Teaching The "How" Of Engineering Innovation

Cockayne, William; Feland, John; Leifer, Larry

doi:10.18260/1-2--10543

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“…To a person, they felt the experience well worth it. Most importantly, the students developed skills in areas outside their specialty, an essential quality for today's engineers 10 .…”

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confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship Via Multidisciplinary Product Development

Birmingham¹,

Allison²,

Dupree³

2007 Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Blair Allison, Grove City College Dr. Blair T. Allison is professor and chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Grove City College. He teaches courses in engineering design, mechanics of materials, materials science, control systems, and finite element analysis. Areas of research interest include the modeling and control of metal forming processes, manufacturing automation and control, and dimensional control of components and assemblies. He received his Ph.D. and S.M. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.S.M.E. degree from Carnegie Mellon University. James Dupree, Grove City College Dr. James V. Dupree, Ph.D. is the creator and Director of the Entrepreneurship Programs at Grove City College. His responsibilities included creating the program, developing the B.S. in Entrepreneurship, establishing the fifteen-member Entrepreneurship Advisory Council, initiating the annual business plan competition, building external strategic alliances with local and regional business, and facilitating cross-disciplinary teaching and cooperation with college programs in engineering, sciences, and liberal arts. Dupree is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship at Grove City College. He teaches core courses in both Business and Entrepreneurship. Dupree established the Entrepreneurship Advisory Council, consisting of fifteen executive-level Entrepreneurs who come to campus twice a year to advise the program. Furthermore, Dupree in cooperation with Development and the Entrepreneurship program staff won and administrate a 3-year $150,000 grant from the Coleman Foundation.In addition to his academic accomplishments, Dupree has over 10 years of corporate and small business experience in sales, sales training, and program development prior to coming to Grove City College in 1990. He continues to have an active hand in small business start-ups and social enterprise in the region. Dupree served as a field artillery officer in Viet Nam, receiving a bronze star for valor and has been actively involved in Christian interdenominational ministry and served as a small country church pastor.

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“…To a person, they felt the experience well worth it. Most importantly, the students developed skills in areas outside their specialty, an essential quality for today's engineers 10 .…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship Via Multidisciplinary Product Development

Birmingham¹,

Allison²,

Dupree³

2007 Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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“…This model has been used in two Stanford classes to provide students with a pedagogical scaffold to assist students in developing their innovation process. In ME297x, Innovation with Emerging Technologies 12 , this model was used to study historical innovations across disparate domains. Students also used this model to analyze the diffusion of emerging technologies as a Solution biased innovation process.…”

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confidence: 99%