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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John M. Santiago Jr, Colorado Technical University; Jing Guo, Colorado Technical University

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Diversity

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: interactive multimedia for e-books, interactive video learning, and 3D/2D anima- tion. Professor Santiago recently published a book entitled, ”Circuit Analysis for Dummies” in 2013 after being discovered on YouTube. Professor Santiago received several teaching awards from the United States Air Force Academy and CTU. In 2015, he was awarded CTU’s Faculty of the Year for Teaching Innovations. Professor Santiago has been a 12-time invited speaker in celebration of Asian-Pacific Amer- ican Heritage Month giving multi-media presentations on leadership, diversity and opportunity at various military installations in Colorado and Wyoming.Dr. Jing Guo, Colorado Technical University Dr. Jing Guo is a Wireless Device Applications

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David G. Novick, University of Texas, El Paso

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Diversity

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of positions including as Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Associate Provost, As- sociate Dean of Engineering for Graduate Studies and Research, and co-director of the Mike Loya Center for Innovation and Commerce. His research focuses on interactive systems, especially human interaction with intelligent virtual agents, and on interaction in support of innovation. He served as General Co- chair of the ACM Conference on Universal Usability 2000, Program Chair of ACM SIG-DOC 2003 and General Chair of ACM SIG-DOC 2007, and organized SIGCHI’s series of events in Natural Language Interfaces. He has authored or co-authored over 120 refereed publications and over $16 million in funded grant proposals

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anu Osta, Rowan University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

demand that theglobal job marketplace places on innovation and business calls for promoting creativity andcritical thinking skills in all components of a college curriculum. The changing nature of jobrequirements worldwide requires in addition to the usual job skills, certain qualities like culturaladaptability, initiative, leadership, critical thinking, teamwork, and ability to handle vast amountsof information quickly. In the past decade there has been a transition into smart machines andsystems, supercomputing, super structuring of organizations, a globally connected world, alongwith global competition for talent. Based on these experiences, the US National Academy ofEngineering in 2008 identified 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering in the

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Systems Engineering and Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Systems Engineering coursesoffered by the Department of Engineering Systems at Florida Tech have greatly enriched thestudents’ educational experience, broadened their perspectives, served as community outreachforums and integrated experiential learning with academic programs. Students work in E-teamsand write NCIIA proposals to commercialize innovative product or university/research labdeveloped technology.This paper describes a unique course series in Systems Engineering (SE) Entrepreneurship.Innovation in product/service design and commercialization that enables entrepreneurship can besuccessfully leveraged by applying SE principles/ techniques which parallel entrepreneurshipsteps such as Customer Requirements Engineering and opportunity

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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

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R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida; Ted Astleford, University of Florida

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Florida Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Ted also manages the GatorNest program where students work in teams to get hands-on experience solving real business problems. Since 2004, Ted has been the primary business team faculty mentor for the Integrated Technology Ventures program. Ted is a graduate of the University of Florida MBA program. Page 12.853.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Paper 2007-2797 Improving Entrepreneurship Team Performancethrough Market Feasibility Analysis, Early Identification

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Systems Engineering and Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Karanian, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneur gets everyone excited and the leadercalm everyone down, does the entrepreneurial leader balance both?” And she wanted tosystematically compile previous and new data with a research approach that would both justifyan extensive corpus of data and make sense in an innovative way. Inspired by the new Page 12.680.2approaches of the leaders that were interviewed and recognizing that the research agendarequired another step, the methodological approach shifted to address the research questions intwo ways. First, the definition of the term entrepreneurial leadership is explored with anemphasis on the significance in an applied engineering and

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Assessing Entrepreneurship Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

characteristics of seekingopportunities, taking risks beyond security, and having the tenacity to push an idea through toreality combined into a special perspective of the entrepreneurs. An “entrepreneurialperspective” can be developed in individuals. This perspective can be exhibited inside or outsidean organization, in profit or not-for-profit enterprises, and in business or non-business activitiesfor the purpose of bringing forth creative ideas. Thus, entrepreneurship is an integrated conceptthat permeates an individual’s business in an innovative manner. It is this perspective that hasrevolutionized the way business is conducted at every level and in every country.Until 1970, very few universities offered entrepreneurship courses. The Harvard

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Creating a Technology Incubator and Creating a Seed Fund

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Laughlin, University of Maryland; Scott Magids, University of Maryland; David Barbe, University of Maryland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

experience in planning andlaunching ventures. Second, most regions suffer from inadequate hands-on, seed capitalresources willing to invest early in the life of a new technical venture. These voids in a region’sventuring ecosystem discourage many technologists within universities, and other institutions,from embarking upon the commercialization of innovations.Given these impediments, to achieve their most effective role in the innovation economy,research universities require new, more aggressive models of commercialization. Traditionalmodels of Intellectual Property (IP) licensing are insufficient alone to unlock the untappedcommercial opportunities stemming from scientific and technical discoveries on campus.One of the most promising paths forward

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Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Birmingham, Grove City College; Blair Allison, Grove City College; James Dupree, Grove City College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

a few peak stress points when teams and faculty scrambled to catch up. One team member catastrophically let her sub-team down by doing nearly nothing until the last minute, and that team was not able to fully recover. This was a failure of the faculty member who accepted the “yeah, I’m right on track,” instead of asking to see her portion of the research and report. Page 12.681.10 ‚ Course content and focus. We need to reduce the amount of time spent on innovation and incorporate it as subsets of other lecture material8. We need to ensure the design process is clear to and usable by the business

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Creating a Technology Incubator and Creating a Seed Fund

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Wierman, Johns Hopkins University; Lawrence Aronhime, Johns Hopkins University; Marybeth Camerer, Johns Hopkins University; Benjamin Gibbs, Johns Hopkins University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the end of the fiscal year. A very flexible alternative is to specify a wide range of possiblepercentages, and decide the percentage bonus for each manager individually, based on factorssuch as ethical behavior, training of employees, documentation of procedures, quality ofproducts and services, customer satisfaction, innovation, and improvement of the business. Thesimple approach would be easy to administer, but provides an incentive for managers to pumpprofits and leave a business in poor condition for their successor. The flexible approach rewardsdesired behaviors, but would be very time consuming to implement, and may encourage Page

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Patenting & IP Issues for Commercializing University-Developed Technology and Launching Innovative Technical Entrepreneurship Ventures in Universities

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Baker, Michigan Technological University; Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Richard Berkey, Michigan Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

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

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Engineering Entrepreneurship and K-12 Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Gregory Feierfeil, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

been on business skills and not on developing the “entrepreneurial mindset.”Entrepreneurial mindset outcomes include innovation, vision, teamwork, communication,problem solving skills, opportunity recognition and risk management. In 2005, it wasrecognized that these two entrepreneurial programs, as well as the University as a whole,would benefit from collaborating.The opportunity to collaborate and network presented itself in May 2006, when theUniversity was awarded a Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN)Fellowship Grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Association(NCIIA). The grant provides funding to integrate the existing programs into a newinnovative interdisciplinary program focused on developing the

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Patenting & IP Issues for Commercializing University-Developed Technology and Launching Innovative Technical Entrepreneurship Ventures in Universities

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Schox, Stanford University; David Chesney, University of Michigan

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

at Urbana-Champaign (GE 401: Patent Law and Related Topics)3, • University of Michigan (ME509: Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights)4, and • Princeton University (ENG453: Patent Law and Innovation Policy)5.I have taught two of these courses, the course at Stanford University and the course at theUniversity of Michigan. While the ability and efforts of the students were very similar, myassessment of the student’s performance from the two courses was very different.As an Adjunct Lecturer for the University of Michigan, I taught ME509: Patents, Trademarks,and Copyrights to engineering students at the graduate and senior undergraduate level during theWinter 2003 and 2004 terms. After inheriting the ME509 course from a previous facultymember

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The Challenges of Tech Transfer

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruce Mutter, Bluefield State College; Frank Hart, Bluefield State College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

our School of Engineering Technology and ComputerScience (SETCS) with in-house internship experience and the School with a source of increasedfunding through CART, the operation of our own Course Management System (CMS) as a fee-based self-sustaining business operation, our ongoing applied research projects for industry andagencies, our partnerships with other colleges, universities, industry, and government, and theoperation of the shop CART store.The vision of CART is to become a highly respected resource for innovative engineering andmerging technologies in the discovery of applied research and design of applications that driveour economic viability, solve industrial problems, and strengthen homeland security and nationaldefense.Our

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Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

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Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech; Frank Kinney, Florida Tech; Vaidy Vaidyanathan; Tom O'Neal, University of Central Florida; Clifford Bragdon, Florida Tech; Dennis Kulonda, Florida Tech; Grisselle Centeno, University of South Florida; Jose Zayas-Castro, University of South Florida; Lynda Weatherman, Space Caost EDC

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

innovation and its commercializationcalled the “Technopolis Phenomenon”.This paper reviews research done on creation of Technopolis communities and highlightsexemplary best practices from Technopolis communities around the world such as SiliconValley, Boston, Austin, Ireland, Bangalore, Taiwan, Sophia-Antipolis, and others. The role ofacademia-industry-government collaboration in creation of Technopolis communities isdiscussed in detail. This involves sustained, collaborative efforts by academics, industryrepresentatives, Entrepreneur Support Organizations (ESOs), Economic DevelopmentOrganizations (EDOs), engineers, entrepreneurs, investors, and other practitioners to developinitiatives, plans, methodologies, infrastructure, and action items for

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Patenting & IP Issues for Commercializing University-Developed Technology and Launching Innovative Technical Entrepreneurship Ventures in Universities

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ken Vickers, University of Arkansas; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

serve.Background:Interest in collegiate-level engineering or technology entrepreneurship has been increasing at arapid rate over the past 10 years. Examples of this interest are easily found: • The Entrepreneurship (ENT) Division within ASEE in 2000 and ENT Division membership now has over 550 members, indicating a strong interest from individual faculty members and their institutions. • A supportive national organization for these entrepreneurial efforts (the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance - NCIIA1) was formed in 1995 under financial support of the Lemelson Foundation2, with the number of NCIIA member institutions now standing at 339. The NCIIA provides encouragement of technology entrepreneurship

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Assessing Entrepreneurship Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denny Davis, Washington State University; Jerman Rose, Washington State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AssessmentAbstractCapstone engineering design courses play pivotal roles in development of engineering students’professional skills needed for innovation in a globally-competitive technological world. Thispaper describes a two-semester course sequence, jointly taught by faculty in engineering andentrepreneurial studies, that integrates engineering design and business development. Courseoutcomes are defined based on research that established four performance areas addressingstudent and solution development in capstone design courses: personal capacity, team processes,solution requirements, and solution assets. Performance criteria for each area establishdefinitions of desired student achievement in each area and form the basis for assessment ofoutcomes for the

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The Challenges of Tech Transfer

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael McCorquodale, Mobius Microsystems, Inc.; Richard Brown, University of Utah

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

ofmanagement talent with domain expertise, which together constitute the most significant chal-lenges associated with the development of new technology ventures in a state like Michigan.Moreover, in a relatively odd twist of the principle of economics, these organizations competewith each other to become the sole technology hub while existing within the same metropolitanregion as indicated in [13] where, “Spark organizers hope to accomplish that by becoming a cen-tral hub for the whole technology community serving as a resource for existing businesses, con-necting them to investors, helping early entrepreneurs get the type of guidance they need andmarketing the county as a innovative place to land a business or find a high-skilled worker.”The authors

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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

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Wilburn Clouse, Vanderbilt University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

itself by proposing todevelop a wireless downtown community. We expect to test this case at Tennessee WesleyanCollege and possibly Francis Marion University and Vanderbilt University during the springsemester of 2005.Case 7 – The Santa Fe Effect – This case is designed to help rejuvenate the downtown area ofAthens, Tennessee. It is designed to permit students to investigate new and innovative ways tobring business life back to small downtown areas. The concepts of this case could be related toany small town, USA. We hope to test this case at Tennessee Wesleyan College, Francis MarionUniversity and Vanderbilt University during the spring semester of 2005.Case 8 – The Phoenix – This case was written to encourage students to develop a cyber

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Entrepreneurship Tuesday Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alice Agogino, UC Berkeley; Sara Beckman, University of California at Berkeley; Leslie Speer, San Jose State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

development and operations management at the University of California's Haas School of Business. Since joining the Haas School faculty in 1987, she developed, institutionalized and directed the school's Management of Technology Program, initiated new courses on design, entrepreneurship in biotechnology, new product development, and work and workspace design, won four awards from MBA students for excellence in teaching and received the Berkeley campus Distinguished Teaching Award. Her present research interests lie in the general area of innovation management with specific explorations of the role of design in business, environmental supply chain management and development of operations strategy

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Assessing Entrepreneurship Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Blessing, Milwaukee School of Engineering; John D. Gassert, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Lawrence J. Schmedeman, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Larry Fennigkoh, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Education Network(KEEN) and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), with a broadmandate to undertake a first-time effort to instill the ideas of entrepreneurship in the minds of ourfaculty and students. Faced with the challenge of integrating entrepreneurship into an alreadyambitious engineering curriculum, we decided to focus our resources on activities that wouldbring together business and engineering students, two groups that normally do not interact intheir course of study, to work together on a design project.ChallengesWhile there is agreement around campus that a focus on entrepreneurship is both a timely and aworthy undertaking, there are significant obstacles to be overcome in order to achieve our goal.The

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Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Thornton, University of Maryland; Jacqueline Rogers, University of Maryland (Retired); Nathan Myers, University of Maryland; Monica Neukomm, University of Maryland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

; ̇ Building community; ̇ Adaptation and documentation; ̇ Leveraging resources.Its intent is to provide insight for other educators seeking to create durable bridges betweencommunity colleges and major public universities.IntroductionThe Hillman Entrepreneurs Program is an innovative educational initiative that provides aplatform of experiences and support designed to help promising entrepreneurs develop theirentrepreneurial skills, earn a four-year college degree, and start or lead a business. The programmodel is targeted to students who have not necessarily been high performers academically, butwho show signs of success and demonstrate entrepreneurial drive.In Fall 2006, an Advisory Board was formed to facilitate communications between

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Entrepreneurship Education: Unique Approaches

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul A. Nelson, Michigan Technological University; Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Professor of Business, Institute for Enterprise and Innovation, University of Nottingham (England). For many years he was management consultant at Ford Motor Company and in the last years helped develop and direct a high-tech education and training program in the use of design and data management tools. In 1994 he received the ASEE Chester F. Carlson award for innovation in engineering education. He has co-authored several books in creative problem solving, engineering design, entrepreneurship and innovation—a synthesis of many years of experience working as engineer in industry as well as serving as dean of engineering and professor at six different universities in the U.S. and four different

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Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Khanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University; Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2008-1422: CHAMPIONING HIGH-TECH RENAISSANCE: SENSOR ANDCONTROLLER SYSTEM INTEGRATION COURSEKhanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University KHANJAN MEHTA is a Senior Research Associate in the College of Engineering at Penn State. His professional interests include Innovative System Integration, High-Tech Entrepreneurship and International Social Entrepreneurship. He is an amateur photographer, cook, bartender, poet, traveler, adventurer and proud generalist.Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University SVEN G. BILÉN is an Associate Professor of Engineering Design, Electrical Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering at Penn State. His educational research interests include developing techniques

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Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

situation,the college developed the entrepreneurial certificate program and founded the LearEntrepreneurial Center (LEC). The entrepreneurial certificate program provides a mechanismfor developing student skills in communications and the business component of the engineeringprofession. The entrepreneurial program also includes an extensive multi-disciplinary capstonedesign experience in which students form a “company” and are eligible for student venturegrants administered by the institution. The development of the entrepreneurial program wasbolstered by the receipt of several multi-year grants. These grants strengthened theentrepreneurial certificate program and promoted innovative teaching on campus by conductingworkshops and keynote lectures

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Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harpal Dhillon, Excelsior College; Salahuddin Qazi, SUNY Institute of Technology; Sohail Anwar, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

for Engineering Education, 2008 Mitigation of Barriers to Commercialization of Nanotechnology: An Overview of Two Successful University-Based InitiativesAbstractNanotechnology, being a platform technology, feeds its output into numerous industries,which use these inputs to improve their products. In this context, it would be appropriate torefer to BASF, whose slogan is “we do not create products, we make them better”.Consequently, any effort to commercialize this technology has to be supported byscientific and engineering research in conjunction with an innovative well-funded productdevelopment and marketing program involving all downstream industries that are going toutilize nanotechnology products. There is no doubt

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Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Programs and Program Assessment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Mason, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

considers whether entrepreneurshipcan be learned and the specific skills and traits that are associated with successfulentrepreneurship. It examines the activities of entrepreneurship centers and otherprograms for engineering students and concludes that there are a lot of resourcesavailable to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. The problems are that we need to reachfar more students, continually learn more about what works to make them effectiveentrepreneurs and innovators and develop more champions within the engineeringfaculties to get our students what they will need.The importance of entrepreneurial thinking for engineersThe National Academy of Engineering has pointed out that engineers will need to bemuch more entrepreneurial in the 21st

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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

unsuccessfulentrepreneurial ventures.Failure is often driven by the overemphasis on technology, in the absence of understandingmarket needs, unawareness of strategic principles that help positioning the technology-basedproduct in the context of existing industries in this innovation space, and a fiscally-sound valueproposition for investors or partners to enable the venture. Entrepreneurial market innovationsneed to address: • technological uncertainties (robustness, scalability, cost-effectiveness, existing solutions) • market uncertainties (value proposition, competing solutions/approaches, distribution network) • business uncertainties (startup vs. corporate, fiscal sustainability, models for value capture)The premise of “Entrepreneurial

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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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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

: 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