Analysis of Engineering Curriculums regarding Entrepreneurial Competencies

In recent years, entrepreneurship has become an important topic in all business areas, and entrepreneurial knowledge and skills have reached higher social context that has consequently become integrated into educational programmes. Many higher education institutions revise their study programmes by integrating entrepreneurship courses and topics into curricula, but mostly at the institutional level without any specific guidelines or recommendations. The curricula could be analysed according to the entrepreneurial topics and subjects integrated in the engineering study programmes, which in some study programmes are sufficient, while in others there are minimal or none. Hence, caused by the practice of non-uniformity, and sometimes even absolute absence of entrepreneurial subjects, authors were focused on the students of various engineering studies through the research framework set for testing the student self-assessment on entrepreneurial knowledge, their motivation for acquiring it, and comparation of their entrepreneurial knowledge with the initial self-assessment. The research was conducted on a sample of N: 543 students with four hypotheses, at the University of Applied Sciences Zagreb (CROQF/EQF level 6 and 7) on the six engineering study programmes in the field of civil engineering, mechanical engineering - mechatronics, electrical engineering, forensics, computer science and graphic design.