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John P. Robinson; Edward M. Moldt

Session 3654 Technological Entrepreneurship Certificate John P. Robinson, Edward M. Moldt University of IowaAbstractThe Technological Entrepreneurship Certificate at The University of Iowa is earned inconjunction with an engineering degree. The College of Engineering in partnership withthe John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center at The University of Iowa has developed thefirst certificate of its kind in any U.S. college or university. The Center is the only one ofits kind in the country to mesh students and faculty in engineering, business, and medicalsciences. Engineering students

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Douglas M. Mattox; David D. Mattox

Session 3654 Student Experiences with the Financial Basis of Entrepreneurship Douglas M. Mattox, David D. Mattox Ceramic Engineering Dept., University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO/ Swank Motion Pictures, Inc., St. Louis, MOAbstractThe fourth offering of a Junior level course aimed at stimulating engineering student’sentrepreneurial interests in the interplay between engineering decisions and businesseconomics has been completed. In the course, students increasingly experience (1) marketidentification; (2) plant design; (3) staffing, and (4) the generation of basic financialstatements. A novel grading

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John A. Kleppe; Eric L. Wang

Session 1454 How to Assess the Effectiveness of Engineering Programs in Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship E. L. Wang, J. A. Kleppe University of Nevada, RenoAbstractA special capstone course for senior electrical and mechanical engineering students has beendeveloped at the University of Nevada, Reno. The class also includes MBA students from theCollege of Business Administration. All phases of new product development includinginnovation, patent law, product liability, business, sales, marketing and venture capital arecovered. This paper presents some

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William R. Hendee; Steven R Krogull; Jay R. Goldberg

departments representedon their project teams. Graduates of the HTM program will be better equipped to help theiremployers meet their goals.Distance EducationWorking engineers are interested in finding educational opportunities to prepare them for careeradvancement. Many employers are very supportive of their employees’ seeking additionaleducation and will reimburse employees for educational expenses. These employees areinterested in enrolling as part-time students who will complete courses while working full-time.They are interested in programs that are flexible enough to fit into their work, travel, andpersonal schedules. Thus, programs that do not require commuting to a campus and allowstudents to take classes at any time during the day are

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

engineering managers. A balance betweenlecture and practical, "hands-on" exercises will be prescribed with an emphasis on active andcollaborative teaching methods. The Materials section describes specific in-class exercises andcases that will facilitate effective learning. We conclude with a discussion on how the proposedmodel can be adapted to fit the specific needs of your engineering management program.2.0 The Research ProjectThe development of a course on enterprise governance for an engineering managementcurriculum has resulted from an ongoing research project at the University of Pittsburgh thatinvestigates critical factors for successful enterprise governance. In this research, wehypothesized that a primary cause of enterprise success or

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Roxanne Jacoby; Jean Le Mee

corporation - adaptability to local culture, management’sexpectations, ways to succeed, etc.• Entrepreneurship, why it is important, how to become an entrepreneur.d) Future global trends:* Major political, social, and economic trends for the beginning of the 21st century.* Existing and new technologies holding the promise of substantial growth in the near future.e) International business negotiation issues:* The purpose of negotiations, why are they important?* How to negotiate: some of the main features of negotiations.* How international negotiations differ from domestic ones.* The main principles and dynamics of international negotiations.* How "macro" events influence "micro" decision-making.3. The GLOBETECH Simulation Project:Besides class

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Natalie D. Segal

Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship Division (in formation) Session #3654 A Patent on Your Résumé, or Encouraging Creativity Among Technology Students Natalie D. Segal Ward College of Technology at the University of HartfordAbstractIn our Advanced Technical Communications class, the students are formed into teamsthat must invent a new object or create a significant improvement in an already existingobject, write a formal business proposal to convince a company to produce the object,and make a presentation in which they summarize their proposals. Many of these objectsare patentable

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Mark R. Rajai; Hollis Bostick; Byrne Bostick; Mel Mendelson

virtual teaming.The purpose of this paper is to discuss the product development process, the role of our industrialpartners, how virtual teams were formed, and how they communicated with each other.II. Product Development ProcessPrior to describing our industrial partnership and team arrangements, it is important to discussour overall process for developing new products. Since universities are not set up to developproducts and since the product development cycle is incompatible with a university’s curriculumstructure, new guidelines had to establish. However, since courses in new product developmentand entrepreneurship are offered, the university should provide "real world" experiences for thestudents.In order to commercialize new products within

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Ray Price; Jonathan R. Dolle

Session 1453 Students Teaching Students: Engineering 100 Jonathan Dolle, Ray Price University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignAbstractThis paper describes an orientation course every first year student entering the College ofEngineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign participates in during the first sixweeks of class, fall semester. The program is unique in that it is entirely organized and taught bythird and fourth year engineering students, each of which facilitates one or two sections of thecourse, known as Engineering 100. Although the sections group students

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Narayanan Komerath

presentations by the ASI teamscheduled for Case Study discussions in two graduate classes on Strategic Marketing conductedby Prof. Pam Barr in mid-March 2000. The experience gained from these efforts, beyond theimmediate value to team participants, is aimed to develop larger programs where engineering Page 5.79.7and business students collaborate on identifying, brainstorming and developing businessconcepts.X. Faculty Advisor's RoleThe faculty advisor is as much a learner as the students are, in this project. Unlike a formalcourse on entrepreneurship, the learning had to be done on-the-job; however, this projectprovides excellent

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Steven T. Walsh; Frederick Betz; Donald D. Myers; Halvard E. Nystrom

to teach truths – leaving aside for a moment a discussion of whether there are or are not such things as truths – but to teach men to think in the presence of new situations. There should not be a single problem [case] in use which is not capable of at least two intelligent solutions…Teaching by the case method is class discussion of possibilities, probabilities, and expedients – the possibilities of the combinations of very intricate facts, the probabilities of human reactions, and the expedients most likely to bring about the responses in others that lead to a definite end.4With a greater emphasis on reinforcement of principles, the journal design will be significantlyinfluenced

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Raul Ordonez; Harriet Benavidez; Anthony J. Marchese; James A. Newell; John L. Schmalzel; Beena Sukumaran; Ravi Ramachandran; Julie Haynes

, a local industrialist Henry M. Rowan made a $100,000,000 donation to the thenGlassboro State College in order to establish a high-quality engineering school in southern NewJersey. This gift has enabled the university to create an innovative and forward-lookingengineering program. Since 1996, the exceptional capabilities of each incoming class ofapproximately 100 engineering students at Rowan (average SAT score of 1260; average class rankof top 13%) have repeatedly verified the need for a quality undergraduate engineering school in thequickly growing region of southern New Jersey. The College of Engineering at Rowan is comprised of four departments: Chemical; Civiland Environmental; Electrical and Computer; and Mechanical. Each

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Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

and to the microEP director. c) A student requirement to become proficient in a standard software suite (word processing, spreadsheet, electronic communications methods, project management, etc). d) Expedited student placement with faculty for research to assure maximum exposure to research during the master’s program. e) Assigned student responsibility to manage some aspect of group interests (class schedule coordination, seminar selection, software management, etc). f) Multi-day industrial style training seminars in structured innovation processes and processes to promote inventiveness