Identify, design, and test a variety of techniques for integrating disciplinary research in educational activities!

When: July 29 - August 1, 2024
Where: Albuquerque, NM

Curiosity lies at the heart of research for the academic entrepreneur!

Entrepreneurially Minded Learning (EML) & Student Research will stimulate your thinking and intentionality regarding new venues for disciplinary research. EMRe will examine structures in which there are multiple beneficiaries and learning opportunities for stakeholders, including your students and institution.

Who Should Attend: Faculty conducting research with undergraduate research students.

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3 Key Takeaways:

Everything you learn from the facilitation and coaching team and other participants can be immediately applied to your context and topics of interest.

  • Identify how directed research activities can be used to foster an entrepreneurial mindset for research students, or your own projects.

  • Design and test a variety of techniques for integrating disciplinary research in educational activities, both formally and informally, as well as curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular.

  • Examine how you might take advantage of your institution’s structures and programs.

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Workshop Phases

Each EUFD National workshop consists of three distinct phases, the Quickstart, Meetup, and Press Onward, over the course of a year.

  • 1. QuickStart

    The QuickStart course begins your adventure. You can start your journey immediately after registering. In this self-paced online course, you will begin learning the central ideas of the workshop and how they apply the entrepreneurial mindset (EM). The facilitation team has customized your introduction to the workshops topics and will ask you to identify a candidate project.

  • 2. Meetup

    Within the Meetup course and event, you will interact (and likely even have some fun) with the facilitation team and other participants. The Meetup for this particular workshop will be in-person! Up to thirty participants will meet in Albuquerque, NM from July 29 - August 1, 2024. Learning from each other is always one of the most valuable and memorable parts of any workshop sequence. Individual participants will arrive — and a community will emerge.

  • 3. Press Onward

    Pressing Onward can be transformative. Following the Meetup event you will have a series of online meetings over the course of the year with members of the coaching team, individually or with other participants. The ample time between meetings affords an opportunity to develop your ideas and experiment. Get real results as you apply what you learned and share discoveries along the way. When complete, you'll publish a card on EngineeringUnleashed.com to serve as a resource for the community.

Facilitators and Coaches

Facilitator

Heather Dillon

Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma, where her research team is currently working on renewable energy systems, solid-state lighting, energy efficiency in buildings, fundamental heat transfer studies and engineering education. She is the Chair of the Council on Undergraduate Research Engineering Division and recently served as the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in STEM Education at the University of Calgary, Alberta. Before joining academia, Heather Dillon worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer working on both energy efficiency and renewable energy systems, where she received the US Department of Energy Office of Science Outstanding Mentor Award. During her time at the University of Portland she received the Provost’s Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research Faculty Member (2017) and the Outstanding Scholarship Award (2020).

Facilitator

Jenna Carpenter

Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter is Founding Dean and Professor of Engineering at Campbell University and Immediate Past President of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). She will be 2024-25 President-Elect of the Mathematical Association of America. Dr. Carpenter was one of four recipients awarded the 2022 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education from the National Academy of Engineering for cofounding the Grand Challenges Scholars Program. She received the 2023 ABET Clarie Felbinger Award for Diversity and Inclusion and the 2019 ASEE Sharon Keillor Award Carpenter for Women in Engineering. She is an expert on innovative STEM curricula and on issues related to DEI in STEM fields.

Coach

Ben Tribelhorn

Ben teaches Computer Science at the University of Portland where his research focuses on applications of machine learning spanning from robotics to bioinformatics. He has also taught undergraduate and graduate students at Seattle University. His interest in entrepreneurial education stems from his experience as a co-founder of a robotics and automation company. He believes that an entrepreneurial mindset is a critical component of a well rounded liberal arts education.

Coach

Brooke Mayer

Dr. Brooke Mayer is an Associate Professor in Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at Marquette University. She graduated from the Environmental Engineering program at Arizona State University (B.S. – 2004, M.S. – 2006, Ph.D. – 2008). Dr. Mayer’s teaching and research interests focus on physical-chemical treatment processes for water and wastewater applications, including the mitigation of harmful pollutants such as pathogens, nutrients, and disinfection byproducts. Her research emphasizes improved public health and safety as well as advancing the waste-to-resource paradigm. For her work in these areas, Dr. Mayer was awarded a NSF CAREER grant, Marquette University’s Opus College of Engineering Outstanding Researcher Award, Marquette University’s Way Klingler Young Scholar Award, and Arizona State University’s College of Engineering Teaching Award.

Coach

Sirena Hargrove-Leak

Sirena Hargrove-Leak is a Professor in the Engineering Program at Elon University. The mission and commitment of Elon University have led her to explore the scholarship of teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). More specifically, her current engineering education interests include entrepreneurial mindsets, user-centered design, project-based learning, and broadening participation in STEM − particularly for populations historically underrepresented in STEM fields. As a teacher-scholar, Dr. Hargrove-Leak is passionate about applying what she learns in her research in the classroom, while mentoring undergraduates in research projects driven by their personal and professional interests, and in service in the local community to get young people excited about STEM.

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