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Entrepreneurship Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; William M. Jordan, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the areas of engineering ethics and engineering education. Page 22.583.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Engineering Education and the Entrepreneurial Mind at Baylor UniversityAbstractOur current economy is facing many new challenges, including the challenge of technologicalcompetition from other countries. Engineering educators face the challenge of how to motivateour students to become competitive in a global marketplace. The challenge is how to bringinnovation back into the engineering disciplines, when many of our faculty have never worked inindustry, and so are not necessarily

Conference Session

Research and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; David Pistrui, Acumen Dynamics, LLC

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

our thinking. Instead of permitting engineering educationto lag technology and society, “Should the engineering profession anticipate needed advancesand prepare for a future where it will provide more benefit to humankind?”[3]So the question becomes, how do we train engineers to be more entrepreneurially minded?What is an Entrepreneurially Minded Engineer? Page 22.244.2According to Dawn Tabat, Chief Operating Officer of Generac Power Systems (and a group ofthe company‟s engineering executives), Entrepreneurially Minded Engineers (EMEs) “act like aproduct manager within their engineering discipline”. In other words, “EMEs are not justworking on

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

population earns less than $2 a day… Figure 1. Summary of Request for Proposals.Entrepreneurial mindset:In evaluating the impact of our interventions we have chosen to look at the mindset of ourstudents toward risk and intelligence and how we might encourage them to be moreentrepreneurial (defined as creative and inventive) in executing their projects and as they developinto engineers. The measure of mindset we are using has been developed by Carol Dweck ofStanford and is based on two key ideas or states of mind. The fixed mindset is a mindset wherethe individual believes that the abilities or intelligence they have is all they will ever possess andcannot be changed, while a growth mindset is one where the individual

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Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2011-2443: INCORPORATING ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTO MECHAN-ICAL ENGINEERING AUTOMOTIVE COURSES: TWO CASE STUDIESGregory W. Davis, Kettering University Dr. Gregory W. Davis is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University, formerly known as GMI Engineering & Management Institute. Acting in this capacity, he teaches courses in the Auto- motive and Thermal Science disciplines. He also serves a Director of the Advanced Engine Research Laboratory, where he conducts research in alternative fuels and engines. Currently, Greg serves as the faculty advisor for one of the largest Student Chapters of the Society of Automotive Engineers(SAE) and the Clean Snowmobile Challenge Project. Greg is also active on

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Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald M Reimer, Lawrence Technological University; Ahad Ali, Lawrence Technological University; Sabah Razouk Abro, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Entrepreneurs” or “Intrapreneurs.” According to Morris et al., “CorporateEntrepreneurship” is a term used to describe entrepreneurial behavior inside established mid-sized and large organizations2. The term “Intrapreneur” was first introduced by Pinchot in 1985as any dreamers who take hands-on responsibility for creating innovation of any kind within anorganization3. The entrepreneurial mind creates inventive solutions to complex problems. It alsorecognizes the importance of identifying entrepreneurial opportunities.Lawrence Tech has a strong commitment of fostering the entrepreneurial mindset. The Collegeof Engineering has taken a leadership position in implementing the University’s vision ofdeveloping students with a global view and an

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Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerald Nelson, Mississippi State University; Melissa L Moore, American Society of Agricultural Engineers; Rodney A. Pearson, Mississippi State University; Robert S. Moore, Mississippi State University; Allison Pearson, Mississippi State University; Abby Lammons Thompson, Mississippi State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2011-934: IPHONE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLASS: BRIDGING THEGAP BETWEEN ENGINEERING AND BUSINESS TO CREATE AN EN-TREPRENEURIAL CULTUREGerald Nelson, Mississippi State University Gerald Nelson is an Industrial Engineering graduate of Mississippi State University who later went on to receive his MBA. Nelson’s career includes former positions as Plant Manager, Trinity Industries; Presi- dent and Chief Operating Officer of the Wear Resistance Group of Thermadyne Industries, Inc.; Executive Vice President of Operations, Viasystems Group, Inc.; and Chief Operating Officer of Deka Medical, Inc. In 2006, Nelson assumed responsibility as Director for the Thad Cochran Endowment for Entrepreneur- ship, which fosters funds and

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas E. Allen, Bucknell University; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

endeavors with modeling and prototyping/testing. The hatchery would providean environment that fostered the proclivities of like-minded students to exploreinnovative activities.Future StepsThe Bucknell Innovation Group has moved forward on several initiatives. Faculty plan toincorporate exercises and modules on innovation in their spring 2011 classes. A newcourse called Impact: Exploring Innovation Across the Disciplines will be team-taught inspring 2011 to students in engineering, arts and sciences. This class has a professor fromengineering and from management as the leads, but it also includes faculty from art,theater and dance, music, English and classics who will give guest lectures and supportprojects. BIG will form teams to move

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University-Pueblo

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

engineering, the quality(feasibility) of these ideas also needs to be taken into account. In engineering education research,a number of techniques are implemented to enhance ideation and develop creativity. Theyinclude 6-3-5 brainstorming, morphological analysis3, transformational design using mind-mapping4, design by analogy5, principles of historical innovators6, and various combinations of Page 22.1268.2the aforementioned techniques7. Developing an ability to innovate has been approached throughimprovisation8 and the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ)9-11.In engineering education, there are a few engineering design textbooks covering TRIZ

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Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

undergraduateeducational practice. The three dimensional model of innovation has broad applicability,including to the refinement of Engineering, science, and technology education practice itself. Page 22.154.13Bearing in mind that purposeful innovation is most effective when supported on all three axes,and that innovation happens in the space created between all three, we look forward the future ofEngineering, science, and technology education, in the innovation space.As we continue to pursue the goal of better preparing Engineering, science, and technologygraduates to function effectively in the contemporary innovation environment, we envisiongeneral

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Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Judith Giordan, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Joseph Steig, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) and VentureWell; Phil Weilerstein, VentureWell

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. Rayess, “Developing entrepreneurially minded engineers by incorporating technical entrepreneurship case studies,” Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship, vol. 2, 2011, pp. 10-27.[8] H. Petroski, The essential engineer: Why science alone will not solve our global problems, Knopf, 2010.[9] “Building an entrepreneurial pathway one campus at a time,” Community College Entrepreneurship, vol. Spring/Summer, 2009, pp. 5-6.[10] M.E. Porter, K. Schwab, and A. Lopez-Claros, Eds., The global competitiveness report 2006-2007, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.[11] Building a science, technology, engineering and math agenda, Washington, DC: National Governors Association, 2007.[12] J. Pecquet, “Medical innovation pitched as key to