Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Hirsch, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Howard Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Angelo Perna, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Kwabena Narh, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

a Ph.D.12. Thesurvey uses attitudinal scales to measure undergraduate students’ attitudes toward graduatestudies, their engineering skills self-efficacy, and their level of school-related self-confidence.Development of the Attitudes toward Graduate Studies SurveyThe Attitudes toward Graduate Studies Survey was modeled after the Attitudes to EngineeringSurvey6-10. Several drafts of the survey were reviewed and revised based on feedback fromengineering faculty and interviews with a group of students who took the survey. Students areasked to indicate the degree to which they agreed or disagreed with a total of 30 statementsabout careers in engineering, the benefits and or disadvantages of graduate studies, their desireto pursue graduate