A study of gender parity: Department culture from the students' perspective

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Rhoads, Ten Reed ^a   Murphy, Teri J ^a   Trytten, Deborah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Department culture; Gender; Industrial engineering; Retention

Indexed keywords

DEPARTMENT CULTURES; GENDER PARITY; RETENTION;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 33947241406     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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