Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Experiential Learning and Economic Development I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude D'Amours, University of Ottawa; Claude Laguë, University of Ottawa; Frank Mellor, University of Ottawa

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

). The EEO culminates with an Engineering Entrepreneurship capstone course offered by the College of Engineering that draws upon case studies and personal experiences of engineers-entrepreneurs.Founded in 1848 and located in Canada’s National Capital region of Ottawa – Gatineau, theUniversity of Ottawa – Canada’s University – is the largest bilingual university in the countryoffering undergraduate and graduate programs of studies in English, French, or both languages tomore than 36,000 students. With its 1,800 undergraduate and 600 graduate students, 115 regularfaculty, and 65 staff members, the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa is amedium-size (by Canadian standards) school that offers undergraduate and graduate

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Crossdisciplinary Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Green, University of Maryland; Judy Frels, University of Maryland

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

are evidenced in the universally positive feedback on the CIM program’s value andeffectiveness. The Robert H. Smith School of Business brings world-class business faculty andexcellence in graduate level teaching experience. The A. James Clark School of Engineering’sMaryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) brings extensive practitioner experience fromworking with thousands of technology entrepreneurs, small business owners, and graduate andprofessional students since 1983. In 2008 alone, Mtech engaged with 394 companies and over1,000 active and aspiring entrepreneurs. Page 14.6.12Through this unique partnership, the co-development and

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Experiential Learning and Economic Development II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

”, (c) Personal, and (d) Social. The new student-centered environment will help students to develop a can-do, proactive, innovativemindset; an environment that will light the students’ spark of innovation, and provide them withresources to translate their ideas from paper to prototype. This will be achieved using modules composedof multi-sensory activities that will be synthesized to create an interactive, empirical, authentic, and team-based multi-disciplinary experience. The environment will emphasize interaction with a cultural-, racial- and age-diverse community. Itwill be based on building-up interpersonal relationships that will develop as a result of additionalsupervision provided to the students. This unique “personal touch