Examining Student Learning Outcomes and Engagement in Engineering Entrepreneurship Education Programs
The professional context for the future engineer ischanging. Engineering graduates can no longer expecta career with a single employer and they must beprepared to meet the needs of diverse organizations.Companies are looking for engineers who can identifyunmet needs, problem solve under time constraints,and adapt to technological change. In response tochanging career needs, higher education institutionsare reforming how they train engineers. Most recently,this reform has led to the incorporation ofentrepreneurship into engineering undergraduatecurriculum. As more programs rush to launchengineering entrepreneurship programs, it is criticalthat we better understand the outcomes ofentrepreneurship education and how programs engagediverse student populations. In our poster, we presentour two projects assessing learning outcomes ofengineering entrepreneurship programs andexamining student participation.