Entrepreneurship and ABET accreditation: How and where does it fit?

Author

Duval-Couetil, Nathalie ; Wheadon, Jacob ; Kisenwether, Elizabeth ; Tranquillo, Joseph

Author_Institution

Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, PA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

134

Lastpage

136

Abstract

As a result of economic and workforce trends, there is a strong interest among policy makers and educational stakeholders in graduating more engineers with entrepreneurship skills and an entrepreneurial mindset. Given the role that ABET accreditation takes in shaping undergraduate engineering curriculum, wide adoption of entrepreneurship education could be driven by demonstrating the manner in which its outcomes align with accreditation mandates. This work in progress describes research taking place that is designed to develop a robust rationale for aligning entrepreneurship education with ABET Criterion 3 a-k, and to provide examples of the manner in which entrepreneurship-related outcomes can meet these criteria.

Keywords

accreditation; commerce; engineering education; further education; ABET Criterion 3 a-k; ABET accreditation; economic trend; educational stakeholders; engineering graduates; entrepreneurial mindset; entrepreneurship education; entrepreneurship skills; policy making; undergraduate engineering curriculum; workforce trend; Accreditation; Educational institutions; Engineering education; Innovation management; Lead; Object recognition; ABET; Accreditation; Engineering Education; Entrepreneurship;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Oklahoma City, OK

ISSN

0190-5848

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2013.6684801

Filename

6684801