Tufts University. He has additional appointments in the Department of Education and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on learning through service-based projects and using an entrepreneurial mindset to further engineering education innovations. He also researches the development of reuse strategies for waste materials. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Innovation Corps for Learning (I-Corps™ L): Assessing the Potential for Sustainable Scalability of Educational Innovations Karl A. Smith1, Rocio C. Chavela Guerra2, Ann F. McKenna3, Chris Swan4
agencies to alleviate those restrictions?7. What programs does your society have that promotes or encourages membership in your society by ET graduates or that promotes hiring of ET graduates by your members? NSF PROGRAMS OF INTEREST TO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGES Speaker:Ece Yaprak, Ph.D., Program Director, EHR/DUE, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Moderator:Reza Langari, Professor and JR Thompson Department Head Chair of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution, Texas A&M University Fostering The Innovative and Entrepreneurial Mindset In Engineering Technology Education: Lessons Learned from I-corps and I-corps-l Programs in Bridging The Gap Between
participants were able todevise innovative ideas for the creation of a business. Students collectively worked on a seriesof creative problem solving activities and found innovative solutions for the problems in theircommunities. The feedback obtained from the participants noted that the workshop waseffective in teaching them how to develop and expand their entrepreneurial mindset throughcreativity and creative problem solving activities.I. IntroductionA variety of complex issues, such as reducing poverty both locally and globally, sustainingnatural and economic resources, and dealing with climate change, are facing today’s collegegraduates. Solving these complex problems requires technological and social innovations.Therefore, many traditional
” entrepreneurship initiative and Cornell University’s “Entrepreneurship AcrossCornell” program.Rice University’s Freestyle program brings together students, faculty, administrators, andmembers of the Houston community and engages them in discussions and activities that explorethe entrepreneurial mindset through multiple lenses, including those of the sciences, humanities,arts, and various professions. The Freestyle approach is broad and integrated and uses differentmethods of delivering knowledge and experiences, including traditional lectures, coursework,research experiences, and performances. Each year, the program explores multipleinterdisciplinary themes that engage experts and practitioners not only across disciplines andprofessions, but also in the
process of evolving as a profession cannot be achieved unless an entrepreneurial mindset iscreated amongst the engineers of 2020 and beyond. To foster this entrepreneurial mindset,engineering programs are undertaking various initiatives. However, there is no clear agreementregarding the entrepreneurship content that should be included for engineers.In this paper, the authors have done a comprehensive review of entrepreneurship course offeringsin engineering programs. This includes analyzing whether the programs are offered by theengineering schools themselves or in partnership with a business school and what other offeringsthey have for their students in addition to course work. This enabled the authors to identifypatterns about the required
entrepreneurial endeavor with little or no instruction onhow to work and orchestrate dissonance. This paper showcases context sensitive qualitativeinformation from a team negotiation study conducted in two educational settings in North andSouth America. We describe two bottom-up negotiation strategies that become a shared patternbetween the two research sites. Additionally, both group of students described a new mindset fordoing things and solving real problems. Being comfortable with ambiguity is an emergentexpected outcome from a new way of teaching and learning engineering. A convergence in thenegotiation patterns is expected from collecting information in other research sites. Thetechniques are visual in nature and have the potential to be
Antonio, Texas. https://peer.asee.org/20860[12] Simpson, Timothy W., Elizabeth Kisenwether, and Gregory R. Pierce. "Driving entrepreneurial innovation through the learning factory: The power of interdisciplinary capstone design projects." ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013.[13] Kriewall, T. J. and Mekemson, K., 2010, "Instilling the Entrepreneurial Mindset into Engineering Undergraduates," The Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship, 1(1), 5-19.[14] Doepker, P. E., 2010, "Enhancing the Product Realization Process by Emphasizing Innovation and Entrepreneurship," The Journal
couple their hard work and independence with an entrepreneurial spirit. For too long, that spirit has been seen as the sole domain of business schools. We must expand that view. Entrepreneurship and innovation must be valued in every discipline across our campuses. Temple students must learn to adapt to constant change and find success in fields that have not yet been invented."In view of our president’s commitment and our participation in Pathways to Innovation, theCollege of Engineering decided that it was time to refocus the major capstone design experience,required by the EAC of ABET, and re-imagine the Senior Design Curriculum to include
effectiveness of those innovations,and iterate using an agile approach. Encouraging a risk-taker identity helps create anenvironment that rewards an entrepreneurial mindset such that faculty and students becomeagents of change to realize their potential to make a difference.!The engineering program in TPS, which enrolled its first class as part of a different academicunit in 2005, could be considered a start-up. Taking the approach of a start-up, and using thetools for creating a sustainable business model, we utilize materials developed as part of theNational Science Foundation’s I-Corps for Learning (I-Corps™ L) program, which is designedto urge funded investigators to define a successful model for enabling scalability andsustainability of their
team efforts, there have been a handful of new innovation andentrepreneurship initiatives on campus. These initiatives have been driven by students, facultyand Colorado School of Mines college Deans within the past year, and all have helped lead to thesuccess of creating an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset on campus. 3 Student led efforts have included the creation of new student clubs and organizations. Examplesinclude the Colorado School of Mines Maker Society, a hackers club, a rejuvenated studentEntrepreneur Club, new hack-a-thons, a new freshman residential learning community based onthe ASE Grand Challenges in Engineering.8 Faculty
students are expected to publish peer-reviewed journal papersas well as assist PIs with proposal writing.2- Oral Communication – TANMS students are encourage to freely articulate themselves andtheir ideas and thoughts during meetings with PIs and mentors. Additionally, students areexpected to deliver an oral technical presentations and posters.Core II - Engineering Success1- Innovation – Ability to execute new ideas in research, education, and industry with relevance(or relevancy) to multiferroics.2- Creativity – Ability to synthesize new ideas on multiferroics. For example, students are able tosuggest applications of multiferroics based on their research.Core III – Business and Marketplace Savvy1- Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurial mindset is
and C9 who are of junior status and engineeringmajors (to be consistent with the national sample population).The UIF students come into the program with a higher sense of an entrepreneurial mindset andgreater inclination towards leadership than college students in the EMS. Table 6 shows thatFellows enter with a similar score on the Innovation Self-Efficacy construct and a much higherscore on Career Goals: Innovation work construct than the national sample, suggesting they havea desire to be innovative but are not yet equipped with the skills. By the end of training, theirscores on both these constructs dramatically increase, suggesting that the program is attracting1 http://epicenter.stanford.edu/page/engineering-majors-survey#FAQstudents who
asymbol of leadership support for faculty success. However, quantitative analyses indicated thatproactive personality, rather than NFLC participation itself, was a statistically significantpredictor of faculty members’ feelings of identification, acculturation, involvement with theirdepartment/college, and their overall feelings of meaningfulness of and happiness in life,offering important insights for designing community-based educational initiatives to fosteringproactive mindset and behaviors of faculty. The findings reinforce the positive impact of FLCs infaculty learning and pose suggestions for FLCs to encourage and foster proactive behaviors forthe success and wellbeing of the community of engineering faculty.Keywords: Faculty learning
structure. c. Conflicts that arise from the non-academic environment Fellows come to Tulane with limited non-academic experience. For some, the FDA internship is their first time in a professional role, and the contrast between the academic and professional environments was a challenge. Also, Bioinnovation fellows tend to possess an entrepreneurial mindset that embraces the rapid translation of research to product; however this can cause conflict with the mission of a government agency such as the FDA. As one fellow noted in the follow up interview, “it wasn’t an environment of ‘hurry up and get stuff done’ it was an environment of ‘do things right.’” Dr. Chang noted that one fellow made the observation that ‘in the workplace
. IntroductionAn Intelligence test result analysis had identified test motivation as an important factor in lowstake intelligence testing condition and also as a strong predictor for test scores in college 1, 2.Recently personal qualities such as self- control, grit and growth mindset has been studied inrelationship to the more explicit cognitive skills such as intelligence and knowledge, and thereport recommended more measurements on personal qualities for education purposes 3. It wasreported last year that learning motivation could be traceable to a genetic origin 4, and thatSTEM attrition among college students when compared with other majors such as business is aconsiderably large 48% 5. Faced with an open admission policy in a community college
entrepreneurial behavior of engineers”,3 we queried engineering educators to see what terms came most readily to their minds when thinking about ‘innovative and entrepreneurial engineers,’ in terms of characteristics, actions, and mindsets. Using information provided by respondents, we investigated how views differ based on level of experience or knowledge associated with I&E as part of engineering education? 2. What role does the community think I&E should have as part of undergraduate engineering education? Engineering schools and departments are challenged to prioritize and find space for all of the competing foci, such as sustainability, global, green, research or civic engagement, that
disabledperson. Students must create a unique solution not already commercially available. A secondarygoal is to create an entrepreneurial mindset and a business to produce additional devices whichmay assist others with similar disabilities. Examples of created projects include: A triceps strengthener to help a wheelchair bound man to transfer in and out of his wheelchair. A hip and knee exerciser for a man with worsening muscular sclerosis. A baby carrier that could attach to an electric wheelchair and allowed a paraplegic mother to taker her child out for a stroll. A crib that opens sideways to accommodate a mother in a wheelchair who was unable to get her chair next to the crib when the rail was in the down
. Innovation as a Learning Process: Embedding Design Thinking. Calif Rev Manag. 2007;50(1):27-29.9. Ettlie JE, Reza EM. Organizational Integration and Process Innovation. Acad Manag J. 1992;35(4):795-827. doi:10.2307/256316.10. Rogy, KM, Clark, RM, Bodnar CA. Examining the Entrepreneurial Mindset of Senior Chemical Engineering Students as a Result of Exposure to the Epistemic Game ” Nephrotex ” Examining the Entrepreneurial Mindset of Senior Chemical Engineering Students as a Result of Exposure to the Episte. Proc Am Soc Eng Educ. 2013.11. Follett MD. Freedom & Coordination. Lectures in Business Organisation... (Urwick L, ed.). Management Publications Trust; 1933. doi:10.1017/CBO9781107415324.004.12. Shaffer
privacyand safety, intellectual property, clinical trials, the technical complexity of the devices, and ourevolving understanding of disease diagnosis and treatment – the path to innovation seemed longand the barriers high. Furthermore most biomedical engineering students will becomeintrapreneurs at large or mid-sized companies. But going where the barriers are high and thepathways to innovation are challenging seemed to provide an excellent pedagogical opportunityto impart a deep entrepreneurial mindset and spirit.The Product Archaeology Canvas was created in an effort to mirror in the classroom the complexdecision making process that takes place inside mature medical device companies. Constraintscome from within the company (e.g. path dependencies
Paper ID #16130Engineering Success: Delivering Your Ph.D. on Time, on Budget, and Readyfor Your CareerDr. Rebecca M. Reck, Kettering University Rebecca M. Reck is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University. She completed her Ph.D. in systems and entrepreneurial engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign in 2016 and her master’s degree in electrical engineering at Iowa State University in 2010. During her eight years at Rockwell Collins as a systems engineer, she contributed to the development of the new ProLine Fusion Flight Control System and served as the project
empathic design techniques with an open, user-centric mindset Service-Learning Working on real-world projects oriented towards helping others Communication Establishing and refining core communication skills, such as listening Collaboration Developing conflict resolution and team building skills Ethics Education Working through ethical issues by reasoning from stakeholder perspectivesIn the following sections, we provide an overview of key literature that has explored therespective contexts from Table 1, along with salient pedagogical strategies for inculcatingempathy with respect to each educational context.4.1 Design ThinkingTwo prominent leaders in empathy training for design thinking include the d.School fromStanford
knowledge continue to grow and increase incomplexity, the difficulty of translating across disciplines to address increasingly broader globalchallenges also increases. Similarly, the need for cultural competency is expanding beyond thenumber of students realistically supported by traditional study abroad programs. This projectutilizes global health as the paradigm within which to pursue a novel e-learning environment inpartnership with Njala University to develop this capacity for international interdisciplinarytranslation.The program is committed to prepare the engineering global health leaders of tomorrow withsensitivity to globalization, experience with international partnerships, and a mindset ofinterdisciplinary collaboration. These
introducingstudents to multiple engineering disciplines 21 .Entrepreneurship is another theme that commonly arises in the literature on freshman engineeringcourses. In particular, the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network encourages youngengineers to take an entrepreneurial mindset when completing projects and some applicationshave shown promise for increased performance as a result 22 .Background on How the Course was Previously TaughtThe freshmen introduction to engineering course, IE 106, is entitled “Engineering ProblemSolving” (EPS). Engineering students are required to take the course within their first year. Thecourse was previously taught as a project-oriented class with an emphasis on student engagementand introducing different engineering
., “Work in progress - a first-year introduction to engineering course on society’s engineering GrandChallenges,” in Frontiers in Education Conference, 2008.[12] Grand Challenge Scholars Program.http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/14365/GrandChallengeScholarsProgram.aspx[13] Thompson, A., Ralston, P. A., “Using the Engineering Grand Challenges to foster critical thinking andawareness of the engineer’s role in the global community”, in American Society for Engineering EducationConference, Proceedings of, Seattle, WA, 2015.[14] Gerhart, A.L., “Combining discipline-specific introduction to engineering courses into a single multi-disciplinecourse to foster the entrepreneurial mindset with entrepreneurially minded learning,” in American Society
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hobbies.• Georgia Tech, as one of the largest technical universities in the USA, is a good example of how a makerspace can be implemented within larger communities. The Invention Studio19 is a growing makerspace and culture, which is organized by the students themselves with the university in a supporting role. Undergraduate students are introduced to building activities early and build prototypes both inside of class and in personal projects.• TU Berlin represents an implementation of a makerspace at a German university. The Prototypenwerkstatt is a relatively small makerspace, empowering entrepreneurial students and spin-offs to produce prototypes of their business ideas in a quick and affordable manner.• Arizona State
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Chapter at LTU, chair of the First Year Engineering Experience committee, chair for the LTU KEEN Course Modification Team, chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee, supervisor of the LTU Thermo-Fluids Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate/Minor in Aeronautical Engineering, and faculty advisor of the LTU SAE Aero Design Team. Dr. Gerhart conducts workshops on active, collaborative, and problem-based learning, entrepreneurial mindset education, creative problem solving, and innovation. He is an author of a fluid mechanics textbook.Dr. Selin ArslanDr. Kingman E. Yee, Lawrence Technological University Kingman Yee is an associate professor of mechanical
Falls, Lynn G. (2015). Engineering Leadership Education: A Review of Best Practices. Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.23972 10. Hsiao, Amy. (2013a). Developing an entrepreneurial mindset in engineeirng students. Paper presented at the Canadian Engineering Education Association Conference, Montreal, QC. 11. Soundarajan, Neelam, Ramnath, Rajiv, & Weide, Bruce W. (2013). A multi-pronged approach to nurturing IT entrepreneurs. Paper presented at the 120th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia. 12. Colcleugh, David, & Reeve, Douglas W. (2013). Translating a corporate leadership philosophy and practice to the
and Applied Sciences (CEAS) has nine EAC-ABET accreditedengineering programs (aerospace, chemical, civil, computer, construction, electrical, industrial &entrepreneurial, mechanical, and paper), three ETAC-ABET accredited engineering technologyprograms (engineering design, engineering management, and manufacturing engineering) and aCAC-ABET accredited computer science program. Our graphics and printing science program isaccredited by the Accreditation Council for Collegiate Graphic Communications (ACCGC). Inaddition, CEAS offers 11 master and six doctoral programs. Fall 2015 enrollment consists of2,431 undergraduate, 450 master and 142 doctoral students. In 2013-14, CEAS awarded 312bachelor, 125 master, and 8 doctoral degrees.As a