National Civil Engineering Department Heads Conference Innovation and Entrepreneurship

1. National Civil Engineering Department Heads Conference Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fred Berry Milwaukee School of Engineering

2. Mission • MSOE must integrate the knowledge and practice of entrepreneurism into our engineering education. • This is being done by redesigning our curricula from the ground up to include entrepreneurism as a core outcome.

3. Goal • MSOE is educating our students to be entrepreneurially-minded engineers: • Effectively collaborate as a team • Apply critical and creative thinking to ambiguous problems • Construct and effectively collaborate with the client to develop an “appropriate value proposition” • Effectively manage projects to meet client’s expatiation • Demonstrate social responsibility • Persist through and learn from failure • Relate personal liberties and free enterprise to entrepreneurship

4. The Not Goal • You must form a company in School • You must ask your parents and in-laws to fund your idea • You must be a small business owner • Etc…

5. What We Believe • We firmly believe that MSOE students already possess a passion for service and a creative impulse to change the world.  • We believe that guiding, training, and facilitating the growth of MSOE students in entrepreneurism is our best hope for transformative leadership in the twenty-first century.

6. Outcomes • Effectively collaborate as a team: ABET d • Apply critical and creative thinking to ambiguous problems: ABET a, b, c, e, h, k • Construct and effectively collaborate with the client to develop an “appropriate value proposition”: ABET g • Effectively manage projects to meet client’s expatiation: ABET c, e • Demonstrate social responsibility: ABET c, f • Persist through and learn from failure: ABET e, h • Relate personal liberties and free enterprise to entrepreneurship: ABET i, j

7. ABET Student Outcomes • Ability to apply mathematics, science and engineering principles. • Ability to design and conduct experiments, analyze and interpret data. • Ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. • Ability to function on multidisciplinary teams. • Ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems. • Understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. • Ability to communicate effectively. • The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context. • Recognition of the need for and an ability to engage in life-long learning. • Knowledge of contemporary issues. • Ability to use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.

8. To Date • Center for Entrepreneurship • Entrepreneur and Business Strategy Competition • Uihlein/Spitzer Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship • Master Certificate in Innovation & Entrepreneurship • Master of Science in Marketing and Export Management

9. To Date • 23 courses at MSOE now include significant elements of entrepreneurism • These 23 courses reach over 600 students per year • Fall 2010, 30 sections of 16 different courses taught entrepreneurism to over 400 engineering students • These 23 courses reach 100% of the MSOE students

10. Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN) • The Kern Family Foundation created the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN) in 2005 to increase the quantity and quality of U.S. engineering talent. • MSOE is a member of KEEN

11. Some Projects • Project Grow is an interdisciplinary MSOE senior design team dedicated to sustainable agricultural development in Jacmel, Haiti.

12. Future Plans • Biomedical Engineering • Electrical Engineering • Engineering • K-12

13. Thank You • Questions