Attracting Prospective Engineering Students in the Emerging European Space for Higher Education

Bibliographic Data

ID20473038
AuthorsAntonio J López‐Martín (0000-0001-7629-0305, Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA), corresponding author), Antonio J Lopez-Martin
Year2009
Volume53
Issue1
Pages46-52
Publication date2009-08-21
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIEEE Transactions on Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-9359 • E-ISSN: 1557-9638
PublisherIEEE Education Society (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1109/te.2009.2023083
OpenAlexW2111153921
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

A set of outreach activities implemented by the College of Engineering of the Public University of Navarra, Spain, is described. They represent different initiatives aimed to improve recruitment of young engineers in the difficult context of declining interest in engineering and the educational changes Europe is facing nowadays. The initiatives include didactic materials and activities specifically targeted to high schools and other events aimed to increase awareness about the relevance of science and engineering in the society. During the three years the outreach program has been applied, an increase in the number of engineering students of 12.5% has been experienced, which is in contrast to the decrease of 1.6% in the number of new university students during the same period

Context (archaeology) · Engineering education · Engineering ethics · Engineering management · Geography · Mathematics education · Medical education · Outreach · Political science · Relevance (law) · Science and engineering · Set (abstract data type) · Space (punctuation) · Computer Science · Engineering · Engineering Education and Curriculum Development · Higher Education Teaching and Evaluation · Medicine · Problem and Project Based Learning · Psychology

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