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Innovations in Design within BME Curricula

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Howard P. Davis, Washington State University; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University

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Biomedical

AC 2011-756: INTEGRATION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATIONINTO A BIOENGINEERING CAPSTONE DESIGN CLASSHoward P Davis, Washington State University Dr. Davis received degrees from The Evergreen State College (BA 1976), WSU (BS 1981, MS 1988) and the University of Oregon (Ph.D. 1993). He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering. He has been the president and CEO of IPM, a medical device company and Total Dynamics LLC a software company. He is also on the board of directors of Developing World Technologies, a company started by former students of the capstone class that he teaches. His interests include engineering and entrepreneurship

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Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Calvin C. Jen, Calvin College; Tyler Scott Helmus, Calvin College; Steven H. VanderLeest, Calvin College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2011-873: TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP THROUGH VIRTUESCalvin C. Jen, Calvin College Cal Jen, M.Arch., is currently serving as an associate professor of business at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI where he has taught business full-time for the past 4 years. He has previously taught archi- tecture for 12 years as adjunct faculty at the University of Michigan and at Calvin College. He has 30 years of business experience in architecture and corporate management including 15 years as the founder and principal architect of AMDG Architects, and 9 years as the senior vice president of real estate and human resources for Domino’s Farms (global headquarters of Domino’s Pizza). Cal has also served on a wide variety of

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Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerald Nelson, Mississippi State University; Melissa L Moore, American Society of Agricultural Engineers; Rodney A. Pearson, Mississippi State University; Robert S. Moore, Mississippi State University; Allison Pearson, Mississippi State University; Abby Lammons Thompson, Mississippi State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2011-934: IPHONE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLASS: BRIDGING THEGAP BETWEEN ENGINEERING AND BUSINESS TO CREATE AN EN-TREPRENEURIAL CULTUREGerald Nelson, Mississippi State University Gerald Nelson is an Industrial Engineering graduate of Mississippi State University who later went on to receive his MBA. Nelson’s career includes former positions as Plant Manager, Trinity Industries; Presi- dent and Chief Operating Officer of the Wear Resistance Group of Thermadyne Industries, Inc.; Executive Vice President of Operations, Viasystems Group, Inc.; and Chief Operating Officer of Deka Medical, Inc. In 2006, Nelson assumed responsibility as Director for the Thad Cochran Endowment for Entrepreneur- ship, which fosters funds and

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Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ken Vickers, University of Arkansas; Carol Reeves, University of Arkansas

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

graduatestudent.Approved in 2007, the Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship includes an introductory class(Foundations of Business for Entrepreneurs) that introduces non-business students to basicbusiness concepts as they apply to entrepreneurs. Following successful completion of this class,students take a two-course sequence (New Venture Development and Business Plan Project)with graduate business students. These classes address opportunity recognition and new venture Page 22.944.5development and funding. The fourth class in the Certificate program is an elective class thatcan be taken within or outside the student’s major classes.A key component of the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Nur Ozge Ozaltin, University of Pittsburgh; Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Phil Weilerstein, VentureWell

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NSF Grantees

Management dean, university administration, advisory board members, faculty, student rep- resentatives, entrepreneurial mentors, associations with entrepreneurial-based societies • Management housed (e.g., existing department, standalone center, etc.) Community • Alumni exploits and start-ups impact • Innovations • Employment of students in start-ups School per- • Engineering faculty publications in technical entrepreneurship formance • Average number of students enrolled in classes compared to School of Engi- neering enrollment • Tenure of courses • Frequency of courses offered Strategic • Internal resources planning

Conference Session

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

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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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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Manufacturing Process Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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ECE Division Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heinz Schmidt-Walter, Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany; Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, College of Technology, West Lafayette; James L. Barnes, James Madison University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2011-2853: DETECT - DESIGN ENTREPRENEURSHIP TECHNOL-OGY ENGINEERING COLLABORATION TRANSATLANTIC PROJECTHeinz Schmidt-Walter, Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany Heinz Schmidt-Walter is from Germany, the town of Bremen. He studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Hannover where he also got his PhD in the area of power electronics. Consequently his first industrial engagement was in power electronics, specially high speed brushless frequency drives for high speed centrifuges. 1988 he went back to the University, first to the privat University of Deutsche Telekom, where he worked and lectured in power electronics, specially Switch mode power supplies. 2000 he changed to the University of applied siences

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The Best of Design in Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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Novel Entrepreneurship Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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R. Radharamanan

the KEEN network review student projects 1-2 months before (when first prototype is created); professors at different schools teach classes over the internet to get a different perspective on entrepreneurship; record guest speakers and make them available to other KEEN colleges or do it live over the internet; summer exchange program between schools; program that allows students to shadow entrepreneurs; and podcast every two weeks in which an entrepreneur sends in a problem and students can present their solutions.4. Mercer Entrepreneurship Student ClubMercer Entrepreneurship Student Club (MESC) started in 2007, as part of MEEEP to promote students activities on innovation and entrepreneurship across Mercer campus. More than 60

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Raghu Echempati, Kettering University

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Mechanical Engineering

usually a combination of entrepreneurship and other businesscourses, such as accounting and marketing. On another note, one of the barriers to attractingstudents from across campus into entrepreneurship courses can be pre-requisites. Almost all ofBelmont’s courses are experiential in nature in the sense that their students work on projectsdirectly related to their businesses, their ideas for businesses, or from their area of interest, suchas music, art, health sciences, history, English.At Belmont, entrepreneurship programs reach students across campus by offering specializedlectures and even specific courses within various programs. Their professors often integrateassignments in their classes around the entrepreneurship topics covered in these

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Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anthony Marchese, Colorado State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Growth, Venture Capital MGT 440 Management 15 New Venture Legal, Insurance and Regulatory Issues MGT 440 Management4. ImplementationThe first offering of MECH/AREC 581 - Sustainable Technology Entrepreneurship for Scientistsand Engineers – occurred in the Spring 2010 semester. The course was team taught by theauthors of this paper. Given the experimental nature of this first offering and the limited timefor advertising its existence, it was anticipated that enrollment would likely consist of 15 to 20students. However, a total enrollment of 40 students was achieved among 6 different majors.The formal meeting time for the class consisted of a single weekly 3-hour block, which wastypically split

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Novel Entrepreneurship Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert S. Crockett, California Polytechnic State University; Daniel W. Walsh, California Polytechnic State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

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

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University-Pueblo

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, 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

Conference Session

Sustainability and Humanitarian Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Khanjan Mehta, Penn State University; Duarte B. Morais, North Carolina State University; Yu Zhao, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2011-2654: MILKING THE RHINO - INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS SHOW-CASE: PROMOTING ETHICS EDUCATION, USER-CENTERED DESIGNAND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXTKhanjan Mehta, Penn State University Khanjan Mehta is the Director of the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) Pro- gram at Penn State University. His professional interests include innovative system integration, high-tech entrepreneurship and international social entrepreneurship. Khanjan loves connecting concepts, people, computers and devices. A basic philosophy behind his work is the convergence of disciplines, concepts, cultures, and countries to create a freer, friendlier, fairer and more sustainable planet. He has led social

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Randall Brouwer, Calvin College; Aubrey Sykes, Calvin College; Steven H. VanderLeest, Calvin College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

situation they encounter. Some schools have developedoptional minors or special entrepreneurial certificates. Other schools have revised existingcourses to include new entrepreneurial topics. The most common place to focus such changes isthe capstone course. In this course, students are challenged to use learning from prior classes tosolve specific, and sometimes real-world, problems. This paper will describe our approach atCalvin College for instilling the entrepreneurial mindset in each of our engineering students,particularly in the capstone design course.Previous Work in This AreaA number of schools have been in the process of integrating entrepreneurship into engineeringcapstone (senior design) courses. A survey of the various approaches

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas E. Allen, Bucknell University; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

innovationecosystem, but recognize the challenges in doing so on top of or in competition withother activities. One clearly identified need was for release time. There was a stronginterest in establishing endowed professorships in innovation that would be distributedacross disciplines. These professorships would have release time and financial resources.They would be appointed for terms and then become available to others. There was also astrong interest in a pool of student assistantships available. Such assistance would behelpful in developing class exercises or on short-term innovation projects. As mentioned above, as part of the workshops, the faculty studied organizations atother universities on innovation and entrepreneurship as well as other

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; William M. Jordan, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2011-734: ENGINEERING EDUCATON AND THE ENTREPRENEURIALMINDCynthia C. Fry, Baylor University Sr. Lecturer of Computer Science, Assistant Dean of the School of Engineering & Computer Science, Baylor UniversityWilliam M. Jordan, Baylor University WILLIAM JORDAN is the Mechanical Engineering Department Chair at Baylor University. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, an M.A. degree in Theology from Denver Seminary, and a Ph.D. in mechanics and materials from Texas A & M University. He teaches materials related courses. He does work in the areas of entrepreneurship and appropriate technology in developing countries. He also writes and does research in

Conference Session

Research and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

general trend inengineering education to focus on innovation, is a strong motivator for the institution toincorporate entrepreneurial education in its programs.The institution received its first Kern Family Foundation grant in 2006. This grant led to thecreation of an elective course for entrepreneurship. The Kern Family Foundation awarded asecond grant in 2007, which allowed the institution to continue the academic class and create aminor in entrepreneurship. Like others, the institution expanded its entrepreneurial curricular andco-curricular activities beyond the academic class during the period of 2007-2008. Studentsorganized an Entrepreneur Society, to help each other start their own businesses. The BusinessDepartment filled an endowed chair

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Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeremy Brett Ross, East Tennessee State University; Keith V. Johnson, East Tennessee State University; Kevin Wade Varney, East Tennessee State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

approach.This engineering technology-driven program has evolved to incorporate students from manyother departments throughout campus (i.e., art, history, international studies, etc.). This hasprovided all students an opportunity to experience an engineering technology program they maynot have had otherwise. The coursework focuses on the Roman architectural concepts,environmental sustainability, construction methods, materials, and applications.The vision for this project is to have a permanent study center abroad or an ETSU at Romecampus. In 2009, the first class had 13 participants. In 2010, we offered three class choices for17 students, and we will have approximately 25 students enrolled for 2011. Our growth isevolving as a result of creative

Conference Session

Research and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; David Pistrui, Acumen Dynamics, LLC

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

development, business succession, assessment modeling, technology transfer, executive education and social science research. This includes programs and activities in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Dr. Pistrui has held several scholarly appointments in the US and Europe, including the Coleman Founda- tion Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He served as the founding Managing Director of the Wharton Enterprising Families Initiative at the Wharton School of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. In addition, Dr. Pistrui held the Raymond Chair in Family Business and served as the Founding Director of the Center for Family Business and Entrepreneurial Leadership at Alfred

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurial interventionsthat we incorporate into the freshmen engineering experience. These interventions occurthroughout the first year of study in engineering.In the engineering students‟ first quarter, a one class introduction to the definitions and conceptsof entrepreneurship is conducted. A particular emphasis is placed on the excitement and risksassociated with starting something new and the need to overcome the fear of failure,demonstrated in „Failure: The Secret to Success‟, a film produced by Honda. A discussion of thesocietal role of entrepreneurs underscored by playing The Acton Institute video, „The Call of theEntrepreneur’ (ref: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pem0ZSsMQVA ).27 An inspirationalcall to consider entrepreneurial ventures

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Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica R. McCormick, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Beverly Radloff, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Nancy Lamm, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Terri L. Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

globe.11Programs that not only incorporate liberal arts, but require students to take classes on culturalawareness and participate in international exposure, thru study abroad and/or foreign language,produce engineers that are ready to work in the global engineering economy. One of the majorstrengths of the dual degree program is the students’ ability to receive an excellent liberal artseducation that not only includes foreign language but also includes culture, history, and othertraditional liberal education topics.11 This research continues by claiming that the program isintended to explicitly prepare graduates to work in the international engineering environment bysupplementing language skills with cultural, political, and economic knowledge

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Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William D. Schindel, ICTT System Sciences; Samuel N. Peffers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jameel Ahmed, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

include systems engineering, quality, manufacturing systems, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Page 22.154.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 All Innovation Is Innovation of Systems: An Integrated 3-D Model of Innovation CompetenciesAbstractThe development of the future generations of innovators is of central interest to engineeringeducators. What are the competencies of innovation and how do we develop them? There is aconsiderable body of scholarly, business, and popular literature concerned with thecharacteristics of innovative people and organizations, in which

Conference Session

Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carolyn A Vallas, University of Virginia; Wraegen Williams, University of Virginia, Center for Diversity in Engineering

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Minorities in Engineering

needed for America to compete in the diverse globaleconomy. This outreach effort has been designed and implemented with the aim of instillingan interest in computer science, engineering and entrepreneurship among the futureinnovators of America.LEAD-SEI’s three-week core curriculum consists of a team-based research project andcomputer science. These components allow groups to develop innovative solutions,products/prototypes, business plans and technology driven presentations to address real worldproblems; including the global challenges of the 21st century. In addition to theaforementioned, participants learn the scope of the different engineering fields fromUniversity professors and graduate students. Beyond discovering computer science

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WIED Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorelle A. Meadows, University of Michigan; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan

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Women in Engineering

AC 2011-1319: THE EFFECT OF SKEWED GENDER COMPOSITIONON STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERINGPROJECT TEAMSLorelle A Meadows, University of Michigan Dr. Lorelle Meadows is Director of Academic Programs in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. In this role, she holds primary responsibility for the design, management and delivery of the first year program to undergraduate students. She also serves as a catalyst for coordination among the engineering programs encompassed by the Office of Undergraduate Education, including the Center for Entrepreneurship, the International Programs Office and the Multidisciplinary Design program. In this role within the college, she also has