2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Concept Mapping the Entrepreneurial Mindset in a First-Year Engineering Design Course: How Students' Perceptions Shift

Presented at First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 4: Design Thinking & Entrepreneurship

This complete evidence-based practice paper looks at a concept mapping activity that was used in a first-year engineering design course. Students created concept maps of the Entrepreneurial Mindset before their design project started and then they were asked to iterate on the map after they completed their design project. This study examines the concept maps and uses an automated scoring tool to complete traditional and categorical scoring. The results show that the complexity of the maps did increase significantly to the final versions and that students included a wide range of topics related to the Entrepreneurial Mindset, spanning all six predefined categories.

Authors

Dr. Krista M. Kecskemety http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1192-4172 The Ohio State University [biography]

Krista Kecskemety is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University and the co-Director of the Fundamentals of Engineering Programs. Krista received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University in 2006 and received her M.S. from Ohio State in 2007. In 2012, Krista completed her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at Ohio State. Her engineering education research interests include investigating first-year engineering student experiences, faculty experiences, and the research to practice cycle within first-year engineering.
Laine Rumreich The Ohio State University [biography]

Laine Rumreich is a PhD student studying Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. She completed her undergraduate research thesis in the Department of Engineering Education and has been doing research in the department for six years. She has been a graduate teaching associate for two years and has taught first-year engineering and computer science courses. Her engineering education research interests are in computer science education, entrepreneurship, and first-year engineering.
Ethan Cartwright The Ohio State University [biography]

Ethan Cartwright is a PhD student at the University of Colorado, Boulder studying Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences. Ethan received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Ohio State University in 2024, during which he taught and conducted research in the Department of Engineering Education for four years. He is passionate about student learning and has educational research interests in teaching tools and pedagogy.
Peyton OReilly The Ohio State University [biography]

Peyton O'Reilly is pursuing her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is involved in the Department of Engineering Education as an Undergraduate Research Associate. Her research interests include sense of belonging in engineering.
Sydney Cooper The Ohio State University [biography]

Sydney Cooper is pursuing her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is involved in the Department of Engineering Education as an Undergraduate Research Associate. Her research interests include inclusion in engineering.
Heather Schwab The Ohio State University [biography]

Heather Schwab is pursuing her B.S. in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Humanitarian Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is involved in the Department of Engineering Education as an Undergraduate Research Associate and Lead Undergraduate Teaching Associate for the Fundamentals of Engineering Program. Her research interests include social identities and sense of belonging within engineering.

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