Engineering Students Towards Entrepreneurship Awareness

Mohd Nizam Ab. Rahman (), Jaharah A. Ghani, Ahmad Rasdan Ismail and Rosmaizura Mohd Zain
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Mohd Nizam Ab. Rahman: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Jaharah A. Ghani: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Ahmad Rasdan Ismail: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Rosmaizura Mohd Zain: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, 2012, vol. 2, issue 4, 272-282

Abstract: Entrepreneurship is often thought to be a likely subject for students in the business discipline but not for engineering students and this however is a fallacy as there is the need for Malaysia to identify an awareness of entrepreneurship in the engineering sector. At present the awareness for entrepreneurship is believed lacking in certain engineering courses and undergraduates do not really get much exposure to such enterprises. The purpose of this paper is to identify the interest among engineering students towards entrepreneurship. This paper discusses the factors related to the awareness of entrepreneurship taking into consideration the following different engineering courses, gender, family influence and race backgrounds. The survey results show that female, Chinese students and the Mechanical Engineering students are keen and geared towards entrepreneurship. These research results are very interesting as a snap shot study in developing and enhancing the awareness of entrepreneurship among the engineering respondents.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; gender; race (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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