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Thayer School of Engineering

Thayer School of Engineering. PhD Innovation Program Training PhD-level Engineering Entrepreneurs Joseph J. Helble Dean, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College ASEE EDI Annual Meeting Scottsdale, AZ April 2014. background – STEM challenge. CHALLENGE

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Thayer School of Engineering

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  1. Thayer School of Engineering PhD Innovation Program Training PhD-level Engineering Entrepreneurs Joseph J. Helble Dean, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College ASEE EDI Annual Meeting Scottsdale, AZ April 2014

  2. background – STEM challenge • CHALLENGE • National need for STEM-education for global competitiveness • Reports issued 2004-2006 cite need for STEM funding, lead to COMPETES • Less noticed, also cite need for better translation of invention out of laboratories • “Entrepreneurship” programs developed by engineering schools –UNDERGRADUATE • PhD programs remain focused on producing faculty as model; little attention to incorporating entrepreneurial focus explicitly into PhD THAYER SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AT DARTMOUTH

  3. Dartmouth “Engineering PhD Innovation Program” - 2008 Designed to be SMALL, SELECTIVE, FOCUSED Goal: LIMIT to 5 new students per year Separate criteria beyond PhD - extra COURSEWORK, write and present BUSINESS PLAN, conduct late-stage 6 mo. INTERNSHIP REVERSE FELLOWSHIPS - funded yrs 3-5 of PhD PROJECT SEED FUNDING also provided Luce Foundation grant 12/08

  4. PhD Innovation Program – Fall 2013, 5 year status update • Complements ugrad and MEM offerings, enabling representation of full “Dartmouth Engineering E’ship Program”(http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/about/dartmouth-difference/DEEP/) • SUPPORT – NSF Partners for Innovation funding; endowment • LEADERSHIP – hired faculty entrepreneur to oversee program (Columbia professor / JPL / entrepreneur / NAI / NAE) • Broad FACULTY PARTICIPATION • RECOGNITION for company spun out of university • OUTCOMES substantially different over past 3 years (Jan 2014) • 50% of students filing for IP protection (v. 15% baseline) • PhD entrepreneurs: 0% (regular) v. 25% (innovation) • PhDs to startup: 4% (regular) v. 75% (innovation) • PhDs to post-doc: 38% (regular) v. 13% (innovation) • Baseline (regular PhD, ‘79-’04): 26% to academic positions v. 0 to date

  5. program recognition NAE Gordon Award, May 2014 GOAL – was to change range of outcomes for our PhD students. Initial trend promising. http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/academics/graduate/innovation/

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