• DocumentCode
    3563297
  • Title

    Engineers without borders: An empirical investigation of member´s defining characteristics

  • Author

    Knight, Daniel ; Litchfield, Kaitlin ; Javernick-Will, Amy

  • Author_Institution
    Coll. of Eng. & Appl. Sci., Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    The present study is an empirical investigation of characteristics associated with membership in Engineers Without Borders (EWB). EWB is an international organization that has grown rapidly over the past decade. Despite this growth, few studies have investigated the characteristics of EWB members. The present study investigates these characteristics via survey research targeting the student body at a large state university in the American West.
  • Keywords
    engineering education; organisational aspects; American West; EWB members; Engineers Without Borders; international organization; member defining characteristics; state university; Classification tree analysis; Communities; Data analysis; Decision support systems; Engineering students; Psychology; engineering for developing communities; international education; service learning; survey research;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2014 IEEE
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FIE.2014.7044322
  • Filename
    7044322