entrepreneurship courses often self-select and the courses oftenhave to be counted as electives in their respective programs. In an effort to more broadly exposeengineering students to entrepreneurial skills and topics, some programs aim to embed the topicwithin the engineering curriculum via case studies,12 capstone projects,13-16 or modules.17,18In the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven we employ aninnovative curricular model to develop an entrepreneurial mindset in students that is based onintegrating short e-learning modules into existing engineering courses.19, 20 There have beenmany studies about the effectiveness of e-learning, and some still question it.21 However,examples of e-learning, such as fully online
of a product; then developbusiness and marketing plans for the product, while gaining an understanding of thepatent process. All of these activities are part of a capstone project that is alreadyincluded in the curriculum at ASU‘s Polytechnic campus, Department of ElectronicSystems.Introduction ASU defines entrepreneurship as “the spirit and process of creative risk takingand innovation that leverages university knowledge to spur social development andeconomic competitiveness.”1 Additionally, in a contributed article to Mechanical Engineering Magazine,Ephraim Suhir, President and CEO of ERS/Siloptix Co. in Los Altos, CA, wrote that “atechnological professional with entrepreneurial skills has a better chance than a
, 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
circuits and electronics area. She taught variety of underrated and graduate courses including capstone design in Electrical and Computer Engineering area. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset Using the KEEN Framework for a Digital Communication System Course John Santiago, Jr., Ph.D. and Jing Guo, D.Eng. Colorado Technical University (CTU), College of Engineering, Colorado Springs, COAbstractThe College of Engineering (CoE) is using the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network(KEEN) model to develop an entrepreneurial mindset while meeting technical objectives in adigital communication course. The
IBM, as well as owning a management consulting firm, Executive Education Services. Her research interests are in electronic marketing, multidisciplinary education, and entrepreneurial ventures.Susannah Howe, Smith College Susannah Howe is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. She coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course and serves as co-faculty advisor for entrepreneurial activity at Smith. Her interests include innovations in engineering design education, entrepreneurship education across disciplines at the undergraduate level, and durability and structural performance of cementitious and natural building materials.Robert Weissbach
Paper ID #34832How Well Can Makerspaces Build an Entrepreneurial Mindset?Dr. Stephanie M. Gillespie, University of New Haven Stephanie Gillespie is the Associate Dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven. She previously specialized in service learning while teaching at the Arizona State University in the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. Her current teaching and research interests are in developing study skills and identity in first-year engineering students and improving re- tention rates. She acts as a faculty liaison for the University of New Haven Makerspace
studies at three institutions: California PolytechnicState University, San Luis Obispo; Missouri University of Science and Technology; andTennessee Technological University.California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly)Written by Thomas Katona, Assistant Professor, Biomedical EngineeringDescription of Innovative Entrepreneurial ProgrammingCal Poly received an initial course development grant from VentureWell that started in August2015. The grant was focused on developing a yearlong interdisciplinary and entrepreneurialsenior design capstone sequence. The course was to include students from the colleges ofengineering and business, and was focused on student-initiated entrepreneurial projects, andspecifically potentially high
Paper ID #17396Approaches to Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development at an Engi-neering UniversityMrs. Galina Burylina, Kazan National Research Technological UniversityDr. Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University - West Lafayette Dr. Sanger is a professor in the School of Engineering Technology in the College of Technology of Purdue University. His focus and passion is real world, industry based, senior capstone experiences both domes- tically and internationally. He has successfully developed this area at Purdue and at Western Carolina University. Prior to his career in academia, Dr. Sanger had a successful 30 year
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
where she was responsible for the structural and thermal analysis of payloads. She served as Director of the Space Engi- neering Institute and in 2010 she accepted a position with the Academic Affairs office of the Dwight Look College of Engineering where she oversaw outreach, recruiting, retention and enrichment programs for the college. Since 2013, she serves as the Executive Director for Industry and Nonprofit Partnerships with responsibilities to increase opportunities for undergraduates engineering students to engage in experiential learning multidisciplinary team projects. These include promoting capstone design projects sponsored by industry, developing and teaching the Engineering Projects in Community
having computing professionalsperform the development or using service learning as part of a capstone design course tocomplete the project.12-13 Having a real-world end user in the form of elementary school childrenchanged the perspectives of the programmers; for example, these are some of the remarks madein the post-activity survey: “This program was geared towards kids from fourth to sixth grade so we had to keep that in mind. It wasn't just a game that we were trying to do, the overall outcome of the application was for the kids to learn from it.” “[The program was] a real program to be used by real people, and not being shoved into some archive where it will never see the light of day.” “We had to think differently
Robert M. Bunch is a Professor of Physics and Optical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technol- ogy and an Innovation Fellow at Rose-Hulman Ventures. Since joining the Rose-Hulman faculty in 1983, he has been active in developing undergraduate and graduate courses and laboratories for the optical en- gineering educational program. He has directed 23 completed master’s degree thesis projects, consulted with industry, and is co-inventor on two patents. In 2000, he received the Rose-Hulman Board of Trustees Outstanding Scholar Award. His research and technical interests include development of optics-based products, fiber optics, optical instruments, and systems engineering.Dr. Thomas W. Mason, Rose-Hulman Institute of
of the University of Delaware. Dr. Coyle was a co-founder, with Professors Leah Jamieson and Hank Dietz, of the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) Program at Purdue. He was also a co-founder and co-director, with Professor Leah Jamieson and Bill Oakes, of the National EPICS Program, which supports and coordinates EPICS sites at Purdue and 16 other universities. For their work with the EPICS Program, Professors Coyle and Jamieson have jointly received Purdue’s Class of 1922 Award for Outstanding Innovation in Helping Students Learn and the 1997 Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education from the American Society for Engineering
newopportunities in the University community. Social ties are strengthened, and this allows for newlines of research to grow and methods of teaching to be shared.Phase II: FeasibilityAll engineering graduates at this University must complete a capstone senior design project. Theproposals for these design projects are normally vetted and taken to the proposal phase duringthe students’ next to the last semester in the program. The project itself is completed during theirfinal semester. Students either work as individuals or in groups of 2 or 3. We have taken pridein that we are normally able to place students with external clients for these projects. The goal isto involve the student in the solution of a real world engineering problem that will actually
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0.030 0.086 Openness to Novelty (0.80) 4.42 0.60 4.24 0.55 2.52 0.115 0.025 Avoiding Premature Closure 4.48 0.55 4.37 0.52 1.19 0.276 0.012 (0.58) Embracing Diversity (0.67) 4.49 0.54 4.30 0.51 3.15 0.079 0.031 Contextual Skills (0.78) 4.44 0.60 4.28 0.68 1.49 0.224 0.015Bono’s Six Hat MethodBono’s Six Hats [19] approach has been used to evaluate student presentations in both thecornerstone and capstone courses at a university in the Northeast US. The cornerstoneengineering design course consists of mostly first-year students and is comprised of two separatedesign projects. At the end of each project, the design
to grade senior-capstone projects. [16] Jones and Abdallah haveventured into the area of performance indicators as a means to pinpoint more specific outcomesin a course. [17] Nayak et. al. has worked to compose rubrics that look to bridge the gap betweenthe course-outcomes in a laboratory setting to program-outcomes outlined by their department ofComputer Science and Engineering. [18] For Knecht, Moskal and Pavelich, their focus wascentralized around measuring and tracking growth in the design program at the Colorado Schoolof Mines. [19] In a study by Dancz, Plumblee II et al, civil engineering students were assessedduring their ‘Grand Challenge Sustainable Entrepreneurship Projects.’ [20] As evidenced by theabove, there is significant
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
Engineering Education 2002 Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, QC, June 16-19, 2002, 13 pp. (CD-ROM). 4. Stanfill, R. K., Crisalle, O. D., “Recruiting Industry-Sponsored Multidisciplinary Projects for Capstone Design,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Southeastern Section 2003 Annual Meeting, Macon, GA, April 6-8, 2003, 12 pp. (CD- ROM). 5. Stanfill, R. K., Sander, E. J., Rossi, W. J., Ingley, H. A., Whitney, E. D., Hoit, M. I., “The University of Florida Integrated Technology Ventures (ITV) Program,” Proceedings of the NCIIA 8th Annual Meeting—Education That Works: Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Practice, San Jose, CA, March 18-20, 2004, p. 93-98
in a number of exercises designed to help themvet the ideas they have developed and to form teams around the ideas deemed most likely toresult in successful companies. Academic Year ProgramDuring the following academic year, students participate in a year long course taught jointly byfaculty from the Colleges of Business and Engineering. Students work on interdisciplinary teamsto prepare both prototypes and business plans for their own entrepreneurial ideas. At the end ofthe year each team participates in the Business Plan Competition sponsored by the College ofBusiness and judged by external referees. The first course, “Capstone Projects in Innovation andEntrepreneurship” (Entr 496) is a three credit, one
Paper ID #31377Creating a Makerspace for Cross-disciplinary Teaching and Collaborationwith Limited FundingDr. David G Alexander, California State University, Chico Dr. Alexander’s research interests and areas of expertise are in teaching pedagogy, capstone design, renewable energy systems, thermal sciences, vehicle system modeling and simulation, heat transfer, new product development, entrepreneurship, and technology transfer. He is PI and adviser of the Department of Energy Collegiate Wind Competition 2016. He is also working on an undergraduate research project modeling solar cells using a thermodynamics approach and
process are represented by thepartner personnel – entrepreneurs, engineering, project managers, CEO’s, intellectual propertylawyers, state economic development officials, and venture capital representatives. Thesepartners are involved in the following activities: 1) evaluating the dual degree program as a whole; 2) evaluating student projects and advising the student teams; 3) offering student teams technical and business expertise; 4) advising dual degree program in development and curricular issues; 5) contributing intellectual property (ORNL alone has a portfolio of over 1000 patents) and project ideas; 6) serving as guest lecturers in graduate product development courses;Advising student teams involves attending
technical competence, customerawareness, business acumen, and social values. In addition, engineering students exposed toentrepreneurship early in their education have shown higher retention rates3-6, higher GPAs6, andimproved soft professional skills, which are components of engineering entrepreneurship, evenwhile their understanding of engineering as a technical field does not change3,7. A recent study8revealed how engineering juniors and seniors believe they should receive education aboutbusiness and entrepreneurship throughout their college careers, even though their major is in atechnical field. Traditionally, the capstone senior design projects in undergraduate engineeringprograms come close to exposing the students to the business aspects
Breakers Course, a course targeted to take the students out of the books and into applying their core competences and the scientific methods to put urban legends to the test and understand all sorts of phenomena.Mr. Maurice Forget, Aalto University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Geographically Distributed Teams in Engineering Design: Best Practices and Issues in Cases of International Teams Working from Opposite HemispheresAbstractIt is not rare to have engineering design teams in companies, working from different parts of the worldon a shared project. This new addition to the working context has been triggered by advances incommunication technologies and the knowledge economy. This begs
strong basis in mathematics and science4,7. Whether this is the current case or not,even conventional curriculum relies heavily on the design process, as most of the sub-disciplinesin engineering require the practicality of design skills in modeling and converting ideas intorealities. Additionally, ABET (specialized accreditation agency for programs for engineeringworldwide) has encouraged the existence of capstone project-based courses to ensure thatgraduates are prepared for real-world, practical applications of engineering principles inindustry8,9,10. Beyond the importance of science and mathematics fundamentals, global efforts are changingengineering education by emphasizing professional skills and active learning. In 1997, ABETchanged to
Research, 2, 1 (2001).[11] W. Riddell, S. Bakrania, K. Bhatia, K. Dahm, R. Harvey and L. Weiss, “Putting the HorseBefore the Cart: Fitting a new project into established design and writing pedagogy,” Paperpresented at 2009 ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Spring Conference, Baltimore, MD, April2009.[12] https://engineeringunleashed.com/about.aspx , accessed 11/19/2019[13] https://engineeringunleashed.com/cards.aspx, accessed 11/19/2019[14] Mynderse, J. A., & Liu, L., & Gerhart, A. L., & Fletcher, R. W., & Vejdani, H., & Jing, W.,& Yee, K. E. “Development of an Entrepreneurial Mind-set within a Three-Semester MechanicalEngineering Capstone Design Sequence Based on the SAE Collegiate Design Series,” Paperpresented at 2019 ASEE
pitches just-in-time for theircompetitions. One of the realizations coming from the capstone design experience inentrepreneurship is that students need to be exposed to entrepreneurship principles earlier in theirstudies in order to allow them the opportunity to select an appropriate capstone project and learnthe principles of entrepreneurship in time for the competition.Another popular approach used by the KEEN schools to work entrepreneurship into existingcourses was to use educational modules to introduce appropriate topics. A module typicallycovers one aspect of entrepreneurship (such as intellectual property or idea generation) that ispresented in one or more class periods. Ideally, a module contains a lesson plan and some typeof assessment
Page 24.288.1 http://www.ltu.edu/engineering/experimental biomechanics lab.asp Dr. Meyer directs the Experimental Biomechanics Laboratory (EBL) at LTU with the goal to advance ex- perimental biomechanics understanding. He developed and teaches a number of courses in the Biomedical c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Paper ID #10438Engineering program, including; Introduction to Biomechanics, Biomechanics Lab, Tissue Mechanics,Medical Imaging, Orthopedics, BME Best Practices, Intro to BME, and Fundamentals of EngineeringDesign Projects. Recently, the EBL has partnered with ME and EE faculty to
enhancements to come in our engineeringcurriculum.References[1] A. J. Dutson, R. H. Todd, S. P. Magleby, and C. D. Sorensen, “A review of literature on teaching engineering design through project-oriented capstone courses,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 17–28, 1997.[2] C. L. Dym, A. M. Agogino, O. Eris, D. D. Frey, and L. J. Leifer, “Engineering design thinking, teaching, and learning,” J. Eng. Educ., no. January, pp. 103–120, 2005.[3] C. Charyton and J. A. Merrill, “Assessing general creativity and creative engineering design in first year engineering students,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 98, no. 2, pp. 145–156, 2009.[4] S. P. Nichols and N. E. Armstrong, “Engineering entrepreneurship: Does entrepreneurship have a role
patent and use their contacts to help the student form the company and refine the design of theproduct. The company, Magnum Engineering, has been formed and is now working to bring the product tomarket with the help of an undergraduate senior capstone project team. The product should be ready formarket in the Fall of 2008. Figure 2. Static testing of the torque sensing crank arm.The Lean Wheel ChairIn the summer of 2007 the founder of MOVE International, a non-profit organization dedicated to helpingspecial needs children achieve dignity, approached the engineering school in search of a device to transforma powered wheel chair into a training aid. She wanted a device that would allow a child to control themovement of a