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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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John Peponis, Lawrence Technological University; Mary Lauren Benton, Baylor University; Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University; Anthony M. Jacobi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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renewable energy, small wind turbine aerodynamics, and noise generation as it applies to the urban environment. Currently, he designs small Unmanned Aerial System propellers, reducing noise and power requirements.Dr. Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dr. Blake Everett Johnson is a Teaching Assistant Professor and instructional laboratory manager in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include experimental fluid mechanics, measurement science, engineering education, engineering leadership, and professional identity development.Dr. Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University Liping Liu is an associate

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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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Heather Dillon, University of Washington; Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University; Brooke K. Mayer, Marquette University; Shane W. Rogers, Clarkson University; Ben Tribelhorn, University of Portland

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Paper ID #38203Undergraduate Research as a Tool for Building Entrepreneurial Mindset inEngineering StudentsDr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining academia, she worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer working on both energy efficiency and renewable energy systems, where she received the US Department of Energy Office of Science

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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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Fatemeh Mozaffar; Cheng Chen, University of Georgia; Beshoy Morkos, University of Georgia; Jianfeng Ma

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taught in a variety of ways. In general, lectures, hands-on laboratory orworkshop sessions, and project-based work may all be included in manufacturing curricula.When teaching manufacturing courses and lectures are frequently utilized to provide studentswith an overview of the fundamental principles in the field. A range of different technologies canbe used to deliver a lecture such as online or in a classroom setting. Additionally, manufacturingcourses could also include hands-on laboratory or workshop sessions where students get to useactual manufacturing tools and equipment. These classes are made to give students real-worldexperience with procedures and methods employed in the field. Traditionally, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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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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Jeffrey Walters, University of Washington; Kayt Frisch, George Fox University; Zaher Kmail, University of Washington; Heather Dillon, University of Washington; Chris Sharp, George Fox University

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fields [4], [5], [6].In recent years, course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have been gainingpopularity as a way to engage undergraduate students in authentic scientific inquiry on a largescale [7]. While CUREs have many similarities to traditional laboratory courses or courseresearch projects, the work students do as part of a CURE is framed in a fundamentally differentway. Research projects within CUREs ideally have direct and indirect impact on the broaderscientific community and offer students the opportunity to share study findings with externalstakeholders [8]. Consequently, CUREs represent an overlap between the triumvirate of studentlearning, stakeholder impact, and promotion of a faculty’s research program.In this work

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ENT-5: Pathways for Developing Entrepreneurial Skills Across Educational Levels

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Irene Reizman, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Maysam Nezafati, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech & Emory University; Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University; Mary Lauren Benton, Baylor University; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Mitchel Daniel, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jonathan Rylander, Baylor University

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assistant professor of bioinformatics at Baylor University. She received her B.S. in Bioinformatics at Baylor University before completing her M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University.Dr. Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dr. Blake Everett Johnson is a Teaching Associate Professor and instructional laboratory manager in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include experimental fluid mechanics, measurement science, engineering education, engineering leadership, and professional identity development.Mitchel Daniel, Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyJonathan Rylander, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Poster Session

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcus Melo de Lyra, The Ohio State University; Sherri Youssef, The Ohio State University; Peyton OReilly, The Ohio State University; Shukufe Rahman, The Ohio State University; Benjamin Ahn, The Ohio State University; Adam R Carberry, The Ohio State University

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-working-paper-no.-2013-01[28] M. Sabat et al., “Current teaching methods in STEM departments – A road map for fundamental university educational reform: evidence from Lebanon,” J. Appl. Res. High. Educ., vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 41–58, Jan. 2022, doi: 10.1108/JARHE-09-2020-0307.[29] C. Wieman, “A Better Way to Evaluate Undergraduate Teaching,” Change Mag. High. Learn., vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 6–15, Jan. 2015, doi: 10.1080/00091383.2015.996077.[30] E. L. Gottfried, M. Kamoun, and M. D. Burke, “Laboratory Medicine Education in United States Medical Schools,” Am. J. Clin. Pathol., vol. 100, no. 6, pp. 594–598, Dec. 1993, doi: 10.1093/ajcp/100.6.594.[31] E. Jacobson and A. Izsák, “Knowledge and motivation as mediators in

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amanda Walls, University of Arkansas; Ishita Tandon, University of Arkansas; Timothy J. Muldoon, University of Arkansas; Jeff Wolchok, University of Arkansas; Mostafa Elsaadany, University of Arkansas

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Institutes of Health (NIH) recentlyintroduced similar programs called Innovation Corps (I-Corps), which are designed to lead smallteams through customer discovery and business model validation during a seven- to eight-weekbootcamp. Both programs are widely recognized as effective training camps that “preparescientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the university laboratory” andcommercialize new technology faster [7]. These programs are primarily intended for graduatestudents and start-up business leaders, yet there is a need to engage students in entrepreneurialactivities sooner in their education [8]. One study by Pellicane and Blaho [8] adapted the I-Corpsmodel to an undergraduate course and found that students who participated had

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynn Dudash, University of Mount Union

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meaningful and increases their confidence in theirability to achieve the course’s learning outcomes.Project Approach This EM activity took place in a semester long engineering mechanics course, Statics andDynamics. At this university, statics and dynamics is a four-credit hour course required forstudents majoring in biomedical, civil, and mechanical engineering. The course meets for lecturethree times per week for 65 minutes and is supported by a laboratory that meets for one hour andforty minutes once per week. Statics and Dynamics students worked in groups of 3-4 to completethis activity. For the activity, students were given the “Clippers Worth the Cost?” handout anddimensioned pictures of the standard and “Power Lever” garden

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ENT-8: Mentorship, Creativity, and Ethics in Academic Entrepreneurship

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne K DeChant, Penn State University Hershey College of Medicine; Erika Swift, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine; Alyson Grace Eggleston, Pennsylvania State University; Robert J. Rabb P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Mark Daniel Pacey, Pennsylvania State University

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partners,and regional innovation ecosystem organizations such as incubators and accelerators. Industrymentoring is performed as a volunteer activity with low demands on their time, and mostactivities are performed via video conferencing for greater reach and engagement.Customer Discovery Interview Utilizing a Flipped Classroom PedagogyAs part of the Innovation Fellows Program, the fellows receive specialized customer discoverytraining tailored for biomedical scientists and engineers. This training builds from the U.S. NSFI-Corps Program launched in 2011. I-Corps is to prepare “scientists and engineers to extend theirfocus beyond the laboratory to increase the economic and societal impact of NSF-funded andother basic research projects” [16]. This

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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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], [16]. These resources provide avaluable starting point, but they are often tailored to a specific model of research (e.g. graduatestudents mentoring undergraduates in a large laboratory group), and smaller universities may havelimited resources for a formal course in research.Thus, we found a need for training materials that could be flexibly deployed across universities ofvarious sizes, from large R1 universities to small primarily undergraduate institutions.Additionally, leveraging our partnership with the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network(KEEN), our aim was to develop materials focused on helping students develop a mindset tosupport their success in research. With the tools of EM, students can understand how their researchaddresses

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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

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Anu Osta, Rowan University

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jet cutter and laser 4cutter. They also have experienced additive manufacturing using FDM. During this course theyare further trained in additional skills as part of the laboratory module. These includeStereolithography printing, CNC machining, microcontroller programming and electro-dischargemachining.DiscussionsSome class project submissions are described below in Figures 1-5 and the rest in Table 1. Theentire submission is summarized under five points (a) Customer needs (b) Design solution (c)Product development (d) Material and Manufacturing (e) Costs and Marketing Strategy.Identifying customer needs is a crucial step in entrepreneurship as

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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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Heather Dillon, University of Washington; Deborah M. Grzybowski, The Ohio State University; Bryant Hutson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Megan Morin, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Nicole Ralston; Michael J. Rust, Western New England University; Viji Sathy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ben Tribelhorn, University of Portland; Timothy A. Doughty, University of Portland

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Paper ID #38196Work in Progress: Gap Analysis for Assessment of Entrepreneurial Mindsetin EngineeringDr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining academia, she worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer working on both energy efficiency and renewable energy systems, where she received the US Department of Energy Office of Science

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Shenk, Campbell University; Najmus Saqib, Marian University; Marie Stettler Kleine, Colorado School of Mines; Aneesha Gogineni, Saginaw Valley State University; A. L. Ranen McLanahan, The Kern Family Foundation; Stephanie M. Gillespie, University of New Haven

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end of the activity,all groups came up with creative new opportunities for uses of a fire piston and the ideal gas law,including implementation into wood furnaces, access for those with disabilities to start fires, anduse in situations where matches might not be convenient.Additionally, after implementation, the module was refined further to minimize class timeimplementation and to create new activities that further enhance engagement. One such idea isto purchase these relatively inexpensive contraptions to create a small ember from classroommaterials in a laboratory setting, providing students with hands-on experience associated with theideal gas law.Further development of ideas and modules continue as of the writing of this paper. While a

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Poster Session

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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journals, laboratory notes, files, and sketches that document discoveries, ideas, design details, and implementation strategies. Now it is your turn to document your insights, understandings, experiences, inspirations, and ideas! The goal of this portfolio is to help you document your creativity enhancement throughout this course and to help you build a habit of creativity for your future.The more nuanced learning objectives of the Portfolio include that as a result of this project,students will: 1. Produce a complete, functional, and appealing system to record and cultivate ideas daily. 2. Enhance their creativity by re-kindling their curiosity, discovering opportunities, and practicing ideation. 3

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ENT-3: Transforming Engineering Curriculum through Entrepreneurial Approaches

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna K. T. Howard, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Katherine Saul, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Nathalie Lavoine, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

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University at RaleighNathalie Lavoine, North Carolina State University at Raleigh Since 2018, Nathalie Lavoine has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forest Biomaterials at NC State University (Raleigh, North Carolina, US). She received her PhD degree in 2013 from the Laboratory of Pulp & Paper Sciences, and Graphic Arts under the supervision of Dr. Julien Bras and Dr. Isabelle Desloges, in Grenoble, France. She then conducted two postdoctoral research experiences under the supervision of Prof. Akira Isogai at the University of Tokyo, Japan (2014-2016) and Prof. Lennart Bergstr¨om at Stockholm University, Sweden (2016-2018). Her research activities center on the development and engineering of advanced

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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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Maged Mikhail, Purdue University Northwest; Khalid H. Tantawi, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Jeffrey Ma, Saint Louis University

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. This is a great door for many of thestudents to gain this experience, however, not all students had the chance to get internships orcoops. The major obstacles that hinder students are [10]: • Students need to work full-time or part-time to be able to continue and finish their education. • Students had many courses and most of the courses require laboratory time and lots of homework. • Unpaid or poorly paid internships • Lack of transportation between work and school limited students on campus jobs, not internshipsABET criterion 5 is” a minimum of 30 semester credit hours (or equivalent) of a combination ofcollege-level mathematics and basic sciences with experimental experience appropriate to theprogram

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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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. The project desires an understanding of thecurrent status and motivation of undergraduates in research and to develop useful tools andresources that will help faculty members to engage undergraduates in a more effective andefficient way. Two workshops are proposed to address faculty and to get them onboard with theconcept of using undergraduates in the laboratory. These workshops will be piloted at the fiveinstitutions involved with this project and assessment of the workshops will be accomplishedsurveying the faculty who attend the workshops. From the assessment the workshops will beimproved for future offerings.References[1] Holstein, W. K., “Research and Development,” Britannica. [Online] Available:https://www.britannica.com/topic/research

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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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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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students [5]. Robotics education can be started fromelementary school or even kindergartens [6] for providing students with learning-by-doingapproach based on the constructionism theory by Seymour Papert of the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology's Media Laboratory [7]. However, most existing robotics tools are essentially toys with limited or no practical usage.After completing parts assembly, they are mostly displayed inside the child’s room. Some,not many, are associated with coding, though largely still at a rudimentary level, which maynot lead to comprehensive programming studies. Such products can also be quite expensivelypriced, with a minimum price tag of a couple of hundred US dollars, which is mostly forwealthy households. A typical

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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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Amanda Walls, University of Arkansas; Thomas Hudnall McGehee, University of Arkansas; Ishita Tandon, University of Arkansas; Timothy J. Muldoon, University of Arkansas; Mostafa Elsaadany, University of Arkansas

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) recentlyintroduced similar programs called Innovation Corps (I-Corps), which are designed to lead smallteams through customer discovery and business model validation during a seven- to eight-weekbootcamp. Both programs are widely recognized as effective training camps that “preparescientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the university laboratory” andcommercialize new technology faster [7]. These programs are primarily intended for graduatestudents and start-up business leaders, yet there is a need to engage students in entrepreneurialactivities sooner in their education [8]. One study by Pellicane and Blaho [8] adapted the I-Corpsmodel to an undergraduate course and found that students who participated had significantlyincreased collaboration

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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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Chloe Grace Hincher, North Carolina State University; Olgha Bassam Qaqish, North Carolina State University

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.‬‭, vol.‬ ‭43, no. 2, pp. 164–173, May 2000, doi: 10.1109/13.848069.‬ ‭[8]‬ ‭Marissa Mary Martine, Lia X. Mahoney, Christina M. Sunbury, John Austin Schneider, Cory‬ ‭Hixson, and Cheryl A. Bodnar, “Concept Maps as an Assessment Tool for Evaluating‬ ‭Students’ Perception of Entrepreneurial Mind-set,” Tampa, Florida: ASEE Conferences,‬ ‭Jun. 2019. doi: 10.18260/1-2--32533.‬ ‭[9]‬ ‭C. Bodnar, T. R. Christiani, K. Dahm, and A. J. Vernengo, “Implementation and‬ ‭assessment of an undergraduate tissue engineering laboratory course,”‬‭Educ. Chem

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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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category of “Into Action” highlights the students ability to begin pressure testing a ventureidea, plan the way forward, and work/learn with others to create value. This final set ofcompetencies are what engineering design and laboratory team projects work towards. ABETstudent outcome #5 [an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provideleadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meetobjectives] directly points at these same ideas of putting engineering knowledge into action. Whileit can be hard to build this environment for undergraduate engineering teams, well-constructedproject based learning opportunities might accomplish this. However, these are usually