Entrepreneurial Mindset through Freshman Engineering Discovery Courses Integrated with an Entrepreneurially Minded Learning (EML) Pedagogic Approach Hyunjae Park Marquette University, Hyunjae.Park@marquette.eduAbstract – It is recognized worldwide that first-year Entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) is anengineering education is critical for new entry-level engineering emerging pedagogy that emphasizes discovery, opportunitystudents to obtain a clear vision and direction for their future. identification, and value creation [4-5]. The EML builds uponThe engineering discovery courses developed at Marquette
; we operationalize this as taking strengthen through this model, and strong engineeringengineering courses and meeting the minimum requirements identities, particularly those that begin in the first year of anset for them by the SoE and Campbell University. Students undergraduate engineering degree, are likely to lead tomove beyond the minimum requirements in the occasional greater student persistence and success [6]. In particular,group, attending extracurricular meetings that interest them students with strong engineering networks and engagement(but are not consistent members) or possibly using the in engineering activities, or students active in a communityfacilities for a one-off
projects learn fromIntroduction to Engineering and Design course. This pilot the creativity and technical skills required to turn their ideassection has been offered for both Fall 2016 and Spring into reality. As hobbyists, these makers are afforded the2017 semesters. The faculty for this 3 credit hour first- ability to work on any project that interests them. However,year course are developing an advanced project for even with cheaper electronics and prototyping tools manystudents who want a challenge beyond the current people still do not have access to or seek out the resourcesoptions. There are three different project choices that necessary for this type of experiential learning. So, why
Learn.” These modules describe learning strategies you can useregression with forward selection was used to build the with our course materials...prediction model, and the problem of overfitting was Both resources can be found on the [LMS] site at the STEM Learningexamined through 10-fold cross-validation. The k-fold cross Enrichments link in the left panel.validation is a process in which original data is divided into I hope you find that these resources help you to learn and perform well!k pieces with the same size, and among k pieces, one piece isused for testing the model, and rest (k-1) of them used