OverviewCapstone projects are the culminating project experience of many undergraduate engineering programs. They are a chance for students to apply skills that they have acquired and synthesize new solutions based on the specific requirements of the project. At ASU, the Software Engineering Capstone project is also the first time many students interface directly with industry professionals. Students who have adopted the "grade centered" mindset must quickly adapt "customer centered" thinking in order to succeed.This card is a set of three that outline how customer communication and and value creation have been woven into the Software Engineering Capstone program at Arizona State University. The other two cards are:Integrating Scrum Process into Open-Ended Capstone ProjectsCoaching Sessions to Reinforce and Brainstorm Customer Engagement TechniquesIn addition to these cards, a fourth KEEN card (Software Engineering Capstone Projects with Focus on Communication and Customer Value Creation) provides an overview of the Software Engineering Capstone process at ASU.This card provides a teaching module that helps prepare students for interaction with industry professionals. The module is used for both online and in-classroom populations at ASU and has been effective at helping students bridge the gap to understanding customer mindset. Overview of the Module This module is intended to be given in either lecture format (with classroom discussion time), or online with a live-session video conference discussion time. The focus of the module is to introduce students to motivational factors that drive the industry sponsors and equip the students with communications strategies for uncovering and delivering value to the customer. These practices come from insights gained during my 25+ years as an engineering professional as Technical Fellow, Chief Architect and Chief Technology Officer. Topics covered by the module are: Understanding uncertainty, expense rate, and revenue generation as forces within product developmentUnderstanding company roles/personas related to management of uncertainty, expenses and revenue generation: Chief Technology Officer, Vice President of Engineering, Vice President of Marketing.Uncovering hidden opportunities through asking the right questions.Explanation of Materials The following materials have been provided for instructors wishing to incorporate this module in their courses:1. Lecture notes in Microsoft PowerPoint format. They may be used freely so long as proper attribution is given.2. Video lectures showing how the lecture materials are presented to the online population at ASU. Opportunities for Improvement Due to time constraints, this module is covered in one lecture at ASU. Schedule permitting, additional exercises could be incorporated to help students gain additional mastery of the topic. In particular, role playing of customer communications has been shown to be highly effective in industry settings.

As initial preparation for a second group project in a first-year engineering course, students complete an online personality assessment based on Jung's typologies and the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator. Within their groups, the students discuss their own results and those of their teammates. At the conclusion of the second group project, students reflect on their understanding of themselves and their peers may have affected their experience. Significantly, the discussions are framed as explorational, raising awareness of behaviors and interactions that often emerge within teams. The online results are explicitly not held up as indicating fixed characteristics that define individuals' modes of contributing in groups.

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Gravity dams are commonly used for water storage and hydroelectric power around the world. Over time, a silt layer will accumulate behind the dam at the bottom of the reservoir due to the gradual deposit of sedimentation. Assume that the silt layer acts as a slurry and exerts pressure on the dam as a fluid (i.e. similar to the water’s hydrostatic pressure). Silt accumulates every year behind a dam, but the exact rate is not known. You have been tasked by a dam evaluation company to develop a computer program in Matlab that will solve the statics equations needed to determine whether a dam is safe with regard to total horizontal force and overturning moment due to the combined pressure of the water and silt behind the dam. Perform all calculations assuming a 1-foot unit width (i.e. into the page) of the dam. The program will be able to solve these equations (which will be expressed in terms of the variables shown in the schematic provided) for either a constant or random yearly silt accumulation rate over a user- defined time period. The Matlab program will use a loop command to calculate the resultant horizontal force and overturning moment by starting with the initial silt thickness (hsilt) and then adding to the thickness according to the accumulation rate in yearly increments. For example, if the user assumes a constant silt accumulation rate of 12 inches per year, the Year 1 calculation will use the initial silt layer thickness, the Year 2 calculation will increase the initial thickness by 1 foot, and so forth. Remember that the thickness of the water layer above the silt is also decreasing by this amount since the total height of the free surface is assumed constant. The results of these calculations will be shown by the program as 3 separate plots: height of the silt layer vs. time, horizontal force (H) vs. time, and overturning moment (M) vs. time. Calculate H and M as the resultant force couple at the toe of the dam. Your company has asked that your computer program be able to perform a simulation for two silt rate options: (1) for a series of constant yearly silt rate or (2) for a series of randomly selected yearly rates. The program must therefore use a second loop command within the first loop to run the series of user-defined silt accumulation rates. The results for each series can then be plotted together on the same graph.The dam will become unsafe when either of the following conditions is met due to the silt buildup:1) H increases until the horizontal shear capacity of the dam is exceeded.2) M about the toe of the dam decreases until the heel of the dam (i.e. the bottom of the dam on the reservoir side) becomes destabilized. This will occur before M decreases to zero due to the overturning moment from the water and silt - the heel only needs to lifted slightly to allow water to infiltrate underneath it.Assume that Condition #1 is reached when H increases by 10% from its initial value with no silt. Assume that Condition #2 is reached when M decreases by 15% from its initial value with no silt. An additional pair of loop commands must be used to identify the year at which either of these conditions is reached based on the time series of H and M that are calculated for each silt rate.The lifespan of the dam will be governed by whichever condition is reached first.You have been provided with some Matlab starter code as well as input file templates that retrieve the data you’ll need to analyze one of the four dams shown in Figure 1. Note that you need to download all of these files to the same folder and set the Matlab directory to that folder in order to run the program ProjectStarterCode.m. To get started, just place all of the files in the same folder and double-click on the starter code to open it in Matlab, which will automatically set the directory to that folder. You do not need to make any changes to functions GetData.m or PlotData.m – these have been provided to help you with data acquisition and displaying your results.If the constant silt rate option is selected, then the user will be prompted to state the total number of silt rates to consider followed by the value (inches per year) for each silt rate. At the end of the simulation, the three plots mentioned above will be produced. If the random silt rate option is selected, then the user will be prompted to state the number of series of randomly varying silt rates to consider, followed by a minimum and maximum value that define the range from which the silt rate in each year will be randomly selected. If no more than 5 rate series are considered, the three plots mentioned above will be produced as well as a bar chart showing the lifespan distribution among all rate series. If more than 5 rate series are considered, only the bar chart will be produced. PROJECT TASKSTASK #1Select a dam from the 4 options shown in Figure 1 and determine its dimensions that approximately fit the diagram in Figure 2. Submit the following to Coursesite:• Updated DamDimensions.txt from the template provided for your dam.• A memo (at least 500 words) with the following: >Introduction to your selected dam, particularly its history, structure, and use. >Introduction to the hazards posed of silt build-up behind dams.TASK #2Submit hand calculations (neat and well-organized, similar to your homework) showing the development of the static equations that will be input into the Matlab program. The resulting equations should be expressed in terms of the variables provided in Figure 2.TASK #3Develop a Matlab program which implements the equations from Task 2 – the program must be fully functional so that the grader can run it to check it. The FILENAME.m file must be uploaded to Coursesite by the deadline. There is no need to upload any of the textfile templates or the GetData.m or PlotData.m Matlab files. Also, submit a memo which documents your responses to the following client requests for your dam selected in Task 1:Task 3.1: Your client has determined that the following 3 silt accumulation rates are representative of a low, medium and high value: 10 inches per year, 30 inches per year, and 60 inches per year. Use the constant silt rate option to analyze your team’s assigned dam with the initial silt thickness of zero for the 3 silt accumulation rates over a 100-year period. For each rate, determine the number of years it takes for the dam to become unsafe and state the controlling limit state (horizontal force or overturning moment). Determine the constant silt accumulation rate that will result in a 75-year life expectancy.Task 3.2: Your client is concerned that using a constant silt accumulation rate may not realistically model the silt buildup over a long period of time. Use the random silt rate option for 10,000 series of random rates with a minimum silt rate of 1 inch per year. Determine the maximum silt rate (as an integer) of the range for random rate selection for which only 25% of the calculated values for the dam lifespan are less than 75 years. To ensure that your bar chart shows all 1,000 simulations, you may need to run your simulation for longer than 100 years. Compare these results to those from Task #2.TASK #4A client is interested in building a new gravity dam in the Poconos using a profile similar to that in Figure 2. Use your software to develop a new design for a dam which minimizes cost for the previously defined limit states. Hydraulics engineers have determined a dam placed at the proposed site expect a water height of 300 feet. Discharge height has been estimated to vary from 10 feet during normal conditions, up to 60 feet during peak rainfall events. The exact silt buildup rates are not known, but historical data for a nearby dam with similar hydraulic conditions is available. A more exact range of silt rates will be determined by other consultants after your submission deadline. Your design must balance economy with safety given the uncertainty of the actual silt rate for a 100-year design life. Submit a memo which describes your design and justifies your decisions.

While evangelizing the entrepreneurial mindset (EM) falls mostly to curricular and co-curricular efforts, EM does provide a framework for venture development at ASU, particularly through Venture Devils, which supports all ASU student, faculty, staff, and community-based entrepreneurs. Venture Devils was created in 2016, coincidentally launching at same time that ASU initially became involved with KEEN. This card is a companion to the the All In: Venture Devils case study available on the EM @ ASU website. Supporting resources discussed in and otherwise relevant to the case study can be found in the folder(s) below. Likewise, this card is where the community can discuss the case and its broader topic of the connection of EM and student funding opportunities.Case Study SynopsisFunctioning as a meta-cohort for practicing entrepreneurs, Venture Devils is for all types of ventures at any developmental stage (e.g., pre-revenue, in revenue, capitalized, etc.) and is designed to streamline access to mentorship, funding, and workspace. More specifically, the program aims to catalyze the entrepreneurial success of venture founders by connecting them with Venture Mentors who provide regular, ongoing support. Throughout 2017, while exploring ways to increase integration of EM, ASU also undertook a major redesign of its venture funding model, transforming it from having siloed funding sources to having integrated funding tracks, making the model easier to understand, even intuitive.About the EM @ ASU Case StudiesThe EM @ ASU website's 20-plus case studies tell the story of FSE's multi-year initiative to more fully and deeply integrate EM/EML throughout its curricular and co-curricular programs. The cases are organized into four main categories, and relationships between the cases are highlighted to illustrate the initiative's scope and resulting ecosystem. The cases have a consistent structure comprising a "Case at a Glance" box and the following sections: Context, Integration Details, Integration Outcomes, Future Plans, and Considerations. Some cases include video commentaries, and each case is available as a downloadable PDF.

The entrepreneurial mindset focuses on value creation, and the qualities and characteristics associated with identifying unexpected opportunities to create value. This is not a new concept, as throughout history many famous individuals devoted their lives to developing inventions, many of which create value. The module “Role of Product in Value Creation” helps the student to investigate the total product concept, one that introduces a contrarian view the student may not have thought about previously. As part of this concept it is important to keep in mind for whom the products are designed, the consumer. Finally, it is important to go beyond the product to better understand the concept of value.The module “Role of Product in Value Creation” is designed as a self-contained interactive module to help students learn how changing business environments can negatively impact a company and what strategies can be used to adapt to the new conditions.The module is divided into four lessons: 1. Product3: The Total Product Concept, Analyzing Product Success;2. Failure with the Product Concept; 3. Understanding Value Creation with the Value Proposition Canvas;4. Understanding Customers.

The assignments described on this card were created and deployed as part of developing a new Engineering Design Program at Rose-Hulman. Engineering Design was approved as a major in Spring 2018, to be offered beginning in Fall 2018. The major features interdisciplinary Design Studios in every quarter of the first two years. In addition, the first year of Engineering Design Studios has been adopted as part of the freshman curriculum for Biomedical Engineering majors. (All BE majors are taking this curriculum for at least 2017-2019.) Please see the card "Engineering Design Studios for First-Year Students" by Patsy Brackin et al. The author of this card, Anneliese Watt, is a rhetoric specialist in this interdisciplinary program, and will focus on a couple of KEEN-associated assignments used in our first-year curriculum.One simple assignment we used throughout the first-year studios is reflective writing on the 3Cs. We directly taught students about the 3Cs by showing them the descriptions of the entrepreneurial mindset and each C on the engineeringunleashed webpage. Then, at regular time intervals (such as every two weeks), or after particular individual or team assignments, students were asked to write a 3-5 paragraph essay directly addressing how Curiosity, Connections, and Creating Value figured into or were evoked by their work on that project or in that time period. (The prompt was that simple.) it turns out students are able to see all three elements each time they were asked to reflect. We were pleased to discover that these reflective writings not only led students to see how the assignments created an entrepreneurial mindset, but also led, we believe, to greater appreciation of the assignments, projects, and course activities in general.Studio 1 also featured the elevator pitch module authored by Julia Williams and Ella Ingram for KEEN. Watt attended the workshop hosted by The University of New Haven, and then we plugged the module into our Moodle course. Students were required to complete the module in the early stages of a design project for a non-profit client. Based on what they learned in the module, students developed and delivered pitches for adapted toy designs that they proposed designing and building for the client, These pitches were part of an Innovation Tournament: students gave initial pitches; a subset of pitches were selected as semi-finalists and students reflected on any failure and the nature of their first pitch experience; students presented the revised semi-finalist pitches now in pairs; and final selections were made, setting up the remainder of the project. The audience for the pitches included key stakeholders from the client organization as well as our class members. I've featured the rhetorical triangle as the image for this card, because understanding the conventions of the genre (elevator pitch) as well as audience needs and context were keys to successful pitches.

Georgia Tech and Emory University’s Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering is infusing within their core courses a story-driven learning curriculum that helps students’ build their entrepreneurial mindset.  As part of this new program, we've created and piloted a new junior-level course entitled “The Art of Telling Your Story”.  In this workshop, Joe Le Doux, the department’s Associate Chair for Learning and Experience, and Janece Shaffer, an award winning playwright and StoryReady Founder present elements of Shaffer’s interactive storytelling curriculum which is now integrated into Georgia Tech’s biomedical engineering required curriculum. Like the Georgia Tech students, the workshop participants will learn basic strategies to craft dynamic and memorable narratives along with the must-haves of impactful storytelling such as compelling specificity and inspiring transformation. Within 30 minutes, participants will put these strategies into action by creating their own stories, sharing them in small groups and then raising their storytelling game through aha-filled, group coaching. Participants will learn why details make stories “sticky” and how a “see it, see it, feel it” strategy builds emotion and connection.  The workshop will emphasize how stories can inspire and illuminate the process by which engineers create value. Workshop attendees will leave the workshop with a draft of their own story.  They will also receive a booklet that describes The Coulter Department’s story-driven entrepreneurial mindset learning program, the junior-level storytelling course’s syllabus and story prompts, Shaffer’s tips for how to amp up stories, a rubric for evaluating stories, and a tip sheet for how to run a stories workshop.  Example student stories may also be provided.

This project is described in a presentation at ASEE 2020 "Best of First-Year Programs Division" session.Background and IntroductionHands-on team-based open-ended design projects in freshman engineering courses have been shown to significantly improve student retention due to the benefits of active hands-on learning, self-directed acquisition of knowledge, development of skills and confidence necessary to succeed in engineering and a growing sense of community. Open-ended design projects can range from highly structured to theme-based to free choice. Combining entrepreneurial thinking and maker technology, student-driven free-choice open-ended design projects allow students to generate their own idea, take ownership of their design project, and results in significant gains in creativity and entrepreneurial intentions. This card describes a free-choice open-ended design project that supports student autonomy, one of the three basic psychological needs from self-determination theory (SDT). SDT postulates that individuals will adopt more internalized/autonomous forms of motivations, resulting in more optimal learning outcomes, when three basic psychological needs are satisfied: autonomy, a sense of choice and control; relatedness, a sense of positive and supportive connections to others; and competence, a sense of mastery and self-efficacy. The introduction to engineering course is a freshman level 2-credit 15-week lecture and lab course consisting of a 50-minute lecture and a 2-hour 50-minute lab each week. Most students enroll in this course during their first semester in college. The course aims to provide students with an introduction to engineering, introduces the broad topics of the engineering design process, engineering modeling and drawing, teamwork, technical communication, project management and an entrepreneurial mindset. In addition, technical knowledge such as computer-aided design including 3D printing and programming a microcontroller is introduced to help students with their two multidisciplinary design projects, i.e., a well-defined project during the first half of the semester (See Card "Project: Autonomous Mail Delivery System") and an open-ended project during the second half. The course is a required course for students majoring in aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Project Description and ImplementationThis card provides all of the materials needed to implement a nine-week long team-based open-ended multi-disciplinary design project in an introduction to engineering course. Students, in teams of four, work on their project in class during lecture and lab for nine weeks. There are two lecture periods dedicated to introduce the project before students work on the project during the labs. The project description and grading are in the "Project Description" folder. The project uses the following "theme" statement: "Design an automated solution for a space such as a home, campus building including dorm, office, retail, restaurant, hospital, library, and factory. Your design should add value in an economic, environmental, and/or societal sense. For example, your design might help reduce costs, increase efficiency, reduce pollution/waste, and/or improve accessibility, among other things. Your design must incorporate an Arduino or other microcontroller." Research results from SDT (See paper in the "Publications" folder) showed that, compared to other project definitions which further place constraints on scope and materials, this autonomy-supportive version of the project statement results in more positive student motivational responses. Another interesting finding from the research suggests that the provision of more choice and control seems to have a more dramatic positive impact on women compared to men. The schedule of the project is shown below along with brief descriptions: Week 1 (Lecture 1): Pain Point Investigation and Information Collection (worksheet, group discussion)Week 2 (Lecture 2): Information Synthesis and Opportunity Identification (worksheet, group discussion) Week 3 (Lab 1): Problem Definition, Brainstorming and Solution Prototyping (worksheet, group discussion, hands-on building) Week 4 (Lab 2): Design Decision and Project Management (worksheet, group discussion) Week 5 (Lab 3): Proposal Presentation (oral presentation) Week 6/7/8 (Lab 4/5/6): Prototype Construction & Testing (hands-on building) Week 9 (Lab 7): Final Presentation and prototype demonstration (video, oral presentation and demo) The two lectures help students identify pain points, and collect and synthesize information. Ideally, they should be given at least two weeks before the start of the project so that students have plenty of time to decide which project to work on. The worksheets used in the two lectures are in the "Lecture Worksheets" folder. Lab 1 and Lab 2 give students the opportunity to go through the engineering design process: define the problem, gather information, generate alternative concepts, evaluate the alternatives, select the most promising concept, plan and manage the project. The problem definition and planning documents used are in the "Supplemental Lab Materials" folder. During the three project construction labs, a lab agenda is used to help students track their progress. It is in the "Supplemental Lab Materials" folder. Students are asked to complete a business model canvas for their project (assigned during the second construction lab, instructions and template are in the "Supplemental Lab Materials" folder). They are also asked to write a testing plan for their prototype (assigned during the last construction lab, instructions and template in the "Supplemental Lab Materials" folder). Students have to submit five project deliverables. Instructions, due dates and grading rubrics are in the "Project Deliverables" folder. Evaluation and Future WorkIn the SDT research conducted, for every week of the nine-week project, students were given a Situational Motivation Scale (SIMS) survey, which is an instrument to measure different types of motivations on a continuum ranging from autonomous (internal) to controlled (external) motivations. This continuum includes intrinsic motivation, a deeply internalized state of engagement based on interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and passion; identified regulation, a state in which actions are based on an internal sense of self and perceived value, importance, or usefulness of a task; external regulation, a state of compliance with external pressure, prompted by contingent reward or punishment avoidance, and amotivation, state of impersonal or non-intentional action due to learners finding no value and no desirable outcomes in a learning activity. This survey provides useful diagnostic information and practical insights into course design to support more positive forms of student motivational responses. The survey reveals, for example, that the open-ended design project focusing on automation described in this card seems to result in higher external motivation signals and lower internal motivation signals for chemical engineering students. How to come up with remedies to reach this population is an urgent next step in the project design. The weekly motivation survey also shows a dip in positive motivations during Week 2. How to modify the activity to better support positive student motivation is another future improvement. Furthermore, given that the SIMS profile from this project shows both higher average amotivation and external regulation values compared to the “truly autonomous” motivation profile, identifying strategies to further motivate students to adopt more positive forms of motivation is one more important future work. A Basic Needs Satisfaction Scale (BNSS) survey was given at the end of the semester, which measures the degree to which three basic psychological needs of autonomy, relatedness and competence are satisfied. Survey results show that competency may play a role in shaping the motivational responses of students. Therefore, if you do plan to implement an open-ended automation project like the one described in this card, make sure to give students a tutorial and sufficient practice on Arduino, sensors and actuators to make students feel confident in their ability to completing the project. Tutorial and examples on using Arduino, sensors and motors can be found in the Card "Project: Autonomous Mail Delivery System". Both the Situational Motivation Scale (SIMS) survey and the Basic Needs Satisfaction Scale (BNSS) survey can be found in the "Surveys" folder.

This module was designed for a junior level civil engineering course focused on environmental engineering. The module sought to increase students' curiosity as they explored the impacts of algal blooms and low oxygen levels in rivers. It then asked students to make connections across conent as students used the Streetor-Phelps Equation to develop oxygen sag curves and determine the minimum oxygen levels in the river. Students also analyzed possible solutions to low oxygen levels, and recommended a solution based on information they collected. This activity was completed during one 85-minute class period. Students completed the memo summarizing their findings outside of class, and reported back during the first 10 minutes of the following class. The module used local river and water issues to help students connect the course topics with real-world problems. The activity also supports the 3Cs by scaffolding the information gathering process about algal blooms in a way that helps students reflect on the solution process.

A series of lectures and labs were created for the first half of our freshmen BME100 (Introduction to Biomedical Engineering) class to incorporate EM into the curricula. In this 4 lab series the students were required to identify an unmet health care issue, develop a device or technology to address the issue, create a virtual prototype, design an experiment to validate the device/technology and finally to pitch the idea to a group of potential investors from the local community (“Spark Tank”). The students were first randomly assigned to groups of 4-5 students to allow them to learn to work with new people having various personalities. They were also asked to assess each others performance as part of the grade. Prior to lab 1 they received a lecture on fundability and how to identify a problem worth solving. In Lab 1 the group first identified a health care need, researched the current patent state of their idea, proposed a plan for customer validation. In Lab 2 they learned to create technical drawings using various prototyping software in order to virtually prototype their device/technology. They were also required to perform a market analysis given what it would cost to create their device/technology. In Lab 3 they designed an experiment to validate their device and were also asked to validate an existing personal fitness device as a way to understand the process of validation. In Lab 4 they created a 5 minute presentation (“elevator pitch”) to propose their idea to potential investors. This was initially done in class and the students voted on the best 4 projects. These four then advanced to present to actual entrepreneurs from the industry community in our “Spark Tank” competition.

In the context of a 2000- level Cell Biology course for majors and non-majors alike, students use primary literature to become scientific ‘super heroes’ – righting scientific misinformation and misconceptions to inform and persuade their peers (and hypothetical benefactor) to support the scientific literacy behind their cause. This is the final project in a one-term course. This project fosters curiosity and promotes connections by challenging students to identify an area of interest (ethics, social policy, health, environment, etc) that would benefit from increased clarity of an underlying cell biological process, to research what is known/not known about the science, and present their findings as an infographic to inform and enhance scientific literacy around their chosen interest. In addition to standard cell biology textbook material, the project follows introductory exercises to primary literature (how to find, read, and distill the information in a primary research article are skillsets that should be introduced prior to or concurrent with this assignment) and related small workshops to promote discussion around the applications of cell biology. Initial in-class brainstorming or one-on-one guidance is provided to help the students identify a topic/cell biology concept combo, and the remainder of the project is completed outside of class over a 3-4 week period. Each submitted infographic is shared with the class, who provides structured feedback as part of their course participation – creating value for both the presenters and the viewers. The project has been successful both as an independent or group activity. Although this was delivered in a cell biology class, this project could be easily adapted to other courses that seek to have students appreciate and utilize primary research to inform their ‘daily lives’ or alternatively, to investigate a more refined subject-specific topic. If you use this or a similar approach in your class, please let me know in the comments what worked/didn’t work for you.

There are incredible opportunities for entrepreneurially minded Faculty at ASEE. The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) is a global society of individual, institutional, and corporate members founded in 1893. ASEE as an organization and its members have been at the forefront of fostering significant advances in the content, delivery, and practice of engineering and engineering technology instruction. Collaboration with Engineering Unleashed allows ASEE to pursue those aspects of its mission relevant to advancing innovation in education. There are many opportunities for Faculty to practice the three C's of Mindset and build their Complementary Skills at ASEE. Think of these as experiential learning or problem based learning opportunities for professors!   A professor's role focuses on creating value for students and society through their academic tripartite mission of Teaching - Scholarship- and Service. Arguably, the most important of these is teaching students. To do this well, professors must model the learning outcomes that they expect to teach their students. ASEE offers many venues for Faculty to practice what they preach with regards to the entrepreneurial mindset through demonstrating curiosity about curricula and delivery, integrating information gained from connections with other faculty and organizations to gain insights, and identifying unexpected opportunities for creating academic value for their students.   When it comes to building complementary skills-remember you don't have to be bad to get better-Faculty can take advantage of the opportunity to share a curricular model or project prototype that they created to validate their ideas with their peers and they can also actively analyze the solutions of other Faculty. Networking at ASEE is a great way to make connections and build teams. Faculty can take their communication skills to the next level of excellence by creating a poster or presenting their work at one of the many conferences and divisions, some of which specifically address economic and societal impact. These are only a few specific examples of how Faculty can utilize ASEE's many opportunities to practice their entrepreneurial mindset.  ASEE is devoted to Faculty innovation and to fostering significant advancement in content, delivery and practice in engineering and engineering technology.  Share your thoughts in the comments below. What opportunity is best for you?

NOTE: This is a work-in-progress. Plans to implement in Summer 2020. Context: This Outreach project is conducted in a weeklong summer camp for high school students (sophomore through senior) in which students are introduced to maker technologies, engage in hands-on prototyping activities, and work with a local non-profit helping people with multiple severe disabilities to design and build a working prototype to solve a real-world problem that will create value for the non-profit customer. Description:  This project was inspired by three KEEN-related activities. First, a component of our last KEEN grant was dedicated to the development and institutionalization of a multidisciplinary sophomore experience utilizing the principles of a project-based studio environment to instill an enterprising attitude in our students as a key component of entrepreneurially minded learning. This led to the Entrepreneurial Engineering Design Studio which was fully implemented in Fall 2016. The Entrepreneurial Engineering Design Studio emphasizes creating solutions through team based projects utilizing engineering tools and skills, along with opportunity identification, ideation, value analysis, and customer engagement. For more information on this course see #Building Solutions for Real Customers. Second, the sophomore studio partners with a local non-profit to serve as real customers for our students. By providing a real world customer with a disability, students are able to see directly the impact that their project can have on improving someone’s life.  At a Service Learning Workshop at Arizona State University, exploring other avenues to expand this service learning on our campus beyond the sophomore studio, particularly in Outreach activities, can build empathy in these future STEM professionals. Also, in the context of the summer camp activities, working on authentic projects where students are able to see customers using their designs can be very motivating and rewarding. Third, by exposing high schoolers, specifically those under-represented students, to current maker technologies in a setting where they are able to gain hands-on experience with these rapid prototyping technologies may serve to inspire this ‘maker mentality’ either in their future studies or in their hobbies or interests. At the B-Fab workshop at Bucknell University, attendees learn to use laser cutting, 3D printing, soldering, and Arduino microcontrollers in a 3-day hands-on project. Teaching these techniques to high schoolers can also serve to foster curiosity in the endless ‘making’ possibilities. Brief Description of Activities: Day 1 – Accessibility Simulation Exercises and Customer Discovery Day 2 – Laser Cutting and 3D Printing, Patent Searching, Ideation Day 3 – Concept Selection and Prototype Design Day 4 – Prototype Building Day 5 - Prototype Building and Customer Testing Assessment: To assess the effectiveness in fostering both an enthusiasm for STEM, empathy in design, and building the entrepreneurial mindset in the camp attendees, a Google survey will be used to collect and gather feedback.

University of Detroit Mercy developed a series of 16 technical entrepreneurship case studies. Each case study includes an introduction handout for students and a series of videos. This specific case study highlights OnSite ERT, a startup that provides tracking and monitoring of first responders at incident scenes such as fires and accidents. These case studies are intended to enhance student understanding of how technical concepts can be developed into new businesses. At UDM, this case about software development has been embedded in an introductory computer science course. The possible technical courses that could benefit from this case study are in the areas of computer science, software development, or geographic information systems. This case study activity includes a presentation and video clips that fit into one 50-minute course. It could be used in a class of any size. The concept of using case studies to expose students to technical entrepreneurship can be applied in any discipline. Other case studies can be found at http://weaverjm.faculty.udmercy.edu/udmkeencases.html.

This is the first project of the four-five lab experiments based on the Texas Instruments Tiva C workshop to teach basic programming and debugging skills with embedded microcontrollers (MCU). This project in particular covers Lab 1-3 of the 15 labs provided by the TM4C123GX workshop (http://www.ti.com/TM4C123G-Launchpad-Workshop), covering the introduction to the Launchpad, Code Composer Studio, GPIO, and timer interrupt. This card expands the original lab tasks and provides thought-provoking questions that students have to answer in their lab reports.  This card also provides detailed tips, grading rubrics, and team effort form for instructors.

This card is created for Software Engineering course at junior or senior level. Software Engineering course covers software development processes, project planning, system design, system implementation, system testing, and system evaluation. Besides learning the knowledge in the classes, it is important to have students practice the knowledge through hands-on projects. In addition, entrepreneurial mindset should be introduced to the students during the lectures and the practical projects since it is required for the future employment. In this card, five mini modules were created and implemented in the Fall 2018 semester. Course contents covered include Essential attributes of good software, System Requirements, System Modeling, Architecture Design, and Project Planning. Students were required to create a bookstore website including the front-end and back-end for our university as the practical project. Through the lectures and practical project assignments, active learning, project-based learning, and entrepreneurial mindset were addressed. The connections to the entrepreneurial mindset student outcomes are shown in the mini modules.

Scenario: Your family is worried about increasing electricity bill from year to year, and they wanted to see if including solar panels might help to reduce their energy bill. As an electrical engineering student you are ready to evaluate your home needs and find the size of the energy system your family need, and how much it is going to cost them to install the solar panels. Estimate  the payback period of the system.