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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

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Bhavana Kotla; Lisa Bosman

Interventions in the Engineering Classroom: Definitions, Benefits, and ChallengesAuthorsBhavana Kotla, Purdue UniversityLisa Bosman, Ph.D., Purdue UniversityIntroductionInnovation, design, and entrepreneurship are economic drivers promoting competition andgrowth worldwide, many of which would only exist with well-established continuousimprovement. Entrepreneurship is a field of study that involves discovering, evaluating, andexploiting opportunities [1], and thus, an entrepreneurial mindset can be described as theinclination to discover, evaluate, and exploit opportunities [2]. To stay a leader in the globaleconomy, innovative pedagogical interventions are needed to promote an

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

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Michael E. Kuhl

A Simulation Escape Room: Verification and Validation is the Key Michael E. Kuhl Industrial and Systems Engineering Department Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623 AbstractIn this paper, an entrepreneurial mindset-based learning activity is designed to actively convey theconcepts of model verification and validation (V&V). In particular, we develop an “Escape Room”entrepreneurial mindset learning (EML) activity where students are given a scenario and a set of“problematic” simulation models. Students work in teams to verify/fix and validate