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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Tactical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Pines, New Mexico State University; Patricia A. Sullivan, New Mexico State University; Luke Nogales, New Mexico State University

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economic development particularly efforts that build on collaborative partnerships with business and industry, gov- ernment agencies, and other stake-holders to enhance employment opportunities for engineering students.Prof. Luke Nogales, New Mexico State University Luke Nogales loves to help innovators reach their potential. Luke is an Assistant Professor in the En- gineering Technology department at New Mexico State University (NMSU) and an Enterprise Advisor at NMSU’s on-campus incubator, the Arrowhead Center. He teaches core mechanical engineering tech- nology courses and is developing innovation and product development curriculum for the College of Engineering and the College of Business. Prior to working at NMSU

Conference Session

Course-based Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doug Abbott, MT Tech of the U of MT; Lance Edwards, MT Tech of the U of MT; John Evans, MT Tech of the U of MT; Leo Heath, MT Tech of the U of MT; Mike Johnson, MT Tech of the U of MT; Timothy Kober, MT Tech of the U of MT; Mary North-Abbott, MT Tech of the U of MT; Roger Oldenkamp, MT Tech of the U of MT

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entrepreneurial] skills that they learn are valuable inlarge companies as well, such as IBM, which is organized into units where entrepreneurship isencouraged6. Gifford Pinchot coined the term intrapreneur in 1985 to describe this new paradigm ofreleasing the entrepreneurial spirit within an established corporation. Whether the objective is to developindividual entrepreneurs or to inculcate intrapreneurship in a company there is clearly a need for coursessuch as Montana Tech’s PET 4460.One of the objectives of Montana Tech's interdisciplinary course, PET 4460, Petroleum ProjectEvaluation, is to introduce senior-level petroleum engineering students to the concept ofentrepreneurship by exposing the students to the "big picture" of how their engineering

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Unique Approaches

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul A. Nelson, Michigan Technological University; Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

implementing new technology. Besides economics, he has taught in the areas of management, finance, strategy & policy, and operations management. During the past few years, his teaching has focused on entrepreneurship. His work in curriculum and program development has been supported by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation through the Michigan Entrepreneurial Education Network, NCIIA, and NSF. He advises the local Entrepreneurs & Inventors Club which includes members from two universities and the community.Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University Dr. Edward Lumsdaine is currently Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University and Special

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Nilsen, Purdue Center for Regional Development; Thema Monroe-White, SageFox Consulting Group; Edward F. Morrison, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Phil Weilerstein, VentureWell

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

engineering programs (and theirfaculty) understand what to do – they also need help and new tools to figure out how to makechange happen. Teaching administrators and faculty the strategic doing approach gives themsuch a tool, and ongoing support within the program helps them make using the tool a collectivehabit.The network as the unit of change: Most university leaders (as is true in industry) have anunderstanding of change management rooted in a “command and control” vision of the wayorganizations function. That is, positional leaders (be they presidents, provosts, deans ordepartment chairs) occupy upper levels on the organizational charts and should thus be able totell those below them what to do. However, an honest assessment is that things

Conference Session

Utilizing On-Line Technology in Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

broadly classified into four categories. First, many schoolsdevelop curriculum and workshops designed to teach entrepreneurship. This curriculum isgenerally offered either directly through engineering programs or more often by business and/ormanagement programs. In 1997, the University of Houston began a two-semester coursesequence to teach engineering students entrepreneurship in a business processes approach from aCEO’s perspective.4 At Grove City College, engineering students in the senior design courseare teamed with business students and can enroll in a course on the development of businessplans. Success is measured through a business plan competition.5 Pennsylvania StateUniversity launched the PBLE Program that allows students

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division New Ideas Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarvesh S. Kulkarni, Villanova University; Frank Klassner, Villanova University; Vijay Gehlot, Villanova University; E.J. Dougherty III, Villanova University; Sue McFarland Metzger, Villanova University; William P. Wagner, Villanova University

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Paper ID #10312Mobile App Development: A Cross-Discipline Team-Based Approach to Stu-dent and Faculty LearningDr. Sarvesh S Kulkarni, Villanova University Sarvesh Kulkarni received a B.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Bombay in 1994, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Prior to 2002, he has worked in various industry positions in India and the US. He joined the ECE department at Villanova University in 2002, and is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering. His teaching and research interests are: adaptive

Conference Session

Utilizing On-Line Technology in Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Richards, University of Virginia

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, revision, packaging, and documentation. The customers are middle schoolteachers and students. The objectives include teaching topics in science and mathematicswith engineering applications, and introducing the engineering design approach toproblem solving. Each ETK must address state and national educational standards, andmust fit into the curriculum for the schools and grade levels. Every ETK includes adesign competition – teams of middle school students must design and build a machine,vehicle, or structure that satisfies design constraints and meets a defined objective. TheUniversity of Virginia students must anticipate all the materials requirements,construction details, and potential problems and trouble spots. After teaching their ETKin a

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neelam Soundarajan, Ohio State University; Rajiv Ramnath, Ohio State University; Bruce W. Weide, Ohio State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, theyare well on their way to becoming successful entrepreneurs. Page 23.71.7 6The curriculum described above was designed by engineering faculty and business faculty workingin close cooperation. As noted previously, a version of the entrepreneurship-minor program alreadyexisted in the business school. That program, however, only required students to take the first twocourses (respectively on innovation and entrepreneurship in modern business; and new venturecreation). Students were allowed to choose the remaining three from a wide variety of courses,including from several offered outside the

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Programs and Courses Session 5

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Federico Garcia Lorca, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation & Technology; Sridhar S. Condoor, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineering

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. Page 24.229.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Biassociation for the Entrepreneurial Engineering CurriculumAbstractDespite the apparent benefits of fostering creativity, the question largely remains at how todevelop and deliver a curriculum that can stimulate such innovative thinking. Several modelshave developed on an attempt to ground creative thinking and its usage such as schema theoryfrom Bartlett, Johansson’s Medici Effect, Koestler’s biassociation or Tom Kelley’s faces ofinnovation. While the first three focused more on the structure and processes of innovation,Kelley’s work took a more personal approach, defining several characters that play differentroles in the creative process

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Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL; Francis Xavier McAfee, Florida Atlantic University; Michael S Harris, Florida Atlantic University; Ravi S Behara, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

vision of clean energy technologies under development by FAU’s Ocean Engineering department played a key role in landing the new Center for Ocean Energy Technology. As a professional 3D designer, ani- mator, and artist, he employs high-end computer animation software applications to create short-subject films and videos. He has won numerous awards and international recognition for his work.Dr. Michael S Harris, Florida Atlantic UniversityDr. Ravi S Behara, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Ravi S. Behara is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology & Opera- tions Management in the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University. His current research interests include health care operations

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Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

inthe form of extra courses is extremely difficult. The question inevitably arises as to what needsto be taken out of the curriculum to make room. There is seldom an easy answer to this question.One avenue that was developed at UDM is that of the Technical Entrepreneurship case study.These case studies illustrate how a successful entrepreneur capitalized on his/her knowledge ofspecific technical or scientific topics to create a successful business venture. These short casestudies then become part of the relevant engineering or science courses. This approach requiresminimal alteration to the existing curriculum.These case studies are designed to instill the seeds of entrepreneurship in the student audience.By no means are these case studies

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

W. Andrew Clark, East Tennessee State University; J. Paul Sims, East Tennessee State University; Craig A. Turner, East Tennessee State University; Jon L. Smith, East Tennessee State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, many times technologists andscientists, see the application of the technology long before potential customers developan understanding of the capabilities that the new technology can bring to the marketplace.Many times these “new technology ideas” have been developed though modifying anexisting dominant design (product or service) to meet an unforeseen market need orthrough the development of a new design that may become the new industry standard.The competitors of tomorrow may reside in radically different markets yet have theinsight to envision the application or modification of an existing technology to a marketsegment that they are currently not involved in.Teaching engineering technology students techniques and visioning tactics related to

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Weissbach, Pennsylvania State University-Erie; Jana Goodrich, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

course.Engineering and technology curricula often focus on the technical abilities of students,neglecting the “soft skills” that will often determine success or failure for a graduate when (s)heenters the workforce. As an example, project management skills are often neglected in anengineering curriculum, requiring additional training for those engineers who end up inmanagement positions2. Skills such as the ability to lead and work effectively as a member of ateam are frequently identified as critical to the success of an engineer, but typically are lacking innew engineering graduates3. The same is true of business students. While the businesscurriculum uses many team-based projects, students frequently resist building good, effectiveteam-building skills

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Brett Ross, East Tennessee State University; Keith V. Johnson, East Tennessee State University; Kevin Wade Varney, East Tennessee State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2011-1359: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO STUDY ABROADJeremy Brett Ross, East Tennessee State University Jeremy B. Ross is a Associate Vice President of University Advancement and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology, Surveying and Digital Media. He holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Tennessee and a Master of Science in Technology from East Tennessee State University. He has experience in design and development of numerous architecture projects in academic and commercial applications in the Southeast.Dr. Keith V. Johnson, East Tennessee State University Keith V. Johnson is a Tenured Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology, Surveying and Digital

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ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum II

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrea T. Kwaczala, Western New England University

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collaborative instructors with like-minded teaching goals. Well organized EML online-modules such as elevator pitch makes deployment easy to implement in the engineering classroom [15]. Inthis semester-long project, students were introduced to new engineering topics in lecture, they practicedtechniques in mini labs, and then applied the knowledge to their project while considering theentrepreneurial mindset at every step. In this paper, we hypothesized that an EML module that utilized aproject-based approach would improve student engagement, improve technical laboratory and writing skillsand foster student’s curiosity to learn about human body motion. This project led to a mastery in kinematics,kinetics and human body motion technology with a stronger

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Melissa Grunow, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2009-766: LEADERSHIP MODELS AND PRACTICES COURSE: STUDENTPERCEPTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT OF LEADERSHIP SKILLS ANDINCORPORATION OF A NEW LEADERSHIP COURSEAndrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University Andrew Gerhart is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He is actively involved in ASEE, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. He serves as Faculty Advisor for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Chapter at LTU, and serves as chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee.Melissa Grunow, Lawrence Technological University Melissa Grunow is the Coordinator for the Leadership

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ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum II

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Michael J. Rust, Western New England University

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engineers are often tasked withbeing the connecting link in the medical device industry between clinicians, scientists, andpatients. Thus, the potential for EML to provide opportunities for BME students to makeconnections between physiological models (such as a disease state), technical concepts (devicesfor diagnosis/therapy), and markets are highly valuable.Activity DetailsThe newly developed EML module was implemented in a junior-level engineering physiologycourse at Western New England University (WNE), a small, private university in the Northeastregion of the U.S. The course title is Engineering Physiology II (BME 302), and it is a requiredcourse in the BME curriculum at WNE that is typically taken by third-year BME students. Themain course

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Jimmy Gandhi, California State University, Northridge; Dale S. Deardorff, Rocky Peak Leadership Center

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

TechnologyEntrepreneurship is increasingly being recognized as an important part of engineering education.However, it is also seen that establishing of a traditional business plan that was taught toengineers, is not considered as “the cutting edge” of doing entrepreneurship. Despite the businessplan being a core element of most engineering entrepreneurship curricula, there are new conceptsin entrepreneurship such as “The Lean Startup” which are being increasingly talked about. Alongthese lines, the faculty in The College of Engineering and Computer Science at California StateUniversity, Northridge are working with industry leaders and professionals to continuouslyimprove the entrepreneurship curriculum being taught to the engineers of today & tomorrow.One of

Conference Session

Teaching and Learning Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Allison Michelle Robinson; Nur Özge Özaltin, University of Pittsburgh; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Angela M. Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Phil Weilerstein, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)

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AC 2012-4200: ESSENTIAL FACTORS RELATED TO ENTREPRENEURIALKNOWLEDGE IN THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUMDr. Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh Mary Besterfield-Sacre is an Associate Professor and Fulton C. Noss Faculty Fellow in Industrial Engi- neering. She is the Director for the new Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering, and serves as a Center Associate for the Learning Research and Development Cen- ter at the University of Pittsburgh. Her principal research is in engineering assessment, which has been funded by the NSF, Department of Education, Sloan Foundation, Engineering Information Foundation, and the NCIIA. Besterfield-Sacre’s current research focuses on

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Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Marchese, Colorado State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

and economic approaches. The initial offering of the business-based GSSEprogram did not include a formal means of interfacing GSSE students with capable andinterested engineering and agricultural science students at CSU. Rather, any such interfacesbetween GSEE teams and engineering/science students were achieved on an ad hoc basis andresulted in varying degrees of success. Accordingly, in 2009 a Course and Program Grant wasobtained from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) to formalize alinkage between GSSE Masters students and graduate students within the College of Engineering(COE) and College of Agricultural Science (CAS), respectively. The NCIIA grant hasfacilitated the development of a new program in

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Entrepreneurship Education: Crossdisciplinary Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

sasikumar naidu, University of Tennessee; Prasanna Venkateswara Rao, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Paul Frymier, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Spivey Douglas, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Gary Smith, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Masood Parang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Rapinder Sawhney, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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University of Tennessee was initiated in fall 2001with a focus to provide students in Engineering with skills and knowledge of businessfocused towards new product development. National Science Foundation (NSF) providedfunding for the program from 2005 to 2008 which helped enhance the program and led todevelopment of several prototype products and commercialization of one the productsSafelightTM. The program has graduated more than 25 joint MS/MBA students so far withthe number growing every year. The graduates have a double set of skills:enterpreneurship and business skills along with the advanced engineering skills needed tobecome leaders in innovative science and technology. The faculty associated with theprogram, who had limited previous

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 11

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael S. Lehman, Lehigh University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

University, offers a “dedicated approach” toentrepreneurial engineering education. The residential, full-time, twelve-month program isgrounded in a dedicated curriculum, a dedicated space and a dedicated faculty. The dedicatedcurriculum is delivered through 12 courses in which only TE graduate students are able to enroll;11 of the 12 courses were designed specifically for the new master’s program. These coursestake place in a dedicated studio/classroom facility that is open 24 hours a day, seven days aweek, to which only program students and faculty have access. The TE program is also fortunateto have a dedicated faculty, who were hired specifically to create the collaborative space anddevelop and deliver the curriculum. The result of this dedicated

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 10

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qianlong Lan, Texas Southern University; Ning Wang; Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University; Gangbing Song, University of Houston (CoE); Hamid R. Parsaei, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. • Real-Time Video Technology. The purpose of this new approach is to improve the remote experiment video transmission function. The optimized remote experiment application’s performance are supported by real-time video technology. In order to achieve these goals, a new video transmission approach via HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol with FFMPEG, which is a powerful cross-platform command line video trans-code/encoding software package. The real-time video segments are transferred via HSL protocol, and will be reassembled in the WebView rendering engine and presented to end users. Figure 1: System ArchitectureThe unified framework layer is directly built on the top of a novel assembled

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 11

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry G. Richards, University of Virginia

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #16150The Evolution of a Course on Creativity and New Product DevelopmentDr. Larry G. Richards, University of Virginia Larry G Richards is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia. He leads the Virginia Middle School Engineering Education Initiative, and is active in K 12 outreach and professional development activities locally and nationally. Larry’s research interests include creativity, entrepreneurship, engineering design, innovation, and K-12 engineering education. He is a founding member of the K-12 Division and is a Fellow of ASEE

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Sherrill, University of Houston; Thomas Duening, Arizona State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

encouraged across an increasinglywide range of disciplines, the approach to teaching entrepreneurship has not been standardized.There are a number of competing perspectives regarding the most effective curriculum forteaching entrepreneurship. To make the matter even more complex, these perspectives differfrom school to school (e.g., from the business school to the engineering school) and also fromstudent level to student level (e.g., from undergraduate student to graduate student).1Business schools were the initial locus for entrepreneurship education, although a fewengineering programs such as the one at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology can laylegitimate claim to being pioneers of the genre. Still, it is not in dispute that

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National and Multi-university Initiatives

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; Sridhar S. Condoor, Saint Louis University; Timothy J. Kriewall, Kern Family Foundation; Christopher Kitts, Santa Clara University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the forces of labor and delivery on the new- born. He has been in his present position since July, 2008. He is a life member of IEEE, a member of ASEE, and a Fellow in the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers.Dr. Christopher Kitts, Santa Clara University Christopher Kitts is the Robert W. Peters Professor in mechanical engineering at Santa Clara University where he serves as Director of the Robotic Systems Laboratory. Kitts runs an aggressive field robotics program focused on the the design and operational control of robotic systems ranging from underwater robots to spacecraft. As part of this activity, Kitts serves as the Mission Operations Director for a series of NASA spacecraft, as an

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Jane Grigg, Clemson University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

program.BackgroundInnovation and entrepreneurship have been part of the engineering curriculum for severaldecades [1]. However, students many not encounter these subjects through their requiredengineering courses until their junior or senior year, typically during a capstone design course.While opportunities exist for students to learn about innovation and entrepreneurship throughelective courses, these options are not typically available to first-year students or do not fulfill arequirement for their academic plan.First-year courses are the cornerstone experiences that expose students to foundational conceptsand foster the development of skills necessary for students to succeed in their field of study andultimately their career. For disruptive innovators, those

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Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Faley, University f Michigan; Peter Adriaens, University of Michigan

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2008-1603: DEVELOPING A JOINT ENGINEERING/BUSINESS SCHOOLENTREPRENEURIAL CURRICULUMTimothy Faley, University f MichiganPeter Adriaens, University of Michigan Page 13.384.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 An Approach to Building a Graduate-level Engineering and Business collaborative entrepreneurial curriculum American Society of Engineering Education AC2008-1603 re-submitted March 2008AbstractTechnology-based entrepreneurship, regardless of whether it takes place within a largeorganization or in a startup, requires a mixture of technological and business skills. Our aim indeveloping a joint graduate

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karl D. Schubert, University of Arkansas; Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas; Clint E Johnson, University of Arkansas

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

definitely a new approach resulting in a different method of recruiting faculty for mentoringthe teams.In order to “quick start” the integration of innovation into the engineering curriculum, we createdan overall strategy of starting with piloting a Freshman class, then piloting a SeniorDesign/Capstone class, then providing pathways from the Freshman class (two semester class) tothe Senior Design/Capstone class. The concept was to introduce the key elements of innovationin the first year, including results and recommendations from [6] and [8] and the experiencesfrom an existing Freshman research class, expand on key aspects from the Freshman innovationclass in existing sophomore- and junior-level major-specific classes (again using the results

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Minnie Patel, San Jose State University; Anuradha Basu, San Jose State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

of entrepreneurship,students will be better able to develop engineering solutions that address customers’ needs in anincreasingly global marketplace. This in turn will positively contribute to their career success.Nevertheless, there is continued debate regarding how best to impart entrepreneurial skills and anentrepreneurial perspective to engineering students at the undergraduate level.The most common approach adopted by a growing number of universities is to introduceentrepreneurship courses into the engineering curriculum. Today, over 125 engineering collegesin the United States offer programs which prepare and motivate engineering students to createnew businesses5. There are many reasons why a university should teach entrepreneurship