Experiential Engineering Education

Engineering Entrepreneurship Program

Engineering Entrepreneurship integrates technical, business, and professional knowledge and skills to spur innovation and develop new products and processes. Engineering entrepreneurship requires creativity, business acumen, opportunity recognition, perseverance, and customer empathy with a firm technical engineering foundation. Importantly, students learn the knowledge, skills, and abilities associated with an entrepreneurial mindset in engineering contexts. Overall, the Engineering Entrepreneurship Program provides graduates with the interdisciplinary engineering and business knowledge needed to excel in management and leadership roles early in their career.

The Engineering Entrepreneurship program prepares students for a wide range of career opportunities in which technological innovation plays a central role, at established companies, new ventures, government or non-profit organizations, or graduate school.

Through the Engineering Entrepreneurship Program, students pursue the following educational objectives.

Recognize opportunities around them; leading to new or improved products and/or services
Utilize ideation best practices to generate a pool of ideas based on stakeholders’ needs
Apply design thinking throughout their product and process development
Consider the broader context, including the real and potential impacts, of technological solutions in professional practice
Collaborate on interdisciplinary teams (both within engineering and outside of engineering)
Value failure as both positive and negative, depending on the scenario
Develop the communication, teamwork, project management, and leadership skills needed to excel professionally
Analyze legal, marketing, and financial knowledge needed to support new ventures

Stephanie Farrell
Department Chair
Engineering Hall
856.256.5315
farrell@rowan.edu