Solving Low Enrollment Problems in Civil Engineering

Shoemaker, W. L.; Elton, David J.

doi:10.1061/(asce)1052-3928(1989)115:3(252)

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“…Proposed activities include enhancing connections to alumni and practicing civil engineers through activities and presentations 11,12,13 . Another commonly proposed recruiting strategy for civil engineering is to change students' incorrect or negative perceptions of civil engineering 13 , which often are cited as centering on employability and salary.…”

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Challenges and Opportunities for Recruiting Students to Undergraduate Civil Engineering Programs

Troy¹,

Bruntz²,

Govindaraju³

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Mariah is a Master's student in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. She is focusing her studies on hydraulic and hydrologic engineering. She has had multiple summer internship experiences in wastewater treatment and wastewater transportation systems. Mariah also has a passion for engineering education and has participated in various mentorship-based clubs and independent outreach events through engineering organizations on Purdue's campus. She also worked as a team member for Purdue's Women in Engineering Program's Access Engineering summer outreach program for K-12 students. Challenges and opportunities for recruiting students to undergraduate civil engineering programs AbstractSociety needs more civil engineers, with the projected near-term need for civil engineers greater than any other engineering discipline. Ailing national infrastructure and projected retirement rates have led to job projections suggesting that the near-term need for civil engineering graduates is almost double that of any other engineering discipline. This need, combined with other attractive attributes of civil engineering, should make civil engineering a top engineering major at many undergraduate universities.

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