Title :
Motivating youngsters for engineering study
Author_Institution :
Dept. af Telecommun. Eng., Czech Tech. Univ. in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic
Abstract :
This paper introduces a nationwide project, the purpose of which is to extend collaboration between technical universities and secondary schools and to motivate prospective university students to enter an engineering branch. It describes specific steps and key activities that should make engineering education, science and research more popular and attractive for youngsters who are deciding about their future career.
Keywords :
educational institutions; engineering education; human factors; engineering study; nationwide project; prospective university students motivation; secondary schools; technical universities; youngsters motivation; Abstracts; Collaboration; Communications technology; Decision support systems; Educational institutions; Electrical engineering; Engineering education; engineering education; motivation; research; science; secondary schools; technical universities;
Conference_Titel :
EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE), 2013 Proceedings of the 24th
Conference_Location :
Chania
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0042-8
DOI :
10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576533
