Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Evaluating Student Behaviors and Attitudes

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Reid Brown, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon M. Sipes, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

publication to publication, we defineentrepreneurs as individuals with the skills necessary to explore and develop new product ideasand leaders as those with the ability to guide a group of people to the accomplishment of a task.Regardless of variations in how both of these terms are defined, a common thread among what isnecessary to be an entrepreneur or a leader is the ability to work effectively with others in orderto solve problems. In this paper, we discuss the implementation and assessment of a LeadershipAcademy that aims to build communication, teamwork and problem solving skills inundergraduate students at a technical university. The academy is part of a larger, entrepreneurial-focused program run through the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Evaluating Student Behaviors and Attitudes

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Atkins, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Julian Ernesto Martinez-Moreno, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Lalit Patil, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Kimber J Andrews, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign ; Maryalice S. Wu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Debasish Dutta, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Barbara Hug, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Liora Bresler

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

President for Academic Affairs at Purdue University. He is also a professor of mechanical engineering. Prior to this, he served as Dean of the Graduate College at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering (2009-2014) and on the faculty of mechanical engineering at University of Michigan (1989-2009). He has also served as Acting Director of the Division of Graduate Education and IGERT Program Director at NSF.Dr. Barbara Hug, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Hug is a clinical associate professor with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at UIUC. She is interested in developing and using curriculum materials that