期刊名称：Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
出版年度：2017
出版社：The Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
摘要：Entrepreneurship in engineering is an intersection of two male-dominated domains and is particularly prone to a gender gap. Entrepreneurship education—the teaching of skills and cultivation of talents that students need to start businesses, identify opportunities, manage risk and innovate in the course of their careers—is now a staple in many universities across Canada and around the world. However, the participation of women in such entrepreneurial programs remains quite low. This paper presents the novel Women's Start-up Network program at the University of Ottawa. The objective of the program was to develop an entrepreneurial mind-set and competencies in female engineering and computer science students through facilitated peer mentorship training. Participants were surveyed to determine the degree to which a peer mentortraining program could increase participants’ knowledge about entrepreneurship and influence participants’ entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intentions. This paper reports on the preliminary results of the program and the implications for entrepreneurial learning and career intentions among female engineering students.
