Those that leave - Assessing why students leave engineering

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Marra, Rose ^a,b   Bogue, Barbara ^b,c,d   Shen, Demei ^a   Rodgers, Kelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Assessing Women in Student Environments

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Pennsylvania State University ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; STUDENTS; SURVEYS;

ENGINEERING DEGREE PROGRAM;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 85073141077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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