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Work in progress — Enhancing the entrepreneurial mindset of freshman engineers
Abstract
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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“With respect to entrepreneurship, Reid and Ferguson (2011) conducted a study of university engineering students and found that students who exhibited a growth mindset were more likely to express a greater tolerance for ambiguity and to be more likely to recognize future opportunities.”
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“With respect to entrepreneurship, Reid and Ferguson (2011) conducted a study of university engineering students and found that students who exhibited a growth mindset were more likely to express a greater tolerance for ambiguity and to be more likely to recognize future opportunities.”
From The impact of growth mindset training on entrepreneurial action among necessity entrepreneurs: Evidence from a randomized control trial (2023) · cites this paper as Reid and Ferguson (2011)
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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)
- 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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