Seattle, Washington
June 14, 2015
June 14, 2015
June 17, 2015
978-0-692-50180-1
2153-5965
Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Innovative Course Offerings
Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
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26.1565.1 - 26.1565.23
10.18260/p.24902
https://peer.asee.org/24902
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Joe Tranquillo is an Associate Professor of Biomedical and Electrical Engineering at Bucknell University. Joe was the founder and inaugural chair of the Biomedical Engineering Society Undergraduate Research Track, and co-founder of the KEEN Winter Interdisciplinary Design Experience. He currently serves as the Chair of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Biomedical Engineering Division (BED), the co-director of the Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management (ILTM) and is co-editor of the Morgan and Claypool biomedical engineering book series. Joe is the author of three undergraduate textbooks. His work has been featured on the Discovery Channel, TEDx, US News and World Report, and CNN Health. He has won the national ASEE BED Teaching Award, Bucknell’s Presidential Teaching Award, and is currently a National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education Fellow and an NSF Pathways to Innovation Faculty Fellow. When not working Joe enjoys improvisational dance and music, running trail marathons, backpacking, brewing Belgian beers and most of all enjoying time with his children and wife.
The Product Archaeology CanvasThe Product Archaeology Canvas (PAC) is a pedagogical tool designed to help students understand how complex value-‐based decisions are made in technology businesses. The PAC is a combination of three distinct sources. Product dissection is the disassembly of a product with the goal of understanding the technical decisions that were made. Archaeology strives to create a coherent narrative from incomplete information. A Canvas is a visual tool that can show non-‐linear interactions between various components. Combined together, the PAC is a holistic deconstructing of the decisions of an intrepreneur who creates value from within an existing business structure. In this paper, the PAC will be explained along with how it is used within a classroom toboth deconstruct a product (backward looking) and evaluate proposed productimprovements (forward looking). The PAC and business model canvas will be comparedto uncover how each can stimulate a complex adaptive mindset toward industrydecisions. Preliminary industry validation will be presented as well as evaluation datafrom students. Lastly, derivatives of the PAC will be explored including additionalclassroom applications, the assessment of ABET soft-skills, use in business consultingand as an industry orientation tool. Product Archaeology Canvas ! Broader Impacts Marketing Customers/Stakeholders Sales and Distribution Legal and Regulatory Value Proposition Technical Design Finance Operating Resources Project!Title: ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !Date:!
Tranquillo, J. (2015, June), The Product Archaeology Canvas Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24902
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