Gender Differences among Engineering Students:

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• Gender Differences among Engineering Students
• Attitude towards entrepreneurship

Chiheb BOUDEN Wyssal ABBASSI Ecole Nationale
dIngénieurs de Tunis (ENIT)
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ENIT Undergraduate students
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Master students
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Faculty and staff
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Women V.I.P. in ENIT

• Director of trainings and exterior relations
• Director of doctoral studies
• Director of Electrical Engineering Department
• 1 Director of Research Lab (Among 4)
• 3 Directors of Research Units (Among 14)
• Director of the computer center

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Qualities to be developed

• Leadership and strategy
• Autonomy
• Team work
• Management
• Tenaciousness, endurance, adaptability, lucidity
• Optimism

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Focus activities

• Autonomous Work-out on concepts
• Tools Acquisition
• Know-how acquisition
• Self skills development
• Team work

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Pedagogy

• Individual Projects
• Development of teamwork skills
• Sustained working pace
• Hands on and practice
• Internships and Practical Trainings
• On-site missions
• Technical visits

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Entrepreneurship Education
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Awareness and training measures

• A large awareness action
•  An Introductory course (1st Grade ENIT)
• Pre-Incubator ENIT-Incubation
• Incubator MANARTECH
• Professional Master CREMI

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Graduate students (Engineering, Management,
Finance etc)
Entrepreneurs willing to create own buisiness
Employees, Intrapreneurs
CREMI
Option Buisiness Creation
Option Management of Innovation

• Introduction of Innovations
• activity
• service
• process

Creation of RD Unit / Lab.
Buisiness Creation
Incubation
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70
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Candidates selection

• Use the students files
• Organize a personalized interview for each
• Evaluate the personal project
• Assess the leadership quality among students

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Candidates Profile (Cohort 4)
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CREMI students
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Accompanying measures

• Informal activity
• Clubs activities, leadership development
• Junior Chamber International (JCI)
• Junior ENIT

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Undergraduate Engineering Students Survey

• Engineering Students Attitude towards
  entrepreneurship
• Intention to become self-employed after
  graduation
• Rank the main Entrepreneurship-Related
  Competencies
• Motivation for Starting a Business
• Rank Entrepreneurship-Related Barriers
• Sample
• 126 undergraduate students
• Men 62 / Woman 64
• Age 20-25

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Entrepreneurial Intent After Graduation
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Main Entrepreneurship-Related Competencies
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Motivation for starting a business
5-point scale 1 Strongly Disagree, 5
Strongly Agree,
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Entrepreneurship-Related Barriers
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Conclusion

• Many engineering students do aim to start firms.
• Entrepreneurial desire is more prevalent in male
  than female engineering students.
• No significant differences in attitudes towards
  entrepreneurship between the two groups
  engineering behavior?.