Title :
Characterizations of the graduate career change woman in engineering: recruitment and retention
Author :
Anderson, Mary R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. Manage. Syst. Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA
Abstract :
The author focuses on graduate career change women and the type of women who are willing to try to make the difficult transition to engineering and are able to succeed. The source of their lack of encouragement to enter engineering is examined. The career change woman engineer is compared with the traditional US male engineer in general characteristics. Lastly, the preferred learning styles of the career change woman are also discussed
Keywords :
education; engineering; engineering; graduate career change woman; preferred learning styles; recruitment; retention; traditional US male engineer; Calculus; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Engineering profession; Industrial engineering; Recruitment; Research and development; Unemployment;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1991. Twenty-First Annual Conference. 'Engineering Education in a New World Order.' Proceedings.
Conference_Location :
West Lafayette, IN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0222-2
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1991.187480
