Entrepreneurially Minded Learning - A Pedagogy for Engineering

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How can you ensure a Good Hand…

if you aren’t playing with a full deck?

Noun Verb Form

Knowledge

Comprehension

Application

Analysis

Synthesis

Evaluation

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Apply

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Create

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Bloom’s Taxonomy

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Project-Based Learning

Remember

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CreateExperiential Learning

Broad-spectrum tactics More-targeted methods

Entrepreneurially Minded Learning is…

A pedagogical method Part mindset part skillset Student centered - for everyone

NOT the entire solution for good teaching NOT a prescriptive sequence of steps or checklist

Entrepreneurially Minded Learning is…

NOT new, especially in other disciplines NOT easy for learners or instructors

Entrepreneurially Minded Learning is…

EML emphasizes… entrepreneurial thinking; 3C’s

-curiosity engaged discovery divergent epistemic trends

-connections contextual extra-contextual insight

-creating value

Others-oriented

opportunity recognition Action and Adaptation

- look toward the future - ownership

- assumed risk and reward - success despite variability and uncertainty

EML does not have exclusive rights to 3C’s!

EML emphasizes…

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True Story: Verizon vs. Town

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“We want to communicate in

Nepal, too!”

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“If I understand the user and the issues,

I’ll find the opportunity.”

Is a simple topic, like flashlights, college worthy? Yes, actually.

Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits, Avant Agarwal, Jeffrey Lang, Elsevier, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers For illustration of educational concepts only.

Subject-based Learning

Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits, Avant Agarwal, Jeffrey Lang, Elsevier, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers For illustration of educational concepts only.

Active and Collaborative Learning Measure voltage, current

Measuring the resistance of the bulb

Try some experiments with batteries - “dead” batteries - end-to-end

“Stack” batteries with other groups to sup-up flashlight

Problem-based Learning #1 We need twice as much light for a maximum 10% design cost and manufacture increase. Need similar size and weight design.

Problem-based Learning #2Current battery-powered flashlights are insufficient or cumbersome for search and rescue operations.

(closer to EML)

Focus on Information Gaps

- Identify deficiencies of your model - Is the case is a “wire” in the model? - Are there unaccounted losses?

- Contacts? - How significant?

- What is dynamic filament resistance? - What are the source limitations?

- output resistance - electrochemical

EML emphasizes CURIOSITY

Focus on Curiosity Types

- Epistemic curiosity — Why, why, why? - Why is the cell voltage typically 1.5V? - Why are the batteries this size and weight? - What underlies the limits of the electrochemistry and battery design? - What is the efficiency (power into light vs. heat)?

- Diversive curiosity — What if ? Could we ? - What actually happens if the batteries are reversed or back to back?

- Extra contextual: What if I plugged to 9V batteries together? - What are alternate sources? - What are alternative light sources? - Is there an electrochemical reaction that produces light directly?

EML emphasizes CURIOSITY

Focus on Trends

Trends reflect the “changing world around us.”

Does anyone really buy a flashlight (or just use a phone)?

EML emphasizes CURIOSITY

Problem-based Learning -> EML #3

Who purchases flashlights, anyway?

Everyone has a cell phone with an LED feature. What more does the average user need?

JKL Components$0.47/ea Qty 100

$0.95/ea Qty 600/rollOslon SSL80

@ 0.35 Amps (typ)

Trends near completion vs. new trends

MatureTechnology

While the technology “S-Curve” is familiar…

UnderDevelopment

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“Accelerating returns” produce ever increasing rates of change

Decreasing Product

Lifespans

Entrepreneurially Minded Learning make the flashlight so much better than currently available ones, someone will want it.

EML emphasizes CONNECTIONS:

Build a map… Exercise your curiosity… Be both random and methodical… Lab notebook… Own it… (not just another assignment, part of your “profile”)

Security

AuxPOWER

Material Weight

Phone

USB

Residential Lighting

Evening Reading

Literacy

SCHOOL

LED’sEmergency Search & Rescue