Enterprise is an important element of government strategy to increase productivity and support the creation and maintenance of a healthy economic climate. Whilst there has been lively debate about best ways of embedding entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum so far no definitive approach has emerged.
Conscious of the importance of the enterprise agenda in higher education the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Sheffield University aims to remain at the forefront of the competition by meeting customer expectations and fulfilling their needs. We have therefore made a concerted effort to increase students' entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial potential over the past three years. Consequently several modules and degree programmes have been created specifically to meet these needs.
This case study presents two modules as representative examples of how mechanical engineers are gaining an insight into the entrepreneurial world.
