Wikoff, K. H., & Carriere, M. H. (2012, June), Integrating Entrepreneurship and Innovation into an Engineering Curriculum Through Service Learning and the Liberal Arts  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21555

\bibitem{asee_peer_21555}
  Wikoff, K. H., \& Carriere, M. H. (2012, June), \emph{Integrating Entrepreneurship and Innovation into an Engineering Curriculum Through Service Learning and the Liberal Arts}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21555

Katherine Hennessey Wikoff and Michael Hoge Carriere.  "Integrating Entrepreneurship and Innovation into an Engineering Curriculum Through Service Learning and the Liberal Arts".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21555 Internet.  14 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_21555}
  Katherine Hennessey Wikoff and Michael Hoge Carriere.
  "Integrating Entrepreneurship and Innovation into an Engineering Curriculum Through Service Learning and the Liberal Arts".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21555 Internet.  14 Dec, 2024

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AB  -        Integrating Entrepreneurship and Innovation into an Engineering          Curriculum Through Service Learning and the Liberal Arts                                           ABSTRACTThis paper describes the way innovation and entrepreneurship have been integrated into anengineering curriculum through a year-long liberal arts seminar. This three-course sequence has“The City” as its topical focus, and it incorporates principles of entrepreneurship and innovationthrough course content specifically centered on these concepts through experiential learning in aservice project, and through critical thinking and rhetorical analysis of students’ own researchstrategies using the Burkean parlor model of academic and professional conversation.In Fall Quarter, students read texts, view films, and study other cultural products related to theconcept of “The City.” They examine how depictions of entrepreneurs and industry illuminateour understanding of “City” and its connection to the American Dream—and the promises andperils associated with such a concept. In Winter Quarter, students study “The City” as aninnovation center. The concept of creativity is examined as a social, collaborative idea, andstudents explore the history of the large city in which our institution is located. In SpringQuarter, students study the aesthetics of the city and analyze the rhetoric of public space. Therelationship between art and commerce is explored, with historic and contemporary examplespresented for analysis.Students also complete substantial, self-directed research projects that require them to becomefamiliar with current issues and recent trends in academic and professional conversationsregarding their selected topics. Learning how to enter a field, ask the right questions, anddetermine its key “players” and important issues are hallmarks of the critical thinking skillscultivated in the traditions of liberal education. These same abilities also characterize thepractices of entrepreneurs and innovators outside the academy. Service-learning projects haveallowed students to work with government officials, community groups, and non-profitorganizations – all actors that they will inevitably interact with once they become professionals.Completed projects have included the design and build of a community garden and rainwatercatchment system, the construction of a solar food dehydrator, and a proposal to better define theentrance to and enhance the usability of a new urban state trail.It is clear that the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and math) are importantat this critical juncture in America life. But, as Columbia University historian Alan Brinkley hasrecently argued, “we would be equally impoverished without humanistic knowledge as well.Science and technology teach us what we can do. Humanistic thinking can help us understandwhat we should do.” A pedagogy based upon entrepreneurialism can help create a vibrantrelationship between the liberal arts and engineering education, one that strengthens bothdisciplines as it better prepares students for the realities of 21st century economic life.
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