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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Cain; Julia McLees; Jason Bara; Gary Wnek; Bradford Crosby; Gary Huvard

Session 1454 ChemEngine: Realizing Entrepreneurship in Undergraduate Engineering EducationGary Huvard, Gary Wnek , Bradford Crosby, Nicholas Cain, Julia McLees, and Jason Bara Virginia Commonwealth UniversityAbstractA key objective of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Engineering is tolink engineering and business education. VCU Chemical Engineering students have launchedChemEngine, a unique, student-run consulting company that provides multiple, fee-basedservices to chemical, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and other high-tech firms. Problem solvingskills taught early in our

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jaby Mohammed, Illinois State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #34202Introducing Entrepreneurship and Innovation in a Design CourseDr. Jaby Mohammed, Illinois State University Jaby Mohammed is a faculty at Illinois State University. He received his PhD in Industrial Engineering from University of Louisville (2006), masters in Industrial Engineering from University of Louisville (2003) and also a master’s in business administration from Indira Gandhi National Open University (2001). His research interests include advanced manufacturing, design methodologies, six sigma, lean manufacturing, and engineering education. He previously taught at Khalifa University (UAE),Indiana

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Design and Entrepreneurship

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bryan O'Neil Boulanger, Ohio Northern University; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #12850Blending Entrepreneurship and Design in an Immersive EnvironmentDr. Bryan O’Neil Boulanger, Ohio Northern University Dr. Boulanger is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil En- gineering at Ohio Northern University. His academic interests include immersive learning, experiential learning, risk management, and surface chemistry.Prof. Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University Joe Tranquillo is an Associate Professor of Biomedical and Electrical Engineering at Bucknell University. Joe was the founder and inaugural chair of the Biomedical Engineering Society Undergraduate

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Novel Entrepreneurship Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan Ewert, Iron Range Engineering; Ronald R. Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering; Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College; Jeff Wandler, Iron Range Engineering; Andrew Lillesve, Iron Range Engineering

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2011-974: ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE IRON RANGE ENGINEER-ING (IRE) MODELDan Ewert, Iron Range Engineering Dan Ewert is the Director and Professor of Iron Range Engineering, Virginia, MN – a program of Min- nesota State University – Mankato.Ronald R Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering Ulseth is an instructor of engineering at Iron Range Engineering and Itasca Community College both in northern Minnesota. He is the co-developer of both programs. For the past 20 years he has taught physics, statics, dynamics, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics. He has successfully implemented engineering learning communities in first year programs. Recently, Ulseth began a new 100% project-based, industry- sponsored, engineering

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Engineering Entrepreneurship and K-12 Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David M Feinauer, University of Kentucky; Bruce Walcott, University of Kentucky

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

% 44% 56% 65% 82%Beginning with the ESP class of 2004, all participants completed a pre-survey designed to assesstheir knowledge and comfort with engineering and entrepreneurship as a part of the registrationprocess. At the conclusion of the program, the students were asked to complete a post-surveywith questions identical to the pre-survey. The surveys from each respondent are linked and thechange in the responses is evaluated. Approximately 95% of the participants completed bothassessment surveys. Table 2 shows the survey topics, their association to the program objectivesof Table 1, the percentage of student

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm; Thomas Merrill; William Riddell

on real research and design projects. Most Junior/Senior Engineering clinics are sponsored by companies, or federal or state government agencies. As a secondary objective, the Engineering Clinic supports entrepreneurship in engineering students. The College of Engineering has a long-standing program that allows students to apply for funding to pursue their own entrepreneurial ideas through the Junior/Senior Engineering Clinics. However, the program has been utilized by very few students. Recently, two new assignments- an entrepreneurial design project and a white paper- have been added to the Sophomore Engineering Clinic sequence. This paper describes

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Assessment

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Anne Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #6408Assessing Student Design Work in Social Entrepreneurship ProjectsLindsey Anne Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Lindsey Nelson is a PhD student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her work centers upon helping engineering students connect meaningfully with global problems. She received her BS in Me- chanical Engineering from Boston University and her MA in Poverty and Development from the In- stitute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Her research interests include engineering design for poverty alleviation, sustainable design, the public’s understanding of engineering

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Barry David

Session 1454 Technical Entrepreneurship as an Undergraduate Course Barry G. David Millersville University of PennsylvaniaAbstractThis paper describes the content, methods and student activities of an undergraduate course intechnical entrepreneurship. The course engages students in a variety of research, problemsolving and critical thinking activities as they seek solutions to practical problems faced bydesigners and engineers bringing products to market. The one semester course requires studentsto present product concepts to the class during the second week of

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hak Tam, University of California, Santa Barbara; Gary Hansen, University of California, Santa Barbara; Sally Blomstrom, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Peter Robinson, Utah Valley University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

questionnaire 38. The EAO has been used in a number of other dissertations 35, 39 & 40 and research 41-46articles . The limitation of the EAO model is that it does not include risk perception andopportunity recognition, two other well recognized characteristics of entrepreneurs. Theadvantage is that it is a validated instrument with sound theoretical underpinning and that it takesa multi-factor approach with four subscales.Method Our inquiry seeks to determine whether the students become more entrepreneurial aftertaking these classes. We selected the EAO instrument 38 as our quantitative tool for severalreasons. It was developed to predict entrepreneurship, which fits with our research question. Itwas tested on students

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Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik Sander, University of Florida

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

capitalization table.During the last class period of the semester, the student executive teams deliver an investorpresentation to external entrepreneurs and investors (angels and venture capitalists) brought in bythe instructor. While mock investor presentations to outside professionals who “judge the resultsand declare a winner” are relatively common for entrepreneurship courses, in E4E the outsideinvestors deliver their judgment through valuations at which they “purchase” all outstandingshares of each company, within a valuation collar as determined by the instructor. This strategyhas two advantages over traditional approaches: 1. Student executive teams are provided with an external quantitative assessment of the perceived relative value of

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

aspects. Now in its fourth year and intended for students at many levels,Invention and Innovation is an interdisciplinary course that bridges the worlds of engineeringand entrepreneurship 4 .Course ElementsThe focus of the Invention and Innovation course is to design, build and test a working prototypeof a potentially marketable product. Our experience has shown that students are more engaged inproducts of which they are interested. At a brainstorming session in the first week of class,students generate many potential product ideas, which are then pared to a fewer number throughstudent voting. Each student’s product preference is one of numerous factors considered duringteam formation (described below).The newly formed teams learn about each

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Borchers, Kettering University; Sung Hee Park, Kettering University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

a freshmen introduction to business class (n=14) populatedwith business and engineering students. The final class was a senior design capstone class(n=14) populated with mechanical engineering students. In a first round of data collection (n=44) students in four of these classes were asked tocomplete a 33 question survey. Participation was voluntary, and we explained the importance ofthis study as the university added course work in entrepreneurship. Questions include the 22items identified by Chen in their ESE construct, five items to measure “intention to start abusiness” (ITSB) and six items for demographics. The authors conducted a second round of datacollection in 2007 and 2008. With this round, the sample size grew to 129

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Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wierman; Marybeth Camerer

Session 0897 Lessons from Starting an Entrepreneurship Program John C. Wierman, Marybeth Camerer The Johns Hopkins University1. IntroductionThe W. P. Carey Program in Entrepreneurship & Management is housed in the MathematicalSciences Department of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Itconcentrates on preparing undergraduates to become founders and leaders of major enterpriseslater in their careers. The academic program provides basic business education courses inaccounting, finance, ethics, and marketing, plus advanced courses in

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Post BS Entrepreneurship Education Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Barbe, University of Maryland; James Green, University of Maryland; Dean Chang, University of Maryland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

device imagers, now used in digital cameras, camcorders, fax machines and numerous defense and medical applications. The Hinman CEOs Program, for which he is the Faculty Director, received the Stanford University Innovative Entrepreneurship Educators Award in 2002, and Dr. Barbe received the American Society of Engineering Education Outstanding Entrepreneurship Educators Award in 2003 and the Olympus Lifetime of Education Innovation Award in 2008.James Green, University of Maryland James V. Green is Mtech’s Director of Entrepreneurship Education with responsibilities for the Hinman CEOs Program, the Hillman Entrepreneurs Program, and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program. As a Senior

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Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

engineering management curriculum offers innovative courses in technicalmarketing, high tech product strategy, fast cycle time product development & launch, andengineering entrepreneurship. In these case study courses, students develop real world marketingand business plans for commercializing innovative new products and technologies. Some of theinnovative product development and technology commercialization ideas have won accolades atregional business idea pitching competitions.All students in the Florida Tech College of Engineering must participate in a senior designprogram. The intensive undergraduate engineering programs at the university have resulted in anumber of outstanding crossfunctional Senior Design Projects. The Senior Design program

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Assessing Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akash Choudhary, University of Missouri; Donald Myers, University of Missouri; Halvard Nystrom, University of Missouri; Mihir Gokhale, University of Missouri

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurial decisions and interest in entrepreneurship of the engineeringstudents who took it. This compares with earlier studies that have focused on the impact ofentrepreneurship courses on career decisions of students with management or other non-engineering backgrounds. This research is based on a survey of 122 engineering students whotook an entrepreneurship class offered by the University during the last 25 years.Students were asked to provide their perspective on the impact this course had on their career.They were asked how the course impacted their understanding and interest in entrepreneurship, ifit raised their awareness of this career choice, if it impacted the career path they considered, if itaffected the career they chose, if they

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ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack Matson; Elizabeth Kisenwether

tenure in the PBLE program. It is our hope and expectation thatthe overall quality of the business plans created by the more experienced students in the PBLEprogram will be superior to the overall quality of the business plans created by the lessexperienced students in the PBLE program.E-ship Competition with Judge’s feedback/scoringAn Entrepreneurship Competition is held at the end of each semester, with teams from theentrepreneurship classes presenting their new product concepts and prototypes to a panel judgeswho are were either technology entrepreneurs, or a venture capital investors. Each judgecompletes a one-page scoring sheet on each team. The judge’s scores and comments are usedseveral ways: - Feedback to the teams as guidance on

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benedict M. Uzochukwu, Virginia State University; Coray Davis, Virginia State University ; Ben U. Nwoke, Virginia State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

possible context, as a processof creative change and concludes that entrepreneurial activity should not be a compulsory outcomeof an entrepreneurship education program. Basic socioeconomic forces will expand the scope ofentrepreneurial education because of changes routed in the belief that owning your own businessrepresents one of the few major pathways available to the lower economic class to build wealth asopposed for working for someone else. Today, the computer revolution is also presenting limitless 8opportunities for new ventures that have near-zero entry costs and other unavoidable start-upbarriers prevalent in many businesses. Education

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Taylor

Educationteam projects. At the Idea Fair, select companies are invited to present ideas for products orservices that may have commercial value. For those that generate significant student interest,interdisciplinary student teams are formed to develop the product or service. The participatingcompanies provide materials, guidance, and encouragement. The projects also provide credit fordesign or technical elective classes. Students may also form teams around their own entrepreneurialideas. A business plan competition is held each year with a small cash award. Vision of the Jack Hatcher Engineering Entrepreneurship Program • The engineering student who is in business can receive the education and experience to pursue a technical/business

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ravi Shankar; Francis X McAfee; Michael Harris; Norman Silva; Georgiana Carvalho

this summer, which culminated with 30 high schoolstudents (from 9 high schools) developing ten more Apps. We will market six of these Apps. We willpresent at the conference the marketing videos of three Apps that were adjudged to be the best by a panelof academic and industry leaders 3. 592Figure 3: A student team demonstrates during ‘Show & Tell’ Figure 4: Art in another App:Nuclear MadnessWe also developed 7 Apps in an undergraduate class during spring ’11 that were focused on games withsocial impact. This involved three professors, one each from engineering, graphics, and social science.Several similar collaborations have sprung up since then and will address Apps in others

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Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

June Ferrill, Rice University; Lisa Getzler-Linn, Lehigh University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

in raising students’ CMD scores by promotingcognitive dissonance, as stated in Boyd, 1981; Candee, 1985; Goldman and Arbuthnot, 1985;Penn and Collier, 1985. 7This finding makes the case for creating opportunities to learn by promoting cognitivedissonance -- clearly modeled in the discipline of entrepreneurship, in which innovation is basedon disruption. One of our authors, June Ferrill, previously described using the Seven Layers ofIntegrity™ 8 to expose students to the ethical concerns of entrepreneurship. This system ispresently taught in undergraduate classes at Rice University and has been taught for CPE creditto the Texas Society of Professional Engineers. Several stages of moral reasoning development are recognized [in the CMD

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Entrepreneurship and Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University; Tom Merrill, Rowan University; Leigh Weiss, Rowan University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, 157 of 237 (66%) chose the entrepreneurial project,compared to 98 of 201 (49%) in the previous cohorts which did not experience the white paper.Further, a survey was administered to the spring 2010 SEC II class, and the results aresummarized in Tables 4 and 5. Notable results include: ≠ 47% of Sophomore Clinic II students said that their experience with the White Paper made them more likely to choose the Entrepreneurial SEC II project; only 9% said that their experience with the White Paper made them less likely to select it. ≠ 50% of student reported choosing the Entrepreneurship project specifically because they liked the idea of doing something new and unique. ≠ Despite the inherent uncertainty in the

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Manufacturing Process Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ning Fang, Utah State University

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Manufacturing

-BasedLearning approach to integrating entrepreneurship into an upper-level undergraduatemanufacturing course entitled Machining Theory and Applications that was taught by the authorof this paper at Utah State University. The students in the class were divided into six teamsworking on a variety of projects. Each project included three tasks: developing a computersoftware program for machining simulations, developing the associated business plan, andwriting the business plan and orally presenting the project results. A representative example ofstudent projects and associated business plans is provided in the paper. The students‟ attitudestoward and experiences with their projects were surveyed using a Likert-type and open-endedquestionnaire at the end of

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Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zbigniew J Pasek, University of Windsor

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #6971Reel Entrepreneurs: Illustrating Entrepreneurship with Feature FilmsDr. Zbigniew J Pasek, University of Windsor Dr. Pasek received his PhD from the University of Michigan (1993). He is currently an Associate Profes- sor in the department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the University of Windsor, Canada. His interests include industrial automation, health care, service engineering and informal engi- neering education. He is a member of ASEE, ASME, SME and IEEE. Page 23.1029.1

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhang, Zhejiang University; Yuexin Jiang, Zhejiang University; Xiaofeng Tang, Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

programs. In addition, theentrepreneurial ecosystem at XJTU has incubated 30 registered companies.3.2.2 A Practice-Oriented Model for Engineering Education InnovationThere are two components of practice-orientation: innovation platforms and educational base forinnovation and entrepreneurship. XJTU has developed and refined a series of platforms forinterdisciplinary and university-industry innovation. To facilitate interdisciplinary innovation inengineering, XJTU built a “dreamworks studio” for college students to practice innovation. With aninvestment of over 60 million RMB, the 13,000 square meters Engineering Workshop provides afirst-class engineering practical training base for students to practice interdisciplinary innovation inengineering

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Programs and Courses Session 5

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yan Xu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

that few students-even those who have had some priorexposure to engineering-know what engineers do, and this affects their commitment to theengineering major5. Changes in the economy and workforce needs have led many engineeringschools to consider offering entrepreneurship education to their students. Connecting the fieldsof engineering with business and entrepreneurship in higher education has yielded a wide rangeof innovative and useful outcomes, products, and organizations. A previous study exploredengineering students’ levels of interest and involvement in entrepreneurship, their perceptions ofits impact on self-efficacy, and the characteristics of students who participate7. Students who hadtaken one or more entrepreneurship courses showed

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Entrepreneurial Leadership and Non-traditional Ways to Engage Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Coyle, Purdue University; Nancy Clement, Purdue University; Joy Krueger, Purdue University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2007-995: THE INNOVATION INITIATIVE FOR SOCIALENTREPRENEURSHIP: FOSTERING AWARENESS OF GLOBAL AND SOCIALISSUES VIA ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATIONEdward Coyle, Purdue University Edward J. Coyle received his BSEE degree from the University of Delaware in 1978, and Master’s and Ph.D. Degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1980 and 1982. Since 1982, he has been with Purdue University, where he is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Co-Director of the Center for Wireless systems and Applications (CWSA), and Director of the EPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative (EEI). His research interests include the performance analysis of

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jocelyn Jackson, University of Michigan; Jesse Gilbert-Sovern, University of Michigan; Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University; Joi-lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan

: Temple University Press.[10] DeCuir, J. T., & Dixson, A. D. (2004). “So when it comes out, they aren’t that surprised that it is there”: Using critical race theory as a tool of analysis of race and racism in education. Educational researcher, 33(5), 26-31.[11] Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the margins: Identity politics, intersectionality, and violence against women. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241-1299.[12] Collins, P. H. (2002). Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. routledge.[13] Blank, S. (2013). Why the lean start-up changes everything. Harvard business review, 91(5), 63-72.[14] Blank, S. (2021, July 12). Steve Blank: The class that changed how entrepreneurship is

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Education Session 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

innovation in our capstonesenior design classes (SDI and SDII) and elaborated on the mechanism of entrepreneurship inour Professional Practice course, but they all agreed that the department was missing a dedicatedcourse on innovation and entrepreneurship.This information encouraged us to conduct a survey to assess the true level of intensity. Twofaculty from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department interviewed students from themost recently completed Senior Design capstone course sequence to assess their perspectives oninnovation and entrepreneurship. The faculty evaluated students ideas, compared the data fromstudents who participated solely in industry supported projects versus students who worked onfaculty sponsored projects. They

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Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Neck, Babson College; John Bourne, Olin College; Stephen Schiffman, Olin College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

U.S.News & World Report. Babson has been the standard in entrepreneurship education. TheCollege was one of the first business schools to offer entrepreneurship courses and it hails as abenchmark for curriculum development.1 The entrepreneurial spirit of the college is evidentthrough our core values of integrity, diversity, innovation, collaboration, and excellence that aremanifested in the mission of the college: “Babson College educates men and women to beentrepreneurial leaders in a rapidly changing world. We prepare them to identify opportunitiesand initiate actions that result in genuine accomplishment.”2 The Olin College of Engineering is located adjacent to Babson College near Boston, MA.Olin was founded in 1997 and the first class