Should I stay or should I go? Engineering students' persistence is based on little experience or data

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lichtenstein, Gary ^a,b,c   Loshbaugh, Heidi ^c,d,e   Claar, Brittany ^c,d,e   Bailey, Tori ^a,b   Sheppard, Sheri ^a,f,g  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c UT ^*

^d Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^e CSM's Center for Engineering Education

^f NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^g HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS; ENGINEERING WAIVER;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85029094326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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