Building a Great Student Chapter: Reflections on Workshop Activities Using Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Conference
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Portland, Oregon
- Publication Date
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June 23, 2024
- Start Date
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June 23, 2024
- End Date
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July 12, 2024
- Conference Session
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
- Permanent URL
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https://strategy.asee.org/48422
Paper Authors
Matthew W Liberatore
University of Toledo
orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-7145
Matthew W. Liberatore is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Toledo. He earned a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in chemical engineering. From 2005 to 2015, he served on the faculty at the Colorado School of Mines. In 2018, he served as an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. His research involves the rheology of complex fluids, especially traditional and renewable energy fluids and materials, polymers, and colloids. His educational interests include developing problems from YouTube videos, active learning, learning analytics, and interactive textbooks. His interactive textbooks for Material and Energy Balances, Spreadsheets, and Thermodynamics are available from zyBooks.com. His website is: https://www.utoledo.edu/engineering/chemical-engineering/liberatore/
Abstract
Growing as a student, professor, or engineer commonly involves being part of larger organizations. Many professional engineering organizations, e.g., IEEE, ASME, AIChE, ASCE, NSBE, SHPE, etc., offer opportunities to engage and lead during undergraduate study as well as throughout a person’s career. In this contribution, I summarize and examine several iterations of a goal-setting and leadership-development workshop focused on student chapters. The overarching objective of the workshop is to lead participants through exercises to help build great student chapters. Specifically, AIChE students at a regional conference, STEM students and advisors on the author’s home campus, and student chapter advisors at the AIChE Annual Conference participated in different activities centered upon the entrepreneurial mindset framework. This entrepreneurial mindset framework is summarized by the 3C’s, namely Curiosity, Connections, and Creating value. By applying an entrepreneurial mindset, participants identify characteristics desired in their student chapter, officers, and members. Additional workshop prompts explore actions of student members and leaders and help participants develop an action plan for the coming semester and year. The logistics and delivery of the workshop are detailed in this contribution. In addition, surveying participants at both the beginning and end of the workshops found high engagement, i.e., significant evidence of brainstorming and goal setting.
Liberatore, M. W. (2024, June), Building a Great Student Chapter: Reflections on Workshop Activities Using Entrepreneurial Mindset Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://strategy.asee.org/48422
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