Summary of Institutional Overviews Paul King Workshop on BME Teaching of Innovation, Design & Entrepreneurship

Title slide: Institution/Presenter Up to 3 course descriptions Describe particularly novel and/or effective methods you use to teach innovation & entrepreneurship How do you measure outcomes? Describe a course project or exercise that exemplifies “best practices” Structure of Presentations:

20 Summary Slide Shows as of 9/26/2003 From: Binghamton U.U. Birmingham U. Pittsburg U. MiamiIllinois Inst. Of Technology Tulane U. Duke U.Bucknell U.Purdue U. Washington U. in St. Louis N. C. State U.Rose-Hulman Inst. Of Tech. U. CA IrvineRutgers U.Carnegie Mellon U. Lehigh U.Western New England UC San Diego Boston U.Johns Hopkins U.U. Iowa

Design/Innovation/Entrepreneurship Courses Discussed: Freshman6 Sophomore6 Junior4 Senior18 MS+3

Describe particularly novel and/or effective methods you use to teach innovation & entrepreneurship Partnership w business/mgt* - 7 Projects to aid the disabled – 2 Reverse engineering exposure – 2 Inventor/entrepreneur lectures – 3 Full class brainstorming sessions – 2 Business Incubator Small Business Development Center Preparation for team formation Center for Entrepreneurism & Tech. Advance. Students teaching students Entrepreneurship Certificate Program

Describe particularly novel and/or effective methods you use to teach innovation & entrepreneurship Problem based learning Specialization in Bioinformatics, Choice: business plan or SBIR/STTR Industrial Mentoring Market stress, product driven - 2 …taking the Drucker approach, innovation is the instrument of entrepreneurship … Interdisciplinary engineering teams Team internships Proposals and their defense Lectures on entrepreneurism and innovation

How do you measure outcomes? Audience/advisors at report out – 11 Student/Instructor course eval. – 7 Alumni Survey -3 Interviews with users -3 Graduating senior survey - 3 Learning objectives self reported Is it patentable/publishable? – 3 Proposals, progress reports, reports Competitions

In the process of working on a challenging topic for a sponsor, students develop skills in: (from IIT) teamwork leadership and decision-making communicating verbally and in writing exercising creativity + problem solving technology commercialization balancing quality and economy gauging environmental cost-benefit considering ethical issues searching/synthesizing information building client/customer relationships appreciating multicultural issues planning/managing project activities

Describe a course project or exercise that exemplifies “best practices” Most gave specific projects Try to take it to market – 2 Reverse Engineering Device use documentation Partnership with business The study of medical versus non-medical designs Interdisciplinary engineering & schools Team internships

Presentations will be posted at: Great coverage and variety! Thanks to the Whitaker Foundation for support of the workshop! Questions?