• DocumentCode
    3124858
  • Title

    Changing majors at Bucknell: An update

  • Author

    Cunningham, Trudy B. ; Hoyt, Brian S.

  • Author_Institution
    Bucknell Univ., Lewisburg, PA, USA
  • fYear
    1993
  • fDate
    6-9 Nov 1993
  • Firstpage
    816
  • Lastpage
    817
  • Abstract
    The common first semester and a required interdisciplinary engineering course open to nonengineering students have since 1988, helped stablize engineering enrollment at Bucknell as the pool of available students remains significantly smaller. The course and a policy change that allows first-year students to enroll as engineering undecided have created an environment in which significant numbers of arts and sciences students transfer into engineering and students transferring out of engineering seem more confident about their abilities and plans
  • Keywords
    educational courses; engineering education; teaching; USA; education; enrollment; interdisciplinary engineering course; policy; students; university; Art; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Engineering students; Mathematics; Stress; Subspace constraints;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Frontiers in Education Conference, 1993. Twenty-Third Annual Conference. 'Engineering Education: Renewing America's Technology', Proceedings.
  • Conference_Location
    Washington, DC
  • ISSN
    0190-5848
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-1482-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FIE.1993.405407
  • Filename
    405407