Paper ID #30424Leveraging the Capstone Design Project to Foster Entrepreneurship andAddress Real-World ProblemsDr. Austin B. Asgill P.E., Kennesaw State University Dr Austin B. Asgill received his B.Eng.(hons) (E.E.) degree from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, his M.Sc. (E.E.) degree from the University of Aston in Birmingham, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Florida. He is currently a Professor of Engineering Technology (Electrical) at Kennesaw State University (KSU). Prior to joining the faculty at KSU (formerly SPSU), he was an Associate Professor of Electronic
AC 2010-413: DESIGNING AND LAUNCHING THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ANDINNOVATION LIVING-LEARNING PROGRAM FOR FRESHMEN ANDSOPHOMORESJames Green, University of Maryland Dr. James V. Green leads the education activities of Mtech as the Director of Entrepreneurship Education with responsibilities for the Hinman CEOs Program, the Hillman Entrepreneurs Program, and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program. As a Senior Lecturer and Associate Director with Mtech, Dr. Green designs and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in entrepreneurship and technology commercialization. He is Co-Director of the Certificate in Innovation Management Program for executives, and Co-Director of the Graduate Certificate in
Paper ID #15333Retaining Engineers through Research Entrepreneurship and Advanced-MaterialsTraining (RETREAT): Expansion and EvaluationMs. Margaret Scheiner, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Ms. Margaret Scheiner is a PhD candidate in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Florida State University with a BS in Materials Science & Engineering from Cornell University. She has contributed to research on dye-sensitized solar cells, synthesis of highly triboluminescent crystals, and pulsed laser deposition of non-stoichiometric thin films. Her current research aims to create a self-healing compos- ite with integrated
AC 2007-824: DEVELOPING AN ANGEL INVESTOR FORUM TO COMPLEMENTAN ENGINEERING SCHOOL'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP INITIATIVESThomas Duening, Arizona State University Page 12.484.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007Developing an Angel Investor Forum to Complement an Engineering School’s Entrepreneurship Initiatives Page 12.484.2BackgroundAfter two years of decline, entrepreneurial activity in the United States increased from 10.5percent in 2002 to 11.9 percent in 2003. This level of activity ranks the U.S. 7th among 31nations surveyed by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor in Total Entrepreneurial Activity(TEA).1
pitches just-in-time for theircompetitions. One of the realizations coming from the capstone design experience inentrepreneurship is that students need to be exposed to entrepreneurship principles earlier in theirstudies in order to allow them the opportunity to select an appropriate capstone project and learnthe principles of entrepreneurship in time for the competition.Another popular approach used by the KEEN schools to work entrepreneurship into existingcourses was to use educational modules to introduce appropriate topics. A module typicallycovers one aspect of entrepreneurship (such as intellectual property or idea generation) that ispresented in one or more class periods. Ideally, a module contains a lesson plan and some typeof assessment
students for the “real world.” This class tries to provide ahands-on learning experience in which every student can benefit. Futures II providesstudents with real-life applications therefore, assessments are authentic. For example,students go through an interview process to get hired into a department within theEntrepreneurship section of the course. Administration, teachers, staff, college mentorsand community members conduct the interviews. Students are required to have acompleted job application, cover letter, resume, and references; dress appropriately; andare graded using an interview rubric that a potential employer might use for the interviewprocess. Throughout the entire Entrepreneurship section of the course, students areassessed on their
2006-1210: THE ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEURS PROGRAM (EEP) PORTAL:A NEW TOOL FOR IMPROVING ENTREPRENEURSHIP PEDAGOGYStephen Walsh, North Carolina State University Dr. Walsh is a Teaching Associate Professor of ECE at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. He is responsible for teaching undergraduate courses and a special section of Senior Design called the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program (www.engr.ncsu.edu/eep.) In addition, he serves as the department’s distance education coordinator and is a Co-PI on an NSF grant in collaboration with the College of Education. In January of 1997, he co-founded BOPS, Inc. He served as its President and CEO for the first two years and was responsible for
Paper ID #19060 she developed and implemented Legacy Cycles as part of curricular reformation in Biomedical Engineer- ing aimed at increasing flexible knowledge and adaptive expertise of students. In her classes, nursing students engage in critical reasoning and clinical decision making via Legacy Cycle modules on complex topics such as management of anticoagulants, and interpreting arterial blood gas values. She has received the Outstanding Faculty award and the Award for Innovative Instruction as part of the university Quality Enhancement Program. Dr. Geist serves on the strategic committee for the newly designed Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) Certificate offered at Tennessee Technological University
cannot be developed in a single class or course, or,necessarily, in traditional classroom environments. In my experience as a programconsult to entrepreneurship programs, I have found that while entrepreneurship andengineering programs are often innovative in using non-traditional approaches to teachengineering and entrepreneurship, the more rigorous demands of entrepreneurshipeducation which must bring students to a particularly high level of ability and maturitycan be more effective if delivered through a more coherent, seamless, educationalexperience for students. In this article I explain how faculty and program directors canutilize and apply curriculum development processes, student development theories, and
Paper ID #11974Introducing Entrepreneurship and Innovation to Engineering Students Uti-lizing a Mobile App Development ToolDr. Rolfe Josef Sassenfeld, New Mexico State University Dr. Rolfe Sassenfeld, son of German Rocket Scientist Dr. Helmut Sassenfeld, earned his Doctoral degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas, El Paso. He has worked in higher education for 25 years as a Director of Instructional Technology, Computer Science Faculty, and Research Assistant Professor. He is presently an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of the Electronics and Com- puter Engineering program in the Engineering
2006-1541: FACILITATING ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION ATPRIMARILY UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTIONS (PUIS): PROPOSEDFUNCTIONAL AND TEMPORAL MODELSClifton Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College Clifton Kussmaul is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Muhlenberg College, and Chief Technology Officer for Elegance Technologies, Inc. He has a PhD from the University of California, Davis, an MS and MA from Dartmouth College, and a BS and BA from Swarthmore College. His interests include agile development, virtual teams, entrepreneurship education, and cognitive neuroscience, particularly auditory processing.John Farris, Grand Valley State University John Farris is an associate professor in the Padnos College of
activity is developed through a formal entrepreneurship class, where she joins other passionate students; the resulting team enters University business plan competitions, where they receive mentorship and coaching as well as the potential for award money; teams that succeed in the competitions are offered the opportunity for additional, intensive mentoring through a summer bootcamp sponsored by a local angel investor network; at this point, the student entrepreneurs use POC to continue to develop their technology to a level sufficient to receive seed funding. The gap is bridged, one moderate step at a time.Performance Metrics and Keys to SuccessProof of Concept, LLC was established in the summer of 2009, and is still developing
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
Paper ID #36830Catalyzing U.S. Innovation and Entrepreneurship:Approaching the Evaluation of the National ScienceFoundation’s I-Corps ProgramNathalie Duval-couetil (Associate Professor and Director) Nathalie Duval-Couetil is the Director of the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, Associate Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center, and a Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University. Nathalie’s education and research activities focus on entrepreneurship pedagogy and assessment; entrepreneurship and STEM; student intellectual property policy; graduate
Paper ID #16871Disseminating Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiatives throughout a STEM-Focused Campus: An Agile ExperienceProf. Jenifer Blacklock, Colorado School of Mines Dr. Jenifer Blacklock is the Assistant Department Head in the Mechanical Engineering department at Col- orado School of Mines. Jenifer is active in the Undergraduate Curriculum in the Mechanical Engineering department and is an advocate of using hands-on-learning tools to help develop strong math, science and engineering foundations.Prof. Mark B. Mondry, Colorado School of Mines Mark B. Mondry is the Director of the Engineering & Technology
strategic, market and financial criteria.Teaching PhilosophyTechnology-based entrepreneurship, regardless of whether it takes place within a large Page 13.562.2organization or in a startup, requires a mixture of technological and business skills. Our aim indeveloping a joint graduate-level entrepreneurial curriculum between engineering and business isto enhance the blended strengths of the two parties, not turn each into the other. Building thebridge between the two disciplines is the goal, not creating an engineering school within thebusiness school or vice versa.Most entrepreneurial curricula begin with a course on some form of writing a business
Paper ID #30519Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindset and Innovation in a Cross-ListedScience and Engineering CourseDr. Bahram Roughani, Loyola University Maryland Professor of Physics and Associate Dean for the Natural and Applied Sciences at Loyola University Maryland. Experimental condensed matter physicist with emphasis on optical spectroscopy and Electron Microscopy of electronic materials. PI on the NSF-IUSE supported collaborative project, ”The PIPLINE Project”, a national effort in collaboration with American Physical Society (APS) aiming at enhancing Physics Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE) education
, disruptive technologies, intellectual property, entrepreneurship, proposal writing,project planning and control, etc.By adopting a simplistic view for a moment one can reason that there is a hierarchy that can beestablished between intelligence, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship, where the formeris a necessary condition for the latter. In general, intelligence and subject expertise may lead tocreating ideas (ideation). Some of these ideas may lead to innovative problem solutions orinventions. Usually, creation of a working physical (sometimes improved) prototype ends theinnovation process and starts the entrepreneurial process (commercialization). Creativity, ingeneral, can be quantitatively measured as a number of novel ideas. In
StudentsInterested in Entrepreneurship and Pursuing a Master of Science in EngineeringTechnology.Abstract:Many of our students enrolled in our Master of Science in Technology program haveexpressed an interest in learning about entrepreneurship and the development andmanagement of a technology driven company. Students interested in entrepreneurshipcan pursue a 12 credit concentration that includes classes in developing a cohesivemarketing and technology strategy, comparing and contrasting technology strategies forcompanies within the same market niche, developing an entrepreneurial business planand coursework in either small business management or entrepreneurial finance. Onecritical component of this concentration is the utilization of the Marketplace
’ career interest in entrepreneurship change pre-to-post a single entrepreneurial case study experience?4. MethodsThis pilot research was conducted to determine if it was possible to integrate an entrepreneurialcase study into core engineering curriculum and, to a lesser extent, to measure the efficacy of thepedagogy. As a result, this research contains no randomized controls and therefore lacks theability to make causal inferences about the effect or impact of educational experiences. The casestudy and labs were integrated into a 10-week, 20-session introductory engineering solidmechanics course at a western private university in fall and winter quarters of the 2012-2013academic year. A week-by-week overview of the class is shown in
Paper ID #23450Work in Progress: Bridging Research and Entrepreneurship - Master’s Cer-tificate in Translational Biomedical Research at Northwestern UniversityDr. Gloria J Kim, Northwestern University Gloria Kim is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. She also a courtesy faculty member with the Department of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering at the University of Florida. She obtained her B.S. in Chemistry from Seoul National University, M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia
Paper ID #22481A Methodology to Involve Students in the Evaluation of an Engineering Cur-riculum in Design, Entrepreneurship, and InnovationMiss Isabel Hilliger P.E., Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile Isabel Hilliger is the Associate Director for Assessment and Evaluation at the Engineering Education Division in Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile (UC). Isabel received a BEng from UC and an MA in Education Policy from Stanford University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at UC-Engineering. Her research theme is the use of instruments and technological tools to analyze the skills
Paper ID #15794Team Negotiation Strategies in Entrepreneurship Education: Patterns Foundin Engineering Students from Northern California and Santiago de ChileDr. Constanza Miranda Mendoza, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Constanza Miranda holds a PhD in design with a focus in anthropology from North Carolina State Univer- sity. While being a Fulbright grantee, Constanza worked as a visiting researcher at the Center for Design Research, Mechanical Engineering Department, in Stanford. Today she is an assistant professor at the En- gineering School in P.Universidad Cat´olica de Chile where she directs the DILAB
acceleration of their research projects. At UTalca,engineering faculty develop projects and support entrepreneurship through their classes, ormentoring students, but there is still a long way to go in strengthening the support of professorsin these issues.PUC also identifies faculty as fundamental actors who promote entrepreneurship inside theclassrooms. When pushing faculty towards the promotion of entrepreneurship, they make astrategic decision: (1) do not force professors who do not wish to enter to or do not feelconvinced with the entrepreneurship world; (2) talk to them with concepts they understand; and(3) communicate that since entrepreneurship is taught through different disciplines, it should notbe seen as a single concept, which also need
Paper ID #42704The Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Engineering Education:Unlocking Engineers’ Potential through Learning Experiences that CultivateSelf-Efficacy in Embracing New IdeasMs. Nada Elfiki, Stanford University Nada Elfiki was a Visiting Student Researcher in the Design Education Lab in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University from February 2020 to February 2021. Her research interests bridge innovative and entrepreneurial behavior with insights from psychology, focusing on neuroplasticty and mindset in educational development. Nada holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Management and
Paper ID #29929Engagement in Practice: Establishing a Culture of Service-Learning inEngineering Orientation Classes at KSUDr. M. Loraine Lowder, Kennesaw State University M. Loraine Lowder is the Assistant Dean of Accreditation and Assessment at Kennesaw State Univer- sity. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Lowder’s research interests include image processing, computer-aided engineering, and cardiovascu- lar biomechanics. She is also interested in performing research in the area of the scholarship of
specific disciplinaryaudience. In this paper, we propose that explicit rhetorical genre instruction can bolster studentunderstanding of disciplinary reasoning patterns and assumptions of their specific sub-fields. Ourmodel’s attention to the specificity of different engineering discourses makes our methodapplicable in a wide range of engineering communication courses.II. Course Context and Theoretical FrameworkA. Engineering Communication Pedagogy“Preparation for Undergraduate Research” presents a weekly seminar on topics such as currentfaculty research, technical innovation in industry, entrepreneurship, and professionaldevelopment. Each semester, we communication instructors additionally teach students in aseries of three to four workshops in
allows for cultural trends to help students understand the context inan “everyone is in the same boat” rationalization; in which they live. Then, students engage in an environmentalessence, an efficient way to spread the pain and not worry scanning activity reviewing newspapers, news websites,about it. talking with relatives and friends, and other informationAt the other end of the spectrum is the use of programs like sources searching for painpoints.CATME that allow for the input of data on a variety ofdimensions such as GPA, class schedules, open time blocks, Selecting Painpoints: After having prepared themselves,etc. Then, teams are
, Pasadena, CA and an Invited Professor at INRIA Rhone-Alpes, Monbonnot, France. Research interests include computer vision, mobile robotics, intelligent vehicles, entrepreneurship, and education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Flipping the Design Class using “Off-the-shelf” Content: Can it work?ABSTRACTThe benefits and challenges of flipping classrooms have been demonstrated in many recentpapers, including several presented in the Mechanical Engineering Division at AmericanSociety for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition. This,combined with very negative student reviews of the current textbook, convinced the authorat Ohio Northern University (ONU) to experiment with a
for the design and delivery of faculty development programs.Faculty development programs should: a) be relevant and tailored to needs of the audience; b)practical and focused on “what they can do next Monday to make their classes work better;” c)include both disciplinary and pedagogical expertise; d) be evidence-based (supported in soundresearch); e) avoid being prescriptive, dogmatic, or evangelical; and f) teach by example(“practice what you preach”).Faculty development activities to improve engineering students’ entrepreneurship and innovationskills target multiple levels of the educational environment, ranging from classroom instruction,to curriculum development and university infrastructure. Some examples include: • Course design