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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 4: Curriculum and Programmatic Effects

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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EntrepreneurshipAbstractThis work-in-progress paper explores three different academic opportunities that introduceundergraduate students to innovation and engineering entrepreneurship. Courses focused on theexplicit teaching of knowledge, skills, and attitudes associated with innovation andentrepreneurship are inherently able to include learning objectives that align with many of theABET student outcomes, including how to: understand the context in which an engineeringdesign will be implemented, effectively communicate ideas, work in multidisciplinary teams, andparticipate in ethical decision making. The three academic opportunities offered at the Universityof Illinois Urbana-Champaign which are discussed in this paper include: 1) a semester-longintroductory course

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 5: Exploring and Re-Examining Ideas in Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Felix Kempf, King's College London; Nada Elfiki, Stanford University; Aya Mouallem, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; George Toye; Micah Lande, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Kei Hysi; Xiao Ge, Stanford University; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University

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paper, looking at workplace practices that promoteengineering graduates going out into the world and generating these new ideas. We call thisoverlap or nexus between innovation and entrepreneurship the “Embracing New Ideas” (ENI)space and identify self-efficacy and behavioral measures that capture its essence. We alsoconsider how to promote these associated behaviors in the workplace, situating our model in theframework of Social Cognitive Career Theory. Our associated research questions are: ● RQ1: How can Embracing New Ideas (ENI) be operationalized into measures of self- efficacy and behaviors? ● RQ2: What workplace, self-efficacy and personal factors relate to these behaviors in a variety of organizations?For organizations that

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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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Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Alanna D. Epstein, University of Michigan; Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University

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faculty and graduate students involved in these activities. Today, only a very smallpercentage of engineers and scientists who are involved in research are exposed to technologycommercialization training or activity. At many research universities, the primary role for facultyis very oriented towards scientific production, more than either teaching or entrepreneurialengagement. Many individual and institutional factors are believed to influence academicresearchers’ decisions regarding whether to engage in academic entrepreneurship, and whether tocontinue to stay involved. Therefore, increasing participation requires a comprehensiveunderstanding of academic researcher motivations.Motivation for EntrepreneurshipMotivation is defined as “a set of

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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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could benefit from research training from an EM perspective to helpthem see and prepare for a career in creative, entrepreneurial activities.Allowing students to not only learn about but also to practice EM-focused activities in the contextof their current, ongoing research, can encourage students to demonstrate the unmet need andopportunities they are addressing through their research. Supporting students and faculty in UGRexperiences through an EM lens has the potential to unleash the innovation and agency of next-level undergraduate students, who may become graduate students, and who may become our nextleaders in engineering.Future work:Our one-year follow-up survey will be distributed to this baseline cohort in the fall of 2023, whichwill

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 2: Assessing the Entrepreneurial Mindset, Curiosity, and Workplace Preparedness

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meagan Eleanor Ita, Arvinas; Amanda Marie Singer, The Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University

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first year. Despite those constructs increasing,students generated questions pertaining to Information Seeking and Stress Tolerance constructsmost frequently in the direct pre and post assessment, with approximately 60% and 25% ofquestions coded into those categories, respectively. The frequency of codes was not differentbetween the pre and post assessments. These findings suggest that further work is needed tounderstand discrepancies between how students perceive their curiosity personality and how theyexercise that curiosity in an academic context. This paper explores the direct and indirectassessment data sets and discusses implications for our findings on pedagogical approaches tofostering curiosity in first-year

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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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Monsuru O. Ramoni, Navajo Technical University; Jonathon Chinana; Ty Shurley, Navajo Technical University; Kathryn Hollar, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

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mechanics and bioprocess engineering. She began her position as Director of Community Programs and Diversity Outreach at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2003. In partnership with faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students, she develops and implements programs for K-12 students, teachers, un- dergraduates, and families that are designed to increase scientific and engineering literacy, and to inspire people with diverse backgrounds to pursue science and engineering careers. At the undergraduate level, she directs a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program that brings students to Harvard for 10 weeks to work in research laboratories. This program hosts between 45-70

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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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Jeffrey Jianfeng Ma, Saint Louis University; Lisa Bosman, Marquette University; Maged Mikhail, Purdue University Northwest; Khalid H. Tantawi, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Beshoy Morkos, University of Georgia

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professors who are teaching mathematicallyintensive engineering subjects are seeking effective pedagogical approaches to motivate students [15].2.2 Current Approaches for Motivating Engineering StudentsKEEN is a US nationwide network of more than 30 undergraduate engineering programs that are committedto the mission of graduating engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset (curiosity, connections, and creatingvalue-3Cs) so they can create personal, economic, and societal value through a lifetime of meaningful work[16][17].KEEN has organized numerous workshops/seminars to teach engineering faculty members fundamentalpedagogical techniques of Entrepreneurial Minded Learning (EML), Active/cooperative Learning (ACL),and Problem/project-based learning (PBL