Conference Session

Classes in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nihad Dukhan PhD, University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif E Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, growing population, looming energy shortages, health, securityand environmental problems. These have called for changes in engineering curricula to prepareengineers for the future.Realizing these facts, many engineering, education and governmental agencies, such as theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), National Academy ofEngineering (NAE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the AmericanSociety of Engineering Education (ASEE), all point at the increasing importance of the none-technical skills (sometimes referred to soft skills) of graduating engineering. Such skills thatallow graduates to comprehend the complex interdependence between engineering as aprofession and society were referred to as ‘contextual