Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division New Ideas Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarvesh S. Kulkarni, Villanova University; Frank Klassner, Villanova University; Vijay Gehlot, Villanova University; E.J. Dougherty III, Villanova University; Sue McFarland Metzger, Villanova University; William P. Wagner, Villanova University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

process in order to enhance the students’investment in their work. Furthermore, in accordance with the ideas put forth by Ackerman etal.3, we interweave class instruction (knowledge-based content) with project work (skills) inorder to facilitate learning.This paper describes the initial design and the iterative refinement of our cross-disciplinaryMobile App Development course over a period of three years. The rest of the paper is organizedas follows. Section II outlines the reasons for selecting Mobile App Development as the course’sunifying theme. Section III discusses the practical constraints that we placed on our course inaddition to the thematic goals listed above. Section IV describes the objectives, organization,syllabus and pedagogical

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zbigniew J. Pasek, University of Windsor; Francine K. Schlosser, Odette School of Business, University of Windsor

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Product, Process and Business Practices The course centers around the idea of integration of product development, manufacturingsystems and business practices (see Figure 2). Therefore, it adopts a system-based approach,considering not only components (be it machines, processes, or knowledge) necessary inproduction of consumer goods, but also their interactions and impact on each other. While thisidea is perhaps not entirely new, it is also set in context of the current market paradigm of MassCustomization6,7,8. Page 24.912.4Table 1 Abridged Course Syllabus Week Subject 1