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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 5

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sherri M. Youssef, The Ohio State University; Amanda Marie Singer, The Ohio State University; Carter James Huber, The Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University; Krista M Kecskemety, The Ohio State University

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course sequence over the 2021-2022 and2022-2023 academic years to determine the effect of EM-focused instruction and first-yeardesign projects on EM growth. We analyzed responses in a pre/post manner within theseacademic years and holistically analyzed across academic years. We used the cross-year analysisto address the impact of curricular changes. Finally, we provide implications and pedagogicalapproaches that can support the development of an EM in the future.2. BackgroundThe Ohio State University (OSU) partnered with KEEN in 2017 and has since integrated EMLacross several courses in its engineering curriculum. This initiative first began with the redesignof the First Year Engineering Program (FYEP) standard course sequence. Alterations to

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 1: Robotics and Bio-Inspired Projects

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Colorado State University; Lisa Bosman, Marquette University

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Methods section. To conclude thissegment, we provide the research question pursued in this paper which has an exploratory nature:Research question: How does bringing Entrepreneurial Mindset to the design of machinerythrough a bio-inspired design project with aesthetic objectives impact students’ self-reportedexperiences?2. Literature Review2.1 Lack of Interdisciplinary Project-Based Learning Integrated Across EngineeringCoursesMost engineering education today does not adequately equip students to address complexand ill-structured technical problems that involve different stakeholders, uncertainty in the successcriteria, and interdisciplinary application of knowledge. Such problems are called wicked problems[3] and constitute some of the most

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 6: Undergraduate and Faculty Research

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maysam Nezafati, Georgia Institute of Technology; Irene Reizman, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University

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institutions may choose to modify and implement to improveundergraduate research experiences and outcomes.Introduction:Entrepreneurship has been an inseparable part of business programs’ curriculum, but itsembedding in engineering colleges or in interdisciplinary programs is fairly new. Considering real-life needs, the development of a professional skill set comprising proficiency in communication,business, creativity, leadership, and other attributes, is nearly or equally as important as theacquisition of technical skills by engineering students. By embedding entrepreneurship inengineering programs, students create personal, economic, and societal value. There is an overlapand logical fit between the outcomes of STEM programs and the skills

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 6: Undergraduate and Faculty Research

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University; Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University; Anthony M. Jacobi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sophie Wang; Kyriaki Kalaitzidou

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Motivation,Efficient Team Training, Faculty & Mentor Development, and Dissemination & Collaboration. Figure 1. An EM-Driven Framework for Undergraduate ResearchTo educate and aid faculty with integrating undergraduates in research, a series of initiatives arebeing developed to focus on student early exposure to the concept of research, training ofstudents in research topics, and helping faculty see the value of using undergraduates in theirresearch programs. For all initiatives, videos and accompanying activities will be available foruse at any university. The universities represented in this project are diverse. There are publicand private universities and both large and small universities as well. The challenge of theproject

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elif Akcali, University of Florida; Braxton Rae, University of Florida; Tobias Lodemann, University of Florida

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this experience of writing poems, “wasa lot of fun.”Bob recalled that “the kind of assignments given” in programming courses he took during hisundergraduate and graduate program required him to be creative. Such assignments asked you toutilize “some different thought processes or different ways to get you a solution.” Like Bob,Victor also noted that several programming courses throughout his graduate education, where hewas asked to demonstrate and practice his creative thinking skills. However, he recalled anothercourse from his undergraduate education in a different country, where the first year of theengineering curriculum is the same for all majors. In this curriculum, there was an electrical andelectronics course during the lab in which

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, Texas Tech University; Tim Dallas P.E., Texas Tech University

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Paper ID #41330Co-Developing a Social Entrepreneurship Program with a Focus on EngineeringDr. Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, Texas Tech University Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas Tech University, as well as the Associate Dean of the Graduate School. Her research emerges at the intersection of Educational Technology, Pedagogical Innovation, Personalized Learning, Diversity and Equity Issues, and Global Studies. Greenhalgh-Spencer explores practices of using technology and pedagogical innovation to create engaged learning in both formal and

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ben Jelen, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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meaning and purpose.McAdams writes, “the I becomes an autobiographical author; the Me becomes the story it tells”[17].As such, in modern society, storytelling can be leveraged in a variety of ways to support socialcohesion, identity discovery, and sensemaking to positively impact even the engineeringclassroom. For example, the Academic Pathways Study found that for some engineeringstudents, an engineering career was not necessarily the expected end goal (14% definitely not,12% probably not, and 8% unsure) [18]. This data highlights that learning, even in anengineering curriculum, should be broad enough to support students headed to a variety ofcareers that may be related or adjacent to STEM fields.In fact, students’ expectations for the value of

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 1: Robotics and Bio-Inspired Projects

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hiroyuki Ishizaki, Shibaura Institute of Technology; Sumito Nagasawa, Shibaura Institute of Technology; Hatsuko Yoshikubo, Shibaura Institute of Technology; Hitoshi Nakamura, Shibaura Institute of Technology

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Activity. She obtained a Ph.D. in English Literature from Chiba University in 2002. Her current main research interests are: 1) how including humanities courses in an engineering education curriculum can help students to gain flexibility, and an appreciation of equity, and a greater richness of ideas; 2) finding and solving the systematic issues impacting the effectiveness of engineering education, specifically in the context of project-based learnings; and 3) assessing the impact of interdisciplinary engi- neering project-based learnings. Below are her recent presentations at international conferences: WERA 2022, APAIE 2022, IIAI DSIR 2021, IIAI DSIR 2020, WERA 2019. She obtained the Outstanding Paper Award in DSIR

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 4

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tobias Rossmann, Lafayette College; Martin Johnson

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-curricular programs can provide these opportunities outside of the packed engineering curriculumwhile offering outlets for students to develop a growth mindset, build self-awareness, and learn totake initiative and build ventures in real-world settings.Developing creative and dynamic engineers requires a multi-faceted approach to engineeringcurricula. Theoretical courses, hands-on activities, project based learning, teambuilding andleadership opportunities all need to be packed into an accredited curriculum. The challenge for allengineering educators is to provide sufficient and consistent opportunities for engineering studentsto explore new ideas and approaches, act upon those ideas and transform them into value for othersand themselves. A co

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 3: Projects and Student Learning

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Amy Trowbridge, Arizona State University

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Paper ID #37335A First-Year Design Project That Encourages Motivation, Curiosity,Connections, and MakingDr. Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University Dr. Haolin Zhu earned her BEng in Engineering Mechanics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and her Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University, with a focus on computational solid mechanics. Dr. Zhu is an Associate Teaching Professor of the freshman engineering education team in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). In this role, she focuses on designing the curriculum and teaching in the freshman engineering program

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 4

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claudia Paz Gwynn, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

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students.Additionally, there is a growing consensus that entrepreneurial competencies should be an integralpart of the industrial engineering curriculum. This integration helps to balance the demandsbetween traditional employment and entrepreneurial activities, promoting entrepreneurship as aviable career option beyond the confines of business schools [16]. The influence of collaborativelearning on entrepreneurship in higher education has also been documented. A study shows apositive and significant impact of collaborative learning on students' engagement inentrepreneurial activities, with indirect effects mediated by entrepreneurial culture quantified at28.29% and 6.6% [17]. This underscores the importance of collaborative learning as a tool toenhance

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene B. Mena, University of Pittsburgh

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describes the redesign and implementation of a course that introduces engineeringstudents to social entrepreneurship within the context of sustainability, at the University ofPittsburgh. Throughout the semester, the course focuses on three overarching topics: the conceptof wicked problems, the concept of sustainability and climate change (as an example of a wickedproblem), and social entrepreneurship. The author took responsibility of this course in 2015, andthis paper focuses on the redesign of this course since that time.This course is an elective that is mostly taken by junior and senior engineering students of allengineering disciplines at the university. Throughout the semester, students are introduced toentrepreneurship topics, the