Influences on freshman attitudes toward engineering: lessons from a case study of a major engineering University in Pakistan

• Autores: Qaiser Malik, James C. Witte, Naveed Zafar, Mir Hussain
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 33, no. 2 (Parte A), 2017, págs. 596-609
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This ‘evidence based practice paper’ reports influences on freshman attitudes toward engineering at a major engineeringuniversity (MEU) in Pakistan. The assessment is based on surveys conducted with incoming MEU students before andafter their participation in a one-credit engineering education foundation course (EGR 100). This course is designed tomake students passionate about engineering, enable them to become active learners, and prepare them to undertake therigors of an engineering curriculum. Attitude data was collected at the beginning and toward the end of the course, using amodified version of the Pittsburgh Freshman Engineering Attitudes Survey (PFEAS). Additional items recorded studentdemographics. Analyses in the paper include pre and post course comparisons of 718 students who completed both the preand post course surveys. The paper also considers the impact of gender and type of secondary education. The paperconcludes with a discussion of the implications of our findings for engineering education at MEU and other engineeringprograms.