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Entrepreneurship and Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Wells, North Dakota State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

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

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Post BS Entrepreneurship Education Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance; Phil Weilerstein, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Katharine Golding, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

coursework or through extracurricular activities(e.g., participation in a business plan competition, creating a written business plan, givingan elevator pitch to an audience, or completing an internship in a start-up company).Modules and Extracurricular Experiences. While the approach described here focusedon examining the more visible and formal entrepreneurship learning experiences such ascourses and programs, many students gain experiences in other ways. Some engineeringschools, rather than offer a stand alone course in entrepreneurship, integrate modules inone or more existing engineering courses. This approach allows entrepreneurship to beintroduced repeatedly and in the context of a specific engineering topic area. Otherapproaches at larger

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Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Santarelli, Cal State Fresno

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

investigate industry and community needs for engineering educationin the high desert in order to inform the university’s planning and decision making.Research Questions Tyler’s9 seminal work in curriculum development provided the basis for developing theresearch questions for this exploratory study. The issues surrounding affiliation and the ability toset goals and accomplish informed decision making can best be accomplished within theframework of Tyler’s 4 questions and Dewey’s description of the fundamental sources ofeducational objectives as related by Tanner and Tanner10. The research questions for this studywere6: 1. What is the demographic information provided by regional organizations that would support an engineering program at a

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Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Keynton, University of Louisville; James Fiet, University of Louisville; Pankaj Patel, Ball State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

31 out of 31business plans according to their expected financial performance. This program was anexperiment to see if the search model can improve the odds of aspiring PhD entrepreneurs todevelop successful business ventures in the growing biomedical device industry.The program consists of three integrated components incorporating the search model: (1) anInnovation Training Program for researchers and PhD level graduate bioengineering students; (2)an Innovative Research Fund to provide “discovery grants” for early stage research projects; and,(3) the Business Development Network to assist innovators with one-stop shopping forpatenting, determining market feasibility, business planning, licensing, and new business start-ups (Figure 1).PhD

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New Methods and Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Duncan Moore, University of Rochester

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

in the school ofengineering and is offered with the support of the Fuqua School of Business and the School ofLaw. The program prepares engineering and science graduates to become future industryleaders. The core curriculum consists of marketing, finance, intellectual property and businesslaw, and management, similar to key courses in an MBA curriculum. Technical electives provideflexibility to focus on technology management, innovation management, operationsmanagement, entrepreneurship, financial engineering or master’s courses in specific engineeringdisciplines.Dartmouth’s Master of Engineering Management (M.E.M.) program5 is a professional degreeprogram administered out of the Thayer School of Engineering. M.E.M. engineering andmanagement

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Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phil Schlosser, Ohio State University; John Merrill, The Ohio State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

business students are both attracted to and motivated byentrepreneurial learning opportunities very early in their college careers.IntroductionThere is ongoing discussion among engineering educators regarding whether or not engineeringstudents should be exposed to business subjects in order to better prepare them for engineeringcareers.1 And, if so, what would be the best way to integrate such material into the traditionalengineering curriculum? The issue of teaching entrepreneurship (how to start a company) toengineering students is even more complex, since few engineering faculty have had actualstartup experiences and only a small percentage of engineering graduates will go on to start theirown company sometime during their career.And yet

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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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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

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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New Methods and Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Reimer, Lawrence Technological University; Margaret Pierce, Lawrence Tech University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

understand the key elementsof strategic planning, and be exposed to the operational challenges of the company, includingfailures and successes. This EIP at Lawrence Tech fosters the involvement of companiesfounded and operated by entrepreneurial alumni. The Legends of Lawrence Tech is anorganization of entrepreneurial alumni that has taken a strong interest in the EIP.Internship ProgramsAt the heart of a strong internship experience is the ability to integrate concepts and theories thatare taught in a classroom setting and bring those concepts to a higher level of understandingthrough observation and practice in an actual work environment. At Drexel University co-opactivities are integrated into every student’s experience. They point-out the value

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Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Gregory Leman, Baylor University; William Jordan, Baylor University; Brian Garner, Baylor University; Brian Thomas, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

ProgramBaylor University was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Kern Family Foundation in July 2008,and became a member of the Kern Entrepreneurial Education Network (KEEN). The grant wasto extend the work done in integrating entrepreneurship with engineering & computer science inthree specific ways: 1. Implementation of an intense hands-on, coached learning classroom style to accelerate skill acquisition and demonstration (the SuperCoach® curriculum) in the existing two- course sequence; 2. Creation of a KEEN Innovators program to assist faculty in embedding entrepreneurial content into their engineering and computer science courses; and 3. Formalizing a Technology Entrepreneurship (TE) certificate for engineers and

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Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; David Barbe, University of Maryland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

creative, inventive, and innovative thinking, at FAU, UMD and JHU. Thematerial is based on a continuously improved/modified curriculum. This includes common sense,intuition, imagination, teaming, thinking, diversity, and communication activities; problemexploration, risk taking activities, and team-based competitions; student presentations anddiscussions; projects, teasers and 3-d puzzles.Students helped in putting these sources together. We learned a lot by observing studentsdiscovering problems, trying to solve them, facing and resolving difficulties, taking risks,struggling under time constraints, and presenting their work. Of great advantage was an exercisewhere student teams prepared videos on their perception of innovation (published on

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Entrepreneurship and Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University; Tom Merrill, Rowan University; Leigh Weiss, Rowan University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

efforts to integrate entrepreneurship into the Sophomore Engineering Clinic,presenting projects that support the design and communication goals of Sophomore EngineeringClinics, and increasing the interest in the existing entrepreneurial program. It details two specificassignments that challenge students to generate ideas for new products and research theirfeasibility: a semester-long entrepreneurial design project and a white paper. The paperdiscusses how these entrepreneurial activities lay the groundwork for more students to pursueentrepreneurial Jr/Sr Clinic projects, while also providing an excellent mechanism for achievingthe primary educational objectives of Sophomore Clinic.II. The Engineering Clinics at Rowan UniversityRowan University

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Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica Cardella, Purdue University; Robert Davis, Purdue University; Shripad Revankar, Purdue University; Loring Nies, Purdue University; Carolyn Percifield, Purdue University; Leah Jamieson, Purdue University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

–PolarityManagement2and Creative Problem Solving3 – have been adopted in combination with BlueOcean Strategy.In the remainder of the paper, we describe each of the three tools (Blue Ocean Strategy, PolarityManagement and Creative Problem Solving) in more detail. Additionally, we describe theprocess that our College used to combine the tools in an integrated strategic planning process andthe approach that our College used to implement this strategic planning process through thecareful formation of teams and the support provided to these teams.2. The Tools: Blue Ocean Strategy, Polarity Management and Creative Problem SolvingBlue Ocean Strategy1A primary goal of the Blue Ocean Strategy is to identify and createuncontested market spaces—industries and offerings