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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in First-Year Programs

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Liang Li Wu, University of California, Irvine; Gregory N. Washington, University of California, Irvine

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certifications such as major, minor or concentration,presenting a sequence of engineering or technology focused entrepreneurship courses in currentcurriculum, collaborating with business school to lead in-class trainings and extracurricularactivities such as business competitions, etc5,7,8. Among non-degree, course sequence focusedprograms, although the practices are often engineering theme focused, entrepreneurshipeducation is seldom offered at the first year level as part of a design course where studentsdesign, build and test a tangible product.We report on the practice of integrating a module featuring a series of lectures onentrepreneurship and business plan development into an existing first-year engineering course.This two-quarter Introduction to

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The Student Experience

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Austin Spencer Bohlin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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include developing an aspects idea to allow better judgments about its suitability. Design and Further development of the design Detailed design, Iterating development from concept to prototype. It build prototype, through idea should be noted that prototypes optimize, generation can take different forms, from sketch/draw/model (opp) physical models to working design, compile products to plans for

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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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Magdalini Z Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Rodney Boehm, Engineering Academic and Student Affairs; James L Wilson, Texas A&M University - College of Engineering

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and data products developed by Fujitsu. Along with Yau Chow Ching, Rodney conceived (and wrote the standards for), the SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) architecture, which served as the base for today’s North American telephone network. Rodney was Chairman of the T1X1 Technical Sub- Committee (the organization responsible for SONET standardization) from 1990 through 1994. He has been active in SONET’s National and International Standardization since 1985. In addition, Rodney has published numerous papers and presentations on SONET. Rodney began his career with Fujitsu Network Communications in 1989 as the Director of Strategic Plan- ning. He also held the positions of Director of Transport Product Planning, Vice

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Prateek Shekhar, University of Michigan; Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan; Julie Libarkin; Anastasia Katharine Ostrowski, University of Michigan

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, planning, marshaling, implementing people and implementingfinance) with our two independent variables (gender and family role model). Our results showthat overall, students with an entrepreneur in their family reported higher ESE for all the fiveconstructs than students who did not have an entrepreneur in their family. However, statisticallysignificant differences and interactions with gender were found for only searching, marshalingand implementing finance constructs. For searching, both the independent variables (family rolemodels and gender) were noted as significant predictors. In contrast, only presence of family rolemodels was found to be a statistically significant predictor for marshalling. Similarly, onlygender was significant predictor

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jidong Huang, California State University, Fullerton

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look into theinherent value of STEM learning and provided them the opportunity to engage in businessdevelopment activities such as idea generation, fast pitch, design thinking and business planning.In addition, lean start up approach provided students ways to interview potential customers andquickly make pivots in their plan for delivering a product or solution to potential customers fastand efficiently. According to data collected in the project, such entrepreneurship practices wellenhanced the overall STEM learning experiences of students. As a design and development project, research questions in STEM-Inc frame formative datacollection and analysis to address aspects of the design that worked and others that requirerevision. Summative

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Design and Entrepreneurship

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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wereencouraged to continue to work together in the College of Engineering Senior Design I andSenior Design II courses with the intent of them being able to commercialize the design.Part of the faculty effort was to build and promote a culture of innovation among engineeringstudents; therefore as a follow up from the course offering in the spring 2013 the facultysupported two projects during their capstone senior design courses for the fall 2013-spring 2014semesters with a strong plan for commercialization of the product. These students weremotivated, self-driven and excited about their projects and the possibility of launching a businesssuccessfully by using our program, and taking advantage of the resources available to them fromour University’s Office

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University; Rodney Boehm, Texas A&M University

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- tical, access and data products developed by Fujitsu. Rodney was Chairman of the T1X1 Technical Sub-Committee (the organization responsible for SONET standardization) from 1990 through 1994. He has been active in SONET’s National and International Standardization since 1985. In addition, Rodney has published numerous papers and presentations on SONET. Rodney began his career with Fujitsu Network Communications in 1989 as the Director of Strategic Plan- ning. He also held the positions of Director of Transport Product Planning, Vice President of Business Management, Senior Vice President of Sales Management, Senior Vice President of Manufacturing, and c American Society for Engineering

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 10

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian E. Moyer, University of Pittsburgh - Johnstown

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semester-long data collectionand analysis project which included a fun laboratory experiment to motivate students. Mini-companies of two students each were asked to treat the project as if they had been hired toperform a consulting job for a customer – their professor. The project provided context for theproduction of a series of typical engineering consulting documents: a formal introductory email,a follow-up cover letter, a meeting summary memo, a project specification document includingan estimate/quote, project planning documentation, an interim technical progress report andfinancial summary, and a final technical report were woven through the fabric of the course.Three iterations later, with minor continuous improvement modification based on

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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concepts through customer engagement*3. Thinking creatively to drive innovation† Project Planning and Development4. Learning from failure* (Freshman)5. Establishing the cost of production or delivery of a service, Project Management and Engineering including scaling strategies* Economics (Sophomore)6. Determining market risks Applied Engineering Statistics (Junior) (Junior Courses) Transport Operations II

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Number Factor Names Abbreviation 1 Problem Solving/Logical Thinking PS 2 Engaging Stakeholders ES 3 Value Creation VC 4 Risk Management RM 5 Career Plan CP 6 Ability to Learn AL 7 Analyze Market Conditions MC 8 Systems Thinking ST 9

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ENT Division Technical Session: Competitions, Challenges, and Teams

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Sandra Furnbach Clavijo, Stevens Institute of Technology; Matthew Wade, Stevens Institute of Technology; Kishore Pochiraju, Stevens Institute of Technology

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solutions that generate and strengthen career plans of students, as well as improve retention, graduation rates, and speed to graduation. He is recognized within education circles as standing at the vanguard of the progressive technological movement. He has taught students, trained corporate salespeople and career coaches, and advised entrepreneurs. His energy, passion, positivity, and attention to detail have served him well in bringing out the best in others.Dr. Kishore Pochiraju, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science) Kishore Pochiraju is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at Stevens Institute of Technology. He recently

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 10

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Galina Burylina, Kazan National Research Technological University; Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Julia Ziyatdinova; Dilbar Sultanova

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Paper ID #17396Chair of the Department of Economics and Management in Nizhnekamsk Chemical Engineering Institutein 2002-2012. She supervised several projects for Tatarstan chemical and petrochemical companies inthe years 2002-2007 and headed the Department of Macroeconomic Research in Advanced EconomicResearch Center in the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan in the years 2007-2010. Hercontribution to the projects was the supervision of their economic sections (including setting of researchobjectives, project supervision, economic assessment, report writing, presentations, and publishing of re-search discoveries). She was personally involved in the strategic planning of economic development at aregional level. All these research

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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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Page 26.738.2business are likely to result in efforts toward acting upon those intentions.3 In this study we  investigated to what degree entrepreneurial intentions held by engineering alumni result in actualentrepreneurial activity. Intentions are a critical predictor of any planned behavior, includingentrepreneurship6. Intentions can explain and predict how alumni see opportunities that may leadto business ideas that may eventually be brought to market. Entrepreneurial intention, incombination with both situational and individual variables, possibly can explain and predictentrepreneurial patterns among engineering alumni. In the current study, intentions were used toidentify which characteristics of engineering alumni might predict future

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Beyond the University

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jidong Huang, California State University, Fullerton; John B Jackson, California State University, Fullerton; Pradeep Nair, California State University, Fullerton; Amy Cox-Petersen, California State University, Fullerton

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support the fledgling startups http://business.fullerton.edu/centers/cfe/StartupIncubator.htm Jackson is co-principal investigator for a National Science Foundation Grant called I-TEST; this $1,000,000 grant has created an after-school program at Anaheim middle schools which encourages STEM ed- ucation and entrepreneurship. http://bizblogs.fullerton.edu/blog/2014/09/23/mihaylo-entrepreneurship- collaborates-to-win-1-million-nsf-grant/ As Center Director, Jackson conducts two all-college events: The Business Plan Competition and The CSUF Fast Pitch. Both events reach across the campus to engage students from all disciplines to idea- generate new business concepts, test feasibility, and pitch to a panel of real investors

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, NMIMS University

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Value Delivery 30 Start Innovating 30 Challenge Plan 60 Closure 15 Figure 1: Workshop framework Architecture - The central trunk provides the core contents of workshops. The branches are optional and all the timings (given in diamonds) are indicative.We then move on to case studies that are mainly drawn from

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas P. James P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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institution, what programs had you heard of?” Inresponse to this question, students ranked the entrepreneurship LLC fifth (n = 141) among thetop ten programs identified, Table 1. Table 1 Response to freshman questionnaire: “Prior to coming to our institution, what programs had you heard of?To amplify our in-person marketing effort, we plan to enlist current program participants asguides for tours with prospective students and parents. This may increase the eventual numberof applications if more students join our institution specifically because we have this program.The freshman survey sought to address the issue of program attractiveness with the question,“Which of the following programs had an impact on your decision

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in First-Year Programs

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Curtis Abel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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plan toeducate scientists and engineers with a strong and vital humanities and arts component.The WPI Plan reasoned that the humanities and arts would place engineering in an ethicaland humane context, graduating young men and women to develop technology with aneye toward the greater good. More than forty years later, the humanistic values that haveremained so important to WPI’s general education of engineers have been embraced byschools of business and by engineering programs seeking to develop entrepreneurialengineers. Two of the attributes of an entrepreneurial engineer, as defined by the KernFamily Foundation’s Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), are essentiallythe qualities found in a well-educated humanist: First, curiosity

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Assessing Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isabel Hilliger, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile; Constanza Miranda, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile; Mar Pérez-Sanagustín, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Manuela De la vega, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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inentrepreneurial endeavors. First, this article presents a theoretical framework about competenciesin engineering education, followed by a description of the study objectives, the sample, the datagathering technique and the data analysis plan. We adopted a qualitative design to interviewentrepreneurship stakeholders from Chile, Colombia, Spain, the U.S. and the U.K. Theinterviewees were entrepreneurship instructors, researchers on entrepreneurship education, andleaders from startup accelerators and business incubators. From their perspectives, we shared adefinition of entrepreneurship, we explored the roles that engineers play in startups andentrepreneurial companies, and we identified critical competencies. Finally, we discuss theimplications of these

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Douglas E. Melton, Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network; Heather Dillon, University of Washington Tacoma; Mark L. Nagurka, Marquette University; Mary Murphy

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was that after participants engagedwith facilitators at the workshop, they were provided with one year of coaching by a faculty peermentor. This was an opportunity for participants to test ideas from the workshops with a supportsystem in place and guidance as needed, all in a safe way. Coaching cut across disciplines inengineering and course levels and was successful in helping many faculty implement workshopideas [2].In 2020 nine in-person workshops were planned. The plans shifted swiftly to a remote formatdue to COVID-19 and raised several research questions aligned with this transition: 1. Does the COVID shift create long-term benefits for faculty development structures? 2. Did EM assist the faculty facilitators with the COVID

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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David G. Novick, University of Texas at El Paso; Nicholas A. Ramirez, University of Texas at El Paso; Melanie Anne Realyvasquez, University of Texas at El Paso

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interview. In the course of theinterviews, participants were asked to rate their risk tolerance and their interest in pursuing a startupon ten-point scale. The interviews were assessed (see Coding Book, Appendix A) through recordingof categorical and numerical responses for: • Immigration generation • Parents’ education • Employment during college 4 • Switch of major • Risk tolerance • Startup interestand through thematic content analysis [14] for: • Family influence on major • Career plans • Career certainty • Reasons for pursuing or not pursuing a startupThe students in the entrepreneurially oriented engineering major and the students in the

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Douglas Muir, University of Virginia; Elizabeth P. Pyle, University of Virginia

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consulting services across diversified industries. Her extensive experience in business development, strategic planning, marketing, operations, and leadership have left a lasting impact on overall business performance from start-up to turn-around situations. Ms. Pyle is recognized for her unusual ability to quickly create clarity around key issues to ensure that strategic plans are developed, executed and monitored for success. This clarity of vision is informed by her highly diverse career, starting as an exploration/development petroleum geologist, including a brief stint in education when she lived in Venezuela, and to the present day when her clients have ranged from a heavy equipment manufacturer to a discount

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 9

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University; William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Cory Hixson, Virginia Tech

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education circles, awide range of additional canvases have emerged since the Business Model Canvas was firstintroduced (see www.canvanizer.com). In this paper, we discuss our analysis of severalcanvases and propose a framework for selecting and using existing canvases, as well as creatingnew canvases. While canvases have value in both corporate and academic settings, we place aparticular emphasis on their use in educational settings.The Idea of a CanvasThe Business Model Canvas (BMC) simultaneously questioned the formal business plan andproposed a more flexible and iterative tool for developing and executing on a value proposition.The BMC’s was very timely in that it offered a way to balance long-term planning with theadaptability needed to respond

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wei Zhang, Zhejiang University; Yuexin Jiang, Zhejiang University; Xiaofeng Tang, Pennsylvania State University

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activities running specifically in Business Harvard Focused model School and Management School University Cornell Radiant model Instructional activities spreading all over the campus US University Entrepreneurship Education Center taking charge of Magnet model planning and running the whole program using resources MIT from Business School and Management School Specialized education

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isabel Hilliger P.E., Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile; Constanza Miranda, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Mar Pérez-Sanagustín, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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the curriculum in which themethodology was applied. Then, it shows the results of its applications to discuss the implicationsto adopt this approach to inform curriculum design and evaluation.2. Involving students in curriculum evaluation A curriculum is a broad concept. According to Stark and Lattuca (1997), it is not only a subsetof courses in a study plan, but also its content, the course sequence, the students, the teaching-learning processes, the evaluations, the resources, and the necessary adjustments to improve itsresults. Thus, curriculum design and evaluation should consider multiple factors, such as thelearning environments and the interactions between teachers and students [18], [19]. Surprisingly, teachers and students are

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David G. Alexander Ph.D., California State University - Chico

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competition are to deliver a market-driven technology application, create aninnovative business plan, and develop a deployment strategy. Two faculty advisers, a mechanicalengineering assistant professor from the college of engineering and an entrepreneurship assistantprofessor from the college of business designed and delivered content to help student memberseffectively collaborate and innovate across their disciplines and form a cohesive and highfunctioning team. In addition to being members of the cross-disciplinary team, half the studentswere concurrently enrolled in a business management course with an emphasis in socialentrepreneurship and market analysis while another half were enrolled in a senior capstoneengineering course. Activities in the

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Epicenter Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacob Dean Wheadon, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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assumptions, measurement instruments, and methodological approaches used byresearchers will also vary substantially based on their position in this debate.The other great debate in recent years is an outgrowth of new methods that have been introduced inentrepreneurship education and practice. These methods, although existing in some form in businessliterature for decades (Mintzberg & Waters, 1985), have been popularized more recently as “LeanStartup” or “Lean Launchpad” methods (Blank & Dorf, 2012; Ries, 2011). The advent of these newapproaches has created turbulence among educators and researchers. Many have been quick to “golean” and discard methods that favor a more traditional planning approach, while others have arguedfor the need to

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Tactical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Pines, New Mexico State University; Patricia A. Sullivan, New Mexico State University; Luke Nogales, New Mexico State University

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monthsthe space has been active. Planning such a space is a traditional activity. Visions of its use may, however, beoptimistic and pessimistic at the same time. How students use the space has surprised bothfaculty and college administration. Our goal has been to use the space as an organizing conceptfor a diverse array of activities ranging from high school robotics competitions to senior capstoneprojects. Subsequent to its introduction in February of this year, a study was conducted ofstudent awareness. This study informed us of the increased challenges in marketing the use of thespace. We have evolved a mentorship program to support students working in the space. Thepast six months have seen overuse by classes, exciting design

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ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum II

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Andrea T. Kwaczala, Western New England University

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from using concepts in kinetics and kinematics in an application that also trainsthem on business planning, cost analysis of new biotechnology and market analysis. There is a need tointroduce engineers to the entrepreneurial mindset which can help to engage students in the course materialand become more curious about the world around them. This paper aims to demonstrate how a semester-long human body motion analysis project can teach innovation and business skills in the engineeringclassroom through the use of an entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) module.IntroductionIt is valuable to implement entrepreneurial mindset in the undergraduate engineering classroom. Often,entrepreneurship courses are taught by business programs and do not focus

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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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Federico Garcia Lorca, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.; Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sridhar S. Condoor, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.

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26.1327.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Reinforcing Communication Skills through Participation in a Team-based Weekly Innovation ChallengeIntroduction The Weekly Innovation Challenge (WIC) is an opportunity for students, staff andfaculty to engage in competition while honing their ability to think, act and pitch new ideas.WIC leaders plan and run the competition to help participants learn important lessons in teamcollaboration, communication, innovation and opportunity recognition. These four themesconstitute the fundamental learning objectives envisioned for WICs. This team-based competition has been an ongoing event at the engineering school of aprivate

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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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. Entrepreneurship education has evolved since it was first taught in business schools in themid-1940s. As it continues to be incorporated across disciplines, entrepreneurship education hasseen a number of innovations and has benefited from advances in student learning6.Entrepreneurship education has expanded well beyond single business plan classes. Recently,engineering colleges have been the most aggressive at incorporating entrepreneurship at differentlevels, from individual course development, certificate creation, to program development3,4,7. In2010, over 50% of ASEE engineering programs offered entrepreneurship opportunities to theirstudents and approximately 25% had a more structured opportunity, such as a minor7. While thecurriculum and delivery