Bending Moments to Business Models: Integrating an Entrepreneurship Case Study as Part of Core Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

Abstract

is a sophomore studying Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. After several education related jobs in the past, he decided to spend the summer after his freshman year working on engineering education, specifically Stanford's Introduction to Solid Mechanics, E14. In addition to the Longboard Lab & Case Study, Mark worked on a series of online vector math tutorials to ease the transition into E14.

Stimulating Entrepreneurial Interest in Engineers Through an Experiential and Multidisciplinary Course Collaboration

“…For example, Huang-Saad (2009) described a course that was designed to involve graduate biomedical engineering students in innovation and provide the students with tools to become successful beyond the classroom by fostering an entrepreneurial mindset. Entrepreneurship education has also been offered to nonbusiness students to help them locate employment opportunities beyond their conventional career choices (Schar, Sheppard, Brunhaver, Cuson, & Grau, 2014). For example, Mosly (2017) studied the influence of entrepreneurship education on engineering students’ perceptions and willingness to change their future job directions.…”

Predicting Entrepreneurial Intent among Entry-Level Engineering Students

“…Results from this previous research with the earlier version show that students can increase their knowledge of targeted entrepreneurship concepts without diminishment of learning core engineering concepts. 17 While the case study experience did not significantly change entrepreneurial career intentions it did grow students' perceived entrepreneurial self-efficacy (as measured by confidence in business skills), which can be a precursor to changing career intent.…”

“…Characters in this case are either in the public domain or purely fictional.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. on your design persona(17), then recall the ideal pedal RPM (18)(6) and minimum comfort mechanical advantage (19)(7) for this persona. Review your data from Part II, then select a manufacturer and brand (20) that is best for your design persona.…”