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BRUNHAVER  \nJENNIFER M. BEKKI  \nADAM R. CARBERRY Arizona State University Mesa, AZ  \nJEREMI S. LONDON VA Tech Blacksburg, VA  \nAND  \nANN F. McKENNA Arizona State University Mesa, AZ  \nABSTRACT  \nThe increasing presence of entrepreneurship within many engineering curricula requires a complementary tool to assess the impact on learners. An instrument was developed based on the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network’s 3Cs-Curiosity, Connections, and Creation of Valueframework to assess entrepreneurial mindset. The instrument was designed to target twelve total mindsets. Items were pilot tested four times with undergraduate students at a large southwestern public institution. Results in this paper are given for the last of four pilots in Spring 2017. Exploratory factor analysis was utilized to identify the number of emergent factors and overall importance of each item. The ensuing instrument contained 34 items within seven factors. The developed instrument and results of this study provide a foundation to support the accurate assessment of engineering student entrepreneurial mindsets before, during, and after an entrepreneurial experience.  \nKey words: Entrepreneurship, undergraduate education, factor analysis  \nINTRODUCTION  \nThere is a need to prepare engineering graduates who can effectively respond to contemporary challenges. This is one reason why an emphasis on design has become a quintessential component  \nADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION  \nDevelopment of the Engineering Student Entrepreneurial Mindset Assessment (ESEMA)  \nof undergraduate engineering education (Froyd, Wankat, & Smith, 2012) and sets engineers apart from science, technology, and mathematics professionals (Dym, Agogino, Eris, Frey, & Leifer, 2005) . The engineering design process makes customer needs a focus of decision making, which by extension motivates engineers to create solutions that will address customer needs and provide customer value (Dym et al. , 2005) . The desire of engineers to create customer-driven solutions has led to a growing interest within engineering education to embed (Kriewall & Mekemson, 2010; Tryggvason, Schauffeld, & Banks, 2010) and examine (Duval-Couetil, Reed-Rhoads, & Haghighi, 2011; Kleine & Yoder, 2011) entrepreneurship. Notably, entrepreneurship also extends the typical engineering design process to consider the creation of infrastructure for scaling and sustainability of the proposed solution, allowing for the greater possibility of developing solutions that have lasting change and impact.  \nAn increasingly common approach to assessing the impact of embedded entrepreneurial activities within engineering curricula is to examine entrepreneurial mindset (EM) . One way that EM has been operationalized in engineering education is by the Kern Family Foundation’s 3Cs. The Kern Family Foundation is dedicated to supporting efforts that promote EM among engineering students and faculty as demonstrated by the Kern Entrepreneurship Engineering Network (KEEN; 2017) . KEEN supports a variety of efforts that foster Curiosity, making Connections, and Creation of Value for others (KEEN, 2017) . The 3Cs distinguish EM from entrepreneurship through their emphasis on the mindsets necessary to create personal, societal, and economic value rather than the actual process of creating a business venture ( [http://engineeringunleashed.com/keen/about/](http://engineeringunleashed.com/keen/about/)) . Scholarship is currently underway to more clearly operationalize The 3Cs into an EM framework (e. g. , London et al, 2018) .  \nThis work utilizes ongoing research to develop a theoretically supported EM assessment instrument. 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