| Sax, L.J., Astin, A.W., Korn, W.S. & Mahoney, K.M.,The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 2001. |
....year [1] In Fall 2001, freshman men were more than five times as likely as freshman women to choose engineering as their probable career. While 13.2 of freshman men chose engineering, only 2. 5 of the freshman women in all baccalaureate institutions chose engineering as their probable career [2]. This interest in engineering is near a 30 year low. Although the number of women enrolled in engineering has increased each year since 1989 (when women engineering enrollment was at 15.9 ) except for a slight dip in 1999, still only 19.7 of the 353,118 students enrolled in engineering in ....
Sax, L.J., Astin, A.W., Korn, W.S. & Mahoney, K.M.,The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 2001.
....would be their probable career. Of the freshmen men, 15.5 percent indicated engineering as their probable major field of study and only 2.2 percent of the freshmen women did so. Even less stated that engineering would be their probable career (13.4 percent for men and 2. 1 percent for women) [1]. At the same time, the demand for engineers in the U.S. is great, with foreign national students being brought to our country to help fill the gap. The demand for engineers receiving bachelor s degrees is big news and the demand continues to grow. The downside has been, however, that the ....
. Sax, Linda J., Astin, Alexander W., Korn, William S., and Mahoney, Kathryn M., "The American Freshman: National Norms For Fall 1998.
....reached its lowest point since 1975, with only 6.4 of the freshman students (11.7 of men and 1.9 of women, n=240,082) declaring engineering as a future career [2] The interest in engineering of 1997 freshman did increase a small amount to 7.7 of the students (13.8 of men and 2. 6 of women) [3]. This declining interest in engineering is not occurring at ASU. Enrollments continue to climb and retention is increasing, especially for minority and women students. In the past two years, the majority of the growth in the CEAS has come from minority and women students, more than 50 in Fall ....
) Sax, L. J., Astin, A. W., Korn, W. S., Mahoney, K. M. The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall
....and minority students are not retained as well as the others in engineering programs [1] In 1995, interest in engineering careers reached its lowest point since 1975, with only 6.4 of the freshman students (11.7 of men and 1. 9 of women, n=240,082) declaring engineering as a future career [2]. The interest in engineering of 1997 freshman did increase a small amount to 7.7 of the students (13.8 of men and 2.6 of women) 3] This declining interest in engineering is not occurring at ASU. Enrollments continue to climb and retention is increasing, especially for minority and women ....
) Sax, L. J., Astin, A. W., Korn, W. S., Mahoney, K. M. The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall
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Astin, Alexander W., William S. Korn, Linda J. Sax, and Kathryn M. Mahoney. The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 1994. Los Angeles, California: Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA, 1994.
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Sax, Linda J., Alexander W. Astin, William S. Korn, and Kathryn M. Mahoney. The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 1995. Los Angeles, California: Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA, 1995.
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