Factors that facilitate or inhibit enrollment of domestic engineering PhD students: A mixed methods study

促进或抑制国内工程博士生入学的因素：混合方法研究

• 批准号: 0935108
• 负责人: Namas Chandra
• 金额: $ 14.99万
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0935108&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Factors; facilitate; inhibit; enrollment; domestic

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This engineering education research award to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will employ researchers to understand the factors that facilitate or inhibit domestic student enrollment in engineering Ph.D. programs, and to identify strategies for reinforcing positive factors or removing barriers. The overarching goal of the project is to identify actionable strategies to increase domestic student enrollments. Specifically, this study will address why the percentage of domestic students pursuing a PhD in engineering has steadily declined, what factors inhibit domestic undergraduates from enrolling in PhD programs, and what changes would make PhD programs more attractive to domestic students. In order to attract more domestic students, universities need an empirical understanding of the factors that underlie the decision to pursue or forego an engineering PhD. This new understanding can form the basis for a new set of strategies for increasing domestic engineering PhD enrollments and graduates needed by universities and industry.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这项授予内布拉斯加大学林肯分校的工程教育研究奖将雇用研究人员来了解促进或阻碍国内学生参加工程博士课程的因素，并确定加强积极因素或消除障碍的策略。该项目的总体目标是确定可操作的策略，以增加国内学生的入学率。具体而言，本研究将探讨为什么攻读工程博士学位的国内学生比例稳步下降，哪些因素抑制了国内本科生攻读博士学位，以及哪些变化将使博士课程对国内学生更具吸引力。为了吸引更多的国内学生，大学需要对决定攻读或放弃工程博士学位的因素有一个实证的理解。这种新的认识可以形成一套新的战略的基础，以增加国内大学和工业界所需的工程博士和毕业生的入学率。