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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Luiz Gargione

Class hoursCorporate Projects and Organizations: Manufactures, Commerce and Services 60 380Government and Public Policies 40Law and Commercial Regulations for Corporations and Business 40Mathematics applied to Projects and Corporations 60Management Information Systems 40Sustainable Development 40Technology Innovation Process 60Topics in Entrepreneurship I (Field Trips, Guest Speakers &

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sylvia Alexander

softwaremarketing and customer support or providing package training to small groups ofmanagers and staff.Students returning from industrial placement bring knowledge and expertise thatenhances the teaching and learning experience of the whole class. In order to harnessthese experiences, the Faculty of Informatics is currently investigating possibilities fordelivering an on-line distance learning module (delivered via WebCT) to supportaspects of both the placement process and entrepreneurship. This has the advantage ofensuring continuing academic activity throughout placement.Students on placement are required to maintain a log book providing a factual recordof their work experience together with details of training received, regular duties andany special

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Panel on Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Norman Kaderlan; Mary Ann Rankin; John Butler; Steven Nichols

Session 2354An Interdisciplinary Graduate Course in Technology Entrepreneurship Steven P. Nichols Associate Vice President for Research, and Director, Murchison Chair of Free Enterprise Norman Kaderlan Associate Director, IC 2 Institute John S. Butler Chair, Department of Management Mary Ann Rankin Dean, College of Natural Sciences The University of Texas

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

aspects. Now in its fourth year and intended for students at many levels,Invention and Innovation is an interdisciplinary course that bridges the worlds of engineeringand entrepreneurship 4 .Course ElementsThe focus of the Invention and Innovation course is to design, build and test a working prototypeof a potentially marketable product. Our experience has shown that students are more engaged inproducts of which they are interested. At a brainstorming session in the first week of class,students generate many potential product ideas, which are then pared to a fewer number throughstudent voting. Each student’s product preference is one of numerous factors considered duringteam formation (described below).The newly formed teams learn about each

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jack Matson; Elizabeth Kisenwether

tenure in the PBLE program. It is our hope and expectation thatthe overall quality of the business plans created by the more experienced students in the PBLEprogram will be superior to the overall quality of the business plans created by the lessexperienced students in the PBLE program.E-ship Competition with Judge’s feedback/scoringAn Entrepreneurship Competition is held at the end of each semester, with teams from theentrepreneurship classes presenting their new product concepts and prototypes to a panel judgeswho are were either technology entrepreneurs, or a venture capital investors. Each judgecompletes a one-page scoring sheet on each team. The judge’s scores and comments are usedseveral ways: - Feedback to the teams as guidance on

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Krumholz; Steve Schiffman; Sean Munson; John Bourne; James Krejcarek; Dan Lindquist; Susan Fredholm

Olin and Babson and theinitiation of many projects between the two schools designed to create the premierengineering/technology entrepreneurship curriculum in the world.IntroductionOlin CollegeThe Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, located in Needham, MA, was foundedin 1997 through a generous grant from the Franklin W. Olin Foundation. Scheduledto open in the fall of 2002, the College admitted 30 “Partners”, or students, in the fallof 2001 who have helped the faculty design the curricula, co-curricula and otheraspects of student life. Along with an additional 46 students, the Partners will Page 7.379.1become part of the first class. The Olin

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Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Baum; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

exceptionalinterest and dedication to starting companies and who will contribute to furthering the programwill be accepted. Admission is based on GPA and essays discussing reasons the applicant wantsto be admitted to the program, the applicant’s business ideas, and contributions that the applicantcan potentially make to the program. Although primarily designed for juniors and seniors, some outstanding sophomores aregradually integrated into the program. Academic disciplines of the current class are almostevenly distributed in thirds among engineering, business and all other majors combined, andthere is considerable ethnic and gender diversity among the class. Because the first cohort ofCEOS are now seniors with a year’s experience in the program, more

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Technology Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Katherine Emery; John Feland

, content delivery, anddistributed education (or distance learning).Administrative challenges deal with the lack of institutional and/or community support fordeveloping entrepreneurship education programs and the lack of resources available (includingtime) to assist in program development and management.a. Teaching backgroundWe found that over half (52%) of the survey population taught students within the businessschool environment. The remainder of the respondents (48%) taught classes within the school ofengineering or school of science. Within the business schools, professors were often workingfrom an established entrepreneurship curriculum and were interested in expanding the studentpopulation to include engineers and scientists. In most cases

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Cyrus Taylor

identify the opportunity and in providing the resources thePhysics Department needed in order to figure out how to exploit the opportunity, died asthe outlines of the program were coming together. He very generously left theDepartment an endowment, the interest on which has been used to help launch theprogram. Together with grants from the Coleman Foundation2 and the NationalCollegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) 3, we were able to recruit a class offive superb students, who entered the program in the fall of 2000.Seminar SeriesAs part of the Physics Entrepreneurship Program, the CWRU Physics Departmentinaugurated a new seminar series in the 2000-2001 academic year, complementing theexisting series in condensed matter physics and

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Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Crowe; Sally Schwartz; Mary Marrs; Luis Occeña; Jose Zayas-Castro; Douglas Moesel; Cathleen Burns; Bin Wu

. OutreachEMILE’s effort is directed toward influencing how students think and learn about technically-based entrepreneurship. The intention is that these changes and potential opportunities reachmany students early in their educational career and expand the pipeline of engineering students,bringing as much external collaboration as possible. Therefore utilizing ongoing initiatives with(and in) the local community, we will reach the K-12 classes to illustrate for them and mentorthem in the importance of technology-based entrepreneurship and the potential for businessdevelopments. A research graduate assistant is dedicated to the design and implementation of aweb site (http://www.missouri.edu/~emile/) to reach current and potential stakeholders

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Technology Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephen Markham; Russell Thomas; Roger Debo; Angus Kingon

leadership skills. The course sequence has a positive impact on studentconfidence and graduation rates, and is a positive inducement to bring students into thedepartment 10. A few projects have resulted in start-up ventures. A big advantage of this type ofcourse is that as a Senior Design variant, it is readily accommodated within an existingcurriculum.A recently developed course sequence at the Pennsylvania State University deserves mention 11, asit represents an example of an engineering entrepreneurship program with strong business schoollinks. The engineering entrepreneurship minor consists of six classes in total: four requirementsand two electives. Members of both the colleges of engineering and business helped develop theminor and co-teach

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Cockayne; John Feland; Larry Leifer

the pangineer must begin with the current education of engineers.Traditional engineering education has typically presented content knowledge acrossmultiple disciplines; however, to prepare students for modern challenges, the moderneducation system must now focus on delivering the context across and between the thesecontent areas.Knowledge how, or know-how, has always existed in engineering learning and practice.A common example recalled fondly by today’s practicing engineers are project-based Page 7.1101.1classes, such as capstone design courses for Mechanical Design engineers. Such classes Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Ruane

creation of a modernteaching laboratory, curriculum design, and growth in faculty and students.The new MS program follows the structure of our existing MSEE and MSCE degrees, andrequires little additional university investment. Specific course offerings will be described, alongwith their laboratory components and the set-up of the Photonics Instructional Laboratory.Curricular overlap with senior electives and with graduate students from other disciplines will alsobe presented. Connections for research and entrepreneurship in photonics have been created,allowing students to undertake MS thesis work, MS projects, or prepare for Ph.D. level study.Recent connections to distance learning will be described.This paper also will describe the

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James Bartlett

learn who in the class had similar interests. One student in eachgroup was then asked to initiate the group communications and meetings to accomplish therespective contribution, with faculty and Chapter guidance.Table 1. Student Discipline Focus Group Table Student Interest in Discipline Focus Groups Manufacturing Engineering Options at NDSU Industrial Eng. & Management Areas at NDSU Page 7.1026.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kimberly Barron; Anita Todd; Robert Pangborn

, etc.).The response rate for the co-op evaluation is virtually 100%, since submitting the evaluation isrequired for the 200 to 400 students who participate annually in each of the three co-op rotations.The web-based senior exit survey has a response rate of almost 60%, such that 410 studentscompleted the survey prior to graduation in Spring 2001, for example. The alumni survey has aresponse rate of about 20%, with about 350 to 400 respondents for two class years (the surveyconducted in summer 2000 was for ’97 and ’98 graduating classes). Typically about one-third ofrespondents to the senior exit and alumni surveys are students who participated in the Co-opProgram.III. Analysis and Preliminary ResultsIt is important to emphasize at the outset

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Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Balmer

Increased Student Engineering Programs Abilities and Options Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 7.2.9 Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationBiblography1) Abbott & Masterman, "Working Paper No. 2", Centre for Literacy, 1997. (See: http://www.media- awareness.ca/eng/med/class/andersen.htm)2) Technology Review, January-February, 2001.3) Wang, E.L., and Kleppe, J.A., “Teaching Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Engineering,” J. Engineering Education, pp 565-570, Vol. 90, No. 4

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Saeed Niku

NCIIA and the Lemelson Foundation, is a group of students whoperform a design activity in a classroom setting. The product they design is supposed to becommercially viable (hopefully patentable), or socially useful. It stands for EntrepreneurshipTeam or Excellence Team. The concept of Entrepreneurship Teams was integrated into thePhilosophy of Design course at Cal Poly.The course is modified to include E-Teams of 4 students each. The E-teams are formed on thefirst day of class, randomly, and continue as a team throughout the Quarter. Each E-Team isasked to follow the design process that is covered in class, from initial problem finding to theevaluation of the final product. The process also involves patent searches to ensure that nopatents are

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Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Harwell; Donna Shirley; Hillel Kumin

management in the aerospace industry - Entrepreneurship, team-taught by the Executive Associate Dean of the CoE and a member of the Industrial Engineering faculty, both of who have successfully started and managed businesses.All of these classes feature additional lectures by experienced industry people, classprojects, and the participation of non-engineering students. The CoE plans to extendavailability to these courses, add a specific communications element (based on a graduatelevel course currently taught in Civil Engineering and Environmental Science), andpropose at least one of the courses for the University General Education curriculum

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Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Loc Vu-quoc; David Mikolaitis; Norman Fitz-Coy; R. Keith Stanfill

completion of various deliverables and meeting major milestones at the end of thefirst, second and fourth phase; ending the structured development process with delivery of aworking prototype to the industry sponsor. The embodiment of the process into the curriculumtakes on the multi-faceted format of lectures, workshops and team teaching. The lectures, giventwice a week by engineering faculty and/or guest lecturers from industry and the business school,are used to formally introduce each aspect of the design process via theory, examples, casestudies and in-class activities. The lectures are presented in a just-in-time fashion such thatupcoming deliverables are explained one or two weeks in advance. The workshops focus on theproject details and coach

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Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gul Okudan Kremer; Sven Bilen; Richard Devon

?” 30th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Kansas City, MO, 18–21 October, 2000.16. Tao, B. Y., “Senior/sophomore co-class instruction: Teaching interpersonal skills in engineering,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 82, No. 2, 1993, pp. 126–129.SVEN G. BILÉN (BS Penn State, MSE and PhD Univ. of Michigan) is an Assistant Professor of EngineeringDesign and Electrical Engineering at Penn State. His educational research interests include developing techniquesfor enhancing engineering design education, teaching technological entrepreneurship, and global product design. Heis member of IEEE, AIAA, AGU, ASEE, URSI, and Sigma Xi

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Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Daughton

managementassignments. To exacerbate this situation, many individuals cannot leave the workplace for anextended period to obtain the essential management education. In some cases this even extendsto attending during evenings and on weekends. Business travel, work crises, and familyobligations make attendance at regularly scheduled classes very difficult. Given the aboveconsiderations, a flexible and portable graduate program that students can take while theycontinue working is a highly desirable option.Based on the issues highlighted above, the program’s guiding principles can be summarized as: Page 7.235.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

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Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Terry Collins; Alisha Youngblood

? The incorporation of a thesis or capstone project offers students an opportunity to research a subject in further depth or integrate their skills in an industry project.· Should a certain number of core courses be required? The inclusion of a set of core courses tends to add more structure to a degree program, but can remove some of the flexibility that students tend to enjoy.· Is the degree also available through distance education? More degree programs are now offering their classes to non-traditional students located away from the local campus. This allows students to continue working at their jobs while pursuing a higher education.LimitationsMany other programs were looked at, but are not included in this report

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dennis Field

-day operation of the Lab hasresided with ISU’s Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Business. Corporatefunding for the Laboratory was originally, and continues to be in large part, provided by 3M, aworldwide corporation well known for technological innovation. Prior to each semester, studentsare recruited and asked to submit applications and resumes for the upcoming semester. Second Page 7.348.1semester students review the applications and resumes and, with input from faculty and Proceeding of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American

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Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Lockwood-Benet; Rosa Buxeda; Manuel Hormaza; Alejandro Ruiz Acevedo; Jorge Vélez-Arocho; Lueny Morell

resources and skills needed for this kind ofprofessional on the island. Currently, the program has 164 students (63% women) andgraduated more than 36 professionals. Most recently, and in response to a multi-sector alliancecreated in Puerto Rico to help develop the island as a world class high tech center, known as thePuerto Rico TechnoEconomic Corridor (PRTEC), the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, isdeveloping a PhD program in Biotechnology. PRTEC’s goals are to retain jobs, attract new hightech businesses to the island, while supporting the development of an R&D tradition and thedevelopment of an entrepreneurial culture at all levels.This paper will describe the strategy to develop a Multi-Sector Alliance to StrengthenBiotechnology

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robi Polikar; Robert R. Krchnavek; Raul Ordonez; Peter Jansson; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

Session 2532 CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW ECE PROGRAM John L. Schmalzel1, Shreekanth A. Mandayam1, Ravi P. Ramachandran1, Robert R. Krchnavek1, Linda M. Head1, Robi Polikar1, Peter Jansson1, and Raúl Ordóñez2 1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rowan University 2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of DaytonAbstract - We have developed a new Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) program at RowanUniversity. The first class graduated in May 2000. Features include: a continuous Engineering Clinicsequence, a mixture of two-, three-, and four-credit courses

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Uriel Cukierman; Jorge Vélez-Arocho; Ciristián Vial; Miguel Torres-Febus; John Spencer; Lueny Morell

: · Product Dissection were students examine the way in which products and machines work: their physical operation, the manner in which they are constructed, and the design and societal considerations that determine the difference between success and failure in the marketplace. · Technology-Based Entrepreneurship: focuses on the starting, financing and managing a new business in a highly competitive and technological based environment (developed in conjunction with the Business School). · Concurrent Engineering: the origin and meaning of the term concurrent engineering and discuss its role in modern engineering companies.Due to the success of this program [2]which has been highlighted in the New York

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Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

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Philip Henning

Education (GATE) Program, which focuses on HEV technologies have been teamedup with 7 th, 8 th, and 10 th grade science classrooms in two middle schools and in one high schoolthat have large proportions of minority students. The graduate fellows participating in theprogram have been awarded an NSF fellowship. In return, the graduate fellows are teamed withteachers in K-12 classes and visit the schools on a regular basis. In the visits to the scienceclasses the fellows present material on hybrid electric vehicle technology and seek to develop amentoring relationship with students in the classes.The second M in the term M3 refers to motivation. Motivation to develop science skills and toconsider science and technology-based careers is provided by

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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June Ferrill

university and different from their technology fields. Emphasizing the importance ofentrepreneurial communications, specifically the business concept presentation and early-stagebusiness plan, this paper follows theory with application by describing the multifacetedexperiential approaches used to teach entrepreneurship to Rice University undergraduateengineering students. Much of this learning involves students actively using their owninnovations to develop business plans and drawing members of the entrepreneurial communityinto a student-led club and the classroom. Students also participate in the business communitythrough forums, field trips to entrepreneurial organizations’ meetings, and forming an actualbusiness. From Technologist to

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Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Attila Yaprak; Ece Yaprak; Mulchand Rathod

Session 3563 INSTITUTIONAL ADAPTATION OF THE GREENFIELD COALITION’S CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSE Ece Yaprak, Attila Yaprak, Mulchand S Rathod Division of Engineering Technology/Business School/Division of Engineering Technology Wayne State University, Detroit, MichiganSUMMARY In most capstone design courses, students go through the complete design processstarting with a description of the problem and ending with a prototype. Many schools haveone or two-semester-long classes where students work in groups or individually. Thecapstone design course in the Division

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Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Daniel Raviv

Inventive Problem Solving in Engineering”. Its goal is toenhance innovative and inventive thinking abilities of undergraduate students resulting in skillsthat can be used in science, math, engineering and technology. In this paper we detail projectsand homework assignments, teaming and communication activities, and hands-on and funinteractive class actions. One of the core ideas of the class is the Eight-dimensional methodologyfor inventive and innovative problem solving: a systematic approach that stimulates innovationby effectively using both sides of the brain. The methodology is a unified approach that builds oncomprehensive problem solving knowledge from industry, business, marketing, math, science,engineering, technology, and daily life. It