An effective way of teaching entrepreneurship to engineering students using pain storming as a tool

Abstract

Teaching entrepreneurship to engineering graduates with the purpose to develop entrepreneurial intention is a challenging process. Many technical institutions have started to offer entrepreneurship courses and While teaching experientially there is a need for proper assessment of student learning, evaluation and feedback. The purpose of introducing this course is to inculcate entrepreneurial skills and improve their future career opportunities. This paper outlines the course and teaching methodology implemented at S R Engineering College an autonomous institute in Telangana. The objective of Technology entrepreneurship course which is offered to B.Tech second and third year students as an open elective is to motivate them towards starting a venture. Teaching of regular entrepreneurship theory is done by following traditional teaching method. Pain storming is the method used at the beginning of the course which leads to opportunity recognition and students works to build their enterprising concept based on that. This paper describes the teaching pedagogy adopted in delivering this course at the institute and the pedagogy can be implemented by the institutions which are about to introduce entrepreneurship.