Technology Entrepreneurship in Engineering Education: Harnessing the Technology Entrepreneurs in Filipino Engineering Students
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Mancenido, Michelle V.
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Abstract
The eventual career path of the young Filipino engineer after college graduation is
employment with a multinational corporation. This traditional mindset has been molded
over the years through the relentless and aggressive recruitment of MNC’S, which promise
large salaries and compensatory benefits to new graduates. Very few, if some, take the
less traveled but admittedly rockier road of starting up their own businesses. The paper
discusses the rationale, methodology, and the results of an engineering elective course
called Technology Entrepreneurship. The impetus for offering the course is the realization
that engineering graduates are fully capable of helping propel the nation to progress
through the fruition of technological researches into viable business ventures. The course
was designed with two objectives considered: to educate and to inspire. The educational
platform offered a full month seminar on devising feasibility studies for technology driven
or market driven ideas and researches. This included seminars on marketing, supply chain,
and accounting and finance. The "inspirational" platform included encouraging talks by
alumni engineer entrepreneurs who shared their own experiences and valuable lessons
gained in startup businesses. The talks covered areas such as business opportunity
recognition, societal and economic awareness, organizational issues in startups,
and venture capitalists, none of which are covered by the regular engineering curriculum. The
full paper shall include a discussion of methodology, execution, results, and feedback on
the course.
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Distance Learning and Professional Education ; International Association for Continuing Engineering Education
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2008-05-21
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