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Technical skills have become the baseline while the ability to apply these skills in a business environment has become a key differentiator in the value of employees in corporate environments. To address this need some universities have incorporated entrepreneurial skill development in curricular and extra-curricular offerings. This paper chronicles how Texas A&M University has developed an extra-curricular program which focuses on experiential learning to develop an entrepreneurial mindset in students whilst following the engineering design process. Appropriately named: Aggies Invent.  \nKey words: Entrepreneurship, Co-curricular, Design  \nMOTIVATION  \nIn Jim Clifton’s book, “The Coming Jobs War”, he argues that entrepreneurship is about creating jobs and that for countries, such as the US, creating entrepreneurial minded people is critical to our continued success (Clifton, 2011) . Further, a letter to the Secretary of Commerce from the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship [NACE] strongly recommended development of entrepreneurial courses and programs for students. This letter was submitted in 2011 and signed by 146 of America’s leading institutions (NACE, 2011) . The question is what are the best practice on how to provide this education in an academic setting with tangible results?  \nFrom ancient time, a quote often attributed to Confucius is “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” The concept underscores the recognized value of learning by  \nSPRING 2020 1  \nADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION  \nAggies Invent: How an Intensive Design Experience Teaches an Entrepreneurial Mindset  \ndoing. Fast forward 25 centuries, David Kolb makes the case that experiential learning is where skills and concepts are developed both inside and outside of the classroom (Kolb, 1984) and amore effective entrepreneurship education will be realized if it includes experiential education. Further, Gibb, develops the concept that an entrepreneurial mindset requires learning by doing (Gibb, 2011) . It is the intersection of classroom learning and practical application. Participation in experiential learning activities has been shown to increase multiple entrepreneurial ability scores throughout engineering entrepreneurial education (Duval-Couetil, Shartrand, & Reed, 2016) . Pryor, [et. al. argue](et. al. argue) that entrepreneurs, because they are surrounded by uncertainty, require intuitive decision making, effectuation, and passion to be successful (Pryor, Morris, & Schindehutte, 2012) . They found that intuition was required to make sense of uncertainty, effectuation was to transform the ideas from the consciousness of the entrepreneur to the organization, and passion was required to persevere through the obstacles they encountered. Through research, they concluded that “an experienced based lens of the entrepreneurship process in which actors operating in an uncertain environment create their own versions of reality, which ultimately manifest as an emerging venture”. (Pryor, Morris, & Schindehutte, 2012)”Without the engineers personal experience, their own versions of reality have no basis for a potentially successful enterprise.  \nApplying this body of knowledge, the Texas A&M University engineering entrepreneurship training includes multiple experiential learning opportunities, offered to students through programs developed specifically to address the needs of industry. One of the more unique programs implemented is called Aggies Invent. 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