Few components of the engineering curriculum have as much opportunity to impact engineering students as first-year engineering programs. These programs typically serve all engineering students, and act as students’ introduction to engineering culture and setting the foundation for skills, mindsets, and habits that students need throughout their engineering education. Integrating EM into first-year programs is a clear mechanism for developing entrepreneurially-minded engineering graduates. To realize this impact, first-year engineering educators must understand and embrace the connection between traditional first-year engineering curriculum and EM.

This CardDeck collection was compiled to help catalyze and facilitate adoption of EM activities in the FY space by compiling example projects, activities, and content from FY educators across the network. These Great Ideas for Teaching Students (GIFTS) are focused on the Entrepreneurial Mindset in the First-Year and were presented at the 2024 KNC over the course of two sessions.

The cards below are presented twice - once organized by session (for easy indexing by session attendees), and a second time by topic (for easy indexing by users going forward).

Organized By Session