Adapt or create courses with the entrepreneurial mindset!

When: May 22 - 25, 2023
Where: Virtual

Learn how to leverage entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) to modify or adapt courses that support the development of students’ entrepreneurial mindset!

ICE 1.0 guides you through the framework of EML, centered on curiosity, connections, and creating value. Through the exploration of each of these components, you will learn:

  • Problem-based active and collaborative learning techniques to instill the entrepreneurial mindset in students.

  • Key components for making a strong learning experience, including learning objectives, problem statements, and assessment.

You will apply the principles learned to create and share a teaching technique for a particular topic in your discipline.

Who Should Attend: From new to experienced faculty looking to embed aspects of the KEEN framework into their courses, the ICE 1.0 workshops are a great way to get started with entrepreneurial minded learning.

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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.

  • Develop familiarity with KEEN and its framing of EML practice.

  • Create connections with like-minded faculty who have a desire to integrate EML into your practices.

  • Initiate the design of a module to implement EML into existing coursework.

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Registration for May ICE 1.0 is closed, the workshop is full.

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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 virtual! Up to thirty participants will meet virtually from May 22 - 25, 2023. 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

Cheryl Bodnar

Dr. Cheryl Bodnar is an Associate Professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department at Rowan University. She is a recent KEEN Rising Star Award winner and has been the KEEN leader on Rowan’s campus since it became a partner in 2016. Both the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Kern Family Foundation have funded her research. Her research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques such as game-based learning in undergraduate classes as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum. In particular, she is interested in the impact that these tools can have on student perception of the classroom environment, motivation, and learning outcomes.

Facilitator

Andy Gerhart

Andy is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He has developed undergraduate and graduate courses in fluid mechanics, creative problem solving, leadership, engineering design, and first-year introductory engineering. He is the supervisor of the Thermal Science and Aerodynamics Laboratories, Coordinator of the Aeronautical Engineering Minor and the Interdisciplinary Design & Entrepreneurial Applications curriculum, and faculty advisor for the student branch of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics & SAE Aero Design team. He facilitates workshops worldwide for K-12 and higher education instructors, focusing on active, collaborative, and problem-based learning, as well as training professional engineers in creative problem solving and innovation. He has received five best paper awards from American Society for Engineering Educators. He is also an author of the top-selling Fluid Mechanics textbook. Dr. Gerhart was awarded the 2010 Michigan Professor of the Year (by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education), Lawrence Tech’s teaching and faculty awards, and two leadership awards from the Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD). He was elected to ESD’s College of Fellows, and serves on the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Performance Test Code Committee for Air-cooled Condensers.

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

Maria-Isabel Carnasciali

Maria-Isabel is the Assistant Provost for Assessment & Faculty Development at the University of New Haven, CT. She is Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering where she teaches courses in thermo/fluids and design. She obtained her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech specializing in the area of thermal fluid systems. She received her Bachelor of Science in Engineering from MIT. Her educational research focuses on the nontraditional engineering student – understanding their motivations, identity development, and impact of prior engineering-related experiences. Her work dwells into learning in informal settings such as makerspaces, summer camps, military experiences, and extra-curricular activities. Other research interests involve validation of CFD models for aerospace and industrial applications, as well as optimizing efficiency of thermal-fluid systems. A huge proponent of active and collaborate learning, she has been leading faculty development workshops for over 15 years. In her free time, she is likely out sailing or boating!

Coach

Jennifer O'Neil

Jennifer O’Neil is an Assistant Professor of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in thermal fluid sciences. She actively promotes the integration of entrepreneurial mindset into engineering curriculum through faculty development. Her research interests are in the area of spray physics, focused on effectively treating pediatric pulmonary diseases.

Facilitator & Coach

Jessica Fick

Jessica Fick earned her PhD and Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, specializing in computational solid mechanics, from John Hopkins University. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. She is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and an Assistant Dean at UW-Platteville. Jessica Fick's research interest focus on failure mechanisms and their connection to the difference scales, from the microscopic details to the macroscopic process of failure. A computationalist at heart, she developed a numerical tool to predict fragment sizes for different rates of loading which includes an elastic-viscoplastic material model, thermal softening and conduction, communication through the wave equation, and failure due to void nucleation, growth, and coalescence. Prior to her graduate work, Dr. Fick worked for the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, MD where she found a love of shock physics and failure analysis. Jessica Fick typically teaches courses in design and mechanics in the mechanical engineering curriculum; her primary focus is senior design. She has incorporated EM in all her classes after first learning about it at the 2018 KEEN National Conference (KNC) and an ICE workshop in 2019. Jessica is currently serving as a KEEN Leader on her campus and the Chair of the KEEN Leadership council. She has previously coached for both ICE and KNC.

Coach

Lindy Mayled

Lindy Hamilton Mayled is the Director of Instructional Effectiveness and Professional Learning for the Fulton Schools of Engineering Learning and Teaching Hub at Arizona State University. She has a PhD in Psychology of Learning, Education, and Technology and her research focuses on integration of active learning and technology-enabled frequent feedback, improving educational outcomes for underrepresented STEM students, and the impact of professional development practices on faculty beliefs and student achievement. Prior to her role as Director of Instructional Effectiveness, she worked as the Director of the NSF-funded IUSE Engineering faculty development grant, as an Assistant Principal and Instructional and Curriculum Coach, and as a high school math and science teacher.

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