Conference Session

Classes in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

highlyappreciated. They have asked for smaller scale projects and for more class time to work on them.Most students were engineering and computer science students, and only few from othercolleges. This paper shares some of the specific comments (please see Appendix D). Special thanks to NCIIA for supporting activities and projects. Page 23.1302.3Details of activitiesThis section details activities that have been used to enhance the understanding of, andengagement with, user-based design. The underlying goal of the activities is to change thetraditional point of view of students when designing products or services, i.e., always keep theuser in mind

Conference Session

Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Schar, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University; Mark Cuson; Michelle Marie Grau, Stanford University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

forces, moments, and normal bending stresseshelp resolve the business problem presented in the case study.2. Case Study Method InstructionEngineers working in business require the ability to solve relevant engineering problems “inuncertain and even currently unknowable environments.”5 The pedagogical goal of the casestudy method is to create this environment in the minds of students while they learn newconcepts and solve important problems. The case study method is widely used in businessschools to explore “the ‘wicked’ problems that potential managers will face in an uncertainworld”6 and encourage the “development of critical thinking and sense making abilities.”7 Overtime, the case study method has become a popular teaching tool because its

Conference Session

Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL; Francis Xavier McAfee, Florida Atlantic University; Michael S Harris, Florida Atlantic University; Ravi S Behara, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

disciplines. They are encouraged to meet outside the class hours(during the lab hours) with their team members from the paired courses. The hope is to mixvisual artists, analytically minded engineers, and venture-oriented business students together insmall teams to catalyze innovation, with anthropology students as ethnographers and moderators.Since they have to form teams, we have a common assignment by the second week to post theirbios at a common Blackboard community site. They will have the next three weeks tocommunicate with each other and determine the team make-up. We get involved if they areunable to form teams on their own; we help them make up their minds. During the lab hours (seebelow) the engineering and arts professors teardown our

Conference Session

Programs in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Seth Orsborn, Bucknell University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the students in the class come from professional disciplines (engineering &management) we purposely wanted to expose them to a different discipline’s methods forideation. Professor Meiser presented how artists explore their environment and other artisticexhibits to find inspiration for artistic ideas. He then described various methods that he uses tocapture and compile his thoughts, from mind maps to notes in his Moleskine notebook tobrowsing through a vast personal collection of images on his computer to simply being hyper-aware of the physical world around him. He collects all this disparate information and then usesit to inspire sketches of potential future sculptures. Exposing the students to this type of ideationprocess was both

Conference Session

Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Alex Kotlarchyk

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 E-mail: ravivd@fau.edu 561 297 2773 akotlarc@fau.eduAbstract This paper describes an on-going non-traditional educational experience of working onan intelligent water-conservation project at Florida Atlantic University. It is unique in the sensethat the working settings are different from an ordinary research and development project. Wehave been working with a private investor and entrepreneur who came up with the original idea.He has been very involved in the project with business, humanitarian, environmental andeducational goals in mind. In addition to

Conference Session

Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #6562Assessment of Learning Based on the Principles of Discovery and Metacogni-tionDr. Mysore Narayanan, Miami University DR. MYSORE NARAYANAN obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several encyclopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional , national and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized and chaired

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara A. Karanian Ph.D., Stanford University; Mona Eskandari, Stanford University; Jackie Liao, Stanford University; Zubair Ahmed

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

-author of Capacitive Skin Sensors for Robot Impact Monitoring, a paper accepted at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011), and he is the author of 2 poetry books, Ashulia (2011) and City of Rivers (2012). Page 23.13.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013The Power of First MOMENTS in Entrepreneurial Storytelling ASEE/IEEE 2013 Page 23.13.2AbstractOur minds are built to remember stories. Recall watching and listening to an audience respondto the first moments of a story

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leo E. Hanifin, University of Detroit Mercy; Ross A. Lee, Villanova University; Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Kenneth F Bloemer, University of Dayton; Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

at hand. This is ahighly iterative process with consumer feedback sought at several points along the process. Theteam also needed to keep in mind the alternative package types (cans, pouches, plasticcontainers, etc.), processes (retorted, acidic/non-acidic, refrigerated, hot fill, etc.) and productplatforms (soups, sauces, beverages, etc.) they were working with. Intrapreneurs need a goodsense of engineering judgment and an ability to apply a ‘litmus test’ to the reasonableness of ananswer.The Campbell early development phase makes use of three levels of virtual prototypes ofincreasing complexity as the project evolves. These levels, in order of complexity, are 2Dconcept sketches, 2D illustrated concepts, and 3D rendering. 2D concept

Conference Session

Programs in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology; Steven H. Billis, New York Institute of Technology; Marta Alicia Panero, New York Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #5754Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center: Bringing Together In-dustry, Faculty, and StudentsDr. Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology Nada Marie Anid, Ph.D., is professor and dean of the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences (SoECS) at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT). Dr. Anid is working on several strategic partner- ships between the School of Engineering and the public and private sector, including the creation of the School’s first Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC) and its three labs in the critical areas of IT & Cyber Security, Bio

Conference Session

Classes in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Edwin Cawthorne Jr., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ruth Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #7975Designing an Introductory Entrepreneurial Thinking CourseMr. Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Daniel M. Ferguson is a graduate student in the Engineering Education Program at Purdue University and the recipient of NSF awards for research in engineering education. Prior to coming to Purdue he was Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Before assuming that position he was Associate Director of the Inter-professional Studies Program and Senior Lecturer at Illinois Institute of Technology and involved in research in service learning, assessment processes