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Raj Desai

sinceapproximately 400 million new pallets are currently 3. The Conceptproduced annually, and only about 175 million are Students can develop entrepreneurial skills by workingrepaired or recycled. Annually, some 100 million pallets to generate, evaluate, develop, and market their innovation.are estimated to be abandoned, lost, burned, or taken Faculty members should be encouraged to participate asfrom the country [1]. Pallets consumed between 34% and student team mentors. At the beginning of the semester38% of the total hardwood consumption in the U.S. in students in the class generate ideas for potential products.1997, making pallets the single largest domestic

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Colby Ryan; Alexis Crandall; Mitch Martinez; David Kennedy; Kristian Ecolango; Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

testing of Schneider HVAC control products. As in thePartnership model works well in meeting scope, time and previous example, Schneider Electric is an example of abudget constraints. Based on these successful prior large company with embedded system needs that areprojects, T STAR and its partner, the Mobile Integrated commiserate with the ESET curriculum goals. BySolutions Laboratory (MISL) at Texas A&M, have been sponsoring a project-based Capstone, Schneider Electricagain selected by NASA scientists to design, develop and was not only able to outsource low-priority productmaintain a new class of system that will operate over an development work but to also evaluate four potential new

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Joseph A. Donndelinger

capitalists, andcommunication and a team-based class project. The philanthropists based on a proposal for local production of Lithium Ion batteries for residential use in Haiti10. The lastsupplemental content proved helpful for transitioning was another problem-based assignment mirroring content ofstudents from traditional engineering coursework to the the team-based class project on residential implementationsuccessive courses in the Technology Entrepreneurship of renewable energy

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Noe Vargas Hernandez; Arturo Fuentes; Stephen Crown

entrepreneurship it is widely accepted Education, 86: 75–91. doi:10.1002/j.2168-that mentoring plays an important role in the success of a 9830.1997.tb0027product or a business. It may seem obvious, but some [6] Gilbuena, D. M., Sherrett, B. U., Gummer, E. S.,students completely avoid contact with faculty outside class Champagne, A. B. and Koretsky, M. D. (2015),time, not attending office hours and just keeping to Feedback on Professional Skills as Enculturationthemselves. Something as simple as asking for help can into Communities of Practice. J. Eng. Educ., 104:make a great difference in the academic life of a student. 7–34. doi:10.1002/jee.20061

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Roman Taraban; William M. Marcy; Mark S. LaCour; Dashiell Pashley; Klara Keim

public health,Analytic Thinking category [t(77) = -1.92, p = .058]. safety, the environment, and engineering NSPE code.Non-Ethics texts (mean = 87.08) expressed slightly moreformal, logical thinking than Ethics texts (mean = 85.61). 4. DiscussionThere was a substantial and significant difference for the The present analyses confirmed several possibilitiesAuthentic category [t(77) = -6.43, p < .001]. Non-Ethics related to the utility of machine tools in the assessment oftexts (mean = 23.57) expressed an honest, disclosing students’ SIA papers in an ethics class. The LIWC 2015narrative, whereas Ethics texts (mean = 15.22) expressed a analyses showed that ethics portions of students’ papersmore