Bridging the gap between widgets that work but would never sell, and abstract entrepreneurial enterprises with little grounding in physical reality, students in an Invention and Innovation course create and test produ...
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Bridging the gap between widgets that work but would never sell, and abstract entrepreneurial enterprises with little grounding in physical reality, students in an Invention and Innovation course create and test products with a focus on their potential to succeed in the marketplace. The primary component of the course consists of parallel activities: designing and building a proof-of-concept product prototype (invention), while exploring its potential for commercial success (innovation). Based on the precept that a foundation for entrepreneurship is to inspire engineers to perceive themselves as inventors, and arm them with the capabilities and confidence to tackle the marketplace, this paper describes an approach to convince students, through doing, that they do have what it takes to become an inventor and entrepreneur.
This longitudinal study is an investigation of the impact on student retention of a First-Year Engineering Projects (FYEP) course at a large public research university. Student retention was measured at the third, fif...
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Design projects provide an ideal focus for hands-on learning, serving to anchor and provide context for theoretical concepts. Product design is inherently open-ended and multi-disciplinary, and forces effective teamwo...
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The service-learning educational method actively engages students in community service as an integral component of coursework, fostering both civic responsibility and leadership. Research has shown that the use of ser...
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The service-learning educational method actively engages students in community service as an integral component of coursework, fostering both civic responsibility and leadership. Research has shown that the use of service-learning pedagogy has significant positive effects on students' academic performance (GPA, writing skills, critical thinking skills) and development of civic values (commitment to continued civic participation).1Service-learning courses are emerging in engineering colleges as a mechanism to provide engineering students with meaningful community-based learning experiences through which they develop the values and skills of citizenship and leadership, while maturing their own communications skills and strengthening their commitment to the engineering profession.
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