Enseñanza del emprendimiento en las facultades de ingeniería

Published in: Engineering for a Smarter Planet: Innovation, ITC, and Computational Tools for Sustainable Development: Proceedings of the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology
Date of Conference: August 3-5, 2011
Location of Conference: Medellin, Colombia
Authors: Alejandro Valencia Arias
Refereed Paper: #140

Abstract

Current trends in engineering are oriented towards a multidisciplinary approach as a way to solve increasingly complex problems. In response to these challenges, universities are refocusing the education offered to engineering students, since the environment for the practice of this field will continue experiment a major metamorphosis driven by competition in high technology international markets. Thus, the new engineers will be a combination of technical skills and entrepreneurship.
To carry out this work it was conducted a search process and a review of literature of secondary sources related to entrepreneurship programs developed in engineering schools. This work exposes the importance, description, assessment processes and successful cases of entrepreneurship education.
It was concluded that the influence of engineering in the process of entrepreneurship has been often ignored in programs that promote entrepreneurship. This programs don´t consider that the engineering approach is developing a significantly improved and more solid innovative process by adopting a mentality that includes stochastic processes, which improves the chances of success and leads to a more structured product development process.