Measuring the immediate impact of formal entrepreneurship education on electrical engineering undergraduates

This study investigates the inclination towards entrepreneurship among students of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA. Specifically, it aims to examine the association between the formal entrepreneurship course provided by the university and the electrical engineering students´ inclination towards entrepreneurship. The samples for this study were collected through an online questionnaire directed towards semester 2 to semester 8 students. The samples were studied as a whole and then as two groups. The first group comprises of those who have not undergone the entrepreneurship course which is being offered in Semester 6 and the other is made up of those who have. Our initial findings show that in general more that 50% of the students are inclined towards entrepreneurship but in the short term, it is not evident if the entrepreneurship course made any immediate impact to increase the inclination towards entrepreneurship. A more rigorous analysis is required to draw substantial conclusions on this complex issue.