courses can help students develop networking skills, Jukola etal. (2017), entrepreneurship-based projects in manufacturing courses can help students develop asense of ownership and responsibility by taking ownership of their projects and be responsiblefor their outcomes. 3MethodologyEntrepreneurship based project component was implemented in the Advanced Manufacturingcourse taught at Rowan University. The project contributed 10% towards the final grade.Students were grouped into 3 member teams. The project description was as followsProject StatementYou are joining hands with 3 other class mates to embark upon a product innovation venture.Your team
Paper ID #39198Divergence and Convergence in Engineering Leadership, Entrepreneurship,Management, and PolicyDr. Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia Kathryn Neeley is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the Engineering & So- ciety Department of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. She is a past chair of the Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division of ASEE and isDr. Rider W. Foley, California State University, Channel Islands Dr. Rider W. Foley is an assistant professor in the science, technology & society program in the De- partment of Engineering and Society at the
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. 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
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
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
Paper ID #37008Board 296: Fostering Leaders in Technology Entrepreneurship (FLiTE):Program Goals and First-Year ActivitiesDr. Paul M. Yanik, Western Carolina UniversityDr. Chip W Ferguson, Western Carolina University Chip Ferguson is the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Technology and Professor of Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University.Dr. Andrew Ritenour, Western Carolina University Andrew Ritenour is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering + Technology at Western Carolina University (WCU). In addition to teaching in the field of electrical engineering, he coordinates
Paper ID #38472Landscape Review of Entrepreneurship Education in Canada and thePresence of Systems ThinkingMr. Amin Azad, University of Toronto Amin is a doctoral student at the University of Toronto’s Department of Chemical Engineering, pursuing a collaborative specialization in Engineering Education. Amin focuses on applying Systems Thinking Principles to Engineering Education and assessing its learning outcomes when solving wicked problems, especially in the field of Entrepreneurship. Amin obtained his MASc. and BASc from the University of Toronto, both in Industrial Engineering, and has worked as a consultant and
Paper ID #37294The Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Innovation: A new approach to lookingat the creative contributions of engineering graduatesMr. Felix Kempf, King’s College London Felix Kempf is a PhD Researcher at King’s Business School, King’s College London (United Kingdom) and an Assistant Researcher in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineer- ing at Stanford University. Felix holds a Bachelor andNada Elfiki, Swarthmore College Nada Elfiki is a researcher in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Her research interests focus on
department) and the mix of students. How is a department,program, or institution to quantify the multidisciplinarity of a class or student team? The number ofmajors is a simple metric, but it does not capture cognitive distance between majors. Beyond the numberof majors and cognitive distance, a measure should also account for the proportion of students in eachdiscipline. To describe the multidisciplinarity of educational programs, we propose the use of the Rao-Stirling diversity index, which has been used to quantify the multidisciplinarity of research papers,authors, research centers, departments, and institutions. The index requires a measure of distancesbetween categories, in this case students’ majors. In studies on university research
combining the humanities and social sciences with STEM education to create a unique learning experience for students.Jeffrey Stransky, Rowan University Jeff joined the field of engineering education after receiving his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engi- neering from Rowan University in May 2019. He conducted research as part of his senior design course on the analysis of Process Safety Decision MakingDr. Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University Dr. Bodnar is an Associate Professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department at Rowan University. Her research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques such as game- based learning in undergraduate classes as well as innovation and
on engineering education, EM, and related topics. Thecommunity members upload class materials, ideas, and stories to informal collections referred toas cards. The umbrella organization of partner institutions is the Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN); partners include more than 50 colleges and universities across theUnited States.One challenge many engineering educators face when developing EM modules in classrooms ishow they might assess student mindset shifts. The Engineering Unleashed community hasworked on this topic for many years, and many useful tools have been developed or adaptedfrom the fields of education or psychology. This paper describes a long-term effort to categorizeand understand the types of assessment
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI).Jeffrey Stransky, Rowan University Jeff joined the field of engineering education after receiving his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engi- neering from Rowan University in May 2019. He conducted research as part of his senior design course on the analysis of Process Safety Decision MakingDr. Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University Dr. Bodnar is an Associate Professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department at Rowan University. Her research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques such as game- based learning in undergraduate classes as well as innovation and entrepreneurship. ©American Society for Engineering Education
would rather watch a video than read anarticle, and that by doing so their content retention increases by 35% [9].In a study at a large research university in the Southeastern United States, students weregenerally positive about using pre-class videos for their courses [10]. In this application, a 20-minute video was not considered unreasonably long. The students had definite suggestions forimprovement, such as that the videos needed to be professionally produced and thoroughly testedon the proper equipment before being released to the students. Videos should be kept short andaccompanied by some sort of pre-class learning activities, which also should not take too muchtime. The research also suggested that the videos cover the learning content
in agriculture, experience in programming, theability to break down a problem, being able to communicate well, and strong interpersonal skillsin their engineers or engineering interns. There are themes of communication, teamwork, andbreaking down problems, all of which are classified as meta-skill resources.When asked about what was missing in their undergraduate education, one participant mentionedthe lack of a class on entrepreneurship and communication. Others mentioned that there was anopportunity for them to take more technical classes that would have been helpful, but they werenot able to take them before entering the ag-tech industry. These ideas point to the need to sharewhat the ag-tech industry is looking for in their engineers and
Paper ID #37822Board 6: WIP: Development and Implementation of a Makerspace Class forBME Undergraduates to Enhance Skills in Senior DesignDr. Miiri Kotche, University of Illinois Chicago Miiri Kotche is the Richard and Loan Hill Clinical Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago and currently serves as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs in Engineering. Her research interests center on experiential learning, interdisciplinary collaboration, and promoting biomed- ical engineering through high school science teacher professional development.Dr. Anthony E. Felder, The University of Illinois at
Paper ID #39595Board 106: Innovation through Making Course: Creating a DistinctivePrototyping Experience as Part of a New Entrepreneurial Pathway (Work inProgress)Mitra Varun Anand, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Mitra Anand serves as the Associate Director of Makerspace, and Innovation and Entrepreneurship, in addition to being an Adjunct Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Anand’s research interests lie in combining hands-on Maker skills with an entrepreneurial mindset and value creation, aiming to develop practical solutions for real-world problems. He is enthusiastic about
incorporationof entrepreneurial engagement and the development of students’ “entrepreneurial mindsets”.Entrepreneurship in the engineering curriculum promotes the development of soft skills, businessknowledge, and the ability to create innovative solutions for “real-world” applications andcustomers – many of the skills that students feel they lack as they work towards their degrees. Inturn, students who participate in entrepreneurial activities in their engineering programs havebeen found more likely to pursue an engineering career post-graduation compared to studentswho have no entrepreneurial experience [6].To stimulate more entrepreneurial involvement within the range of STEM disciplines, theNational Science Foundation (NSF) and the National
to ensure that graduates fit into Ghanaian industry and competelocally and globally. Palm has small classes to ensure every student gets the required attentionthey deserve from faculty.The Palm GreenLab seeks to provide an array of offerings and support for studententrepreneurship, including co-curricular workshops and special events. In Fall 2022, theGreenLab ran its first Startup Weekend - a two day intensive experience in which studentspitched and evaluated ideas, formed teams, worked to identify and address important elementsand issues for their project, and presented their project to a panel of judges. The main goals wereto generate student interest and enthusiasm in entrepreneurship, and to help students appreciatethe knowledge, skills
enroll in differenttypes of EEPs, including business, engineering, and seminar EEPs throughout theirundergraduate studies, to identify potential roadblocks and catalysts to diversifying engineeringstudents' participation in different EEPs [20], [21], [22].MethodologyData Collection Student enrollment data was gathered from the registrar's office at a sizable publicresearch institution in the United States. Records of undergraduate students who receiveddegrees from the College of Engineering between 2007 and 2018 were gathered to help definethe scope of this study. The dataset is comprised of information about the enrollment of 15415students in the number of credits for entrepreneurship classes provided by the College ofEngineering and the
in improving the quality of student knowledge, developing knowledge, andcreating a positive attitude toward learning [13-16].In this research, we introduce a framework in a computer engineering class that combines PBLand EM to promote critical thinking, creativity, interdisciplinary research, teamwork, andenhance communication skills. The framework utilizes PBL to provide students with hands-onentrepreneurial experience in the context of an Internet of Things design project. In [13], Arias etal. proposed integrating Entrepreneurship education in computer engineering master’s degreeprograms using a PBL approach. However, the method was applied to the master’s degreeprogram and was focused on a common project.Interdisciplinary research was
usingpictures, videos, and numerical methods. Few universities utilize an active lab component formanufacturing courses leaving students with visual media for learning a traditionally hands-onprocess. To address this gap, we present an entrepreneurially minded manufacturing assessmentsurvey assignment where students research and select a product that is relevant to the materialcovered in class. The assignment is a formal manufacturing assessment survey that allowsstudents to investigate “real-world” components to explore how they were manufactured withjustification as to why the product was made using this specific process. Students produced amanufacturing assessment survey for each of the major manufacturing topics learned in the class.At completion
designed the workshop to follow the steps associated with a typical research project. In each section,we challenge participants to think about research as a way to enhance student mindset. We developedshort presentations that were then followed by active learning worksheets in a printed field guide. Most ofthe active learning worksheets were designed to be easily adapted for use with research students backhome.Module 1. Connecting Research to Your Career. In this module we encourage participants to thinkabout how they might connect research to other parts of their roles. In the activity, we ask participants tobuild a concept map that connects their research to service, classes, and other aspects of their work. Anexample of this type of concept map
significantly improved)process” (Medina et al., 2005). Sometimes the concept of innovation in engineering seems to beused almost interchangeably with creativity and/or entrepreneurship. Knowledge aboutinnovation in industry has been embedded in higher education programs with the understandingthat engineering students need to be prepared to become the next generation of innovationleaders (Cropley, 2015; Law and Geng, 2019). Previous research found students’ self-rated skillsand abilities related to innovation were strongly correlated to creativity (0.816), moderatelycorrelated with product development (0.614), start-up processes (0.619), leadership (0.545), andfinancial value (0.517), and weakly correlated with risk (0.354) and teamwork (0.269
and events, we foster student participation and providethem different platforms to enhance their EM thinking and practice their EM skills. On thecurricular side, students mainly go through similar experiences. Short e-learning modules that areintegrated into courses are used to expose students to a wide range of entrepreneurial concepts.EML class activities and assignments that are associated with these modules further fosterdevelopment of an EM. The other two curricular components, the entrepreneurship course andthe entrepreneurial engineering certificate, are elective and customized to the student. Our efforts to foster an EM in students span back more than a decade. Most of the focusduring the initial years was on the program
Experiential Engineering Education Department at Rowan University. Her research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques such as game- based learning in undergraduate classes as well as innovation and entrepreneurship.Dr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University Samantha Brunhaver, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor within The Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Her primary areas of research include engineering ca- reer pathways and decision-making, undergraduate student persistence, professional engineering practice, and faculty mentorship. Brunhaver graduated with her B.S. in mechanical engineering from Northeastern University and
, especially, the importance of communication and planning with my peers. The collaborationand participation among my group had to be structured, planned, and dynamic when we researched aboutbio-inspired professional reports. I learned the importance of proactive planning ahead of deadlines andconsistently communicating what my progress was on my research.”“Another skilled learned was teamwork. Teamwork in the project was needed to collaborate all of onesideas to make the best possible outcome. Overall this class taught us all the skills needed to perform bestas an engineer in the field.”“It helped me engage in critical thinking and learn more about how to effectively write summaries afterreading various articles. My approach to problems have changed
Paper ID #38548Design of Entrepreneurially Minded (EM) Effective Learning Strategiesfor Engineering Students: Course Structure, Grading Rubrics, SyllabusDesign, and In-Class Mini Labs for Student Motivation and LearningDr. Muzammil Arshad, Texas A&M University Dr. Muzammil Arshad earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology, and his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan.Dr. Rebecca R. Romatoski, St. Ambrose University Dr. Romatoski earned their PhD in Nuclear Science and Engineering
individuals who identify with more than one historically disenfranchisedgroup simultaneously (Crenshaw, 1991, 2015; May, 2015). For example, rather than assume thatthe implications of identifying with a minoritized racial/ethnic group in a particular context willbe similar for both men and women, an intersectional approach starts from the assumption thatindividuals with each combination of gender and racial/ethnic identity will have uniqueexperiences (Essers et al., 2010). Research in entrepreneurship has considered the influence ofintersecting racial/ethnic, gender, social class and religious identities (Romero & Valdez, 2016),with a limited number of studies focusing on academic entrepreneurship specifically (Jackson etal., 2022; Mickey &
FrameworkSchilling [5] states that innovation programs aimed at economic growth have a strong relationshipwith activities promoting economic growth. The core practices of these institutions emphasizeleadership and management programs that support global innovation programs. Although manyinitiatives exist to encourage creativity and entrepreneurship among undergraduate students, notall of them may be successful or long-lasting. The goal of sustainable innovation programs is toensure their long-term viability. Research group [4] note that many programs are not designed tomeet the unique needs and interests of the students they serve, which is a major factor in theirsuccess. For instance, students interested in social entrepreneurship, or the arts may not be