Conference Session

Sustainability, Service Learning, and Entreprenuership

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randall Brouwer, Calvin College; Steven VanderLeest, Calvin College; Paulo Ribeiro, Calvin College; Robert Medema, Calvin College

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

more business courses while a student. Additionally, our engineeringindustrial advisory council has been doing assessments of the final designs from our capstonecourse. They have provided feedback indicating that our students are slightly weak in doing cost Page 15.843.6analyses and applying business fundamentals to their projects. Furthermore, we frequently seeincoming students eager to find out more about entrepreneurship. Thus, we see a need forimproving our students’ ability to apply business knowledge and see engineering problems froman entrepreneurial mindset. B. Funding TimelineOne of the first steps in our effort to address