Adding Entrepreneurship to Engineering Education

Luis Caldas de Oliveira

CLUSTER 25th Anniversary Symposium

“College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the students’ lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.” (wrongly?) attributed to Mark Twain

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Traditional Education Environment •  Predictable •  Certain •  Specialized •  Known inputs •  Linear •  Expected outputs •  Competitive •  Focus on planning

Innovative Education Environment

•  Predictable •  Certain •  Specialized •  Known inputs •  Linear •  Expected outputs •  Competitive •  Focus on planning

•  Unpredictable •  Uncertain •  Multiple skills •  Unknown inputs •  Iterative •  Variable outputs •  Collaborative •  Focus on action

Engineering + Entrepreneurship Education

Prediction approach (analysis)

Creation approach (action)

Experiential Learning

Lean LaunchPad

“The Lean LaunchPad (...) is designed as a simulation of real world entrepreneurship: hard, chaotic, intense, and rewarding.” Steve Blank

5 Practices

Empathy Play

Reflection

Experimentation

Creation

Neck, Greene & Brush (2014)

Experimentation

“Try something, learn from results, try again” Neck, Greene & Brush (2014) “Hypothesis, Experiment, Validation” Steve Blank

Empathy

“Helps felling and understanding the emotions, circumstances, intentions, thoughts and needs of others” McLaren (2013)

Play

“Do you hear laughter less than three times in every class session?” Neck, Greene & Brush (2014)

Reflection

“Reflection helps codify the learning experiences” Schon (1983)

Creation

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” Scott Adams

Application: LLP@Tecnico

SWIMPRO Entrepreneurship Course using the Lean Launchpad Methodology Fall Semester 2014-2015 https://youtu.be/3vcQ4fAhwBw

The Swimpro Team

Rúben Capitão (MEE) Gonçalo Mateus (MERC) Paulo Melancia (MEGI)

João Quintas (MEIC) Nuno Rodrigues (MEE)

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower” Steve Jobs

Obrigado