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Joyce B. Main; Christina Pantoja; Susan M. Lord; Catherine Mobley; Catherine Brawner – Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
Background: In the United States, there is increased demand to expand the engineering workforce. Many military veterans have received technical training that can be leveraged in engineering. Their pursuit of engineering degrees has great potential to expand and diversify the engineering workforce. Purpose: This study examines the pathways of US…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Veterans, Prior Learning, High School Graduates
Steffen Wild; Sebastian Rahn; Thomas Meyer – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2024
Dropout rates in engineering degree programmes at universities are high, and skilled workers are needed. Universities try to prevent dropouts with different offers one of which is attending bridging courses. Research on the effects of these programmes is rare, especially in subject-specific programmes and study formats like cooperative education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students, Dropout Rate
Bethani Cogburn; Rachel Saunders; Lane Griffith; Stephanie Galloway; Wendy Lewis; Parikh Sejal Foxx; Brett Tempest; Chance Lewis – Professional School Counseling, 2023
The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological qualitative study was to describe the precollege interactions of undergraduate engineering students with low-income and economic marginalization (LIEM). Our analysis yielded three major themes regarding precollege interactions: (a) family and kinship as a source of motivation, (b) educators as…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Low Income Students, Minority Group Students
Abrica, Elvira J.; Lane, Tonisha B.; Zobac, Stephanie; Collins, Elizabeth – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2022
Relying on semi-structured, qualitative interviews with 13 Latino male undergraduates in engineering, this study explored students experiences and sense of belonging within a Minority Retention Program at a 4-year public university in California. Findings support extent research on the importance of structural interventions in science, technology,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Undergraduate Students, Males, Hispanic American Students
Taylor, Janet A. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2008
For most students assessment guides their study and learning practice. Yet in the literature associated with the first year of study at university, few have mobilised the power of assessment to develop and engage first year undergraduate students. This paper presents a model of assessment for first year students which separates the semester into…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Freshmen, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods