Conference Session

Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Programs and Program Assessment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Mason, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the design process. Design increasinglyincludes the voice of the customer, financial considerations and production and supplychain issues. The role of the engineer in the cross functional teams that do new productand process development is greatly facilitated when that engineer understands the overallpicture from idea conception to an adequate number of satisfied customers.There are also other practical incentives for the engineer’s bag of tools to includeentrepreneurial skills. Employment in Fortune 500 companies has been going down fordecades, and engineers are increasingly finding themselves in small and medium sizedenterprises. Most new jobs have been occurring in small and medium sized companies,especially those that are young and

Conference Session

Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phil Weilerstein, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance; Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

family support services, identifying and disseminating best practices and policies. A graduate of Williams College, she Holds an Ed.M from Harvard University and a PhD in in Educational Psychology from Boston College and has taught courses and workshops in applied research to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates at Boston College and Wheelock College. Page 13.30.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Decade of Technological Innovation: A Retrospective View of the First Decade of the NCIIAAbstractThe role of entrepreneurship in engineering, science

Conference Session

Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Blessing, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Kristen Mekemson, Kern Family Foundation; David Pistrui, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

by supporting the creation ofprograms that develop technical leaders with strong skills and an entrepreneurial mindset inundergraduate engineering programs at select private U.S. colleges and universities. KEENschools cooperatively identify best practices in entrepreneurship education at the undergraduatelevel and share these practices among institutions.The long-term goal is for these new KEEN engineers to catalyze a transformation in theworkforce and to build economic and technical commerce in their communities.2.4 – Launching the Kern Entrepreneurship Education NetworkTwenty-four universities were invited to the KEEN inaugural meeting on October 7, 2005 inIndianapolis, Indiana. Eligible institutions consisted of private Midwestern

Conference Session

Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harpal Dhillon, Excelsior College; Salahuddin Qazi, SUNY Institute of Technology; Sohail Anwar, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

commercial developer. Ina report concerning best practices for nanotechnology commercialization, Waitz andBukhari (4) pointed out that the most currently visible nanotech company, Narcosis wasformed through the licensing of Intellectual Property (IP) from universities, where theworld’s leaders in nanoscience academics and research are resident. Michael Darby andLynne Zucken, in a study conducted for the National Bureau of Economic Research (5),stated that 70 % of university inventions cannot be utilized without the involvement of theinventor. The inventor team generally consists of university faculty members and studentswho conduct research. This background and overview of the commercialization process fornanotechnology, highlights the need for

Conference Session

Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. The authors’ research into existing entrepreneurship case materialsrevealed a large number of cases, but several factors led us to develop our own case studiesrather than try to adopt those existing cases. These factors include: • The focus of the case studies is mainly on the business and entrepreneurship aspects as opposed to on application of engineering principles in an entrepreneurial venture (though many of the products are highly technical in nature). • The desire for the author’s to engage area technical entrepreneurs to begin to build relationships with that community. • Many of the cases are quite long (i.e., would take more class time than the authors envision being available – at least before the idea