Meet the Engineering Education Pioneers — Panel & Roundtable

“Design a Sensor”: Implementation of Entrepreneurial-Minded Learning in Undergraduate General Chemistry

“…The Engineering Student Entrepreneurial Mindset Assessment (ESEMA) defines seven unique metrics component of an entrepreneurial mindset (EM): ideation, open-mindedness, interest, altruism, empathy, help-seeking, and risk-taking. 2 These metrics are important to foster at the undergraduate level so that students begin to embrace critical thinking and an open mindset at an early point in their scientific journeys.…”

Survey of the Entrepreneurial Mindset of Students in Undergraduate Laboratory Courses

“…A maximum-likelihood factor analysis was conducted using R to reduce the items into a smaller number of more interpretable factors. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) measure of sampling adequacy and Bartlett's test for sphericity [10] were used to investigate the appropriateness of factor analysis on the survey data in [8]. The appropriate number of factors to be extracted was chosen by a series of significance hypothesis tests for the chosen factors.…”

“…In this paper, we assess the impact of embedded entrepreneurial activities within undergraduate laboratory courses by examining the student's entrepreneurial mindset (EM). This work utilizes a theoretically supported EM assessment instrument: The Engineering Student Entrepreneurial Mindset Assessment (ESEMA) [8] to understand if the student's perception of the skills and attributes learned in a laboratory course aligned with the EM framework. ESEMA is a self-report measure of undergraduate engineering students' EM.…”

“…With IRB approval, after the fall 2022 semester, students enrolled in one of seven project-based or laboratory-based courses were invited to complete the survey in Qualtrics. The survey included demographic information, the 32 items from the ESEMA [8], and some additional questions for teamwork study conducted by the same team. Upon completion of the survey, students were offered the opportunity to enter a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card (1 card per 100 respondents).…”

Modifying the VALUE Rubrics to Assess the Entrepreneurial Mind-set

“…[9] Contextualized around KEEN specifically, early assessment initiatives [10-11, among others] centered on defining the target behaviors as the framework evolved. More recently, as the definitions have stabilized, efforts are underway to develop instruments assessing all or part of the framework [12][13][14]. While all of these tools and instruments are valuable, they all focus on larger assessment of mindset and program outcomes.…”