Who enrolls in electrical engineering? A quantitative analysis of U.S.A. student trajectories

2010 IEEE Education Engineering Conference, EDUCON 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 839-844

  Lord, Susan M ^a   Camacho, Michelle Madsen ^a   Layton, Richard A ^b   Ohland, Matthew W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Rose Hulman Institute   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical Engineering; Gender; Race; Retention

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES; GRADUATION RATES; HISPANICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STUDENT POPULATIONS; UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING; STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77954945662     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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