Engineering students' perceptions of engineering specialties

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 67, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 87-101

  Shivy, Victoria A ^a   Sullivan, Terri N ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Career decision making; Career specialty choice; Engineering students; Multidimensional scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644441440     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2003.05.001     Document Type: Article

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