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INNOVATING ENGINEERING STUDENT CURRICULUM WITH ENTREPRENEURSHIP. / Adeyemi, Oluseyi; Idris, Musibaudeen Olatunde.
2019. 1-6 Paper presented at International Conference on Engineering and Environmental Sciences. Osun State University, Osogbo., Osogbo, Nigeria.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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T1 - INNOVATING ENGINEERING STUDENT CURRICULUM WITH ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AU - Adeyemi, Oluseyi
AU - Idris, Musibaudeen Olatunde
N1 - Conference code: ICEES-083
PY - 2019/11/6
Y1 - 2019/11/6
N2 - Innovating Engineering Students’ Curriculum with Entrepreneurship introduces the framework of entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) centred on observations, curiosity, connections, and creating value. Exploration of each of these components, instil a variety of different active learning techniques that can be applied to encourage engineering students towards entrepreneurship. Key components for making a strong learning experience for the students including learning objectives, problem statements/opportunity recognition, and teamwork are applied so as to foster the principles learned to create value and share a teaching technique for particular topics in their discipline.This paper presents a model towards producing entrepreneurial engineers. The identification of opportunities for entrepreneurship, integration into existing courses and implementing continual improvement of particular entrepreneurship practices (i.e., mechanisms, procedures, tools, frameworks) are presented for adoption to promote entrepreneurship to engineering students. As such a case study methodology is adopted for this study with summaries and case analysis of four cases of entrepreneurial learning in the premier Technical University in West Africa (Alpha) in order to unravel the relationship between technical skills, theoretical knowledge and opportunities recognition and exploitation skills. Their relative advantages and disadvantages are discussed based on the interviews with students of Alpha undergoing different phases of entrepreneurial training. The analyzed cases help to identify various positions in the integration stage and mind-set transformation era of the engineering students.This paper concludes with some propositions and a robust model for implementation towards producing entrepreneurial engineers.
AB - Innovating Engineering Students’ Curriculum with Entrepreneurship introduces the framework of entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) centred on observations, curiosity, connections, and creating value. Exploration of each of these components, instil a variety of different active learning techniques that can be applied to encourage engineering students towards entrepreneurship. Key components for making a strong learning experience for the students including learning objectives, problem statements/opportunity recognition, and teamwork are applied so as to foster the principles learned to create value and share a teaching technique for particular topics in their discipline.This paper presents a model towards producing entrepreneurial engineers. The identification of opportunities for entrepreneurship, integration into existing courses and implementing continual improvement of particular entrepreneurship practices (i.e., mechanisms, procedures, tools, frameworks) are presented for adoption to promote entrepreneurship to engineering students. As such a case study methodology is adopted for this study with summaries and case analysis of four cases of entrepreneurial learning in the premier Technical University in West Africa (Alpha) in order to unravel the relationship between technical skills, theoretical knowledge and opportunities recognition and exploitation skills. Their relative advantages and disadvantages are discussed based on the interviews with students of Alpha undergoing different phases of entrepreneurial training. The analyzed cases help to identify various positions in the integration stage and mind-set transformation era of the engineering students.This paper concludes with some propositions and a robust model for implementation towards producing entrepreneurial engineers.
KW - Entrepreneurial Engineer
KW - Case study
KW - Entrepreneurially minded learning
KW - Curriculum
M3 - Paper
SP - 1
EP - 6
T2 - International Conference on Engineering and Environmental Sciences. Osun State University, Osogbo.
Y2 - 5 November 2019 through 7 November 2019
ER -