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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
January 12-16, 2003 - Monterey, Ca, USA
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Eleanor Baum, Cooper Union, USA
Carl McHargue, University of Tennessee, USA |
The articles for these proceedings are not peer-reviewed.
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Supplementing Engineering Education with Business Training
Andres C. Salazar, University of New Mexico
ABSTRACT:
A typical engineering curriculum often leaves little time in a four-year program for
a budding engineer to learn about the business aspects of the company he may join
soon after graduation. The outcome of little business knowledge in the commercial
application of technology by engineering graduates is a lack of understanding of the
importance of their contribution to the company’s bottom line. For those engineers
who value business knowledge for their future profession, the alternatives for
business training have been to take regular MBA courses when possible or settle for
short certificate programs in a business school. In this paper we offer a list of
business training topics that would prove useful for those engineers who wish to
align their work in technology with the financial goals of a company in the
commercial sector. Further, these topics would well serve those engineers who
aspire to become managers and perhaps go on to found companies of their own. The
importance of receiving business training early in their career may prove useful in
accelerating their promotion to management levels or to greater success as an
entrepreneur. Suggestions are made how an engineering curriculum can be
structured to allow such business training topics to be covered for the benefit of all
engineering students and then for those select few who wish to combine business
with technology in their careers.
Andres C. Salazar, "Supplementing Engineering Education with Business Training" in "Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students", Eleanor Baum and Carl McHargue
Eds, ECI
Symposium Series, Volume P2 (2003). http://services.bepress.com/eci/teaching/29
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