Adding Entrepreneurship to Engineering Education Luis Caldas de Oliveira CLUSTER 25th Anniversary Symposium
Adding Entrepreneurship to Engineering Education
Luis Caldas de Oliveira
CLUSTER 25th Anniversary Symposium
“College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the students’ lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.” (wrongly?) attributed to Mark Twain
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Traditional Education Environment • Predictable • Certain • Specialized • Known inputs • Linear • Expected outputs • Competitive • Focus on planning
Innovative Education Environment
• Predictable • Certain • Specialized • Known inputs • Linear • Expected outputs • Competitive • Focus on planning
• Unpredictable • Uncertain • Multiple skills • Unknown inputs • Iterative • Variable outputs • Collaborative • Focus on action
Engineering + Entrepreneurship Education
Prediction approach (analysis)
Creation approach (action)
Experiential Learning
Lean LaunchPad
“The Lean LaunchPad (...) is designed as a simulation of real world entrepreneurship: hard, chaotic, intense, and rewarding.” Steve Blank
5 Practices
Empathy Play
Reflection
Experimentation
Creation
Neck, Greene & Brush (2014)
Experimentation
“Try something, learn from results, try again” Neck, Greene & Brush (2014) “Hypothesis, Experiment, Validation” Steve Blank
Empathy
“Helps felling and understanding the emotions, circumstances, intentions, thoughts and needs of others” McLaren (2013)
Play
“Do you hear laughter less than three times in every class session?” Neck, Greene & Brush (2014)
Reflection
“Reflection helps codify the learning experiences” Schon (1983)
Creation
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” Scott Adams
Application: LLP@Tecnico
SWIMPRO Entrepreneurship Course using the Lean Launchpad Methodology Fall Semester 2014-2015 https://youtu.be/3vcQ4fAhwBw
The Swimpro Team
Rúben Capitão (MEE) Gonçalo Mateus (MERC) Paulo Melancia (MEGI)
João Quintas (MEIC) Nuno Rodrigues (MEE)
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower” Steve Jobs
Obrigado