Conference Session

Design Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Chen, Bradley University; Ye Li, Bradley University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

detail.3.1 Module 1: Entrepreneurial OpportunityEntrepreneur MindA personal assessment is conducted to determine the level of entrepreneurship mindset ofeach of our students. The personal assessment consists of a list of predetermined questionsthat ask about the career plan of students after graduation and about their desire to developand pursue an idea or business of their own. Based on the results, very few students showedlittle or no desire to be an entrepreneur. A large majority of the students showed a moderateinterest in being an entrepreneur, however, their degree of interest showed that they wereopen to the entrepreneurship but they were not likely to devote a lot of time to pursue it. Theywere much more likely to go out and find a job