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Teaching and Learning Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Owe G. Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering; R. David Kent, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Christina Howe, University of Evansville; Mary B. Vollaro, Western New England University

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Entrepreneurial Engineering CareerAbstractIf an engineering program has superb technical content, what, if anything, can be done to raisethe level of educational excellence in its graduates? Especially, if a key intent is to increase thedegree entrepreneurial-mindedness of its graduates and promote innovation? We believe theanswer is to truly integrate the core professional competencies cultivated by general educationinto the engineering curriculum and to have general education courses more specifically connectto issues that engineers need to be more aware of in a career climate of extensive globalization.General education is an essential educational component to be embraced as being on par inimportance in an engineering curriculum with technical topics

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Tim Dallas P.E., Texas Tech University; Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, Texas Tech University; Kelli M. Frias, American University

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Paper ID #32832Developing Intrapreneurship in the Next Generation of EngineeringInnovators and LeadersDr. Tim Dallas P.E., Texas Tech University Tim Dallas is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas Tech University. Dr. Dal- las’ research includes developing educational technologies for deployment to under-served regions of the world. His research group has developed MEMS-based educational technologies that have been com- mercialized, expanding dissemination. He has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Education. Dr. Dallas received the B.A. degree in Physics from the University of

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Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Blessing, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Kristen Mekemson, Kern Family Foundation; David Pistrui, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Masters in Liberal Arts from DePaul University, Chicago (USA), and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Western Michigan University. Page 13.265.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Building an Entrepreneurial Engineering Ecosystem for Future Generations: The Kern Entrepreneurship Education NetworkAbstractThe integration of entrepreneurship and innovation into undergraduate engineering education hasbeen found to enhance student performance and improve retention rates (Ohland, 2004). It alsoprepares graduating engineers to work in rapidly changing environments defined by acompetitive global

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Entrepreneurship Education: Crossdisciplinary Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge delosRios-Hurtado, Texas Tech; David Wyrick, Texas Tech

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HigherEducation Coordinating Board, which oversees all post-secondary education in the State ofTexas.A graduate certificate program is a set of courses that provides in-depth knowledge in a subjectmatter. The knowledge in this set of courses should provide a coherent knowledge base, even ifthe courses are selected from more than one academic program. The set of courses may be morepractice-oriented than the set of courses in a graduate academic program. A graduate certificateprogram generally will be made up of no fewer than 12 hours and no more than 15 hours ofgraduate courses. All graduate certificate programs will follow the rules and regulations of theTexas Higher Education Coordinating Board.Moreover, all those initiatives mentioned will help us to

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ENT Division Technical Session: Creativity and Innovation

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Tess Hartog, University of Oklahoma; Megan Marshall, University of Oklahoma; Amin G. Alhashim, University of Oklahoma; Md Tanvir Ahad, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, and concept generationAbstractInvestigations of creativity have been an intriguing topic for a long time, but assessing creativityis extremely complex. Creativity is a cornerstone of engineering disciplines, so understandingcreativity and how to enhance creative abilities through engineering education has receivedsubstantial attention. Fields outside of engineering are no stranger to neuro-investigations ofcreativity and although some neuro-response studies have been conducted to understandcreativity in engineering, these studies need to map the engineering design and conceptgeneration processes better. Using neuroimaging techniques alongside engineering design andconcept generation processes is necessary for understanding how to improve

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Programs and Courses Session 5

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Perry Samson, University of Michigan

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #10373The Design of a Graduate Level Course in Entrepreneurship: Ownership Is-suesDr. Perry Samson, University of Michigan Perry Samson is Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences and Professor of Entrepreneur- ship in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. He holds an Arthur F. Thurnau Pro- fessorship at the University of Michigan in recognition of ”outstanding contributions to undergraduate education” and is the recipient of the 2009 Teaching Innovation Award at the University of Michigan and a past recipient of the College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2010 Perry

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Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica R. McCormick, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Beverly Radloff, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Nancy Lamm, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Terri L. Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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school’s student council. She received her Bachelor’s in General Studies and M.S. in Adult Education at IUPUI. She is currently working on her dissertation toward an Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration at Indiana University. Page 22.1172.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Preparing Engineering Graduates for the Real-World: The Butler University and Indiana-University Purdue-University Indianapolis Joint Engineering Dual Degree ProgramAbstractEngineers of today must understand the social, political

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The Challenges of Tech Transfer

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael McCorquodale, Mobius Microsystems, Inc.; Richard Brown, University of Utah

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. Page 12.1074.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Mobius Microsystems: A Case Study in the Commercialization of Graduate Research in Electrical Engineering AbstractMobius Microsystems is a fabless and intellectual property (IP) semiconductor company foundedby a graduate student (McCorquodale) and his faculty advisor (Brown) and based upon the disser-tation research conducted by the student. The company is presented by the founding researchersas a case study in the commercialization of graduate research in electrical engineering. While aprevious paper by the authors [1] has discussed the internal resources required at the researchinstitution to facilitate

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Education Session 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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, book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers in the areas of embedded systems, robotics, parallel processing, and engineering education. Page 24.1030.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014Recent Graduates’ Perspectives on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a New Entrepreneurship CourseAbstractMany Electrical and Computer Engineering students at the University of North Carolina atCharlotte showed an interest in entrepreneurship when interviewed during their senior exitinterview. Several students highlighted the existence of a taste of

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Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anthony Marchese, Colorado State University

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. Page 22.477.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Development of a New Graduate Course in Sustainable Technology Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers Anthony J. Marchese1, Gregory D. Graff2 and Paul Hudnut3 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2Department of Agricultural Resource Economics, 3Department of Management Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1374Abstract - This paper describes the development of a new graduate level course entitledSustainable Technology Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers (STESE), which wasjointly

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ENT Division Technical Session: Creativity and Innovation

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Simon Jakob Barth, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University

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engineering graduates. Currently, he works for the solar electric vehicle start-up Sono Motors in Munich.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2011 Dr. Sheppard was named as co-PI

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Opening General Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janna Rodriguez, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Qu Jin, Stanford University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University

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c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Exploring Entrepreneurial Characteristics and Experiences of Engineering AlumniAbstractIn recent years one of the goals of the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been to encouragenew generations of engineering students to become more entrepreneurially-minded and self-employed in the engineering field. Engineering schools in the United States have specificcurricular requirements that students must fulfill in order to graduate, and some of theserequirements may incorporate a component of entrepreneurship education. As part of theresearch reported here, data from a survey of recent engineering alumni were used to examineand determine which engineering

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IP and Supporting Student Startups

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Silvernagel, University of North Dakota; Richard Schultz, University of North Dakota

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. degree from UND in 1990, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Notre Dame in 1992 and 1995, respectively. Dr. Schultz joined the UND faculty in 1995, and his teaching and research interests are in signal and image processing, embedded systems, technology entrepreneurship, and systems engineering. Page 11.1161.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Student-Generated Intellectual Property: Preliminary Results from a Research Instrument Used to Capture Student, Faculty, and Industry Partner Perspectives and ExpectationsAbstractAn area of

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Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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McRae Banks, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. Page 15.253.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 BUSINESS BASICS FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS: A CASE STUDY ON A NEW GRADUATE COURSE ABSTRACTOne of the common complaints of those teaching entrepreneurship courses is that non-businessstudents simply do not have the background in accounting, finance, leadership, organizationalbehavior, and marketing to benefit from the courses at an appropriate level of depth. As a result,those professors have to teach those topics at some level of detail, which cuts into theirinstructional time on the key elements of the course. On the opposite side, many engineering andscience professors

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael R. Ladisch, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Soohyun Yi, Purdue University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

psychological research. Her current research interest is factors promoting high-ability student’s achievement, STEM education, and program evaluation. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Discovery to Market: Preparing Faculty and Graduate Students for Technology Commercialization and EntrepreneurshipAbstractThe desire to move new discoveries from the laboratory to society combined with the evolutionof university priorities in funding of operating expenses and research are leading to whatEtzkowitz et al. (2000) dubbed the “entrepreneurial university.” This development is changingexpectations placed on PhD students and faculty, particularly in STEM disciplines, who areincreasingly

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhang, Zhejiang University; Yuexin Jiang, Zhejiang University; Xiaofeng Tang, Pennsylvania State University

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colleges and universities. This emphasis is echoed inmultiple policy documents, such as the Chinese Ministry of Education (MOE)’s “Opinions onVigorously Promoting entrepreneurial Education in Universities and Start-ups by College Students”[1] (2010) and “Opinions on Comprehensively Improving the Quality of Higher Education”[2](2012).The Chinese State Council’s annual “Report on the Work of the Government” in 2015 furtherclinches governmental support for entrepreneurial by encouraging people to “start their ownbusinesses and to make innovations” as a way to create jobs and increase their income. In May 2015,the State Council General Office provided a blueprint for implementing this national strategy inhigher education through its “Opinions on

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The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emil H. Salib, James Madison University; Eric Vincent Walisko, James Madison University

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) convenience and increasing quality DJs (14) of service at James Madison University (14) Table 1 working prototypes delivered in this course3. Course Assessment – Hypothesis and Data CollectionThe course introduced in the previous section was run for four (4) consecutive spring semesters(2010 to 2013) with a total number of 90 students enrolled and passed. The student courseevaluations highlighted that the students were generally satisfied by what they gained from thecourse despite the course only being worth one credit. However, the success, the value and thescope of the impact of the course could realistically be measured by feedback from graduates inthe workplace as well as

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ENT Division Technical Session: Entrepreneurship and IP

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Howard B. Rockman, University of Illinois at Chicago

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”Intellectual Property Law for Engineers and Scientists,” IEEE and John Wiley & Sons, Publishers (2004) c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 An Online Course on Intellectual Property for Undergraduates and Graduate Engineers and ScientistsIntroduction It can be said with a very high degree of confidence that all of the engineers and scientistsin our technology University classrooms at some point in their professional careers, will comeinto direct contact with the Intellectual Property Laws of this or other countries, and these lawswill have an impact on their extant projects. Whether using these Intellectual Property Laws toobtain exclusive rights covering their

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National and Multi-university Initiatives

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Owe G. Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering; William M. Jordan, Baylor University; R. Radharamanan, Mercer University

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toforcefully push engineering education to further the characteristic of entrepreneurial mindednessin engineering graduates.The logistic structure must begin with the KEEN Educational Objectives (KEOs) since theydefine the direction and end results desired. The KEOs in turn are furthered by assuring studentsat the time of graduation have achieved the KEEN Student Outcomes (KSOs). The curriculumand extracurricular activities have the function of developing the professional and technical traitsdefined by the outcomes, which in turn allow the objectives to be pursued and achieved.Alignment of these items is critical to ensure not just the objectives are met but also to ensure thecurriculum and outcomes actually influence and affect each other in the

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division New Ideas Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christy L. Bozic, Purdue University; Nathan W. Hartman, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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, 2014Case-based Instruction for Innovation Education in Engineering and Technology Page 24.264.2AbstractThe need for the integration of relevant curriculum focused on innovation theory and themanagement of innovation within engineering education has been a topic of ongoing discussionat the national level. The Council of Competitiveness suggests STEM graduates will be the keyto innovation growth, although the number of engineers entering the field is not sufficient toreplace retiring professionals. Today’s global economy requires engineers and technologists totake the lead role in innovation and idea generation, although innovation is not a topic that istypically included in the undergraduate

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ENT Division Technical Session: Entrepreneurship and IP

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Thomas M. Katona, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Ventures Program. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 A systematic review of the literature on student entrepreneurial failure in engineering educationAbstract:This paper specifically focuses on a systematic review of research on and pedagogical methodsrelated to failure within the context of undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurial engineeringcurriculum and programming. The article examines the basis for, methods to teach, and researchbeing done to support the commonly held and repeated beliefs that students learn through failure,entrepreneurs need to persist through failure, and we need to teach our students to fail fast andfail forward.Systematic reviews of literature

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prateek Shekhar, University of Michigan; Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan

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Communication Engineering from India.Dr. Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan Aileen is faculty in Engineering Education and Biomedical Engineering. Previously, Aileen was the Associate Director for Academics in the Center for Entrepreneurship and was responsible for building the Program in Entrepreneurship for UM undergraduates, co-developing the masters level entrepreneur- ship program, and launching the biomedical engineering graduate design program. Aileen has received a number of awards for her teaching, including the Thomas M. Sawyer, Jr. Teaching Award, the UM ASEE Outstanding Professor Award and the Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award. Prior to joining the University of Michigan faculty, she worked in the

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University; Todd M. Fernandez, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Austin Spencer Bohlin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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semi-structured interviews focusing on their experiences with innovative and non-innovative projectsand their general perspectives related to innovation. We utilized a qualitative content analysisapproach to identify students’ experiences within and outside of Vygotsky’s zone of proximaldevelopment during innovation projects to which students felt they did and did not substantiallycontribute and non-innovative projects. Analysis revealed distinct characterizations aligned withexperiences preceding, within, beyond their zones of proximal development on the three projecttypes. These findings have key implications for those learning to become innovative and the wayeducators utilize innovation projects in the context of engineering education. In

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Entrepreneurial Leadership and Non-traditional Ways to Engage Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Russell Dinardi, Lafayette College; Sharon Jones, Lafayette College

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LafayetteCollege. The only form of entrepreneurship education is the CircleEntrepreneurship Society, which offers economics and business students theopportunity to gather and speak about entrepreneurial topics. In addition, thesociety occasionally invites speakers to their meetings. For students outside of theeconomics and business field, little opportunity for entrepreneurship educationexists. Already with a solid technological background, Lafayette’s engineeringstudents can have very successful careers in fields involving technical innovation.Lafayette engineering students are not fully aware of the possibilities that lie withinthe field of entrepreneurship because there are currently such few opportunities oncampus. Entrepreneurship education is

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Utilizing On-Line Technology in Entrepreneurship Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University

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program CENTECOM was put in place toproliferate UCF’s activities throughout the state.26 A similar program has been created at FloridaInstitute of Technology where interested seniors and graduate students can not only takecoursework in entrepreneurship but can also apply for NCIIA funding and/or work with theUniversity’s TechStart business accelerator to commercialize their ideas.27,28 Current literaturesuggests that while many schools promote these facilities to undergraduate students as a meansto pursue the commercialization of IP, this is generally a transition where the students moveabruptly from an educational environment directly to a business environment. One veryinteresting exception to this, and part of the inspiration for this proposed

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne-Marie Jacob Job, Tulane University; Rebecca Zarch, SageFox Consulting Group; Alan R. Peterfreund, SageFox Consulting Group; Donald P. Gaver, Tulane University

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Paper ID #16627Opportunity to Grow and Explore: Lessons from a Bioinnovation GraduateStudent Summer Internship Program at the U.S. Food and Drug Administra-tionDr. Anne-Marie Jacob Job, Tulane University Anne-Marie Job received her doctorate in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University in 2011. Soon thereafter, she assumed the role of Program Manager to a newly-minted Interdisciplinary Phd Program at Tulane in Bioinnovation. This graduate program fosters the design and development of innovative biomedical technologies and products through a balanced educational approach that combines strong foundations in science and

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Education Session 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Elizabeth C. Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University; Jacob Dean Wheadon, Purdue University

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Engineering Education, 2014 Catalyzing the Adoption of Entrepreneurship Education in Engineering by Aligning Outcomes with ABETAbstractEconomic trends and a changing job market for college graduates have generated significantinterest in graduating more engineers who possess entrepreneurship skills and an entrepreneurialmindset. This has led to significant growth in the delivery of entrepreneurship courses toengineering students; however, research shows that such courses are typically part of minors andcertificates, and not part of core engineering curriculum. The Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) establishes criteria for accrediting engineering programsand is a significant force in shaping the

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Program Development & Desired Outcomes

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Nilsen, VentureWell; Victoria Matthew, VentureWell/Epicenter; Angela Shartrand, VentureWell; Thema Monroe-White, SageFox Consulting Group

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, its research-based foundations, and the sequence of activities for the initial cohort of twelve teamsfrom twelve different schools. Initial results from teams’ efforts, some of the “lessonslearned” from the evaluation of the first year, and the implications of those lessons bothfor expansion of the program and for engineering education more generally are discussed.Each school’s Pathways effort is led by a team1 and the teams themselves are in turngathered into a national network.2 The schools vary widely in their institutional profilewith regard to size, student demographics, governance, initial breadth of entrepreneurshipeducation opportunities for engineering students, and availability of off-campusentrepreneurship opportunities in the

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark V. Huerta, Arizona State University; Jeremi S. London, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

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revealed that, overall, engineeringdeans believe an entrepreneurial mindset can support both students and faculty and expressedtheir desire to continue scaling their institutions’ entrepreneurship initiatives. The findingsindicate that deans value entrepreneurial mindset because of its potential to enhance many of theactivities that occur within an institutional context. The findings of this study add to the body ofliterature on this topic by documenting the perspectives of critical change agents connected tothis topic.Introduction Various stakeholders in the engineering education ecosystem have expressedcommitments to advancing entrepreneurship-related topics. For example, it is now commonplacefor engineering students to be exposed to

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Program Development & Desired Outcomes

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergio Celis, Universidad de Chile; Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan

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higher proportion of women than the existingproportion of women in the engineering school as a whole. They also found that students in theminor had higher math and verbal SAT scores than the general student population in the school.Co-curricular Involvement in Engineering and Entrepreneurship Education The value and impact of co-curricular experiences in the context of engineering educationhas been a growing topic of research for several years. Co-curricular experiences have beenshown to increase student engagement 23, enhance self-directed autonomy 24, nurture leadership25and enrich ethical decision making 26. The consistent positive impact findings suggest that co-curricular entrepreneurship education also has the potential to add