Conference Session

Assessing Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

appropriate (e.g.,the type of uncertainty) and inappropriate (e.g., the size of the business) reasons to pursueeffectual or causal approaches.FES is targeted for use in engineering education and with engineering students. The instrumentuses a novel construction that employs the factorial survey technique 14 to empirically measure 1how students situate their decision making, rather than simply exploring their cognition withoutattention to context or within a single, typically entrepreneurial, situation, about which results aregeneralized.. This paper details the instrument’s intended use, a pilot study of the instruments’structure, sensitivity, and

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Joseph Zorychta, University of Virginia; Elizabeth P. Pyle MBA, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

robustwith certificates, minors, and undergraduate and graduate degree programs [1]. These are stilllargely classroom based, incorporating lectures, guest speakers, case studies, and groupdiscussion [31,32]. The curricular programs expose students to a wide range of subjects anentrepreneur may need, mainly focused around business education, so they may develop as abusiness generalist [1,33,34]. Many other places outside of business schools are offeringentrepreneurship education, most prevalently in the engineering schools [1].Educating the entrepreneur to be a generalist probably comes from the notion that entrepreneursneed to be able to cut across several disciplines to mobilize resources toward an end goal [6]. Italso may be based off of models