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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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Azadeh Bolhari P.E., University of Colorado Boulder; Angela R Bielefeldt P.E., University of Colorado Boulder

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-efficacy of undergraduate environmentalengineering students is explored in a target course before and after a curricular interventionwhich has been shown to have the potential to enhance innovation self-efficacy. A design mentorand an education mentor outside of the course supported the students through their engineeringdesign process. During the start and end of this curricular intervention, a survey consisting of theVery Brief Innovation Self-Efficacy scale (ISE.5), the Innovation Interests scale (INI), and theCareer Goals: Innovative Work scale (CGIW) was administered to measure students’ shift in: 1)Innovation Self-Efficacy, 2) Innovation Interests, and 3) Innovative Work. Formal feedback fromthe mentors was utilized in interpreting the survey

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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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we take a different tack, wanting to identify the nexus, or common ground, ofInnovative and Entrepreneurial self-efficacies, and Innovative and Entrepreneurial behaviors.Thinking about common ground is a useful lens with which to look at the intentional or focusedcreativity of engineers, whether they are working in new or existing enterprises. First, we showthe development of this intersectional/nexus concept (which we call Embracing New Ideas, ENI)in terms of measures of self-efficacy (ENI-SE; consisting of six items, with a Cronbach’s Alphaof .85) and behavior (ENI-B; consisting of five items, with a Cronbach’s Alpha of .80). Thenbased on Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), we model ENI-B (our dependent variable) asa function of ENI-SE

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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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John Reap, Quinnipiac University; David Tomczyk, Quinnipiac University

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study evaluates the use of entrepreneurial design projectsin a first computer aided design (CAD) course. The study quantifies changes in affectivecapacities in terms of Need for Achievement (nAch), Generalized Self-Efficacy (GSE), andTolerance for Ambiguity (ToA). Surveys deployed at the start and conclusion of the CADcourse provide the data needed to evaluate these changes. A paired sample t-test for those whoresponded to both entry and exit surveys (N=14) shows an absence of significant change for anyof the measured affective capacities. However, a small number of individual students exhibitednoteworthy, though not statistically significant, changes for one or more of the three measures.This outcome points to the value of conducting larger

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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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Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, Texas Tech University; Tim Dallas, Texas Tech University

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study indicate thatentrepreneurship education successfully influences entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurialattitude, and the entrepreneurial mindset. On the other hand, entrepreneurial self-efficacypromotes entrepreneurial attitude instead of the entrepreneurial mindset. Furthermore,entrepreneurial attitude plays an essential role in mediating both entrepreneurship education andself-efficacy toward students' entrepreneurial mindset.” (p. 1). They further argue that thecurriculum needs to focus on increasing self-efficacy and positive mindsets by providing those‘mastery experiences’ that allow students to try out entrepreneurship skills in supportedenvironments. In practice, this looks like supporting more internships, providing

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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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Alanna Epstein, University of Michigan; Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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toresources such as incubators (Karataş-Özkan & Chell, 2015; Parker et al., 2017; Poggesi et al.,2020). More recently, Wheadon and Duval-Couetil (2018) created a “capital framework” thatoutlines categories of barriers that control access, participation, and persistence in technologyentrepreneurship. This framework moves beyond social and financial capital, to explore howhuman capital (e.g. education) and cognitive capital (e.g., self-efficacy) are also factors inviewing oneself as a technology entrepreneur.Women currently face negative stereotypes about their competence in STEM fields as well assimilar stereotypes about their entrepreneurial abilities (Gupta et al., 2009), leading scholars todescribe technology entrepreneurship as "doubly

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitra Varun Anand, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ahmet Can Sabuncu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Curtis Abel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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for underrepresented students in undergraduatescience, technology, engineering, and math," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,vol. 117, no. 12, pp. 6476-6483, Mar. 2020.[17] S. Freeman, S. L. Eddy, M. McDonough, M. K. Smith, N. Okoroafor, H. Jordt, and M. P.Wenderoth, "Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, andmathematics," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., vol. 111, no. 23, pp. 8410-8415, Jun. 2014.[18] C. J. Ballen, C. Wieman, S. Salehi, J. B. Searle, and K. R. Zamudio, "Enhancing diversity inundergraduate science: Self-efficacy drives performance gains with active learning," CBE—LifeSciences Education, vol. 16, no. 4, ar56, 2017.[19] P. Gurin, B. A. Nagda, and X. Zúñiga, Dialogue Across

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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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Research Workshop has been provided by the Kern Family Foundation.Dr. Doug Melton and Dr. Meg West provided thoughtful feedback about the workshop development overmany years. Special thanks to all the participants who took time to take our survey and learn with us!References[1] L. O. Flowers, “Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences at HBCUs,” J. Educ. Soc. Policy, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 33, 2021, doi: 10.30845/jesp.v8n1p4.[2] A. Carpi, D. M. Ronan, H. M. Falconer, and N. H. Lents, “Cultivating minority scientists: Undergraduate research increases self-efficacy and career ambitions for underrepresented students in STEM,” J. Res. Sci. Teach., vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 169–194, Feb. 2017, doi: 10.1002/tea.21341.[3] M. Villarejo, A. E. L