entrepreneurial mindset with design-based learning approachesaligns with national initiatives emphasizing innovation and interdisciplinary skill-building inSTEM education. This project addresses gaps in existing educational methods by combiningtechnical design, entrepreneurship, and artificial intelligence (AI) integration to produce scalableand impactful learning tools. It contributes to ongoing efforts to prepare students for real-worldproblem-solving while enhancing their technical and entrepreneurial competencies. Theeffectiveness of the project was evaluated through various components: 1) Oral Presentations:students present their designs to faculty, emphasizing innovation, feasibility, and educationalimpact; 2) Final Written Technical Report: teams
vehicle. Thestudents have found this project very interesting as it is more hands-on than a designproject selected from a graphics text. Moreover, it is very I open ended giving thestudents a chance to generate many solutions to a given design problem.Entrepreneurship MinorThe Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor (E-SHIP) is an interdisciplinary, cross-university minor open to all students but designed for engineering, business and IST(Information Sciences and Technology) students who aspire to be innovation leaders fornew technology-based products and companies. 2 The courses in the minor use aproblem-based teaching methodology. The classes are setup in such a way such thatengineering and IST students will learn basic business principles and
Complementary Courses: the Public Works Management for Civil Engineers and the Entrepreneurship for Engineers, at the University of Florida Kitti Manokhoon, Dr. Fazil T. Najafi Graduate Student / ProfessorAbstractCivil engineers need to understand in several skills to work with both public and privateorganizations. Civil engineering works in private practice include planning, designing,constructing as well as operating physical facilities, and in public practice involve city orregional planning and layout construction of highways. At the University of Florida, twograduate courses are examined: Public Works Management for Civil Engineers introduces civilengineering graduate
at ASU. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 “It was a Failure, but a Good Failure”: A Qualitative Study Exploring Engineering Student’s Critical Entrepreneurship Experiences and their ImpactsAbstract Integrating entrepreneurship into engineering education has gained momentum in recentyears. Engineering students at many institutions now have access to a variety of mediums to getinvolved in entrepreneurship including classes, pitch competitions, and accelerator programs.Participating in these classes or programs can lead to engineering students getting very involvedin entrepreneurship and having important, memorable experiences. This study sought
) engineering and entrepreneurship education; 2) the pedagogy of ePortfolios and reflective practice in higher education; and 3) reimagining the traditional academic transcript.Dr. Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University & SKG AnalysisDr. 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
AC 2007-2155: DEVELOPMENT OF A BIOTECHNOLOGY OPTION AREA FORAN ENTREPRENEURIAL CERTIFICATE PROGRAMKari Clase, Purdue University Page 12.505.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Development of a Biotechnology Option Area for an Entrepreneurial Certificate ProgramAbstractAn undergraduate certificate program in entrepreneurship and innovation has beendeveloped at --- University in collaboration with the --- Center for Entrepreneurship.Option areas are offered to students enrolled in the certificate program in order to explorespecific discipline areas or markets. The objective of this paper is to discuss thedevelopment of a course within an
number of students who want to engage in this process to bring about culture change in greater than we imagined. Find them, engage them in the process and help them to bring their ideas to light. 2. Partner with existing university/community resources – most universities, like ours, have a number of resources already in place, and people who are already engaged in work that falls somewhere along the continuum of innovation and entrepreneurship. Whether it’s the local business incubators, the community’s business development activity, staff from the Technology Transfer office, or faculty who are building businesses or teaching elements of I&E in their classes…bring them all into the process. There is no
Paper ID #20056Finding a Passion and Making It Happen: A Program’s Approach to Promot-ing Entrepreneurship, Making, and Innovation through Hands-On Projectsthat Benefit SocietyTimothy Joseph Balz, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Tim is a student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology that founded an endowed program as well as a maker space during his junior year. Before attending Rose-Hulman, Tim founded an international charity that has been recognized by the Red Cross and dozens of other organizations for their work providing wheelchairs to those in need. Tim is a recognized inventor for an all-terrain wheelchair
third year of implementation on campus, andfollowing a pilot deployment of the model at five other institutions in spring 2016, haveconducted a large-scale deployment. Six e-learning modules were deployed at 25 institutionsacross the country during the 2016-17 academic year.We first summarize the integrated e-learning model implemented at the University of NewHaven, which follows a clearly defined structure on module and course mappings. This structure,however, is not rigid, and we demonstrate by examples the wide potential for adopting thesemodules within all engineering disciplines and at all class levels. We also describe thedeployment and adoption of these modules at 24 other institutions. We assessed the impact of themodules on student
Biomechanics Laboratory (EBL) at LTU with the goal of advanc- ing experimental biomechanics understanding. Dr. Meyer teaches Introduction to Biomechanics, Tissue Mechanics, Engineering Applications in Orthopedics, and Foundations of Medical Imaging. He has been an active member of the engineering faculty committee that has redesigned the Foundations of Engi- neering Design Projects course that is required for all freshmen in the College of Engineering at LTU. This committee is currently designing a new sophomore-level Engineering Entrepreneurship Studio that will also be required for all students as a continuation of the ”Foundations Studio.” He has published 33 peer-reviewed journal and conference proceeding articles. At
in class and during field trips. The course thus helps empower them, helps themgain confidence in the classroom, but also experience a foretaste of being a collegestudent. By the end of the pilot course in Summer 2016, we asked students if they feltthey could be engineers or inventors in the future. A strong majority (91%) agreed theycould. Several aspects of the bootcamp are unique, and we would like to share the keylearnings. They include: 1) The application process, which was based on non-cognitivevariables. No grades were required. Applicants needed to deliver a 2-min video showingtheir motivation and how they would improve their school cafeteria. Students needed tohave a curiosity towards STEM fields and the invention process. A
that over two-thirds of engineering students believedthat “entrepreneurship education can broaden…career prospects and choices,” almost half wereinterested in taking EML classes, and those who did take EML classes felt more confident incommunication and presentation, although not at a statistically significant level.Additionally, The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) has provided aframework for incorporating EML curriculum into engineering coursework with the goals ofincreasing curiosity, connections, and creating value. The Ohio State University is in the processof incorporating EML and KEEN principles into its first-year engineering curriculum. The first-semester half of the first-year engineering class contains several
anarrow academic concentration outside their primary degree area, and for the general citizenryeasy access to graduate level instruction. In this paper, two universities that have been active ininternal entrepreneurial engineering activities at both the undergraduate and graduate level willreport on a cooperative survey of existing entrepreneurship and project management-focusedGraduate Certificate programs made in preparation to creating their own programs.These Graduate Certificate programs were examined for program ownership, number of hoursrequired, internal or external student focus, classes required or offered as electives, time limits ondegree completion, as well as several other program attributes of interest to the academiccommunity
investigating each of these metrics wereprovided along with the information on diabetes mellitus described earlier [11]. Ultimately, theteams were asked to provide a recommendation as to whether there is a market opportunity toexploit in their assigned country, or if the company would be better served focusing on the U.S.marketplace. Each team made their recommendation in the form of a one-page memo thatoutlined their recommendation, which needed to be backed up by information they gathered foreach key metric (clinical relevance, economics, and technical feasibility). After submitting theirmemo, each group reported their findings to the class in an informal presentation, and a groupdiscussion was held as part of the module wrap-up. The module was
Gendered Perceptions to Student Stories of Motivation Enhance Creative Approaches in EngineeringWhat if your motivation is characterized in ways that do not align with your vision of your-self? Social psychology and engineering education studies have demonstrated that percep-tions are important, and frequent, part of everyday interactions and relatability in the class-room and in the workforce. Expectations matter when engineering students tell stories about acolleague’s choice to step away from their CEO/founder position. How might stories featur-ing negative consequences enhance or interfere with creative approaches in engineering? Thepurpose of this study is to further extract and investigate the results of work in which partici-pants
entrepreneurial mindset.Entrepreneurially minded engineers (EMEs) are characterized as this emergent class of engineersand act as the drivers of U.S. innovation and competitiveness. EMEs have not necessarily starteda new business (although they may have), they are, most often, working in established small- andmedium-sized firms, many work in Fortune 1000 firms [1].The Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN), a collection of twenty-one privateengineering schools across the US, in partnership with Target Training International (TTI), aworldwide leader in personal and professional assessments, is undertaking the KEEN – TTIPerformance DNA Assessment Project. Three well-known and vetted assessments are beingused to identify current students’ skills
Analyst. She was the owner and chief systems engineer for Systems Engineering Services (SES), a computer systems design, development, and consultation firm. She joined the faculty of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Baylor University in 1997, where she teaches a variety of engineering and computer science classes, she is the Faculty Advisor for the Women in Computer Science (WiCS), the Director of the Computer Science Fellows program, and is a KEEN Fellow. She has authored and co- authored over forty peer-reviewed papers.Dr. Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University Ken Van Treuren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Baylor University. He received his B. S. in Aeronautical
forEnhancement (G-RATE) assessment of the classroom observations. We mapped the findings tothe KEEN Framework and the Longitudinal Model of Motivation and Identity (LMMI), whichcombines self-determination theory with possible-selves theory. The results were used to developa set of best practices that may be incorporated into EML projects and courses such as allowingstudents some type of choice in their project, whether it is open-ended or highly bounded. Thesebest practices were leveraged during the curriculum development in subsequent phases of thepilot to encourage autonomous motivation and identity development of first-year engineeringstudents.IntroductionEngineering educators have recognized the importance of creativity and entrepreneurship in
engagementdefined by the NAE GCSP that must be met to have students complete work towards acompetency; this is left to the discretion of the university. This creates variability in the timestudents at different institutions may devote to a single competency, ranging from participatingin a school club or a 1-credit class, to completing up to 6 credits worth of classes or programs.Large institutions may be able to offer multiple student opportunities to develop business andentrepreneurship skills. As an example, students at Arizona State University can participate instartup accelerators, startup workshops, entrepreneurship classes, or even earn anentrepreneurship minor [5]. In order to meet the Viable Business/Entrepreneurship competencyof NAE GCSP, students
Entrepreneurship Education and Innovation in Vietnam and in the U.S.Dr. Gary Lichtenstein, Arizona State University Gary Lichtenstein, Ed.D., is Director of Program Effectiveness for the Entrepreneurial Mindset initiative at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He is also and founder and principal of Quality Evaluation Designs, a firm specializing in research and evaluation for K-12 schools, universities, and government and non-profit organizations nationwide. He specializes in entrepreneurship education, research and evaluation methods, and STEM retention.Dr. Ryan James Milcarek, Arizona State University Ryan Milcarek obtained his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
2012, the Entrepreneurship Institute at Tecnológico de Monterrey launched a process tostudy and identify the skills and characteristics that we as an institution must help develop inour students so that they graduate with what we call a strong entrepreneurship spirit. Thisspirit will drive and enable students to launch new projects, programs and initiatives in theirown companies, in the organizations they work for and in their communities.The study identified specific soft skills and characteristics that will be developed in threephases. During the first three semesters of his undergraduate program, a student will increaseresiliency and self-confidence and develop a sense of purpose. Throughout semesters four tosix, the student will develop
workingprototype that will assist real customers with disabilities in the workplace. Students engage realcustomers and identify solutions to these opportunities based on their customers’ needs. Finally,students design, build, and test working prototypes that create value for these customers.Throughout the design process, students must work in a team setting, manage a long termproject, account for cost and market implications, and communicate to all stakeholders inwritten, verbal, and public presentation formats. EGE 2123 meets twice a week for 2.5 hourseach class period in a dedicated studio classroom that has been intentionally designed to beflexible and enhance collaboration and innovation. The specific learning objectives for thiscourse are seen here
Scott Stephens, University of Delaware Trevor is a Mechanical Engineering senior at University of Delaware, graduating in 2018. He is the CTO of Sage Smart Garden, LLC, a tech startup dedicated to bringing the smart home to your backyard. He has participated in several entrepreneurship programs, including UD’s VentureOn, VentureWell, and NSF I-Corps sites. He has extensive experience working on interdisciplinary team projects, ranging from commercial toy design to design and construction of a payload-delivering RC airplane. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Lessons learned in the labyrinth: Navigating campus resources to bring a student & faculty smart gardening
for specific users and uses. Ourservices include: observation based user research; function based styling; prototypedevelopment; defining a product language; platform development; and developing a productportfolio strategy.6. Tie to the K-State MBA ProgramIn addition to the AMI internship program, K-State has developed a TechnologyEntrepreneurship Internship Program for students enrolled in the Technology EntrepreneurshipTrack of the K-State MBA Program. The MBA track in Technology Entrepreneurship allowsgraduate students to gain valuable exposure to the technology transfer process at Kansas StateUniversity through in-class teaching and an on-the-job program. The courses are open to allgraduate students if space is available.Since 2002 K
critical thinking/problem solving course inscience and technology taken by the science, technology and engineering majors during a specialundergraduate honors science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educationexperience. The target competencies are further applied throughout the students’ subsequentacademic major program of study. This sequence also incorporates opportunities specifically forentrepreneurially spirited honors students to provide them with an early experience in developingsolution entrepreneurship. The sequence was built on the premise that collaboration by a varietyof entities from across the spectrum of government, business, and social enterprise is needed tosolve society’s critical problems—particularly if we seek
promoteentrepreneurship, innovation, and teamwork across the campus. Michigan Tech’s EnterpriseProgram, the University of Florida’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, PurdueUniversity’s EPICS Program, and the Illinois Institute of Technology’s IPRO Program3-5represent some of the existing programs that fit this category. The following section describessome of the primary considerations for describing programs across universities:Team size and composition - The experience of working in teams is perhaps the biggest source oflearning on these projects, in many cases much more so than the technical aspects of a particulardesign problem. Furthermore, the composition of the team directly influences the approach tothe problem, and therefore is critical to the
, solutionsmust not only be technically feasible, but also economically, environmentally, and sociallyviable. Thus, truly impactful innovations cannot be isolated to linear track constructs such aszero net energy or carbon neutrality, but must be addressed holistically as a complex systeminvolving diverse stakeholders and with outcomes that may include such metrics.1Training the next generation of leaders and professionals to tackle such challenges in today’sglobalized economy requires a pedagogy that reflects these complex themes and fosterscreativity, engagement and entrepreneurship required for innovation. Municipalities in Denmarkand California have actively committed resources to achieve 100% renewably poweredcommunities by 2050 and have strong
Paper ID #42203Board 34: Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and Entrepreneurial MindsetLearning (EML) in Core Engineering Classes: A Case Study in StaticsDr. Ghina Absi, Vanderbilt University Ghina Absi is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Vanderbilt University. She teaches classes at the freshmen, sophomore and junior classes in Civil Engineering (Intro to Engineering, Statics, Mechanics of Materials) . She earned her BE and ME from the Saint Joseph University (ESIB) in Beirut, Lebanon, and worked for 5 years as a steel structures design engineer at a multinational firm (Dar
of entrepreneurship, will the capacity to generate a collaborative atmosphere whenteaching or enrolled in classes regardless of the virtual modality gear us with greaterintentionality to succeed? Is your desire to learn more about venture or receive funding, toinvite a VC to participate with you and your student teams or wonder how VC’s make diversedecisions during a pandemic [24], to inspire entrepreneurship in graduate students [25, 26],generate a trusting atmosphere in your classroom or lab, and be the force for innovation inyour department [27]? As such, the focus of this paper is to concentrate on how new routinesin collaboration such as virtually operationalizing tasks and goals, has a lasting impact oninterpersonal expression and in
afoundations course to develop and deliver engineering lessons to fourth or fifth graders. Studentsin comparison engineering classes worked on a team project focused on experimental design fora small satellite system. The purpose of this study was to determine if participating in theEd+gineering collaboration had a positive effect on teamwork effectiveness and satisfactionwhen compared to the comparison class. In both team projects, the five dimensions of theComprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME) system were used as aquantitative assessment. The five dimensions of CATME Behaviorally Anchored Ratings Scale(BARS) (contribution to the team’s work, interacting with teammates, keeping the team on track,expecting quality, and having