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Tendhar, Chosang; Singh, Kusum; Jones, Brett D. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which (1) a domain identification model could be used to predict students' engineering major and career intentions and (2) the MUSIC Model of Motivation components could be used to predict domain identification. The data for this study were collected from first-year engineering students. We…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Decision Making, Correlation, Engineering Education
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Lleó, A.; Agholor, D.; Serrano, N.; Prieto-Sandoval, V. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
This article describes an action research (AR) project for designing and implementing a structured mentoring programme in a Spanish university. A student affairs unit, a team of researchers, faculty-mentors and student-protégés worked together on three cycles of AR. The result is a programmatic mentoring programme for the development of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Action Research, Program Descriptions, Trust (Psychology)
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Gattie, David K.; Kellam, Nadia N.; Schramski, John R.; Walther, Joachim – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2011
This paper presents a theoretical basis for cultivating engineering education as a complex system that will prepare students to think critically and make decisions with regard to poorly understood, ill-structured issues. Integral to this theoretical basis is a solution space construct developed and presented as a benchmark for evaluating…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering, Problem Solving, Environmental Education
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Miranda, Joao; Nagy, Mariana – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2011
European cooperation is a relevant subject that contributes to building a competitive network of high education institutions. A case of teacher mobility on behalf of the Erasmus programme is presented: it considers some Operations Research topics and the development of the Lego on My Decision module. The module considers eight lecture hours in…
Descriptors: Operations Research, International Cooperation, Programming, Faculty Mobility
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Jian, Hua-Li; Sandnes, Frode Eika; Huang, Yo-Ping; Huang, Yueh-Min – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2010
Insight into factors that affect students' choice of university is useful when designing study programmes, especially in global competition for students. This study focuses on Taiwanese and Norwegian students' preferences for university, study programme, course qualities and future career qualities. Hofstede's model was used to predict…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Decision Making, Cultural Influences, Engineering Education
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Kliniotou, Maria – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2004
This paper describes the findings of the research done by Loughborough University in conjunction with ten construction industry collaborators in an attempt to identify what construction professionals mean by value. The aim of the research is to establish a common approach to identify value in projects and to monitor its development throughout the…
Descriptors: Construction Industry, Academic Achievement, Teaching Methods, Research