Defining entrepreneurial behavior as a learning outcome of engineering entrepreneurship programs

Entrepreneurship is receiving increasing attention in engineering education. As more universities expose engineering students to entrepreneurship through formal and informal programs, it is important to develop a coherent understanding of their learning outcomes and develop assessment measures. Our work focuses on entrepreneurial behaviour, which is a commonly intended learning outcome of engineering entrepreneurship programs. In this work-inprogress paper, we present our on-going instrument development work involving identification of constructs using existing literature and expert feedback; development of assessment instrument items and expert response to generated items. Our preliminary work presents a 12-item open-ended instrument for assessing six sub-constructs describing entrepreneurial behaviour-opportunism, innovativeness, networking, risk management, adaptability and perseverance.