Combining Technical and Entrepreneurial Skills in an Electric Circuits Course through Project-Based Learning.

Educators should always seek opportunities to enhance their course material and equip students with skills to help them achieve success in their career after graduation. One skill that has drawn much attention recently is the entrepreneurial mindset. This paper presents a project-based learning approach that infuses some of the soft skills associated with the entrepreneurial mindset with the technical skills of electric circuit analysis and design through a specific multi-phase, multi-disciplinary project. The course is offered to engineering students majoring in electrical, computer, mechanical, civil, and engineering education. The expected outcomes are effective collaboration and communication, persisting and learning from failure, management, and solving ambiguous problems. In addition, the paper presents all involved details in this project including the phases mentioned above, rubrics used for project evaluation, assessment of students' attitude toward this activity, assessment of project outcomes, and the related ABET student outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]