Title :
Attracting student vocations into engineering careers: EnginyCAT: Catalonia promotional and prospective plan
Author :
Jofre, Luís ; Cordoba, Joanfra ; Robert, Laura
Author_Institution :
EnginyCAT, Univ. Politec. de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
In the developed countries vocational demand for scientific and technical studies is a serious concern for government, universities and companies and different analysis and programs are promoted to try to compensate the steady decrease of their demand. In this communication the phenomena for Spain, with an spatial emphasis in Catalonia, will be reviewed in the European context, and some clues for promoting new engineering vocations will be given.
Keywords :
educational courses; educational institutions; engineering education; vocational training; Catalonia; European context; Spain; engineering careers; student vocations; Best practices; Context; Data engineering; Demography; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Engineering profession; Government; Information analysis; Knowledge engineering; engineering studies promotion; engineering vocations;
Conference_Titel :
Education Engineering (EDUCON), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Madrid
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6568-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6570-5
DOI :
10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492415
