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.

该奖项根据 2009 年《美国复苏和再投资法案》（公法 111-5）提供资金。内布拉斯加大学林肯分校的这项工程教育研究奖将聘请研究人员来了解促进或抑制国内学生攻读工程博士学位的因素。计划，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增加国内学生入学率的可行策略。具体来说，本研究将探讨为何国内攻读工程博士学位的学生比例稳步下降，哪些因素阻碍国内本科生攻读博士学位课程，以及哪些变化将使博士学位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实证性的了解。这种新的认识可以为增加大学和工业界所需的国内工程博士招生和毕业生的一套新战略奠定基础。