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Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald M Reimer, Lawrence Technological University; Ahad Ali, Lawrence Technological University; Sabah Razouk Abro, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Page 22.1235.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Relationship between Student Competitive Activities and the Entrepreneurial MindsetAbstractThis paper analyzes the effect of student competitive projects as part of their curricular activities.The goal of the analysis is to examine the relationship between these activities and the buildingof entrepreneurial mindset in engineering education. Student competitive projects have been andcontinue to be an integral part the engineering curriculum. Cross disciplinary and interdisciplinary teams are formed to compete in various competitions in our engineering programs.These projects include: Aero Design Competition

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Noelle K. Comolli, Villanova University; Jacob James Elmer, Villanova University

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many studentsas possible by spreading them through different years and courses in the curriculum. Each modulevaried in the amount of in class vs out of class time, and no one module tried to include all of themajor concepts. Each project focused on one or two main concepts allowing the students tounderstand that specific set of skills in an example relevant to the course material. The goal wasto not make it feel as though “irrelevant” material was being “shoved into” the course, but ratheruse EM concepts to excite and engage the students. Several modules have been developed to hit the curriculum in as many places as possible,however, only a few have been implemented thus far, and are presented in detail here (indicated 1-3 in Table 1). A

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Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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June Ferrill, Rice University; Lisa Getzler-Linn, Lehigh University

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to be different from business ownership, entrepreneurs seem to differfrom non-entrepreneurs in some of the ethical pressures they face. Given these reasons, wehave developed an ethics curriculum more geared to entrepreneurial students’ future needs.We base our curriculum on the Seven Layers of Integrity™ framework which has a practicalapplication underpinned by the theories of Cognitive Moral Development, Integrative SocialContracts, Moral Imagination and Bounded Moral Rationality. This curriculum will enableeducators to facilitate the exploration of ethics by their entrepreneurial students. No longerignored entirely or taught as an afterthought, such ethics training can give these futureentrepreneurs tools needed for ethical

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Entrepreneurship Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; William M. Jordan, Baylor University

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achieve and maintain accreditation, and the constant enlargement of theknowledge base. The second part of the challenge is in helping these educators to learn how bestto integrate these realities into their approach to teaching. If faculty members do not adequatelyunderstand the fundamental changes occurring in the global economic landscape, as well as theirimportance6, these topics will not be incorporated into the curriculum and may even be activelydenied their place in the curriculum development process. Many faculty members have not hadexposure to these topics in their educational or professional background. This is perhaps truer ofacademics who have not worked in industry.Through the KEEN Innovators program at Baylor University, selected

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Freddy Solis, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Joseph Victor Sinfield, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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cooperative, informal bank for the poor, institutionalized bank for the poor).In engineering, examination of case studies could shed light on what it means to beentrepreneurial in purely technical and conceptual contexts. Such an examination calls fortranslational activities that help unearth the mechanisms that embody the entrepreneurial method.These translational activities should synthesize and integrate entrepreneurship concepts intolarger frameworks, and illustrate how entrepreneurial principles apply across contexts.In this light, this paper provides a framework of entrepreneurship as a design philosophy, shownin Figure 1. Such a perspective describes entrepreneurship as a set of principles that areapplicable to multiple fields and problem

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Tactical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University; Richard J. Freuler, Ohio State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

themthroughout the curriculum, Ohio State formed a new program called the Integrated Business andEngineering (IBE) program as described in more detail below.The IBE ProgramBased on the authors' research, interpretation of the "voice of the customer" (i.e. industry), andyears of personal industrial and academic experience, the following interpretation of a T-shapedengineer is offered: 1. Sound technical expertise in one discipline Page 26.1507.8 2. A solid business acumen including the issues associated with product commercialization 3. An entrepreneurial mindset supplemented with design thinking 4. Ability to function effectively on

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Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Rufe, Eastern Michigan University; Gary Rodak, Eastern Michigan University; Scott Pollock, Eastern Michigan University; Mary Finkel, Eastern Michigan University

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University educationcomes into play. The university should incorporate the diverse operations of an enterprise intothe engineering/technology curriculum. This type of information is necessary for a new graduateto be able to relate to their co-workers and work in a unified fashion towards a company’s goals. Eastern Michigan University has a Manufacturing program that integrates the operationsof an enterprise into the engineering or technology curriculum of a student. The core classesgive the student solid background knowledge to refer to when the more specialized or capstonecourses are reached. The core classes include, of course, the math and science background which is alwaysnecessary for a technology student but also includes such

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Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phil Weilerstein, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance; Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance

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data show that at least 30 of the student ventures funded by NCIIA havebrought at least one new product or service to the market, and an additional 15 projects areactively pursuing commercialization. In addition, NCIIA-funded projects have led to $36 millionin additional leverage ($1.6 million from awards and competitions; almost $3.7 million in privateand federal contracts; almost $9 million in grants; and $23 million in additional investment).ConclusionsNCIIA’s mission has focused on expanding opportunities for engineering students to engage inentrepreneurship by supporting curriculum, projects, and complementary activities that gearedtoward commercialization outcomes. The outcomes of the past decade provide strong evidencethat engineering

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan R. Peterfreund, SageFox Consulting Group; Emanuel Costache, SageFox Consulting Group; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University & SKG Analysis; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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. Starting in 2000, Alan began to focus on supporting higher education partners in projects that address broadening participation in the sciences, graduate student development, curriculum innovation, instructional technology, teacher professional development and other education reforms. For the past five years, Alan has been the lead evaluator for Epicenter, an NSF-funded STEP Center focused on infusing entrepreneurship and innovation into undergraduate engineering education.Mr. Emanuel Costache, SageFox Consulting Group Since joining SageFox in 2009, Emanuel has worked on the evaluation team for a variety of NIH- and NSF-funded projects, including the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter

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Leadership, Design, and Entrepreneurship

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahad Ali, Lawrence Technological University; Donald M. Reimer, Lawrence Technological University; Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University

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activity in the College ofEngineering and the College of Arts and Sciences is coordinated through a 14 member campus-wide committee. Finally, the University’s Leadership Curriculum, required of all undergraduatestudents, is an integral part of the Kern/KEEN campus activity.4,5,11 Page 25.1113.4Entrepreneurial Mindset: An Experience in Experiential LearningStudents who participate in experiential learning are better prepared to enter the world of theentrepreneur. Entrepreneurial curricula now include experiential learning as an integral part ofexposing the student to the entrepreneurial mindset. Lawrence Tech has created anentrepreneurial curriculum

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Heydi L. Dominguez, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Vibhavari Vempala, University of Michigan; Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University; Jacob Frederick Fuher, University of Michigan

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bring entrepreneurialtraining into higher education settings. In 2011, NSF set in motion the National Center forEngineering Pathways to Innovation and I-Corps Program to implement entrepreneurshiptraining in students and faculty. More than 130 institutions have integrated the EpicenterProgram and exposed more than 450 students to entrepreneurship training through the UniversityInnovation Fellows [6]. Overall, these courses [1] and university level [6] programs report thatentrepreneurship education programs have a positive impact in improving attitudes towards self-employment amongst engineers.Smaller-sized firms are also evolving and creating employment opportunities for entrepreneursin engineering. Engineers who develop an entrepreneurial

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benedict M. Uzochukwu, Virginia State University; Coray Davis, Virginia State University ; Ben U. Nwoke, Virginia State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #17176Towards a Sustainable Engineering Entrepreneurship EducationDr. Benedict M. Uzochukwu, Virginia State University Benedict M. Uzochukwu is an Associate Professor of Technology at the Virginia State University. His research interests include Human Factors and Ergonomics, Sustainment, Logistics, Supply Chain Man- agement, Life cycle Systems, Systems Integration and Management of technology systems. He has a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the North Carolina A & T State University, Greensboro and has several peer reviewed publications to his credit. He belongs to a number of professional

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ENT Division Technical Session: Assessment Tools and Practices

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University; Siddharthsinh Jadeja, Rowan University; Elise Barrella P.E., Wake Forest University

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Paper ID #28962Creating a Master ”Entrepreneurial Mindset” Concept MapDr. Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University Dr. Bodnar is an Associate Professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department at Rowan University. Her research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques such as game- based learning in undergraduate classes as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum. In particular, she is interested in the impact that these tools can have on stu- dent perception of the classroom environment, motivation and learning outcomes. She was selected to

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Programs and Courses Session 5

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yan Xu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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team leader is required to be selected, who will serveas project manager of the team to arrange different activities. The students are not only requiredto create a robot to fulfill the technical challenge, but also to conduct an economic or marketanalysis for their own robots. The final project grade considers students’ performance in bothtechnical and business aspects. Figure 1. Project Challenge LayoutThe implementation of the learning module with six major engineering design steps during thesix-week course curriculum is described in Table 1 below with detail weekly lectures,laboratories, entrepreneurial thinking, and deliverables. The learning module integrated theinnovative entrepreneurial thinking into a

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New Methods and Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Melissa Grunow, Lawrence Technological University; Katie Hayes, Lawrence Technological University

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actively involved in ASEE, is a Kern Fellow for Entrepreneurial Education, and serves as Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at LTU. His research interests involve academic integrity, assessment tools, and stream restoration.Melissa Grunow, Lawrence Technological University Melissa Grunow is the Coordinator for the Leadership Curriculum at Lawrence Technological University and is an instructor in the Department of Humanities. She has eleven years of experience working with student organizations and teaching undergraduates, including identifying needs and developing new initiatives and curricular and co-curricular programs. Her research interests include activist pedagogies and

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Beyond the Classroom

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eden Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

organizations, while striving to contribute value for stakeholders. An internship alsoprovides an immersive experience in the messiness of the real world, where a student willobserve situations that highlight inevitable distinctions between theory and practice. In addition,topics and issues that may not have been part of their formal academic curriculum make eachinternship unique and enriching, as each student becomes deeply knowledgeable concerning bothtechnical and social concerns specific to their internship context.The experiential learning from internships can support three changes that have been promotedfor professional education for many decades: “First, a new philosophy and new outlook whichwill comprehend the human and social as well as the

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Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rose Marie Lynch, Illinois Valley Community College; Dorene Perez, Illinois Valley Community College; James Gibson, Illinois Valley Community College

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alsorecognized a need for special training for the teams, in such areas as team building andcommunication. IVCC instructors with specialties in those areas were scheduled into teammeetings to teach those skills, just as consultants would be hired to provide training in abusiness/industrial setting. Since the project was designed to prepare students for the world ofwork and it integrated academic and technical course material, it qualified for Carl D. Perkinsgrant funding.At the conclusion of its first year, MIMIC received an award for innovative integratedcurriculum from the Illinois State Board of Education. Page 11.73.3Within a few years, electronics

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Entrepreneurship Tuesday Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Marc Lockard, Lockard and White, Inc

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

student teams have formedrelationships with their guests and are having continued professional interactions. This paperwill describe the ELE Seminar process, discuss specific guest examples, and relate the seminar tosuccess in the E4 initiative.IntroductionWith the implementation of the new outcomes-based TAC of ABET accreditation process,Engineering Technology programs are now required to integrate into the undergraduateeducational experience relevant material focused on such topics as: An ability to understand professional, ethical, and social responsibility; A respect for diversity and a knowledge of contemporary professional, societal, and

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Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Sherrill, University of Houston; Thomas Duening, Arizona State University

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encouraged across an increasinglywide range of disciplines, the approach to teaching entrepreneurship has not been standardized.There are a number of competing perspectives regarding the most effective curriculum forteaching entrepreneurship. To make the matter even more complex, these perspectives differfrom school to school (e.g., from the business school to the engineering school) and also fromstudent level to student level (e.g., from undergraduate student to graduate student).1Business schools were the initial locus for entrepreneurship education, although a fewengineering programs such as the one at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology can laylegitimate claim to being pioneers of the genre. Still, it is not in dispute that

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Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

La Verne Abe Harris, Arizona State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Verne Abe Harris, PhD, CSIT Arizona State UniversityAbstractIndustry professionals from organizations such as Motorola, Intel, Boeing, and Honeywellparticipated in a needs assessment survey through the IDeaLaboratory at Arizona StateUniversity to determine the innovation needs of today’s industrial organizations.1 The model ofthe IDeaLaboratory follows the Polytechnic campus outcomes of Pasteur’s Quadrant –– appliedresearch.2 Students become an integral part of the innovative thinking, discovery, learning, andassessment processes, because they become engaged in the design and technology research andsolutions, just as they would in a corporate or government working environment. TheIDeaLaboratory is

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New Tools for Teaching Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bernd Steffensen, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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goal was to prepare graduates forengineering practice by equipping them with contextual (also sometimes called “professional”)skills. These calls for reform resulted in the EC2000 accreditation criteria, which require, amongother things, that graduates demonstrate the ability to integrate “realistic constraints such aseconomic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, andsustainability” into the design process, including the development of new products. This ability,in turn, rests on other abilities including an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams; anability to define and solve problems; an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility;an ability to communicate effectively; the

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Program Development & Desired Outcomes

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergio Celis, Universidad de Chile; Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan

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, particularlycommunity service and humanitarian engineering projects, by creating intentional linkagesbetween the formal curriculum (e.g. developing global awareness) and these informal learningexperiences (e.g. engineering-related study abroad). Such linkages may be particularly effectivein helping develop students’ contextual awareness.” As engineering entrepreneurship education takes shape and continues to leverage co-curricular experiences for learning, Lattuca et al.’s findings suggest that a more in depth analysisof entrepreneurial co-curricular experiences in the context of the Terenzini and Reason’s collegeimpact framework is warranted. There is an organizational reliance on both entrepreneurshipacademic and co-curricular programs, required

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Entrepreneurship Education: Experiential Learning and Economic Development I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Zidek, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Entrepreneurshipwas a prerequisite to the Engineering Service Learning course, required of first semester juniors.In the original curriculum design, students in Engineering Entrepreneurship were tasked withproviding an entrepreneurial solution for a predetermined client. The course instructors weretakes with identifying an acceptable community partner for the class. The project was thencarried into Engineering Service Learning in the following academic year. Engineering Servicelearning was designed to assist the students with the design, testing and implementation stages ofthe engineering design process.BackgroundThe FGCU mission statement includes statements regarding “valuing public service”,“encouraging civic responsibility” and a requirement of community

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 9

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William M. Jordan, Baylor University; Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

introduce anentrepreneurial mindset among our faculty members, and to motivate them to teach theseconcepts to their students.ICE WorkshopsStudents will not develop an entrepreneurial mindset unless they see it first in our faculty. Topromote this among we have done a number of activities. The KEEN network has created anumber of workshops called ICE. This stands for Innovating Curriculum with EntrepreneurialMindset. They have had a number of short meetings on one topic. We have had faculty attendworksops on: • Materials engineering • Engineering mechanics • Engineering ethicsThe first author made a presentation at the engineering ethics meeting8.The network is now sponsoring multiday ICE workshops on entrepreneurial minded learning,active and

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Rose Morehouse, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ; Thomas P. James P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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mindset (KEEN,2018). Across the country, undergraduate engineering programs are pursuing the integration ofentrepreneurial studies within STEM curriculum. Private and public institutions aresupplementing a didactic education (e.g. earning a Minor in Entrepreneurship) with co-curricularactivities, such as encouraging engineering student participation in related student organizations,in themed living learning communities, in entrepreneurship competitions, in internships atstartups, and in networking events with alumni entrepreneurs, to name a few. Finally, within thelast few years, there has been an upsurge in physical spaces created to support on-campusstartups and networking with entrepreneurs-in-residence. These so called co-working spaces

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From Entrepreneurship Education to Market

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donte Harris, Southern Illinois university Edwardsville; Sohyung Cho, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; H. Felix Lee, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Kevin M. Hubbard, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Luis T. Youn, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

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design and planning, and computer simulation and OR. He renovated the indus- trial and manufacturing engineering curriculum with introduction of CAD/CAM/CAE and 3D modeling applications to manufacturing systems, and has taught Boeing engineers on the subjects for 12 years. He was a recipient of a NSF/MRI grant on developing a supply-chain manufacturing system and a NSF re- search grant on developing an integrated design-aid tool for flexible manufacturing systems. He authored a book on CAD on Unigraphics: Engineering Design in Computer Integrated Design and Manufacturing. His papers appear in numerous refereed journals, books, and proceedings. In 2004, he organized the CAD/CAM/CAE student design contest in the PLM

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan John Washuta P.E., The Citadel; Patrick Bass, The Citadel

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implemented for the first time in the 2018-19 academic yearacross a two-semester senior capstone course. In this implementation, the e-learning module andinitial guest lectures preceded the initial business competition rounds in order to encourage andsupport student teams in their efforts to develop and communicate their business startup ideas,with the ultimate goal being the encouragement of engineering entrepreneurship. Studentperceptions and self-assessment results are presented in order to quantify the effects ofcombining multiple business modules into a single course sequence.IntroductionIncorporating entrepreneurship education into the engineering curriculum has seen a significantincrease in recent years [1]. ASME Vision 2030, an effort to

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Leadership, Design, and Entrepreneurship

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jameel Ahmed, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Samuel N. Peffers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon M. Sexton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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co-curricular experience. Thisintegration highlights for students that leadership does not exist separately from their technicalwork but is integral to it. We also avoided the common faculty concern about adding additionalcourses to an already crowded technical curriculum. Second, the range of experiences among theLAP team helps bring a diversity of perspectives and abilities to the development of students’leadership. In this way, students can see firsthand that leadership skills as they are embodied bymembers of the LAP team, each of whom is a leader in his or her own right.Drawing on successful leadership development models at other institutions, the Rose-HulmanLAP is comprised of five components: Leadership Academy, Leadership Case

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 10

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian E. Moyer, University of Pittsburgh - Johnstown

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and mentors from otheruniversities. It is hoped that descriptions of lessons learned and anecdotal evidence of successesmay benefit other institutions attempting to more closely integrate entrepreneurial concepts withengineering education.IntroductionThere is an increasing interest and demand from students across the country for entrepreneurshipeducation. As highlighted in a recent New York Times article1, the number of college courses inentrepreneurship has risen from only about 250 in 1985 to so many that more than 400,000students were enrolled in such courses by 20132. According to the Chronicle for HigherEducation, “Colleges are responding to this interest, and fueling it, by offering moreundergraduate courses, programs, and

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A. Karanian, Stanford University; Mona Eskandari, Stanford University; Ville Taajamaa, University of Turku

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entrepreneurial need for engagementIntroduction Someone recently asked me, “What do you do in your class? I mean, I walk intoyour classroom, sit down, then what happens?” Ok, I thought, I know how to answer thisquestion: I wanted to enthusiastically explain the structure of the class as a theoreticalblend of psychology, engineering design methods and art; discuss the intentional purposeof building the curriculum iteratively and differently every term, based on the uniquedeveloping social dynamics 13, 41 of every class. Something stopped me and I resisted responding. In that moment, I rememberfeeling the need to shift from an automatic theoretical response 48 to some other,hopefully novel approach, that would underline how I teach; clarify