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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Epicenter Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Victoria Matthew, VentureWell; Thema Monroe-White, SageFox Consulting Group; Ari Turrentine, VentureWell; Angela Shartrand, VentureWell; Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Page 26.990.3global leader of innovation.Colleges of Engineering across the country and the globe are experiencing this reality. Feweryoung people enroll in engineering programs than in the past, and many who do either drop outof such programs at a high rate or become dissatisfied with their career options and seekemployment in other professions after graduating.8 The 2002 report, Engage to Excel, indicatesthat increasing retention is the most efficient way to boost STEM graduates, and identifies keychanges engineering faculty members can make to their curriculum and teaching to fosterretention. Key is the need for intellectual and personal engagement, something often stifled byuninspiring courses and unwelcoming faculty.7 Retention also

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Epicenter Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janna Rodriguez, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Larry Leifer, Stanford University; Qu Jin, Stanford University

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Diversity

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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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Epicenter Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Shannon Gilmartin, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Angela Shartrand, VentureWell; Laurie Moore, National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter); Emanuel Costache, SageFox Consulting Group; Andreea Mihaela Fintoc; Qu Jin, Stanford University; Calvin Ling, Stanford University; Florian Michael Lintl, Stanford University; Leticia C. Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University; Humera Fasihuddin, VentureWell; Anna K Breed

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., 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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Program Development & Desired Outcomes

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sergio Celis, Universidad de Chile; Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan

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-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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Entrepreneurship Education in New Contexts

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald S Harichandran P.E., University of New Haven; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven; Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven; Cheryl Q Li, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Samuel D. Daniels, University of New Haven

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using a concise form. The authors and aprogram director of the granting agency review the proposals received to select a developer foreach module. The developers are required to undergo formal training on how to design andconstruct online learning modules that are highly interactive and of high quality. The Office ofeLearning at UNH provides the necessary training through a 3-week online course to both UNHfaculty and to faculty at other institutions. The modules are designed for course instructors todeploy in an asynchronous mode. Exercises and assessment of student learning are included ineach online module. The online modules will be integrated into the courses identified in Table 1and students will be required to complete them as part of

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Evaluating Student Behaviors and Attitudes

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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what they deeply care about, because, according to Beth Noveck, “we’re learning withstudents that, building off their interests and the things they care about, to then learn skills usingthat subject matter has a much more powerful effect than trying to force them to be interested insomething else.”1 Page 26.791.7In addition, there is an attitudinal shift especially in American students who are now thinkingmore about the philosophical aspects of their professional lives. From the perspective of religiousscholar Varun Soni, the exploration of social problems is now inherently a personal endeavor forstudents. Therefore, inspiring students