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Curriculum Development 1

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ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Chau M. Tran, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University

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Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

. However, the students whodid not earn a B or a C were not in the F-D range but were in the higher A. The EM classactually performed better. Similar trend was found in project 2. The EM class performed worsein the D-C range; however, the students who did not earn a D or a C were not in F but were inthe higher range B-A.4. ConclusionsIn spring 2022, a vibration class was taught with an entrepreneurial mindset (EM). Twoproblem-based learning (PBL) projects were incorporated with entrepreneurially mindedlearning (EML), a strategy to develop curiosity, connections and creating value – the threeessential elements setting up the entrepreneurship. The first project was the design of asuspension system for an airplane landing gear, and the second project

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The Best of Design in Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eckehard Doerry, Northern Arizona University; Bridget N. Bero, Northern Arizona University

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Design in Engineering Education

disciplines. This paper reports on the iCubed project, a pilot effort exploringtraining in engineering entrepreneurship, in which project and course are modeled oncommercial product development. A massively interdisciplinary team design project at thesenior and graduate level was developed and executed with a team spanning seven disciplines inengineering, business, and architecture. We report on project planning, design, and outcomes,and offer a set of best practices distilled from this experience.1.0 IntroductionThe past several decades have seen fundamental changes in the way engineering is practiced inindustry and consequently, the skills and capabilities needed by the modern engineer. Steadilydecreasing time-to-market timeframes, globalization

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith G. Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Christos Christodoulatos, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Kate D. Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Leslie R Brunell, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Sandra V. Furnbach P.E., Stevens Institute of Technology; Vikki Hazelwood, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Kishore Pochiraju, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Eirik Hole, Stevens Institute of Technology (SSE); Bruce McNair, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Thomas G. Lechler, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #12090A Pilot for Integrating Capstone Design with a Two-Semester Innovation &Entrepreneurship Course SequenceDr. Keith G. Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES) Dr. Keith G. Sheppard is Associate Dean in the Charles V. Schaefer School of Engineering & Science and a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Material Science. His research interests have included electrochemical aspects of materials synthesis and environmental degradation of materials. His education in the U.K. included B.Sc. (University of Leeds) and Ph.D. (University of Birmingham) de- grees in Metallurgy and a

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina S. Morton, University of Michigan; Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan; Julie Libarkin, Michigan State University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

examples of success stories thatinstructors used during classes and the literature students were expected read. Ulvenblad et al.assert that their findings suggest gender construction and segregation patterns are manifestedwithin Swedish entrepreneurial learning environments. More empirical studies like Ulvenblad etal.’s work can help illuminate areas for improvement within entrepreneurship educationprograms and provide strategies for fostering constructive learning environments for women.Furthermore, utilizing qualitative methods to ascertain how female students are experiencingentrepreneurship education environments can provide explanations for the gender differencesresearchers are finding in the educational outcomes of students. Findings

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 4: Curriculum and Programmatic Effects

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

mentors and faculty, travelexperiences, access to funding, and new venture competitions, among others.This paper explores three distinct, introductory curricular opportunities that students can engagein to gain foundational knowledge and project-based experience in engineering entrepreneurshipand innovation. Students participating in these classes are enrolled both in primary engineeringprograms as well as in disciplines across various colleges at UIUC and each course wasdeveloped for a specific context to provide ample opportunity to many students for earlyengagement in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.2. MotivationThe development and sustained offering of multiple introductory courses in innovation andengineering entrepreneurship is driven by a

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Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

Lehigh University Session #3454 Lessons Learned in Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships in Entrepreneurship Education through Integrated Product Development (IPD) John B Ochs, Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Todd W Watkins, Economics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Drew Snyder, Art & Architecture, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PAAbstractSince 1994 a team of Lehigh faculty have been developing and implementing a multi-disciplinaryeducational environment to enable undergraduates and graduate students to experience thechallenges and creative exhilaration of technical

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noemi V Mendoza Diaz, Texas A&M University; Magdalini Z Lagoudas, Texas A&M University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

Paper ID #42920Work in Progress: The missing link in I-Corps Entrepreneurship EngineeringEducation at a Southwestern InstitutionDr. Noemi V Mendoza Diaz, Texas A&M University Dr. Mendoza is a faculty member of Technology Management in the College of Education-Engineering at Texas A&M University. She has worked as electrical engineering professor in Mexico. She recently obtained funds from NSF to investigate enculturation to engineering and computational thinking in engineering students. She is the co-advisor of the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers at TAMU and is interested in computing engineering

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Computers and Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pramod Rajan, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE); P.K. Raju, Auburn University; Chetan S Sankar, Auburn University College of Engineering

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Computers in Education

paper describes a project where the concept of an engineeringdesign process was taught using two engineering design learning modules, and evaluated using acontrol/experimental set up. In the control class, the students are exposed to a lecture about theengineering design process, an active learning exercise (Title: Statistics Applied to DataAnalysis), and a pasta tower building activity. In the experimental set up, the students areexposed to a lecture about the engineering design process, a design simulation exercise (Seriousgame titled ' Engineering Heights: The Design Process in Action'), and a pasta tower buildingactivity. External evaluators will use the same instruments and focus groups to collect bothquantitative and qualitative

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene B. Mena, University of Pittsburgh

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

assignments.Course OverviewENGR 1060 is an elective that is offered once per academic year, has been taught by the sameinstructor (the author) since 2015, and is mostly taken by junior and senior engineering studentsof all engineering disciplines at the university. Enrollment is currently capped at 30undergraduate students per semester. It is a three-credit course that meets twice a week, witheach class session being one hour and fifteen minutes long.Throughout the semester, students are introduced to entrepreneurship topics, the entrepreneurialprocess, and the business model canvas, and work in teams of three to four students on what willbe their final deliverable at the end of the semester: a business plan for a social enterprise of theircreation, that

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Provocative Presentations & Lunch

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kleppe

the College of Business.The course teaches the fundamental principles of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Aversion of the class has also been taught to groups of K-12 teachers who in most cases havecarried the information they learned back into their respective classrooms. Even though thecourse has already been reported several times in the open literature, there still seems to be agrowing interest in hearing about the success and failures that are characteristic of such adynamic and changing topic.This course necessitated the establishment of several collaborative relationships between theUniversity Colleges of Engineering, Business, and Education, and with the Washoe CountyPublic School System. Forming such collaborative

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Course-based Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Warren, Pennsylvania State University; Ralph Hanke, Bowling Green University; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

only to the student.5: THE COURSE EXPERIENCE5.1 OverviewThe pilot Introduction to Entrepreneurship course ran in two sections in Spring Semester 2004,with each section meeting once a week for two hours. Two instructors and two graduate studentsmanaged the course. Students worked on teams formed around a new venture concept that waspresented by a class member who recruited people onto the venture team or around a lead-inproblem or “confined” problem presented by the instructors. For the two sections, eleven studentspresented new venture ideas and six teams eventually emerged to develop these ideas. Thoseopportunities included the development of a home bulk delivery system, high-end gamingcomputers, the development of unique music download

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Research Technical Session 7

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip M. Reeves, The Pennsylvania State University; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Elizabeth C. Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; D. Jake Follmer, The Pennsylvania State University; Jessica Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Penn State. Theunique inter-college minor consists of several clusters that center on entrepreneurship andinnovation in relation to different majors, industries, and contexts. An assessment plan wasdeveloped in conjunction with the minor and initial results will be reported. The overall goal ofthe assessment is to track the students’ progress, knowledge, skill development, and attitudinalchanges as the students proceed through the minor and begin their careers. As the first step inthis process, students from the core classes of the minor were asked to complete a survey nearthe beginning and end of the semester to capture their attitudes toward entrepreneurship andinnovation. A vast majority of the students who completed the survey were

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Johnson, Valparaiso University; Mark Budnik, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

thermodynamics. In addition, they complete a mid-term design project and a finaldesign project as part of a team and give an in-class oral presentation on each. This course isalso complemented by GE 199, a required zero-credit seminar course that meets once a week andfeatures a series of guest speakers to help the students understand the field of engineering.It was decided that one of the existing modules in this course (Communication System Design)should be replaced by a module on entrepreneurship. Introducing the concept this early in thecurriculum and across all engineering disciplines provided a unique opportunity to encourage allengineering students to begin to think about entrepreneurship from the beginning of theirengineering careers

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

Authors

Nicholas Hosein, UC Davis; Lee Michael Martin, University of California, Davis; Andre Knoesen

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Diversity

student success in a blended-model engineering classroom. ASEE, 2018. [5] Reid Bailey and Michael C Smith. Implementation and assessment of a blended learning environment as an approach to better engage students in a large systems design class. age, 23:1, 2013. [6] C Mirjam Van Praag and Peter H Versloot. What is the value of entrepreneurship? a review of recent research. Small business economics, 29(4):351–382, 2007. [7] Tom Byers, Tina Seelig, Sheri Sheppard, and Phil Weilerstein. Its role in engineering education. The Bridge, 43 (2), 2013. [8] Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Angela Shartrand, and Teri Reed. The role of entrepreneurship program models and experiential activities on engineering student outcomes. Advances in

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pritpal Singh, Villanova University; Teresa Genevieve Wojcik, Villanova University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

to establish an engineering entrepreneurship minor program in the College ofEngineering. 2At the time, the structure of the entrepreneurship minor in the Villanova School of Business(VSB) was a 12 credit hour minor concentrated into one semester. During this semester studentstook four classes that counted towards the minor and were expected to develop and start abusiness venture during this semester. This minor was typically taken in the junior year of theBusiness students’ curriculum.It was decided that such a structure would not work for the engineering students because of theneed to take several engineering courses each year to stay on

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Karen A. High; Paul E. Rossler; Martin S. High

Technology Management Program. The centerpiece of this initiative is a comprehensive design of a newentrepreneurship program. The curriculum will rely on engineering and businesscourses. One unique feature of this program is that we propose to engage freshman inthe curriculum. We see this as a benefit to retention of students with both technical andbusiness interests. . In the “capstone” classes, students will be organized in E-teams with varyingeducational backgrounds. The six prior Entrepreneurship courses in concert with thebusiness courses will provide the students with the tools needed to successfully developtheir products. These E-Teams will include Oklahoma inventors that commonly have aproduct concept in mind with little insight

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Epicenter Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Wilson II, University of Georgia

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

interdisciplinary collaboration, challenge-based learn- ing, entrepreneurship, and design thinking. Page 26.504.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Developing practice fields for interdisciplinary entrepreneurshipIntroduction Engineering graduates join professionals from fields such as science, technology,business, education, medicine and art to form the creative class. This group of innovators, whichcomprises of nearly one-third of the workforce in the United States, is responsible for creatinginnovations to address society’s

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14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference

Authors

Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University; Michael Keith Brewster, West Virginia University; Daniel Augusto Kestering, West Virginia University; Kelly Stewart

to the firstphases of entrepreneurship using an elevator pitch competition. Entrepreneurship is the processof finding a need in the market, developing a creative solution or product to fill that need, andmarketing it with the goal of developing a successful business. The entrepreneurship process isdivided into five phases: idea generation, opportunity evaluation, planning, company formationand growth. Entrepreneurship is about recognizing opportunities in the market and acting onthem. It requires to think creatively, to innovate, and to move from an idea into a prototype.The elevator pitch competition was developed within the context of a first-year engineeringseminar. Students were divided into small groups and were tasked at identifying a

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Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory W. Davis, Kettering University; Craig J. Hoff, Kettering University; William J. Riffe, Kettering University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

”Engineering Creativity” that was designed to bring out the creative side of engineering and business students. Well over 1000 students passed through this course. Because of this background, he was selected to be part of a team to teach the ”Innovations and New Ventures” class on entrepreneurship that began in the summer of 2006, with him concentrating on the innovation side of the course. To date, over one hundred and eighty students have learned how to develop a product and put together a basic business plan. He led a team to develop ”Entrepreneurship Across the Curriculum” at Kettering University where faculty members attended workshops designed to help put innovation projects into their classrooms. This effort resulted

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EMD Program Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech; Muzaffar Shaikh, Florida Tech; Wade Shaw, Florida Tech

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Engineering Management

competitions. All these activities give theEngineering Management students enough exposure in the community so that they areoften recruited out of class to work on critical projects in the industry. In this paper thevarious attributes of this holistic entrepreneurship program are discussed and highlighted..IntroductionWhile meeting the increasing demand for holistic, interdisciplinary education, innovative coursesoffered by Florida Tech’s Department of Engineering Systems have greatly enriched thestudents’ educational experience, broadened their perspectives, served as community outreach/networking forums and integrated experiential learning with academic programs.This paper describes a pioneering, innovative new course in Systems

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Nored; David Compton

parts separate was a difficulty that wasonly overcome because the director of the business office was cooperative.These problems could have been eased if there was an established entrepreneurship program.Compton and Emack could have benefited from some business courses on writing businessplans, capturing seed capital, and management. Fortunately, the faculty offered insights fromindustry to steer the venture in the right directions. Commack navigated those problems.However, they could have refined their design sooner if they learned their business lessons whilestill students. The fact that the engineering curriculum is technically challenging and timeconsuming limits engineering student’s access to business classes. There is not enough time

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Examining the Synergy between Eng'g Mgmt & Sys Eng

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wade Shaw, Florida Tech; Muzaffar Shaikh, Florida Tech; Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech

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Engineering Management

criteria is taken into consideration whenselecting recipients for funds. Participation in other entrepreneur networking activities oncampus and in the community is kept track of, encouraged and rewarded.The “Engineering Entrepreneur in the Spotlight” Experiential Seminar SeriesThe Systems Engineering Entrepreneurship course series is complemented by another pioneeringinnovation in experiential entrepreneurship at Florida Tech – The “Engineering Entrepreneur inSpotlight” seminar series. In these seminars typically held twice a month, struggling/successfullocal technical entrepreneurs visit the class and present their business plan for critique andrecommendations by the class. Once a month, these “Engineering Entrepreneur in the Spotlight”seminars

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Design Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Chen, Bradley University; Ye Li, Bradley University

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Manufacturing

are interested in it, but also from thebusinesses who hire those college graduates4.A number of universities are currently teaching entrepreneurship courses to their engineeringstudents. Among them are MIT, Stanford University, and Brown University. MIT offerstheir student a wide variety of classes in launching, managing, and growing technology-basedbusinesses. They use many different teaching methods in these classes that include casestudies, internships, guest lectures, external reviews of student assignments by venturecapitalists, and student projects. These courses also help students focus on learning how toeffectively work as a team and on presentation skills. Another thing which MIT did topromote entrepreneurship is the holding of an

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Entrepreneurship Tuesday Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Marc Lockard, Lockard and White, Inc

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

for Engineering Education, 2007 The Ethics, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship Seminar: Helping Students to Become LeadersAbstractRecently, the Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering Technology (EET/TET)Programs at Texas A&M University have created a new undergraduate initiative in the area ofentrepreneurship. The goals of the Engineering Entrepreneurship Education Experience (E4) arethreefold: • Excite and motivate undergraduate students to take ownership of their education by giving them opportunities to develop and market their own intellectual property. • Retain the best and brightest undergraduate talent in the Brazos Valley region. • Use entrepreneurship to help

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Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wierman John; Shoukas Artin; Robert Allen; Larry Aronhime

onthe development of a foot sensing system for a physical therapist, presented their project to a classin Entrepreneurship. One assignment for that class was to develop a competitive analysis for aproduct; the foot sensing system was one of the products. One student, himself a biomedicalengineering student, developed a competitive analysis that demonstrated a potential market nichein the rehabilitation industry. The technical team was able to benchmark better based on theresults of the competitive analysis and the business student used the technical aspects of theprototype under development to better understand the market. This interaction between thetechnical and business students was helpful in obtaining an NCIIA project grant.Because of the

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cyrus Taylor

identify the opportunity and in providing the resources thePhysics Department needed in order to figure out how to exploit the opportunity, died asthe outlines of the program were coming together. He very generously left theDepartment an endowment, the interest on which has been used to help launch theprogram. Together with grants from the Coleman Foundation2 and the NationalCollegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) 3, we were able to recruit a class offive superb students, who entered the program in the fall of 2000.Seminar SeriesAs part of the Physics Entrepreneurship Program, the CWRU Physics Departmentinaugurated a new seminar series in the 2000-2001 academic year, complementing theexisting series in condensed matter physics and

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New Program/Course Success Stories

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Shaw; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

pioneering innovation in experiential entrepreneurship at Florida Tech – The“Engineering Entrepreneur in Spotlight” seminar series. In these seminars, typically held twice amonth, struggling/successful local technical entrepreneurs visit the class and present theirbusiness plan for critique and recommendations by the class. Once a month, these “EngineeringEntrepreneur in the Spotlight” seminars are open to the public. Over the past three years, theseseminars which have got wide pre- and post-event publicity in the local media, have become anincreasingly important networking forum for entrepreneurs, inventors investors, business serviceproviders, students and faculty. As a result of these seminars, a number of local business dealsand alliances in

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Novel Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James V. Green, University of Maryland, College Park

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. Page 22.296.2IntroductionThe demand for online teaching and learning is presenting new opportunities to bring technologyentrepreneurship courses online. With one in four college students taking an online course, andan increasing number of students interested in technology entrepreneurship courses, thisintersection creates an emerging demand for online technology entrepreneurship courses(Clayton, 2010). With 27 percent of high school students and 21 percent of middle schoolstudents taking at least one online class in 2009, nearly doubling the 2008 numbers, the desire foronline courses at the collegiate level will surely increase (Clayton, 2010).Educators are recognizing that online courses can deliver a high quality educational experiencefor

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Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaidy Vaidyanathan, University of Central Florida; Carmo D'Cruz, University of Central Florida

technical entrepreneurship, facilitate technology transfer and make the Central Floridaarea a hub of high tech entrepreneurial activity. This program is strongly oriented into steeringundergraduate and graduate engineering students towards careers in entrepreneurship.The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a growing metropolitan research university withcomprehensive programs of teaching, research and service to more than 35,000 students. UCFconducts high-tech research in Optics, Lasers, Communications, Simulation, Alternative energy,Materials, and other branches of engineering. UCF has developed, in partnership with industry,world-class centers and institutes that focus on these strengths and other core competencies.UCF’s location in the heart

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Epicenter Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Shannon Gilmartin, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Angela Shartrand, VentureWell; Laurie Moore, National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter); Emanuel Costache, SageFox Consulting Group; Andreea Mihaela Fintoc; Qu Jin, Stanford University; Calvin Ling, Stanford University; Florian Michael Lintl, Stanford University; Leticia C. Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University; Humera Fasihuddin, VentureWell; Anna K Breed

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #12636Exploring what we don’t know about entrepreneurship education for engi-neersDr. 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 engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers