Exploring the motivations for migration among engineering students

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ngambeki, Ida B ^a   Evangelou, Demetra ^a   Ohland, Matthew W ^a   Ricco, George D ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

ENGINEERING COLLEGES; ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES; EXPOSED TO; LONGITUDINAL DATA; SOCIAL COGNITIVE CAREER THEORY; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; VOCATIONAL CHOICES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85029091251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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