The goal congruity perspective suggests that students may not enter engineering, in part,
because they believe engineering is unlikely to fulfill communal, other‐oriented goals …

The need to incorporate the gender dimension in higher education is a central element of
gender equality policies within the European Union (EU). When most institutions of higher …

In this paper we study the interest of students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from grade
9 to 12 in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Surveys were …

Abstract This Complete Research paper describes how we identified diverse student assets
and redesigned a first year course to develop professional engineering identity. Despite …

Purpose–This paper aims to provide a critical analysis of UK Government policy in respect of
recent moves to attract young people into engineering. Drawing together UK and EU policy …

Engineering skills shortages in OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development) countries have been a key political issue for many years now. In universities …

The current group of young people entering the workforce belong to the so-called" millennial
generation". Each generation has certain characteristics that have defined its interaction with …

In this paper, we propose to model memory access profile information as loop nests
exhibiting useful characteristics on the memory behavior, such as periodicity, linearly linked …

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how a professional society like IEEE can
leverage its organizational structure and global reach to encourage the world wide …

Engineering undergraduate students have opinions and perceptions of engineering
disciplines and engineering undergraduate students do not always matriculate and …