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The Potential Benefits of Instilling an Entrepreneurial Mindset  \nJENNIFER M. BEKKI  \nMARK HUERTA Arizona State University Mesa, AZ  \nJEREMI S. LONDON Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA  \nDOUG MELTON  \nKern Family Foundation Waukesha, WI  \nMARGOT VIGEANT Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA  \nAND  \nJULIA M. WILLIAMS  \nRose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terra Haute, IN  \nABSTRACT  \nEntrepreneurship is always challenging the status quo; it’s an engine of human progress. We view Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) as a pathway to improve upon the status quo and improve individuals, organizations, and communities and promote health, education, and prosperity. In this brief paper, we lay out the case for why EM is beneficial for engineering students as individuals, their communities, their companies, and their nations. We also address the case for systemic change by embedding EM in the undergraduate engineering curriculum. This vision sets the stage for cultivation of the specific attributes developed in the subsequent “What” volume, enacted in the “How”volume of this same series.  \nKey words: Entrepreneurship, Professional Skills, Active Learning  \nADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION OPINION:  \nWhy EM? The Potential Benefits of Instilling an Entrepreneurial Mindset  \nINTRODUCTION  \nWhat is at stake in national debates about engineering education? Faculty, administrators, employers, and other stakeholders appear to agree that improving technical education should be a top priority. U. S. technical competitiveness depends on the quality of engineering education that is offered at the undergraduate and graduate levels. And while about 28% of undergraduates declare a major in a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) field, nearly half of them leave those majors before graduating (Chen, 2014) . Achievement and retention can be boosted by adoption of approaches such as active learning (Freeman et al, 2014) . It is important, therefore, that we make engineering education more engaging, more hands-on, more accessible to women and underrepresented groups, more relevant to current social and environmental problems. In these conversations regarding how engineering education should change, entrepreneurship may seem a mere distraction. Those unfamiliar with entrepreneurial education may not see its relevance outside of schools of business. They may ask, how is entrepreneurship, with is supposedly focused on starting a business and making a profit, relevant in the discussion regarding engineering education?  \nWe would argue that entrepreneurship, more specifically “entrepreneurial mindset” (or EM, the term of art that we will employ in this piece), is key to changing engineering education and should be considered as a positive disruptive force on par with efforts to increase diversity and to make engineering education more hands-on . In this piece, we are outlining the context for entrepreneurial mindset in engineering education by posing a series of important questions:  \n1. How does EM benefit individuals?  \n2. How does EM provide benefits for communities?  \n3. How does EM provide benefits for industry and corporations?  \n4. How does EM benefit the United States?  \n5. How can we support systemic change towards EM?  \nWhat Do We Mean By “Entrepreneurial Mindset”?  \nEntrepreneurial mindset has been defined in a number of ways (ex: Haynie et al 2010; Neneh 2012; Kriewall and Mekemson 2010) . For this work, we adopt a definition that centers on the set of cognitive behaviors that orient an engineer towards opportunity recognition and value creation in any context, not just that of an entrepreneurial venture. In this context, EM has clear benefits for individuals, communities, industry/corporations, and the United States.  \n2 FALL 2018  \nADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION OPINION:  \nWhy EM? 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