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CREATING AN INNOVATION CONTINUUM IN THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM: EPICS AND THE EPICS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INITIATIVE

机译:在工程课程中创造创新连续素:史诗与史诗创业倡议

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Engineering Projects in Community Service -EPICS - is an engineering design program that operates in a service-learning context. EPICS students earn academic credit for their participation in design teams that solve technology-based problems for not-for-profit organizations in the local community. The teams are: multidisciplinary - drawing students from across engineering and around the university; vertically-integrated - maintaining a mix of freshmen through seniors each semester; and long-term - each student participates in a project for up to seven semesters. The continuity, technical depth, and disciplinary breadth of these teams enable them to deliver products of significant benefit to the community. Many of these products have significant commercial potential. They thus provide a compelling context for the EPICS teams that developed them to learn about entrepreneurship and commercialization. The EPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative (EEI) provides this learning opportunity. Its goals are to: Create opportunities for EPICS students to learn about and experience entrepreneurship. Enable EPICS teams and their project partners in the community to identify, protect, and benefit from the intellectual property they create together. Spread the benefits of EPICS products to all communities. Develop a model of entrepreneurship that can be emulated by other institutions. These goals, when combined with those of the EPICS program, imply that EPICS supports an Innovation Continuum: an EPICS team works with its project partner in the community to define, design, develop, test, deploy, and potentially commercialize products that are of significant benefit to the community. In the following sections of this paper, we provide details of the programs and facilities that have been created to support the potential commercialization of EPICS-developed products. In Section 2, we describe the EEI's relationship with EPICS and the resources that have been developed to support the EEI. In Section 3, we describe in detail the EPICS Idea-to-Product (I2P) Competition. It provides a unique, highly mentored experience for EPICS students that wish to determine the commercial potential of their product.
机译:社区服务的工程项目 - 是一种在服务学习环境中运行的工程设计计划。 Epics学生为他们参与设计团队而获得学术学分,以解决当地社区非营利组织的基于技术的问题。团队是:多学科 - 绘制来自工程和大学周围的学生;垂直整合 - 每学期通过老年人保持新生的混合;和长期 - 每个学生参加一个最多七个学期的项目。这些团队的连续性,技术深度和纪律宽度使他们能够为社区提供重大好处的产品。其中许多产品具有重要的商业潜力。因此,他们为开发他们​​了解企业家精神和商业化的史诗小组提供了一个令人信服的背景。史诗企业家倡议(EEI)提供了这个学习机会。其目标是:为史诗学生创造机会,了解和体验企业家精神。在社区中启用史诗队及其项目合作伙伴,以识别,保护和受益于他们共同创造的知识产权。将史诗产品的好处传播到所有社区。制定可以被其他机构模拟的企业家精神模型。与史史诗计划相结合时,这些目标暗示史诗支持创新连续体:史诗小组与社区的项目合作伙伴合作,以定义,设计,开发,测试,部署和可能的商业化具有重要商业化产品有利于社区。在本文的以下部分中,我们提供了为支持史诗开发产品潜在商业化的计划和设施的详细信息。在第2节中,我们描述了EEI与史诗的关系以及开发支持EEI的资源。在第3节中,我们详细描述了史诗思想 - 产品(I2P)竞争。它为希望确定其产品的商业潜力的史诗学生提供了独特的高度推导的体验。

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