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Direct linkChowdhury, Harun; Alam, Firoz – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2012
Developing nations including Bangladesh are significantly lagging behind the millennium development target due to the lack of science, technology and engineering education. Bangladesh as a least developing country has only 44 engineers per million people. Its technological education and gross domestic product growth are not collinear. Although…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Engineering Education, Engineering, Foreign Countries
Moriña Díez, Anabel; Gavira, Rosario López; Molina, Víctor M. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
This article presents an analysis of how lecturers respond to students with disabilities, the initial question being: do lecturers aid or hinder students? Findings pertain to a broader research project being developed by a multidisciplinary team employing a non-usual research methodology in higher education (HE) research and students with…
Descriptors: Disabilities, College Students, College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship
Brint, Steven; Cantwell, Allison M.; Saxena, Preeta – Research in Higher Education, 2012
Using data from the 2008 University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey, we show that study time and academic conscientiousness were lower among students in humanities and social science majors than among students in science and engineering majors. Analytical and critical thinking experiences were no more evident among humanities and…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Undergraduate Study, Social Sciences, Engineering
Grave, Barbara S. – Education Economics, 2011
There is a large literature on the influence of institutional characteristics on student academic achievement. In contrast, relatively little research focusses on student time allocation and its effects on student performance. This paper contributes to the literature by investigating the effect of student time allocation on the average grade of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Grades (Scholastic), Time Management, Academic Achievement
Charyton, Christine; Basham, Kimberly M.; Elliott, John O. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2008
The purpose of the research was to investigate gender similarities and differences in general creativity constructs with their preferences for creative persons. Data were collected from 247 participants (87 engineering, 24 psychology students with a psychology major, 51 psychology students with a major other than psychology, 30 English, and 55…
Descriptors: Creativity, Psychology, Males, Gender Differences
Palmer, Betsy; Marra, Rose M. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
Scholars have studied epistemological development--or how one understands knowledge and knowing--of college students for many years. Research in this domain has included benchmarking studies of epistemological development, examinations of how curricular innovations impact epistemology, and some studies of differences in epistemological development…
Descriptors: College Students, Humanities, Epistemology, Qualitative Research
Peer reviewedPenn, Mischa; Aris, Rutherford – Chemical Engineering Education, 1977
Provides general guidelines for shaping a course devoted to the interaction of sciences and humanities, especially for the engineering student. (MLH)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum, Engineering, Engineering Education
Hamlett, P. W. – Science, Technology and Society, 1981
Outlined is a 16-week political science course designed for students in engineering, the sciences, and humanities. The course focuses on the influence of science and technology on contemporary politics. Reading assignments, weekly topics, and course requirements are listed. (DC)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Humanities
Peer reviewedThe Weaver, 1986
Describes courses designed to develop approaches for teaching engineering concepts, applied mathematics and computing skills to liberal arts undergraduates, and to teach the history of scientific and technological innovation and application to engineering and science majors. Discusses courses, course materials, enrichment activities, and…
Descriptors: College Science, Course Organization, Curriculum Development, Engineering Education
Download full textGolebiowski, Zofia, Ed.; Borland, Helen, Ed. – 1997
These selected papers from the First Conference on Tertiary Literacy focus on communication across differences of culture and discipline in Australian universities. Many of the papers have resulted from cooperation between applied linguists and specialist lecturers and describe cooperative models of literacy education based on interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Discourse, Allied Health Occupations Education, Communication Skills
