1. Teaching Entrepreneurship
Through Interdisciplinary Teams
Rob Gettens
Jim McKeon
Glenn Vallee
Western New England University

2. New Product Development
and Innovation
•Course Overview
•Video
•Exciting Next Steps
•Team Examples

3. 15 Week Course
Advisory Boards
Administration

4. Faculty: Industrial
Experience

5. Student E-Teams
• 4-6 Member Teams
• Entrepreneurial Teams
• Industry Partnerships

6. Course Content
30 % Lecture 70 % Applied
Guests
Design Process
Solution Finding
Business Strategy Maps
FMEA
Prototype Fabrication
After Action Reviews

7. Student Deliverables
• Market Research
• Business Plan
• Engineering Specifications
• Detailed Component and Assembly
Drawings
• WORKING PROTOTYPES

8. WGBY Show

9. Next Steps
Materials
Labor
Retail

11. Student Feedback
“It wasn't like anything I expected. I enjoyed working with students of another
discipline. “
“I really enjoyed working with a company, Smith and Wesson. It gave me a
good understand about how a company works to develop new products.”
“Mostly hands-on work, we actually did something instead of just talking
about how to do it.”
“Shows full design and implementation process of a product/idea.”
“More like real world engineering then other classes.”
“A good introduction to business practices that engineers would not have
seen until graduation.”

12. BEND-O-MATIC
Brian Kelly
Jen Unterburger
Douglas Gray
Joseph Cice
Sem Deronnette

13. TT 201
Green – Shifting Mechanism
Red – Driving Gears
Blue – Hollow Drive Shaft
Grey – 2 Position Clutch Bell
Yellow – Inner Line Trimmer Shaft 13
Orange – Outer Blade Trimmer Shaft

14. “The Waterboy”

15. Mercy Breast Care Center
-Dr. Steven Schonholz
Allison Waller
Laetitia Sangne
Nurse Josie