on which rock

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Creating a Technology Incubator and Creating a Seed Fund

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Baker, Michigan Technological University; Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Richard Berkey, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Entrepreneurship and K-12 Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Gregory Feierfeil, Lawrence Technological University

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,Entrepreneurial Program Growth and Increased Student Participation, Foster EnterpriseOpportunities, and Program Sustainability. Those goals (further described in thefollowing paragraphs) are supported by the individual program components as indicatedin Figure 1 in the Appendix.Goal 1: To coordinate entrepreneurial efforts across all disciplines and class levels toensure opportunities for entrepreneurial mindset development for all students.The University seeks to establish a culture, which fosters an entrepreneurial mindset forall graduates. This will be accomplished by re-inventing our pedagogical approaches toinclude problem based learning, rich media, student team projects throughout thecurriculum, and by introducing entrepreneurial skills in freshman

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

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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truth is that the patentability of an invention, and the right to sell and make the inventionwithout infringement of another patent, are completely unrelated. By misunderstanding thisconcept, engineers may eventually lose patent rights or infringe the patent rights of a competitor.More importantly, engineers may fail to gain adequate funding for their technology and mayconsequently fail to introduce, sell, and make an impact with their technology.Attempts to Educate EngineersPatent law courses are offered to engineering students at many of the top engineering schools,including: • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (6.901: Inventions and Patents)1, • Stanford University (ME208: Patent Law and Strategy)2, • University of Illinois

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The Challenges of Tech Transfer

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruce Mutter, Bluefield State College; Frank Hart, Bluefield State College

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Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Zidek, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Cindy Orndoff; Susan Blanchard

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is an increasingconcern in the United States that high school students are lacking in math and science skillsleaving them ill-prepared for college programs in the sciences, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM).1 According to a recent report form the US Department of Education, theUnited States ranks 27th in the world in mathematics problem solving,2 reiterating the point thatUS high school students are not well prepared for college after completing high school mathclasses. At one Southwest Florida university, more than 60% of the first year students were notacademically prepared for college calculus, prolonging their entry into the engineering programand increasing the time the students will spend in college. These deficiencies