Abstract :
Freshman and sophomore engineering students participated in an exploratory Group Counseling Program designed to help them strengthen their academic achievement, increase their understanding of the engineer´s professional role in society, clarify their career goals, and improve their self-understanding and personal-social adjustment. The program included special attention for underachieving students. Leadership was provided by advanced master´s and doctoral candidates from the College of Education who had related academic and professional experience in the area of counseling and guidance. The explanation of the results includes both a description of certain common characteristics which seem to typify engineering students and a summary of the curricular, administrative, and student personnel implications of the findings.
