Entrepreneurship in Engineering Curriculum

Entrepreneurship plays a very influential role in the economic growth of a country. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) including microenterprises have contributed a significant role in fostering growth, creating wealth and create jobs. These have been integral to Malaysia’s economic transformation process. The Malaysia government targets SMEs to contribute 50% to gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030 from current 37.4% (2021) and aspiration to become a high-income nation. Hence, more entrepreneurship policies, initiatives and drivers have been prepared to ensure the target is achieved, including cultivating more young entrepreneurs through higher learning institutions. The aim of this paper is to identify the entrepreneurship skills to enhance the entrepreneurship aspect of the engineering curriculum. The findings indicated that key skills such as critical thinking, innovative or creativity, financial knowledge, identifying opportunities, and new business start-up planning skills are the most relevant and shows that these are the skills most needed by the mechanical engineering graduates.