Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 5: Exploring and Re-Examining Ideas in Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Felix Kempf, King's College London; Nada Elfiki, Stanford University; Aya Mouallem, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; George Toye; Micah Lande, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Kei Hysi; Xiao Ge, Stanford University; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

SurveyTakers (Respondents could mark “all that apply”)When we look at the combination of R&D, Design and Production/Manufacturing (arguably thethree areas most directly aligned with “engineering”) in Figure 3.2 we see that 81 percent(581/719) are involved in one or more of these three engineering-centric functions (with some19.6% (141/719) involved in all three). This means that 1 out of 5 of the survey respondents have 9their primary function(s) outside of R&D, Design and Production/Manufacturing, suggestingthere is a diversity in the types of work that these graduates are involved in.Figure 3.2 Percentage of Design, R&D and/or Production