obviousness rejection, so a successfully sold product may in itself support thepatentability of an invention. In any case, the patentability of an invention is directly related tothe market share and, in turn, the profitability of the product. Therefore, the ability to obtainpatent protection must be factored into all of the other business decisions made in thecommercialization process.Future Developments The U.S. patent system is one of only a few countries that use a “first-to-invent” systemof patenting. That is the basis of the novelty concept described above – the statutory provision in35 U.S.C. § 102(a). As discussed above, the laboratory notebook is useful in antedating a priorart reference if the inventor conceived of the invention
. Note thatthe design reviews are done in conjunction with the student team partners, faculty advisors, andother interested entrepreneurial board members.Once the final design is selected, the team details the manufacturing, packaging and assembly,and shipping requirements to arrive at a realistic selling price for the new product. The last stepin the process consists of developing a marketing and business plan to facilitate the potentialstart-up of a successful company venture.Entrepreneurial BoardThe dual degree program involves the cooperation of 20 public and private partners, includingOak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), large corporations, small start-up corporations, andstate and local officials. All aspects of the product development
forthese students will be a representative of Office of Technology Transfer, the inventor, and afaculty member (not the inventor) from one of the eight technology clusters.Alternatively, several companies have said they would like to have interns from the TEAMprogram working in their laboratories. If a student chooses this option, the research activity willbe identified in the fall of the first year. The student will take the business plan course in thespring and complete a business plan on the topic to be researched in the summer. In the summer,the students will intern at the company site for 10 to 12 weeks. They will then participate in thefall presentations. Students will be advised by a member of the faculty from the business schooland one
Devil’s Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout your Organization. New York: Double Day (2005). 12. Hofstein, A., & Lunetta, V. N. The laboratory in science education: Foundations for the twenty‐first century. Science Education, 88(1), 28-54 (2004). Appendix List of expert innovator participants Page 24.354.91. Nate Alder Klymit Developed the idea of insulating climbing vests with Argon gas2. Marc Benioff Salesforce.com First to offer online/on-demand downloads for software3. Jeff Bezos Amazon.com Among the first online book
Competition presented at the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) annual conference to recognize col- lege educators who have created new and challenging learning activities that actively involve students in the entrepreneurial experience. He is the author of ”The Opportunity Analysis Canvas”, an innovative tool for identifying and analyzing entrepreneurial ideas. Prior to the University of Maryland, Dr. Green held founder, executive, and operational roles with multiple startups to include WaveCrest Laboratories (an innovator in next-generation electric and hybrid-electric propulsion and drive systems), Cyveillance (a software startup and world leader in cyber intelligence and
that education in a new learningparadigm will prepare students for the work ahead of them (Cox, Grasha and Richlin, Page 25.214.21997). This indeed helps in raising expectations from the students. Whether it beperformance arts like theatre and music, or be it a laboratory setting like physics orbiology, student performance can be effectively accentuated by adopting creativeinstructional lesson plans. Furthermore, many of our educational institutions have triedto move away from emphasizing the establishment of a strong knowledge-base (Youngand Young, 1999). In this paper the author discusses two models that he has successfully utilized
AC 2012-3655: PROPOSED KEEN INITIATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR EN-TREPRENEURIAL MINDEDNESS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONDr. Owe G. Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering Owe Petersen is Department Chair and professor of electrical engineering and Computer Science at Mil- waukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He is a former member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. His technical work ranges over topics such as optical data links, integrated circuit technology, RF semiconductor com- ponents, and semiconductor component reliable. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an ABET EAC Program Evaluator in electrical engineering.Dr. William M
evaluation methods. Her research in this area has been funded by the NSF, Department of Education, Sloan Foundation, Engineering Information Foundation, and the NCIIA. She has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Engineering Education and is currently associate editor for the Applications in Engineering Education Journal. Additionally, she co-authored the book Total Quality Management, 3rd Edition (Prentice Hall). Prior to joining the faculty, Dr. Sacre worked as an industrial engineer with ALCOA and with the U.S. Army Human Engineering Laboratory. She received her B.S. in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri-Rolla, her M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue
, since the first 39 formulas failed. They do not get discouraged, theyaccept criticism, have a can-do attitude, and are resilient.Innovators like to champion ideas. They take action, take risks, get beyond their comfort zone,“fail forward” to succeed. They keep competing with themselves, and do not feel that they areexperts. They improvise, create, make something from nothing, act it, draw it, and play it. Thefollowing slide is an example of a “product” developed by determined freedom seekers to escapefrom Cuba to the USA by sea using a 1951 Chevrolet. Page 15.662.7Contrary to popular belief in the “genius” alone in his laboratory, innovators do
-disciplinary teams; and(g) an ability to communicate effectively.Student communication performance in senior design is assessed by the professors. Designperformance is assessed by the professors as well as project sponsors (if there is an externalsponsor). Students do anonymous peer assessment of how they work on teams. Teaminvolvement is also assessed by the professors in charge of the course. Senior design is one oftwo courses that are used as the prime location in which to assess criteria (c) and (d). Criterion(g) is assessed through two courses, senior design and senior laboratory. We believe that bycomparing results over time we will likely see an improvement in these three areas. With onlyone data point (spring 2009 offering of senior design) we
the First Year Engineering Experience committee, chair for the LTU KEEN Course Modification Team, chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee, supervisor of the LTU Thermo-Fluids Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate/Minor in Aeronautical Engineering, and faculty advisor of the LTU SAE Aero Design Team. Dr. Gerhart conducts workshops on active, collaborative, and problem-based learning, entrepreneurial mindset education, creative problem solving, and innovation. He is an author of a fluid mechanics textbook.Dr. Doug E. Melton, Kern Family Foundation c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Entrepreneurially Minded Learning: Incorporating Stakeholders, Discovery
innovative solutions.30,31Experimenting has historically been core to engineering and engineering education, as is evidentby ABET’s learning outcome specifying that students should be able to “design and conductexperiments”.32 As a result, laboratory instruction has long been a staple of engineeringeducation. In Crismond and Adams’ (2012) Informed Design Teaching and Learning matrix, theability to conduct valid experiments was identified as a key design ability.33 From theperspective of engineering students, experimenting has been depicted as supplemental to andreinforcing of the general theory learned from lecture or a textbook.34 Therefore, the connectionbetween experimenting and innovation within engineering seems direct and pervasive.The
worked for Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratories prior to coming to Taylor Universityin 1994. He is currently a Professor of Engineering and Physics at Taylor University. Some of the courses that he regu- larly has taught include Principles of Engineering, Intro to Electronics, Statics, Advanced Electronics, Jr. Engineering Projects, FE Review, Control Systems, Fundamentals of Space Flight Systems, Astronomy, and Sr. Capstone Sequence. He enjoys mentoring undergraduate students in aerospace, sensors, and energy-related research projects. Some of the research areas include spacecraft nano-satellite technologies, satellite payload instrumenta- tion, High Altitude research Platform (HARP) experiments, wave particle
and system integration and risk management. He is the director of the Dynamics Environment Simulation (DES) Laboratory and the Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) Laboratory. He is the supervisor of the capstone senior design project team on the Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) which has competed in the international competition in the last three years. During his tenure, he has the privilege of developing 3 new undergraduate and 6 new graduate courses in the areas related to computational methods and design.Xiaoxiao Hu, Old Dominion University Xiaoxiao Hu is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Old Dominion University. She received her PhD in Industrial/Organizational psychology from George Mason
innovative experimentation is always well informed byDiscipline Competencies and domain knowledge, but innovative experimentation is not limitedto the laboratory. Particularly in the three dimensional conception of innovation which wepropose, in an Engineering education context, innovative experimentation draws heavily on theinformative power of modeling in the Systems Competencies. Innovative experimentation seeksto test the various elements of innovation: the problem, the solution, the stakeholders, and theirsatisfaction. Discipline Competencies and domain knowledge enable experimenting withcompetency in how to experiment. Systems Competencies both enable experimenting throughthe application of modeling techniques, and are informed and supported
continuing advances in technology, far more resources and tools are available toinnovators and entrepreneurs than in the past. This results in countless opportunities for newapplications and services to be created as well as for existing applications and processes to berevolutionized. Not only have the tools changed, but so has the route to innovation and, with it,society’s ideal image of the value creators. In the early 1900s, large companies such as IBM,Xerox and AT&T leveraged their resources to form research laboratories that invested millionsof dollars in infrastructure, facilities, and personnel. Out of these investments, they were able tocreate structured research groups who then brought about breakthrough-enabling technologiessuch as the
sessions, and grant development meetings. Given the recent whole scale move to online learning platforms, this platform has broadapplication for university coursework and laboratory programs. There is a real need to innovateand adapt to serve our students, who are thirsty for tech tools that are more like the traditionalclassrooms that they are all used to using. The innovative platform is much more akin to theirregular classroom environment. It enables students to discuss active learning within a table ofstudents and move freely between tables of students in a virtual classroom setting. Thearrangement has the overarching comfort of seeming like a regular classroom of sorts, whichstudents see to be a distinct advantage. The
University in Flint, Michigan. There, he also served as the program director for Entrepreneurship Across the University. Prior, Doug was the Director of Research & Development for Digisonix Incorporated. His disciplinary specializations include signal processing, acoustics, and wireless communications.Dr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington Tacoma Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining academia, Heather Dillon worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer.Dr. Mark L
involved, as acentral element, the understanding of people groups and their needs; the students developed ideasresponsive to these needs. In the innovation course the students developed new ideas forproducts and services using creativity and ideation techniques, which were the central coursecontent. The upshot was that the projects were developed in periods ranging from several weeksto a few months, all in the context of courses emphasizing design methods. These origins ofprojects stand in contrast to the projects seen in NSF I-Corps, which are typically the result oflonger-term research from university laboratories by personnel who are emotionally invested inthis research and its products. In the courses studied here, the students’ projects
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
real world and that teaching mustincorporate practice and hands-on learning [4].” Both the IIT and MSOE program are excellentexamples of integrating hands-on learning into the curriculum.Entrepreneurial curriculums now include experiential learning as an integral part of exposing thestudent to the entrepreneurial mindset. At Lawrence Tech, we have created an entrepreneurialcurriculum that integrates experiential learning in our senior projects, community outreach, planttours, E-Teams and laboratory environments. Our students participate in activities that provideexperiential learning. We are now working on integrating entrepreneurial content into 30 existingcourses. This includes the opportunity to link “theory and practice” through the
to the private sector, but also for enabling the near-term success of students who graduate from the program.Entrepreneurial Board The dual-degree program's start-up involved the cooperation of 20 public and privatepartners, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), large corporations, smallstart-up corporations, and state and local officials. Selected members of these partners(Table 1) were involved in the following activities: ≠ evaluating student projects and advising the student teams; ≠ offering the student teams technical and business expertise; ≠ contributing intellectual property (ORNL alone has a portfolio of over 1000 patents) and project ideas; ≠ serving as guest lecturers in graduate product
supercomputing capability inDNA and genomic sciences provide an example of potential partnerships to achieve excellenceand market leadership.The development of a university portfolio of industry partners is key to economic success in the21st century.APEXThe Advanced Prototyping Experimentation Laboratory (APEX) at Mississippi State University(MSU) aims to provide both government and commercial organizations with world-classresearch and technology development. APEX uniquely integrates the University's faculty,facilities and industry partners into key working groups that address critical problems related tonational security. These working groups include: (1) applied and computational mathematics; (2)autonomous systems; (3) cognitive computing; and (4
-process/search-patents.[19] Trend Hunter, Retrieved from http://www.trendhunter.com/.[20] Google Trends, Retrieved from https://www.google.com/trends/.[21] A. M. Starfield, K. A. Smith and A. L. Bleloch, How to Model it: Problem Solving for the Computer Age.Burgess Intl Group. 1994[22] Abarca, Javier, et al. (2000) “Introductory Engineering Design: A Projects-Based Approach,” Third Edition,Textbook for GEEN 1400: First-Year Engineering Projects and GEEN 3400: Innovation and Invention, IntegratedTeaching and Learning Program and Laboratory, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University ofColorado Boulder. Available online athttp://itll.colorado.edu/index.php/courses_workshops/geen_1400/resources/textbook/.[23] Curtis R. Carlson and
cover over a tent.- An app and device displaying rates of water impurities and pH levels for user’s water and water in surrounding areas. In addition to learning and using engineering tools to invent new devices, studentswere introduced to researchers and guest speakers. It provided students a window into thereal world of scientific research, invention and entrepreneurship. Three professors invitedstudents into their research laboratories to perform scientific experiments: testing theeffect of absence of gravity on objects or materials in a drop tower; testing aerodynamicsof different objects in a wind tunnel; and using different sensors to experiment the effectsof earthquakes on different structures. In addition to these academic experts
creative projects to be a goodoutcome, even if that means a loss of monopoly of interest in the Beta Project. Another new source of competition for student interest is an enlarged and well-equipped makerspace called the Laboratory for Interconnected Devices, or LID(http://psu-epl.github.io). The LID provides access to 3D printers, a laser cutter, smallCNC routers for making circuit boards, and a variety of tools for assembling and testingelectronic devices. The LID also provides a community gathering space for likemindedstudents. While it is reasonable to assume that the LID would incubate ideas for BetaProject proposals, the LID also makes it easy for students do ad-hoc work on independentprojects without needing to develop a proposal for
Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He performed his graduate research on the transport limitations in engineered tissue constructs for orthopedic defects at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute. Following his graduate studies, Dr. Heylman was a George E. Hewitt Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. There, he worked as part of both the Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiac Technologies and the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics developing microphysiological systems (vascularized tissues and organs on a chip) for high throughput drug screen- ing. Prior to joining Cal Poly, Dr. Heylman founded and served as CEO of Velox Biosystems, a
coursematerials were collected and analyzed: lecture slides or videos, laboratory, project, andhomework assignments, and sample student projects and assignments.Material from three courses was used for the purposes of this analysis. These courses were usedin this study for a relative rather than absolute comparison of EM content. Therefore, the coursesand content within the courses chosen for this study is not of great importance to the results orgoal of the paper. However, a brief description of the courses and why they were chosen follows.The first course used in this study was a first-year engineering course that focuses on teachingfirst-year engineering students the foundational knowledge they will need in the remainder oftheir undergraduate career
. thinking. Teaching and They correspond to those Practical and theoretical Project presentations during Learning pedagogical activities (eg: activities, such as prototyping, class in order to receive Activities workshops, projects, reverse engineering, research, feedback about progress. laboratories, classes, field and readings. trips, etc.) that will allow the development of the competences established in the course. Assessment They correspond to direct Group presentations Group presentations, Methods and indirect measurements