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Session Description

This session showcases forward-thinking initiatives that embed entrepreneurial principles into engineering curricula. Presenters will discuss curriculum redesigns, instructional innovations, and hands-on learning experiences that cultivate creativity, problem-solving, and an entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students. Attendees will gain practical insights into curriculum transformation strategies that prepare students to thrive in dynamic, real-world environments.

Moderated by

1. Prof. Andrea M Ragonese and Lynn Hall

Papers Presented

1. An Entrepreneurial Mindset-Based Early-Curriculum Exposure to Undergraduate Research [view paper]
   Dr. Blake Everett Johnson (University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign), Dr. Irene Reizman (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), Dr. Liping Liu (Lawrence Technological University), Dr. Mary Lauren Benton (Baylor University), John Peponis (Lawrence Technological University), Mason Borzin (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dr. Michelle Marincel Payne (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), Dr. Jonathan Rylander (Baylor University), and Mitchel Daniel (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)


2. Incorporating an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Online Introduction to Engineering Courses: A Study of Value Creation [view paper]
   Dr. Kristen Peña (Arizona State University), Dr. Medha Dalal (Arizona State University), Dr. Anoop Singh Grewal (Arizona State University), and Dr. Michael Machas (Affiliation unknown)


3. Introducing the Entrepreneurial Mindset into Classes at NC State University [view paper]
   Dr. Anna K. T. Howard (North Carolina State University at Raleigh), Katherine Saul (North Carolina State University at Raleigh), and Nathalie Lavoine (North Carolina State University at Raleigh)


4. Mastery-Based Learning Inspires Persistence and Growth Through Failure [view paper]
   Dr. Joshua Gargac (Ohio Northern University), Dr. Shuvra Das (University of Detroit Mercy), Dr. Kurt M Degoede (Elizabethtown College), and Dr. Sara A. Atwood (Elizabethtown College)


5. Using Narrative Inquiry to Assess Research Outcomes of Biomedical Engineering Entrepreneurial REU Undergraduate Students [view paper]
   Ms. Alexandra Mary Jackson (Rowan University), Cayla Ritz (Rowan University), Dr. Cheryl A Bodnar (The Ohio State University), Cassandra Sue Ellen Jamison (Rowan University), Dr. Kaitlin Mallouk (Rowan University), and Dr. Mary Staehle (Rowan University)