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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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R. Radharamanan

Project-Based Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education in Engineering R. Radharamanan Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207AbstractThis paper highlights project-based innovation and entrepreneurship education activitiesdeveloped and implemented at Mercer University School of Engineering (MUSE). MUSEpromotes entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students through curriculum development,extracurricular activities, and involvement of students in the entrepreneurship program. It hasdeveloped and implemented a course sequence to integrate elements of entrepreneurship inengineering courses; develop an entrepreneurial mindset in

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Nasser Alromaih; Mark Rajai; S. Jimmy Gandhi

education sector has made several efforts to expand entrepreneurship trainingto include students and practitioners in non-business fields. For instance, at Texas A & MUniversity, the Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Department offerscourses on entrepreneurship, marketing, product design and development. Equally, theBiomedical Engineering Department has an elective entrepreneurship course. In addition,for the last 15 years, the University of Nevada, Reno, has been teaching entrepreneurshipto electrical engineering students through a special capstone class. At the same time, in1998, the university expanded the program to incorporate senior students and MBAstudents from the institution’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and