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Work in progress — Enhancing the entrepreneurial mindset of freshman engineers

Reid, Kenneth J., Ferguson, Daniel M.·2011·2011 Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
DOI 10.1109/fie.2011.6142734
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Our research reports on an ongoing study of the impact of entrepreneurial interventions within first-year engineering courses on changes in the mindsets of engineering students. Entrepreneurial mindset in our study is operationally defined as a more growth oriented mindset versus a fixed oriented mindset. This operational definition and an accompanying mindset measurement instrument was developed and validated by Carol Dweck of Stanford University. Based on Dweck's research results we assume a growth mindset is a reasonable surrogate for a student engineer's creative and innovative or entrepreneurial skills. Mindsets of student engineers are benchmarked at the beginning of the freshman year and again at the end of the freshman year, soon after completion of a team based poverty alleviation freshman capstone project. Pre- and post- control samples of freshman engineer mindsets are being collected from similar sized engineering programs at comparable colleges in our geographic vicinity. A pilot study indicated a statistically significant tilt toward a fixed mindset in freshman engineering students compared to a growth mindset observed in an opportunity sample of freshman business students. We are currently tracking engineering students both at the group and at the individual level. Our long-term research goal is to determine how and why engineering course assignments affect a student engineer's entrepreneurial skill set. We hypothesize that a student engineer's creative and inn…

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Authors
Reid, K. J., & Ferguson, D. M.
Affiliations
  • Ohio Northern University (US)
  • Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
ORCID
Reid, Kenneth J.
Venue
2011 Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2011-10
Pages
F2D-1-F2D-3
ISSN
0190-5848 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1109/fie.2011.6142734
OpenAlex
W2014621504
Cited by
15
References
1
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 1
FWCI
9.75
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Engineering Education and Pedagogy
  • Social Sciences › Education › Engineering Education and Curriculum Development
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Biomedical and Engineering Education
Keywords
entrepreneurial spirit, growth mindset, fixed mindset, first-year engineering students, engineering education, Dweck

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Reid, K. J., & Ferguson, D. M. (2011). Work in progress — Enhancing the entrepreneurial mindset of freshman engineers. 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). https://doi.org/10.1109/fie.2011.6142734