Entrepreneurship in engineering education

Author

Luryi, Serge ; Tang, Wendy ; Lifshitz, Nir ; Wolf, Gerrit ; Doboli, Simona ; Betz, Joseph A. ; Maritato, Peter ; Shamash, Yacov

Author_Institution

Stony Brook Univ., Stony Brook

fYear

2007

fDate

10-13 Oct. 2007

Abstract

The recent changes in the world and engineering present both challenges and opportunities to the engineering education. Engineering education is changing to meet these challenges. More and more engineering programs strive to include entrepreneurship and innovation, traditionally American values, in the engineering curriculum. In this paper, we present our view on teaching entrepreneurship to future engineers and describe our experience in introducing entrepreneurship in engineering education through an NSF-sponsored pilot program based on collaboration between Stony Brook University and three other major higher education institutions on Long Island.

Keywords

educational institutions; engineering education; NSF-sponsored pilot program; Stony Brook University; engineering education entrepreneurship; higher education institutions; Biomedical engineering; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Engineering education; Engineering management; Financial management; Innovation management; Sensor systems; Technological innovation; Technology management; Entrepreneurship; medical sensor systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers In Education Conference - Global Engineering: Knowledge Without Borders, Opportunities Without Passports, 2007. FIE '07. 37th Annual

Conference_Location

Milwaukee, WI

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1083-5

Electronic_ISBN

0190-5848

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2007.4418174

Filename

4418174