WIP: bridging cognitive and motivational psychology to combat shortage of engineers

Author

Reisslein, Martin ; Moreno, Roxana ; Reisslein, Jana

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

fYear

2005

fDate

19-22 Oct. 2005

Lastpage

30

Abstract

The decline in interest among U.S. students in engineering programs of study, which has the potential to severely affect our technology-based society, has motivated the formation of a team of engineers and psychologists to examine the psychological foundations of effective engineering education. The team´s work in progress is focused on a rigorous examination of the cognitive psychology and motivational psychology aspects of engineering education

Keywords

cognition; engineering education; professional aspects; psychology; societies; cognitive psychology; engineering education; engineering programs; motivational psychology; technology-based society; Computer science; Cultural differences; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Educational technology; Engineering education; Guidelines; Maintenance engineering; Psychology; Statistics; Cognitive psychology; cognitive load; engineering education; motivational psychology; multimedia learning; social embedding; student persistence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education, 2005. FIE '05. Proceedings 35th Annual Conference

Conference_Location

Indianopolis, IN

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9077-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2005.1612018

Filename

1612018