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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Justin Reginato

relatively small University, a conscious effortis made to not duplicate faculty efforts in multiple classes. As such, it is important to avoidhaving redundant courses or having materials repeated in multiple classes.One last constraint was added as the engineering entrepreneurship course was being devised.Due to the University’s close relationship with industry through the Co-op program, many upper-division courses receive feedback from industry leaders. The proposed class, in keeping withthis tradition, would solicit feedback from people with entrepreneurial backgrounds. Because thesurrounding region does not have a critical mass of engineering- or technology-basedentrepreneurship, those relationships would have to be fostered from the ground-up

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Nhut Tan Ho

design classes;and enhancing the competence of participating professors in teaching CDIO skills. Futuredirections for further developing and evaluating the framework and student retention goals arealso discussed. Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2007, American Society for Engineering EducationI. Introduction and BackgroundProjected U.S. engineering workforce needs call for 48% representation by underrepresentedminorities by 20501,2. Meeting this need will be challenging: Data show that ScienceTechnology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) students who are African American, Latino andAmerican Indian remain vastly underrepresented in university