Answering the Call for Innovation: Three Faculty Development Models to Enhance Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education in Engineering
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San Antonio, Texas
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June 10, 2012
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June 10, 2012
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June 13, 2012
- ISSN
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2153-5965
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
- Page Count
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12
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25.190.1 - 25.190.12
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--20950
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https://peer.asee.org/20950
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689
Paper Authors
Angela M. Shartrand National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)
Angela Shartrand oversees NCIIA's internal and external research and evaluation initiatives as the Research and Evaluation Manager at the NCIIA. She leads research and evaluation projects in areas closely aligned with NCIIA's mission, developing research collaborations with faculty instructors, researchers, and program directors who are actively engaged in technology entrepreneurship and innovation. She recently joined the Epicenter Research and Evaluation team and is in the process of evaluating a new NSF initiative to prepare academic researchers to evaluate the commercial potential of their research. She holds a Ph.D. in applied developmental and educational psychology from Boston College, an Ed.M. from Harvard University, and a B.A. from Williams College.
Ricardo Leon Gomez National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)
Ricardo Gomez is a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for International Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He received a bachelor's of education degree from La Salle University and holds a master's of education from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research interests span educational policy analysis, program monitoring and evaluation, and curriculum design and implementation. Gomez works closely with the Assessment and Evaluation Manager and staff in the development and implementation of the NCIIA's evaluation plans, including client satisfaction surveys, instrument development, data collection, analysis, and reporting.
Phil Weilerstein National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)
As an entrepreneur leading a not-for-profit organization, Phil Weilerstein has grown the NCIIA (http://www.nciia.org/) from founding as a grassroots group of enthusiastic university faculty to an internationally recognized resource supporting and promoting technology innovation and entrepreneurship to create experiential learning opportunities for university students, and successful, science and technology-based, socially impactful businesses. NCIIA does this by providing a linked sequence of programs that develop community and help move faculty and student entrepreneurs from innovative ideas to the launch of products and businesses. Weilerstein began his career as an entrepreneur as a student at the University of Massachusetts. He and a team including his advisor launched a start-up biotech company and took it to IPO. This experience, coupled with a lifelong passion for entrepreneurship, led to his work with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. He is a Founder of the Entrepreneurship Division of the American Society of Engineering Education and is the recipient of the 2008 Price Foundation Innovative Entrepreneurship Educators Award.
Abstract
Answering the call for innovation: Program and faculty development for innovation and entrepreneurial learning Amid widespread calls for innovation, there is an increased demand for faculty training and development opportunities that focus on integrating entrepreneurship and innovation into the engineering and design curriculum. What is the best way to provide this training to faculty? What model seems to be most efficacious? This paper will describe learning and preliminary findings from the implementation of three faculty development models: brief conference workshops on specific teaching tools and techniques, a multi-‐day workshop in which faculty observe and assist with exercises with actual students, and a second multi-‐day workshop on program design and curriculum development that addresses multiple components of curriculum change. Comparative analysis of these different models of faculty development will be presented, highlighting the challenges and benefits of each and learnings from the first year of implementation. Two consistent challenges presented in all three faculty training models: 1) how to integrate content area knowledge and innovative teaching practices that can be successfully translated back to the traditional environment of higher education; 2) how to build a network of like-‐minded faculty that continues after workshops have concluded. Discussion will explore the pros and cons of each model, and recommendations about how to make faculty development sessions more effective in terms of instructional design, implementation and evaluation.
Shartrand, A. M., & Gomez, R. L., & Weilerstein, P. (2012, June), Answering the Call for Innovation: Three Faculty Development Models to Enhance Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education in Engineering Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--20950
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