Who graduates in mechanical engineering?

The distributions of Myers-Briggs Type Indicators, Preferences, and Temperaments for entering and graduating BSME students at the University of Houston are presented. The distributions for the entering students are shown to be very consistent each semester (for sixteen years) but significantly different from distributions for engineering students found in the literature. It seems clear from the preliminary data (Only four years\´ data have been collected at graduation.) that the number of the S-, the T-, the J-, the SJ-, the ESTJ- and the ISTJ- preferring individuals have some positive correlation with success in our mechanical engineering program. This conclusion is at least qualitatively supported by a previous study. For example, individuals preferring "thinking" over "feeling" (Myers-Briggs Preferences T over F) are almost twice as likely to graduate as those who prefer "feeling" over "thinking."