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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 4: Curriculum and Programmatic Effects

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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EntrepreneurshipAbstractThis work-in-progress paper explores three different academic opportunities that introduceundergraduate students to innovation and engineering entrepreneurship. Courses focused on theexplicit teaching of knowledge, skills, and attitudes associated with innovation andentrepreneurship are inherently able to include learning objectives that align with many of theABET student outcomes, including how to: understand the context in which an engineeringdesign will be implemented, effectively communicate ideas, work in multidisciplinary teams, andparticipate in ethical decision making. The three academic opportunities offered at the Universityof Illinois Urbana-Champaign which are discussed in this paper include: 1) a semester-longintroductory course

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 5: Exploring and Re-Examining Ideas in Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Felix Kempf, King's College London; Nada Elfiki, Stanford University; Aya Mouallem, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; George Toye; Micah Lande, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Kei Hysi; Xiao Ge, Stanford University; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University

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paper, looking at workplace practices that promoteengineering graduates going out into the world and generating these new ideas. We call thisoverlap or nexus between innovation and entrepreneurship the “Embracing New Ideas” (ENI)space and identify self-efficacy and behavioral measures that capture its essence. We alsoconsider how to promote these associated behaviors in the workplace, situating our model in theframework of Social Cognitive Career Theory. Our associated research questions are: ● RQ1: How can Embracing New Ideas (ENI) be operationalized into measures of self- efficacy and behaviors? ● RQ2: What workplace, self-efficacy and personal factors relate to these behaviors in a variety of organizations?For organizations that

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Joe Bradley, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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engineers for professional endeavors.Students have numerous career choices available to them after graduation, and there is anopportunity to teach students how to navigate these options and make decisions that align withtheir professional and personal values and goals. This paper describes the implementation of anew course entitled Pathways to Impact offered at a large university that was created with theformal objective of exposing students to various professional pathway options and decision-making considerations. This course serves to enhance student confidence in understanding thedifferent ways in which they can make an impact throughout their careers, all while creating alearning experience that aims to strengthen students’ entrepreneurial

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 5

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chloe Grace Hincher, North Carolina State University; Olgha Bassam Qaqish, North Carolina State University

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Paper ID #41935WIP: Exploring Concept Maps as an Innovative Assessment Tool in Teachingand Learning Outside the ClassroomChloe Grace Hincher, North Carolina State University Chloe Hincher is a first-year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University. She is interested in the application of extracellular matrix biomaterial scaffolds to support stem cell therapy for cardiac applications. She is also the graduate assistant for the Grand Challenges Scholars Program, where she supports the program’s summer research experience for undergraduates, aids in program development, and

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 6

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sandra Furnbach Clavijo P.E., Stevens Institute of Technology

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entrepreneurial mindset as required student attributes for graduation. Oncerequired as learning outcomes, faculty would benefit from training on teaching these professionalskills and assessment methodology for professional skills development.The site has already added acquiring an entrepreneurial as a student learning outcome andteaches entrepreneurial mindset in stand-alone courses. Still, recent research suggests it shouldbe integrated into technical content. It seems dangerous to off-load these important professionalskills to be only taught outside of the engineering curriculum in either humanities or other stand-alone courses. A more integrated approach is needed. Engineering programs can consider addingentrepreneurial mindset to the engineering

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 6: Undergraduate and Faculty Research

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Alanna D. Epstein, University of Michigan; Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University

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faculty and graduate students involved in these activities. Today, only a very smallpercentage of engineers and scientists who are involved in research are exposed to technologycommercialization training or activity. At many research universities, the primary role for facultyis very oriented towards scientific production, more than either teaching or entrepreneurialengagement. Many individual and institutional factors are believed to influence academicresearchers’ decisions regarding whether to engage in academic entrepreneurship, and whether tocontinue to stay involved. Therefore, increasing participation requires a comprehensiveunderstanding of academic researcher motivations.Motivation for EntrepreneurshipMotivation is defined as “a set of

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 6: Undergraduate and Faculty Research

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maysam Nezafati, Georgia Institute of Technology; Irene Reizman, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University

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could benefit from research training from an EM perspective to helpthem see and prepare for a career in creative, entrepreneurial activities.Allowing students to not only learn about but also to practice EM-focused activities in the contextof their current, ongoing research, can encourage students to demonstrate the unmet need andopportunities they are addressing through their research. Supporting students and faculty in UGRexperiences through an EM lens has the potential to unleash the innovation and agency of next-level undergraduate students, who may become graduate students, and who may become our nextleaders in engineering.Future work:Our one-year follow-up survey will be distributed to this baseline cohort in the fall of 2023, whichwill

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 2: Assessing the Entrepreneurial Mindset, Curiosity, and Workplace Preparedness

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meagan Eleanor Ita, Arvinas; Amanda Marie Singer, The Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University

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first year. Despite those constructs increasing,students generated questions pertaining to Information Seeking and Stress Tolerance constructsmost frequently in the direct pre and post assessment, with approximately 60% and 25% ofquestions coded into those categories, respectively. The frequency of codes was not differentbetween the pre and post assessments. These findings suggest that further work is needed tounderstand discrepancies between how students perceive their curiosity personality and how theyexercise that curiosity in an academic context. This paper explores the direct and indirectassessment data sets and discusses implications for our findings on pedagogical approaches tofostering curiosity in first-year

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 4

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadia Al-Aubaidy, Norwich University

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-inspired) projects using photovoice. Photovoice is a participatoryaction research strategy, an ethnographic and experiential technique combining photography andimages, narrative and critical dialogue, and reflection to uncover social issues and promotechange [13], [14]. In return, that will enable students to share information and allowinterpretation processes at a deeper level.1.1 Problem IdentificationSustainability is a complex problem and a decision-oriented endeavor that requires the expertiseand integration of business, architecture, engineering, technology, community, policy, and law[15]. Subsequently, engineering curricula must cultivate an ability to recognize the importance ofdiverse knowledge to solve this emerging problem. In addition

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 1: Robotics and Bio-Inspired Projects

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monsuru O. Ramoni, Navajo Technical University; Jonathon Chinana; Ty Shurley, Navajo Technical University; Kathryn Hollar, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

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mechanics and bioprocess engineering. She began her position as Director of Community Programs and Diversity Outreach at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2003. In partnership with faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students, she develops and implements programs for K-12 students, teachers, un- dergraduates, and families that are designed to increase scientific and engineering literacy, and to inspire people with diverse backgrounds to pursue science and engineering careers. At the undergraduate level, she directs a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program that brings students to Harvard for 10 weeks to work in research laboratories. This program hosts between 45-70

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 1: Robotics and Bio-Inspired Projects

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Jianfeng Ma, Saint Louis University; Lisa Bosman, Marquette University; Maged Mikhail, Purdue University Northwest; Khalid H. Tantawi, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Beshoy Morkos, University of Georgia

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professors who are teaching mathematicallyintensive engineering subjects are seeking effective pedagogical approaches to motivate students [15].2.2 Current Approaches for Motivating Engineering StudentsKEEN is a US nationwide network of more than 30 undergraduate engineering programs that are committedto the mission of graduating engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset (curiosity, connections, and creatingvalue-3Cs) so they can create personal, economic, and societal value through a lifetime of meaningful work[16][17].KEEN has organized numerous workshops/seminars to teach engineering faculty members fundamentalpedagogical techniques of Entrepreneurial Minded Learning (EML), Active/cooperative Learning (ACL),and Problem/project-based learning (PBL

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 4

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tobias Rossmann, Lafayette College; Martin Johnson

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. In order to break down thefaculty/staff/student barrier, each student finds professors and staff members whose interests alignwith their passions. Experienced entrepreneurs, serving as “Entrepreneurs or Innovators InResidence” to the college play a key role, enabling fellows to see the links between their academicpursuits and their entrepreneurial passions. This personal coaching has been extremely effectiveover the first three years of the fellowship program, kick-starting students into high levels ofengagement and ownership in charting their path. Students also meet with entrepreneurial peerleaders (typically junior or senior level undergraduate fellows) regularly to help navigate collegelife.During the winter interim, fellows start an

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 6

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nada Elfiki, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; George Toye; Micah Lande, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Felix Kempf, King's College London; Lauren Marie Aquino Shluzas, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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) and Centers(offering co- or extra-curricular activities) [6]–[8]. Particularly noteworthy is the growth overthe last 20 years in the number of programs and centers and the growth in faculty support andinvolvement in such Programs and Centers [9].Efforts to integrate entrepreneurial skills into existing engineering courses have been notable.For instance, Schar et al. [10] introduced a series of case studies in an introductory mechanicscourse, under the label of Scenario Based Learning. These case studies challenged students toapply their mechanics-based analysis skills to support product decisions involving businesselements. Woodcock et al. [11] explored how an engineering capstone design course couldhelp students learn entrepreneurial skills