However, others felt that their senior leader was decidedly not influential in their decision to remain engineers. Students generally feel that their teamwork skills have improved as a result of the program with senior leaders, especially, feeling that their skills have improved while freshmen and sophomores are less likely to agree and more likely to disagree. In interviews and surveys, however, students realize the importance of working as a team and see how they could apply teamwork skills in their jobs. Senior leaders overwhelmingly feel that their leadership skills improved through their experience and some students chose Entrepreneurship for their design requirement because of the leadership opportunity. These results are certainly indicative of the different skills and abilities that seniors bring into the class and some variation in the skill levels is to be expected and not a reflection on the program's effectiveness.
Students seem to be well prepared for the work that they do after graduation or in co-op programs.
Most students do not go on to work for small entrepreneurial companies for their first jobs, but find application for the skills that they learned or honed in Entrepreneurship in their workgroups within larger companies. Students do indicate that they learned a lot about running a business from the seminar speakers and they enjoy the business aspect of their work on their projects. The strengths of the Entrepreneurship program far outweigh the weaknesses. The program is a good idea and well received by virtually all of the participants. Entrepreneurs has done an outstanding job in the area of student retention.