to independently research or work on a project. The professor acts as an advisor forthe project in addition to their course load, so the professors are typically already passionateabout the topic and motivated to make a difference if they are willing to put in the additional effort.While the additional time required typically brings in the most passionate professors, it doesrestrict the ability of professors to advise MIH projects in addition to their regular class schedule.The independent study approach significantly reduces the barrier for students to gain practicalhumanitarian project experience, but it also limits the training that the students can receive in thephilosophy and best practices of humanitarian engineering. In contrast to
increase in mentorship,entrepreneurial workshops and competitions. VII. Future WorkPrevious studies have proposed different methods of assessment for the impact ofentrepreneurship education on engineering students (Upton, Sexton, & Moore, 1995; Wheeler,1993). Some researchers have suggested using the ratio of entrepreneurs among engineeringalumni to entrepreneurs in comparison with business or general alumni population. Others usedthe number of start-ups founded per engineering alumni within x years after graduation incomparison with those by business or general alumni population. Some even suggested using taxdata to compare their household income. While entrepreneurship is important for the economy,these criteria may not be the best way
. The authors would like toexpress their appreciation to all the industry and nonprofit sponsors and mentors whogreatly contributed to the success of the program.Authors have received IRB approval for this study. Page 26.261.11Appendix A – Survey Questions Skills / Knowledge QuestionPlease rate your growth in the following.As a result of my involvement in the program, I improved my ability to:Q1 Design Process Identify critical needs /requirements in an open ended problemQ2 Design Process Develop and evaluate conceptual designs and select best fitsQ3 Design Process Integrate hardware and software
the local community in developing technology programs that highlight student skills development in ways that engage and attract individuals towards STEAM and STEM fields by showcasing how those skills impact the current project in real-world ways that people can understand and be involved in. As part of a university that is focused on supporting the 21st century student demographic he continues to innovate and research on how we can design new methods of learning to educate both our students and communities on how STEM and STEAM make up a large part of that vision and our future.Dr. Diane Elisa Golding, University of Texas at El Paso Diane is a passionate educator and proponent for K-12 engineering education and
provides each student with the time and mentoring opportunities required to learn and Page 12.1438.4 practice different roles on the team, from trainee to design engineer to team leader. • Variable Credit Hours: An EPICS student earns one credit per semester as a freshman or sophomore. As juniors or seniors, they earn 1 or 2 credits per semester, with the choice being made by the student each semester. The doubling of credits available to juniors and seniors parallels their growing technical capabilities and organizational responsibilities. How the academic credit counts towards a student’s graduation requirements
Office of Future Engineers, and a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University in the College of Engineering; his ”Pracademic” background combines rigorous research with practical experiences. Wilson started, sold, and consulted Fortune companies in the University-Industry entrepreneurial space for over twenty successful years. He earned a Bachelors of Science from the University of Massachusetts and a Masters from the University of Chicago; his broad research interests include Engineering Education, Network Science, and Modeling Human Sociometrics. Professor Wilson may be reached at wilsonmd@purdue.eduDr. Stephen R Hoffmann, Purdue University, West Lafayette Stephen R. Hoffmann is the Assistant Head of the School of Engineering
developing countries. He also writes and does research in the areas of engineering ethics and engineering education.Edmond John Dougherty, Villanova University Edmond John Dougherty is a graduate of Villanova and Drexel universities. He is the Director of the Engineering Entrepreneurship program at Villanova University. He is also President of Ablaze Develop- ment Corp and a Founder of Wavecam Media. Ablaze provides electronic and software product design services. Wavecam designs, produces, and operates a number of aerial remote camera systems for sports and entertainment. He specializes in product design, engineering project management, artificial intelli- gence, and creativity. He was a key part of a team that won an
underrepresented minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).Dr. Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan Aileen is an Associate Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurship and Biomedical Engineering. Previously, Aileen was the Associate Director for Academics in the Center for Entrepreneurship and was responsible for building the Program in Entrepreneurship for UM undergraduates, co-developing the masters level entrepreneurship program, and launching the biomedical engineering graduate design program. Aileen has received a number of awards for her teaching, including the Thomas M. Sawyer, Jr. Teaching Award, the UM ASEE Outstanding Professor Award and the Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award. Prior to
(Florida NASA Business Incubation Center), SATOP (Space AllianceTechnology Outreach Program), Small Business Development Center (SBDC), EconomicDevelopment Commission of the Space Coast, NASA Office of Technology Commercializationat KSC, and other local partners, neighboring universities and colleges, plans to dramaticallyreduce this problem by methodical research and facilitation of best practices for technologytransfer and commercialization leveraging a unique educational program in experientialentrepreneurship and technology commercialization.SCION Objectives:The SCION Partnership objectives are to:1) Develop education and experiential entrepreneurship programs to promote technologycommercialization and entrepreneurship awareness
students to test their entrepreneurial skills. More specifically, thesimulation hopes to highlight the value of learning by doing, experimentation, productdevelopment, and market research. The simulation is designed for individuals or team play.Typically, students will spend 30 minutes or less to complete the simulation.The online simulation allows students to test the entrepreneurial acumen to design a businessapproach to maximize revenue during a five-week timeframe while operating in the city ofBoomtown. Each week, students must determine the best combination of menu offering (icecream, frozen yogurt, or smoothies) and location (arts district, beach, city market, downtown,train station, or university) to generate revenue. Students can only
through and learn fromfailure” was found to be a competency that the study participants felt was important for creativityand value creation. A survey of engineering capstone faculty asking how they incorporateentrepreneurial practices into their capstone courses indicated just over half encouraged the useof failure or fail forward in the design iteration process (Matthew et al., 2014).Researchers at the University of New Haven (Li, et al., 2016; Li, et al., 2018; Li, et al., 2019)developed an instrument intended to measure entrepreneurial mindset. This instrument containsseveral items relating to failure, which they conceptualize as being a part of the entrepreneurialmindset. Again, while these studies and the instrument are not focused on
engineering projects fail (Ibrahim, Costello, &Wilkinson, 2013; Lawrence & Scanlan, 2007), the failures have been attributed to technical,communication, and/or contextual issues. Leading schools have begun emphasizing the othertwo categories of skills development. Texas A&M has been among the leaders with a variety ofco-curricular activities that provide intense design experience in interdisciplinary teams (AggiesInvent) and focus on building skills and experience with developing a technical and businessproject proposal (through an online summer internship).Researchers have for decades attempted to identify and describe effective educational practices(Chickering & Gamson, 1987; Kuh, 2008). In 2008, Kuh coined the term high
achieved this goal byshowing students examples of the significant impacts of relatively simple technologies, wellwithin the scope of their abilities, or if not, accessible through thoughtful research and guidance.The students, galvanized by their personal passions and the opportunity to exercise theircreativity, were able to design projects that reflect the energy they devoted to the class and thepotential for their far-reaching impact to make the world a better place.Appendix I: Example Student ProjectsThe projects described here are work completed over a single 13-week semester. The narrativeexpands on the motivation of each student group, the details of their design, and anticipatedfuture steps. Each project reflects the evaluation criteria as
Page 25.190.2 Introduction and BackgroundFaculty development has been defined as institutional or external activities used to renew or assistfaculty in their roles,[2] and enhance faculty member’s “knowledge, skills, approaches, anddispositions to improve their effectiveness in their classroom and organizations.”3 Facultydevelopment activities may be brief (a seminar or single-session workshop) or longer term innature.[3] Faculty development can also be described as a planned program to prepare facultymembers for their academic roles, including teaching, research, administration, writing and careermanagement.[4] It can be used as a mechanism to improve practice and manage change
Paper ID #18562Teaching Entrepreneurial Mindset in a First-Year Introduction to Engineer-ing CourseDr. Chao Wang, Arizona State University Chao Wang received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is currently a senior lecturer in Ira. A Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Teaching Entrepreneurial Mindset in a First Year Introduction to Engineering CourseAbstractWith a mission to graduate engineers who can create personal, economic, and societal valuethrough a lifetime
Engineering. One of thegrants funded entrepreneurial multi-university wireless senior design projects, while the othersupported a series of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department senior design teams withentrepreneurial commitment. Additionally, Florida Tech has been an active partner of the NSF-funded Partnership for Innovation - Center for Entrepreneurship and TechnologyCommercialization (CENTECOM) along with UCF, USF and Florida A&M University. Theresponse to these grants has been extremely positive, with 7 of 13 entrepreneurial senior designteams in 2005 intending to launch businesses around their senior projects. Additionally, therewere twelve graduate E-teams presenting their business ideas at the EngineeringEntrepreneurship Business
Paper ID #6655Developing a Marketing High-Technology Products and Innovations Course:First Year ReviewDr. James V Green, University of Maryland, College Park Dr. James V. Green leads the education activities of Mtech at the University of Maryland as the Di- rector of Entrepreneurship Education with responsibilities for the Hinman CEOs Program, the Hillman Entrepreneurs Program, and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program. As a Senior Lecturer and Associate Director with Mtech, Dr. Green designs and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in entrepreneurship and technology commercialization. Dr. Green’s research
education. She has designed, developed and managed degree, and certificate programs, and has experience as an online instructor, and mentor and trainer of other online instructors.Thema Monroe-White, SageFox Consulting Group Thema Monroe-White is a senior evaluation and research consultant at SageFox Consulting Group. Thema worked as a researcher and evaluator in the areas of mental health, STEM education and commercializa- tion. She has taught in the K-12 environment, served as an instructor and invited guest lecturer for courses in leadership, statistics and cross-cultural psychology at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Thema completed her Master’s Degree in Developmental Psychology at Howard University and her
to measure students’ self-evaluation of their participation and potential distractions during the learning activity.Since 2017, the StRIP instrument has been completed by more than 1,000 students in US universityengineering programs. Seventeen engineering faculty have also been interviewed by researchers[14]. While many students embrace active learning and report positive learning experiences [15-17], the evidence-based results have also revealed a few reasons for their resistance. One of themajor concerns was lack of motivation. In other words, some students would not see the value inthe new learning techniques. Additionally, distraction coming from the internet or social mediasometimes negatively impacts their learning efficiency. It
observations2 , discussion questions, verbal protocols 3, and several multiple choice style instruments 4–6. Theefforts to develop effectuation as education have also included textbooks7 and instructionalmaterials available from the ‘Society for Effectual Action’8. While each of these pieces ofscholarship approaches effectuation education differently, they all provide an increasing body ofknowledge on which to teach effectuation. Most relevant to our work has been the ongoingdevelopment of the survey instruments which seek ways to quantify and measure effectualbehavior for research and teaching.However, the instruments and methods designed to measure effectuation are collectively limitedin two critical ways. First, they perpetuate a problem noted in
integration of best practices. These faculty continued tobring up elements from these visits into the discussions of the curriculum design. During thatworkshop, a detailed list of learning objectives for beginning, intermediate, and advancedlearners across a variety of EML constructs was created. In the third phase, the workshopdeliverables were expanded into actual course activities and assessment complete with detailedrubrics. Again, a faculty member who was a researcher in the first phase of work was included inthe course activity development and assessment team. This allowed continuity between thephases of the projects. Currently, the revised curriculum is being piloted and assessed at ouruniversity and is considered the first of many EML
products to market hasbeen hindered by a lack of business expertise5. The PET 4460 class developed at the MontanaTech of the University of Montana was designed to emphasize this crucial relationship ofengineering and entrepreneurship.Webster's dictionary defines an entrepreneur as "one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risk of abusiness or enterprise." Traditional engineering curricula are typically weak in entrepreneurshipstudies. Instruction in engineering theory and practice is present in all engineering classes, buttoo often the links between engineering methods and business and entrepreneurial needs are notaddressed. Although few students go to work, immediately after graduation, for a smallcompany (or start one themselves) [any
, including objects, artifacts, tools, books, andthe communities of which they are a part” (Greeno, Collins, & Resnick, 1996); knowledge issocially reproduced and learning occurs through participation in meaningful activities that arepart of a community of practice (Lave, 1991). From this angle, knowledge of engineering designis constructed under specific social context, and teamwork is essential for designers to completedesign task.Cognitive Process: The information-processing approach is one of the main approaches incontemporary cognitive research field. This approach attempts to explain the process of people’sthoughts and reasoning processes by comparing them to the operating principle of computersystem. Both of which have a process including
positive impact on students as it teaches them to take100% responsibility of their life, to live their life with purpose, focus and direction and tobecome leaders that cause positive change in their communities.Students that had direct contact with communities had greater commitment and drive. Theyalso formed a different relationship with adversity. Instead of seeing the problems as personalroadblocks, they simply saw them as challenges that had to be cleared. Students that haddirect contact with struggling communities gained additional value as they became sensitiveto the challenges and opportunities that surround them.Through the process we discovered a number of things, which are the hypothesis andfoundations for our continued research
identify areas of best practice and potential pitfalls. This paper alsohelps existing providers of executive education with new insights and perspectives to improveprogram efficiency and effectiveness, and benefits new entrants into executive education whohave the desire, but not the resources, to singularly launch and manage an executive educationprogram.BackgroundIn 2007, the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering and Robert H.Smith School of Business partnered to deliver a groundbreaking executive education series thatleverages the unique capabilities of these two world-class institutions. This jointly offered CIMProgram is designed to provide entrepreneurs, small-business owners, and executives responsiblefor innovation
InnovationIn addition to our discussion of these four factors’ impact on corporate innovation, the secondmajor element of each corporate visit was each industrial partner’s recommendations ofcompetencies, mindsets and knowledge for future engineering innovators, especially those notprovided by today’s engineering education. Both corporate innovation leaders and recentengineering graduates provided over 160 recommendations. The second part of the paperpresents a summary of their answers and reflections of the authors in the section title “The Voiceof Corporate Innovation Leaders.” Page 23.17.4 The Culture of
enter into Rowan University’s PhD pro- gram for Engineering with a specialization in engineering education. Alexandra aspires to continue in the research field and hopes to work for a university as a research professor and advisor.Samantha Resnick, Rowan University Samantha Resnick is a senior Chemical Engineering student at Rowan University. She began research in the Experiential Education (ExEEd) department in Spring 2020 as part of her Junior Engineering Clinic. Besides research, Samantha is an Engineering Learning Community Mentor, where she helps first year engineering students adjust to college and provides academic tutoring. Upon graduation, she plans to attend graduate school to further her studies in
harder because they are trusted to produce winning results.• For effective entrepreneurship education, a medium that employs concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization and active experimentation should be present34. However, when compared to reflective observation, it is suggested that active experimentation is more natural for stimulating entrepreneurial behavior23, 35. Best practices in engineering programs that graduate young entrepreneurs include multiple opportunities for creative, inventive, and successful collaborative design projects36.Entrepreneurial behavior is described as the processes, practices, and decision-making activitiesthat lead to entrepreneurship37. According to Lumpkin and
the Bioengineering faculty at Northeastern University and be- came the Director of Life Sciences and Engineering Programs at The Roux Institute (Portland, Maine). Dr. Huang-Saad has a fourteen- year history of bringing about organizational change in higher educa- tion, leveraging evidence-based practices at University of Michigan. She created the U-M BME graduate design program, co-founded the U-M College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship, launched the U-M National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node, and developed the U-M BME Instructional In- cubator. She is a canonical instructor for both the NSF and National Institute of Health (NIH) I-Corps Programs. Dr. Huang- Saad has received numerous awards for
support inquiry learning in science and understanding the inquiry practices of students as they engage in extended investigations. Her current research investigates the supports needed by both teachers and students as they engage in science inquiry Page 26.791.1 practices. Accordingly, her current work involves collaboration with a wide array of individuals from various backgrounds and includes examining both professional development and classroom environmentsProf. Liora Bresler c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Fostering Innovative Skills within the Classroom