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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Nur Ozge Ozaltin, University of Pittsburgh; Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Phil Weilerstein, VentureWell

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ofcourse development. Across the U.S., literally hundreds of entrepreneurship courses, programsand certificates are offered for engineering students, yet little has been done to define what con-stitutes appropriate content or to assess the degree to which these educational experiences haveresulted in student learning of entrepreneurial knowledge, skills and attitudes. Under fundingfrom the National Science Foundation, CCLI – Phase II, we are conducting a nationwide study todetermine the status of entrepreneurship education across the U.S. As a subset of this largerstudy we are investigating the variety of entrepreneurship opportunities available on U.S. engi-neering campuses. To do this we examined institutional websites to collect information on

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Holli Burgon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Bruce Elliott-Litchfield, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Illinois alumnus, he earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, worked in industry for four years, and earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in agricultural and biochemical engineering at Purdue University. Since 1986, he has been on the faculty at the University of Illinois, where he is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering.David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign David E. Goldberg, best known as a leader in the field of genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation, is the Jerry S. Dobrovolny Distinguished Professor in Entrepreneurial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and co-director and co-founder of the Illinois