Engineering Students and Entrepreneurship Education: Involvement, Attitudes and Outcomes*
Engineering Students and Entrepreneurship Education: Involvement, Attitudes and Outcomes*
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工科学生和创业教育：参与、态度和成果*
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2012
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Shiva Haghighi
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Nathalie Duval;T. Reed‐Rhoads;Shiva Haghighi
经济和劳动力需求的变化促使许多工程学校考虑为学生提供终身教育。尽管创业教育被认为是工程教育的补充，但人们对它在当代学生学术课程中发挥作用的程度知之甚少。本研究的目的是探讨工科学生对创业教育的态度和结果，以了解学生参与相关课程和活动的特点，他们参与的性质和程度，创业在他们的职业生涯规划中的作用，以及它对创业自我效能的影响。调查数据收集自501名工程专业学生，他们就读于三所具有成熟实习项目的机构的高级顶点设计课程。研究发现，三分之二或更多的工程专业学生打算毕业后为大中型公司工作，同样数量的学生认为创业教育可以拓宽他们的职业前景和选择。不到三分之一的受访者认为，创业精神是在他们的工程项目或工程学院解决。参加过一门或多门创业课程的学生在多项指标上表现出明显更高的创业自我效能感水平。某些工程学科的学生，如电气和机械工程，参加创业教育的比例高于其他学科。本研究的结果提供了有价值的基线数据，可用于程序开发和评估。
Changes in the economy and workforce needs have driven many engineering schools to consider offering entrepreneurshipeducation to their students. Although entrepreneurship education is believed to be complementary to an engineering education,little is known about the degree to which it plays a role in contemporary students’ academic programs. The purpose of this studywas to explore a broad array of attitudes toward and outcomes of entrepreneurship education on engineering students in order tounderstand the characteristics of students participating in related courses and activities, the nature and extent of their involvement,entrepreneurship’s role in their career plans, and its impact on entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Survey data were collected from 501engineering students enrolled in senior-level capstone design courses at three institutions with established entrepreneurshipprograms. The study found that while two-thirds or more of engineering students intended to work for medium or large sizecompanies after graduation, a similar number felt that entrepreneurship education could broaden their career prospects andchoices. Less than one third of those surveyed felt that entrepreneurship was being addressed within their engineering programs orby engineering faculty. Students who had taken one or more entrepreneurship courses showed significantly higher levels ofentrepreneurial self-efficacy on a number of measures. Students in certain engineering disciplines such as electrical and mechanicalengineering were found to participate in entrepreneurship education at higher rates than others. The results of this study providevaluable baseline data that can be useful for program development and evaluation.