Teaching Entrepreneurial Thinking Through a Companion Course for All Types of Capstone Senior Design Projects

Clavijo, Sandra Furnbach; Brunell, Leslie; Sheppard, Keith; Pochiraju, Kishore

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“…Most students view projects as merely a component of their course work but becoming more conscious of the reasons behind the specified tasks might help them achieve the objectives of their capstone project. Promoting entrepreneurship practices through capstone projects at the engineering departments enriches the quality of education, which is one of the essential elements of human capita as studied by many researchers (Clavijo et al, 2017;King et al, 2019;Rong, Zeng and Gao, n.d.;Shartrand and Weilerstein, 2011;Simpson, Kishenwether and Pierce, 2013). Incorporating entrepreneurship into engineering capstone projects helps students understand how their technical skills can be applied in real-world scenarios.…”

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Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindset in Students: A Modular Framework for Integrating Entrepreneurship Education Into Engineering Capstone Projects

Hoti,

Kasap,

Malaj

2024

JESR

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This paper aims to integrate entrepreneurship component into senior capstone engineering projects, so to elevate their entrepreneurial intentions. Incorporating entrepreneurship into engineering capstone projects helps students understand how their technical skills can be applied in real-world scenarios. It encourages them to develop solutions that are not just academically sound but also practical and marketable. Engineering Capstone’s projects are designed to provide senior students with opportunities to present their own solutions. These are all potential ideas for start-ups, that can stimulate new employment and economic growth. Nowadays the role of entrepreneurship to market economies has significantly increased, since it acts as the wheels of the economic development of the country. So, in this context, entrepreneurship education has emerged out as a demanding subject to be mastered by young graduates. This paper proposes a framework with modules (arranged according to Bloom Taxonomy) to be delivered within two stages aligned with engineering capstone projects’ academic timing. This methodology will boost the interest of the students for individual start-ups and embrace any upcoming opportunities to be successful entrepreneurs. This framework can be implemented in any engineering department. Received: 29 September 2023 / Accepted: 16 December 2023 / Published: 5 January 2024

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Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindset in Students: A Modular Framework for Integrating Entrepreneurship Education Into Engineering Capstone Projects

Hoti,

Kasap,

Malaj

2024

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“…In a previous paper [15] we discussed how the learning objectives of the course are met by all engineering students, even by those majoring in civil and chemical engineering, who mostly work on design projects or externally sponsored ones. Regardless of competition outcome, assessment data confirms that 85 percent of engineering students, and 88 percent of civil engineering students, believe they can identify and communicate value through an elevator pitch after having taken Senior Innovation courses.…”

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Insights About an Academic Elevator Pitch Competition in Undergraduate Engineering Curricula

Clavijo¹,

Wade²,

Pochiraju³

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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She coordinates the instructional delivery, student registration and scheduling logistics and collection of assessment data for all core courses in the undergraduate engineering and science programs. Sandra also teaches Senior Innovation and Introduction to Entrepreneurial Thinking. Sandra previously worked in the Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship and managed programs encouraging and supporting entrepreneurship around Stevens Campus. Before coming to Stevens, Sandra worked as a consulting engineer with Stantec and T&M Associates specializing in Urban Land Redevelopment and Municipal Engineering. Sandra holds a B.S. Degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering, an A. B. degree in Art History, and a Master of Engineering degree in Engineering Management from Stevens Institute of Technology. She also holds a Professional Engineering license in NJ.

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“…In real life, though, people with an entrepreneurship mindset and people with technical design skills working well together with a good overlap is crucial to success. There have been some successful attempts to add lessons, companion courses, or integrate entrepreneurship [4], [7], [11], add commercialization as part of senior design [15]. There have also been a few collaborations where students from business schools and engineering departments form multi-disciplinary teams [16].…”

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Work in Progress: Entrepreneurship and Senior Design Program Collaboration Towards Multidisciplinary Design

Gupta,

Brain

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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She teaches and mentors several senior design students on industry-sponsored projects (On average 25 / semester) to complete an end product. These projects include all aspects of System Engineering: concept design, product design and design trade-offs, prototyping, and testing (circuit design, PCB, mechanical fabrication, algorithm development). These projects have included Robotics Platforms, Planning, Monitoring and Control algorithms, Sensor Interface, User Interfaces, Wireless communication, Signal Processing, etc. All of this involves direction and teaching teams to use the required tools and apply engineering skills to transform a concept into a product. She also manages interdisciplinary senior design projects in collaboration with other engineering departments such as Textiles Engineering, mechanical engineering, etc. Beyond senior design, she has also created and teaches undergraduate and graduate-level classes in ECE (Python in Engineering, Practical Engineering Prototyping (PrEP). She also has designed and taught ECE Robotics summer camp (2012-2017). Dr. Gupta earned her Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Pune, India, and received her MS and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University (2010). Her Ph.D. was to design computer vision algorithms for autonomous navigation for cars. She started her own engineering consulting company in 2010, working on product development projects such as an automated air suspension system for vehicles, an active suspension system for heavy-duty off-road vehicles (currently DARPA funded), a vision tracking system for race cars tracks, etc. She joined NCState as Assistant Teaching Professor in 2012. Dr. Gupta's current research projects focus on sensor systems and engineering design education.Dr. Gupta likes to tinker with new technology and work on small hobby projects in her basement lab. Her other hobbies include reading, classical dancing, and traveling. Mr. Marshall Brain, North Carolina State University at RaleighMarshall Brain is most widely known as the founder of HowStuffWorks.com, an award-winning website that offers clear, objective and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world around us actually works. The site, which he created as a hobby and took through several rounds of venture funding totaling approximately $8 million, was purchased for $250 million by Discovery Communications in 2007.As a well-known public speaker with the ability to deliver complex material in a way that is easily understood by audiences of all types, Brain is a regular guest on radio and TV programs nationwide. He has been featured on everything from CNN and Good Morning America to The Oprah Winfrey Show. In 2008 and 2009, he was the host of the National Geographic channel's Factory Floor With Marshall Brain, a series of one-hour factory tours taking the viewer on a journey into the world of product design, engineering and manufacturing.Brain is the author of more than a dozen books, ...

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Teaching Entrepreneurial Thinking Through a Companion Course for All Types of Capstone Senior Design Projects

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindset in Students: A Modular Framework for Integrating Entrepreneurship Education Into Engineering Capstone Projects

Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindset in Students: A Modular Framework for Integrating Entrepreneurship Education Into Engineering Capstone Projects

Insights About an Academic Elevator Pitch Competition in Undergraduate Engineering Curricula

Work in Progress: Entrepreneurship and Senior Design Program Collaboration Towards Multidisciplinary Design

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