Developing a More Comprehensive Instrument to Assess the Entrepreneurial Mindset of Engineering Students

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2020
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This is a Work in Progress: Goals of becoming more entrepreneurial have placed considerable pressure on institutions of higher education to generate educational programs that are consistent with the entrepreneurial mindset. Surpassing business programs, engineering education has had an exponential growth in entrepreneurship instruction in curricula and publications related to the topic. However, there are still many conceptual and methodological challenges described in recent literature left unresolved by current assessment methods. As an international and interdisciplinary research team, we seek to develop a new survey instrument to assess the entrepreneurial mindset in engineering students. In the next two years, a preliminary quantitative version of the instrument will be applied to an incrementally larger body of Chilean and United States students in order to evaluate its utility across a much larger sample size. Through this research effort and a critical review of the literature, we aim to produce a more comprehensive and situated method for defining and articulating the entrepreneurial mindset for stakeholders in engineering education. Long-term implications for this project include alignment of the entrepreneurial mindset with objectives articulated by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)
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Ingeniería
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