Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William D. Schindel, ICTT System Sciences; Samuel N. Peffers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jameel Ahmed, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

2.7Table 1. Example of a decision matrix used to evaluate three design options. If a higher rating is better, Option 3 is the best option for the client chosen criteria and relative weights.As faculty, we encourage the students to explore innovative options in addition to the traditionaloptions for this important design decision. For example, the traditional structural materials forbuildings and bridges are concrete, steel, masonry, and timber. Over the last few years, ourstudents have also explored recycled plastics, structural insulated panels (SIPs), insulatingconcrete forms (ICFs), and autoclaved aerated concrete. It would be easy for students to let theexcitement of a novel solution to the problem drive them to choose the innovation

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik Sander, University of Florida

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, communicate ideas, understand and exercise real world ethics in challenging situations, and experience other “real-world” dilemmas faced by innovators.The University of Florida College of Engineering (UF COE) has depth in education and researchacross a broad spectrum of disciplines with 11 departments, over 270 faculty members and over$100M in annual research expenditures. The COE has recently engaged in a strategic planningprocess which reinforced that the college is well positioned to provide students and faculty witha full innovation educational experience as the College is: Comprehensive, as the 14th largest school of engineering in the US in undergraduate enrollment and 6th largest in graduate enrollmentvi, with ~8,300 students and

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory W. Davis, Kettering University; Craig J. Hoff, Kettering University; William J. Riffe, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

”Engineering Creativity” that was designed to bring out the creative side of engineering and business students. Well over 1000 students passed through this course. Because of this background, he was selected to be part of a team to teach the ”Innovations and New Ventures” class on entrepreneurship that began in the summer of 2006, with him concentrating on the innovation side of the course. To date, over one hundred and eighty students have learned how to develop a product and put together a basic business plan. He led a team to develop ”Entrepreneurship Across the Curriculum” at Kettering University where faculty members attended workshops designed to help put innovation projects into their classrooms. This effort resulted