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The Role Of Abet Criteria In Creating The Entrepreneurial Engineer, George Peterson
The Role Of Abet Criteria In Creating The Entrepreneurial Engineer, George Peterson
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
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Reaching Out To Entrepreneurial Engineers, Robert Crockett
Reaching Out To Entrepreneurial Engineers, Robert Crockett
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
No abstract provided.
Developing An Entrepreneurial Culture For Faculty, Researchers, And Students, Abigail Barrow
Developing An Entrepreneurial Culture For Faculty, Researchers, And Students, Abigail Barrow
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
The Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego has created a new center to support the commercialization of technology developed within the school as well as to educate engineering students in entrepreneurism ñ the culture of entrepreneurial environments. It is hoped that this experimental center will become a model for research universities wanting to successfully commercialize research and develop an entrepreneurial culture for faculty, researchers and students. The von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement has three distinct functions within the Jacobs School of Engineering: 1. The von Liebig Center staff serve to advise and …
Creating An Entrepreneurial Culture At A Startup Engineering Program, Anthony J. Marchese, John L. Schmalzel, John C. Chen, K. Mark Weaver
Creating An Entrepreneurial Culture At A Startup Engineering Program, Anthony J. Marchese, John L. Schmalzel, John C. Chen, K. Mark Weaver
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
In 1992, the College of Engineering at Rowan University was created as the direct result of a $100 million gift from entrepreneur Henry M. Rowan. Mr. Rowan’s requirements were that the gift be used to create a high-quality, public undergraduate engineering institution and to impact the economic development of southern New Jersey, a region which has historically lagged behind northern New Jersey. Having started with a clean curriculum slate during a period of national change in engineering curricula in response to ABET 2000, we had the opportunity to infuse an entrepreneurial culture into our engineering program from its inception. Specifically, …
Bridge Ventures, Rock L. Clapper
Bridge Ventures, Rock L. Clapper
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
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Entrepreneurial Engineering Education At The University Of Maryland, David Barbe, Scott Magids, Karen Thornton
Entrepreneurial Engineering Education At The University Of Maryland, David Barbe, Scott Magids, Karen Thornton
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
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Entrepreneurial Contexts And Traits Of Entrepreneurs, William R. Pendergast
Entrepreneurial Contexts And Traits Of Entrepreneurs, William R. Pendergast
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
This paper adopts a neo-Darwinian perspective that the entrepreneurial process includes distinctive features that “select” individuals with certain characteristics for participation and success. These individuals are attracted to entrepreneurial situations and their compatible traits enable them to navigate the challenges of entrepreneurial contexts. Furthermore, entrepreneurial environments may reinforce these traits in entrepreneurs, which develop over time in response to the requirements of entrepreneurial activity (Littunen, 2000). The paper begins with a description of early-stage entrepreneurial contexts, considers individual traits that accommodate those contexts, and concludes with a metaphor of entrepreneurs as jazz musicians that captures similarities in context and behavior.
Creating An Entrepreneurial Culture At Mit, Joel Moses
Creating An Entrepreneurial Culture At Mit, Joel Moses
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
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What Is The Culture At The University That Fosters A Spirit Of Innovation And Entrepreneurship?, William M. Leonard, Carl Lundgren, Robert Merrill
What Is The Culture At The University That Fosters A Spirit Of Innovation And Entrepreneurship?, William M. Leonard, Carl Lundgren, Robert Merrill
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
The culture in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Mechanical Engineering Technology department is one of long standing innovation and entrepreneurship. Our ‘Idea Factory’ starts in our freshmen seminar where the students are required to generate, investigate, and develop ideas. In later courses they refine and focus their designs up to and including developing prototypes. We are developing a ‘technology shelf’ that allows us to produce products that have evolved from engineering models and alternate process production runs to hard tooling and packaged products that have gone through all the rigors of the production process. It is not just about creating a …
Development Of An Institutional Culture To Encourage And Teach Entrepreneurship - The Technogenesis Model At Stevens, Keith Sheppard, Charles V. Schaefer Jr.
Development Of An Institutional Culture To Encourage And Teach Entrepreneurship - The Technogenesis Model At Stevens, Keith Sheppard, Charles V. Schaefer Jr.
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
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Experience With An Entrepreneurship Minor For Engineering Students, Mcrae C. Banks
Experience With An Entrepreneurship Minor For Engineering Students, Mcrae C. Banks
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
In 1996 WPI developed an interdisciplinary minor in entrepreneurship aimed at engineering and science majors. This presentation will explain how that came about and how it has morphed over time in content and structure while remaining focused (and becoming more so) on its target audience. Despite its relative longevity the minor has met with limited success. The reasons behind that will be discussed as they are instructive for other schools planning such a program. Also discussed will be how all this has spawned other initiatives that have broadened the reach of the entrepreneurship program.
Teaching New Ventures Creation To Engineers And Computer Scientists, Edwin R. Addison
Teaching New Ventures Creation To Engineers And Computer Scientists, Edwin R. Addison
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
This presentation will overview the experiences of teaching a course called 'New Technical Ventures' to engineers and computer scientists at The Johns Hopkins University over the past several years. The course is aimed at engineers with no prior business courses and who have aspirations of starting or joining an early stage high tech venture. It is based in part on the author's book 'Leveraging the Horizon' to be published in early 2003 by Executive Excellence. The course has been offered both in the classroom and as an online course. The course covers the traits of the entrepreneur, innovation, selecting and …
Lessons In Interdisciplinary Collaboration: The Caltech Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program, Renee Rottner, Kenneth Pickar
Lessons In Interdisciplinary Collaboration: The Caltech Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program, Renee Rottner, Kenneth Pickar
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
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Mississippi State University Engineering Entrepreneurship Program, Robert P. Taylor
Mississippi State University Engineering Entrepreneurship Program, Robert P. Taylor
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
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Foreword, The Editors
Foreword, The Editors
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
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Appendix A: List Of Participants, The Editors
Appendix A: List Of Participants, The Editors
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
No abstract provided.
Entrepreneurship And Engineering Education: The Multidimensional Approaches Of Rose-Hulman Institute Of Technology, Thomas W. Mason, Arthur Western
Entrepreneurship And Engineering Education: The Multidimensional Approaches Of Rose-Hulman Institute Of Technology, Thomas W. Mason, Arthur Western
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
Characteristics of successful entrepreneurs are not so different from those of successful engineers. Intelligence, creativity, risk management, tolerance of uncertainty and persistence in achieving an inner directed goal are associated with entrepreneurship, but they are characteristics of anyone, like engineers, who bring about innovation. Educating young people to embrace entrepreneurial traits and behaviors will also help to prepare them for productive careers as leaders in the engineering profession. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) requirements have recognized that the 21st Century engineer needs both breadth and depth to be prepared for the complexities of the modern technological workplace and …
Recapturing And Conveying The Excitement Of Engineering Through Practice, Innovation And Integration, Marshall M. Lih
Recapturing And Conveying The Excitement Of Engineering Through Practice, Innovation And Integration, Marshall M. Lih
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
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International Entrepreneurship Education, Russel C. Jones, Bethany S. Oberst
International Entrepreneurship Education, Russel C. Jones, Bethany S. Oberst
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
Entrepreneurship for engineering students must be taught within the global context. Lacking that, graduates will be ill prepared to be internationally competitive. Any engineering graduate who does not scour the earth for new ideas, developments and designs is not competitive. And any engineer who does not look at the total world marketplace for sale of products is limiting potential success. This paper will outline what every entrepreneurially minded student should have in the way of competencies, attitudes, communication strategies, cultural understandings, business mores, multinational corporate logistics, and macroeconomics understandings. It will outline cultural soft skills needed, as well as hard-nosed …
Appendix B: Conference Program, The Editors
Appendix B: Conference Program, The Editors
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
No abstract provided.
Pairgain: The Copperoptics Company, Howard Flagg
Pairgain: The Copperoptics Company, Howard Flagg
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
No abstract provided.
Importance Of Entrepreneurs To The U.S. Economy, Joseph Bordogna
Importance Of Entrepreneurs To The U.S. Economy, Joseph Bordogna
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
No abstract provided.
Examples Of Initiatives To Engender An Entrepreneurial Culture In The Faculty Of Engineering At The University Of Sydney, Judy Raper
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
No abstract provided.
To Sell A Better Mousetrap, David Bodde
To Sell A Better Mousetrap, David Bodde
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
No abstract provided.
Moving Students With Entrepreneurial Mindsets To Being Technology Entrepreneurs, Elizabeth C. Kisenwether
Moving Students With Entrepreneurial Mindsets To Being Technology Entrepreneurs, Elizabeth C. Kisenwether
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
There is general agreement that entrepreneurial thinking and attitudes can be learned and fostered. But how do colleges and universities really prepare students for the challenges of being a bootstrap startup entrepreneur, or being a product innovator in an existing company? Guiding this shift from entrepreneurial thinking-to-doing is the ultimate value of any entrepreneurship program. This presentation summarizes Penn State’s approach to moving entrepreneurial minds from the classroom to the business world in an Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor. First, sophomore and junior year students interested in technology entrepreneurship are actively recruited from the colleges of business, engineering and school of IST …
Conference Summary, Russel C. Jones, Bethany S. Oberst
Conference Summary, Russel C. Jones, Bethany S. Oberst
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
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Supplementing Engineering Education With Business Training, Andres C. Salazar
Supplementing Engineering Education With Business Training, Andres C. Salazar
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
A typical engineering curriculum often leaves little time in a four-year program for a budding engineer to learn about the business aspects of the company he may join soon after graduation. The outcome of little business knowledge in the commercial application of technology by engineering graduates is a lack of understanding of the importance of their contribution to the company’s bottom line. For those engineers who value business knowledge for their future profession, the alternatives for business training have been to take regular MBA courses when possible or settle for short certificate programs in a business school. In this paper …
Teaching Students About The Venture Capital Process Through A Professional Conference, Larry Stauffer, Shirl Boyce
Teaching Students About The Venture Capital Process Through A Professional Conference, Larry Stauffer, Shirl Boyce
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
We have developed a means of teaching students about the venture capital process through a collaboration of higher education and industry in Idaho. This paper does not present a comprehensive entrepreneurial program. Rather it describes a single event that has been a very effective piece for educating students about entrepreneurial issues.
The Engineering Entrepreneurial Program At Lawrence Technological University, Steven K. Howell
The Engineering Entrepreneurial Program At Lawrence Technological University, Steven K. Howell
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
This paper describes a new Engineering Entrepreneurial Program at Lawrence Technological University. LTU’s Engineering Entrepreneurial Program is integrated into its undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree. This program is designed to prepare students to be business leaders and entrepreneurs as well as engineers. The program includes a total of 17 entrepreneurial semester credits integrated throughout the civil, computer, mechanical, and electrical engineering curriculum. These one unit modules include topics such as: technical communication, writing a business plan, marketing technical products, financing the emerging enterprise, strategic planning, project management, business law, intellectual property, and starting new ventures. Industry experts and …
Phd Research In An Entrepreneurial Environment: The Innovation Realization Lab, Warren H. Stevenson, Marie C. Thursby, Ronald J. Steuterman
Phd Research In An Entrepreneurial Environment: The Innovation Realization Lab, Warren H. Stevenson, Marie C. Thursby, Ronald J. Steuterman
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
This paper describes a new graduate education initiative entitled the Innovation Realization Laboratory that is funded by the National Science Foundation through the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program. The overall objective of the initiative is to have management students and Ph.D. students in science and engineering team to explore issues related to the commercialization of the Ph.D. students' research results. This provides the MBA students with a real world opportunity to apply their business education in a high technology entrepreneurial situation, while providing the Ph.D. students an exposure to all of the complex issues associated with moving …