Current trends in engineering are oriented towards a multidisciplinary approach as a way to solve increasingly
complex problems. In response to these challenges, universities are refocusing the education offered to
engineering students, since the environment for the practice of this field will continue experiment a major
metamorphosis driven by competition in high technology international markets. Thus, the new engineers will be a
combination of technical skills and entrepreneurship.
To carry out this work it was conducted a search process and a review of literature of secondary sources related to
entrepreneurship programs developed in engineering schools. This work exposes the importance, description,
assessment processes and successful cases of entrepreneurship education.
It was concluded that the influence of engineering in the process of entrepreneurship has been often ignored in
programs that promote entrepreneurship. This programs don´t consider that the engineering approach is
developing a significantly improved and more solid innovative process by adopting a mentality that includes
stochastic processes, which improves the chances of success and leads to a more structured product development
process.
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