ABSTRACT
For the past several decades, organizations such as the National Academy of Engineering have encouraged the development of professional skills, such as creativity, entrepreneurship, and leadership, among the future workforce. As a result, the number of curricular and co-curricular elements and initiatives relating to these domains has grown, generating demand for best practices and resources to enable students’ acquisition of skills and knowledge. While the need to increase the professional skills of engineers is widely recognized, the three domains – creativity, entrepreneurship, and leadership – discussed here are most frequently targeted for formalized programs and have overlapping characteristics that make teaching them a challenge. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the current state of research regarding the integration for creativity, entrepreneurship, and leadership in engineering education, while identifying gaps in our understanding as well as recommendations for practitioners who teach in these areas. The chapter culminates with a set of reflections on the major concerns and future directions relating to creativity, entrepreneurship, and leadership in engineering education.
