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A Quantitative Analysis of the Identification of Personality Traits in Engineering Students and Their Relation to Academic Performance
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Cárdenas Moren, Camila; Crawford Augant, Kathleen; Crawford Labrin, Broderick; Soto de Giorgis, Ricardo; de la Fuente-Mella, Hanns; Peña Fritz, Álvaro; Valenzuela Saavedra, Matías; Hermosilla Monckton, Pamela; Álvarez Castelli, Lorena – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
This study focuses on identifying personality traits in engineering students and testing whether they are related to academic performance. In addition, the importance of the personality construct in the educational and vocational training context was studied. A sample of 235 students from the Construction Engineering and Computer Engineering…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Engineering Education, Academic Achievement, Correlation
Predictors of Effective Leadership in Industry--Should Engineering Education Focus on Traditional Intelligence, Personality, or Emotional Intelligence?
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Lappalainen, Pia – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
Despite the changing global and industrial conditions requiring new approaches to leadership, management training as part of higher engineering education still remains understudied. The subsequent gap in engineering education calls for research on today's leader requirements and pedagogy supporting the inclusion of management competence in higher…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Intelligence, Personality Traits, Emotional Intelligence