Development of Course Material for an Undergraduate Course in Engineering Entrepreneurship

该项目正在为工程师的本科生创业课程开发跨学科教育内容。通过熟悉创业的基本原理，学生能够更好地设计工程解决方案，以满足日益全球化的市场中客户的需求。该项目正在开发两个案例研究以及相关的教学笔记和教学材料。它还在开发材料，以支持为学生举办的一次小型会议，该会议旨在培养创造力，并鼓励他们构思可能商业化的新的或改进的产品或服务。最后，他们正在开发评估标准，以评估项目成果，这些工具和产生的数据正在为教授工程师创业精神的现有知识和研究做出贡献，并作为其他开设工程师创业课程的大学的榜样。传播计划包括会议报告，特别是在全国大学发明家和创新者联盟年会上的演讲，以及关于案例研究的期刊出版物。他们还将在自己的案例上出版小册子，并向教师提供教学笔记。

This project is developing interdisciplinary educational content for an undergraduate course in entrepreneurship for engineers. By becoming familiar with the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, students are better able to design engineering solutions that address customers' needs in an increasingly global marketplace. The project is developing two case studies along with the associated teaching notes and instructional material. It also is developing material to support a mini-conference for students that fosters creativity and encourages them to conceptualize new or improved products or services that might be commercialized. Finally, they are developing assessment rubrics to evaluate the project outcomes and these tools and the resulting data are contributing to the existing body of knowledge and research in teaching entrepreneurship to engineers and are serving as models to other universities that have courses in entrepreneurship for engineers. Dissemination plans include conference presentations, particularly at the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance Annual Conference, and journal publication on the case studies. They also will publish booklets on their cases and make teaching notes available to instructors.