ensure every student gets access toreal-world learning.The outcome of incorporating an entrepreneurial mindset (EM), bio-inspired design (Bio), andSTEAM elements in a computer aided design and modeling class was evaluated in this study.According to Lau et al 2012 [5], integration is the ability to be involved in all aspects of anenterprise and being a strong systems thinker able to make sense of complexity. People who takean interdisciplinary approach can easily identify and evaluate opportunities, explore theseopportunities, and create solutions that provide value to the stakeholders. Hence the researchquestions addressed in this study are: What are the student-perceived learning outcomes associatedwith completing an engineering project
American universities, for example, are excellent references in investmentsin the education of their engineering courses, as well as in modern teaching and adequateinfrastructure [2].Considered by different authors as one of the best ways for students to acquire complete andrealistic knowledge, active learning is another way of teaching. This approach is student-centered, ensuring that professors are professionals who guide students in this process [3],[4]. The involvement of the whole class increases from active learning strategies, making itpossible to develop an opportunity to reflect on learning in a set of solutions to real problems[5].The different active learning strategies also guarantee the development of professional skillsthat students
to maintain team dynamics and proactively tackling conflicts are two of themain challenges that almost every project team runs into. Students attending a Product Design classoffered by the Industrial Engineering Department at [University Name] university were no different.Students attending this class were in their junior year and came from two different majors includingIndustrial Product Design, Industrial Engineering majors, and entrepreneurship minor. Students wereinstructed to form a multi-disciplinary team of 4 to 5 students depending on class size. During thesemester, each team worked on developing a product or a service using “Design Thinking” methodology.It was noticed that some teams struggled to successfully collaborate with their
courses; and (3) students tend to treat sustainability courses as a one-off class, andoften lack a vision and clear next steps toward a career path in designing and innovating aroundsustainable products.To address the challenges above and to improve the skills and competency of engineeringstudents, we have introduced in our sustainability course two additional sets of training – one oninnovation and product design principles, practices, and methods and one on the entrepreneurialmindset. These additional training sets aim to: (1) encourage constant curiosity among studentsabout our changing world and anticipate the challenges of currently accepted solutions; (2) makeconnections from many resources to intersect ideas; and (3) develop product
Education, 2024 Preparing Engineering Students for Designing the Future of WorkAbstractThe next generation of engineering professionals require not only the engineering fundamentalswe teach today, but future-ready skills such as critical thinking and argumentation skills,knowledge of innovation processes and an entrepreneurial mindset. In this paper, we discuss ourefforts to better prepare undergraduate and graduate engineering students for the future of workthrough dedicated courses in the future of work, industrial innovation sciences, future workleadership and work systems management, and entrepreneurship. We present our observations ofa shift in student thinking about future of work topics across these three courses, and
Systems Engineering and the Michael Durham Professor in Creativity at the University of Florida (UF) and a UF Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellow. She is an industrial engineer, a visual artist and an explorer of the interplay between the engineering and the arts. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Poetry writing as a creative task to enhance student learningAbstractMost engineering students are rarely assigned creative tasks to think abstractly aroundmathematical models, other than being asked to apply theory to real-world scenarios.Challenging the traditional pedagogy, students enrolled in inventory and supply chain systemdesign and control, an upper-level industrial and systems