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Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Faley, University f Michigan; Peter Adriaens, University of Michigan

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2008-1603: DEVELOPING A JOINT ENGINEERING/BUSINESS SCHOOLENTREPRENEURIAL CURRICULUMTimothy Faley, University f MichiganPeter Adriaens, University of Michigan Page 13.384.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 An Approach to Building a Graduate-level Engineering and Business collaborative entrepreneurial curriculum American Society of Engineering Education AC2008-1603 re-submitted March 2008AbstractTechnology-based entrepreneurship, regardless of whether it takes place within a largeorganization or in a startup, requires a mixture of technological and business skills. Our aim indeveloping a joint graduate

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Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurshipprograms and minors aimed at engineering and other technical professions seems to support thehypothesis that engineers who are more entrepreneurially minded are essential to the futuretechnical competitiveness of the country. Many institutions with already packed engineeringcurricula are struggling with how to better develop the entrepreneurial mindset in their technicaland engineering students.Intercollegiate entrepreneurship education is well underway at The University of Detroit Mercy(UDM). Through support from the Kern Family Foundation (two grants), the LemelsonFoundation (administered by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance), FordMotor Company, and the Jesuit 100 Association, we have already piloted four new courses

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Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

engineering;[and] only 3 percent associate the word ‘creative’ with engineering.”1, 22, 23 It is likely that thisimage is also in the minds of engineering students, especially underclassmen that have not yetdone much design and open-ended problem work. If the students don’t believe they are creativeand do not get to practice creativity, enthusiasm for continuing engineering study and retentionin engineering education could suffer.On the first day of the course, the students were asked about their personal view on their owncreativity, the role of creativity in engineering, problem solving, teamwork, and leadership.After the course, the same survey was administered. The survey was quantified using a 5-pointLikert scale. The course enrollment was low

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Entrepreneurship Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2008-1067: INNOVATIVE THINKING: DESIRED SKILLS AND RELATEDACTIVITIESDaniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University Page 13.750.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Innovative Thinking: Desired Skills and Related Activities Daniel Raviv Department of Electrical Engineering Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 E-mail: ravivd@fau.edu 561 297 2773 Abstract This paper describes a new interdisciplinary graduate course titled: “Innovative Thinking” aimedat enhancing

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Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stuart Kellogg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

timewhen greater resources need to be available for engineering education, most state fundedengineering schools operate in an increasingly constrained environment.Industrial Engineering embarked on a long term transformative curriculum seven yearsago with three fundamental goals in mind. Specifically, within system and logisticalconstraints, the curricular components should address a number of alternative learningstyles. Secondly, the curriculum should engage the students at a deeper level in termsopen ended questions and creative problem solving. And, third, to the extent possible,the curriculum should provide opportunities for students to incorporate the value addedskills within the confines of the existing curriculum.To accomplish these goals

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Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Khanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University; Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2008-1422: CHAMPIONING HIGH-TECH RENAISSANCE: SENSOR ANDCONTROLLER SYSTEM INTEGRATION COURSEKhanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University KHANJAN MEHTA is a Senior Research Associate in the College of Engineering at Penn State. His professional interests include Innovative System Integration, High-Tech Entrepreneurship and International Social Entrepreneurship. He is an amateur photographer, cook, bartender, poet, traveler, adventurer and proud generalist.Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University SVEN G. BILÉN is an Associate Professor of Engineering Design, Electrical Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering at Penn State. His educational research interests include developing techniques

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Entrepreneurship Education: Unique Approaches

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shawn S Jordan, Purdue Univeristy; Robin Adams, Purdue University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2008-2031: "...A GOOD IMAGINATION AND A PILE OF JUNK"Shawn Jordan, Purdue Univeristy SHAWN JORDAN is a doctoral student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University, where he is studying geographically distributed design teams. He has appeared on many television shows with Rube Goldberg machines, including Jimmy Kimmel LIVE and Master of Champions on ABC, and has won two National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest championships.Robin Adams, Purdue University Robin S. Adams is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She also led the Institute for Scholarship on Engineering Education (ISEE) as part of the Center for the