DocumentCode
3642061
Title
Are Engineering students decreasing? Spain study case
Author
Manuel Blazquez;Martin Llamas;Manuel Castro;Inmaculada Plaza;Edmundo Tovar;Russ Meier
Author_Institution
Departamento de Tecnologia, Instituto Ramiro de Maeztu, Madrid, Spain
fYear
2011
fDate
5/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
10
Abstract
In Universities and other academic organizations have been saying that the number of students in Engineering masters and grades have been reduced. That means that fewer people will be working as engineers in the future. This is a fact that has alarmed Education Societies and Engineering Associations all over the world. Some reasons could be extracted from some loss of motivation when student looks at a difficult career, in spite of promising great labor expectations exposed from the Society. However, in this paper, some data are offered to change minds about this question, in particular in the case os Spain. Through the article, some figures have been used to get some conclusions in which demographic statistics, students´ decisions and University published information could give an answer to the question, why do students demand other nonengineering careers? Is this true or just a myth?
Keywords
"Europe","Media","IEEE Education Society","Silicon compounds","Instruments","USA Councils","Chapters"
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Promotion and Innovation with New Technologies in Engineering Education (FINTDI), 2011
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-0558-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/FINTDI.2011.5945975
Filename
5945975
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