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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Johnson, Valparaiso University; Mark Budnik, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

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

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sridhar Condoor, Saint Louis University; Mark McQuilling, Saint Louis University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

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

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hak Tam, University of California, Santa Barbara; Gary Hansen, University of California, Santa Barbara; Sally Blomstrom, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Peter Robinson, Utah Valley University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

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

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Melissa Grunow, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

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

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Borchers, Kettering University; Sung Hee Park, Kettering University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

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

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Entrepreneurship Education: Crossdisciplinary Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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sasikumar naidu, University of Tennessee; Prasanna Venkateswara Rao, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Paul Frymier, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Spivey Douglas, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Gary Smith, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Masood Parang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Rapinder Sawhney, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

of students studying both engineering and business, and to direct those skillsto product development. The intent was not merely to allow students to receive twograduate degrees in a compressed time frame, but to tightly integrate the two degrees sothat multidisciplinary student teams would be able to develop an industrial product all theway from concept to market. The students obtained a Master of Business Administration[MBA] degree and a Master of Science [MS] degree in an engineering discipline in 23months. The students worked in teams and were expected to have developed a concept, abusiness plan, a marketing plan and a prototype for a marketable product by completionof the program.Development of two new graduate courses: ≠ Product

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Entrepreneurship Education: Innovation, International Cooperation, and Social Entrepreneurship

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Gregory Leman, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

culturallyimmersive China context. It is these experiences, skills, and opportunities that have beendeemed necessary to prepare graduates for the rapidly globalizing and highly technicalworld they are entering according to industry and the Accreditation Board forEngineering & Technology (ABET). Success factors include: • The transition to an experiential learning curriculum that cross-cultural, multidisciplinary student teams employ in assessing new ventures and internal growth opportunities presented by startup or established firms, • The inclusion of an executive education style workshop attended by sponsor firm personnel, and Page

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Entrepreneurship Education: Experiential Learning and Economic Development II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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W. Andrew Clark, East Tennessee State University; Craig A. Turner, East Tennessee State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

knowledge stocks, and why these behaviors result in different opportunityrecognition and exploitation abilities.” Li et al2 used Innovative Learning Solutions, Inc,The Web Marketplace, as an integral part of their MBA Marketing Curriculum andobserved that “the current generation of business students, growing up in a socialenvironment that is progressively interactive and communication intensive, expects amore stimulating educational experience to maintain interest, concentration level, andmotivation.”. Their experience with the marketing simulation program parallels ourexperience in that the students, regardless of their age, love the dynamics of taking acompany from the creation of a global industry inception through a growth phase whilemanaging

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Entrepreneurship Education: Experiential Learning and Economic Development II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Reimer, Lawrence Technological University; Ahad Ali, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. All of these skills are an integral part of ourentrepreneurial and leadership curriculum. Our students participate in E-Teams, Senior Projects,Invention 2 Venture Seminars, Alumni Entrepreneurial Lecture Series, Element One VehicleProject, Formula One Competition and Solar Decathlon.Event One – Chicago Entrepreneurial QuestThe Innovation Quest was held on Friday, April 11, 2008 at the downtown campus of the IllinoisInstitute of Technology. All of the activities associated with the Quest were held in thedowntown Chicago area.The event began with an orientation at 8:30 AM on the day of the event. Each team and theirfaculty advisor participated in the orientation. Instruction kits were distributed to each teamleader. Four team members performed

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Entrepreneurship Education: Experiential Learning and Economic Development I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Zidek, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

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 Town Hall Meeting: Supporting University Priorities

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Martin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

with the ‘teacherless education’-example. This is anexample which could be characterized as ‘live experimenting’, meaning that the instructors areperforming an experiment with their students without either prior information or consent. In thepaper describing the experiment, the author provides all information necessary to reproduce thesetup, including the course curriculum and other info. Even if the experiment itself is a majoreffort to reproduce, the article could be used in education to elaborate a discussion abouteducation in creativity.ConclusionsOur ambition has been to find, investigate, evaluate and present what we have defined as rolemodels for education in product innovation, to serve as examples for our continuous work

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Entrepreneurship Education: Innovation, International Cooperation, and Social Entrepreneurship

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pritpal Singh, Villanova University; William Hurley, Villanova University; Edmond Dougherty, Villanova University; James Klingler, Villanova University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

cost labor regions, particularly India and China, there is a realconcern that the US-educated engineering student of the 21st century must be educated ina different way to the traditional engineering curriculum. The United States still leads theworld in terms of having a complete vertically integrated infrastructure supportingbusiness development. The elements of this infrastructure include a supportive culture forentrepreneurship, small business financing vehicles, intellectual property protectionand a supportive business tax and legislative structure. Yet with all this support, not manyuniversities provide entrepreneurship education to undergraduates within their curricula.Some universities that do include Lehigh University, the University

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Entrepreneurship Education: Experiential Learning and Economic Development II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Moshe Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Timothy VanEpps, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

for small and large scale changes in its content, the curriculum,and the participation of different faculty and invited scholars from different disciplines and institutions.This particular feature of the program will lead to a change in the university academic culture, i.e., it willencourage the faculty to take calculated risks, be more innovative and to experiment with differentteaching methods, allowing for amplification of knowledge and techniques into other, more traditionalprograms, thereby having a long-term effect on students and society.Related work This proposed program assumes a general understanding of the term innovation, like the definitionby the 3M Company “new ideas plus action or implementation which results in an