How to Measure the Innovativeness and Entrepreneurship Features of a Curriculum?

Abstract

This Research-to-Practice, Work in Progress paper attempts to provide a quantitative method to measure the innovativeness and entrepreneurship feature of a curriculum through available assessment data. This paper builds on our previous works relating systems thinking and design methodology to innovation and entrepreneurship. In this work, we propose an approach based on using the ABET's assessment process to obtain a measure for the innovativeness and entrepreneurship of the curriculum. We have used the engineering innovator characteristics as the base for our calculation. The proposed scheme also reveals the usefulness of the combined student outcomes assessment data. Given the nature of the collected data, it cannot be used as a wayof comparing with other programs, and it is only a self-assessment indicator.