Lintl, F. M., & Jin, Q., & Gilmartin, S., & Chen, H. L., & Schar, M., & Sheppard, S. (2015, June), Starter or Joiner, Market or Socially-Oriented: Predicting Career Choice Among Undergraduate Engineering and Business Students  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24730

\bibitem{asee_peer_24730}
  Lintl, F. M., \& Jin, Q., \& Gilmartin, S., \& Chen, H. L., \& Schar, M., \& Sheppard, S. (2015, June), \emph{Starter or Joiner, Market or Socially-Oriented: Predicting Career Choice Among Undergraduate Engineering and Business Students}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.24730

Florian Michael Lintl, Qu Jin, Shannon Gilmartin, Helen L. Chen, Mark Schar, and Sheri Sheppard.  "Starter or Joiner, Market or Socially-Oriented: Predicting Career Choice Among Undergraduate Engineering and Business Students".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/24730 Internet.  25 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_24730}
  Florian Michael Lintl, Qu Jin, Shannon Gilmartin, Helen L. Chen, Mark Schar, and Sheri Sheppard.
  "Starter or Joiner, Market or Socially-Oriented: Predicting Career Choice Among Undergraduate Engineering and Business Students".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/24730 Internet.  25 Apr, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  -         Entrepreneurial Interests and Characteristics of Engineering and         Business Undergraduate Students Who Are Interested in For-                     Profit and Non-Profit OrganizationsEntrepreneurship and innovation are seen as important elements to economic growth and newemployment. In times of debates over climate change and global crises the importance ofentrepreneurship and innovation and their potential to create value for society have increased(US National Advisory Board on Impact Investing, 2014). To enable engineers to approach theseproblems in the for-profit or the non-profit sector engineers need not only basic business skills,but they also need to be able to recognize and seize opportunities. To help engineering graduatessucceed in this environment, engineering schools are evaluating the needs of their engineeringstudents, and are taking action to establish curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricularprograms and opportunities (Gilmartin, Shartrand, Chen, Estrada, & Sheppard, 2014).When designing these courses and programs, it is important to understand the entrepreneurialinterests and characteristics of the audience, particularly the undergraduate students who choosethe for-profit, as compared with the non-profit sector as their career goal. Gender and otherdemographic characteristics may further differentiate between for-profit and non-profit studententrepreneurship experiences, and represent additional key covariates to consider.Given these propositions, the research questions guiding the present study are: (1) How dostudents with different career goals (start a for-profit organization, start a non-profit organization,join a for-profit organization, and join a non-profit organization) compare on entrepreneurialintent, characteristics and contextual factors? (2) How do entrepreneurial intent, characteristicsand contextual factors vary by discipline (engineering vs. business) and gender among studentswho want to start an organization as compared with those who want to join an organization in thefor-profit or non-profit sector? (3) What are important personal characteristics and contextualfactors that influence students` decision to choose a for-profit or a non-profit career?Study participants included 518 engineering and 471 business undergraduate students from 51U.S. universities and colleges. Data were drawn from a comprehensive survey designed tounderstand entrepreneurship among young, college-going adults. Three categories of factorswere measured in this survey: entrepreneurial interests, personal characteristics, and contexts.Entrepreneurial interest factors included Entrepreneurial Intent, Entrepreneurship Activities, andCareer Goals. Individual characteristic factors included Innovation Orientation, Career Values,Self-Efficacy, Optimism, and Future Orientation. Contextual factors included Family, Friends,Mentoring, Extra-Curricular Activities. Effect sizes and p-values were calculated in comparisonsof student sub-groups. Linear regression was used to examine how personal characteristics andcontextual factors correlate with interest in the for-profit and the non-profit sector.Preliminary results showed that students with an interest in joining or starting a non-profitorganization have lower levels of entrepreneurial intentions than did students aiming for for-profit engagement. Women were more interested in starting or working for a non-profitorganization compared with men. Moreover, mentoring was identified as an important factor forstudents whose career goal was to start or work for a non-profit organization. Results suggestedthat discipline and gender play a role in students’ entrepreneurship interests; implications forcurriculum design will be discussed.ReferenceGilmartin, S., Shartrand, A., Chen, H., Estrada, C., & Sheppard, S. (2014). U.S.-BasedEntrepreneurship Programs for Undergraduate Engineers: Scope, Development, Goals, andPedagogies. Epicenter Technical Brief 1. Stanford, CA and Hadley, MA: National Center forEngineering Pathways to Innovation, p. 9US National Advisory Board on Impact Investing (2014). Private Capital Public Good: HowSmart Federal Policy Can Galvanize Impact Investing – and Why It´s Urgent, p. 9
AU  - Florian Michael Lintl
AU  - Qu Jin
AU  - Shannon Gilmartin
AU  - Helen L. Chen
AU  - Mark Schar
AU  - Sheri Sheppard
CY  - Seattle, Washington
DA  - 2015/06/14
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Starter or Joiner, Market or Socially-Oriented: Predicting Career Choice Among Undergraduate Engineering and Business Students
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/24730
DO  - 10.18260/p.24730
ER  -