; and • addressing STEM workforce development by building effective, mutually beneficial academic-industry partnerships [2].Participants were asked to collect baseline data from prior S-STEM (if applicable) and/or otherinitiatives on campus to inform their proposals. As noted by Pearson, Crosby, et al, “... projectsshould seek to couch locally identified problems and needs in the larger context of educationalresearch to help the broader STEM education community determine what interventions workbest with scholars in their environments” [3]. Therefore, PIs were strongly encouraged to seekinformation on program and institutional challenges they could address and study as part of theirS-STEM projects and share what they learned
were provided as part of these initiatives including training foreffectively integrating the e-learning modules into courses, participation in workshops andconferences with a focus on entrepreneurial education, and involvement in organizing andfacilitating student activities. While a significant number of our engineering and computerscience faculty participated in these development opportunities, in general their enthusiasmrelated to entrepreneurial minded learning (EML) was not strong enough to sustain and furtherbroaden EML within the college. Therefore, we implemented a faculty development programaimed at fostering EM champions from different engineering and computer science disciplines,as well as a mini-grant program to stimulate faculty