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Exploring Diverse Work Personas of Engineering Design Graduates through Cluster Analysis Open
(Paper type: Research) Engineering schools increasingly endeavor to diversify their educational offerings to meet students' needs of pursuing various career trajectories. However, students' aspirations are often shaped by engineering stere…
“What Counts Factors”: Preparing Engineering Students to Innovate Through Leadership of Multi-functional Teams Open
Understanding the Role of Product Manager and Implications for Teaching Design Engineering StudentsAbstractThe role of the Product Manager within industry is a driving force for innovation. ProductManagers are trained as individual contrib…
Predicting Entrepreneurial Intent among Entry-Level Engineering Students Open
Engineering + X: Designing and Delivering Scenarios that connect Core Engineering Concepts with Entrepreneurship ContentThe successful practice of engineering in today’s workplace requires the integration of a broadrange of skills that oft…
Bending Moments to Business Models: Integrating an Entrepreneurship Case Study as Part of Core Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Open
Madison Longboard: Incorporating an Entrepreneurship Case Study within Core Mechanical Engineering CurriculumIt is apparent from reports like The Engineer of 2020 that an engineer’s education would benefitfrom instruction in entrepreneursh…
The Making of an Innovative Engineer: Academic and Life Experiences that Shape Engineering Task and Innovation Self-Efficacy Open
The Making of an Innovative Engineer: Academic and Life Experiences that Shape Engineering Task and Innovation Self-Efficacy This research paper presents the results of a study that uses multivariate models to explore the relationships bet…
Exploring the Relationship between Mindfulness and Innovation in Engineering Students Open
An open, receptive, and curious (mindful) mindset is often cited as important in innovation. Yet, engineering education typically focuses on narrow analytical training at the expense of fostering expansive thinking. To specifically explore…
Impact-Driven Engineering Students: Contributing Behavioral Correlates Open
Engineering has a long history of developing solutions to meet societal needs, and humanity currently faces many and varied societal challenges. Who are the engineering students motivated to address such challenges? This study explores a s…
Innovation Self-Efficacy: A Very Brief Measure for Engineering Students Open
When survey time is limited, education researchers may be faced with the choice of using an extremely brief measure of innovativeness or using no measure at all. To meet the need for a very brief measure, a 5-item innovation self-efficacy …
Connecting for Success; The Impact of Student-to-Other Closeness on Performance in Large-Scale Engineering Classes Open
This research paper explores the relationship between “student-to-other” closeness within a large-scale introductory engineering class and student performance as measured by final grade. Aron and Aron have developed the theory of self-expa…