Investigating Entrepreneurship Education as a Means to Developing the 21st Century Engineer

研究创业教育作为培养 21 世纪工程师的一种手段

• 批准号: 1504257
• 负责人: Aileen Huang-Saad
• 金额: $ 24.99万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-06-15 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1504257&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Investigating; Entrepreneurship; Education; Means; Developing

This project at the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor will help to ensure that engineers continue to drive economic development and innovation by developing ways to measure and assess entrepreneurial ability in undergraduate engineering students. Continued innovation is central to national security and economic growth. Simultaneously the professional context for the future engineer is changing. Graduates must be not only technically proficient, but also able to identify unmet needs, solve unfamiliar problems under time constraints, and adapt to an increasing rate of technological change. Engineering graduates must be capable of serving as technological leaders in diverse circumstances ranging from small start-up companies to globally-dispersed corporations. In response to changing career needs, higher education institutions are reforming how they train engineers, and training in entrepreneurship is becoming more widespread in engineering education. This work will develop assessment materials that can be used to help define and assess entrepreneurial ability in engineering students as that ability is developed within engineering-based entrepreneurship programs. This project will fill an important need in promoting increased entrepreneurial ability among engineering graduates. Traditional indicators of entrepreneurial ability are based on large-scale business outcomes such as success of start-up companies or ability to attract capital investment. Engineering programs seeking to increase and develop the entrepreneurial ability of engineering students need methods to identify and assess entrepreneurial ability in the developmental stages in the context of technological innovation. To help engineering entrepreneurship education bridge the gap between traditional business entrepreneurship education and the career needs of the 21st century engineer, this study will establish the fundamental concepts engineering students can gain from entrepreneurship education; generate outcome measures aligned with the goals of entrepreneurship education for engineers; conduct a pilot evaluation; and develop teaching assessment materials that can be used by engineering faculty. Work will be conducted through a collaboration between engineering faculty with entrepreneurial experience and education researchers. The results of this work will offer faculty and students a better understanding of the core skills and learning outcomes that can be expected from an engineering entrepreneurship curriculum.

密歇根大学安娜堡分校工程学院的这个项目将通过开发方法来衡量和评估工科本科生的创业能力，从而帮助确保工程师继续推动经济发展和创新。持续创新是国家安全和经济增长的核心。与此同时，未来工程师的职业环境正在发生变化。毕业生不仅必须精通技术，还必须能够识别未得到满足的需求，在时间限制下解决陌生问题，并适应日益增长的技术变革速度。工程专业毕业生必须能够在不同的环境中担任技术领导者，从小型初创公司到分散在全球各地的公司。为了应对不断变化的职业需求，高等教育机构正在改革他们培养工程师的方式，创业培训在工程教育中变得越来越普遍。这项工作将开发评估材料，可用于帮助定义和评估工科学生的创业能力，因为这种能力是在基于工程的创业计划中培养的。该项目将满足促进工科毕业生创业能力提高的重要需求。传统的创业能力指标是基于初创公司的成功或吸引资本投资的能力等大规模商业成果。寻求提高和发展工科学生创业能力的工程课程需要在技术创新的背景下确定和评估处于发展阶段的创业能力的方法。为了帮助工程学创业教育弥合传统商业创业教育与21世纪工程师职业需求之间的差距，本研究将确立工程学学生可以从创业教育中获得的基本概念；产生与工程师创业教育目标相一致的成果衡量标准；进行试点评估；并开发可供工程学教师使用的教学评估材料。这项工作将通过具有创业经验的工程学教师和教育研究人员之间的合作进行。这项工作的结果将使教师和学生更好地了解工程创业课程所预期的核心技能和学习结果。