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Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

engineering management curriculum offers innovative courses in technicalmarketing, high tech product strategy, fast cycle time product development & launch, andengineering entrepreneurship. In these case study courses, students develop real world marketingand business plans for commercializing innovative new products and technologies. Some of theinnovative product development and technology commercialization ideas have won accolades atregional business idea pitching competitions.All students in the Florida Tech College of Engineering must participate in a senior designprogram. The intensive undergraduate engineering programs at the university have resulted in anumber of outstanding crossfunctional Senior Design Projects. The Senior Design program

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Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

intomodern day living. These cases take about 4 to 6 weeks to complete and are part ofon-going class instruction. Students are required to apply the contents of their class to thecase, thus infusing entrepreneurship directly in to the class. In some learningenvironments, multiply classes are using the same case and collaborating with each other.(Clouse, R.W. & Goodin T.L., 2005) and (Clouse, R. W. & Goodin, T. L., 2001). The second approach is centered on the general concept that all students can learn andto some extent, be creative and entrepreneurial. The focus of this approach is to be broadbased, to take a cross-disciplinary approach, to be focused on seeing opportunities that othersdo not see and to stress self-fulfillment. The

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Shaw; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

pioneering innovation in experiential entrepreneurship at Florida Tech – The“Engineering Entrepreneur in Spotlight” seminar series. In these seminars, typically held twice amonth, struggling/successful local technical entrepreneurs visit the class and present theirbusiness plan for critique and recommendations by the class. Once a month, these “EngineeringEntrepreneur in the Spotlight” seminars are open to the public. Over the past three years, theseseminars which have got wide pre- and post-event publicity in the local media, have become anincreasingly important networking forum for entrepreneurs, inventors investors, business serviceproviders, students and faculty. As a result of these seminars, a number of local business dealsand alliances in

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark Archibald; Michelle Clauss; James Dupree

CommercializationStrategies. The program is based on a “hands-on” approach in which students work onteams to develop a viable business plan. Pedagogical approaches include case studies,class discussions and guest speakers. The program has resulted in the growth oftechnology enterprises in the central Florida region.A more traditional approach is taken at The University of Colorado at Boulder, whichoffers a one-semester design course which includes an emphasis on product developmentand entrepreneurship.4 Students work on teams that design, build, and test a new product,including manufacturing costs, profitability forecasts, and raising capital. The courseappears to be a particularly well-implemented version of a more traditional approach toteaching engineering

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Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Keith Stanfill

Paper 2005-2287 Expectation Management: Lessons Learned in Establishing a Start-up Multidisciplinary Technology Entrepreneurship Program* R. Keith Stanfill University of Florida Department of Industrial and Systems EngineeringAbstractThe University of Florida Integrated Technology Ventures (ITV) program is designed to provideengineering and business students with an intense, immersive entrepreneurial experience.Participating students learn the entrepreneurial process as members of a virtual company led by aserial entrepreneur who acts as a volunteer CEO. The company is composed of a CEO

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christy Moore; Stephanie Bird; Steven Nichols

other topicslisted above. For instance, a module on environmental responsibility is currently in theplanning stage. All of the modules are designed for and intended for use in engineering corecourses, not just communication courses. Each module contains a variety of materials,including readings, exercises, and assignments, that can be adapted to different classes inthe engineering curricula. The materials are, in fact, designed to be flexible so that theymay be used in a variety of engineering courses. For instance, some of the modules offerseveral possible final assignments at the conclusion of the material. One of thoseassignments might be designed for a first-year introduction to engineering course;another would be more appropriate in

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

students for the “real world.” This class tries to provide ahands-on learning experience in which every student can benefit. Futures II providesstudents with real-life applications therefore, assessments are authentic. For example,students go through an interview process to get hired into a department within theEntrepreneurship section of the course. Administration, teachers, staff, college mentorsand community members conduct the interviews. Students are required to have acompleted job application, cover letter, resume, and references; dress appropriately; andare graded using an interview rubric that a potential employer might use for the interviewprocess. Throughout the entire Entrepreneurship section of the course, students areassessed on their

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

entrepreneurial Reengineering Makes Industry Meaningful In College program not onlyexposes students to the world of industry within the confines of the classroom, it is areplicable, cost-effective model that can be adapted to a varying number of semesters andintegrated into a variety of technical programs and college settings.The origin of entrepreneurship in engineering and electronics at IVCCTen years ago, the engineering design instructor and a business instructor at Illinois ValleyCommunity College developed a creative plan to provide their students with workplace,entrepreneurial experiences. As a project in one of their courses, the instructors integratedtheir students into teams to develop, produce and sell a product. They named the projectMaking

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Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

engineering problem solving course at Florida Atlantic University entitled:“Inventive Problem Solving in Engineering” (EGN 4040). Two different problems were given tothe students in the beginning and towards the end of the semester, about which they were askedto generate ideas.They used different methods to solve the problems, some of which they learned in class,including the Eight Dimensional Methodology for Innovative Thinking that was developed andtaught by the first author. This method focuses on idea generation and is a unified approach thatbuilds on comprehensive problem solving knowledge from different disciplines. The differentdimensions, namely Uniqueness, Dimensionality, Directionality, Consolidation, Segmentation,Modification, Similarity

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Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doreen Lawrence; Barbara Oakley

franchises. These franchisees work either full or parttime with pre-K and K-12 students to ensure their students’ success in mathematics. Theengineering background appears to serve as optimal background in guiding Kumonstudents towards potential careers in mathematics, science, and the technology fields.Simultaneously, by moving from engineering to entrepreneurship, theseinstructor/engineers find themselves in an excellent, independent job position. Thispaper discusses the flow of practicing engineer from a regular salaried position toindependent entrepreneurship involving the K-12 supplemental education environment.It also provides information about the benefits and disadvantages of the career change,based on interviews with Kumon franchisees

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Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Podlasek

Tacit Knowledge in the Innovation Process Robert J. Podlasek, PH.D, PE Department of Mechanical Engineering Bradley UniversityAbstractTechnical innovation and entrepreneurship drive economic growth and prosperity. The successof the innovation process depends on utilizing new and existing technical knowledgeexpeditiously and in novel ways. Many new ideas are the result of the convergence of knowledgefrom seemingly unrelated domains and/or fields of interest. Moreover, innovative ideas tend toemerge from a combination of experience, published information, and dialogue. This process ofcollaboration and team science to

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Moore; Mary Raber

series of project courses that representtheir roles/assignments as members of their enterprise. In addition, students take a number ofprofessional development courses that were created specifically for the Enterprise Program andcover topics such as Teaming, Communications, Leadership, Project Management, Ethics,Economics, Entrepreneurship and Finance. Each professional development course is equivalentto one-semester credit or 14 contact hours of instruction, hence, these courses are veryconcentrated in their subject matter, providing students with the most critical information andinstruction in order to enable them to employ their new-found knowledge directly in theoperation of the enterprise.The philosophy behind this approach is that students

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

Complementary Courses: the Public Works Management for Civil Engineers and the Entrepreneurship for Engineers, at the University of Florida Kitti Manokhoon, Dr. Fazil T. Najafi Graduate Student / ProfessorAbstractCivil engineers need to understand in several skills to work with both public and privateorganizations. Civil engineering works in private practice include planning, designing,constructing as well as operating physical facilities, and in public practice involve city orregional planning and layout construction of highways. At the University of Florida, twograduate courses are examined: Public Works Management for Civil Engineers introduces civilengineering graduate

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Casalena; Matt Weinstein; Borna Ghavam; Blake Robertson; Karen Thornton; David Barbe; James Green

runningventures. The second level of mentoring is provided by a cadre of professionals from theBaltimore-Washington-Northern Virginia region, who readily provide significant time tostudent companies.3.3 Education and NetworkingThe foundation underlying the accomplishments of students in the Hinman CEOsProgram consists of formal, informal and experiential components. The formalcomponent is a three-credit course that introduces them to the fundamental concepts andprocesses associated with entrepreneurship. The informal component consists of a two-credit class consisting of seminars and workshops, the Technology Startup Boot Camp,and the New Venture Challenge Competition. Through these three activities and others,the students network with many entrepreneurs

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

senior design course sequence, after spending a quarter of aProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcentury in industry, the architecture of the courses immediately took on a “new look”. At thefirst class, the students are told that they have been recruited from college into a new start-up (afictitious, “Florida Tech Ventures, LLC”), and that they have until the following April to formteams and conceive, define, design, develop, prototype, build, characterize, validate and prepareto launch a suite of new products, to be displayed at an all-important trade show. The studentslearn about the new product pipeline

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

Immersing Students in Reengineering to Make Industry Meaningful in College Dorene Perez, Jim Gibson, Rose Marie Lynch Illinois Valley Community CollegeAn innovative capstone project at Illinois Valley Community College immerses engineeringdesign and electronics students in the technology and methodology they will encounter in theworkplace.The four-semester project gives the students first-hand experience with continuous qualityimprovement methodology, reengineering, and entrepreneurship. Freshmen engineeringtransfer students, enrolled in an engineering graphics course, and freshmen design andelectronics students, enrolled in a beginning CAD

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Wilson; Mark Cambron

is course review. Course review is a very valuablecomponent of the assessment plan. Through this process, the EE program faculty discuss eachcourse offered in the curriculum at least once a year. Therefore, continuity in the curriculum iseasier to achieve. All program faculty participate in this process. Also, faculty are aware of whattheir colleagues are covering in classes. The course review process has greatly improved thequality of the WKU EE program. Faculty from UofL teaching into the program have alsoparticipated in the course review process. The results of this interaction has provided valuablefeedback for improving the experience of the students and meeting the program outcomes.Course review is used in the outcome assessment process

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Smith

, Columbia allocates 4.1% GNP to education. Familiesin Columbia may have owned computers and TV sets before families in the US. The educationalsystem in Columbia is strong: a bachelor’s degree historically is a six-year commitment.Current legislation is attempting to compact undergraduate degrees to a total of five years. Froma university stand point, textbooks in Central America, South America, and Mexico are fairlyuniform: as is the written Spanish language.Adult South American students may enroll in English classes in preparation for, orsimultaneously with, university coursework. Some students may ask to tape record lectures and Page

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Mullenax

Session 3455 Student Involvement in ASEE – Past, Present, and Future Carol Mullenax Tulane UniversityAbstractThis paper summarizes how students fit into organizational structure of the Society, touches uponsome of the individual and chapter contributions of students in the past and discusses currentactivities, and looks forward to possible activities in the future.IntroductionStudents join ASEE in one of two ways: either they join through an established student chapter, orthey join as individual members.Student membershipStudents are welcome to join ASEE

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DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein

ProjectsThe capstone design experience at the University of Idaho is a two-semester sequence thatinvolves a variety of projects sponsored by regional industry. This culminates in the largestacademic design show in the Pacific Northwest where design teams from departments ofMechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering,Biological Systems Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, and Computer Science display theirwork to the public. Information about this annual event can be found at www.uidaho.edu/expo.During the current academic year, the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering have joined forcesin an interdisciplinary class that meets concurrently and has uniform project expectations. Morethan 80 seniors and a

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Krumholz; Robert Martello; Jonathan Stolk

readings, discussions, and self-designed projects, students explore materials science concepts alongside the social, cultural, andenvironmental factors that shaped technological and scientific history. Although some formal in-class activities are planned, many class sessions are flexible, allowing students to engage inindividualized learning approaches. The projects are loosely framed, enabling students todevelop key competencies while investigating topics of personal interest and controlling projectfocus and direction. In this paper, we discuss the processes and motivating factors that led to theinitial design and continued development of the Paul Revere: Tough as Nails course block. Wedescribe the philosophical and practical benefits of the

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Jay Shah; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

design firm in industry while providing a class experience that combines field construction with an engineering design project to benefit people of the developing world.University of Pittsburgh, PA. Mascaro Offers undergraduate research and courses in sustainabilitySustainability Initiative; Department of and development. The Green Construction and Sustain-Civil and Environmental Engineering. able Development Program offers a grassroots approach towww.engr.pitt.edu/msi/ project planning and design; political economy of development; and skills in development.Purdue University

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozlem Arisoy; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

response papers, fieldprojects, a term paper, and class participation.Industrial Engineering 1662: Manufacturing Cultures in the Pacific RimThis course will focus on studying manufacturing and distribution organizational hierarchieswith a view towards understanding unique organizational dynamics within differentorganizations and different cultures. It will allow students to gain an understanding of the uniquemanufacturing culture of each country visited both at the organizational level and the policylevel. We will study a variety of cross-cultural manufacturing paradigms ranging from theVietnamese spirit of entrepreneurship, the Korean chaebols and super-chaebos, and the Japanesekeiretsu. The course will also focus on the complexities of problems

Conference Session

Diversity: Women & Minorities in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver; Michele Summers; Donna Evanecky

associated with higher levels of parent-child conflict-- which suggests that it is not just women, but also their children, who are negatively affected by work stress. Stressors are interactive and cumulative: The more stressors one experiences, the greater the likelihood of stress-related health problems.6The Academic TrinityEven though it is probably the basis for hiring, the most difficult skill to learn in the first year asan assistant professor is the art of teaching. One of the most time consuming aspects of teachingis class preparation. From PowerPoint slides to course packet creation, the time spent preparingis considerable. Class preparation is a continual refinement process that occurs long after dayone. As a

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

the brake and wheel assemblies for vehiclesattempting to safely make the descent. The students need to be made aware of these‘real-world” applications of these Hollywood moments.Similarly, the “real-world” application of the centripetal forces that have compounded totug at the cable at the anchor point (see scene 1) is no different than the failure mode forthe Hyatt Regency walk way collapse that is touted in many engineering classes as notonly a lesson in stress analysis but ethics as well.Thus, each of these Hollywood infractions can serve as a sounding board for “real-world”engineering applications. The Instructor must grasp this opportunity while the student’sinterest is still high.From the Movies No.2: The Case of the Disappearing CarThe

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Youssef Shatilla; Adnan Zahed

) Modeling, and 6) Quality. These objectives are achieved by the use ofActive Learning in class where student teams, continuous improvement of the learningprocess and constructivist learning exercises are routinely used. The ECPDO’s mission is tobuild the most effective partnership between the industry and KAAU. This partnership willhelp the development of cutting edge research and innovation that benefits society as a wholeand fosters regional and national industrial and economic development. ECPDO will help todevelop innovative programs that provide students with hands-on, real world experience inindustry, and provides industry with excellent opportunities to advance research, leverage theuniversity’s state-of-the-art technology and recruit the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Kicher; Frank Adamo; Dale Flowers

critical of thefirst. Finally, elements of the curriculum that are essentially 100% engineering or 100% businesswere designed by one professor from the appropriate discipline and are taught by that oneprofessor, since an integrated learning experience was unnecessary. For the technologyentrepreneurship track that is the focus of this paper, 30 of the 42 required credits for the degreeare of the integrated design type, reinforcing the close relationship that engineers and managershave in companies.The program accepted its first group of students in the summer of 2001, and offered only thetechnology entrepreneurship track to the first entering class. It was open to all engineeringdisciplines. The course described in this paper is a part of the

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IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dean Burton; Ashbjorn Osland

large state university attended primarily by commuters. Currently, the State of California is experiencing abudgetary shortfall that limits resources allocated to the university system, including SJSU. This is importantbecause faculty have to bootstrap all activities related to entrepreneurship. In fall 2003 the total SJSU enrollment was 28,932. Demographics of the student body follow: • Overall median age was 26.2 years, 23.9 for undergraduates and 32.9 for graduate students • 21,396 undergraduate students, 7,536 graduate students (others were working on a second baccalaureate or seeking needed credentials). • 65% were full-time • Ethnic profile: African American 4%, American Indian/Alaskan 0.5%, Asian 31.7

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Miguel A. Padilla; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

Practice of Academic Advising,” Division of Undergraduate Studies Report No. 1990.1, Pennsylvania State University.[8] Moller-Wong, C. and Eide, A. (1997) “An Engineering Student Retention Study,” Journal of Engineering Education, January, pp. 7-15.[9] Padilla, M.A., G. Zhang, T.J. Anderson, and M.W. Ohland, “Drawing Valid Inferences from the Nested Structure of Engineering Education Data: Application of a Hierarchical Linear Model to the SUCCEED Longitudinal Database,” Proc. Amer. Soc. Eng. Ed., Portland, Oregon, June 2005.[10] Ohland, M.W., G. Zhang, S.A. Frillman, C.E. Brawner, and T.K. Miller, “The Effect of an Entrepreneurship Program on GPA and Retention,” in press, J. Eng. Ed. 93(4), October 2004.[11] Zhang, G., T.J. Anderson

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sam Geonetta

http://www.infoworld.com Page 10.3.4 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education” In addition to these generic resources, readings related to specific topics are assigned.20For example, for one recent quarter, the following readings were assigned for the study oforganizational culture and for one of the six topics (Project Management, IT and Media, IT inEducation and Training, Security, Entrepreneurship and E-commerce, and Globalization): Organizational Culture: Optimize Magazine