Title :
Engineers without borders: An empirical investigation of member´s defining characteristics
Author :
Knight, Daniel ; Litchfield, Kaitlin ; Javernick-Will, Amy
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Eng. & Appl. Sci., Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
The present study is an empirical investigation of characteristics associated with membership in Engineers Without Borders (EWB). EWB is an international organization that has grown rapidly over the past decade. Despite this growth, few studies have investigated the characteristics of EWB members. The present study investigates these characteristics via survey research targeting the student body at a large state university in the American West.
Keywords :
engineering education; organisational aspects; American West; EWB members; Engineers Without Borders; international organization; member defining characteristics; state university; Classification tree analysis; Communities; Data analysis; Decision support systems; Engineering students; Psychology; engineering for developing communities; international education; service learning; survey research;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2014 IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2014.7044322
