Undergraduate education and the career orientation of professional engineers: Comparison between individuals from enhanced engineering courses and those from conventional engineering courses

Keenan, Tony

doi:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1994.tb00558.x

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“…Data collected in another part of this investigation indicated that students embarking on enhanced courses were already more favourably disposed towards business and commercial aspects of engineering at the outset of their studies than their conventional counterparts (Keenan 1993).…”

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“…Thus, studies of the career orientation of engineers (Barclay 1986;Keenan 1993;Allen and Katz 1988) show that many engineers wish to have careers as technical specialists rather than engineering managers. The Dainton enhanced courses are not designed for this career role, and the more exclusively technical focus of traditional courses may be more suited to this type of individual.…”

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Graduate engineers' perceptions of their engineering courses: Comparison between enhanced engineering courses and their conventional counterparts

Keenan

1993

High Educ

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Abstract. The Dainton enhanced engineering courses were designed to produce engineers who would be better prepared for careers in manufacturing management than their counterparts from conventional engineering programmes. As part of a large scale evaluation of these courses, the views of 167 students and 220 graduates of the programmes were compared with those of a control group of 353 students from conventional engineering courses. Respondents were asked for their opinions of 19 course elements in terms of the amount of time devoted to each as a preparation for a career as a professional engineer in industry.In general, enhanced students viewed their courses more favourably than students from conventional courses. Thus, over half of the conventional students criticised their courses for a lack of business and management material, compared with less than one in five enhanced students. There were few differences between the two groups in their views about the technical content of their courses. Criticisms about insufficient time being devoted to CADCAM, Engineering Practice, and Engineering Applications were common in students from both types of course. The views of enhanced graduates, who had up to five years' work experience post graduation, were similar to those of the undergraduates. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for engineering education in general.

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Graduate engineers' perceptions of their engineering courses: Comparison between enhanced engineering courses and their conventional counterparts

Keenan

1993

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“…(''Interface '' 1996a, p. 39) Education is an important factor in the narrowing of engineering outlooks. A study which compared students in and graduates from conventional engineering courses in Britain with those in ''enhanced'' management-oriented engineering courses found that, while students who were more interested in management tended to choose or be selected for the ''enhanced'' engineering courses, these students had a declining technical orientation as they progressed through the courses compared with the students doing conventional engineering courses, indicating that engineering education is influential in forming graduate attitudes and career orientations (Keenan 1994).…”

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Beyond Technicalities: Expanding Engineering Thinking

Beder

1999

J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract.

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“…Career development has become a significant component of policy development in many countries, because of its potential impact on the labour market (RICHARD, 2005). The careers of engineers have been the subject of a series of studies that have in common the implicit assumption that the manufacturing of a country is dependent, at least in part, on the quality of its professional engineers (KEENAN, 1994). However, very promising engineers are being promoted to managerial positions as a way of recognizing their contribution to an organizations goals.…”

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“…This fact, in addition to engineers orientations and expectations to be treated as professionals, has caused considerable tension and strain in the engineer-management relationship. This calls for changes in engineering management styles to maintain motivation and productivity (BLIGLIARDI;PETRONI;DORMIO, 2005;KEENAN, 1994).…”

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Internal Labour Market as Factor in the Career Success Perceived by an Engineer

Heredia

Machuca

2011

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The phenomenon of the global crisis in both the financial energy sectors as well as the emergence of new technologies companies consider their success or failure depending on the ability to respond quickly to opportunities in their competitive environment. This competitiveness is found especially in the capacity of their technical professionals. On the other hand career is characterized as protean, boundaryless and directed mainly by the individual. Given this scenario, organizations should organize an internal labor market to attract, develop and retain talent. The purpose of this research is to study the impact of internal labour market and subjective career success perceived by engineers in organizations. For the study a survey was conducted via email to 1135 graduates with a response rate of 89.07%. Structural equations were then applied to identify relationships. The results show a positive relationship between internal labour market and subjective career success perceived by engineers working in the organization. The conclusions of the study can help engineers and companies to drive the careers of these knowledge workers as a way to help them to be happier and help their companies to have more dynamic and proactive engineers. At the same time, educational institutions with engineering programs will gain a better understanding of an engineers career, and will be able to use this knowledge to review the effectiveness of their educational programs.

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Undergraduate education and the career orientation of professional engineers: Comparison between individuals from enhanced engineering courses and those from conventional engineering courses

Cited by 9 publications

References 9 publications

Graduate engineers' perceptions of their engineering courses: Comparison between enhanced engineering courses and their conventional counterparts

Graduate engineers' perceptions of their engineering courses: Comparison between enhanced engineering courses and their conventional counterparts

Beyond Technicalities: Expanding Engineering Thinking

Internal Labour Market as Factor in the Career Success Perceived by an Engineer

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