Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Eleanor Leung, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Andrew Lillesve, Iron Range Engineering

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #23507Growing Entrepreneurial Mindset in Interdisciplinary Student Engineers:Experiences of a Project-Based Engineering ProgramDr. Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State University, Mankato Elizabeth leads the Engineering Management and Statistics competencies at Iron Range Engineering, a project-based engineering education program located in northern Minnesota. Her research interests include gamification, entrepreneurship & innovation in engineering, cooperative learning, and engineer- ing management. She enjoys helping student engineers develop entrepreneurial mindsets through active and collaborative learning

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tela Favaloro, University of California, Santa Cruz; Patrick E. Mantey, University of California, Santa Cruz; Stephen C. Petersen P.E., University of California, Santa Cruz; John F Vesecky, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

tothe identification of a client or customer base that self-conceived project-teams without atargeted consumer are either asked to rethink the concept or are not approved.By guiding learners toward the entrepreneurial-mindset with real world application andaccountability, the program endeavors to make the complexities of authentic engineering designmore tractable, bringing tasks within the learner’s zone of proximal development [19,20]. Theinstructor’s role is that of a mentor and facilitator, never the client, to scaffold this transition andmake the process attainable. Below is a list of targeted learning outcomes, where the successfulstudent exhibits the ability to:  Translate in-classroom theory into real world design using professional

Conference Session

Investigating Instructional Strategies

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eleanor Leung, Minnesota State University Mankato, Iron Range Engineering; Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State University, Mankato / Iron Range Engineering

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

constellations. She has a B.S in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary and both a M.Eng and a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University.Dr. Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State University, Mankato / Iron Range Engineering Elizabeth leads the Engineering Management and Statistics competencies at Iron Range Engineering, an ABET-accredited project-based engineering education program in Minnesota. She enjoys helping student engineers develop entrepreneurial mindsets through active and collaborative learning in the classroom, on project design teams, and while out on co-op work. Her prior education and work experience were in business and accounting, and her Ph.D. in Organization and Management is from