Success, recruitment, and retention of academically elite women students without STEM backgrounds in US undergraduate engineering education

Engineering Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 151-168

  McLoughlin, Lisa A ^a  

^a Greenfield Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

engineering; gender; identity; pipeline; recruitment and retention

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATES; GENDER; IDENTITY; ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS; RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION; SCIENCE , TECHNOLOGY , ENGINEERING , AND MATHS; TRADITIONAL ENGINEERINGS; UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING EDUCATIONS;

DESIGN; ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; PIPELINES; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 73649148306     PISSN: 19378629     EISSN: 19408374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19378620902911592     Document Type: Article

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