Interest of Mechanical Engineering Students to Become Entrepreneur
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.191217.031How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Interests, entrepreneurs, mechanical engineering students
- Abstract
Entrepreneurship is one of the compulsory subject or course for students in mechanical engineering department, technical faculty in Semarang State University. It is expected that this subject can be used as a provision for students if after graduating they want to become entrepreneurs. But how many students interest to become entrepreneurs is unknown. This study aims to determine the development of students' interest in becoming entrepreneurs in the span of four years (2014-2018). The research subjects were 250 students, who came from mechanical engineering education study program (PTM S1) and mechanical engineering study program (TM S1) who attended entrepreneurship courses in the 2014/2015 amaout of 152 students and in the academic year 2018/2019 amount of 98 students. Data were collected through a questionnaire method, and analyzed by a descriptive-qualitative approach. The results showed that the interest of mechanical engineering education program students to become entrepreneurs tended to be consistently very high, namely from 91.76% in the academic year 2014/2015 to 92.18% in the academic year 2018/2019. In the same period the interest of mechanical engineering students tends to decline, from 95.52% to 82.35%. But in general the interest of students from the two study programs to become entrepreneurs remains high (above 80%) so the curriculum that contains Entrepreneurship courses is very appropriate to give to students.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Sunyoto PY - 2019 DA - 2019/12/19 TI - Interest of Mechanical Engineering Students to Become Entrepreneur BT - Proceedings of the 1st Vocational Education International Conference (VEIC 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 183 EP - 189 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.191217.031 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.191217.031 ID - 2019 ER -