Building an “i-Learning” environment for entrepreneurial engineering

This paper presents an experimentation, realized within an International Master's, aimed to develop in tomorrow's engineers the entrepreneurial capabilities required to develop technology-intensive products and services in the domain of e-business. The new professional profile of the Entrepreneurial Engineer is introduced, along with the innovative features of an “i-learning” environment which supports the development of such profile. The interdisciplinarity, interactivity, immediacy, internetworking and individualization aspects of the environment are discussed with a particular focus on the curriculum design and the action learning strategy applied in the program.