Five Minutes of Fame

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Five Minutes of Fame

• The Enterprise Programat Michigan Tech

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Five Minutes of Fame

• The Enterprise Programat Michigan Tech

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Five Minutes of Fame

• The Enterprise Programat Michigan Tech

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Five Minutes of Fame
Richard BlahutDepartment Head ECE University of
Illinois
Gennifer FlowersOwner, Kelsto Club
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Minute 2 What is the Enterprise Program?
22 small businesses managed and staffed by over
550 students
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Minute 3 Why have an Enterprise Program?
engineeringentrepreneurship
engineering research
engineeringpractice
Its one thing to be an engineer and quite
another to be an entrepreneur, but Michigan Tech
offers its students an opportunity to be both.
Its called the Enterprise Program and its growth
is surpassing all expectations with more than 400
students participating from both the College of
Engineering and the School of Business and
Economics. from Blazing and Entrepreneurial
Trail ASEE Prism MagazineApril 2003
"On-campus programs like this one provide Bechtel
a way to see how students -- potential employees
-- put their skills to work addressing the
demands of business, including managing cost,
schedule, and customer expectations . . . The
Michigan Tech program has produced
high-performing candidates with a desire to work
for Bechtel because they've experienced firsthand
what its like inside the company. from the
Bechtel GlobeJanuary 2005
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Minute 4 What is the Enterprise Program?
A curriculum option that gives a team of students
from varied disciplines the opportunity to work
for several years in a business-like setting to
solve real-world engineering problems supplied by
industry.
Each enterprise is run by the students, and is
intended to operate like a company in the private
sector.
Enterprise Modules
ENG2961 - Teaming in the Enterprise (2) ENG2962
- Communications Contexts (1)ENG3962 -
Communication Strategies (1)ENG2963 -
Electronic Circuit Design and Fabrication
(1)ENG4952 - Complex Communication Practices
(1)ENG3954 - Enterprise Market Principles
(1)ENG3955 - Conceptual Design/Problem Solving
(1)ENG3956 - Industrial Health and Safety
(1)ENG3957 - Product and Process Development I
(1)ENG3958 - Engineering Ethics in Design and
Implementation (1)ENG3961 - Enterprise Strategic
Leadership (1)ENG3963 - Enterprise
Entrepreneurship (1)ENG3964 - Project Management
(1)ENG3966 - Design for Manufacturing
(1)ENG3967 - Product and Process Development II
(1)ENG3968 - Manufacturing Processes and
Simulation (1) ENG3969 - Project Phases of Design
and Implementation (1) ENG3971 - Seven Habits of
Highly Effective People (1)ENG4951 - Budgeting -
Entrepreneurial Engineering (1)ENG4954 - Global
Competition (1)
A 12-credit concentration 6 credits of
Enterprise project 6 credits of Enterprise
modules
A 20-credit minor 7 credits of Enterprise
project at least 2 credits of communications at
least 5 credits of business remainder from
Enterprise modules
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Minute 5 What are the ECE Enterprises
Integrated Microsystems
breast cancer screening (RPC International)retail
theft preventionvoice activated control
(Samsung)energized cable recognition for
cell phone towers (Bechtel)wireless biomedical
sensors (Guidant)
Palm Based Laboratory forhigh-school science
laboratories.
secure and reliable communications emergency
response technologiesremotely controlled
underwater vehicles(Rockwell-Collins, Columbia
Forest Products)
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Minute 5() How can you learn more?

• http//www.enterprise.mtu.edu/
• Boggs, James W. R. Chris Williams, Kris G.
  Mattila, William A. Kennedy, and George R. Dewey,
  "The Pavement Enterprise at Michigan
  Technological University, Journal of
  Professional Issues in Engineering Education and
  Practice, 130(2004) 197-204.
• Hamlin, Brett.  "From Club to Classroom, an
  Enterprising Integration of Student Interests and
  Industrial Involvement, International Conference
  on Engineering Education, 2001 Oslo, Norway.
• Keith, Jason. "A Student-Driven Enterprise in
  Fuel Cells and Alternative Fuels, Proceedings of
  the 2004 American Society for Engineering
  Education Annual Conference Exposition.
• Sorby, Sheryl. "Implementation and Initial
  Assessment of the Enterprise program at Michigan
  Tech, 33rd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education
  Conference, November 5-8, 2003, Boulder, CO.
• Stone, David, Mary Raber, Sheryl Sorby, Mark
  Plichta. "The Enterprise Program at Michigan
  Technological University"
• Stone, David. "Creating a Virtual Company and
  Keeping it 'In the Black', Proceedings of the
  33rd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference,
  2003.
• "Blazing an Entrepreneurial Trail, (ASEE Prism
  Magazine, on the Enterprise Program)http//www.pr
  ism-magezine.org/april03/trail.cfm
• Keith, Jason. "A Student-Driven Enterprise in
  Fuel Cells and Alternative Fuels, Proceedings of
  the 2004 American Society for Engineering
  Education Annual Conference Exposition.