Conference Session

Connecting BME education to the "real world"

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

how one might impact the world in the future.Entrepreneurship and sustainability often seem to be at odds with one another. Asimplistic definition would be that entrepreneurship focuses more on short-term value(often localized to particular stakeholders), while sustainability is focused on long-termvalue (often regional or global) (Tranquillo, 2017). Both, however, are oriented towardthe future and there are in fact many marriages between the two. Programs such as socialentrepreneurship in engineering schools and sustainable finance programs inside ofbusiness schools have grown in popularity. Furthermore, the entrepreneurial mindset,although not well defined (Zappe, 2013), is focused on developing the habits, behaviorsand attitudes of an