Maintaining a strong engineering workforce: ACT policy report

Repositioning An Academic Department To Stimulate Growth

“…The frequencies of brand meaning responses were coded and analyzed at all population groups, including industry, to shed light about the congruency of brand meaning between students and potential employers. The survey instrument item which the population members were asked to respond to was a word associations question aimed at assessing -brand meaning.‖ According to the CBBE Model (Noeth, 2003), responses to brand meaning should fall into either the Performance or Imagery categories to be considered an -appropriate‖ response to brand meaning. Responses that fall into the other four categories were considered inappropriate for measuring brand meaning since the respondent was specifically asked a question pertaining to brand meaning.…”

Perceptions Of Engineering Disciplines Among High School Students

“…Given the relatively small number of women who specified an interest in the engineering profession as compared to men in the Noeth 4 study, we wanted to understand whether or not men had more of an interest in the subject area because they knew more about engineering. One-way ANOVA produced no significant difference in knowledge of engineering for males as compared to females, F (1,116) = 3.888, p > 0.05.…”

“…According to the ACT policy report Maintaining a Strong Engineering Workforce, among the more than 1.1 million seniors in the class of 2002 who took the ACT Assessment college entrance and placement exam, fewer than 6% planned to study engineering in college, down from a high of nearly 9% in 1992 4 . In addition, average ACT scores for potential engineering students had declined, as had the number of potential engineers in graduating classes' top quarters.…”

Academic and social experiences of female community college transfer students in engineering fields at Midwestern University

“…Women take fewer advanced mathematics and science courses in high school and they shy away from calculus and physics (Bleeker & Jacobs, 2004;Blickenstaff, 2005). Thus, women are often less prepared when they go to college especially as most first-year engineering students are required to take calculus (Noeth et. al., 2003 (Gibbons, 2004;NSF, 1998;).…”