Characteristics of freshman engineering students: Models for determining student attrition in engineering

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 139-149

  Besterfield Sacre, Mary ^a   Atman, Cynthia J ^a   Shuman, Larry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

FRESHMAN ENGINEERING STUDENTS; STUDENT ATTRITION;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 0031120544     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.1997.tb00277.x     Document Type: Article

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