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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The Student Experience

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Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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nuanced connectionsbetween individual and project characteristics, while thematic analysis demonstrated threegeneral pathways to more comprehensive categories, including (1) comprehensiveness of theinnovation project experience, (2) connections between project goals and an individuals’interests and values, and (3) acute or persistent tensions between current perspectives andinnovation experiences. We discuss these results in depth and describe implications for teachingand learning engineering innovation.IntroductionInnovation is a complex and challenging phenomenon with economic, societal, and humanisticimplications. These implications are particularly important in the field of engineering, whereinnovativeness is considered a key competency and

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Exploring the Entrepreneurial and Innovation Mindset

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George D. Ricco, University of Kentucky; Suzann Girtz, Gonzaga University; Stephen E. Silliman, Gonzaga University

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-science students at amid-sized, private university in the United States. The instrument was based on modification of prior surveyinstruments on mindset as well as student interpretation of talent and intelligence. With nearly 1/3 of the studentsresponding, a significant data base was generated for student of mindset and student perceptions. In the presentpaper, a portion of the survey results are analyzed in an effort to explore: (i) what diversity of mindset is carried byfirst-year students into the university experience, (ii) how mindset evolves during the undergraduate experience, and(iii) whether differences in mindset can be identified by gender or discipline. Through multiple statistical analyses,the survey results indicate that the

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Assessing Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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Todd M. Fernandez, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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eschew methods that predict the likelihood of certain events (i.e., predictiveapproaches), and instead focused on pursuing opportunities where they are able to exert a higherlevel of control on the outcome (i.e., effectual approaches)15.Effectuation builds on work by Simon16 and others17, proposing the bounded rational model ofhuman cognition and identifying heuristics that humans use to make decisions. Sarasvathyproposed five heuristics that represent thinking in the effectual style of logic and situates them inopposition to what are referred to as ‘causal’ heuristics that aid decisions through predictiveapproaches and planning. The two sets of heuristics are reproduced in Table 1 below. Table 1 Table of effectual heuristics adapted from

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

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Carolin Christin Dungs, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University

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. At Stanford she has served a chair of the faculty senate, and recently served as Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education.Dr. Helen L. Chen, Stanford University Helen L. Chen is a research scientist in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of ePortfolio Initiatives in the Office of the Registrar at Stanford University. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from UCLA and her Ph.D. in Communication with a minor in Psychology from Stanford University in 1998. Her current research interests include: 1) engineering and entrepreneurship education; 2) the pedagogy of ePortfolios and reflective practice in higher education; and 3) reimagining the traditional academic

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Beyond the Classroom

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Timothy Joseph Balz, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ashley Bernal, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jessica Livingston, Rose-Hulman Institute of technology; Stephen Michael Misak, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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, the program uses the existing independentstudy option to structure the program. Students participating in projects register for anindependent study which will count toward their tech elective and/or free elective requirementsfor graduation. The professor who agrees to supervise the project is responsible for mentoringthe student team, meeting with them weekly, assessing their work, and assigning a grade for theindependent study. Projects make use of work space in the MakerLab space on campus and haveaccess to fabrication tools and materials. It is recommended that students remain under the 18credit hour overload limit to ensure that they have adequate time to dedicate to the project.The ideal MIH project team consists of 3-4 members with 1-2

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Beyond the Classroom

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Antonie J. Jetter, Portland State University; Gerald W. Recktenwald, Portland State University

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selection is as follows. 1. The Innovation Council makes a Call for Proposals. 2. Student teams submit short proposals using the template in Appendix A. 3. The Innovation Council reviews the written proposals and selects teams with strong proposals for oral presentations. 4. The student teams selected in step 3 make a private, 5 minute presentations to the Innovation Council, followed by 5 minutes of questions from the Council. 5. The Innovation Council uses a simple majority vote to decide which teams to offer support.Except for the time between the Call for Proposals and the deadline for proposals, theentire process occurs in the span of one week. After the release of the Call for Proposals,we hold information sessions where

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New Tools for Teaching Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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David Jamison IV, Villanova University

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behaviors. Increases in EML skilllevel and behavior before versus after completing the ideation project werestatistically significant (p < 0.05) in some cases; moreover, all but one area(“persisting and learning through failure”) had a higher post-project scorecompared to the corresponding pre-project score. The results indicate that theframework was successful in integrating EML in a senior-level elective anddeveloping an entrepreneurial minded skillset.IntroductionEngineering Entrepreneurship has become an integral part of many engineering colleges in theUnited States. The aim is to build a complementary skillset so that engineering students aresuccessful in innovative, multidisciplinary teams in the workplace [1]. Many universities

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

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Constanza Miranda, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile; David Leal Martinez, Aalto University; Maurice Forget, Aalto University

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coding served as a basis to work on the latter cases.This is work in progress. We continue analyzing data of some of the cases in order to yield moreprecise information that can be published. However, we believe that someearly insights can be usefulfor the purposes and objectives of this conference.Case 1: Students from UC (Chile) and Notre Dame University (United States)Funded by a Chilean (CORFO Engineering 2030) and American (Notre Dame) grant in 2014 topromote the relationship between UC Chile and Notre Dame University, the two universities launcheda year-long project that aimed to understand how students worked in International Teams. In the firstsemester, third and fourth year engineering students collaborated in co-located teams (i.e

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Institutionalizing Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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Elizabeth Nilsen, Purdue University; Edward F. Morrison, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Raquel Asencio, Purdue University; Scott Hutcheson, Purdue University, School of Engineering Technology

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& Reid, 1981). An individual’s social style hastwo dimensions. Assertiveness refers to an individual’s influence over others, whereasresponsiveness refers to a person’s display of emotions towards others. Individuals can thus beclassified into four categories, as shown in Figure 1: expressives (high assertiveness andresponsiveness), drivers (high assertiveness, low responsiveness), amiables (low assertiveness,high responsiveness), and analyticals (low assertiveness, low responsiveness). Figure 1: Social StylesThe type of style a leader employs may impact how change efforts are developed within a team,and there may not be one style that “fits all”, but rather, the interaction between a leader’s

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Exploring the Entrepreneurial and Innovation Mindset

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Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven; Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Cheryl Q. Li, University of New Haven; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven

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leadentrepreneurial activities on campus. The most common methods in embedding entrepreneurshipeducation within the curriculum are offering a foundational course on entrepreneurship and/oroffering a minor in entrepreneurship. Business schools commonly offer the courses onentrepreneurship.Business schools and business education has been around since the latter half of the 19th century.Khurana provides a historical account of business education in the US, indicating that much ofits development was driven by market need.1 Nino cites Institutional Factors, including limitedpractical training of faculty, as one of the main challenges facing business education due to theever-changing demands of the economic market.2 Rauch and Hulsink credit much of the rise

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

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Mohamed Ahmed Abdalwhab Galaleldin, University of Ottawa; Hanan Anis, University of Ottawa

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Fig-1). 14% 15% 33% 33% Onceormoretimesperweek Onceormoretimespermonth ParticipatedActivelyinonesemester Seldomusedthespace Figure1-Frequencyofparticipation/useinRichardL'AbbéMakerspaceThe focus of this paper is on understanding the impact that Makerspaces have on cultivatingstudent CoPs in engineering schools. We argue that Makerspaces can provide an environment oncampus that facilitates the growth of student CoPs. For this study, by “cultivating” we

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Exploring the Entrepreneurial and Innovation Mindset

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Mark Schar, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Angela Harris, Stanford University; Beth Rieken, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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hands” and would be happiest in work environments that had these characteristics.As interesting as these descriptions are, they do little to help understand how background andacademic learning experiences help shape career choice. In the early 1990’s Robert Lentproposed a model of career choice called Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT, see Figure 1)that provided a framework for understanding, explaining, and predicting the processes throughwhich people develop occupational choice (Lent, Brown, and Hackett 1994; Lent and Brown2006). The SCCT model has as proven to be useful in predicting career choice among post-secondary students, particularly engineering students (Lent et al. 2005, 2007; Chubin et al. 2008)which makes it relevant for this

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Institutionalizing Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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Victoria Matthew, VentureWell; Jeffrey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; Raina Michelle Khatri, Western Michigan University; Thomas M. Katona, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Robby Sanders, Tennessee Technological University; Bonnie J. Bachman, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Renee Cole, University of Iowa; John Lovitt, Wichita State University and Missouri University of Science & Technology; Melissa Geist, Tennessee Technological University; Charles Henderson, Western Michigan University ; Debra May Friedrichsen; Phil Weilerstein, VentureWell

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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. Robby Sanders, Tennessee Technological University Dr. Robby Sanders is an Assistant Professor at Tennessee Technological University (TTU) in the De- partment of Chemical Engineering. He obtained his Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from TTU in 1995, and he obtained his Master’s degree and his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1998 and 2001, respectively. His research efforts address 1) innovation-driven c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in First-Year Programs

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Liang Li Wu, University of California, Irvine; Gregory N. Washington, University of California, Irvine

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remaining two lectures. Interaction with these industry speakers allow students to witnessinnovative real-world examples and understand the practicality of such exercise of developing abusiness plan.Methodology of AssessmentA course evaluation was administered to the class, given at the end of the Winter Quarter of2015, and Winter Quarter of 2016 respectively, to assess the effectiveness of integrating theentrepreneurship and business plan development. Student satisfaction on was evaluated byrating the following on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 is “very dissatisfied”, 2 is “somewhatdissatisfied”, 3 is “neutral”, 4 is “satisfied” and 5 is “very satisfied”:  Organization and Format  Lecture notes/supplied material  Overall rating on

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

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Anthony Ferrar, Temple University; Dustyn Roberts P.E., Temple University

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. The two main objectivesare to 1) incentivize students to pursue sustainable entrepreneurship in their selection andimplementation of their senior design projects, and 2) equip faculty with industry connections,resources, and teaching modules to raise awareness of sustainable design and give studentsactionable steps to follow.The use of the word sustainable is an intentional three-way play on words: 1) we meanenvironmentally and socially sustainable (considering things like materials selection and end oflife as design requirements), 2) financially sustainable (laying the groundwork to acceptmonetary donations from sponsors to participate in the program), and 3) programmaticallysustainable (revising the existing framework, with support from the

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

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Mohamed Galaleldin, University of Ottawa; Hanan Anis, University of Ottawa

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new trend that hasthe potential to shift the future of education [1] through (1) digital, physical and logic tools, (2)community infrastructure and (3) the maker mindset, which is characterized as curious, playful,optimistic, persistent, resourceful and willing to take responsibility, take risks and shareinformation [2, p. 5]. These characteristics are similar to the engineering habits of mind [3]:systems thinking, creativity, optimism, collaboration, communication and attention to technicalconsiderations [4, p. 152].The maker movement also has the potential to respond to the calls for increased exposure in K-12 curriculum to sciences, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and hands-on and designexperiences in college level engineering

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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Joshua Gargac, University of Mount Union; Daniel John Hampu, University of Mount Union

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EntrepreneurshipIntroduction:The University of Mount Union is a small, private, liberal arts institution located in the MidwesternUnited States. At the time of this work, The Engineering Department offered ABET-accreditedundergraduate degree programs in mechanical and civil engineering, with approximately 130students majoring in one of these disciplines. Based on alumni surveys, approximately 85% ofengineering graduates from Mount Union are hired into industry positions. For this reason, “thedevelopment of essential business skills” was established as one of the program’s Four Pillars ofExceptional Engineering Education (Fig. 1). Further, entrepreneurship was identified as animportant business skill, because the benefits of integrating the entrepreneurial mindset into

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

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Chris Carroll, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.; Scott A. Sell, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.; Michelle B. Sabick, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.

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disciplines on campus to incorporate the EntrepreneurialMindset in foundational STEM courses by creating opportunities for STEM faculty to learn moreabout KEEN and the Entrepreneurial Mindset, and how it can be integrated into their courses.SLU held a two-day STEM Faculty Teaching Institute in January of 2018. The purpose was toexpose STEM faculty to various evidence-based teaching practices, along with theentrepreneurial-minded learning (EML) framework, and to encourage participating faculty tosubmit medium-sized Program Transformation Grant proposals to help spread EMLimplementation throughout their home departments. The specific objectives were to: 1. Familiarize faculty with active and entrepreneurial minded learning techniques that could

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

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Michael D. Whitt, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Nancy L. Denton P.E., Purdue Polytechnic Institute's School of Engineering Technology; Christopher Heylman, California Polytechnic State University; Rodney Gene Handy

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expanded into Baltimore and Chicago in2017. Their mission is focused on United States wealth inequality statistics.In 2013, United States wealth inequality statistics (reported in Table 1) illustrate the extent towhich race currently affects finances. Table 1. US Wealth Inequality StatisticsMetric Black Latino White OverallAverage Household Wealth $85K $98K $656K $509KMedian Household Wealth $1700 $2000 $117K $64KThe goal of the Racial Wealth Divide Initiative is to have a significant effect on these wealthinequality statistics in specific cities. Lead user experiential learning is one tool

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

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George D. Ricco, University Of Indianapolis

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alarger paper summarizing the longitudinal results of our Dweck study, plus further connections of theoriginal mindset factors to creativity and curiosity.Of utmost importance in this analysis is the notion of talent and intelligent groupings, that arefundamental to Dweck-style survey analysis. As Appendix 1 indicates the survey instrument for curiosityand creativity, Appendix 2 indicates the original Dweck instrument. In the Dweck instrument, the positiveand negative formulations of the questions are listed. In Dweck analysis, these questions are often timesgrouped together in positive and negative sets, and further sorted into talent and intelligence questions.Our original work uncovered a significant overlap in distributions for each of these

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

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J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Brock Alexander Hays, Ohio Northern University

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significant driver inbroadening interest in this space has been KEEN (Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network), anetwork of institutions committed to making entrepreneurship a core element of the engineeringcurriculum. Faculty within KEEN want their students to graduate not only with a degree, but alsowith the ability to see “the big picture”, enabling them to recognize opportunity, evaluatemarkets, and learn from their mistakes [1]. To achieve this goal, the network has defined theentrepreneurial mindset in the context of engineering as the combination of curiosity,connections, and creating value, coupled with engineering thought and action, expressed throughcollaboration and communication, and founded on character [2]. While the KEEN

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

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Barbara A. Karanian, Stanford University; Ville Mikael Taajamaa, University of Turku; Christopher Andrew Parlier, Stanford University; Mona Eskandari, University of California, Riverside

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Paper ID #26534Provoked Emotion in Student Stories of Motivation Reveal Gendered Percep-tions of What It Means to be Innovative in EngineeringProf. Barbara A. Karanian, Stanford University Barbara A. Karanian, Ph.D. , Lecturer, formerly visiting Professor, in the School of Engineering, in the Mechanical Engineering Design Group at Stanford University. Barbara’s research focuses on four ar- eas: 1)grounding a blend of theories from social-cognitive psychology, engineering design, and art to show how cognition affects design; 2) changing the way people understand the emotion behind their work with the intent to do

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ENT Division Technical Session: Competitions, Challenges, and Teams

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Ryan Striker P.E., North Dakota State University; Enrique Alvarez Vazquez, North Dakota State University; Mary Pearson, North Dakota State University; Lauren Singelmann, North Dakota State University; Ellen M. Swartz, North Dakota State University

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traditional course requires incrementally more experts and their time. Second,students cannot learn needs analysis, business proposal, and project planning skills if those taskshave been completed for them.Elimination of the project sponsor role has immediate tangible benefits. Instructors have lessproject planning to do prior to the semester, and they do not need to recruit more projectsponsors to match growing enrollment. Meanwhile, students will feel more motivated as theypractice self-initiation in their learning[1]. But this new approach is not pure gain with zero risk.Beginning a new class term with project elements undefined and without expert mentors posescertain hazards: • Students may be slow to define projects • Teams

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ENT Division Technical Session: Competitions, Challenges, and Teams

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Jared Schoepf, Arizona State University; Stephanie M. Gillespie, University of New Haven; Amy Trowbridge, Arizona State University; Alison Cook-Davis, Arizona State University; Kristen Peña, Arizona State University ; Courtney Argenti, Arizona State University; Daniel J. Laxman, Arizona State University

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Program Focused on Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in the Context of the NAE Grand Challenges for EngineeringAbstractThis paper describes the development and implementation of a three-week project-basedentrepreneurial experience summer program focused on the National Academy of Engineering(NAE) Grand Challenges for Engineering through the theme of Sustainability. This programaimed to give students opportunities to (1) apply an entrepreneurial mindset, human centereddesign process and related tools to solve a problem for a client; (2) observe and/or experienceSustainability work in the private, public, and non-profit sectors; and (3) identify and explain theinfluence of societal, technological

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ENT Division Technical Session: Entrepreneurship and IP

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Thomas M. Katona, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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onstudents.This paper reflects a study on curricular pedagogical methods used to teach engineering studentsparticipating in entrepreneurial programs and ventures about failure and the research being doneto advance the community’s understanding of how to positively teach students about and throughfailure. We conducted a systematic literature review of student failure in the overlapping contextof engineering education, entrepreneurship, and psychology. The primary research questionbeing explored is: How is failure studied in the engineering entrepreneurship educationliterature? This research question is broken down into several sub-questions: 1) Whattheoretical frameworks are used to study entrepreneurial failure in this literature?, 2) How hasfailure been

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ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum II

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Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology; Todd M. Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kali Lynn Morgan; Paul Benkeser, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

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development of engineers that exhibit an“entrepreneurial mindset coupled with engineering thought and action expressed throughcollaboration and communication and founded on character.” [1] In support of this, KEEN hascreated a framework of student outcomes and example behaviors that may be used to inform thedesign of programs seeking to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. These outcomes andbehaviors are centered around what KEEN calls The 3 C’s - curiosity, connections, and creatingvalue. Specific example behaviors of curiosity, connections, and creating value as described bythe KEEN framework may be seen in Figure 1 [1] and it is through this lens that we haveincorporated entrepreneurially minded learning into our undergraduate curriculum. Fostering

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ENT Division Technical Session: Assessment Tools and Practices

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Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven; Aadityasinh Rana; Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven

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. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 An Approach to Assess Achievement of EML through Integrated e-Learning ModulesIntroduction The University of New Haven promotes entrepreneurial minded learning (EML) throughthe integration of e-learning modules on entrepreneurial topics into regular engineering andcomputer science courses. Each module is supplemented by a contextual activity where studentsapply what they learned in the module. The e-learning modules collectively target 18 KEENStudent Outcomes (KSOs) described in the KEEN Framework [1]. Appropriate assessmentmethods are needed to determine whether the integrated e-learning modules are effective indeveloping students

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ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum II

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Michael J. Rust, Western New England University

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the background knowledgeneeded to be successful in the medical field [1]. Depending on the institution, these physiologycourses are often taught by faculty in the Biological Sciences or the BME faculty themselves. Ineither case, the large volume of anatomical structures and physiological principles covered inthese courses can make them quite challenging for students, especially considering how differentthis type of content is from other engineering courses (e.g., instrumentation, materials science,etc.) [2,3]. Moreover, many students struggle in these medically-focused courses to makeconnections between the underlying physiology and their work as engineers (e.g., developmentof a medical device that diagnoses/treats a pathology related to that

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ENT Division Technical Session: Entrepreneurship and IP

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Howard B. Rockman, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Property Law for Engineers, Scientists,and Entrepreneurs" [1]. The primary reason that a course in intellectual property principles should be offered inour engineering, science and technology learning institutions is that inventions, innovation, andcreativity have always led to advances that ostensibly benefit society as a whole. Today,practically all nations on earth have adopted an intellectual property protection system undertheir laws, which provide exclusive rights for a limited time to inventors and creators inexchange for the public disclosure of their inventions and creations. These laws, in combinationwith international treaties, allow any unique development, made or developed anywhere, toobtain exclusive protection globally. These

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ENT Division Technical Session: Creativity and Innovation

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Simon Jakob Barth, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University

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-Career Engineering GraduatesAbstractIt is widely acknowledged that engineers “are foundational to technological innovation anddevelopment that drive long-term economic growth and help solve societal challenges” [1].Consequently, it is a major goal in engineering education to ensure and further improve thedevelopment of innovation skills among its students. While many studies focus on currentengineering students and their innovation goals and skills, it is also informative to see howthese goals and skills are translated into realized innovative behavior in the workplace. Bystudying the characteristics of innovative behavior of engineering graduates we revealvaluable insights and draw conclusions for engineering