Works In Progress: Impact of a Pilot Summer Innovation Internship on Student Attitudes towards Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship

Abstract

is currently an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at UC Davis. In addition to teaching core undergraduate courses, Jennifer is aimed at integrating engineering design principles and hands-on experiences throughout the curriculum, and playing an active role in the senior design course. She has interests in engineering education, curricular innovation, as well as impacting the community through increased K-12 STEM awareness and education. Prior to joining UC Davis, Jennifer taught in the BME Department at Rutgers University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Advanced Technologies and Regenerative Medicine, LLC. She received her doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering from Tufts University, M.S. degree from Syracuse University, and B.S. degree from Cornell University.

A Summer Program Focused on Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in the Context of the NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering

“…Examples of summer programs for university students focusing on entrepreneurship include a 2week summer experience offered as a part of the Frank Fellows program at the University of Washington [12], a 6-week research experience which included entrepreneurship at North Carolina A&T State University [13], a 6-week Summer Innovation Internship hosted by UC Davis [14], and a 10-week REU experience hosted by the University of Connecticut [15]. Another innovative program was a program in China that included an internship focused on entrepreneurship within a summer study abroad experience [16].…”