TY - JOUR
T1 - Innovation corps for learning (I-Corps™ L)
T2 - 123rd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
AU - Smith, Karl A.
AU - McKenna, Ann F.
AU - Guerra, Rocio C.Chavela
AU - Korte, Russell
AU - Swan, Christopher
N1 - Funding Information:
We extend our deepest appreciation to the 56 I-Corps" L teams who participated in the program and thoughtfully and generously provided essential feedback for deciding on the next steps. We thank team ELeVATE, particularly Maria Milleville, for their contributions to this document. We appreciate the dedication of I-Corps" L Instructors Dean Chang, Todd Morrill, Lydia McClure, Heath Naquin, Shawn Jordan, Micah Lande, and Bob MacNeal; Adjunct Instructors Heidi Olinger, Steve Canfield, Brent Sebold, and Bharani Rajakumar; and Teaching Assistants, Lindsey Mitchell and Brandy Nagel. The guidance of Lean Launch Pad architect, Steve Blank and Faculty Advisors Jerry Engel and Dean Chang is much appreciated. Thanks to the excellent logistics team - Tengiz Sydykov and Ray Phillips - for their support. The superb contributions of the Quality Evaluation Designs team - Gary Lichentstein, Cathleen Simons and Sheri Sheppard - have guided our improvements. The guidance of NSF Program Directors, Don Millard, John Krupczak, Karen Crosby, Rathindra (Babu) DasGupta, and Anita LaSalle is acknowledged. The I-Corps" L project is funded by the National Science Foundation under grants NSF DUE-1355391, DUE-1355431, DUE-1450644, and DUE-1451245.
Publisher Copyright:
© American Society for Engineering Education, 2016.
PY - 2016/6/26
Y1 - 2016/6/26
N2 - The Innovation Corps for Learning (I-Corps" L) is an initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) in cooperation with the University of Minnesota, Arizona State University, Colorado State University, and Tufts University to apply the highly successful principles of NSF I-Corps" towards a culture that will sustain and scale educational innovations. The NSF I-Corps" program, on which I-Corps" L is based, uses established strategies for start-ups to build entrepreneurial skills in the engineering and scientific communities that encourage mainstream application of emerging technologies. The overriding purposes of the 8 week I-Corps" L course are to (1) provide a framework for each of the participating teams (typically 20 to 24 in a cohort) to assess the potential of their educational innovation for sustainability and scalability, and (2) foster an entrepreneurial mindset within the education community so that education products, programs, and services are designed and implemented in ways that promote widespread adoption. In this paper and poster we summarize the essential features of I-Corps" L, the changes made in the three iterations of the program thus far, and key evaluation results. We also present our assessment of the potential of the I-Corps" L to contribute to the transformation of STEM education through the sustaining and scaling of NSF-funded research-based ideas.
AB - The Innovation Corps for Learning (I-Corps" L) is an initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) in cooperation with the University of Minnesota, Arizona State University, Colorado State University, and Tufts University to apply the highly successful principles of NSF I-Corps" towards a culture that will sustain and scale educational innovations. The NSF I-Corps" program, on which I-Corps" L is based, uses established strategies for start-ups to build entrepreneurial skills in the engineering and scientific communities that encourage mainstream application of emerging technologies. The overriding purposes of the 8 week I-Corps" L course are to (1) provide a framework for each of the participating teams (typically 20 to 24 in a cohort) to assess the potential of their educational innovation for sustainability and scalability, and (2) foster an entrepreneurial mindset within the education community so that education products, programs, and services are designed and implemented in ways that promote widespread adoption. In this paper and poster we summarize the essential features of I-Corps" L, the changes made in the three iterations of the program thus far, and key evaluation results. We also present our assessment of the potential of the I-Corps" L to contribute to the transformation of STEM education through the sustaining and scaling of NSF-funded research-based ideas.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84983261274
SN - 2153-5965
VL - 2016-June
JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
Y2 - 26 June 2016 through 29 June 2016
ER -