The career aspirations of associate degree students: implications for engineering educators and the profession
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Paper/Presentation Title | The career aspirations of associate degree students: implications for engineering educators and the profession |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | |
Author | Dowling, David |
Editors | Willis, E. |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of Engineering Education Conference (EE 2010) |
ERA Conference ID | 42742 |
Number of Pages | 9 |
Year | 2010 |
Place of Publication | Loughborough, United Kingdom |
ISBN | 1907632093 |
9781907632099 | |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://www.engsc.ac.uk/downloads/scholarart/ee2010/19_GP_Dowling.pdf |
Conference/Event | Engineering Education Conference (EE 2010): Inspiring the Next Generation of Engineers |
Engineering Education series (organised by Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre UK) | |
Event Details | Engineering Education series (organised by Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre UK) Rank B B B B B B B B |
Event Details | Engineering Education Conference (EE 2010): Inspiring the Next Generation of Engineers Event Date 06 to end of 08 Jul 2010 Event Location Birmingham, United Kingdom |
Abstract | During the period 2006-2008 there was a large and unexpected growth in the commencing enrolments in the distance education offer of the Associate Degree of Engineering program, with the commencing student total growing from 115 in 2005, to 337 in 2008. A small questionnaire was developed in 2006 to explore the reasons for this spike in enrolments, and to gather information about these students, who mostly study part-time because they work full-time in the engineering industry. |
Keywords | associate degree; engineering; technician; career aspirations |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 520104. Industrial and organisational psychology (incl. human factors) |
390113. Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy | |
399999. Other education not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | © 2009 David Dowling. The author assigns to the EE2010 organisers and educational non-profit institutions a non-exclusive licence to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article is used in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. Deposited with permission of Author. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Engineering and Surveying |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q001y/the-career-aspirations-of-associate-degree-students-implications-for-engineering-educators-and-the-profession
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