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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Engineering Majors"”.
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A cross-sectional study of engineering majors' self-efficacy
… is a cross-sectional study of 519 undergraduate engineering majors' self-efficacy beliefs at a large, research extensive, Midwestern university. Engineering self-efficacy is an individual's belief in his or her ability to successfully negotiate the academic hurdles of the engineering program. …
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The Career Goal-Setting Processes of Black Woman Engineering Majors
… to reduce inequities in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) job market, huge disparities remain for both African Americans and women in those sectors of employment. Extant literature affirms that Black women encounter various challenges when pursuing STEM careers. More …
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Profiles of Persistence: A qualitative Study of undergraduate Women in Engineering
… persistence of undergraduate women in their engineering majors, from a qualitative paradigm. Guided by the tenets of feminist and inclusive research, the assumption was made that all women, whether they persist or not in their engineering majors, have strengths and insights into their own …
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Maintaining undergraduate females' interest in an engineering program
… females to graduate with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) related degrees, these women must have strong academic self-efficacy. Unfortunately, enrollment data from local and national data indicate fewer female college students than males interested in STEM disciplines. Three …
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First year engineering students’ perceptions of engineering
Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign has steadily drawn increasingly larger incoming classes of students. With a significant population and a diverse number of programs, these freshmen will be entering a unique engineering culture. This study sought to understand the …
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Contextually driven messages about gender : an ethnographic study on messages concerning traditional gender behaviors within work, education, romantic relationships, friendships, and exercise
… schools of their choice. However, some jobs and majors are still male-dominated (i.e. math, science, and engineering majors). There was the most compliance with traditional gender behaviors in romantic relationships, friendships, and in exercise/sports.</p>
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Handling hovercrafts : designing a project curriculum to introduce girls to mechanical engineering
… Program was created in MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department to expose girls to engineering topics and to encourage them to choose engineering majors in college. For the upcoming launch of a WTP in the mechanical engineering department, a new curriculum is being …
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How to solve a physics problem: negotiating knowledge and identity in introductory university physics
… undergraduate courses in physics required for engineering majors, physics majors, and students in the life sciences, respectively to understand the ways that students in each class come to understand themselves as physics learners. Some of the students whose stories I will attempt to capture …
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Examining the impact of financial circumstances and disciplinary field of study on seniors’ participation in high-impact educational practices at research-intensive universities
… science students. Relative to social science majors, communications, business, and engineering majors were more likely to participate in internships; and arts and humanities, communications, and engineering students were more likely to participate in senior theses. Education students were less …
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Student Success: Approaches to Modeling Student Matriculation and Retention
… a group of graduates from high schools enter the engineering programs across this country with remarkable academic record. However, as reported in numerous studies, the number of students switching out of engineering majors continues to be an important issue. Previous studies have suggested …
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A look to the future : MIT Alumni and their Course 2 and 2-A educational experience
… and analyzed through a survey of the Mechanical Engineering Course 2 and Course 2-A Alumni to analyze the impact of their choice of major on their current career path and to investigate the career paths of mechanical engineering majors. Data was gathered on their jobs taken, confidence level …
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Getting to gender parity in the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT
… ranked as home to one of the world's top engineering programs, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is often seen as a model for its undergraduate education programs and research output. But MIT leads in another important way: the Institute also boasts one of the most …
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Essays on the Economics of Health and Education
… exposure to role models increased preference for engineering majors only for those girls in the top math ability quartile; and that the effect was stronger for those who reside geographically close to the role models' university. Finally, in the third chapter, I investigate how to optimally …
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Should I stay or should I go? Interests, values, fit, and retention of engineering students
… of high school students interested in pursuing engineering degrees and an increasing demand for engineering graduates in the workforce, it is extremely problematic that an estimated forty to seventy percent of undergraduate engineering students switch to non-engineering majors or drop out …
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Effects of Motivational Beliefs and Instructional Practice on Students' Intention to Pursue Majors and Careers in Engineering
… beliefs and their intention to pursue majors and careers in engineering. The difference between the two groups was in terms of instruction techniques used. The instructional techniques used for the traditional group was that of traditional engineering design (TED), while the technique …
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The Association between Identity and Student Engagement in Engineering Undergraduate Students
… increasingly interested in understanding engineering identity among college students as a means to promote student engagement and preserve students in engineering majors. However, there is a lack of psychometrically strong instrument to empirically assess engineering identity. Moreover, …
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Wage Dispersion Between College Majors
… wages by analyzing differences between college majors. Datasets for tens of thousands of individuals were retrieved from the Survey of Income and Program Participation which tracks fields of study in college and income. Two cohorts, each representing three-year-long periods, were compared to …