Educating the Engineer Entrepreneur of the Future: A Team Competency Perspective

Personal initiative, risk-taking, creativity and opportunity discovery among students

“…Entrepreneurship education is a cross-campus effort (Katz et al , 2013; Mendes et al , 2021), and future research should explore the relationships between competencies in students from different areas. Importantly, it is relevant to focus on engineering students (Neumeyer and Santos, 2021) and consider how recognizing business opportunities varies among students (Costa et al , 2018). Second, the findings of the present study are based on students’ self-reports regarding their own entrepreneurial competencies.…”

Work-In-Progress: Facilitating Engineering Students’ Entrepreneurship Through Self-Regulated Learning Instructions

“…Specifically, under the umbrella of SRL, we can assume that effective entrepreneurs or individuals with entrepreneurial mindset are able to regulate their cognition, metacognition, and motivation appropriately to adapt to new environments and unexpected challenges, make appropriate decisions, and overcome obstacles, which overlaps with the essential elements in SRL [2], [3]. Fortunately, engineering education researchers have initiated the examination of SRL in the context of entrepreneurship education [1] [12], [13] [15], [16]. For instance, Winkler, Fust, and Jenert [12] suggested that entrepreneurial learning involves SRL, such as setting goals and plans, use effective learning strategies, and self-evaluate one's work.…”

“…For instance, when students make appropriate plans for their entrepreneurial-related tasks and projects, they are regulating their learning in entrepreneurship intentionally and strategically [12]. In addition, students usually form teams to create projects for their startup ideas in entrepreneurship education courses, which requires students to have self-regulatory abilities [1], [16]. For example, students in teams need to have the ability to reflect upon their creation processes and strategy use to make improvement in their ventures [16].…”

“…In addition, students usually form teams to create projects for their startup ideas in entrepreneurship education courses, which requires students to have self-regulatory abilities [1], [16]. For example, students in teams need to have the ability to reflect upon their creation processes and strategy use to make improvement in their ventures [16]. In addition, students need to have high entrepreneurial self-efficacy beliefs as a team to start their ventures [16].…”

“…For example, students in teams need to have the ability to reflect upon their creation processes and strategy use to make improvement in their ventures [16]. In addition, students need to have high entrepreneurial self-efficacy beliefs as a team to start their ventures [16]. The self-reflection and building one's entrepreneurial self-efficacy are critical self-regulatory processes for individual students as well as for teams.…”