REU Site: Engineering Entrepreneurship Education (E3) - A Multidisciplinary, Entrepreneurial Research Experience for Undergraduates

康涅狄格大学的本科生研究经验（REU）网站名为工程创业教育（E3）-本科生的多学科创业研究经验，将为传统上代表性不足的人群中有才华和多样化的本科生群体创造新颖的研究经验，获得STEM研究机会有限。美国国家工程院报告说，创业精神是工程专业本科生最关键的技能之一。拟议的REU通过让学生有机会从事具有商业潜力的研究项目，同时向他们介绍与将新技术推向市场相关的挑战，来满足这一需求。该计划提供创业，沟通，创意，销售和创造力的机会，鼓励学生在未来追求自己的创造性和创业努力。 具有这种经验的学生可以作为力量倍增器，鼓励和吸引其他学生或个人也从事创造性和创业企业，发展必要的创业心态，以支持充满活力的技术型经济。为了将创业工程培训的好处扩大到弱势群体，该网站与康涅狄格州立学院和大学（CSCU）建立了招聘合作伙伴关系，以实现少数民族参与的宏伟目标。在三年的时间里，REU Site项目将吸引本科生参加为期10周的暑期密集研究体验，重点关注被确定为具有高商业项目转化潜力的项目，并鼓励跨学科讨论和激发创造力。 该研究计划将由一个正式的工程创业计划补充，该计划将专注于创意过程，创意生成，原型设计和创业的现实。 学生将通过所需的演示文稿REU队列，他们的教师导师和企业家发展沟通技巧。该REU计划将康涅狄格大学成功的创业研究生课程所使用的模型转化为适合本科生的背景。

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the University of Connecticut entitled, Engineering Entrepreneurship Education (E3)-A Multidisciplinary, Entrepreneurial Research Experience for Undergraduates, will create novel research experiences for a talented and diverse group of undergraduate students from traditionally underrepresented populations, with limited access to STEM research opportunities. The National Academy of Engineering reports that entrepreneurship is one of the most critical skills to be taught to engineering undergraduates. The proposed REU addresses this need by giving students the opportunity to work on research projects with commercial potential while simultaneously introducing them to challenges associated with bringing new technologies to market. The program offers entrepreneurship, communication, idea generation, salesmanship, and creativity opportunities to encourage students to pursue their own creative and entrepreneurial endeavors in the future. Students with this experience can serve as force multipliers, encouraging and engaging other students or individuals to also engage in creative and entrepreneurial enterprises developing the entrepreneurial mindset necessary to support a vibrant, technology-based economy. To extend the benefits of entrepreneurial engineering training to disadvantaged populations, the site has established a recruitment partnership with Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) to meet ambitious goals for minority participation. Opening avenues to minority students to achieve entrepreneurial competence will translate to greater economic opportunities within their home institutions.Over a three year period, this REU Site program will engage undergraduate students in a 10-week intensive, summer research experience focused on projects identified as having a high potential for translation to commercial projects and which encourage cross-disciplinary discussions and stimulate creativity. The research program will be complemented by a formal engineering entrepreneurship program that will focus on the creative process, idea generation, prototyping, and the realities of starting a business. Students will develop communication skills through required presentations to the REU cohort, their faculty mentors, and entrepreneurs. This REU program translates the model used by a successful graduate course in entrepreneurship at the University of Connecticut to a context appropriate for undergraduates.