definitely a new approach resulting in a different method of recruiting faculty for mentoringthe teams.In order to “quick start” the integration of innovation into the engineering curriculum, we createdan overall strategy of starting with piloting a Freshman class, then piloting a SeniorDesign/Capstone class, then providing pathways from the Freshman class (two semester class) tothe Senior Design/Capstone class. The concept was to introduce the key elements of innovationin the first year, including results and recommendations from [6] and [8] and the experiencesfrom an existing Freshman research class, expand on key aspects from the Freshman innovationclass in existing sophomore- and junior-level major-specific classes (again using the results
graduates to become entrepreneurs. Even for those with a more conventionalcareer path, entrepreneurial skills and an entrepreneurial way of looking at problems will helpthem to maximize their professional success.Of course, practically all engineering programs are already overloaded with critical learningobjectives ranging from highly technical skills to highly interpersonal and communication skills.As a result, it can be a great challenge to find an opportunity to incorporate even a small amountof entrepreneurship into an existing engineering curriculum.The authors present an ongoing effort at their university to integrate entrepreneurial projects andmodules directly into required ECE courses in all four years of the curriculum. The effort
AC 2009-1825: INCORPORATING AN ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET INFRESHMAN ENGINEERING STUDENTSSridhar Condoor, Saint Louis UniversityMark McQuilling, Saint Louis University Page 14.716.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009An engineer equipped with an entrepreneurial mindset contributes to business success, makeshis/her company more competitive, and is generally more aware of business and professionalopportunity. To instill an entrepreneurial mindset in our engineering programs (aerospace,biomedical, electrical, and mechanical engineering), we started exposing our students from veryearly i.e., the first semester of the freshmen year. We developed and deployed a module
be accessible to all schools with minimal resources orchanges to core curriculum and maximal flexibility of implementation. The KEEN Modules willmature into building exactly those deliverables for students and for the academic community.4. Conclusion and Future WorkTo our knowledge EVS is the first online learning environment built to support students Page 24.512.7throughout the major rather than in an individual class. Our goals parallel those of learningcommunities, here with community building used to foster early integrative thought, betweenfoundational material and real-world relevance, and initial scholarly and pre-professional
Paper ID #28757A Vertically Integrated Portfolio Process to Foster EntrepreneurialMindset Within an Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering CurriculumDr. Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology Cristi L. Bell-Huff, PhD is a Lecturer in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University where she is involved in teaching and engineering education inno- vation and research. In addition to her PhD in Chemical Engineering, she also has an MA in Educational Studies. She has industrial experience in pharmaceutical product and process development as well as teaching experience
been shown to helpthe student connect theory with a practical application that increases the relevance of thepotential solution8. Case-based instructional methods have long been used in engineeringeducation, almost exclusively in the context of ethics where “there is widespread agreement thatthe best way to teach professional ethics is by using cases.”9Less common is the use of the case study method to integrate business learning, specificallyentrepreneurship concepts, with core engineering curriculum. Weaver and Rayess,10 on behalf ofthe KEEN Network, have developed a series of short case studies across a variety ofentrepreneurial situations that are incorporated into various engineering courses. Garcia et al.11tested an entrepreneurial case
, computer-aided design, kinematics and dynamics of machinery, and manufacturing science. He received his BSME from Ohio Northern University and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Notre Dame. Current interests include bone tissue mechanics, engineering pedagogy, and robotic football. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Integrating Entrepreneurial Mindset into First-Year Engineering Curriculum through Active Learning ExercisesAbstractEntrepreneurial principles have been an increasing focus of undergraduate engineering curriculaat multiple levels of integration. Here, the Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) has been integratedinto a first-year, general engineering
’ retention. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Integrating Innovation Curriculum - Measuring Student Innovation to Assess Course and Program EffectivenessAbstractThe USA is falling behind other nations in innovation, creating serious threat to the health,stability, and influence of our country. Industry is desperate to hire engineers able to innovate,and universities are developing programs to instill the innovative mindset required to improveglobal competitiveness [1].Innovation requires collaboration between engineering, business, and creativity to realisticallyprepare students to be innovators. Researchers at the University of Arkansas's College ofEngineering and Sam M
Paper ID #31751WIP: Integrating the Entrepreneurial Mindset into a SoftwareRequirements CourseDr. Walter W Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering Walter Schilling is a Professor in the Software Engineering program at the Milwaukee School of Engi- neering in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his B.S.E.E. from Ohio Northern University and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Toledo. He worked for Ford Motor Company and Visteon as an Embedded Software Engineer for several years prior to returning for doctoral work. He has spent time at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and consulted for multiple embedded
Engineering Education at Rowan University. Prior to beginning that role, she spent five years as an Instructor in the Mechanical Engineering and Experiential Engineering Education Departments at Rowan. Kaitlin has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and an MS and PhD in Environmental Engineering in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois.Mr. Bruce Oestreich, Rowan UniversityDr. Ted Howell, Rowan UniversityDr. Jennifer Tole, Rowan University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Integrating Entrepreneurial Mindset in a Multidisciplinary Course on Engineering Design and Technical CommunicationThe engineering curriculum at Rowan University includes a
Kid trained schools see results using quality processes”. For more information please visit the Koalaty Kid website at http://www.asq.org/edu/kkid/whatis.html She has volunteered at several local organization including the Lafayette Adult Resource Academy and the Hanna Center. Page 11.368.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Creating an Innovation Continuum in the Engineering Curriculum: EPICS and the EPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative1. IntroductionEngineering Projects in Community Service – EPICS – is an engineering design program thatoperates in a service-learning
AC 2010-32: A MODEL FOR INTEGRATING ENTREPRENEURIALINNOVATION INTO AN ENGINEERING CAPSTONEDavid Wells, North Dakota State University David L. Wells has been Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at North Dakota State University since January 2000. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in process engineering and production engineering systems design and in product innovation and entrepreneurialism. His instruction is characterized by heavy reliance upon project-based, design-centric learning. Course projects are drawn from real industrial applications with real industrial constraints, often interactive with a corporate sponsor. Students are challenged to design
refereed publications and over $16 million in funded grant proposals.Dr. Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas, El Paso An Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at El Paso, Dr. Meagan R. Kendall is helping develop a new Engineering Leadership Program to enable students to bridge the gap between traditional engineer- ing education and what they will really experience in industry. With a background in both engineering education and design thinking, her research focuses on how Hispanic students develop an identity as an engineer, methods for enhancing student motivation, and methods for involving students in curriculum development and teaching through Peer Designed Instruction. c
skills in order to becomebetter at identifying opportunities to create value. An entrepreneurial mindset will allow them touse their technical skills effectively in turning opportunity to an achievement that has societaland economic value. Engineering students with entrepreneurial training are therefore expected tobegin their career with a competitive advantage. To develop entrepreneurial engineers, theTagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven is enriching its curriculum byintegrating e-learning modules into regular engineering courses. When complete, there will be 18e-learning modules targeting various entrepreneurial concepts and skills based on the KEENFramework. In this paper, the approach of integrating the e-learning
multi-media presentations on leadership, diversity and opportunity at various military installations in Colorado and Wyoming. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Integrating Entrepreneurial Minded Learning in Electronic Design CourseAbstractIn recent years, more universities and faculty are engaged in incorporating entrepreneurialminded learning (EML) into the engineering curriculum. However, it is not easy for students tobuild up entrepreneurial skills within one course or a couple of courses in an already crowdedengineering program. The College of Engineering (CoE) decided to embed entrepreneurial skillsin engineering learning activities for a number of courses throughout the program
this discipline is how to structure the curriculum andpedagogy to ignite or reinforce entrepreneurial attitudes. This might well be the most importantattribute that an entrepreneurship educational program can instill in the students.Entrepreneurship education should cause students to think, feel, and act entrepreneurial; toeventually become entrepreneurs. As we attempt to assess an entrepreneurship education program, we frame our researchquestion around: Does entrepreneurship education make students more entrepreneurial? Theoperational parameter we chose to measure is entrepreneurial attitude. To inform practice, wealso explored the respective contribution of curriculum, pedagogy, and instructional environmentin facilitating changes in
AC 2009-766: LEADERSHIP MODELS AND PRACTICES COURSE: STUDENTPERCEPTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT OF LEADERSHIP SKILLS ANDINCORPORATION OF A NEW LEADERSHIP COURSEAndrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University Andrew Gerhart is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He is actively involved in ASEE, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. He serves as Faculty Advisor for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Chapter at LTU, and serves as chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee.Melissa Grunow, Lawrence Technological University Melissa Grunow is the Coordinator for the Leadership
AC 2009-2070: UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENT ATTITUDESTOWARD ENTREPRENEURSHIPAndrew Borchers, Kettering UniversitySung Hee Park, Kettering University Page 14.1289.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Entrepreneurial Self Efficacy, Locus of Control and Intent to Start a Business: An Expanded Study in an Engineering SchoolsAbstract This study extends the authors prior work on student attitudes towards entrepreneurship in a Midwestern US engineering school. Based on prior work by Chen (1998) and Rotter (1966), the study measures entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) with 22 items, locus of
concept aboutconductors or capacitance. Before the lecture began, they were required to trade the cards withanother student and then provide an elevator pitch on the educational concept and how it wasapplied. While this was not taking the technical information and placing it in a new context, itwas an attempt to get students to think outside the box in terms of how they could learn thematerial. As such, it coaxed students into considering perspectives beyond their own and hadthem integrate information from different sources which is a key aspect to the Connectionsoutcome of the KEEN framework.“A World with Infinite Conductance” was a post lecture problem-based learning activitydesigned to get the students to apply the concept of conductors to
AC 2008-1354: CREATING AN ENTREPRENEURIAL CULTURE IN ANENGINEERING UNIVERSITYPaul A. Nelson, Michigan Technological University Dr. Paul A. Nelson is Associate Professor of Economics and Engineering Management in the School of Business at Michigan Technological University, with a PhD in Industrial Organization Economics from the University of Wisconsin. In the 1970s and 1980, he was the Director of a graduate program in Business Administration designed for engineering students. Also, he administered a one-year second undergraduate degree program in Engineering Management for engineering students. He supervised many Master of Science projects which dealt with starting businesses and
Mar P´erez-Sanagust´ın is a researcher and Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile and the Director of the Engineering Education Division at the same university. Her research interests are technology-enhanced learning, engineering education, MOOCs and b-learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018A Methodology to Involve Students in the Evaluation of an EngineeringCurriculum in Design, Entrepreneurship and InnovationA Methodology to Involve Students in the Evaluation of an Engineering Curriculum inDesign, Entrepreneurship and InnovationAbstract Engineering schools have created courses and concentrations to train students
dedicated to training faculty in entrepreneurially-mindedteaching pedagogies, curriculum modification, and facilitating collaborations with like-mindedinstitutions, KEEN works to enable the development of engineers that, along with their technicalskillset, exhibit an EM. Why is this mindset so valuable in engineering education?Much like during the generation of the Lawrence brothers, it is today’s engineers with anenterprising attitude that will make their impact on the world by investigating it with aninsatiable curiosity and by integrating their discoveries with their own knowledge andexperiences to develop truly innovative solutions that meet the needs of a rapidly changing world[2]. The KEEN framework [3] serves to describe the behaviors
. Page 24.229.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Biassociation for the Entrepreneurial Engineering CurriculumAbstractDespite the apparent benefits of fostering creativity, the question largely remains at how todevelop and deliver a curriculum that can stimulate such innovative thinking. Several modelshave developed on an attempt to ground creative thinking and its usage such as schema theoryfrom Bartlett, Johansson’s Medici Effect, Koestler’s biassociation or Tom Kelley’s faces ofinnovation. While the first three focused more on the structure and processes of innovation,Kelley’s work took a more personal approach, defining several characters that play differentroles in the creative process
engineering, management, and business skills to successfully integrate an increasinglycomplex body of knowledge for the rapid introduction of new products to the marketplace. Theintegrated program between the College of Engineering and the College of BusinessAdministration at UT prepares its graduates for two different, yet closely related, career paths:one geared toward becoming an entrepreneur and initiating new start-up companies, and theother focused on taking a lead management role in existing companies where the forces ofcompetition require rapid changes in design and manufacturing for a short product developmentcycle. Although the MS-MBA program at UT is still in its infancy, its curriculum and productidea base are continually being reinforced
Entrepreneurship. Prior to joining the faculty at Lehigh, Dr. Lehman developed and grew new entrepreneurship programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Juniata College. Dr. Lehman holds a B.S. from Juniata College, an M.D. from the Penn State College of Medicine, and an M.B.A. from the Leeds University of Business School in England. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Dedicated Curriculum, Space and Faculty: M.Eng. in Technical EntrepreneurshipAbstractThe Master's of Engineering in Technical Entrepreneurship (TE), offered through theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics in the P.C. Rossin College ofEngineering and Applied Science at Lehigh
Education Network(KEEN) and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), with a broadmandate to undertake a first-time effort to instill the ideas of entrepreneurship in the minds of ourfaculty and students. Faced with the challenge of integrating entrepreneurship into an alreadyambitious engineering curriculum, we decided to focus our resources on activities that wouldbring together business and engineering students, two groups that normally do not interact intheir course of study, to work together on a design project.ChallengesWhile there is agreement around campus that a focus on entrepreneurship is both a timely and aworthy undertaking, there are significant obstacles to be overcome in order to achieve our goal.The
responsible for delivering thesubject matter.A complete project evaluation was an integral part of this course. The class project utilizedPEEP®, a widely used industry software package for economic evaluations. PEEP® software isindustry specific software that generates production and economic information for decisionmaking purposes for oil and gas companies. Not only did it contribute to a substantial part of thestudent’s grade, but also it tied many of the different subject areas together. It helpeddemonstrate to the students how the engineering and business aspects were related and oftendependent on the other (e.g., information regarding financing or costs was needed in order tomake engineering decisions). The students were required to work in
24-27, 2018.[9] V.R. Mehta, D.R. Mikesell, “Implementing entrepreneurial-minded learning (EML) in a manufacturingprocesses course,” Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, June 24-27,2018.[10] H. Park, “Fostering and establishing an engineering entrepreneurial mindset through freshman engineeringdiscovery courses integrated with an entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) pedagogic approach,” Proceedings ofthe 2017 FYEE Conference, Daytona Beach, FL, August 6-8, 2017.[11] M.J. Rust, “Is there a global market for blood glucose monitors?” [Online]. Available:https://engineeringunleashed.com/cards/cardview.aspx?CardGuid=0adb727d-1429-400e-b1b5-5f7fb50ddd77[12] D.E. Melton, “Stacking entrepreneurially
Paper ID #12723Integrating Entrepreneurship into Capstone Design: An Exploration of Fac-ulty Perceptions and PracticesMs. Victoria Matthew, VentureWell Victoria Matthew is Senior Program Officer for Faculty Development at VentureWell, where she plays a lead role in the Pathways to Innovation Program, Epicenter’s faculty development and engagement strategy. She designs in-person and online convenings, engages experts, and curates content that foster the Pathways faculty goals of integrating entrepreneurship and innovation into undergraduate engineering. Prior to joining VentureWell, Victoria worked for over a decade in
integrated into courses spanning all four years in seven ABET accredited engineering and computer science BS programs.Dr. Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven Nadiye O. Erdil, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering and engineering and oper- ations management at the University of New Haven. She has over eleven years of experience in higher education and has held several academic positions including administrative appointments. She has ex- perience in teaching at the undergraduate and the graduate level. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Erdil worked as an engineer in sheet metal manufacturing and pipe fabrication industry for five years. She holds B.S. in Computer Engineering, M.S. in