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Importance Of Entrepreneurs To The U.S. Economy, Joseph Bordogna

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students

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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

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To Sell A Better Mousetrap, David Bodde

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students

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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

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students

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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 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

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

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 …

Technological Innovation: An Option In The Ms In Technology Program, James R. Gray

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students

The Technological Innovation (TI) option of the Masters of Science in Technology program emphasizes the research, development and technical management of the technological innovation process within the technology-based organization. It is structured to aid the industrial and engineering professional that is responsible for the design and development of technical processes and products. This option includes the technical management of innovation processes, research and development, information technologies, and process technologies. Participants in this option come from a wide range of technological disciplines and draw on an extensive array of theoretical and applied knowledge. This paper presents the development and implementation of …

The Development And Implementation Of An Interdisciplinary Graduate Course Linking Business, Engineering, Arts And Sciences And Medical Students With University Research Investigators To Develop Strategies To Commercialize New Technologies, Michael W. Fountain

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students

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Table Of Contents, The Editors

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students

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National Collegiate Inventors And Innovators Alliance: Resources For Building Entrepreneurial Programs, Phil Weilerstein

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students

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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

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

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students

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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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Ole Miss Engineer 2003

Ole Miss Engineer

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Involving Engineering With In-Service K-4 Teachers, Theresa M. Swift, Steve Eugene Watkins, Kristine Swenson, Evalee Lasater, Robert Mitchell

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A strong workforce in science and engineering and literate citizens in a technology-based society depends on an educational system that prepares students in science, mathematics, and engineering. Unfortunately, many K-12 students lose interest in such topics early in their school years. Engineering applications can capture the imagination of students and illustrate the concepts in science and mathematics. Level-appropriate resources are as necessary for primary teachers and our young scholars as for teachers and students in higher grades. A model for interaction between engineers and K-4 teachers is proposed. The State of Missouri defines curriculum standards in each subject area and …

An Air-Filter Sensor For Home-Used Air Conditioners, Cheng Y. Lin, Gary R. Crossman, Alok K. Verma

Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

This paper presents a successful senior project of instrumentation developed in a Mechanical Engineering Technology senior capstone course. Students were encouraged to approach the problem of designing an air-filter sensor and to propose an optimum and practical solution for the problem. Work includes conceptual design and analysis, implementation, tests and modifications. When an air filter is used in a home air conditioner, inhabitants often forget when to replace it until the cooling or heating capacity is obviously reduced. If the filter remains in service, the efficiency of the cooling/heating system will continue decreasing while the electricity bill will significantly increase. …

A Matlab-Based Upper Division Systems Analysis Course For Engineering Technology, William D. Stanley, Paul L. Kauffmann, Gary R. Crossman

Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

The Department of Engineering Technology at Old Dominion University offers TAC of ABET accredited baccalaureate programs in Civil Engineering Technology, Electrical Engineering Technology, and Mechanical Engineering Technology. All students are required to take traditional courses in algebra and trigonometry, as well as differential and integral calculus, at the freshman and sophomore levels. While these courses provided the necessary basic mathematical skills, it was difficult to justify the traditional upper-division mathematics courses such as differential equations, vector analysis, etc., as appropriate for the special needs of engineering technology students.

To address this issue, the Department has undertaken the development of a …

Performing Interactively A Thermo-Fluids Laboratory Experiment In The Virtual Domain, Sushil K. Chaturvedi, Ali O. Akan, Tarek M. Abdel-Salam, A. Priyadershini

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper deals with the development of an experiment in the virtual domain for the undergraduate thermo-fluids laboratory in the mechanical engineering program. A physical experiment titled "Venturimeter as a Flow Measuring Device" is replicated as a computer-based experiment as part of the ongoing effort at Old Dominion University to develop web-based laboratories that would provide students hands-on experience in the virtual domain. A web-based module is developed that allows experimentation and data taking in a virtual setting much like in the physical experiment. This module incorporating the virtual venturimeter has been used by students to take data for several …

Development Of A Training Program In Lean Manufacturing, Alok K. Verma, James Hughes

Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

Lean Manufacturing is quickly becoming a philosophy adopted by manufacturer's through out the world to cut out waste and improve productivity. Lean is a people-centric philosophy, which focuses on changing the work-culture within an organization and across the supply chain. Thus, training the work force in lean principles is a major part of any lean implementation. This paper presents the development of a lean training program for the Apprentice School at Northrop Grumman Newport News. The instructional pedagogy relies on both classroom instruction and hands-on simulation activity to relay lean concepts to students. The training program is being incorporated into …

Ole Miss Engineer 2002

Ole Miss Engineer

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Using The Ltpp Database In A Pavement Design Course, Norbert J. Delatte

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

The Strategic Highway Research Program Long Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) database provides considerable information about a large number of pavement test sections. The information may be easily accessed using DataPave 2.0 software, available free from the Federal Highway Administration. This software provides information on approximately 3,000 sections, with several modules for data analysis and extraction. This paper describes the integration of LTPP DataPave 2.0 software into a pavement design course. The database was used at several points throughout the course, including lessons on traffic characterization, materials, reliability, performance, and design. Twelve Texas pavement case studies were used. Each student was …

Research Into Evaporative Cooling Of Buildings In Maritime Climates, Ben Costelloe, Donal Finn

Reports

Concern with environmental emissions has focused attention on traditional forms of energy use in buildings, with a view to reducing and making more rational use of energy consumption. One area of concern is the traditional, refrigeration based, commercial air conditioning system, which has high levels of electrical power consumption in fans and refrigeration compressors. There is also concern among building owners and design teams, supported by the PROBE series of post occupancy studies, conducted by the CIBSE, that many buildings, with traditional forms of air conditioning, under perform in terms of occupant satisfaction, ease of operation and control, maintenance costs …

Effective Strategies To Assess The Impact Of E-Learning, Barbara M. Olds

e-Technologies in Engineering Education: Learning Outcomes Providing Future Possibilities

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Using Collaborative Web Sites To Overcome Barriers To Collaboration In Science And Engineering, Peter Ludovice, Mathew Realff, Tom Morley, Mark Guzdial

e-Technologies in Engineering Education: Learning Outcomes Providing Future Possibilities

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Global Product Development: Using Global Resources Effectively For A Novel Course, Debashish Dutta, Janet Efsthathiou, Jongwon Kim

e-Technologies in Engineering Education: Learning Outcomes Providing Future Possibilities

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An Integrated Learning And Information Environment For Product Innov@Tion, Wilfried J. Elspass

e-Technologies in Engineering Education: Learning Outcomes Providing Future Possibilities

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