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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The articles for these proceedings are not peer-reviewed.
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International Entrepreneurship Education
Russel C. Jones, World Expertise LLC
Bethany S. Oberst, James Madison University
ABSTRACT:
Entrepreneurship for engineering students must be taught within the global context.
Lacking that, graduates will be ill prepared to be internationally competitive. Any
engineering graduate who does not scour the earth for new ideas, developments and
designs is not competitive. And any engineer who does not look at the total world
marketplace for sale of products is limiting potential success.
This paper will outline what every entrepreneurially minded student should have in
the way of competencies, attitudes, communication strategies, cultural
understandings, business mores, multinational corporate logistics, and
macroeconomics understandings. It will outline cultural soft skills needed, as well as
hard-nosed business skills.
Many US universities may be prepared to work effectively with internationally
minded students, but engineering students typically do not get involved ñ only 2 to 3
percent of engineering students get a meaningful international exposure prior to
graduation. Among other constraints, engineering faculty members are less than
aggressive in encouraging them to get such experience.
To meet the needs of engineering students, institutional and individual partnerships
must be created to promote international collaborations, including design projects,
international internships, exposure to successful entrepreneurs from other parts of
the world including developing countries, etc.
Russel C. Jones and Bethany S. Oberst, "International Entrepreneurship Education" in "Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students", Eleanor Baum and Carl McHargue
Eds, ECI
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