marketing. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, studying with the inventor of the blue and white LED, and an MBA from the University of South Carolina, Moore School of Business.Dr. Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Associate and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement and testing. In her position, Sarah is responsible for developing instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and projects, and working with
that involvespartnerships among public schools, higher education, and the private sector to increasethe quantity and quality of engineers and engineering technologists graduating. Morethan 660 state high school students are currently enrolled in the curriculum. TheEngineering Design and Development (EDD) module is a capstone course for senior highschool students, focusing on invention and entrepreneurial skills. Dr. Karen High servesas a trainer for this course. The module includes innovation and invention, and showsstudents how to take engineering one step further.A one-credit hour engineering orientation course was developed in the fall of 2006 thatintroduced engineering entrepreneurship to former Project The Lead the Way students—now
paper describes how Makerspaces help cultivate students’ communities ofpractice (CoP). We interviewed 19 engineering students with different participation levels in theMakerspace, from different engineering disciplines to understand how they became participantsin the makers’ community of practice at the Richard L’Abbé Makerspace. We found that theMakerspace provided engineering students with a platform for forming a CoP that shares acommon interest in making, by providing them with access to equipment, workshops,competitions, and by connecting engineering students from various disciplines to work on hands-on engineering projects that allowed them to translate theories learned in classroom to practice.The paper also describes the lessons learned
Page 26.791.8 What we’re giving the students is a blank sheet of paper. They have to go out and find a problem, figure out a problem, and we’ll help them with that ideation process, but what ends up happening is that they—and I’ve heard this from students, who have done dual majors and done both the traditional Capstone Design Project and an engineering entrepreneurs program Capstone Design Project—they learn so much more and they’re so much more engaged in the project because they have personal interest and ownership of it, and that seems to make a real difference.The strategy of exposing students to compelling challenges and real-world problems isinextricably connected to experiential learning, as
. of Faculty Residences in Industry 1. Infuse modern engineering tools 1. No. of students into the curricula impacted Students 2. Develop entrepreneurial skill sets 2. Employment figures 3. Job opportunities 3. Experiential activities 4. Real world open-ended design including internships projects 4. Capstone Senior Design projects 5. Research projects
level engineering capstone design courses that were cross-listed as a single course, which was open to MBA students24, 25. The purpose of this cross-listed course was to produce business minded future engineers who through the experience of producing marketable products would develop better teamwork skills, adaptable communication skills, be comfortable with business plan development, and be knowledgeable of patents and intellectual property. Student team projects were either assigned or self-generated. The final product of the project was a functional product prototype supported by a written report describing its business and engineering aspects. The project evaluation was based on the intended business and engineering
functionality (an engineeringfocus) with aesthetics, user-friendliness, relevance and empathy. It was our objective to developproject oriented courses that integrated these aspects at the university level.Our long journey towards this was inspired by ABET’s3 accreditation criteria 3(a-k) that mapwell to team-oriented semester long projects, as envisioned and implemented in the capstoneprojects of an engineering curriculum. However, not all the criteria can be met in the capstoneprojects. The capstone projects also tend to vary much in quality and focus, leading to demandson faculty and student members alike. This led us to utilize the lessons learned from a six- yearlong industry funded project on significantly increasing engineering design
approach includes three cohortsof graduates who are running their own companies, are working as key team members in start-ups, are innovating in more established companies and are working at organizations that providesupport to entrepreneurs. This impact of this dedicated approach has also received nationalrecognition for its role in talent development by the University Economic DevelopmentAssociation (UEDA).Building a new Master's of Engineering in Technical EntrepreneurshipLehigh University, a private research university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has anational reputation in engineering, as well as entrepreneurship. Looking back almost twodecades, the undergraduate Integrated Product Development (IPD) capstone course sequence inthe P.C
research techniques, we sought to address the research question,“What aspects of engineering students’ innovation experiences were critical to the developmentof their ways of experiencing innovation?”Conceptual BackgroundThis study builds upon a previous study that explored differences in the ways engineeringstudents experienced innovation13. The current study expands the previous by exploring criticalincidents that led to new or refined understandings of innovation, but it is necessarily rooted inthe theoretical underpinnings and findings of the previous study. In this section, we summarizethe previous study and discuss how it informs the current investigation.The genesis of this project was a phenomenographic analysis of innovation among
regularlyteaching the latter two Machine Design focuses on engineering analysis and the design andselection of machine components to meet specific requirements. Senior Design is the capstonecourse of the engineering degree plans (mechanical, electrical and computer, and generalengineering) program, and it brings to bear all of the students’ prior training to incorporatedesign creativity, engineering analysis, teamwork, budget management, and technicalcommunication.It is in the capstone course, Senior Design, that our second KEEN Innovator chose to integrateentrepreneurship concepts and skills into the student experience. The course is project orientedwhere students team up to solve a specific problem that is provided either from external industryor private
, 2010.[15] Ochs, Lennon, Watkins, and Mitchell. A comprehensive model for integrating entrepreneurship education and capstone projects while exceeding abet requirements. In American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2006.[16] Sheri D Sheppard. Mechanical dissection: An experience in how things work. Proceedings of the Engineering Education: Curriculum Innovation & Integration, pages 6–10, 1992.[17] Sheri Sheppard and R Jennison. Freshman engineering design experiences and organizational framework. Inter- national Journal of Engineering Education, 13:190–197, 1997.[18] Otto and Wood. Product Design: Techniques in Reverse Engineering and New Product Development. Prentice Hall, 2001.[19] Abe Feuerstein
). Page 14.580.2As it has been the case in the United States of America (re. Standish-Kuon and Rice 2002; Ochset al. 2001), Canadian engineering schools have responded to this call for action coming from theprofession that they serve in a variety of ways that include academic and/or extra-curricularcomponents: ≠ The Xerox Centre for Engineering Entrepreneurship & Innovation at McMaster University offers a Master of Engineering Entrepreneurship & Innovation degree (McMaster University 2009). That program allows students to develop their own start-up project at the same time that they complete the academic requirements associated to this degree. In 2007, two technology projects from the Xerox Centre were selected
the classroom, and creates a working prototype thatcreates value for these customers. This real customer interaction fosters empathetic design whileproviding a more meaningful classroom experience as students are able to see directly theimpact their designs have in creating real value – value as it is defined, not by the student orinstructor, but by their customer. In the junior year, engineering students are typically engaged in much of theirdiscipline-specific engineering coursework. Thus, this thread of entrepreneurially mindedlearning is extended by means of discipline-specific applications through projects deployed inmultiple junior-level courses. Finally, the senior capstone experience brings together students’engineering
motivation for being a leader.Again, comparison yields a shift in perception. Upon completion of the course, the studentscompleted a course evaluation survey to aid the course developer in determining if the course ismeeting the university’s leadership education goals. In addition, the students completed a peerassessment of leadership skills and characteristics near the beginning and at the conclusion of thecourse. The peer assessment yields some shifts in leadership development. Finally, as a finalassessment at the conclusion of the final team course project, the students completed a peerperformance evaluation, and the results are reported.1. IntroductionEntrepreneurshipLawrence Technological University (LTU) has offered students entrepreneurial
curricular materials may be found at http://weaverjm.faculty.udmercy.edu. Through his work with Innovation in Action, he has also conducted a number of innovation workshops for industry wherein the participants learn systematic innovation tools and apply them to their daily work.Dr. Kenneth F Bloemer, University of Dayton Ken is currently Director of the Innovation Center at the University of Dayton’s School of Engineering. The Innovation Center recruits real world engineering challenges from industry, entrepreneurs and non- profit organizations to be solved by multidisciplinary senior capstone teams. In addition, Ken teaches courses on innovation and is a frequent guest lecturer around campus. He has conducted innovation
annually.Research Question 2: What are the available resources to support development of aregional learning center for engineering? Inspection of the Phase I survey data showed that organizations prefer supporting students(see Figure 2). Sixteen of 21 respondents to the question of providing support to the localengineering program indicated that they would participate in design projects while only 1 of 21 Page 15.381.9respondents indicated that they would finance facility construction or fund infrastructuredevelopment. There were no responses to the choice of endowing faculty. Phase II results;however, clarified that organizations believe that tangible
Page 26.1658.13 entrepreneurship education and capstone projects while exceeding ABET requirements. In American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.Ohland, M. W., Frillman, S. A., Zhang, G., Brawner, C. E., & Miller, T. K. (2004). The effect of an entrepreneurship program on GPA and retention. Journal of Engineering Education, 93(4), 293–301.Petersen, O. G., Jordan, W. M., & Radharamanan, R. (2012). Proposed KEEN initiative framework for entrepreneurial mindedness in engineering education. In ASEE Annual Conference. San Antonio, TX.Rideout, E. C., & Gray, D. O. (2013). Does entrepreneurship education really work? A review and methodological critique of the empirical literature on
University of Tennessee,Knoxville. Cornell Engineering offers a more in-depth program starting with an Introduction toEntrepreneurship for Engineers course at the sophomore level. The minor requires 18 credits andincludes courses on Ethics, History of Capitalism and Technology, Accounting and Finance,Ideation and Design Thinking and a capstone entrepreneurship project. An experiential learningexperience through a summer internship or coop program is encouraged but not required.The engineering entrepreneurship minor at the University of Virginia is comprised of threerequired courses and one elective. The three required courses are Business Fundamentals,Engineers as Entrepreneurs, and Entrepreneurial Finance. An elective course is also requiredwhich
task.Current assessment approaches rely on idea generation tasks, surveys, or project deliverableseach of which have limitations. In this paper, we present an alternative novel approach forassessing individual understanding of innovation process that we argue should be a learningoutcome of any innovation education program or curricula. Our method, called the InnovationProcess Mapping Protocol provides individualized assessment of knowledge and skills and takesabout 30 minutes to complete. The data collected in the form of Innovation Process Maps areevaluated in two ways: using the innovation process mapping rubric and in the form of a Markovchain. We present results from two students and discuss how this instrument can be used inresearch studies and
curriculum teaches students that there is one correct answer, does not provide timefor students to discover and innovate, focuses on grades and competitiveness, and rewardsregurgitation of known solutions. The authors also argue that even capstone design courses limitstudents’ ability to be creative, as projects are “limited to ‘synthesis’ exercises using knownmethodologies. This article provides ten “maxims” that would foster creativity in students: 1)Keep an open mind, 2) Ambiguity is good, 3) Iterative process that includes idea incubation, 4)Reward for creativity, 5) Lead by example, 6) Learning to fail, 7) Encouraging risk, 8) Search formultiple answers, 9) Internal motivation, and 10) Ownership of learning. Another barrier to theintegration of
master a wider set of skills to succeed in theworkplace. They must be able to communicate effectively, lead and work with interdisciplinaryteams, and design unique and creative solutions for open-ended problems, while consideringethical standards and global implications. In response to these growing expectations, engineeringprograms are evolving to better prepare their students for the workplace. One way thatengineering curricula are addressing this is by the inclusion of design-based courses or projects,that give students a chance to work in a more industrially-situated context to develop bothtechnical expertise and non-technical skills.Recently, entrepreneurship education has emerged as a means of supporting engineeringprofessional development
solving problems. It has a 10-course2 design sequence that starts in the freshmanyear and culminates in a capstone design project in the final year of study. This course design,combined with a willing faculty, made BE an easy choice for our initial effort.In order to make effective use of university resources and have an immediate impact on the BEcurriculum, the plan for teaching entrepreneurship was to break up the topics into educationalmodules which each focusing on one particular aspect of business. This modular approachallows existing content from business courses to be used as new content in the engineeringcourses, thus addressing the faculty workload issue (challenge #2). Modules are being1 John D. Gassert, et. al., “Converting
Paper ID #21859Engineering Deans’ Perspectives on the Value of Entrepreneurial Thinkingin Engineering EducationMr. Mark V. Huerta, Arizona State University Mark Huerta is a second year PhD student in the Engineering Education Systems & Design (EESD) program at Arizona State University. Mark is also the Chairman and Director of Projects of a non-profit called 33 Buckets, which empowers rural communities in developing countries to develop solutions for their drinking water problems. Before enrolling in the EESD program, Mark obtained a BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering at ASU.Dr. Jeremi S. London, Arizona State University
thisquestion began more than ten years ago and has led to the development and implementation ofmany initiatives to create a culture of innovation and development of a cohesive I&E ecosystemsurrounded by a robust resource network.Founding I&E ProgramsExperienced-Based Learning in an Entrepreneurial Setting - In 2000, Michigan Tech launchedan innovative undergraduate curriculum, The Enterprise Program. Initially funded as an NSFAction Agenda pilot program (EEC-9872533), Enterprise is an extensive multi-year,multidisciplinary design experience and is offered as an alternative to senior capstone design. Allparticipants complete an Enterprise curriculum which includes a minimum of 12 credits.Students join specific “enterprises” which are structured
external training organization 9. Review of creativity and innovation in the engineering design process Introduction of final projects. 10. Requirements and constraints of final project. 11. Brainstorming for final project. 12. Building models of final project. 13. Refining models of final project. Presentation of draft model to peers and peer review of models. 14. Refining models of final project. Presentation of draft model to peers and peer review of models. 15. Submission of final project and presentation of final projects to peers. Page 26.748.9 Wednesday Thursday
Engineering Physics program, the Co-founder of the Imagi- nary Lab at Stanford and a lecturer and coach for the capstone master’s course ME310: Global Design Innovation. Page 25.1011.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Session ???Open Process for Entrepreneuring Team Collaboration: Story Parallels from an Academic DesignTeam to the Studied Start-UpEskandari, Mona; Pincheira, Felipe E.; Krauthamer, Rebecca; Aggarwal, Akshit; Forouhar, Pamon;Dua, Janesha; Peng, Christine; Kress, Greg; Karanian
caféwhere cross-disciplinary learning can take place in an informal environment that is not part ofthe university structure. This case is written specifically for Tennessee Wesleyan College butcould be used elsewhere. The Tennessee Wesleyan College faculty members who are involvedwith this project are expected to use this case and other cases in a capstone Honors program inentrepreneurship during the spring semester of 2005. Other cases may also be used in the Honorsclass. (This case is not in the current Manual and Casebook).Case 9 – Long Lines and Short Tempers (Homeland Security) – This case was written forengineering design classes interested in small device designs for homeland security and terrorismprevention. One of the most pressing
biomedical engineering design course,comprised of junior and senior biomedical engineers. The students underwent a 3-day prototypingworkshop to develop a low-fidelity upper extremity prosthetic hand with the ability to grip, grasp orarticulate using a five-digit design or prehensor hook [9. 10]. The device needed to be controlled by a body-powered harness to open/close the device using movement by the contralateral side tethered with a cable.Senior Biomedical Engineering Capstone (BME 437) – Medical Device: In this 3-hour workshop,students had to develop a limited functional prototype of their capstone design project. Senior biomedicalengineering students spent 10 weeks researching and developing engineering design ideas following theFDA’s waterfall
educationalopportunities. The area of T-shaped education, that touches several of the key competency areas,will be used as an example.Collaborative ProcessFigure 1 illustrates the four schools that came together as a “dense network”3. The process tochoose these schools was the result of an exercise at the 2011 annual winter meeting of KEENthat challenged the group to seek dense networks of schools with synergistic opportunities.Baylor, University of Dayton, University of Detroit Mercy and Villanova recognized that eachengaged with industry in varying and complementary ways. The University of Dayton had anextensive industry sponsored project system tapping local industry in the Ohio area; theUniversity of Detroit Mercy had extensive co-op and industry-sponsored
betweenintention, participation, and skills (e.g., leadership, creative thinking)11–16 or investigate theimpact of entrepreneurship education on student outcomes (e.g., retention)17–19. However, withnotable exceptions20,21, these studies do not consider students’ socio-demographic characteristicsto evaluate or assess programs. Much can be gained by considering socio-demographic characteristics, as numerousempirical studies in higher education show that these characteristics, such as gender, race, andpre-college academic preparation affect students’ college experience22. A notable exception isDuval-Couetil et al’s. (2012)20 multi-institutional study of engineering capstone courses. Duval-Couetil et al. (2012)20 found that while engineering major