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Gabriella Coloyan Fleming; Michelle Klopfer; Andrew Katz; David Knight – Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Background: Engineering curricula are built around faculty and accreditors' perceptions of what knowledge, skills, and abilities graduates will need in engineering careers. However, the people making these decisions may not be fully aware of what industry employers require for engineering graduates. Purpose/Hypothesis: The purpose of this study is…
Descriptors: Advertising, Job Applicants, Engineering, Engineering Education
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Watkins, Shari; McGowan, Brian – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
Using critical race methodology as a methodological framework, this paper explores how 16 Black men PhD scientists and engineers describe their undergraduate and graduate school choices and how race and racism influenced these processes. Our analysis yielded two descriptive themes focused on counterspaces for Black men in science and engineering…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Graduate Study, Racism, Educational Experience
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Barnard, Sarah; Rose, Anthea; Dainty, Andrew; Hassan, Tarek – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
The transition of early career researchers into academic posts is understood to be a crucial career step and marks a point at which representation of women declines significantly. The research adopts a participatory qualitative research methodology through career narrative interviews and group discussions with women engineers recently appointed…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Women Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Career Choice
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Maya Denton; David B. Knight; Jessica R. Deters; Dustin M. Grote; Maura Borrego – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2024
We summarize national-scale data for Ph.D. earners in engineering or computer science from 2015 to 2019 whose post-graduate school employment is known, highlighting outcomes for biological/biomedical/biosystems engineering students. We use NSF's Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), which has collected information from Ph.D. recipients in the USA…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Engineering Education, Computer Science Education, Sex
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David K. Pugalee; Audrey Rorrer; Praveen Ramaprabhu; Mesbah Uddin; Harish P. Cherukuri; Terry Xu – Cogent Education, 2024
Current structures of STEM graduate programs raise questions about addressing graduates' interest in multiple career paths, and how programs prepare graduates for positions increasingly available in varied occupations. This problem is addressed through an innovative doctoral program in engineering, Pathways to Entrepreneurship (PAtENT), which…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Engineering Education, Entrepreneurship
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Jehn, Anthony; Walters, David; Howells, Stephanie – Higher Education Policy, 2021
Level of postsecondary schooling and field of study remain significant markers of social stratification. However, the extent to which these various types of postsecondary schooling influence the labor market outcomes of recent male and female graduates is unknown. Drawing on data from Statistics Canada's 2013 National Graduates Survey, we examine…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Salary Wage Differentials, College Graduates, Engineering Education