Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiao Zhang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andre Schleife, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andrew Ferguson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Pascal Bellon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Timothy Bretl, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jessica A. Krogstad, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Robert Maass, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Cecilia Leal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Dallas R. Trinkle , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jian Ku Shang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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, for instance, how light is absorbed in photo-voltaic materials.Prof. Andrew Ferguson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Andrew Ferguson is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Chemical and Biomolec- ular Engineering, and an Affiliated Associate Professor of Physics, and Computational Science and Engi- neering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received an M.Eng. in Chemical Engineer- ing from Imperial College London in 2005, and a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Princeton University in 2010. From 2010 to 2012 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT. He commenced

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton

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results, it can be concluded that offeringa thematic section of a course can be a good way to get students interested in the course content,to bring in projects that have a common theme and to help develop the students’ entrepreneurialmindset. Slight modification of the course, including developing thematic homework andprojects and adjusting the schedule to accommodate additional content are required, but canprovide benefits to the students as well as the instructor.Bibliography1. Kern Foundation, http://www.kffdn.org/files/keenzine-2-framework.pdf, accessed January 22, 2015.2. Fry, C.,et. al., “AC 2010-2218: Bringing Innovation and the Entrepreneurial Mindset (back) into Engineering: the KEEN Innovators Program, Proceedings of the ASEE 2010