educators.Our quantitative study is based on a dataset of 559 early-career engineering graduates whoparticipated in the Engineering Majors Survey (EMS). EMS is a longitudinal U.S. nationwidesurvey designed to explore engineering students’ and then later graduates’ technical,innovation, and entrepreneurial interests and experiences. Innovative behavior outcomes areanalyzed considering socio-demographic characteristics such as gender and underrepresentedracial/ethnic minority (URM) status, and characteristics of the workplace such as industryand company size. Furthermore, we elaborate on the interrelation of innovative behavior andleadership responsibility.We find no significant differences in innovative behavior of female and male engineeringgraduates
joined the Designing Edu- cation Lab to learn more about the drivers of entrepreneurial career goals of students and entrepreneurship in general. Since 2016 he is working full-time for Celonis, an innovative Process Mining software com- pany based in Munich.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading
additional experience of customer discovery assistedthe RL in tailoring the research objectives and taught the faculty and graduate student mentorabout the commercial potential of this project.Case Study of the effects of combining REU research activities and I-Corps site customerdiscovery activities:Harvest-to-harvest: Novel clay-based adsorbents for poultry litter: The REU students processedand evaluated the efficacy of natural clay-based adsorbents to harvest phosphates and ammoniumions from poultry litter, and explored its application as a fertilizer. Besides turning a waste into auseful product, this waste management solution is expected to help poultry producers reduce thelevels of ammonia in chicken farm houses, thereby reducing energy
Paper ID #13330Exploring the Interest and Intention of Entrepreneurship in Engineering AlumniMiss Janna Rodriguez, Stanford University Janna Rodriguez is a third year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Her re- search focus on exploring how engineering students, both undergraduates and graduates, can be prepared to become entrepreneurs and innovators in the corporate sector.Dr. Helen L. Chen, Stanford University Helen L. Chen is a research scientist in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of ePortfolio Initiatives in the Office of the
., postsecondary education, private industry,government), and roles (e.g., undergraduate and graduate students, faculty members,academic administrators, program officers, chief executives). These individuals were either Page 26.746.6personal contacts (individuals whom we had met prior to or through Epicenter activities) orsuggested to us by other invitees. This process resembled chain-referral data collectionmethods in social science research.5Design-wise, once our attendee list came into shape, we structured our agenda such that allattendees were placed on a single, unitary track of sessions, as opposed to having parallelsession tracks that attendees would
possess an ‘entrepreneurial mindset’. Considering the significant financial and time investments involved in the creation ofentrepreneurship programs, institutional funding competitions, and accelerator programs, it isnotable that there are no in-depth, qualitative studies that explore the entrepreneurshipexperiences students have because of these programs. In general, there is very little research onthe personal impacts of these experiences including how they can affect an engineering student’sattitudes, behaviors, career goals, or personal competence (Duval-Coetil, Reed-Rhoads, &Haghighi, 2011). There is also no consensus on what developing an ‘entrepreneurial mindset’means. This study builds off current literature in addressing these
team Building, sustaining and factors that influence dynamics and performance, and have aJunior leading effective teams decision-making tied to better understanding of their role in an and establishing personality, and identify effective team. Furthermore, integration at performance goals the importance of both this level provides an early intervention to team and individual help prepare students before their senior performance to achieve design projects, which are also team-based. overall team objectives
Leadership Program, Fish Aides, Horizons Consulting Guild, and Engineering Honors. Upon graduation, Kiersten hopes to use her internship, study abroad, and organization experience to pursue a career in the energy sector. Having grown up abroad, she hopes to live internationally again sometime in the future.Jiacheng LuLori L. Moore, Texas A&M University Dr. Lori Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications at Texas A&M University. Dr. Moore teaches introductory leadership, leadership the- ory, adult education, and methods of teaching courses and supervises students completing their supervised American
forentrepreneurship and innovation. Although studies have analyzed how students perceive this typeof training, few of them have unveiled its influence on behaviors and career goals. The formativeuse of the assessment instruments employed is limited, so more efforts are needed to evaluateentrepreneurial training towards its continuous improvement. This article proposes a methodologyto involve students in curriculum evaluation so they become partners in curriculum delivery andteaching practices. To explore its benefits, we applied it on a Major focused on engineering design,entrepreneurship and innovation. During classroom sessions of three Major courses, a form wasused to generate individual reflections and collective discussions about course methods
variousproject teams and students who participate in the competition. The selectivity to reach the semi-finals by winning either the quarter-finals or the wild-card competition is 45%. To rise to thefinal stage of the competition, teams have about 9% chance. Only 3% of all teams, a total of 28students in the past two years, won a top Prize.We wished to establish whether the number of presenters per team had an effect on pitchsuccess. We observed a trend in recent years that having more than one person represent theteam lessened the memorization load per team member. The typical pitch, where one personrepresents the team, can still be very effective in providing a consistent story, as demonstrated bythe second elevator pitch winner of 2019, Castle Point
Paper ID #25949Why Don’t Commuter-school Students Pursue Start-ups?Dr. David G. Novick, University of Texas, El Paso David G. Novick, Mike Loya Distinguished Chair in Engineering and Professor of Engineering Education and Leadership, earned his J.D.at Harvard University in 1977 and his Ph.D. in Computer and Informa- tion Science at the University of Oregon in 1988. Before coming to UTEP he was on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Oregon Graduate Institute and then Director of Research at the European Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Engineering. At UTEP he has served in a number
-curricularor both. Entrepreneurial Site and Data Collection Data was collected from an entrepreneurship program anchored in a large, Midwest,public research university college of engineering center for entrepreneurship (CFE). The CFEwas developed in response to student, alumni, faculty and administrative demands to address theneeds of educating engineering students for the changing economy. Both curricular and co-curricular experiences were supported by the CFE (Table 2) at different levels (i.e., staff,training, funding, mentorship, etc.). Curricular experiences included individual entrepreneurshipclasses and a formal 9-credit certificate program, designated the Program in Entrepreneurship.The formal Program in Entrepreneurship required
use of sustainable economic development and (4) that faculty members andengineers, together, undertake an effort so that engineering education addresses the challengesand social opportunities of the future.In seeking to respond to these demands, universities have been encouraged to play a more activerole in economic development by supporting policies and funding programs forcommercialization of technology and entrepreneurship education [4]. This occurs wheneconomic news shows how global competition, downsizing, decentralization, re-engineering,mergers, and new technologies have made careers more complex and uncertain for graduatesfrom all sectors [5,6]. In this context, political, economic and academic leaders conceiveentrepreneurship as one
efforts that acknowledge learner diversity, and understand their effects in students performance. Isabel received her professional degree in biological engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile and her MA in policy, organizations and leadership studies at Stanford Graduate School of Education.Dr. Constanza Miranda Mendoza, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile Constanza Miranda holds a PhD in design with a focus in anthropology from North Carolina State Uni- versity. While being a Fulbright grantee, Constanza worked as a visiting researcher at the Center for Design Research, Mechanical Engineering Department, at Stanford. Today she is an assistant professor at the P.Universidad Cat´olica de Chile’s
Tech, her MS degree in Biomedical Engineering from the joint program between Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University, and her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Surrey.Dr. Lauren Lowman, Wake Forest University Lauren Lowman is a Founding Faculty member and an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Depart- ment at Wake Forest University and has served in this role since 2018. In this role, she has developed new interdisciplinary curriculum that bridges engineering fields and reflects the Wake Forest University motto of Pro Humanitate (”For Humanity”). Lauren received a Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil and Environ- mental Engineering with a focus in Hydrology and Fluid Dynamics from Duke University, and a B.A
socialstyle and the context may be critical (Hackman & Wageman, 2007). By considering leadership incontext, we may better understand whether some styles of leadership are more effective thanothers. Therefore, in exploring leader social styles, we pose the following research question: Are some leadership styles better than others when initiating and promoting change initiatives?In academic settings, an important individual characteristic of team leaders is tenure status.Among the faculty in a university, those that have tenure track positions, but have yet to gaintenure, are under great pressure to be productive compared to their tenured peers (Miller, Taylor,& Bedeian, 2011). Thus, they must pay special attention to their
, instructional activities spread all over the campus to develop students’ entrepreneurial spiritand mind for their future careers. Taking Cornell University as an example, it insists that “everystudent with entrepreneurial skills and knowledge can make great value in any working conditions”.The Committee of the Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Program has been established tocoordinate and guide entrepreneurial activities at Cornell. Students can choose their programs acrossschools and majors, which will break the border of different disciplines and maximize the use ofresources (University-wide Entrepreneurship @ Cornell, 2004).[12] Last, the magnet model. MIT isan important representative of this model. Its Entrepreneurship Center has a mission
and environmental conditions as theyrelate to women in male-dominated fields will be examined briefly in this literature review. Taking an individualistic approach, Eccles’ (1994)17 Expectancy-Value Model ofAchievement suggests that academic and occupation related decisions are guided by one’sexpectations for success and the value one places on a particular activity. Research has shownthat women are less inclined to pursue male-dominated careers because they perceive thoseoccupations to be misaligned with their values18–20. Frome, et al. (2007)18 found that, 82% oftheir study participants with male-dominated career aspirations in their senior year of high schoolchose to change their career aspirations to either a gender neutral or female
Entrepreneurship-related Factors Teachers consistently discussed how they valued teaching engineering andentrepreneurship to their students, but their reasons for valuing this content differed. One highschool teacher noted the importance of teaching students about understanding your customer andrecognizing that business decisions entail constant risk analysis and cost-benefit tradeoffconsiderations; his reasoning behind the value of entrepreneurship education focused on specific,practical considerations within a business setting. An elementary school teacher noted thatlearning about entrepreneurship can prompt a variety of career interests, possibly ones thatstudents had not previously considered; her value on entrepreneurship education relates
(DTU). Each summer, these* Refer to the webpage for more information on the Summer School: https://pire.soe.ucsc.edu/universities host an intensive, four week course housed in Electrical Engineering (UCSC, DTU),Biological and Agricultural Engineering (UC Davis), and Energy and Environmental Planning(AAU). The program is open to selected senior undergraduates, graduate students and morerecently professionals in any discipline from US and European Institutions; participants areadmitted based on their academic qualifications, creativity and commitment to renewable energyand sustainability assessed through the submission of an essay and interview. The bulk of theactivity takes place in the summer during a three week, in-person workshop preceded
, demonstrate howstory messages may be misinterpreted. Student misunderstanding of their ownmotivations and their ability to mobilize and engage others may occur due to: 1. Blurring Entrepreneurial level concepts with individual story phenomena. Many confuse the big picture definition of entrepreneurship with individual level entrepreneuring activity. Specifically, audiences sometime assume that the confident, clear entrepreneur’s delivery of his story indicates an equal strength of conviction, and clarity in their personal life. In fact, the reality may be something very different. During the first class meeting, Jon (introduced earlier) a graduate student and new company-founder, confidently shared his non
Neuroscience 101: Might Your Teaching and Their Learning Benefit?AbstractThis paper’s purpose is to explore the idea that if faculty members acquire significantknowledge of brain basics, much of which has been discovered and/or documented in thepast few decades, they can be even better teachers. They can use that knowledge toimprove student advising -- show students how to be more effective and efficient -- and,when opportunities arise, enable students to achieve higher levels of creativity andinnovation.The presentation begins with a summary of brain features and functions, not at a brain-surgery level of detail, but rather from the perspective of immediate application outsideof medicine and inside of engineering education. Building on
institution, our annual career fair is characterized by a number oflarge companies that recruit every year. Both employers and students hope thisrelationship will continue.However, even students who are satisfied with the best positions and careers generallyavailable can benefit from the skills of an entrepreneur, that person who is not satisfiedwith what is and wants instead to bring some different vision to life. As we continue torefine our negotiations assignment, we hope to contribute to the development of theEngineer of 202015: engineers who exhibit “practical ingenuity,” “skill in planning,combining, and adapting” (54-55); creativity, that “indispensible quality forengineering” (55); good communication, the “ability to listen effectively as