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Van den Broeck, L.; De Laet, T.; Lacante, M.; Pinxten, M.; Van Soom, C.; Langie, G. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
To stimulate a flexible lifelong learning system students can enter university via lateral entry. Unlike traditional first-year students, lateral entrance students are not well-studied. Therefore this study focuses on comparing first-year students with a specific group of lateral entrants, namely bridging students at the Faculty of Engineering…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, College Freshmen, Engineering, Engineering Education
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Huang, Tung-Chun – Innovations in Education and Training International, 2000
Measures the impact of pre-job training programs on subsequent earnings of trainees, particularly engineers employed by high-tech firms in Taiwan. Concludes that public training programs have no impact on earnings but participation in private training programs does have a significantly positive effect on earnings, and compares results with…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Engineering Technology, Foreign Countries, Job Training
National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. Div. of Science Resources Studies. – 1997
This report provides comparisons of U.S. and Japanese science resources and some initial evidence that Japan is expanding the human and financial resources for science while improving the environment for basic research. The data cover science and technology trends in research and development from 1975 to 1994, as well as more recent changes in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Engineering Technology, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)