Author(s): Belal H. Sababha, Abdulraheem Abualbasal, Esam Al-Qaralleh, Neda Al-Daher
Entrepreneurship education has been there for a while in the curriculum of many business related majors and started getting into engineering curricula in many parts of the world. Entrepreneurial education for engineering graduates is vital as it places the foundation to utilize engineering technical expertise to spinout companies. In some parts of the world, like Jordan for instance, the engineering curriculum is very condensed and regulatory and accreditation bodies mandate a minimum amount of credit hours and technical discipline subjects which results in having students spend around five years to fulfil the graduation requirements. Hence leaving no room for other important subjects like business and entrepreneurship. In this paper, the authors share their experience in proposing a solution to address the lack of entrepreneurial education for engineering students. The proposed solution made entrepreneurship education mandatory through introducing it as a pre-workplacement workshop that is a graduation requirement. The workshop was available to students through two modes. The results illustrate that the proposed solution positively affected the entrepreneurial attitudes, mindset and intentions of engineering students.