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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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Abdullah Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Haibin Liu, Northeast Normal University

Flem- ming Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CEED) Center at Penn State Berks. She received her Ph.D.in Industrial and Systems Engineering (Auburn Univ.)Dr. Haibin Liu, Northeast Normal University Professor, Deputy Director of Institute of employment and entrepreneurship education Northeast Normal University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Entrepreneurial Mindset & Innovative Thinking SkillsAbstractThe fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are constantly evolvingand advancing, and an entrepreneurial mindset is essential for success in these fields. The term“entrepreneurial mindset” refers to attitudes and

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Abdullah Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; David Robert Schneider; Khanjan Mehta, Lehigh University

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engineering students. A mindset is a set of attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs that determinehow individuals establish and pursue goals, their likelihood of achieving those goals, and howthey react to challenges they encounter [8]. In a more extensive sense, an entrepreneurial mindsetis characterized by the attitudes and behaviors commonly seen in entrepreneurs. According toIreland et al. [9], an entrepreneurial mindset is “the ability to quickly detect, act, and mobilize,even in unpredictable situations.” The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN)defines the entrepreneurial mindset with three components: curiosity, connections, and creatingvalue, also known as the “3Cs.” After an extensive literature survey, London et al. [10] defined

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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Jennifer Shaffer Brown, Clemson University; Emma Katherine Buell, Clemson University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Karen A High, Clemson University

to include theseven primary attributes of the Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) (Fig. 1) [1]–[4]. Figure 1. Entrepreneurial Mindset FrameworkPromoting EM thinking in engineers has received more recent attention for its appeal toprospective employers, as it enables students to strategically select and exploit opportunities,deal constructively with failure and setbacks to pivot in new directions, and generally persist andsucceed in a wide variety of career environments [2]–[6]. It has also been linked to improvedself-efficacy outcomes in both undergraduate and graduate students [6], [7]. While theseentrepreneurial attributes were used as a framework to organize and theme different professionaldevelopment activities and