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Entrepreneurship Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2008-1601: ENTREPRENEURIAL BUSINESS FUNDAMENTALS FORSCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERSPeter Adriaens, University of MichiganTimothy Faley, University f Michigan Page 13.562.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Entrepreneurial Business Fundamentals for Scientists and EngineersAbstractTraditional engineering approaches to technology transfer and venture creation tend to be basedon the technology push principle. These evolve from long term government support for theresearch, culminating in potential patents and licensure agreements. Research indicates that forevery successful company there is a two order of magnitude of failed or

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Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William D. Schindel, ICTT System Sciences; Samuel N. Peffers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jameel Ahmed, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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reference. Often, various authors haveapplied slightly different labels to fundamentally the same concepts, or have subdivided andcategorized the same ideas in slightly different ways. For purposes of our discussion and toexplain and illustrate one axis of the three dimensional conceptual model of innovation, we havechosen “The Innovator’s DNA,” as presented by Dyer, Gregersen, and Christensen6.The competencies defined by the Innovator’s DNA, the authors refer to as, “Discovery Skills” 6.The term, “skill,” refers to task proficiency. While specific task proficiency is certainly anessential element of Engineering education for effective innovation, we envision the boundariesof the innovation space as broader than task specific skills alone. We refer

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Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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: Growing the business; • Phase VI: Exiting your business -- from succession planning to IPOs.Our current emphasis in the joint curriculum development is to focus on the early phases, wherethe complementary skills of both the engineers and the business students are crucial. In Phase I,for example, opportunity identification takes two forms: 1. Finding an optimal marketopportunity for a given technology and 2. Identifying an emerging market opportunity anddetermining what technology may be necessary to exploit it. Two new courses have been createdand taught to focus on each of these issues: Driving the Innovation Process, and EntrepreneurialBusiness Fundamentals for Scientists and Engineers. These courses complement previouslyexisting

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt A. Thoroughman, Washington University; Alessandra Hruschka, Washington University in St.Louis; Patricia Widder, Washington University in St. Louis

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Education, 2014Engineering Virtual Studio: KEEN Modules to Foster Entrepreneurial Mindset in an Integrative, First/Second Year Online Course1. AbstractEngineering is a field that interacts with its surroundings by applying science to practicalproblems. In developing future engineers, teaching the technical fundamentals is only part of thetask; engineering programs must also develop engineers that are able to apply those skills intothe real world. Example problems are sometimes shown in classes, but lack the interactivitynecessary to instill the skill in students. Introducing students to entrepreneurship directlypromotes creativity and marketplace connection while indirectly instilling connection to realworld problems and promoting scholarly and

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ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum I

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Scott Duplicate Streiner, Rowan University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Bruce Oestreich, Rowan University; Ted Howell, Rowan University; Jennifer Tole, Rowan University

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Paper ID #30141Integrating Entrepreneurial Mindset in a Multidisciplinary Course onEngineering Design and Technical CommunicationDr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has pub- lished two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance.” He has also published papers on effective use of simulation in engineer- ing, teaching design and engineering economics, and

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Alyssa J. Harris, Florida Atlantic University

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Paper ID #15230Estimation as an Essential Skill in Entrepreneurial ThinkingDr. Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Raviv is a Professor of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University. In December 2009 he was named Assistant Provost for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. With more than 25 years of combined experience in the high-tech industry, government and academia Dr. Raviv developed fundamentally different approaches to ”out-of-the-box” thinking and a breakthrough methodology known as ”Eight Keys to Innovation.” He has been sharing his contributions with profession

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Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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. Page 11.1208.3This paper presents a logico-deductive analysis of the leading approaches to entrepreneurshipeducation. We have identified the six leading approaches as: • The Business Plan approach • The Resource Based approach • The Entrepreneurial Mindset approach • The Case Study approach • The Simulation Experience approach • The Entrepreneurial Personality approachSince entrepreneurship education has only recently become a focus of academic scholarship,little empirical data exist on which curricular approach works best to convey the fundamentals ofentrepreneurship.3 Worse, there is little agreement among scholars and other interested partiesabout the fundamental ends

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Bruce D. Oestreich, Rowan University; Scott Duplicate Streiner, Rowan University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University

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presentations in global engineering ed- ucation at several national conferences. Scott is an active member in the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) both locally and nationally, as well as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).Dr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has pub- lished two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance.” He has also published

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Entrepreneurship Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; William M. Jordan, Baylor University

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AC 2011-734: ENGINEERING EDUCATON AND THE ENTREPRENEURIALMINDCynthia C. Fry, Baylor University Sr. Lecturer of Computer Science, Assistant Dean of the School of Engineering & Computer Science, Baylor UniversityWilliam M. Jordan, Baylor University WILLIAM JORDAN is the Mechanical Engineering Department Chair at Baylor University. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, an M.A. degree in Theology from Denver Seminary, and a Ph.D. in mechanics and materials from Texas A & M University. He teaches materials related courses. He does work in the areas of entrepreneurship and appropriate technology in developing countries. He also writes and does research in

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael D. Whitt, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Nancy L. Denton P.E., Purdue Polytechnic Institute's School of Engineering Technology; Christopher Heylman, California Polytechnic State University; Rodney Gene Handy

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, retention of students in engineering, technology, andtechnical schools is important to future productivity (GDP) across all sectors. A model isproposed where Kolb Experiential Learning Cycle fundamentals in conjunction withdevelopment of student ‘lead user’ abilities would have a significant effect on academic metricsassociated with student outcomes such as student retention as well as professional metrics in theareas of placement and career development. The proposed model would supply the impetus for aValue Mitosis Initiative (VMI) at any college/university where the learning model would lead toincreased equity and GDP in the university/college community and affiliated communities.Proper development of the lead user experiential learning model

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Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Rufe, Eastern Michigan University; Gary Rodak, Eastern Michigan University; Scott Pollock, Eastern Michigan University; Mary Finkel, Eastern Michigan University

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this knowledge will give them. The entrepreneurial education should be a fundamental requirement woven into thecurrent required curriculum. The more exposure to the philosophy of entrepreneurship, the morerealistic the parachute becomes for those graduates who will need it. Entrepreneurship springs from a passionate idea that the student engineer has developedon his own. What can/should be taught is the enlightenment process that a college atmosphereencourages. Are networking skills taught so the aspiring student turned businessman has afeeling for where he can turn for support and insight? In the stone ages of the early 1970's mycollege didn't even address starting your own business. Maybe it was the school I attended, but

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Design and Entrepreneurship

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

José Antonio Riofrío, Western New England University; Robert Gettens, Western New England University; Anthony D. Santamaria, Western New England University; Thomas K Keyser, Western New England University; Ronald E. Musiak, Western New England University; Harlan E Spotts Jr., Western New England University

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University. He received his BSME in 1988 from New Mexico State University his BSIE in 1991 from Colorado State University – Pueblo and his PhD in IE from Clemson University in 1995. His teaching and research interested include, production scheduling and optimization, entrepreneurial engineering, quality engineering and discrete event system simulation. He is a member of ASEE and a senior member of IIE. Address: Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Western New England University, 1215 Wilbraham Rd., Springfield, MA 01119; Phone: 413-782-1210; Email: thomas.keyser@wne.eduDr. Ronald E. Musiak, Western New England University 35 Years teaching experience in Electrical Engineering and Engineering Fundamentals at

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

of Critical Thinking Award twice and is currently working towards incorporating writing assignments that enhance students’ critical thinking capabilities. Page 23.227.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Assessment Based on the Principles of Discovery and MetacognitionAbstract Leading educators and scholars in the area of cognitive science agree that a newparadigm for assessment called a learning paradigm must be generated to observe, measure, anddocument the success of creative, new educational methods and practices. Educators haveunderstood the implications and

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Entrepreneurship Education: Innovation, International Cooperation, and Social Entrepreneurship

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Gregory Leman, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

courses in engineering economics, technical and professionalwriting, professional speaking, entrepreneurship and global awareness into these degreeplans is shown to be insurmountable given the very scant elective space.A surprising and encouraging result, however, is that by combining topics into a verymulti-disciplinary, two-course sequence that substitutes for required, traditional coursesin economics and technical writing stand-alone courses, engineering students actuallyachieve higher performance in both economic analysis and in technical writing. Wehypothesize that this is because all their work is tied to relevant projects that bring in afull range of entrepreneurial, global issues to which they would otherwise have had noexposure, and

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Tactical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gettens, Western New England University; Harlan E Spotts Jr., Western New England University; José Antonio Riofrío, Western New England University

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general; this is a micro to macro examination and we willgenerally refer to any one of these areas as the “client.” After identifying opportunities for whicha design solution may be suitable focus shifts to understanding their client. Often students,engineering and business alike, are given a problem and they want to start generating solutionsbefore they fully understand the problem or their client’s experience. Developing empathy forthe client’s situation is a fundamental ingredient for creating effective design solutions to theclient’s problem. Empathy arises from a structured research process that includes traditionalsecondary and primary research techniques. Collecting backstory information on their clientbegins with library research to

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Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Brandon Moore, Florida Atlantic University; Eiki Martinson, Florida Atlantic University

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AC 2007-1083: FROM IDEA TO MARKET: A CASE STUDY FOR SUSTAINABLEINNOVATIONDaniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Daniel Raviv received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1987 and M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 1982 and 1980, respectively. He is currently a professor of Electrical Engineering at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida. With more than twenty years of innovative teaching and high-tech industry experience, Dr. Raviv developed a fundamentally different approach to teaching “out-of-the-box” problem solving. For his unique contributions he received the prestigious President’s Leadership

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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

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The evolution of a course on Creativity and New Product DevelopmentAbstractCreativity and New Product Development is a two semester senior design course for MechanicalEngineering students at the University of Virginia. Design thinking is fundamental to all stagesof this course. It emphasizes creative thinking and stimulates the students to generate diversesolutions to problems. Students are required to work in teams developing new product ideas.Each team carries their idea through to a working prototype, and manufacturing and businessplans. They also submit a proposal for funding and a draft patent application. In its current form,the class project is usually the basis for the senior

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Johnson, Valparaiso University; Mark Budnik, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University

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beginsin the first-semester Fundamentals of Engineering course, builds in Advanced Digital LogicDesign during the sophomore year and Embedded Microcontrollers during the junior year, andculminates for some students with an entrepreneurial senior design project.IntroductionEntrepreneurship has become an increasingly important component of engineering educationover the past decade, and it is foreseeable that its emphasis will continue to increase further. Ofcourse, as with all other curricular pressures, it is difficult to see how entrepreneurship educationcan be further emphasized without eliminating other important elements from our curricula.Many universities have introduced entrepreneurial topics by integrating them into capstonedesign

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Entrepreneurship and Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Wells, North Dakota State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurshipought not to be relegated to only extra curricular status. In the Industrial and ManufacturingEngineering Department, nearly every course is taught through the method of team-basedprojects. Students are challenged to apply fundamental principles through open-ended projects,and by the time of graduation every student will have experienced at least a dozen design-oriented projects of durations varying from a month to a semester. What has been missing is anextension of the blending of fundamental engineering science with component and system designto also encompass the tenets of entrepreneurialism. The NDSU College of Engineering and Architecture has been experimenting with methodsfor integrating entrepreneurial thinking with engineering

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting

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comment by the French essayist JosephJoubert that “to teach is to learn twice.” Some of us would, as I have, become intriguedby how neuroscience fundamentals and related thinking/collaboration tools might impactus and our students by enabling both groups to be more effective, efficient, creative, andinnovative. My hope is that you have that level of receptivity.Neuroscience and Cognitive PsychologyThis paper wanders outside of engineering and, therefore, definitions of two somewhatcommon terms – neruroscience and cognitive psychology -- are in order. Neuroscience is“the scientific study the nervous system”2 where the nervous system is the body’s brain,spinal cord, and motor and sensory nerves3. Note that neuroscience was traditionallyviewed as a

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Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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base and insightfulquestions.”6Liberal ArtsThe Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology’s [ABET] 2000 Criteria have a veryclear set of expectations for engineering degree programs related to the integration of technicaland non-technical disciplines. For employers, a drawback of the engineering graduate is a lack ofbreadth in terms of their ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing. In addition,graduates are lacking in background knowledge relating to public policy and political sciencesissues. Goldberg’s research states that current engineering curricula are not designed to providethe kind of breadth that is necessary to apply engineering concepts of design and analysis in non-traditional settings, and that breadth is

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Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart Kellogg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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. Page 13.1189.8 Figure 5. Online Interactive Exercise in Financial AnalysisA second example shown below in Figure 6 demonstrates an online self-readiness quiz.By coupling to an external read/write file, the quiz module can also be adapted to providean alternative to a quiz module in a course management application. A distinct advantageof technology support modules is that support modules may be modified for alternativelearning styles. Figure 6. Online Self-Readiness Quiz ModuleAssessmentThe online interactive modules require considerable effort to develop, test, andimplement. While the intent is to create a mechanism to reduce in-class review and tohelp students build connections between curricular elements

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ENT Division Technical Session: Competitions, Challenges, and Teams

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Thien Ngoc Y. Ta, Arizona State University; Gary Lichtenstein, Arizona State University; Ryan James Milcarek, Arizona State University

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Course: An Entrepreneurial Mindset SimulationIntroductionTeamwork is essential to engineering work, and the assumption is that greater team dynamicswill lead to greater innovation outcomes. When entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to angel investorsor venture capitalists, one of the top considerations is the quality of team dynamics [1, p.244],[2]. In addition, technological innovation and entrepreneurship have been promoted as“fundamental drivers of American prosperity and global economic leadership” [3, p.1]. Capstoneprojects, for example, can be essential opportunities to prepare engineering students to beinnovative and entrepreneurial in order to succeed in a globally competitive workforce [3, p.3].Research is extensive

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Tactical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University; Richard J. Freuler, Ohio State University

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four-year Integrated Engineering and Business (IBE) honors program. Rogers earned his PhD at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst focused on Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing and holds the position of Professor of Practice at The Ohio State University.Dr. Richard J. Freuler, Ohio State University Richard J. Freuler is the Director for the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (FEH) Program in the OSU Engineering Education Innovation Center. He teaches the two-semester FEH engineering course sequence and is active in engineering education research. He is also a Professor of Practice in the Me- chanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and conducts scale model investigations of gas turbine

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eden Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

technical. Second, the development … ofgenuine competence … [to] deal effectively with the whole problem, not merely the technicalpart. Third, the development of the ability to learn from experience so that in the unfoldingfuture [students] can continue to expand their fundamental knowledge, deepen theirunderstanding, and improve their power as professional men and women and as leadingcitizens.” (Dougherty, 1950, pp. 4-5)In a professional engineering masters degree program in innovation management, we require thatevery student complete an internship. Although the internship experience is central in thecurriculum, each internship is unique. Students arrive with a diverse set of technicalbackgrounds and other interests, and every student is

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Entrepreneurship Education - A 10,000' View

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wade Shaw, Florida Tech; Muzaffar Shaikh, Florida Tech; Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech

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2006-854: ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP - A KILLER APP FORSYSTEMS ENGINEERING?Carmo D'Cruz, Florida TechMuzaffar Shaikh, Florida Tech Dr. Muzaffar A. Shaikh is Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering Systems at Florida Tech. Dr. Shaikh spent nearly nineteen years in industry, before he joined Florida Tech in 1987. Dr. Shaikh is an associate editor of the INCOSE System Engineering Journal and the North American editor of the Business Process Management Journal.Wade Shaw, Florida Tech Dr. Wade H. Shaw, P.E. is Professor of Engineering Systems in the Department of Engineering Systems at Florida Tech. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and

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Capstone Design and Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Miller, North Carolina State University; Stephen Walsh, North Carolina State University

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entrepreneurship.Engineering is fundamentally about creating new products that customers need or want and atprices they can afford. Therefore, before an engineer begins the process of design, developmentand manufacturing of a new product they must be able to articulate both the problem – the ‘need’or ‘want’ – and their proposed solution. The skill of being able to understand and articulate the Page 11.1284.2problem of a customer is generally not part of undergraduate engineering pedagogy. Yet, thisskill is precisely what employers expected them to have as professionals. This skill has its rootsin the soil of communication. Without outstanding communication you run a

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Systems Engineering and Entrepreneurship

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech; Shoaib Shaikh, Northrop Grumman Corporation

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otherleading universities is testimony to the fact that entrepreneurship skills and know-how can betaught and entrepreneurs can be nurtured through supporting programs in university-basedincubators, entrepreneur associations and local business networks.15, 16, 17, 18Important Factors Impacting New Venture CreationBenjamin Mokry20 suggests that in order to create a more receptive environment forentrepreneurship, a number of fundamental societal changes must occur. He supports the majortruism that “local communities are the breeding ground of entrepreneurship” and are capable ofcreating environments favorable to it. Mokry has emphasized two factors that affectentrepreneurial success: 1) Existence of an entrepreneurial sub-culture. The tremendous

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Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Thornton, University of Maryland-College Park; Anik Singal, Affiliate Classroom, Inc.; David Barbe, University of Maryland-College Park; James Green, University of Maryland-College Park

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inentrepreneurial environments. Guth, Kumaraswamy, and McErlean (1991) focused specificallyon the relevance of models for experiential learning. Others have examined the area of learningfrom failure (Brehmer, 1980; Levitt and March, 1988; Sterman, 1989). As Day (1992, p. 137)emphasizes, “all organizations must be able to learn if they are to move into new businesses. Infact, virtually every aspect of organizational learning has relevance either directly or indirectlyfor entrepreneurial management.” This point is reiterated in the research on organizationalcompetencies and learning in new ventures (Leitch and Harrison, 1993).Fundamental questions are what key characteristics undergraduate entrepreneurs should developand by what means should the

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Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Zidek, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Cindy Orndoff; Susan Blanchard

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AC 2007-542: USING ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SERVICE-LEARNING TOINCREASE ENGINEERING AWARENESS IN HIGH SCHOOLLisa Zidek, Milwaukee School of EngineeringCynthia Orndoff, University of MissouriSusan Blanchard, Florida Gulf Coast University Page 12.1546.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Using Entrepreneurship and Service Learning to Increase Engineering Awareness in High SchoolAcademic preparedness is a fundamental concern for every educational system; elementaryschools must prepare students for middle school, middle school for high school, high school forcollege, and college for graduate education or a career in a chosen field. There