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1999 Annual Conference

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Frederick Orthlieb

and proposals for further support,student entrepreneurial teams gather, evaluate and interpret both technical and marketinformation using processes that surprisingly resemble those that engineering faculty must nowlearn to assess the state of existing engineering programs and plan for continuous improvementunder ABET EC2000. Both sets of tasks involve conceptual integration at a higher level thanis usual in undergraduate engineering education, but is more commonly practiced in the liberalarts.1. Product Development as Design InstructionProviding authentic instruction and experience in design-based engineering entrepreneurship isalways a challenge. Set-piece design innovation problems may be new to individual students,but they cannot

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1999 Annual Conference

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Steven L. Cohen; Dennis P. Slevin; David I. Cleland; Kim LaScola Needy; Heather Nachtmann

Professor of Business Administration at the Katz Graduate School of Business, University ofPittsburgh. He received his education in a variety of university settings, starting with a B.A. in Mathematics at St.Vincent College and continuing with a B.S. in Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. inIndustrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration at StanfordUniversity in 1969. Dr. Slevin’s research interests focus on entrepreneurship in both large and small strategicbusiness units, strategy, structure, and their impact on organizational effectiveness. He has also done work in thearea of project management and keys to successful project implementation. His latest research interest focuses

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1999 Annual Conference

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Francisco Ruiz; Michael E. Gorman; Phil Weilerstein

its inception in the fall of 1995, it has provided over one and a halfmillion dollars in grants to support 115 classes, programs and student projects at over 70colleges and universities throughout the country. Approximately one thousand studentswere involved with E-Team classes and projects during the 1997-98 academic year. Theprogram had its origins in the passionate belief of its benefactors that the health andprosperity of the American economy results in large part from the creativity andingenuity of American inventors and the unique legal and economic structures thatprotect and encourage the development and commercial exploitation of their ideas.The primary mechanism in this effort is the E-Team (the "E" stands for excellence

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1999 Annual Conference

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Mel I. Mendelson

-disciplinary programs. Ourapproach to graduate education links engineering with business and total quality. The EAPM isinnovative because ~1/3 of the curriculum has elective options in manufacturing, systemsengineering, project management and entrepreneurship, and it focuses on the broad issues ofthe global economy. It offers a graduate certificate in Total Quality Engineering and haspartnerships with local industry. Class projects are assigned that use the course principles to Page 4.320.7solve "real world" problems in the students’ work environment. Students work bothindividually and in multi-disciplinary product teams. Our faculty is selected based