KEEN and the Entrepreneurial Mindset for Engineering

DOUGLAS MELTONKERN FAMILY FOUNDATION

EDUCATING ENTREPRENEURIALLY MINDED BIOMEDICAL

ENGINEERS

25-YEAR RESEARCH QUESTIONS

1. WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR HUMAN PROGRESS & FLOURISHING?

25-YEAR RESEARCH QUESTIONS

2. WHERE ARE THE “LEVERAGE POINTS”?

1. WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR HUMAN PROGRESS & FLOURISHING?

25-YEAR RESEARCH QUESTIONS

3. HOW CAN ENTREPRENEURIAL THINKING BE LEARNED?

2. WHERE ARE THE “LEVERAGE POINTS”?

1. WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR HUMAN PROGRESS & FLOURISHING?

25-YEAR RESEARCH QUESTIONS

Vision 76%

Passion 73%

Drive64%

Integrity53%

Innovation49%

Risk-taker46%

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204603004577267271656000782.htmlFrom survey of 685 entrepreneurs. Source Online WSJ,

March 20th, “Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?”

Resilience42%

Pro-Activeness

Relentless customer focus

Ability to team

Flexibility

3. HOW CAN ENTREPRENEURIAL THINKING BE LEARNED?

THE ENGINEER WE NEEDHAS AN ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET COUPLED WITH

ENGINEERING THOUGHT AND ACTION , EXPRESSED THROUGH COLLABORATION AND COMMUNICATION, AND FOUNDED ON CHARACTER.

Hypothesis

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ENGINEERING UNLEASHED

ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET

The traditionalengineering

skillsetneeds expansion

a tandem development

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Two perspectives

Time Frequency

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Who is this for?Why do theycare?

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What’s thebusinessmodel?

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Whattrendsmatter?

Who is this for?Why do theycare? What’s the

businessmodel?

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Are thereunexpectedopportunities?

Who is this for?Why do theycare?

Whattrendsmatter?

What’s thebusinessmodel?

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What will theimpact be?(impact = significance x scale)

Who is this for?Why do theycare?Are there

unexpectedopportunities?

Whattrendsmatter?

What’s thebusinessmodel?

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Who is this for?Why do theycare?Are there

unexpectedopportunities?

What will theimpact be?(impact = significance x scale)

Whattrendsmatter?

What’s thebusinessmodel?

AttitudesDispositionsMotivations

MINDSET SKILLSET+

Rangaswamy Srinivasan is awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovationand the 2013 National Academy of Engineers Russ Prize

Hooray! The engineers are here.

You have to be curious.But then comes “fascination.”

- Gholam Peyman

Impact =

Quantitative+ Qualitative 20 millionx

Significance x Scale

As educators, how can we increase

dispositionalCURIOSITY?

Signal Processing +Amp

2. Produce a Branded Product3. Joint Venture

1. License the Intellectual PropertyGreat technology. Good press. So how are we going to pay the bills?

FORD MOTOR COMPANY TO LICENSE DIGISONIX TECHNOLOGYSTOUGHTON, Wis., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Nelson Industries, Inc. has granted the Ford Motor Company a non-exclusive, worldwide license to use Nelson's Digisonix(R) active sound and vibration control technology on Ford passenger cars and light trucks. Nelson and Ford currently are engaged in the third year of a development project relating to the application of active sound and vibration control to passenger cars and light trucks...

1. License the Intellectual PropertyGreat technology. Good press. So how are we going to pay the bills?

As educators, how can we increase

CONNECTIONS,as a habit-of-mind to connect information

and implications?

bit.ly/keenmindsetmatters

As educators, how can we increase

our students inclinationCREATE VALUE

for others,whether through projects, research,or entire careers?

KERN ENTREPRENEURIALENGINEERING NETWORK

ENGINEERING UNLEASHED

Teaching Methods(Pedagogy, Games, Etc.)

Assignments, Simulations(designed to promote the 3Cs)

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3C Projects

Community Projects

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Inter-Collegiate Projects

On-Line and Flipped Courses(providing add’l time for 3Cs)

Extra-Curricular &Living-Learning Communities

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3C Case Studies

ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET

4. HOW AND WHEN CAN THE IMPACT BE MEASURED?

3. HOW CAN ENTREPRENEURIAL THINKING BE LEARNED?

2. WHERE ARE THE “LEVERAGE POINTS”?

1. WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR HUMAN PROGRESS & FLOURISHING?

25-YEAR RESEARCH QUESTIONS

4. HOW AND WHEN CAN THE IMPACT BE MEASURED?

3. HOW CAN ENTREPRENEURIAL THINKING BE LEARNED?

2. WHERE ARE THE “LEVERAGE POINTS”?

1. WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR HUMAN PROGRESS & FLOURISHING?

A BOLD EXPERIMENT

KERN ENTREPRENEURIALENGINEERING NETWORK

We enablea network of educators

who share aset of ideals and ideas

about the importance ofentrepreneurial mindset.

We don’t sell anything.No operators are standing by.

We don’t have a prescriptive program.

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