entrepreneurship exemplified in senior capstone projectsAbstractInnovation and entrepreneurial skills, combined with technological developments, in conjunctionwith requisite social and political forces, will likely be required in order to develop solutions tothe significant problems affecting the world and to marshal the resources required to improve thelives of people. Social entrepreneurship allows for the evaluation of project success toincorporate explicit criteria related to improvements in “assets” beyond those that are easilymeasured monetarily. It is well established that projects and programs can typically onlysucceed when the social requirements and constraints surrounding existing problems and that ofthe proposed
AC 2012-3954: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENT CAPSTONE DE-SIGN PROJECT AND ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSETDr. Ahad Ali, Lawrence Technological University Ahad Ali is an Assistant Professor and Director of the master’s of science in industrial engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Mich., USA. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Tech- nology, Bangladesh; M.S. in systems and engineering management from Nanyang Technological Uni- versity, Singapore, and Ph.D. in industrial engineering from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has published journal and conference papers. His research interests include
2006-2137: ENTREPRENEURIAL DESIGN PROJECTS: WHAT TYPE OFPROJECTS ARE EFFECTIVE IN IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING &ENTHUSIASM?Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University Gül E. Okudan is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Design at The Pennsylvania State University. She received her Ph.D. from University of Missouri-Rolla. Her research interests include intelligent shop floor control, manufacturing strategy modeling and measurement, solid modeling, product design, and product design teams. Her published work appears in journals such as Journal of Engineering Design, Design Studies, Journal of Engineering Education, European Journal of Engineering Education and Technovation. She is a member of ASEE
lightweight robotic systems, high-temperature materials, and micro-/nano-scale devices. He is a member of ASME, ASEE and the American Society for Composites (ASC). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Teaching Entrepreneurial Thinking through a Companion Course for all types of Capstone Senior Design ProjectsAbstractEntrepreneurial thinking is recognized as important to the engineering curriculum; however, thetypical entrepreneurship course is not applicable to all senior design projects, especially thosefrom civil engineering. We recognized that product-based entrepreneurship courses need to beexpanded and more flexible. Therefore, we have developed and implemented Senior
2006-1330: A COMPREHENSIVE MODEL FOR INTEGRATINGENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND CAPSTONE PROJECTS WHILEEXCEEDING ABET REQUIREMENTSJohn Ochs, Lehigh University John B Ochs is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh and Director of the Integrated Product Development Program (IPD), which he co-founded with Dr. Watkins in 1994. He is the past chairman the Entrepreneurship division of the American Society for Engineering Education. From 1985-95 Dr. Ochs did extensive industry consulting and was involved in the start up of three companies. In 1996 the pilot courses IPD won the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ curriculum innovation award and in 1997 IPD won the Newcomen Society award for
the descriptive words were altered (from “Capstone” to “Excellent,”for example). The additional commentary on the right side of the rubric was intended to capturenotes about how the pitch could be improved. The top half of the rubric focuses on content:hook/intro, goals for the solution, target audience, competitive advantage, and closing. Thebottom category is for the presentation’s delivery and it includes evaluation of clarity andimpact.Figure 5.1 Elevator Pitch Rubric6. Assessment and ConclusionsThe rubric was employed for assessing elevator pitches for 20 senior design team projects. Allof the students completed the KEEN elevator pitch module and participated in the in-classactivities. The rubric was available to the students prior to
‘relevance’ into engineering education. Among the most pressing are the culminating experience of a ‘capstone’ and incorporation of instruction in ‘real-world’ applications and in innovative thinking. This paper will examine one approach for integrating entrepreneurship, innovation and real-world design into the engineering capstone experience. The paper will report on a recent multi-disciplinary capstone course that partnered with a small business enterprise. The project enrolled senior engineering students in four disciplines, along with a supporting cast from other colleges, in design of a product to fulfill real-world needs and constraints, a production system for its serial manufacture and a business enterprise for
the jointly-taught entrepreneurial engineering capstone course have been encouraging.Students have demonstrated impressive growth in professional skills and have producedsolutions that have significant business potential. Project sponsors, industry advisors, andbusiness plan judges note admirable achievements of student teams. This course model is offeredto stimulate transformation of capstone design courses to outcomes-driven student learningexperiences that can better prepare graduates for global challenges of the future.IntroductionNational leaders are sounding the alarm: The United States is losing its competitive edge in theglobal marketplace1. Some perceive that the nation is not preparing adequate numbers of peoplein technological
Montgomery County Exemplary Service Award, 2013). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Capstone Engineering Modeling Course for Developing Creative Problem-Solving A.L. Kinney1, M.E. Reissman1, K.P. Hallinan1 1University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.AbstractOver the past twenty years, nearly all job growth in the United States has emerged from new companiesand organizations with assumedly innovative products, services, and practices. Yet, the nurturing ofstudent creative thinking through truly open-ended problem solving is infrequent in engineeringeducation. Engineering design projects most often come with constraints and
CourseAbstractCapstone courses for senior engineering students may be organized in numerous ways. Usually,the goal is to give students a significant development and design experience that will preparethem well for their work following graduation. Sometimes the focus of a capstone course is onsolving technical problems of an advanced project. Sometimes the focus is on getting thestudents to produce a design based on the scope provided by an industry partner. Sometimes thefocus is on giving the students a rich experience in how a team works together. Sometimes thefocus is on the business side of projects and engineering. Sometimes the focus is on coveringmaterial that doesn’t fit in any of the other regular courses. Most capstone courses try to formsome balance
lecturer, butrather serve as a coach or a guide that assists students in completing a longer-term project” (p. 1).17 Page 26.990.5Many of the similarities between entrepreneurship education and Capstone design emerge fromthe fact that historically, Capstone design courses have been modeled around the needs ofIndustry and the desire to provide real-world experience for students, to better prepare them toenter the workforce.18 Faculty teaching Capstone design view the course as a means for studentsto apply what they have learned throughout their undergraduate career through an open-endeddesign project in an environment that simulates the real world
modules into a single course, it is hypothesizedthat not only are the benefits of each exercise combined, but the student learning from onemodule can be used to inform the activities of the other modules. Ideally, the complementaryroles that these learning modules play will encourage a deeper and more thorough interest in andunderstanding of engineering entrepreneurship than can be achieved with a single module alone.The present paper will discuss the implementation of these modules along with studentperception and self-assessment data from the 2018-19 academic year.Course SequenceSenior design projects in the Mechanical Engineering Department at The Citadel are created aspart of a two-semester senior capstone course sequence in which design
theirspecific design project (e.g., doctors’ need for new surgical instruments). Using canvases in thisway also offers opportunities for peer learning, enhanced student-instructor interaction and just-in-time teaching. Lastly, we previously stated that canvases are often created by experts to modela real-world system and that capstone students operate somewhere between novice and expert.The process of creating the canvases as students, while not necessarily resulting in “expert”canvases, can help students as they take the next steps in their transition from novice to expertdesigners. Student-created canvases can be implemented in many ways, and we will providesome example cases illustrating how we’ve used student-created canvases in the
Engineering Education, 2017 Development of a Design Canvas with Application to First-Year and Capstone Design CoursesThe adoption of canvas tools in entrepreneurship and design education is increasing. TheBusiness Model Canvas (BMC), perhaps one of the best-known canvas tools, is the key elementof the Lean LaunchPad methodology (Blank, 2013) – a widely utilized approach to businessmodel development. Importantly, using canvases like the BMC supports student learning througha data-driven and iterative process that actively engages students. Another benefit of the canvasapproach in an educational setting is they can be used in a preliminary or conceptual designphase, where students can begin to identify and make
11.1284.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 The Engineering Entrepreneurs Program Portal: A New Tool for Improving Entrepreneurship PedagogyAbstract:The Engineering Entrepreneurs Program Portal (EEP Portal) is a web-based tool designed for useby students who are participating in the EEP to manage their E-Teams.For background, the EEP is an undergraduate program centered in the College of Engineering,but open to students from all academic disciplines. The program’s methodology providesstudents a more in-depth exposure to entrepreneurship and new product development. E-Teamsare lead by engineering seniors who are fulfilling their senior capstone design projectrequirements. They organize E-Teams
wereencouraged to continue to work together in the College of Engineering Senior Design I andSenior Design II courses with the intent of them being able to commercialize the design.Part of the faculty effort was to build and promote a culture of innovation among engineeringstudents; therefore as a follow up from the course offering in the spring 2013 the facultysupported two projects during their capstone senior design courses for the fall 2013-spring 2014semesters with a strong plan for commercialization of the product. These students weremotivated, self-driven and excited about their projects and the possibility of launching a businesssuccessfully by using our program, and taking advantage of the resources available to them fromour University’s Office
company structure.Entitled Making Industry Meaningful In College (MIMIC), the project was pioneered atIVCC as a one-semester multi-disciplinary project with students from engineering design andbusiness teamed into “companies” to select, design, prototype, manufacture, market and sellproducts. Later, electronics students were added, and MIMIC became a capstone for studentsin several business fields. Now, with the support of a National Science Foundation Grant1,elements of the entrepreneurial project are being incorporated throughout the technicalstudents’ two-year programs.Engineering design and electronics students are being introduced to continuous qualityimprovement in their first, introductory courses, and they are designing and
tool controls and gauging at GTE-Valenite Corp., started and managed the clinical engineering department at William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, and was a research associate in radiology, nuclear medicine, and bio-mechanics at Wayne State University. Ken has taught at Lawrence Tech evening programs as an adjunct instructor since 1965. His senior projects class, where students generate project ideas, research, design, manufacture, and assess the market for inventive products is the capstone course. Cook also has enjoyed a long side career in magic finding his hobby very useful in teaching. A highlight for his students each year is the two-hour magic performance he offers as a congratulatory send
Engineering Capstone Coure. FIE Conference Proceedings. 2010.25. Estell JK, Reid K, Marquart J. Addressing third world poverty in first-year engineering capstone projects: Initial findings. ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings. 2010:AC 2010-2197.26. Chambers R. Rural Development: Putting the Last First. London: Longman; 1983.27. Chambers R. Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last. Warwickshire, England: ITDG; 1997.28. Brock K, McGee R, eds. Knowing Poverty: Critical Reflections on Participatory Research and Policy. London: Earthscan; 2002.29. McGregor JA. Researching wellbeing: from concepts to methodology. In: Gough I, McGregor JA, eds. Wellbeing in developing countries: From theory to research. Cambridge: Cambridge
Interdisciplinary BmE Capstone Design Course to Enable the Continued Supported Employment of Persons With DisabilityAbstract (Mission and Outcomes)A humanitarian need exists to help individuals with disability remain employed in a supportedwork setting. In partnership with a local not-for-profit service agency, our students carried out anentrepreneurial multi-year interdisciplinary biomedical engineering capstone project that innova-tively involved using commercial industrial electronics to make beverage container recyclingmore worker-friendly, flow-efficient and accountable. The project’s mission was to improve theefficiency of, and maximize the dollar return from, a beverage container recycling business,while taking into account
Paper ID #10255Intercollegiate Student Design Projects: Lessons Learned by Four Universi-tiesProf. Nassif E Rayess, University of Detroit MercyDr. Brian A Garner, Baylor University Dr. Brian A.Garner is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University. He re- ceived his PhD in ME from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998, and joined the Baylor faculty in 2002. His research interests include computer modeling of the human musculoskeletal system, algorithms for human motion analysis, biomechanics of equine assisted therapies, and design of therapy assistance devices. His teaching includes capstone
Paper ID #26753The Toy Box Project: Connecting First-Year Engineering Students with En-trepreneurshipDr. Joshua Gargac, University of Mount Union Joshua Gargac is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, OH, where he advises the mechanical engineering senior capstone projects and SAE Baja team. In addition, Dr. Gargac teaches first-year engineering courses, computer-aided design, kinematics and dynamics of machinery, and manufacturing science. He received his BSME from Ohio Northern University and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Notre Dame. Current
funding to support the development oftechnologies to enhance the quality of life for rural Nicaraguans based on sustainable businessmodels. The proposed project was to develop a two course sequence for both UNI and Villanovaengineering students. The first course in the sequence was to be focused on providing thecontextual background for students, especially at Villanova University, and orient them towardshow to identify technology-based, entrepreneurial projects suitable for rural Nicaraguans. Thesecond course was to be focused on the development of sustainable business models for the baseof the pyramid customer. In addition, students would prepare a proposal for their capstone designproject in the first semester course and then execute their
Paper ID #27270An Analysis of Freshman Teamwork Experiences in Required Design and En-trepreneurial Thinking Project-Based Learning CoursesMrs. Sandra Furnbach Clavijo P.E., Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science) Sandra Clavijo is the Director of E-Core Education for the School of Engineering & Sciences at Stevens Institute of Technology. She coordinates the instructional delivery, student registration and scheduling lo- gistics and collection of assessment data for all core courses in the undergraduate engineering and science programs. Sandra also teaches Senior Innovation and Introduction
Paper ID #34977Work in Progress: A Conceptual Design Project for Civil EngineeringFreshmen to Enhance Their Entrepreneurial MindsetDr. J. Chris Carroll, Saint Louis University Dr. Carroll is an Associate Professor and the Civil Engineering Program Coordinator in Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology at Saint Louis University. His experimental research interests focus on reinforced and prestressed concrete, while his engineering education research interests focus on experiential learning at both the university and K-12 levels. Dr. Carroll is also the chair of the American Concrete Institute’s
also fromtechnology, engineering and social context perspectives. During their junior and senior years, theprogram provides undergraduates with a number of unique hands-on research, design, andprototyping experiences including Senior Capstone Projects and specially designed semesterprojects for numerous courses. In addition, in the Networking and Security sector, we designed acourse to mirror this type of rapid development by taking a group of under-skilled sophomore,junior, and senior students, assigning them to groups, and demanding a final product over justone semester. In that class (to be referred to as all-class project-based) just 11 to 14 studentswere challenged to work together to identify a single idea for a network-based end-to
BaylorUniversity addresses this gap in part by seeking project sponsors for the on-campusoffering of Technology Entrepreneurship capstone course whose ventures are in fact“born global.” Examples include two assessments completed in Spring 2008 for ExousiaCorporation from Houston with partnerships and operations in several China cities, andone performed in Fall 2007 for a US owned company located in Suzhou, China. But theexperience of performing a project with Chinese teammates while living in China for sixweeks as a participant in the i5 Program is, of course, a much more immersive andimpacting experience in global technology entrepreneurship.The final presentations being delivered to a team of executives from the sponsoringcompany composed of not only
Technology, is aimed atproviding opportunities for students to gain meaningful, hands-on design experience and toparticipate in humanitarian projects while earning academic credit. These projects are focused onconnecting a team of motivated students with a client to develop a useful solution to their problem.The academic curriculum does not include many opportunities to connect classroom learning withpractical design prior to senior capstone projects. Providing students this opportunity not onlyhelps make the world a better place, but it also changes what it means to be an engineer, instillinga sense of global value into their work. The goal of this paper is to illustrate the entrepreneurialmindset that students develop through this program and to
Paper ID #31106”Teams Teaching Engineering”: A flexible hands-on project promotingmakerspace usage in large introductory lecture classesDr. Kimberly B. Demoret P.E., Florida Tech Kimberly Demoret is responsible for the Aerospace Engineering capstone design program at the Florida Institute of Technology, where she has been an Assistant Professor since 2015. Prior to joining Florida Tech, she worked for eight years at Kennedy Space Center on development of launch systems in support of NASA’s space exploration goals. She also spent 20 years in the Air Force as a developmental engineer and manager, earning her PhD in Mechanical
the approach of the many engineering programs that offer a “real-world” team-basedsenior capstone design experience with its mandate that students be provided a “culminatingmajor design experience which incorporates appropriate engineering standards and multiplerealistic constraints1”. While these types of project experiences can be “created” withinengineering departments, many programs have found that the most effective “real-world”experience comes from projects that are defined and sponsored by industry. Studentsparticipating in these projects have the opportunity for mentoring by industrial project managersand face an increased expectation of results and diligence similar to what they will encounterwhen they begin their professional