significant learning curve in understanding the components of the ICsuggested that students would have an even greater challenge. Ideally, the IC would be usedthroughout an undergraduate engineering curriculum as a standardized framework for thinkingabout design. Early on, students could be asked to interact with the IC using current designs thatare on the market (like the toothbrush example discussed earlier) or by watching as others workthrough the design process. Later on, students could explore the individual sections of the IC ascomponents of different classes through the curriculum. With appropriate preparation, the ICcould then be used as a framework for senior design projects. The next paragraphs describesome approaches investigated by the
Paper ID #20166Using Lean Start-Up Approach to Integrate Engineering Education with En-trepreneurship Practices at Middle SchoolsDr. Jidong Huang, California State University, Fullerton Dr. Jidong Huang is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at California State University, Fullerton. His research had been supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and multiple private companies. Currently, his research interests are focused on innovative approches for STEM learning; robotics; the design of high-precision, integrated navigation sys- tem with high integrity; and their
, helping students to make connections, and ultimatelyfinding ways to create value through engineering. Multiple attempts at infusing EM have beenexplored and developed throughout recent years, including into first year engineering programs,capstone courses, elective courses, and other core technical courses. However, much of theshared faculty-examples of the new EM-infused content involves adding or revising an existingterm project, or revision of an entire course completely. These large time-investments in EM canbe effective, but faculty may be hesitant to alter their courses so substantially. By identifyingsingle-class opportunities to integrate pedagogically-sound practices that meet both EM andABET outcomes, faculty can excite their students
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research focus is developing and teaching Android App development to engineers and entrepreneurs with innovative tools that can be utilized by programming novices.Prof. Luke Nogales, New Mexico State University Luke Nogales loves to help innovators reach their potential. Luke is an Assistant Professor in the En- gineering Technology department at New Mexico State University (NMSU) and an Enterprise Advisor at NMSU’s on-campus incubator, the Arrowhead Center. He teaches core mechanical engineering tech- nology courses and is developing innovation and product development curriculum for the College of Engineering and the College of Business. He is an advisor and co-founder of NMSU’s Aggie Innovation Space. Prior to working
coursework or through extracurricular activities(e.g., participation in a business plan competition, creating a written business plan, givingan elevator pitch to an audience, or completing an internship in a start-up company).Modules and Extracurricular Experiences. While the approach described here focusedon examining the more visible and formal entrepreneurship learning experiences such ascourses and programs, many students gain experiences in other ways. Some engineeringschools, rather than offer a stand alone course in entrepreneurship, integrate modules inone or more existing engineering courses. This approach allows entrepreneurship to beintroduced repeatedly and in the context of a specific engineering topic area. Otherapproaches at larger
ways of doing things can be discovered” (p. 126). The un-programmatic programs described in this paper seek to create such an environment.Next Steps: Developing an Intellectual Model for Integrating Creative Thinking andProblem Definition with Planning and Implementation ProcessesThe model we have arrived at broadens the back end of the entrepreneurial process byexpanding, deepening, and diversifying the activities that precede the creation of a business plan.The model is depicted visually below. STEP 1 - Socio Technical Systems Thinking! STEP 2 – Design Thinking Culture! Technology! STEP 5 – Business Plan Organiza3on! STEP 3 – Customer
Paper ID #15970Redesigning Engineering Education in Chile: How Selective Institutions Re-spond to an Ambitious National ReformDr. Sergio Celis, Universidad de Chile Sergio Celis is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering and Sciences at the Universidad de Chile. He conducts research on higher education, with a focus on teaching and learning in STEM fields. His primary research interest is in how multiple forces, internal and external to the institution, influence what and how we teach in colleges and universities. His doctoral thesis investigated how social and intellectual movements influenced the
as the thinning of the herd; students areconvinced to leave engineering programs because they cannot manage the academic workload.Attrition studies have concluded that most students that choose not to remain in engineering aredoing well academically and have GPAs similar to those students who stay in engineeringcourses [2,3]. These studies refer to outdated curriculum and a misunderstanding of howstudents prefer to learn [4, 5, 6].Project-based team learning is an essential practice used to modernize engineering curricula andhas been shown as a decisive factor in retention of students in STEM fields [1]. Working inteams brings along its own set of problems, however, studies by Oakley et al., indicate that thequality of learning is improved
did not use the makerspace (nor were they expected to,as it was not integrated into their curriculum or advertised to students from the course, thoughopen to all on campus).Figure 2: Examples of student prototype (a mobile, foldable temporary bridge, made in themakerspace using the 3D printer and lasercutter, and a self-help driver’s license renewalcenter, made using the 3D printer, rapid prototyping, and Arduino software).5. Discussion5.1 Comparing student outcomes from the makerspace project to the business courseOur first research question aimed to determine how integration of a makerspace-infused, client-focused design project contribute to the development of an entrepreneurial mindset compared tooutcomes learned in an introduction to
Importantly, the U.S. is the only nation among the G7 to register a TEA score in the topten.Today, nearly 50 percent of the growth in the U.S. economy can be attributed to entrepreneurialactivity; much of this activity is in the technology sector. Since success in a technology venturerequires both technical feasibility and economic viability an engineering curriculum thatintegrates both aspects is of considerable value.2 Of the over 200 thousand graduates of collegeengineering and science programs each year in the U.S., a growing proportion seek employmentin entrepreneurial ventures or are starting their own ventures. This trend among engineering andscience graduates requires “a new type of engineer, an entrepreneurial engineer, who needs abroad
design and students are strongly encouraged to leverage their disciplinespecific training. There are few prerequisites for the courses to allow a wide spread of disciplines and class years. All of the courses are equivalent to 2 credit hour so that students may take the courses in addition to their required disciplinaryspecific curriculum. In the following paragraphs we provide brief descriptions of the courses. Building Your Ideas Building Your Ideas is an introduction to the process of product design and development from idea formation through prototyping. The course includes a one hour lecture focusing on the components of the product development process (e.g. opportunity recognition, ideation, market
of courses throughout the program,across all engineering majors.The co-curricular initiatives to support entrepreneurship are usually open and occur incollaborative spaces, in which people have the chance to do networking everyday. In thesespaces people come to develop and receive help to materialize an idea. They are rather informalspaces, where informal language is used and relationships are horizontal. The characteristics thatthese co-curricular initiatives adopt, and how they interact with the curriculum, allow us toidentify schools where these structures are less empowered, that is to say, with sporadic activitiesand little coordination with the program core curriculum. For example, UAI is still working onhaving their co-curricular
knowledge stocks, and why these behaviors result in different opportunityrecognition and exploitation abilities.” Li et al2 used Innovative Learning Solutions, Inc,The Web Marketplace, as an integral part of their MBA Marketing Curriculum andobserved that “the current generation of business students, growing up in a socialenvironment that is progressively interactive and communication intensive, expects amore stimulating educational experience to maintain interest, concentration level, andmotivation.”. Their experience with the marketing simulation program parallels ourexperience in that the students, regardless of their age, love the dynamics of taking acompany from the creation of a global industry inception through a growth phase whilemanaging
allow for significant traction in the realization of a cohesiveset of resources - what we refer to as an integrated Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)Ecosystem. The goals of our integrated ecosystem include the creation of cohesive learningenvironments, programs, and services that better engage students, faculty and staff in a)developing an innovation and entrepreneurial mindset, b) creating a bridge across academic unitsand the community at-large to foster collaboration, and c) connecting student innovators andentrepreneurs with resource networks that enable outcomes related to startup business executionand market entry for new innovative products.Through this paper we share our grass roots journey to creating an I&E Ecosystem on
Paper ID #26654The Impact of Integrating Making Activities to Cornerstone Design Courseson Students’ Implicit Theories of Making AbilityMr. Mohamed Galaleldin, University of Ottawa Mohamed Galaleldin is a Professional Engineer and a PhD candidate - at the University of Ottawa, On- tario, CA. He is interested in investigating the impact of integrating a maker curriculum to engineering design education.Dr. Hanan Anis, University of Ottawa Hanan Anis holds an NSERC Chair in Entrepreneurial Engineering Design and is a professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Ottawa. Prior to Joining the
Entrepreneurial Engineering CareerAbstractIf an engineering program has superb technical content, what, if anything, can be done to raisethe level of educational excellence in its graduates? Especially, if a key intent is to increase thedegree entrepreneurial-mindedness of its graduates and promote innovation? We believe theanswer is to truly integrate the core professional competencies cultivated by general educationinto the engineering curriculum and to have general education courses more specifically connectto issues that engineers need to be more aware of in a career climate of extensive globalization.General education is an essential educational component to be embraced as being on par inimportance in an engineering curriculum with technical topics
and sophomore yearsand continuing to integrate entrepreneurship throughout the academic career. Crosscampus collaboration will be accomplished by requiring multidisciplinary project teamsand cross-listed courses open to other disciplines.Goal 2: To provide an environment that encourages the growth of the entrepreneurialculture in the University community.An entrepreneurship environment will provide stimulus and motivation to act with anentrepreneurial attitude in all facets of university life. This environment will be createdthrough faculty incentives for fostering entrepreneurial projects, instituting pedagogicalmethods consistent with an entrepreneurial culture throughout the curriculum, requiringattendance at entrepreneur speaker series
Appendix B. We eliminated publications that used T-shaped to Deleted: Eliminatingdescribe an object or junction (rather than an individual or a curriculum); the yielded data Deleted: tshowed a big increase in papers on the topic between 2014 and 2015 and a significant increase in Deleted: that 3 the number of divisions whose programs included papers on the topic between 2014 and 2017.These numbers are discussed in the following section of the paper. Commented [NKA(5]: These additions are intended to
assess and undertake reasonable risks. Societal issues 67 I am aware of how global issues influence society.Conclusion To provide students with a strong foundation in the fundamentals of engineering in anenvironment infused with an entrepreneurial mindset, the College of Engineering at LawrenceTechnological University intentionally weaves a continuous thread of entrepreneurially mindedlearning through the core engineering curriculum. The course described here, EGE 2123:Entrepreneurial Engineering Design Studio, is an integral part of this thread at the sophomorelevel. This course has been systematically designed in such a way as to allow
new schools to develop GCSPs as part of the NAE GCSP Proposal review committee. She is also actively involved in the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), focused on students’ de- velopment of entrepreneurial mindset through GCSP and curriculum. Amy recently received the 2019 KEEN Rising Star award for her efforts in encouraging students to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. Amy has contributed to the development of a new hands-on multidisciplinary introduction to engineering course and a unique introduction to engineering MOOC. She is interested in curricular and co-curricular experiences that broaden students’ perspectives and enhance student learning, and values students’ use of Digital Portfolios to
AC 2012-4615: MAPPING THE BEHAVIORS, MOTIVES, AND PROFES-SIONAL COMPETENCIES OF ENTREPRENEURIALLY MINDED EN-GINEERS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGA-TIONDr. David Pistrui, Acumen Dynamics, LLC David Pistrui serves as the Managing Director of Acumen Dynamics, LLC, a strategy-based education, training, and research firm that focuses on practical knowledge and skills that help organizations align vi- sion and strategy with execution and performance. Working as an independent scholar, thought leader and advisor to corporations, family foundations, academic institutions, government agencies and global think tanks, Pistrui’s activities include strategy development, business succession, assessment modeling, tech
CoE see theirstudents after three to five years beyond graduation? To better address this question for anotherABET visit in six years, CoE intends to enrich its program curriculum and equip students withadditional skills by incorporating an entrepreneurial mindset.In September 2017, the College of Engineering (CoE) decided to embed entrepreneurial skills inengineering learning activities for a number of courses throughout the program curriculum,requiring an efficient and integrated process. By incorporating EML in different coursesequences such as circuits, electronic design, and communications systems, students will havethe opportunity to develop and build up their entrepreneurial mindset.The CoE already offers elements of systems thinking
investigate industry and community needs for engineering educationin the high desert in order to inform the university’s planning and decision making.Research Questions Tyler’s9 seminal work in curriculum development provided the basis for developing theresearch questions for this exploratory study. The issues surrounding affiliation and the ability toset goals and accomplish informed decision making can best be accomplished within theframework of Tyler’s 4 questions and Dewey’s description of the fundamental sources ofeducational objectives as related by Tanner and Tanner10. The research questions for this studywere6: 1. What is the demographic information provided by regional organizations that would support an engineering program at a
Masters in Liberal Arts from DePaul University, Chicago (USA), and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Western Michigan University. Page 13.265.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Building an Entrepreneurial Engineering Ecosystem for Future Generations: The Kern Entrepreneurship Education NetworkAbstractThe integration of entrepreneurship and innovation into undergraduate engineering education hasbeen found to enhance student performance and improve retention rates (Ohland, 2004). It alsoprepares graduating engineers to work in rapidly changing environments defined by acompetitive global
/innovative activitiesNanotechnology Commercialization at The Pennsylvania State UniversityThe Pennsylvania State University Nanofabrication Facility (Nanofab) is a completelyopen access National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) user facility. TheNNIN is an integrated networked partnership of user facilities, supported by the NationalScience Foundation (NSF), serving the needs of nanoscale science, engineering, andtechnology. The Nanofab facility provides state-of-the-art micro and nanofabricationequipment worth $ 32 million, in Class 1 and Class 10 clean rooms.The Nanofab facility was established to enable advanced interdisciplinary academic andindustrial research and development in the semiconductor electronics and optoelectronics,micro
Chemical Engineering. Samantha aspires to work in the cosmetics industry creating products.Ms. Rebecca Hansson, Rowan University I am involved in an engineering clinic at my school that is working on a paper for this.Dr. Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University Dr. Bodnar is an Associate Professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department at Rowan University. Her research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques such as game- based learning in undergraduate classes as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum. In particular, she is interested in the impact that these tools can have on stu- dent perception of the classroom environment
Benchmarking ActivitiesLawrence Tech has a rich history of incorporating innovative teaching strategies into theengineering curriculum with an emphasis on problem-based learning, active/collaborativelearning, and entrepreneurial minded learning. However, in order to achieve the desiredoutcomes of the new course, innovative teaching strategies needed to be implemented within thecontext of a more “real world” experience. In addition, a pedagogy that enhances theentrepreneurial mindset and is designed for maximum student engagement and retention wasdesired. Upon consideration, the format of a studio course was chosen for the second yearengineering design class. Studio courses are a unique format that typically integrate contentdelivery, hands on activity
. Bodnar, Rowan University Cheryl A. Bodnar, Ph.D., CTDP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University. Dr. Bodnar’s research interests relate to the incorporation of active learn- ing techniques in undergraduate classes as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum. In particular, she is interested in the impact that these tools can have on student perception of the classroom environment, motivation and learning outcomes. She obtained her certifica- tion as a Training and Development Professional (CTDP) from the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) in 2010, providing her with a solid background in
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