Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The Student Experience

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd M. Fernandez, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Connor Rene Couetil, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

university is smaller, primarily undergraduate, private university, while the second is alarge, research-intensive, public university. Both universities have extensive entrepreneurialprograms available to engineering students.Using an IRB approved protocol students were recruited for the study via emails from theirdepartments and faculty. The study was designed to collect similar samples from each university,in terms of number of interviews conducted, gender, and whether they had exposure toentrepreneurship education or not. Those who had completed either academic credentials orsignificant coursework in entrepreneurship were classified as ‘entrepreneurial’ based on datacollected through a demographic survey, prior to the start of the interview.In